Neo-Reconstruction Faces the Foe [Part 2]

The Introduction to A New Series Set: PART TWO

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Outline:

I. How Shall We Advance Reconstructionism

II. A Brief Look at the Tenets of Our Neo-Reconstruction Movement.
III. The Neo-Reconstruction Mandate: Practical and Tactical.

IV. Continuing the Old Fights.

V. The New Fights: Facing Our Greatest Challenges.

So how can Christian reconstruction be resurrected to face this new challenge? When we think about the fact that the Christian worldview is the only absolute truth, the only basis for all knowledge, how can we apply this to the challenge of Christians unifying (irenicism) on the one hand, and the threat of a medical establishment harming and enslaving us with endless laws and experimentation (iatrogenesis) on the other?

How? By improving it on its own terms, by establishing the Christian worldview as even more exclusive and absolute, by making our ethics more comprehensive and practical, and our vision of inevitable triumph more clear and more attainable right here and right now. We must NOT soften the movement, we must go harder.

I. How We Shall Advance Reconstructionism.

We shall improve reconstruction on each of its main three tenets.

Presuppositionalism: Presuppositionalism is good as far as it goes, but we must tighten this system, we must leave no compromise for non-Christian ideas. Presuppositionalism showed that any reasoning that an unbeliever does assumes the Christian worldview. Hence, presuppositionalism showed that when a doctor prescribed a drug, that the process of reasoning, evaluating, diagnosing, and prescribing, all necessarily assumed the Christian worldview, but it did not ask whether any aspect of the diagnosing/prescribing process was or was not at odds with Christian thought. Likewise, what good is assuming the Christian worldview if no one who calls himself a Christian can agree on what that even is? Is the Christian worldview, which is necessary for human reason and thought, Trinitarian? Is it Trinitarian in the Latin sense (filioque) or the Greek sense? Is the Christian worldview teaching that man is fallen in His thought, or does man have a neutral and free intellect and will? Does the Christian worldview teach that God is the sovereign governor over all things, or is He more of an occasional intervener in an otherwise self-governing world of human affairs? Does He decree whatsoever comes to pass? Does He uphold all things by the Word of His power? Or would He rather remain content in his voyeuristic observing of His creation? These are all important questions and only a comprehensive worldview, equally rigid on the essentials as it is tolerant of the non-essentials, and as exclusively Christian as it is sufficiently orthodox (as defined at Nicaea) will be able to meet the challenges we face.

So here is how we shall improve on presuppositionalism, we shall give comprehensive, biblical and theological based answers to all questions pertaining to human nature, thought, and reality and it shall be grounded in a worldview that is exclusively Trinitarian, and Augustinian. Only from such a perspective can we evaluate who actually shares our worldview on the one hand (irencisim), but also where and how the scientific and medical establishment are anti-Christian in their assumptions, methods, and policies on the other.

Theonomy: Further, we must refocus theonomy away from just trying to implement biblical laws through voting-in political representatives. What good is such a project if you only have one church pushing one or two representatives out of a hundred or more at a congressional body, with almost no funding, only to get a single law passed, if any? What point is there in pushing the Law of God if most Christians don’t even know what laws in the Bible are for them to practice today, or how to practice them in their own lives? What good is trying to change a nation to enforce laws on adultery when your local church won’t even discipline or excommunicate an adulterous husband or wife? What good is trying to make adultery laws when your church tolerates most of the congregation living with their partners outside of wedlock in the first place?! Indeed, how can a nation be a Christian nation if the Christians of the nation don’t even regard each other as Christian? Not to mention this, “do you really think that if the deep-state was willing to overthrow a President because of his immigration and trade policies that they would tolerate someone trying to implement the Law of God?” Let’s get real. There are even rumors as we speak right now that the US is planning a coup in Uganda because the Christians in that country have passed a law to criminalize homosexuality (with even the death penalty in certain cases such as with the sodomizing of a minor), whose team are we on anyway? Not the right one. The next move forward is to realize that the first world developed nations are beyond reforming and are in need of a cosmic spanking before anything good can happen there at the political and social level.

To improve theonomy, we must return to a focus on the interpersonal applications of the moral law in our everyday lives, make clear what laws are applicable in our daily piety, and make the Christian life to live and breathe not only the Law, but that fulfillment of the Law in sacrificial love and service one for another. Only then can we expect ethical change in the outside world, once we get our own house in order.

Postmillennialism: When it comes to the bright hope of postmillennialism, we must eliminate any, and I mean any, notion that shares even the slightest similarity to the heresy and idolatry of the health, wealth, and prosperity Gospel. The future era of a global Christendom cannot be devoid of any and all suffering, for suffering is part of a Christian’s sanctification in mortifying the flesh. Indeed, Christians suffer among other Christians because of their own sinful responses to other Christian’s sinful actions, and it is through this process of dying to self, loving others, loving God, and repenting, that Christians grow closer to God and to each other to unveil the mystery of the Body of Christ. Some have speculated that the medieval Christians were not so obsessed with improving conveniences, technologies, and science because they were too concerned with the heavenly and ethical. They say this as a derogatory remark, but I believe it is a compliment. We tolerate innumerable temptations and blasphemies in the name of progress and the post-millennial vision is particularly susceptible to the atheistic worldview of scientific positivism and social progressivism. Indeed, the reason dispensationalism was able to rise and takeover the evangelical mind was because the liberal post-millennialists of the late 19thand early 20th century began to increasingly identify Christian success with scientific successes in technology, medicine, convenience, hygiene, and diplomacy (Woodrow Wilson, who is regarded by nearly all conservatives as the worst and most nefarious President in American history, was to our shame, a Presbyterian and a postmillennialist). The reason this liberal postmillennialism failed was because it increasingly put its hope in the achievements of man and when the two world wars shattered those illusions, dispensationalism was there to pick up the pieces with its blasphemous, cynical, pessimistic, escapist, and ultimately paralyzing sentiments.

The reconstruction movement resurrected postmillennialism from its discredited liberalism and socialism and returned the hope of a Christian golden age to a focus on its ethical and spiritual qualities. For the reconstructionist, postmillennialism taught a triumph of the Gospel in converting the lost and of the Law governing human affairs both in private and in public. This was the extent of their vision, and with a scripturally well-informed hermeneutic, they showed how dispensationalism was erroneous on every point of substance. However, this postmillennialism was limited in its vision; it left an almost intentional ambiguity as to questions concerning certain technologies and the relationship between Divine providence and the work and influence of Christian ideas on invention and infrastructure. Now we have returned to the same cross-roads of the postmillennialists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In one direction you have the medieval vision of a vast shire of contented and joyful farmers and craftsman with their fruitful families, partaking daily in the Divine Worship, obeying God’s law, sharing all things communally, and celebrating in feasts and fasts. In the other direction you have a future where we cure scarcity with our technological prowess, are connected digitally to one another, are exploring the stars and extending our lives, are eliminating language barriers, and have eliminated all inequalities by our own inventions. One view sees the Law and Gospel making society more natural, more organic, familial, and content with less for the sake of sharing with others, a society that is primitive by choice, because it finds wealth, excess technologies and conveniences, all pointless and unnecessary and even dangerous and inconsistent to the Christian life in most cases. The other view sees the Christian worldview and faithfulness to the Law as implying God’s blessings in terms of wealth, physical prosperity, and a progressive end to physical as well as spiritual suffering, and sees invention-as-dominion including genetically modified foods, self-driving cars, space-ships, brain-chips, AI, and iphones. Both visions cannot be correct. One sees dominion in terms of the measurable, the other in the immeasurable. Some see Star Trek and others see the Shire. What do you see as you think about the era of the Gospel’s victory and what does that vision say about you?

II. A Brief Look at the Tenets of Our Neo-Reconstruction Movement.

1. Trinitarian Revelatory Idealism [Advancing Presuppositionalism].

We shall seek to flesh out the philosophical implications of presuppositionalism to present a real alternative way of looking at reality in purely biblical and Christian terms. This philosophical system of Trinitarian Revelatory Idealism is not novel, for it was proposed by Puritan pastors (Jonathan Edwards), Anglican bishops (George Berkeley), and was inspired directly by St. Augustine himself.

This system will not be fully expounded upon now, but suffice it to say, it shall be a system built upon the premise that all human knowledge originates in God’s revelation of Himself. God reveals Himself in His general revelation in that which is perceived (the world of sense governed by law) and in His special revelation in the Holy Scriptures as received and preserved in the Church (the efficacious Word of Law and Gospel). In essence, the claim is this: That besides general and special revelation there is neither any reality nor any knowledge, what is revealed is real, and what is revealed is known and everything else is hidden in the Mind of God, and therefore would be irrational and impious to be speculated upon by human thought. The revealed things belong to man and the hidden things belong to God (Deuteronomy 29:29).

God determines all that which comes to pass, and for that reason, everything that exists is revealed to exist to created minds, that which is not revealed to any created being is known only to God. There is no other category, there are perceiving spiritual agents/minds (God, men, angels/demons) and there is that which is perceived or revealed (the world we experience and categorize).

Further, it can be demonstrated that even the minutest of simple sensations, assumes and requires by necessity, the existence of the Triune God, and specifically the Trinitarian God as described in the western version of the Nicene Creed, according to the descriptions of St. Augustine, St. Anselm, The Athanasian Creed and the Puritan Jonathan Edwards

Because God is good and determines all that comes to pass, everything that occurs, occurs for some good reason known only to God unless revealed to man.

The Christian worldview has no need for idolatrous notions of matter or causation, for the Newtonian and even Einsteinian definition of matter or material substance as “indestructible, uncreated, eternal, self-supporting, fundamental to reality/knowledge, and unperceivable” was, and is, contrary to the Christian worldview and in fact the claim that such unthinking substance has attributes which can only belong to God itself demonstrates that it is, at base, idolatrous and blasphemous.

Further, secondary causes, like a baseball breaking a window, are still dependent on the decree of God for their actuality, they are not absolute, nor are any other relationships we observe in nature, for God is the primary basis for those relationships. Hence, it is more proper to say that God brings the rain than it is to say that El Nino brought the rain. The latter is true only in a superficial sense, but to attribute such to God is the more accurate and meaningful statement. Scientists may be able to describe a hurricane, but prayer to God can stop it, just as He really did stop the sun in the sky. Natural laws are nothing more than descriptions of what God ordinarily does, miracles are not irrational, but perfectly reasonable for God to do if He so chooses.

Much more could be said, but as we explore irecnicism and iatrogenesis in the pair of series forthcoming, we shall see when dealing with specific questions on the nature of the brain, pain, illness, and human nature how important these ideas all are and how we shall flesh them out.

2. Christonomic Irenicism [Advancing Theonomy].

We shall expand the use of God’s law in Christian ethics by first recognizing the importance and seriousness of that Law in interpersonal relationships. It is easy to say that God’s law views blasphemy and homosexuality as capital crimes, but how does this affect our lives when we don’t live in an actual theocracy? Well, it does have real life implications in everyday life, would you associate with a murderer who claimed to be a Christian? Then why would you associate with unrepentant adulterers, homosexuals, and blasphemers who call themselves Christian? This has MAJOR implications for not only counseling and discipleship (which should handle such sins with the same seriousness with which the Law requires), but also church discipline, excommunication, and penance (repentance/restoration) for those who turn back to Christ.

This discipline though, which is necessary to rebuild a Christian society, cannot occur if a wicked person can just leave your “mean” church and go take communion at the “accepting” church next door. The only way to fix this is for Christians to recognize the real biblical authority of all orthodox churches in terms of their discipline. If God’s law is universal and if those who take the name of Christ and commit such acts are to be barred from Christian fellowship, then there should be no excuse for an adulterer kicked out of Catholic church to be offered communion at a Pentecostal church, or Baptist church, or an Anglican church. NEVER should this be the case! God’s commands and law include the obligation for Christians to love one another, to have fellowship, and this implies honoring each body’s discipline of those that would profane the name of our common Lord. When excommunication occurs at one church in a nation, there should not be a single church in that nation that will commune or associate with that excommunicated person until they repent and are restored at their original church, until that happens, we will not have a Christian nation that will have any long-term hope of success.

All nations, whether Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Orthodox, Presbyterian/Reformed, or whatever, have had laws, historically, which criminalized behavior such as sodomy, bestiality, adultery, heresy, atheism and other such evils, and so there should be no disagreement on these issues. God gave the church (His people) the Holy Spirit and that Holy Spirit preserves the Word and the Church together. Thus, essentials in terms of Law and Gospel orthodoxy have been defined by the consensus of Spirit-indwelt believers throughout history, and this pneumatic consensus must be stressed. There are shared dogmas between all those that are truly indwelt by the Holy Spirit and this catholic teaching defines how we should live and how our society should be governed.

Further, Christians should be willing to sacrifice of themselves to achieve these goals, for such love and witness epitomizes and fulfills the law. The way of Martyrs is lifted up as the standard of example for all those that follow Christ, but not all shall produce that fruit in abundance. God gave us the right to self-defense, and such is no sin, but God gives the higher standard of turning the other cheek or letting people take advantage of us. This is how St. Augustine could defend capital punishment in one case while also pleading for clemency at another. Many examples could be multiplied, but our future challenges require real martyrdom, real sacrifice. Some of us will have to die, but first we must recognize who OUR martyrs really are, when Eastern Christians die in Iraq, why do we call them martyrs if our church does not commune them as fellow Christians? Why do we regard persecuted Catholics or Anglicans in Nigeria brethren in death if we treat them as heretics in life? No, we must recognize the real martyrdom of all who are really our brethren and who really died for our Christ (red martyrdom) and we should support them all as if they were fighting for our army and against our enemies.

In the future, we will need Christians, who are not given the burning desire and need for marriage, to remain single and celibate and to use this rare and special gift to do dedicated work for the Kingdom that their married compatriots simply cannot do. These celibate warriors for Christ will need to take on dangerous missions, such as those to Islamic nations, to help the poor in dangerous ghettos, to take strenuous journeys to remote villages in the Himalayas, care for the sick in illegal holistic Christian clinics, and to work on tedious translation and academic work as the monks and nuns of old had done. This was historically called a white martyrdom and all of us, Protestant or otherwise, must be willing to embrace it again as the ancient Church had done.

Other Christians will need to be the ones to create self-sufficient family communities and farms and sacrifice their reputations and their wealth for the sake of having children, lots of children, and supporting other Christians with healthy food and raising up young men and women to be pure spouses who are Godly, skilled, and educated so that the process may continue. These Christians’ duties require real sacrifice and a real dying to self, these are the green martyrs, those whose martyrdom is seen in daily family worship, the difficulties of marriage, the pains of childbirth, changing diapers, spanking wayward toddlers, training and tutoring adolescents, working with their own hands, living the quiet life, and minding their own business. We need more green martyrs; lots more, and we need them to bring forth a Godly seed.

We must be willing to commune with other Christians and to commune other Christians who visit us or join us, and we must start acting like a unified people even if our leaders resist the idea, for the commandments of God must outweigh the traditions of men, this is the next evolution of theonomy, and it should have been the first.

3. Primitivist ‘World-Shire’ Post-Millennialism [Advancing Postmillennialism].

I will just say it, the golden age we anticipate will not be some socialist utopia of total automation, lab grown meat and cricket powder, self-driving cars, brain-chips, AI and mass surveillance. Rather, the golden era we strive for is one of Christian villages picking fruit together, older teens handing their bounty down to little ones to then place into hand-woven bushel baskets. The golden age is women in traditionally feminine clothing washing their clothes in the river and looking up at an abandoned sky-scraper covered in vines and stuffed with nests from the birds of the air. The golden age is men working together to prepare a field, or build a house for the newly married, and stopping to drink the wine they had brewed together the year before and to sit for a smoke under the shade of the orchard’s trees where children play and the women sit nearby nursing their infants.

We can start the process of creating this world right now. As John Adams once said, the constitution (limited government) was made for a moral and religious people and was wholly inadequate for any other. This idea is based on the fact that a people who are religious and informed by good Christian morals are self-governing. Christians in the golden age will have no need of a government to tell them what is right and wrong because their Law informs them, and in every village are those who know-well the law and under the guidance of the church work to render a justice which is performed and enforced by the whole community on unrepentant transgressors. There is no need for welfare in the golden age, for Christians care for one another voluntarily, there is no need for great highways and warehouses in the golden age, for everyone has what they need in their village and every village competes in their goal to become more and more like the Apostolic church in Jerusalem, sharing everything and caring for all without covetousness, greed, laziness, or resentment.

In this golden era, there is no crowded cities, for the people have instead obeyed God’s commands to fill the whole earth and not just a few spots, and to take dominion of the untamed wilderness, stewarding it and making use of every herb bearing fruit and all of the animals given into their possession. There will be no need for smart phones or instant communication in the golden age, for all will spend time face to face with their friends, neighbors, and spouses, reading and discussing the wisdom of the ages. In the golden age, the swords shall be beaten into plows, and God will miraculously save children from death in childbirth, and bless His people with long lives, not because of anything they had done, but out of love for His people having swarmed upon the face of the earth.

In this golden age, there shall be a sea of shires all though-out the world, who at their appointed times, join together in triumphant chorus of the great psalms of Scripture in celebration of Christ’s birth, or His resurrection, and there shall be great times of fasting and rest where the sound of labor ceases and only the grumble of stomachs hungry for the Word can be heard.

In the golden age, there shall be wedding feasts, and feasts for harvests, and feasts commemorating great heroes of the faith, there will be marriage, and giving in marriage, the sounds of babies being born in the same home where they shall one day die of old age surrounded by their children and their children’s children. There shall be heard in this golden age, the sound of hammers striking anvils, and grain being threshed, the laughter of children playing in creeks and fields, of sheep bleating, and of bees buzzing around the well-kept apiaries, this is the sound of the golden age. The beauty of this is that this is the sort of world we all know that we want deep down inside of us, for we recognize it as natural and comfortable the moment we see it, a picture of what Eden could have been had our first parents not rebelled, and we can build it right now, we do not have to wait, we just have to work together under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

This golden age is not a world of sterile whites and grays, of stainless steel operating tables, blinking lights, and humming electric motors and plastic tubing, rather it is painted with the colors of stone, wood, and all the bounties of the earth. In this golden age, every man is free to provide for himself, build his own home, grow his own food, raise his own chickens in his own yard, and He is free to come and to go as he pleases. In every village he stops as he walks across any nation, there he finds a church he can join to partake of Holy Communion with His fellow Christians. Indeed, no matter where in this world the man goes, He never has to look far for a church and the Holy meal of love and fellowship.

There is no doubt in the golden age as to who God’s people really are, for God’s people are those united to Christ by faith and baptism, a people whose good works are manifest in their fruits, the fruits of the Spirit. Indeed, the Jews and money-lenders look upon the great multitude of Christians on the earth and see their contentment and joy with what God has given them and their luxurious foods become as ash in their own mouths and their piles of gold and silver seem as bits of worthless tin. As time goes on, they become jealous of what they see and they remember that such peace and joy have been taken from them and they remember the temple which was torn down and long to find God, who no longer dwells there, but among these happy gentile Christians. The more their envy grows for a love that money, power, and technological might can never acquire, that surpasses all understanding, the closer draws the day of the great revival of their conversion and of their rejoining with the people of God and of their Covenant, a day which will be the end of all days and the Return of the Savior and the great judgment of the living and the dead.

III. The Neo-Reconstruction Mandate: Practical and Tactical.

In spiritual warfare certain aspects of it are the same as actual warfare, if this were not so they could not share the word “warfare” in common. So what is it they share in common? For one, is the tactical. There is a tactical nature to spiritual warfare that is not considered by many evangelicals, but which exists in reality. For one, we like in warfare must work to not merely advance and attack against the enemy on new fronts, but we must retain and maintain territory which has already been won and further fortify it against attack. These two must each still be done without loss to either. The other aspect shared between all types of warfare is the practical. In this there are practical applications with which our doctrine must be brought to bear, these will now be discussed below, everything which will now follow are both tactically and practically important.

As discussed in the previous part to this two-part introductory article, Christian reconstructionism succeeded in starting and establishing the homeschool movement as a national movement with a steady progress of victory through the entire nation. Likewise, we showed how the pro-life movement itself also owes major intellectual credit to the reconstructionists and those aligned or sympathetic to their thought, as was the case with Francis Schaeffer. Thanks to their involvement, the pro-life movement became not only a political juggernaut, but through the appointing of judges, during a time when decadence had all but swallowed the Republic, the overturning of Roe v. Wade occurred to the amazement of all and millions of lives will be saved as a result, for once the factory of human slaughter had seen delay and setback. Credit is owed to the Christian reconstruction movement for this victory, they by no means were the only influence, but especially on the evangelical side, its hard to say if we even get to the Dobbs decision if they had never existed.

For this reason, we are going to include the pro-life movement and the homeschool movement in our discussion of the fights ahead, for that land which we have claimed cannot be lost as we also look forward to our advance against our greatest duty and our greatest danger.

The following is a list of propositions for continuing our fight from the Neo-Reconstruction perspective.

IV. Continuing the Old Fights.

1. Taking the Pro-Life Movement to Its Next Level:

The Pro-Life movement had many great victories against the secular death cult in the US, none greater than the recent Dobbs decision. This decision has finally returned the issue of abortion to the states in the US and many of the conservative states with strong Christian populations have put in place bans on abortion and abortion access.

This being said, the big question remains as to the future of the movement and how we must proceed in the battle for protecting human life from medically sanctioned genocide. Some want to continue to focus on legislative battles, whether through direct federal abolition (which is incredibly unrealistic) or by continuing to push the ban of abortion in states already inclined in that direction (which seems to make sense). Meanwhile, the blue states in the US continue to grow bluer as they bleed citizens over to red states, making a change in those states even more unlikely as time goes on (barring some sort of revival).

For these reasons, the Pro-Life movement is at risk of stagnation. Granted, there are battles being fought politically overseas, but most of the European states tend to be more moderate on abortion than American blue states, and the third world (excepting mostly communist countries) generally oppose or ban abortion anyway.

The next battle therefore under the Neo-Reconstruction program shall be to focus on the more insidious anti-human and anti-life actions that often take place without people knowing it.

Countless Americans who vote pro-life, nonetheless get injected multiple times a year with vaccines made from the blood of murdered babies. This almost satanic and revolting act of humiliation and of making God’s people “unclean” cannot be tolerated any longer.

As we will be exploring in later articles, abortion is now nearly exclusively being pushed and practiced by the medical establishment. They pay big money for aborted fetuses and use them to produce pharmaceutical drugs, especially vaccines, as well as other medications and have even experimented on their use in food products.

Here is a list of propositions for the future of the pro-life movement under Neo-Reconstructionism. These propositions shall be defended and fleshed-out, throughout our forthcoming article series.

(1) We must unequivocally oppose and refuse any and all pharmaceutical drugs and products that either contain or are made by the use of aborted fetal cells of any kind (and there are many).

(2) We must oppose any and all population control initiatives, whether at home or abroad, or any experimentation or practice of human alteration via the use of gene editing, fetal stem cells, or bodily modification by use of brain chips, injected nano-bots, etc.

(3) We must fight the promotion of contraception and female liberation in the third world as proposed by organizations like the United Nations and the Gates Foundation, etc. These notions are malevolent and sinister under the guise of charitable action. They teach women to abandon their historic and traditional roles (as taught in Christianity) in order to be “liberated” along western lines, they likewise, out of a desire to reduce their population, promote birth control and even abortion services contrary to their religious and cultural beliefs. This must be opposed.

(4) We must fight the sodomite agenda in the first and third world, especially the promotion and defense of homosexuality in any nation, or the attempt to force Christian nations into legally accepting or protecting homosexuality or transgenderism as has been occurring, such as in Uganda and even Dominica. Rather we must push, especially in the third world, for unified stands against such interference by outside forces, and if anything, make the laws stricter and more severe against such wickedness.

(5) We must defend religious and parental rights and reject the abolition of parental rights as is the case in places like Canada. We must reject the UN’s charter on the rights of children, and defend and promote the absolute religious and parental rights of parents to discipline their children as they see fit and to refuse any and all medical treatment that they might so determine.

(6) We must make adoption affordable and widely available again. We have made the adoption of a child to cost tens of thousands of dollars, and this is simply unacceptable. Christians must restore church-based orphanages and do so even if it means establishing them in less regulated nations. There are millions of children who are abandoned or from terrible situations and countless Christians who are likewise childless; we must bring these people together in a way that does not hinder them financially, you should not have to get a loan to adopt a child, full-stop.

(7) We also must not be adopting out to degenerates, and from having to conform to the standards of social workers and left-wing regimes that oppose the Christian understanding of the family, morality, and child discipline. Such places must resist these attacks.

2. Taking The Christian Education Movement to Its Next Level:

Christian reconstructionism is best known for the homeschooling movement and this movement has been increasingly successful in recent years. We went from homeschooling being nearly universally illegal in the US in the 1970s to now being nearly universally legal to some degree nationwide and growing in acceptance worldwide.

We cannot slacken in our fight. We must press on, and here below is how we must do it in order to not only survive, but obtain total victory.

(1) We need to continue our promotion and pushing of inter-denominational home school co-ops. One co-op that was very successful in our lives serves as an example, called Classical Conversations. These co-ops have families of various different Christian denominations and they operate by homeschooling moms volunteering to work together to teach individual classes at a central location which then operates like a school for that day for everyone’s children and this occurs a few times a week. This model works and we must push and advance this even harder now that the homeschool numbers are without precedent.

(2) We need to make private Christian education cheap or free.Christians should not have to choose between their children having a Christian education with Christian peers and having a biblical home-life, but the price of tuition at Christian schools often demands that choice. There is no sense where it is in keeping with the faith of the Apostles that the poor and poor alone are unable to receive a good Christian education, or when they are, they are forced to limit their family size so mom can work full-time. Churches working together could combine their resources to make an interdenominational school network which jointly subsidizes the education (which does include greater emphasis on Christian tithing). Likewise more student teachers at the “rhetoric stage” of their education (juniors/seniors) could be used to teach classes as well as local ministers, parental volunteers (as with co-ops) as well as dedicated celibates (like local priests, monks, or nuns), or whatever else might be necessary to bring down tuition cost as labor cost is always the most expensive (in fact cleaning, meals, and maintenance could all be done by the students as is done in Japan to cut that labor cost as well). At the political level, vouchers should be called for or some equivalent during the transition in order to get tax dollars that would otherwise be wasted on public schools into the hands of Christians.

(3) Hence, Christian school districts should be created in parallel to public school districts and if the Christian schools were free and had a superior education, the public school system could be entirely wiped out and a new Christendom arise from the educating of a generation.

(4) We must integrate the trades and lessons from the unschooling model into the classical Christian model. The trades are still the future and men and women who know practical skills are in an advantage in every conceivable way and regardless of the social outcomes of our civilization. Through these skills other curriculum could still be taught, geometry could be entirely learned as a course through trade training (carpentry, fabrication, etc), electives should also be heavily trade based, zoology and anatomy, biology, etc could all be taught by the school collectively raising animals; Likewise, cooking and brewing could be used to teach organic chemistry, and the list goes on and on. This is just plain smart and it is truly better for both sexes and is consistently Christian in an orthopraxic way that orthodoxy alone often lacks in education. Obviously a classical Christian curriculum is the essential and necessary foundation, but trades will save a generation from starvation when “smarts” alone might not.

(5) Christian higher education should not be debt based at all because it is superior in its affordability. Like as was discussed with schools in general, Christian higher education should be cheap and it could be if the classes were taught by passionate pastors more than by paid professionals. This does not mean that credentials are worthless, but competence is still worth more, especially when given from a charitable heart. The Scriptures teach that the debtor is a slave and we should not be forcing Christians into slavery that they might give their children the opportunity to get a Christian education with other Christians.

V. The New Fights: Facing Our Greatest Challenges.

These new challenges shall be the focus of the actual series (Our Greatest Duty and Our Greatest Danger). Like was mentioned with the old fights, these are tactically and practically important propositions regarding what we must do as a movement, what we must do as Christians.

However, the importance and urgency of these propositions might not be evident until the series is complete, so I will now elaborate on them to the extent I did in the previous sections. Rather, I will merely list them so as to whet the appetite. I assure you, as the series progresses, their importance and significance will become increasingly plain.

1. The Disestablishment of Scientism and The Elimination of Tyrannical Iatrogenesis.

As time goes on in the series, these following propositions shall be demonstrated as necessary; however, for now, suffice it to say that the scientific, and therefore medical, community has transhumanist and socialist utopian ambitions that require modifying the human person and reducing population and such are already making use of the state to oppress their greatest threat, which is the independent Christian family and the faith which it affirms.

(1) Demonstrate the Fallacies, Errors, and Presuppositions of The Scientific Worldview and Expose Science as Co-Opted by Malevolent Actors For The Purpose of Disproving Religion..

(2) Stop the Compromise of Christian Ideas and Doctrines with Scientific Explanations and Justifications (End All Integration) and Eradicate the Myth of Science-as-a-Christian-Invention and Expose It As Pagan and Religious at its Core.

(3) Reform Genuine Research for The Purpose of Direct Observation, Necessary Tool-Making, and Categorization ONLY (purifying “science” of all speculation and theorizing).

(4) Expose the Ethical Problems with Efficiency-For-Its-Own-Sake and Convenience and Show The Superiority of Resilience to Efficiency and of Discipline to Convenience and Instead Teach Greater Self-Sufficiency Regarding Food, Nutrition, Exercise, Medicine, Self-Diagnosis, and Treatment, As Well As Relearning The Old Virtues of Toughness, Dignified Suffering, and Contentment.

(5) Oppose Monopolistic and Crony Relationships between the State and Scientific Institutions as a Religious Tyranny (Ending Grants, FDA, CDC, AMA licensing authority, Child Protective Services, State Funded Research, Protections for Products, Companies, or Plans (and the equivalents of such as they exist in other nations).

(6) Demand Greater Religious, Parental, and Personal Medical Rights and Resist All Medical Mandates and Coercion. Separate Oneself from the Medical Establishment Inasmuch as Humanly Possible.

(7) Promote the Learning of Emergency Medicine and Easy and Affordable Market Access to Emergency Supplies and Equipment and Create Alternative Christian Clinics and Support Midwifery. Support, Research, and Reform Holistic and Alternative Medicine as a Field along Christian Lines.

2. The Implementation of The Benedict and Boniface Options in Resisting Iatrogenesis and Promoting Irenicism.

In seeking Christian community and unity and getting our own house in order in line with the Holy Scriptures, Christians must embrace both the Benedict and Boniface options, not as mutually exclusive, but as the former leading to the latter. We must withdraw so that we may one day advance and we cannot confuse the order of our mission. This is tactically necessary and the following represents the practical way it should be done. Christians must become fully immersed in a traditional and patriarchal lifestyles, learn to live, share, and sacrificially love each other, have shared worship, shared laws, and be both healthy and wholly independent of an intentionally poisoned food, water, and medicine supply. Only after doing such for a couple of generations will we be ready to speak with one voice to the darkened world around us. What follows is the map of how to get to our goals.

(1) Christians Must Create Cooperative Farms with Shared Profits To Create A Parallel Food Economy (For Christians Will Be Needing Clean Food and Water In The Future) Where People Can Learn To Work With Their Hands and Become Self-Supporting. Excessive Land Costs and Loans Could Be Avoided by Cost-Sharing (Which Implies Profit Sharing). These Faming Co-Ops Can Eventually Advance To Becoming Self-Sufficient and Wholly Self-Sustaining Villages With Their Own Churches and Such Should Eventually (as Sanctification Warrants) Strive Towards The Apostolic/Celtic Model of Having All Things in Common Both Voluntarily and Unanimously. From This, Future Lands Could Be Purchased Communally and For Starting More Communities (The Amish Model).

(2) The Christian Medicare Concept Must Be Expanded and Decentralized to All Insurance and Welfare Needs Among Inter-Denominational Lines. Christian Should Not Have to Worry about Needing Welfare Benefits from The State or Emergency Assistance, for God’s People Could Provide All of This.

(3) Christians Should Help Each Other with Work Parties Like The Amish Barn-Raisings and Other Such Ancient Communal Customs. Christian Families Should Not Be Left Unable to Build or Work Due to a Lack of Labor or Excessive Labor Cost. Christian Labor Freely Given Should Be The Norm.

(4) Hospitality and The Candle-In-The-Window Concept Should Be Expanded. Christians Should Never Have To Pay for A Hotel When Visiting or Escaping to A Country with Other Christians and Christians Are Perfectly Able to Make This Happen. Hospitality in A Measure of Our Christian Faith and Piety and Is Too Often Neglected.

(5) Christianity is Our Race, Our Nation, Our Flag, and Our Fight and We Must View Our Faith in This Way. Any Christian in the World is Our Comrade and Our Fellow Citizen and Our Treatment of Them Should Match This Understanding.

(6) Christians Must Preserve Western Works and Art as The Monasteries of Old Had Done, Our Libraries Should Be Large, Our Views Well-Informed, and As Civilizations Collapse, We Must Recognize as Was The Case with Rome, That The Heathen No Longer Care for Their Heritage During A Collapse and Cannot Be Trusted To Preserve Their Classic Works, This is The Job of Christians. Further, We Must Write Our Own Christian Histories of Our Times. Secularists Cannot Be Trusted to Do This and When We Write, We Must Write from The Perspective That Such is God’s Story and Work, After All, History is HIS-STORY.

(7) The Structure of Christian Authority in Christian Communities Should Be Based on the Role of Federal Headship (Heads of Household under the Guidance of The Ministers). Likewise, Inheritance, Retirement, and Distribution Concepts Should Also Be Based on What Scripture Alone Teaches, and Excommunication Should Be Practiced Biblically (as is done by the Anabaptists in their Ban or Shunning).

3. Reconstructing The World: Swarming (Revolutionary Fecundism), Networking (Ecclesial Cooperatives), and Pirate Missions (Radical Evangelism):

If we are working to make the Will of the Father be done on earth as it is in Heaven, then we must take our commission seriously. This means that we must drastically change our strategy of growing the church and of missions. What this requires is the convergence of radical unity between Christians, a fanatically zealous view of Christian childbearing, and a no-holds barred approach to missionary work. The following represents some on the propositions along these lines.

(1) We Must Emphasize and Teach The Importance of Having As Many Children As Possible and Taking Dominion in This Way. Church Communities Must Also Work to Transplant Young Families and Support Them Strategically for Infiltration and Domination of Certain Target Areas. These Goals Will Require The Easy Work of Exposing the Evils of Contraception and Its Socialist Roots. Likewise, Christians Must Abandon Ascetic Prudery and Embrace the Fact That God Made Marital Sexuality to Be Pleasurable and Frequent and That Christian Sexuality, As a Central Aspect of Christian Matrimony, is Itself Sacramental and Holy and Both Commanded and Instructed Upon by The Holy Scriptures.

(2) Christians, Of Various Christian Denominations, Must Work On Doing Charities, Clinics, Outreach, Education, Support, and Defense With Each Other In A Wholly Integrated Way. Likewise, Christians Must Unite in the Engaging of Common Political Battles, For Only In This Way Can They Stop The Advance of Political Wickedness and Tyranny (as was done in Dominica).

(3) We Must Encourage Lay Christians Into Visiting Other Churches and Studies, and We Must Promote The Intermarrying of Christians from Different Denominational Backgrounds Within Reason and We Must Seek Towards The Breaking Down of Exclusive Christian Affiliations.

(4) We Must Encourage Ministers, Even Against Institutional Positions, To Practice Open Communion and Pulpit Sharing With Other Churches Outside Their Denominational Sphere, and We Must Expose and Oppose Sectarian Apologists and Writers Who Would Oppose Us.

(5) We Must Train Missionaries to Integrate (into culture specific liberties), Cultivate (be self-sufficient and self-supporting as much as possible), and to Violate (taboos, evil laws, closed borders, and restrictions on evangelism and proselytizing) in Their Missions.

(6) We Must Promote The Concept of Holy Celibacy and Virginity for Those Called To Missions to Unreached or Dangerous Places, and We Must Focus Missions on Closed Countries, Dangerous Countries, and Un-contacted Peoples. This Requires That We Train Missionaries to be Smuggled, to Infiltrate, and to Defend Themselves (perhaps with the use of special ops skills and training).

(7) We Need to Refute The Idea of Competition Between Denominations on the Mission Field. A Reformed, Lutheran, Baptist, and Catholic Church Should View Themselves As Part of The SAME Mission When Entering Into An Unreached Nation or People. We Must Likewise Oppose The Secularization of Missions And Reject A Focus On: “improving infrastructure, technology, convenience, medical treatment etc” Or Anything Used to Make A Culture More “western, tolerant, or developed” Unless Such So-Called “Improvements” Are Explicitly Required To Be Made From A Command of Holy Scripture Or By Necessary Consequence.

[***This Now Concludes Our Extended Two-Part Article Introducing The Neo-Reconstruction Mandate and Our Preface and Introduction to Our Forthcoming Pair of Series, Our Greatest Duty and Our Greatest Danger. Thank you for taking the time, I assure you, it was not a waste.***]

Godspeed,

- Joshua Johnson.