Seeing Kyle Rittenhouse say this. FFS. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1462560718574833671?s=21

I no longer support Rittenhouse because I’m dedicated to friend / enemy and he’s said he supports absolute enemy. That is the rule.

“Those today who object to Calvin’s harsh language like to present themselves as loving, sensitive souls, but often these same people can stomach television programs and movies containing violence, sexual filth, and the taking of God’s name in vain. If the people who deplore Calvin’s harsh language are theologians, they are often the same theologians who can tolerate with equanimity the defaming of God’s name by false doctrine. That fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith are denied bothers them not at all, but their “sensitive” souls are troubled when Calvin refers to enemies of the gospel as ‘dogs’ and ‘hogs.’
“No Reformed Christian should object to Calvin’s harsh language. The fact is that this kind of condemnation of error is thoroughly biblical, including referring to enemies of the faith as ‘dogs’ and ‘hogs.’ In Philippians 3:2, Paul calls those who teach works-righteousness ‘dogs.’ In 2 Peter 2:22, the apostle calls those who preach and practice antinomianism ‘hogs’—swine who return to their muck and mire. I note also that the Heidelberg Catechism is sharp and vituperative in its condemnation of the Roman Catholic mass when it calls it ‘a denial of the one sacrifice and passion of Jesus Christ [and an accursed idolatry].’
“The vehement condemnation of error by Luther, Calvin, and many of their colleagues arose from their piety. Particularly in the case of Calvin, his severe condemnation of error had its source in his godliness, his love of and reverence for God, and his corresponding abhorrence of all those who showed themselves to be enemies of God. Calvin was a ‘sensitive’ soul, but the sensitive soul of Calvin was sensitive to a diminishing of God’s honor. Of this sensitivity, there is a notable lack in the twenty-first century, especially among Protestant theologians.” - David Engelsma, The Reformed Faith of John Calvin, Chapter 4

I checked Twitter. TGC responded to the racial attack in Waukesha with Advent resources and something about Wendell Berry.

If Parachurch people actually talk about the attack in Waukesha, we will be told that this is not about race because we are sinners.

Anyone who refuses to acknowledge the blatant anti-white hatred seen in yesterday's terrorist attack, and anyone who refuses to repent for their part in perpetuating the anti-white rhetoric which motivated it (as seen in the black terrorist's rap videos), should be regarded as anathema, and any such institution should be regarded as a synagogue of Satan.

New Calvinism happened because experimental Calvinists and hand-waving charismatics realized how much they had in common.

Pietism is a syncretistic merger between pagan dualism and orthodox Christianity. It relies on three false dualities:

1) The duality between “spiritual” and “earthly” blessings
2) The duality between “eternal” and “temporal” life
3) The duality between “subjective & true” and “objective & false” religious experiences.

Thanksgiving is the ultimate antithesis of each of pietism’s dualities. It insists we give thanks for earthly blessings in this temporal life. It is also an external, formalized, and objective religious celebration which recognizes God’s temporal, earthly blessings as objective goods and covenant rewards.

Do your part this Thanksgiving to dunk on gay, cringe pietists.

Letting your children choose their religion is a gay as letting them choose their gender. Baptize your babies.

A Nativity Prayer by Augustine

@ThatAncientFaith

"To assume that if we liked we could al settle down to love one another and live in perfect amity and harmony together, is possible only to those idealists who are congenitally blind to the true character of all life."

~Anthony Ludovici

"Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact; and history has never paid any heed to human desires and ideals."

~Oswald Spengler

There's a destructive tendency in American Christianity against the normal Christian life. Being an ordinary believer is not enough so you need something else to bring true happiness, joy and even assurance.

Some of this is romanticism and pietism. much of it is 1960s hippy-dippy disdain for normal work as undignified and boring.

What's even more concerning are the guilt tactics used against ordinary Christians. You start getting weird stuff like John Piper saying buying a new car is a sin. These guilt tactics only work on people who do not regularly participate in corporate confession and absolution (which pietists would balk at).