The Wandering Heretic

My previous post on Jesus’ symbolic identity with the “Land” caused a “Caine” flashback apropos of my namesake from the Kung Fu TV series. However, instead of the soothing gongs of the Shaolin Temple, I was remembering the “clanging cymbal” that was Michael Moore. After the 2004 election the Democrats couldn’t blame a “stolen” election this time on George W. Bush. So instead they had to find a different scapegoat. After all, if you couldn’t beat a singularly unpopular President such as Bush, it couldn’t possibly be your own fault for nominating a singularly dull candidate yourself. No, indeedy, other evil forces had to be at work in the Universe.

So Moore posted a map originally created by Jeff Minter called “Jesusland.” In this map, the Democratic “blue” states were joined with Canada to create the “United States of Canada” at the top. The Republican “Red” states were joined together and marked “Jesusland.” A recreation of this map is shown below.

For the Democrats like Moore, Democracy is only a name for their party. When the public, in democratic fashion don’t follow the Democratic Party’s lead, then the “rule of the majority” is something to be despised and ridiculed. In essence, they have finally discovered the foundational flaw in their own political philosophy. If a religion gains the allegiance of a majority of a democratic country, that majority will vote in terms of that religion. I have a feeling they knew this proposition long before the 2004 election; that event just rubbed their collective nose in it.

In Moore’s world, all people must compartmentalize their ultimate beliefs, values, and goals into a box that they habitually ignore when they do “real things” like voting. The world in 2004 did not abide by these rules. It probably never has. I suggest Moore’s ideal voting behavior is the definition of a schizophrenic and not a healthy, integrated human being. So, contrary to Moore, to vote in his fashion would be the definition of insanity and not the reverse. Jesusland voters are consistent; Enlightenment voters are basically leaves blown by the wind.

Ultimately, I agree with Minter and Moore. Christians do reside in Jesusland. After their baptism (or birth into a Christian family) they are citizens in the “Land of Jesus.” This citizenship comes before any other allegiance, be it national, ethnic, or political. They are given a base on which to draw, not just for political philosophy, but for the discipline of their entire lives. Even if they cannot live up to their moral standard, they know that such a moral standard exists and that, as Paul says of the Law, it is “holy, righteous, and good.” (Rom. 7:12).

That is why ultimately the liberals, the moderns, and the post-moderns will lose. None accept the reality of an absolute standard for anything and thus none have the intestinal fortitude to resist those that truly, violently war against them. The philosophy of relativism has basically left them impotent in the face of danger. As Mark Steyn has noted in his colum:

Why do radical imams seek to convert young Canadian, British and even American men and women in their late teens and twenties? Because they understand that when you raise a generation in the great wobbling blancmange of….cultural relativism – nothing is any better or any worse than anything else; if people are “mean and nasty” to us, it’s only because we didn’t sing enough Barney the Dinosaur songs at them – in such a world a certain percentage of its youth will have a great gaping hole where their sense of identity should be. And into that hole you can pour something fierce and primal and implacable.

Jesus said something similar about a demon, finding a house clean and empty, going back to get seven more demons and then living in that house. The empty house of relativism finds no resistance to demons; instead it cowers in fear and capitulates. It gives both physical and moral territory to its enemies, believing in the fantasy that such concessions will make them go away. Need some examples?

• Canada prisons award $2000 to a Muslim prisoner because he was given bacon on his plate for breakfast. (Apparently an imprisoned criminal cannot simply refuse to eat the offending meat.)

• Canadian voter officials allow Muslim women to wear their face-covering veils as long as they provide two forms of picture identification. (Of what are the officials going to compare those pictures to?)

• A Jewish lesbian Democrat can admit to a crush on Mahmoud Ahmeadinejad, even though there many things about Ahmadinejad that she abhors — “locking up dissidents, executing of gay folks, denying the fact of the Holocaust, potentially adding another dangerous nuclear power to the world and, in general, stifling democracy.” But as long as he hates G.W.Bush, he is okay in her books.

• Britain, responding immediately to the doctors who turned out to be terrorists ready to cause massive death and destruction with explosives, advises hospital staff not to “eat at their desks” to avoid further offending Muslims during Ramadan.

• An Amherst, Massachusetts school superintendent cancels a presentation of “West Side Story” for fear it was racists in it portrayal of Puerto Ricans. (As anyone who has actually seen the play knows, it is exactly the opposite.)

Such examples, chosen among many, show how the relativists simply cannot see the reality that this world really is a dangerous place; or if they see the reality, they think, like the wimp facing the schoolyard bully, their only alternative is to give in. Such is the philosophy of defeatism and cowardliness. In truth, Michael Moore’s map was only partially accurate. It should have been drawn as shown below:

In this present world, these two countries are our only choices.

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