Captain Marxism

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ended up being nothing more than Marxist, racist tripe. It was fairly obvious at the outset that that was the direction it was going. But it was a question of just how bad it would be. The answer turned out to be “pretty bad”. When you’re making your Antifa analogs the real heroes and handling them with a Christ-like reverence, then you’ve basically sold the boat when it comes to any amount of logic or truth. And it looks like we can largely expect the same from Disney in the future. 

No country, no people, no culture, can bear the weight of this false narrative, this dishonest mythology, for long. But we have already been bending under it for some time now. It will take a miracle at this point to prevent the seemingly inevitable collapse.

Find the Sin

 Isn’t the constant game of “find the sin”, which happens on social media, and which is prevalent among the Reformed brethren, exhausting? And it doesn’t seem at all to follow the pattern we see in Scripture, with regard to the presentation of truth and our interactions with each other. The writers of the Bible themselves, as spokespersons of God, were far more poetic and seductive than we tend to be, as was our Lord himself. Beyond that, God thankfully is far more patient with us than we tend to be with each other. He gives us a lifetime in which to become sanctified, while we tend to expect it of each other instantly in any given moment. We are all partly unbelievers until we die, Calvin said, and this should result in large amounts of patience, compassion, and understanding.

Gratitude, quiet kindness, and the pursuit of beauty should probably characterize our lives more than they actually do. And if they did, it would probably bring more health to the church, and more real change in the world around us. 

At what point are we giving godly, loving counsel and rebukes, and at what point are we simply laying upon each other burdens too heavy to bear?

Relativism is a Wanderer

 If you insist on being a relativist in one area of life, that denial of absolute transcendent truth will inevitably show up in other areas of your life and thinking. Are you trying to pretend that sexuality is a fluid and unfixed thing? Then don’t be surprised if one day you find yourself defending racism. There’s a reason why American Leftists who cry out against American racism but support an individualistically determined notion of sexuality will then turn around and say that the treatment of women or minorities in Muslim countries is just “their culture”, or will turn a blind eye toward China’s treatment of Christians and the Uighurs. Once you’ve thrown out the Law of God and His perfect character as the standard, you no longer have a way of defining right and wrong, or, for that matter, anything.