A troubling, if interesting piece. I too am concerned about the number of misguided people in our great nation who embrace unreality and lawlessness in all its myriad forms, lawlessness being the very definition of sin. Anyone who claims to love God and country must stand firm against both unreality and lawlessness, irrespective of their source, because this is much more than just a political matter or clash; it is war being waged on the forces of Good by the forces of Evil. For those with ears to hear, listen and understand.

“Now that everyone has seen the blatant white Christian nationalism on display at the Kirk memorial/political rally, here are some resources to help you learn more and resist more effectively.” This sentence was posted on X by Jemar Tisby, a protégé of the huckster Ibram X. Kendi. Tisby followed up that observation by helpfully pointing people to his own book, Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church’s Complicity with Racism, as a manual to combat the grave evils they had just witnessed in State Farm Stadium.

That Tisby would think to write and then publish this sentiment about Charlie Kirk’s memorial service shows the depths to which the Left has sunk. They are categorically rejecting the bonds of civic friendship that are necessary to keep our country whole. Instead of centering “whiteness,” they center race-based narcissism, envy, and pride, the modern Left’s unholy trinity.

I realize that using the term “they” angers people like Karl Rove, but there’s currently a political movement in America—the Left—that’s increasingly giddy as violence is being directed against their foes. Yes, only one leftist pulled the trigger—but the Left as a whole prepared the ground for that demonic action by constantly dehumanizing their political opponents by calling them “fascists,” “Nazis,” and worse, shouting down and even assaulting speakers on college campuses, and backing a massive network of far-left extremist organizations that are dedicated to upending civil society by any means necessary.

If the point of the Left’s project is humiliation, the way they carry it out is through a systematic assault on the basic ways of life that have been practiced in this country for hundreds of years.

Tent revivals, open-air preaching to the masses, altar calls, and seemingly miraculous, on-the-spot conversions are thoroughly American. The words of the King James Bible have been peppered in political speeches throughout our nation’s history, as has the imagery of America as the new Israel and Americans as the “almost chosen people,” in Lincoln’s weighty phrase. Preachers and politicians taught that the Good News of freedom from slavery and other forms of despotism flowed from the Good News of Christianity. Election sermons were given for centuries, especially around the time of the American Revolution (read Ellis Sandoz’s two-volume collection if you haven’t already done so). Even the blatantly unorthodox Benjamin Franklin raved about George Whitefield’s preaching in his Autobiography.

That these folkways have waned in recent times indicates that we’ve lost our way and should return to our traditions. But the Left wants us to draw precisely the opposite lesson: that our nation has been a racist hellhole for nearly the entirety of its existence, which is why our heritage should be rejected in toto.

Read it all.