Gavin Ortlund filmed a video called “The Dangers of Christian Nationalism.” One of his chief concerns is the loss of religious toleration, a first amendment right that Ortlund considers to be sacrosanct. This is fascinating for a number of reasons. First of all, it reveals that Gavin has a religious devotion to the Constitution, over and above what he finds in Scripture. To be specific, it is the Constitution as viewed through the lens of 20th Century Liberalism. The founders never intended the 1A to protect demonic statues and Islamic ghettos. Secondly, Gavin does a Jesus juke, explaining that we actually win by losing. After accusing Christian nationalists of commingling the spiritual and the political realms, he actually does that himself by encouraging Christians to accept worldly losses (and even death) in order to be more than conquerors spiritually. Thirdly, Gavin’s a priori commitments to liberalism actually prevent him from what he says at the end, “So let us by all means do everything we can to now bring his lordship into every aspect of life, in all the ways that we can, including the political realm.” Ortlund has already conceded that public idolatry must be tolerated! So it’s not “by all means” in any sense at all. It would be more accurate to say “by all means that aren’t mean.” This is very much the same loser theology promoted by Phil Johnson and others, wherein we should vote for godly candidates and laws, but just don’t take it too far since we win by losing. Of course, this is all designed to ultimately discourage Christians from political engagement, or worse to permit them to vote for the left. As Gavin’s father Ray Ortlund posted in 2024, “Never Trump. This time Harris. Always Jesus.” 🤮

Two Team Good™️ stalwarts get completely exposed as frauds in the same week, and Shenvi has the temerity to call out Christian Nationalists. Amazing gaslighting.

Life comes at you fast sometimes, when you’re not slow to write. (h/t @WBS_Meme_King)

“He is a husband, father, school teacher, married to Annie with three beautiful children, and has been living here as a 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 of the United States from Canada.” Per the DHS, this is a lie.

Yesterday on the Divisive Line, James White (in a custom Coogi vest) was in rare form. I’ll have multiple clips to share from this episode. This first one concerns @Eric_Conn and @JoelWebbon. Right off the bat, James takes issue with Eric Conn calling for Samuel Sey to repent of his lies. White calls this an attack against Sey, as if the lies that Samuel says are not to be considered attacks. There is a tacit denial here that Sey has lied at all. In fact, Samuel Sey has lied about very many people, and not just Christian nationalists. He will make false accusations against almost anyone in order to score social media victories. Off the top of my head, he said that The Transformed Wife was promoting Red Pill ideology, and he also claimed that Eli McGowan said that Sey defended white nationalism. “A few moments later,” James White implies that the only things being said about Conn and Webbon is that they’ve changed. But that’s not even close to what Samuel Sey has said, nor James White for that matter. This has all been documented. Hilariously, James White counters this with the tu quoque fallacy. In essence, Eric Conn can’t accuse Samuel Sey of lying since Conn “lied” about the contents of a book being sold at his conference! Of course, Eric didn’t lie about the book. He described its contents in general and gave his opinion of it. Folks are free to disagree with that, but it’s not even in the same stratosphere as the slander that Sey/White traffic in. And in conclusion, we know exactly why Team Good™️ calls us all Nazis, racists, misogynists, etc. It’s because they want horrible things to happen to us, obviously, in my opinion. 😉