Pastor
Jack Hibbs of southern Californ-I-A, writing here,
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/2020-the-most-important-election-in-history-for-christians.html
shows
why things are such a mess in the States today, and a lot of it has to do with
pride and historical ignorance.
His
main proposition, that voting is one of the most important and meaningful
political acts a man may undertake, couldn’t be more wrong. In modern, post-Lincolnian, America, when the
individual voter stands naked before the powers of a massive government, the
vote by itself is one of the most impotent protectors against tyranny. See here for a good examination of the voting
rights farce:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-voting-rights-mirage/
For
the most part, voting is worthwhile only within the context of long-growing,
organic, local bodies: churches,
monasteries, extended families, professional organizations, labor unions, a
neighborhood defense force, school alumni, and so forth. It is the individual’s belonging to these
mediating institutions that protects him from the depredations of government,
not his right to elect this or that representative, judge, etc. They are able to shield him; his pulling a
lever in a booth for thus and such candidate does not. This may be explored further here:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-eternal-insight-of-john-c-calhoun/
But
the ideology undergirding modern America, the ideology of freedom from any
authority that impinges on the maximal exercise of individual liberty, has
eviscerated those mediating institutions and left the individual powerless
before the Leviathan government that has been erected to ‘secure his liberties’
from ‘oppressors’.
In
addition, it is a terrible delusion and injustice to teach that everyone over
18 years of age is wise enough to make major political decisions. Most have only a limited knowledge of public
affairs; their daily routines and personal inclinations do not allow or motivate them to look deeply into them. It is therefore safer for them to vote mostly
within the context of the ‘little platoons’ of which they are a part and of
whose matters they have a good grasp.
The representatives chosen by these bodies may then go on to the higher
councils of the government (House, Senate, advisors to governors/presidents,
and so on). This is a bit of the wisdom
imparted by John C. Calhoun in his political works.
This
is not to say that voting in modern American elections can have no positive
benefits at all for society. It sometimes
does (Christian marriage amendments to State constitutions, for instance). However, Pastor Hibbs’s attempts to justify
his high view of the right and necessity to vote are so completely false that
they are downright laughable:
As Dennis Prager said in the
newly released documentary, “After
Trump — A Warning to America,” “God will
ask those who fail to vote why they failed to sustain the most God-centered,
free country, on earth, a country whose very motto is, ‘In God We Trust.’”
As an American, God has
entrusted to you the highest privilege on this planet: to choose the leadership
for the United States of America.
--https://www.christianpost.com/voices/2020-the-most-important-election-in-history-for-christians.html
America
is ‘the most God-centered country on earth’?
Tell that to the folks in the Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, Serbia, Russia,
Uganda, etc., who are constantly bombarded by pro-LGBTQ+ propaganda from the US
State Dept. and others:
The United States and various European
countries actively fund institutions that sow hatred against the Orthodox
Church and promote the LGBT agenda in Georgia, and the country needs to
seriously rethink its pro-western orientation, His Eminence Metropolitan
Anthony of Vani and Bagdati warned in his Sunday sermon on May 24. . . . Read
the rest at https://orthochristian.com/131588.html
.
See
also https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/us-plants-the-rainbow-flag-in-poland/
.
Tell
that also to the thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians who are
suffering great hardships because of ‘the most Christian country’s’ sanctions
of mass destruction:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/state-of-the-union/the-inhumanity-of-maximum-pressure/
That
is on the outside. Inside the States, quite
apart from the on-going and devastating collapse of what was left of
traditional Christian beliefs and practices, there is such an idolatrous
worship of food and sex that obesity and the use of pornography have reached
staggering levels:
https://www.pewforum.org/2019/10/17/in-u-s-decline-of-christianity-continues-at-rapid-pace/
https://usafacts.org/articles/obesity-rate-nearly-triples-united-states-over-last-50-years/
https://enough.org/stats_porn_industry
Is
not a little, unknown place in Romania like this far more holy than ‘Christian
America’?
Meeting
at the Diocesan Center of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Deva and Hunedoara
under the chairmanship of His Eminence Metropolitan Laurențiu of Transylvania
on October 12, the Metropolitan Synod of Transylvania made a number of
decisions regarding the growth of monasticism in the metropolis.
In
particular, the hierarchs decided to establish a new monastery and to elevate
five hermitages to the rank of full monastery, reports the Basilica News Agency.
The
newly-established monastery in Șmig village in Sibiu County in Transylvania is
named in honor of St. Gherasim.
The
five former hermitages granted monastery status are:
·
Christ
the Pantocrator Monastery in Alba Iulia
·
St.
John the Baptist Monastery in Livezile
·
St.
Parascheva Monastery in Sub Piatră
·
Holy
Cross Monastery in Aiud
·
Entrance
of the Mother of God into the Temple and St. Maximus the Confessor Monastery in
Ohaba
--https://orthochristian.com/134745.html
Likewise,
‘choosing the leadership of the United States of America’ is ‘the highest
privilege on this planet’? This reveals
plainly for all to see the Antichrist nature of Yankee Americanism. The highest privilege of man is to become a
living member of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church (that is, the
Orthodox Church), which is the Lord Jesus Christ’s very own resurrected,
ascended, and glorified Body, within Which we may recover the purity of the
image of God and attain the likeness of God, both of which were lost at the
Fall. In other words,
theosis/deification through the Grace of God is man’s highest calling in this
life, not our being able to vote for, in Dr Russell Kirk’s immortal words,
Tweedle-Dee or Tweedle-Dum to fill a political office:
https://souloftheeast.org/2018/05/29/theosis-is-the-gospel-direct-knowledge-of-god-jay-dyer/
There
are a lot of well-meaning people like Pastor Jack in the States, but his essay
is indicative of the Yankee apostasy that holds sway over so many (including
here at the South, which grew up from quite different principles than New
England): namely, that America, not the
Orthodox Church, is the chosen people of God.
When great numbers of folks in the States begin to truly repent of that
heresy, then things will begin to improve in a profound way, and voting will
find a more fitting and humbler place on the ladder of the virtues.
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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