Monday, January 16, 2017

"The Alt-Right is..." answer to prayers?

I grew up in the Church. I sat youth group where they tried their best to convince us to not walk away after we went to college... and everyone still did. The temptations of the world have always been great, I suppose, but recent years have been a complete meltdown and falling away of the youth. Since the Left Behind books came out, the older generation has been half holding out for Christ to come back and half kneeling and praying on their Rapture rugs for a revival in the culture, in particular for the youth to come home. Now I attempt a brief, partial channeling of what that has looked like for the collective leading up to the current year...

Now the typically white, Evangelical pew filling congregant is con(cuck)servative. Their political awareness is informed by Fox News at best, CNN and the rest of legacy media at worst, and they are adamantly against abortion and gay marriage, although not too vigorously as to not come across as unloving or hateful. Their son is a basement dwelling atheist and their daughter is a liberal activist sleeping with every Chad, Dick, and Harry. Mom and Dad still love their son and daughter and pray for them every night, as well as the United States and Israel. They bubble in Republican down the ballot and the rest according to their local church voter guide, which may or may not have endorsed Donald Trump. Either way, he's president elect now! These are strange times.

Unbeknownst to them, their son agrees as well. He has been raised his whole life told that he is privileged beyond belief and should maybe even feel a little guilty about that, but here he sits in the basement, a NEET with no girlfriend and not much to show for the white privilege he supposedly has. It's embarrassing, even shameful. Nevertheless, he seeks to improve himself. He reads self improvement blogs and follows people who have made a success of themselves. He is naturally drawn to successful white men, who point out the many factors and variables that are actually stacked against white males. As the red pills kick in and the scales fall off his eyes and he sees the world for what it is, he also sees himself for who he is and is reinvigorated with pride in his white identity. His morale towards life is revived and he believes he can fulfill his role as a man, and the vision starts to come. A successful, thriving livelihood with a wife and children come into the picture, and it is very exciting!

OH!  Mom and Dad will be so happy to see how I've turned over a new leaf, he thinks! Then he hesitates...

His revelation will seem painfully obvious to them on the surface and they will want to know exactly what changed, the details of the new paradigm that so inspires their son. He realizes all they know of the Alt Right are a few moments on the nightly news about a KKK member named David Duke and a White Supremacist named Richard Spencer. Dad has been fairly aloof towards his weird ideas and him in general for the past 20 years or so, but he sure as hell won't tolerate a neo-Nazi for a son!

See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.” Malachi 4:5-6

The point I want to make is that both generations hold answers to what we are facing, and the coming together on these issues in the way that families and generations were always meant to function is what will be the answer to prayer. The autistic, NEET, white male younger generation are redpilling and waking up to what their parents have been enduring their whole lives, and the impacts are evident. The tradition and religion their parents offered were too sterilized and impotent to life giving and they intuitively moved away from it. As much as I want to honor the older generation and reconcile with them, before we can do that they need to acknowledge this because the mess we are in happened on their watch. Nevertheless, Jesus Christ is still the Rock of Ages and His Word still has the answers to today, even if the psyop against the Boomers prevented them from fully making use of it. I want to speak to the Alt Right movement, with all your memes, vulgarity, trolling, antics, even alleged racism, that you have the trappings of the revival that Evangelicals have been praying for, and this movement is currently being birthed. The Boomer generation has been so neutralized to inaction as to emphasize the sovereignty of God to the point of complacency. A birthing process, even spiritual, is messy and requires attending to. Midwives/nurses, and a doctor, and the father standing beside. And then the child needs to be raised. I pray the older generation will be shaken out of their characteristic slumber and stupor that has resulted in abandonment and neglect, and see this movement for what it is. God spoke to many prayerful hearts regarding this nation that He would not forsake it, but He works in mysterious ways. How many times did the older generation tell us this pat answer from a place of bewilderment? For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, I proclaim that this time it is tangibly true!

Amen.

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