Wokal Distance On The Convergence Of American Churches

Taken from today's Twitter thread and quoted below with mild editing.

The Wokeness and postmodernism have come for Christianity. The conservative Southern Baptist Convention passed a resolution allowing the use of Intersectionality and Critical Race Theory as tools for theology. So how did we get here? Two words: Emergent Church

The Emergent Church movement gained popularity in the late 90's early 2000's. They were young, cool, and artsy. But they were also proudly, and openly postmodern. The movement began to go mainstream when this book on Postmodern Ministry by Brian Mclaren came out in 1998.

While Mclaren eventually proved to be the leader of the movement, he wasn't the first to bring postmodernism in to the Church. The first one to do that was very likely John Caputo in 1987. With a book on DECONSTRUCTION in Hermeneutics (fancy term for biblical interpretation).

In "The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida" from 1997, Caputo attempts to bring deconstruction further into Christianity. Those who saw my thread on deconstruction (I'll link below) will recognize the importance deconstruction to postmodernism.

In 1996 Christian Theologian Stanley Grenz saw all this tried sounding the alarm with his book "A Primer on Postmodernism," in which he predicts the coming of postmodernism and says Christians need to be ready for it. (turns out he was right, and 20 years ahead of his time).

Now, because Grenz saw postmodernism coming He worked with John R. Franke to build a framework that would allow Christianity to survive in a postmodern world without being completely deconstructed. Grenz wanted to deconstruct-proof Christianity. Unfortunately it didn't work.

Why did it fail? Because Brian McLaren and John Caputo worked tirelessly to bring postmodernism into Christianity. Remember WWJD? What Would Jesus Do? Here's the postmodern version from a book by Caputo (forward by Mclaren): What Would Jesus DECONSTRUCT? Read the description.

McLaren wrote many books, including "The Secret Message of Jesus," where he deconstructed traditional Christianity while substituting postmodern Christianity in it's place. Here @RaviZacharias exposes McLaren's nonsense as only Ravi could. It's beautiful. I miss you Ravi.

That @RaviZacharias clip from is from 2007 when the deconstruction was the sort that attacks meaning and questions truth. But the Emergent church switched their focus from Meaning to Power. Martin Van Steenwyk explains the shift he helped facilitate in this interview from 2009.

Where deconstruction comes from Jacques Derrida, post-colonial theory gets its main ideas from Michael Foucault. Deconstruction attacks truth by blurring the MEANING of texts and ideas. Post-colonialism attacks truth by saying claims of truth are thinly veiled claims to power.

I'll explain postcolonialism another time, but the 3 main ideas are

1. people only claim things are true when it suits them
2. people are so biased no objective assessment of truth is possible
3. The winners of the "what is true" game are determined by who has the most power

Add post-colonialism to deconstruction and you get a scenario in which anytime anyone says something is true either (a) their claim gets deconstructed or (b) they get accused of trying to make their ideas dominant in society so they can get power. Sound familiar?

In 2011 the first academic book on evangelical Christian postcolonialism came out. It has some familiar names. That's right, both Brian McLaren and John Franke (the man Stanley Grenz thought would help him protect Christianity from postmodernism) went full on postcolonial.

McLaren actually very clearly explains why it is that he blends his deconstructive postmodernism with postcolonial theory. It's because the deconstruction is used to dismantle the ideas of colonialism. Again, does any of this sound familiar?

Also, notice that John Franke writes his postcolonial article with Megan Defranza. well, who is she? She's a former board member for Q-Christian. What's that you ask? it's an organization that fully embraces postmodern gender theory in the name of Jesus. Deconstruction indeed.

Now, You'll remember we began with the Southern Baptist Convention adopting Critical Race Theory and intersectionality. Wouldn't it be nice if we could tie the intersectionality to the postmodernism of the Emergent church? Wouldn't that wrap things up nicely? Well, Kimberlee Crenshaw invented intersectionality in her essay "Mapping the Margins." In that essay she says intersectionality was created to link politics and Postmodern theory. Intersectionality is a Trojan horse for Postmodernism and the Southern Baptist Convention adopted it.

Who else likes intersectionality? The Emergent Church! Rachel Held Evans, who joined the "Emergent Conversation," tried bringing intersectionality into Christianity before her unfortunate passing. Note she mentions Brian McLaren.

So as you can see, the Emergent Church of the late 90's and early 2000's has it's fingerprints all over the Social Justice Christianity that we see today. This is no surprise those are both fruit of the same poisonous tree of postmodernism. What do we do now? Fight.

1. Get the word out.
2. Tell you pastors, remind them of the Emergent Church then show how Social Justice Christianity connects to both postmodernism and the Emergent Church
3. Push back. Don't let them take over.
4. Be informed and warn the other members of the congregation

This is a fight for the soul of your churches. If you won't take a stand here, where will you draw the line? Time to fight. Let's go!

Let's make this easy. It's HERESY! What do we do with heretics? Do we tolerate them? Do we argue with them? What do we do?

That's right, we ELIMINATE them.

There is no "fighting" to be had, not as Wokal implies. You identify the heresy, call it out, demand compliance, and eliminate everyone that doesn't repent. No need to raise your voice. No need to dispute. You stand in the authority of God and demand obedience to His Word, and you smite every last motherfucker that gainsays you. Yes, even those who dare call themselves "pastor" or "minister" or "priest".

Witch Test them immediately if they dare come at you with invocation of Scripture or similar sophistry. Eliminate those that fail on the spot.

There cannot be peace between the Faithful and the Wicked. Those that push this are wicked, so expose them and cull them without fear for you are doing what not only needs be done, but what is good for your people.

We certainly do not let them come into our lands, enter into our churches, and drive us out of what is rightfully ours. We throw out the invaders and the traiors, those that do not end up fertilizing our crops.

This is harsh, but it is true that Evil fears a militant Good. Godly Men must be Hard Men; every single time things go wrong, it's because men cease being Hard.

The Thralls will not tolerate what they cannot control. Convergence is how they seize control. Heresy is the poison used to sell it in the Church. Burn the heretics.

Narrative Warfare: On Monopoly Of Organization

Taken from Twitter, today.

Monopoly of Organization. You will NEVER be allowed outside what the Death Cult controls. https://t.co/CQvKiv6Y8x

— Bradford C. Walker (@MrBCWalker) October 4, 2020

There's not much to unpack here if you proper comprehend what "monopoly" and "organization" mean in terms of definition. The Death Cult pursues a policy of covergence because it wants to guarantee that you have no escape from their dogma and the propaganda it uses to gaslight and brainwash you into believing their narrative, embracing their culture, and thus supporting their politics.

When I say "monopoly", I mean it. You have no ability to engage in anything that the Thralls of Empire do not control when they are dominant. They run all workplaces. They run all social organizations. They even run your families, such as they are. Your hobbies--those they allow at all--are theirs to control. Not one book, one film, one game, one thing you can do outside, nothing at all is outside their control.

This why you see SJW bullshit, by whatever brand they're pushing, in every little thing however small or petty it seems. Critical Race Theory, Reparations, Social Justice: all brands pushed by the Thralls of Empire and their Death Cult.

And that is why they freak out whenever they detect any organization they don't control, freak out when it successfully resists its convergence (however partial or short-lived), and freak out when you build alternatives that they can't touch- up to, and including, lethal force (usually by proxy via the state).

Empire must have this, and ruthlessly maintain it, to succeed. It is that fragile.

That is why Empire is falling.

Wokal Distance Explains Why The Death Cult Converges Orgs

Wokal Distance started another Twitter thread yesterday. Mild editing exercised. Collected below.

The woke are not trying to win the culture war against liberals intellectually, they are trying to win SOCIALLY.

The woke don't fight academically with evidence and reason.

They fight SOCIALLY using power moves to take over institutions and bullying tactics to shut us up.

The woke do not want to merely participate in liberal democratic society; allowing their ideas to be carefully scrutinized by our academic, cultural and democratic institutions.

The woke want to SEIZE POWER in those institutions, and mutate them into institutions of wokeness.

So the tactics adopted by the woke were developed for seizing institutional, cultural, and political power, not for discovering the truth. If it works to send social media mobs after people to get them fired so woke people can take their jobs works, then that is what they do.

Since the goal of the woke is to seize social and political power so they can wield it in the name of their ideology, they are not interested in being kind, civil, or "nice."

In fact Robin DiAngelo actually says "niceness" is bad, and claims it reproduces white supremacy.

The result is that when the woke try to get into positions of power, they do not typically do so by demonstrating they have the MERIT to be in those positions. They are not, to be frank, interested in meeting the standard of merit that liberals use in selecting their leaders.

This is because the woke think liberals and other non-woke groups don't really care about merit, and just use merit as an excuse to keep "marginalized groups" out of positions of power. The woke think leadership requirements are little more than poorly disguised power hoarding.

As such they think meeting liberal standards accepts the logic of liberalism, which they reject and want to replace with wokeness.

So, rather than follow liberal rules of civility, merit, reason, and democracy; they follow woke rules and play cynical social power games.

They will accuse, imply, and insinuate all kinds of things about anyone in order to socially destroy whoever dares to get in their way.

They're not going to tell you you're wrong, they're going to tell everyone else you're a racist, sexist, homophobe.

That's how it works.

Here, Bret Weinstein explains how false accusations of racism were used to try to intimidate him into going along with a woke takeover of College where he was teaching at the time. Please pay close attention.

In this clip Reihan Salam responds to comments by Eddie Glaude and while he is talking Eddie interrupts him to insinuate that Reihan is not being genuiune and is merely trying to score political points in a debate. This is a typical woke tactic.

The point is that if you think you're going to push back on wokeness with arguments according to the rules of civility, fairplay, evidence and reason you are sorely mistaken.

This is not how this works.

The woke don't play that game. Theirs is a contest for power, and they use cynical social tactics in order to try to browbeat people into doing what the woke want them to do. Push back requires we recognize what game the woke are playing, and make that clear to everyone else.

Wokeness has a vulnerability: being understood.

When people understand the game the woke play, they stop going along with it and the woke lose power.

So make their game clear, make it transparent, and call it out. The sooner you do the sooner the woke lose power.

First, let me tap the sign yet again.

Second, another reminder: Wokeness is a Christian heresy, which means I tap the other sign.

You're dealing with a cult, a Satanic cult, one with Will To Power as a central tenet of their ideology. Yes, you can use the Three Laws of SJWs to deal effectively with them (and you should), but there is more that needs be done and knowing how their mindset operates is vital to breaking their playbook. They go straight to Power and don't give a damn about what it takes to get and keep it.

The reason they converge organizations is because they believe in Monopoly of Organization. Not just on Force. They converge every last little group, formal or not, because they are deathly afraid that some enemy will recognize them for what they are and rally opposition to them; this means organizing against them in order to put them down for good, so they are totalitarians of the most ruthless sort.

This is not a rational belief. They cannot be reasoned out of it. They are emotionally committed; they have to be broken at that level or higher.

So make this what it is: a struggle against an evil Satanic cult.

Empire is falling.

Wokal Distance Explains The Death Cult Corruption of the Academy

Wokal Distance posted a thread this past Monday on the Death Cult's corruption of the Academy. That thread on Twitter started here. Reposted below.

Ever wonder why Universities produce so much Wokeness?

The answer is 'Activist Scholars': Woke professors who have decided that the goal of a University is to ideologically indoctrinate students and spread activist propaganda.

They admit this, and I have receipts.

See, the problem is NOT merely that some professors have blind-spots that need to be corrected by having lots of other professors with different views. That issue is important, but that is not what I am talking about.

Activists Scholars are an entirely different problem.

The Scholar Activist sees their job to do activism in the classroom including using their classroom in the University to train more Woke activists.

This Paper by Kia M. Q. Hall is about activities for training Black Lives Matter activists in the classroom.

You see, the Scholar Activist does not even attempt to teach from neutral ground. They have an ideology, and use their classroom to train students to become activists on behalf of that ideology.

Here Deborah Lowry suggests a way to teach that "supports student-activists".

This isn't bias and blind-spots, this is activists deciding the classroom is a place for them to teach and train activists to agitate on behalf of Woke ideology.

But it goes further; many of these professors explicitly admit they no longer care about telling the truth.

Here, Kelly Oliver says the quiet part out loud.

She says Feminist theories do NOT have to be true or false. They have to be STRATEGIC. The truth does not matter, strategy does. This is because, she says, Feminism has to be revolutionary; and she means *REVOLUTIONARY*

Not to be outdone, Professor Joan Scott tells us that they seek a theory that will be relevant for political practice, and Sociologist Raewyn Connell seeks a theory of Gender that takes politics into account.

These professors are saying, very explicitly, that they are publishing in academic journals, and teaching in University classrooms, a set academic theories which exist ENTIRELY for the purpose of doing woke activist politics.

This isn't bias, it's indoctrination.

You see the fruit of this sort of activist training in the situation that occurred at Evergreen State college when student activists took over the Campus.

Here, students tell the faculty of the college they just took over they learned their activism FROM THAT SAME FACULTY.

The faculty of Evergreen turned their students into activists, who turned around and used their activist training to take over the college and demand the already Woke college become even more Woke.

Woke professors caught in a feedback loop of wokeness of their own creation.

I hope thus far you have seen that there is a good sized segment of the University that has decided that rather then pursue truth and seek to be a neutral in the classroom as possible, they are going to pursue politics, and use the classroom to indoctrinate the students.

So how did they manage to do that?

To understand that you need to understand what Tenure.

Tenure means that a professor can be terminated only for cause under extraordinary circumstances. It is almost impossible to fired once as a professor if you have Tenure.

Woke academics who have gotten tenure, use their positions to help as many other Woke people get tenure as possible.

Here, Henry Giroux explains how he helped **100** people get Tenure, and how he sees doing so as being an important "political intervention."

This means a couple of things. The first is that these professors can publish Woke papers in academic journals, which makes their ideology look legitimate. This is like laundering money, except in this case the thing being laundered is activist ideology. The second is that a professor with Tenure is nearly impossible to fire. Even if they get caught teaching activist ideology they can't be fired, and that means they are free to propagandize and indoctrinate without fear of being fired.

Are we beginning to see what's happening here?

The Woke are taking over Universities by helping each other get Tenure, so they can keep indoctrinating students in the classrooms while publishing their Woke ideology in journals so it gets treated like real science, scholarship, and knowledge. (Ed: Refer back to last week's post; this is using Enlightenment Liberal Epistomology against itself.)

What gets left out by the Woke is the truth, because the Woke are not interested in trying to find out and teach about how the world really is. Here, Kelly Oliver talks about how to divorce science from nature, so that Feminists can take over science with Feminist ideology.

They are telling us what they are doing, and they are being clear about it. They mean what they say, and they say what they mean. We need to take these people at face value and start believing us when they tell us who they are and what they are doing.

There are no easy answers here but we can start by showing people what is going on and sharing this information widely. Then we can start figuring out a strategy to counter Wokeness in the University. Let's get to work.

(Editing and emphasis by me.)

You start by calling what it is: Heresy, Treason, and Sedition.

You continue by calling them what they are: heretics, traitors, and Satanists who cover for pedophiles and worse with their ideology.

There is no value in continuing to pretend that this is a civil matter. This is infiltration and subversion by hostile aliens and foreigners in league with treasonous nationals all of whom are in thrall to a hostile enemy power. That's not grounds for debate and argument. That's grounds for summary execution upon detection.

If the God-Emperor were not in charge, I'd be in favor of wholesale doxing and disapparance of our enemies. Yes, they're already doing the former to us; the latter is being openly warmed up to, or have you not noticed all of the BLM/Antifa mobs sorting as far out as to small towns close to the big cities specifically to menace targets residing there? The firebomings and home invasions are on the table, folks.

The Death Cultists are screaming this at you, and so many of you willfully refuse to accept it.

The reason I'm not calling for preemptive strikes is due to the God-Emperor's efforts to neuter BLM/Antifa. While casualties and fatalities happen on our side, nonetheless that is happening and the Feds--increasingly, this means local or state agencies deputized by a loyal Federal agency and thus delivering targets to Federal custody--and the upcoming Trumpslide will allow the God-Emperor to release what holds he's keeping in place. (e.g. the Insurrection Act)

Remember that the entire United States remains under Emergency declarations, and that the Stafford Act is in effect. Military personnel can be employed in a law enforcement capacity under the Stafford Act. Remember his method of operation: to keep things completely concealed until it's too late to stop it. In short, the most severe of Operational Security is maintained until the results are at hand. You won't hear or see shit until it's over. The recent peace deal is the evidence you require to see that this is how it is.

Because you will neither see nor hear anything, you had better not expect to see or hear it in the press or on social media. Trump works invisibly; the best thing we can do is to stay out of the line of fire and highlight targets for him to send Feds at.

For now, that is.

Empire is falling.

Wokal Distance Explains Muh Huwhyte Privledges

Wokal Distance put this out on Friday the 25th. I'm summarizing the thread here below.

The idea of "White Privilege" is everywhere...and it's NOT what you think. So, let's talk about it.

The idea of white privilege has spread through society like wild fire since about 2013. A lot of people think that the basic concept of white privilege is "white people face less racism then black people." This is NOT what the term means.

The woke play a game with "white privilege" where they alternate between two positions: an extreme position they really believe and talk about openly when they won't be attacked, and a far more modest position they fall back on and defend when anyone questions them.

This tactic is called a Motte and Bailey fallacy. It is named after a castle that has a motte (a small but easily defended fortress you can hide in when attacked), and a bailey (a large valley with lots of resources and treasure where all the fun takes place)

In the case of white privilege, the motte is the idea that Black people face racism white people don't face, and the bailey is the idea that all white are racist and perpetuate an unjust system of racial hierarchy without knowing it:

It's easy to see how this idea gains traction and how useful it is to the woke. They take a simple idea which seems right, and when everyone accepts that idea, they switch to an extreme position while using the same name.

So, Lets take a look at the 'bailey' of white privilege, and show you what is actually going on.

First, you need to know that the woke carve up society according to the doctrines of "dominance" and "oppression." You could think if those as the yin and yang of wokeness.

Dominance is when a group uses power to get to the top of the social pyramid, and then use that position to gain even more power to maintain their position at the top of the hierarchy. "Dominance" in woke-speak is always about taking, wielding and hoarding of social power.

The social power that the dominant group has taken is then used by the dominant group rig society in their favor and oppress other groups in society. In other words, the powerful impose their ideas and interests on everyone. They do this by making sure that everything in society is built so that in every situation the dominant group gets the maximum benefit at the expense of everyone else. This is done by making sure everything that exists in society is constructed so the ideology of the dominant group is embedded in literally everything.

This means the woke think the way we think about and discuss art, law, science, math, sports, religion, architecture, and anything else in society you can think of, have had the ideology of the dominant group embedded in them. The result is that the "discourses" in society or the way in which we talk about things and communicate, all take for granted and assume the ideology of the dominant group, and therefore preach, teach, and perpetuate the ideology of the dominant group even when the people discussing the ideas don't know it.

The woke think the dominant group subtly control how everyone talks, thinks, and communicate. This "socializes" people into behaviors and ideas that benefit the dominant group. In other words, people are trained to think and act in way that benefit the people at the top.

The woke think the dominant group (which the woke think is white males) use their control of how society communicates and thinks to tie the hands of other groups, and the result is anyone who isn't a white male is *oppressed* by the systems of power created by white men.

Oppression is only experienced by non-dominant groups in society, not white men. White men may experience hardship or difficulty, but not oppression. Because oppression is to be disadvantaged by the systemic power of white men BECAUSE ONE IS NOT A WHITE MALE.

Read that again.

According to wokeness, white men are never held down by society FOR BEING WHITE MEN. They might face prejudice, but that prejudice is never SYSTEMIC. That is, white men can only ever be victims of isolated instances of discrimination, never victims of oppression because even when a white man is discriminated against by, for example, a woman of color, he is still discriminated against in the context of an entire society built for his benefit. So even when a white man faces prejudice, in the larger context he still has the upper hand.

A good example of how the woke view privilege and oppression is a video game where white men play the game on easy mode, women play it on medium difficulty, and black disabled trans people play the game on the hardest difficulty there is. This is how they view the world.

The woke think 'white privilege' is the societal equivalent of white people are playing the game on an easier level then Black people, indigenous people, and brown people.

THAT is what the woke mean when they talk about 'white privilege.'

I want you to notice how much intellectual machinery I had to first unpack just so I could then do a proper job of explaining 'white privilege.' The reason I had to do that is that wokeness isn't just a set of ideas, it's a complete *worldview* that functions as a religion.

White privilege, which we now can see is that being white grants one and unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements, benefits, and freedoms solely because they are white. In other words, white people are playing the game on easy mode. This means that the woke think every situation a white person is in, no matter how difficult, hard, or painful, would be even more difficult, hard, and painful for Black, Indigenous, or Brown people. It doesn't even matter what the situation is, the woke think it's easier for white people.

So, the next time a woke person begins to push on you the idea that you have "white privilege" your goal should be to show people the *worldview* behind wokeness. Don't let them get away with saying "white privilege is just that white people don't face the racism others do."

Force them to defend their entire worldview so that people can have the opportunity to see the postmodern intellectual yeast the woke use to bake their worldview.

Don't let them play their Motte and Bailey game: force them to be clear about EXACTLY what they are arguing.

How Thralls of Empire Turn Muh Relatisms Into Real Power

The following is originally from the Wokal Distance account on Twitter. Follow for wisdom on the Death Cult.

Neon Revolt's #FreedomLetters Proposal

Neon Revolt began a podcast a while back. Episode 4 dropped this past week. You want to listen; this is about the upcoming U.S. Election.

At 41:45 Neon Revolt begins his explanation for a practical, actionable proposal to intervene on the God-Emperor's side: Freedom Letters.

It's this simple: On the day after Election Day, and for the next 30 days thereafter, put 3-5 letters into the mail. Postcards, SASEs, whatever- just has to be something you can put into an envelope and mail with a standard mail stamp. What you mail is irrelevant. Whom you mail it to is irrelevant. What matters is that you put those letters into the system every day for that duration, and that a critical mass of residents do so.

With that sudden explosion of mail volume, the mail-in ballots are going to be delayed good and hard well. It will buy Trump the time required to ensure that his win--and he will win--isn't stolen. Yes, even if Thralls of Empire in the Post Office sort and stack the ballots and so on; they still have to put them on the same trucks, planes, and so on that everything else does so volume matters because it sucks up time.

Overseas people can play along as well, though you are paying International postage rates. Just go get your stamps, envelopes, addresses, sorted now if you want to play.

Send any objections to Neon Revolt, not to me. It's his idea.

Spread the word about this. Get as many people hyped to play as you can.

Empire Is Falling.

FOR THE EMPEROR!