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  • SPLC, Antifa and the U.S. military team up to force religious discrimination and destroy lives of servicemen

    Armed With Knowledge - Jan 4th 2020 9:28am EST

    As the Georgia-based Atlanta-Journal Constitution (AJC) reports: Two Georgia men targeted earlier this year by online activists for their associations with radical white extremism have been kicked out of the Army National Guard, following months of investigation. Many details in this story are unclear, because the military has put a lot of red tape up around the […]

  • United Methodist Church Announces Split Over Gay Marriage

    Occidental Dissent - Jan 3rd 2020 6:34pm EST

    BREAKING: United Methodist Church leaders from around the world are proposing a new conservative denomination that would split from the rest of the church in an attempt to resolve a yearslong dispute over gay marriage and gay clergy. https://t.co/EibnG85ykR— The Associated Press (@AP) January 3, 2020 Good. Liberalism and Christianity are irreconcilable. New York Times: […]

  • NBC: White Christian America Ended In The 2010s

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 29th 2019 3:11pm EST

    This doesn’t come as a surprise. Conservatism, Inc. exists to conserve liberalism. It does not exist to conserve White Christian America. Instead, it is a bloodsucking parasite which harnesses these resentments for its own purposes which are promoting Israel and tax cuts and deregulation for corporations. Those of us who want to preserve our race, […]

  • The Vikings

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 27th 2019 3:14pm EST

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  • Would Christ be condemned by Western mainstream politicians – and banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube?

    Armed With Knowledge - Dec 24th 2019 3:48pm EST

    It is something to think about. After all: Christ criticized prominent Jews, which is something that the U.S. government now equates with anti-Semitism. And Christ’s behavior in this regard goes against the user guidelines established by Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and other social media giants. Christ criticized the Jewish group community, and while most of the […]

  • Santa hat: the newest symbol of anti-Semitic extremism?

    Armed With Knowledge - Dec 24th 2019 12:07pm EST

    Just days after an investigation over football game attendees flashing the now-controversial ‘a-ok’ sign, the spotlight has shifted to a discussion over Santa’s hat. The drama began on the internet site Github after this small icon appeared in the interface in place of the usual one: More specifically, a developer replaced the ordinary gear icon in the interface […]

  • Anglo-Saxons, Britain and Christianity

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 22nd 2019 10:55pm EST

    Editor’s Note: I feel like staying in Early Medieval Britain tonight and taking a look at the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Now watching:

  • Christianity Today: Trump Should Be Removed from Office

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 20th 2019 4:23pm EST

    Of all the things that Trump has done in office, briefly delaying foreign aid to Ukraine in support of its ongoing military conflict with Russia over Crimea and the Donbass, which is utterly none of our business, is about the last thing that makes him morally unfit to be president. Christianity Today: “The reason many […]

  • Luther and Liberalism

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 19th 2019 12:50pm EST

    This article at Patheos this morning has drawn my attention to another article on Luther and the origins of liberalism by Korey D. Maas in the July/October 2019 edition of Concordia Theological Quarterly: Concordia Theological Quarterly: “What we have on the table, then, are three interpretive and evaluative options. Characterized with gross simplicity, they are […]

  • Atheism Surges Among White Liberals

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 18th 2019 11:48pm EST

    What has gotten into White liberals? 1.) There has been a 14 point jump in self-identified atheists in the Trump era. 2.) Atheism is strongly related to wokeness. 3.) White liberal atheists are filling the spiritual void in their lives with “social justice” causes and finding meaning in fighting white privilege. 1/n Over the course […]

  • TAC: Orders of Charity

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 16th 2019 7:07pm EST

    This is a good article. I recommend that our Catholic readers read and digest it and wonder what changed. It doesn’t sound all too different from Luther’s idea of the Orders of Creation. TAC: “As a Catholic theologian, Aquinas unsurprisingly identifies God as the preeminent object of man’s love. But this hierarchy also has broad […]

  • Lutheran Orthodoxy and Pietism

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 15th 2019 3:48pm EST

    I spent much of last year studying the Reformation. I’m currently studying the period between the Peace of Augsburg and the Enlightenment and exploring how Lutheranism continued to evolve in Northern Europe in the late 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. This period is roughly bounded by Luther’s death and Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Schleiermacher […]

  • The Hell Question: Do Trump’s Evangelicals Believe Jews Need Jesus?

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 13th 2019 7:04pm EST

    I’ve become a big fan of TruNews. I believe that Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart are doing some of the most important work that is going on right now. We’ve long needed someone to go after these Christian Zionist mountebanks like John Hagee. This was one of the biggest failings of the Alt-Right. Today on […]

  • The Atlantic: The Christian Withdrawal Experiment

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 13th 2019 1:46pm EST

    St. Marys, KS is a town of 2,627 people which has been taken over by Trad Catholics. They run the town now. The Atlantic: “Half an hour down the highway from Topeka, Kansas, not far from the geographic center of the United States, sits the town of St. Marys. Like many towns in the region, […]

  • How We Learned That Slavery Is Wrong

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 12th 2019 12:30pm EST

    Alec Ryrie is the author of Protestants: The Faith That Made The Modern World. He has a new book out called Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt. I will be reading and reviewing both books here in 2020. These lectures are basically chapters from his book. Is Protestant Christianity incompatible with racialism, white supremacy and […]

  • Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 12th 2019 9:40am EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress.

  • Pastor Hagee Applauds Trump For Signing Executive Order Combating Anti-Semitism

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 11th 2019 6:40pm EST

    SO GREAT! The forgotten people thank the orthodox CHOSEN for supporting their CHOSEN President! My administration has been mandated by God to stamp out antisemitism all over world. We will continue BUILDING THE WALL to hold back the hateful supremacist rise in antisemitism! https://t.co/ANrSXsI6CP— Emperor President God King BIumpf (@PunishedGodKing) December 11, 2019 THANK YOU, […]

  • Liberal Christianity

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 11th 2019 6:17pm EST

    There are a lot of non-Christians who read this site who are alienated from Christianity for various reasons which they tend to assume are inherent to Christianity. This isn’t their fault. They weren’t raised as Christians and have likely been repeatedly told this by Christians. We’re constantly told that Christianity is incompatible with “racism” and […]

  • Liberalism and the Church

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 10th 2019 3:49pm EST

    We’re continuing our series on illiberal Protestantism. So far, we have looked at Martin Luther’s Two Kingdoms doctrine and how Lutheranism has traditionally held that God governs his earthly kingdom or “the left hand realm” of the world through the structures of the Orders of Creation – family and work, the church and the state […]

  • Scandinavia In the Age of Revolution

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 9th 2019 11:09pm EST

    Is Protestantism necessarily liberal? Is Protestantism opposed to racialism and anti-Semitism? Is Protestantism opposed to nationalism and authoritarianism? These questions have drawn my attention lately. We’ve already seen how church and state used to be integrated in Lutheran Europe before the Napoleonic Wars and how Protestants supported the Third Reich. We have also seen how […]

  • The Gospel of Apartheid

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 9th 2019 12:11pm EST

    Is Protestantism necessarily liberal? Is Christianity incompatible with “racism” and “white supremacy”? Yesterday, we looked at how Lutherans supported National Socialist Germany and justified it on the basis of Luther’s Two Kingdoms doctrine and even welcomed the Third Reich as a triumph over liberalism and communism. Christians were more eager to collaborate with the Nazis […]

  • The Age of Lutheran Orthodoxy

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 8th 2019 8:27pm EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. Liberalism didn’t exist in Martin Luther and John Calvin’s time. As I explained earlier, Protestantism WAS NOT always liberal. It developed centuries later and then mostly in the context of the religious pluralism of the Anglo and Dutch world. The following excerpt comes from Eric W. Gritsch’s […]

  • Two Kingdoms In The Third Reich

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 8th 2019 1:35pm EST

    Editor’s Note: This is a work in progress. “It does not have to do with Jewish hatred – one can reach an agreement with serious Jews on this point – it does not have to do with blood, also not with the religious beliefs of Judaism. But it does involve the threat of a quite […]

  • Theologians Under Hitler

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 7th 2019 2:11am EST

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  • First Things: Rehabilitating The “Orders of Creation”

    Occidental Dissent - Dec 6th 2019 2:35pm EST

    I’ve been critical of the First Things crowd like Matthew Schmitz and Sohrab Ahmari and their Trad Cath version of “post-liberalism.” I was pleasantly surprised though this morning to find this old essay from thirty years ago by Carl E. Braaten, a leading American Lutheran theologian, which brings up the work of the 19th century […]