Tag: Protestantism

The purpose of the Council of Chalcedon in 451 was to determine the nature of Christ. It also determined the relationship of the state to Divine Providence.

1,889 words

Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here)

Making Gains

With a base of conservative, mostly old-stock American white women as supporters, Rushdoony started to make real gains. He researched and commented upon the early councils of the Christian Church and applied their outcomes to American society. One such council was the Council of Chalcedon. (more…)

2,314 words

Part 2 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

Rousas John Rushdoony didn’t experience the Armenian Genocide in the strictest sense, but he grew up around many Armenians who had, and it undoubtedly shaped his worldview. R. J. was every bit as intelligent as his father, so he focused on getting an education. It was in Detroit that a teacher encouraged him to become a writer. His father returned to California in 1933 to serve as a pastor in San Francisco, and R. J. completed high school in Kingsburg while living at his parents’ farm. (more…)

Christianity spread to Armenia shortly after the life of Christ.

2,633 words

Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)

The Christian Right, or Religious Right, was an enormous force in American politics until George W. Bush got them to support his war against Iraq on behalf of Israel. Because the Iraq War turned out to be a disaster, the Christian Right lost much of its support in broader American society. (more…)

The Duggar family in 2021, from their official Facebook page.

1,723 words

Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets (2023)
Directed by Olivia Crist & Julia Willoughby Nason

Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. — Psalm 127:3-5 KJV (more…)

Peter’s vision was a rejection of Jewish influence upon Christianity.

2,594 words

Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)

The Damnatio Memoriae of Lucius Aelius Sejanus and the Jews of the Roman Empire

During Jesus’ ministry, the Emperor of Rome was Tiberius Caesar, but the government of Rome was administered by Lucius Aelius Sejanus. Pontius Pilate, a client of Sejanus and the husband of Ceasar Augustus’ granddaughter, was Governor of Judea. Herod Antipas was the tetrarch of Galilee. (more…)

The Council of Jerusalem is the decisive meeting in which the separation between Christians and Jews was ratified.

2,552 words

Part 1 of 2 (Part 2 here)

But when Peter came to Antioch, I had to oppose him to his face, for what he did was very wrong. When he first arrived, he ate with the Gentile believers, who were not circumcised. But afterward, when some friends of James came, Peter wouldn’t eat with the Gentiles anymore. He was afraid of criticism from these people who insisted on the necessity of circumcision. (more…)

5,000 words

There is a growing sentiment, particularly amongst Christian conservatives and reactionaries, that the men of “The West” should — indeed, must — form an alliance with the Muslims who have flooded into our countries. Together we can wage a Crusade/Jihad (a Crusihad? A Jihsade?) against the degenerate drag queens and the libs on TikTok. (more…)

1,798 words

There has been a Mr. Bond-shaped hole in the National Socialist rap scene ever since ZOG sent the Austrian troubadour up the river for the crime of being a genius. But fear not, for I see from perusing the still-active Mr. Bond fan pages that the white race is continuing to produce lyrical machete-men vying to become Mr. Hassler’s successor as the King of White Nationalist rap. No-Face Nate, a rapper associated with the Will 2 Rise movement, is one such contender. (more…)

1,624 words

Brian C. Wilson
Yankees in Michigan
East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2008

If you have the chance, visit the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum. The Museum’s collection is brilliant, and contains some of the best art from around the world, including works from ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece. This drives home the fact that no French or Italian art collector has scoured England, Australia, or Michigan for magnificent art. (more…)

2,622 words

Darrell Fields
The Seed of a Nation: Rediscovering America
Garden City, N. Y.: Morgan James Publishing, Inc., 2008

There is an ongoing revolution in American Protestantism which is worth examining: the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). The NAR is an outgrowth of the Pentecostal Denomination which developed in Los Angeles during the 1906 Azuza Street Revival. Simply put, Pentecostalism’s difference from other branches of Christianity is the theological idea that the events described in The Acts of the Apostles are prescriptive rather than descriptive. (more…)

Josiah Strong (1847-1916)

1,736 words

Josiah Strong
Our Country
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1885

In the period between the Civil War and the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the division between Left and Right in the United States had a different arrangement than today. William Jennings Bryan, for example, was a man of the Left, but Leftists would disavow his intense religious faith today.

The main reason for this difference is because at that time all sides of the political elite buried race issues. (more…)

J. G. Fichte

6,359 words

Part 1 of 3 (Part 2 here)

1. “I am what I freely make myself to be”

This is the sixth essay I have written for Counter-Currents on the German idealist J. G. Fichte (see the introductory essay here), and it is effectively a continuation of my series on “Heidegger’s History of Metaphysics.” However, the reader need not be familiar with any of the earlier entries in order to understand this one. (more…)

2,895 words

In his Counter Currents article from May 20, 2022, “What Christian Nationalism Looks Like in Current-Year America,” Robert Hampton casts a critical eye on Christian nationalism. His thesis:

[Identitarians] think [Christian nationalism is] an ideology that can easily be racialized and used to defend white people . . .

In reality, Christian nationalism is an evangelical, multiracial, philo-Semitic circus that repulses young middle-class people. (more…)