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British Christians have been somewhat satisfied over the decades with Queen Elizabeth's brief mention of Jesus Christ in her annual Christmas message to the nation. Those words have never been enough to bring reformation and reform to a secular, dying nation. Britain has reached a terminal collapse during those decades of Elizabeth's reign.
Americans also live in a morally bankrupt nation. Christians were surprised and heartened by the Christian prayers and hymns at the funeral of George HW Bush. They were even more encouraged by the more explicit and personal public testimonies by so many national leaders at the Memorial Service of Charlie Kirk. Yes, these remarks were remarkable in secular, socialistic, post-Christian America, and downright shocking to Christians in suicidal Britain.
But no ceremonial Christian expressions can restore the broken foundations of a once-Christian civilization. A successful reconstruction would rely on daily, righteous, faithful obedience to the law of God in every area of life. By every professing Christian.
In each lifeless, corrupt, demoralized and exhausted Western nation, Christians must model the essence of lifegiving Biblical culture and civilization at the local level -- in their families, in their churches, and in the civil government. They need to come out of the worldly, dehumanizing, degrading institutions of our time, especially propagandistic schools and corrupting screen traps. And they need to avoid the snares of religiosity, as Jesus warned in Matthew 15: 8, 9:
'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'"
We Americans and our British cousins need to cultivate a radical vision of reformation and revival. We need to galvanize faithful, joyful, unashamed communities of Christians who know how to boldly restore the Crown rights of Jesus Christ in local and national life, and who then will make it happen.
"He was faithful in his testimony of Christ. The fact that he spoke about conservative political issues as well as the lordship of Jesus Christ does not alter or dilute anything. That simply means that he did not have his faith locked up in a holy pietism box down in his heart. He was a martyr for worldview Christianity, with Christ at the center of everything. His testimony was that people must turn from their sins—which includes godless leftism, remember—and turn to Christ. So he was a faithful witness to both sides of the repent/believe coin. He was a true martyr, in other words, and no “yes, but” martyr."
-- Douglas Wilson
Has been created in dark online worlds they have inhabited for tens of thousands of hours. Gaming, imagining themselves demons and listening to slander and false witness.
"In addition to their shared fixation with transgenderism, [the guys who shot the praying children and presumably Charlie Kirk] immersed themselves in peculiar digital subcultures. These online spaces were not hubs of Marxism—or even transgenderism, strictly speaking—but of memes, attitudes, copycatting, in-jokes, and irony that, in certain cases, spilled over into violence. Both men allegedly acted out their fantasies not to advance a coherent ideology shaped by study or political organizing but to gratify an obscure personal urge."
Christopher F. Rufo
Viktor Orban is harshly criticizing European leaders, who he believes have driven the European Union into bankruptcy. “Mountains of debt, masses of migrants, violence in the streets, the ever-darkening shadows of war, mass layoffs, exploding utility costs, millions of households driven into financial dead ends, and Brussels bureaucrats running around like headless chickens. Like a bad GPS: constantly recalculating, but never arriving at the destination,” he stated.
According to Viktor Orbán, personal courage is the most important thing for Hungarians right now, distinguishing three types: intellectual, political, and spiritual courage. Regarding the first, he wrote:
Let us say it openly: the Europe we once knew and loved is gone.”
Hungarian governmental policy is conscientiously restoring foundations of Christendom at the family, community and civic levels.
