New England Christian Nationalism
The Lord will not forget those early settlers of New England, who were his faithful servants.
The New England Reformation
New England. The “shining city on a hill” envisioned by John Winthrop, the birthplace of American exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny, the mother of settlers from Akron to Honolulu. On this fertile ground was planted the tree of our Christian nation. This tree grew tall and mighty as it appealed to Heaven, and bore many offspring. Within the past century, however, while it has fed generously on the comfort and security that was hard-earned by devout men, this tree has been corrupted from its pure root, and now stands astride the land as a bastion of liberal “wokeness”, the antithesis of the vision held by our Puritan founders. Can this tree bear good fruit once again? Yes it can, but it will take a revival and reformation, the likes of which this continent has never seen.
Few stop to reflect on what a spectacular achievement the conquest of New England has been for the Devil, as the land was discovered and settled a mere 400 years ago by faithful Christian fundamentalists. 400 years is but a moment in the lifetime of nations, and still less time than the sojourning of the children of Israel (Exodus 12:40), yet they still knew they were sons of Abraham. How can New England have so radically departed from the stalwart faith of her fathers? A faith which carried her people across the ocean, through devastating pestilence, war, and famine, to plant the seed which sprouted and blossomed into the most powerful empire the world has ever seen? This may surprise the reader, but in the opinion of the author, we have not departed from it. Now I of course must explain myself. New England has certainly lost her way, but she has not directly rejected God’s law, nor has she cast out the precedents set by our Christian founders. Instead, it is a corruption of our natural inclinations and inversion of our Christian ethics that has lead us so far from the straight and narrow path. All of this is cloaked in the language of Christian morality, in a vain effort to fool the Almighty, but a highly successful effort to fool the citizenry. Our natural sense of ethics has been easily manipulated. The ship was not sunk, but captured intact, and her cannons turned upon her own. Oh how the Devil relishes using our own virtues to bring about our downfall! What are these virtues which have destroyed us?
Altruism
Surely most Christians can agree that altruism is a Christian virtue, as the gospel is replete with it. The Beatitudes come immediately to mind, and of course the very crucifixion of Christ was an altruistic act, for he owed no salvation to fallen humanity, but gave up his life of his own accord (John 10:18). This virtue exemplified by Christ to us, has been utterly corrupted throughout New England, and in many cases reached a pathological level, as first identified by Jared Taylor of American Renaissance. Woke “churches” preach the message of love from 1 Corinthians 13, and will loudly proclaim “God is love,” but this is a sugary coating on their poisonous pill. They do not acknowledge the duties and obligations of the Christian to his sovereign God, but instead carve out a safe haven for sin within their congregations. Every Sunday, the woke church crucifies Christ once again with open idolatry, and then wipe their mouths and say “I have done no wickedness.”
In addition to being open to and affirming of sin, these churches also turn the altruistic gaze of their congregation outward towards the alien. This outward gaze is not a fulfillment of Christ’s command to love one another (John 13:34), but a hijacking of that Christian duty to achieve a sense of personal moral fulfillment. This is a selfish motive, not a selfless one. Woke Christians gain a good feeling and affirmation of their own morality, to keep the conscience clean, but at the expense of adhering to biblical truth and instruction. Their overwhelming “white guilt” is soothed by their washing the feet of the refugee, an act of intense hatred. An act of intense hatred!? Hateful altruism!? Surely the author is writing nonsensical things here! Oh yes, it does seem nonsensical doesn't it? Often confounded conservatives identify this simply as insanity or mental illness, but it is far more insidious than that. This lack of understanding of the enemy by Christian conservatives has led to the routing of conservative culture and politics from the New England church, town square, and statehouse.
Christian altruism must be reclaimed. Properly ordered loyalty to our own people first must be reestablished, and the sovereign law of Almighty God must never be compromised to assuage the hurt feelings of those steeped in sin. A proper sense of altruism will seek to lift our brethren out of immoral behavior, not affirm such behavior as moral. “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah 5:20).
Tolerance
Tolerance is an attribute that is utterly despised on the right, but revered with total idolatry on the left. Every faithful Christian should of course know that tolerance is not a Christian virtue. Or is it? Before our ancestors sailed to these shores, it was religious tolerance that they sought, and they found it in Holland. We tend to forget that they did not exclusively seek freedom of worship in the New World, as they already had it, but what they sought was the freedom to worship and live AS Englishmen. Over a long enough span of time in Holland, the descendants of our Puritan forbears would have simply become Dutch themselves, and lost that English identity which they did so love. Seeing that God took the time to create them as Englishman, our forefathers understood that it was good and proper for this blessing to be continued. The Pilgrims found Christian tolerance among the Dutch, who sheltered our forebears in their time of need. I use this exact event in history to support my advocacy for the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees, as New England has a debt that must be settled.
Religious tolerance was a critical aspect to the building of New England. Even that renowned troublemaker Roger Williams was tolerated, in a way, as he was exiled: He was allowed to establish the colony of Rhode Island for followers of his unorthodox beliefs. This is the better-known example, but New England was settled by all manner of denominations, some of which are not even considered Christian. Congregationalists, Baptists, Anglicans, Unitarians, and even some Roman Catholics. Newport, Rhode Island was even home to the infamous Touro Synagogue, the oldest such building in America, founded by slave traders from the West Indies. In her zeal to establish Christian tolerance, the colony of Roger Williams first established that dangerous precedent of tolerance for non-Christians. Hindsight reveals the perils our forefathers were perhaps unaware of, but tolerance was simply an essential value for the early settlement of New England in the face of a hostile wilderness, and so it is understandable how this value was genetically ingrained within us as a good and proper morality. Tolerance has been a tool, utilized by the church to further expand the kingdom.
Christian tolerance is an immensely different thing from the tolerance of the world, however, and once again we see the church in retreat, and the forces of the Accuser are happy to commandeer our tools and weaponry against us. Our tolerance is grace for those brethren different from us, who nonetheless earnestly strive to walk in the ways of Christ. It is never a toleration for behavior that Christ condemned. While Christ’s command that I have previously referenced, “Love one another as I have loved you”, is certainly very enlightening for Christians having discourse with those petulant Baptists, nowhere does Christ command the Christian not to hate sin. Tolerance is very much a sacrament to the church of woke, and I have confronted pastors that renounce the Scriptures and Christ himself when they are challenged on this sacrament. Harsh language and even physical violence is not off the table for the woke pastor, when impudent young Christian men present Scripture that condemns sin. For all the condemnation Christians receive of being “hateful”, you will never see a hate as deep and powerful as when you bring scripture into the church of woke.
Christian tolerance must be recaptured, and employed by faithful Christians to assemble an unstoppable church, united under the banner of Christ. The Congregationalist and Presbyterian must stand beside the Lutheran and Baptist in the army of God, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against us.
Charity
Selfless aid to the less fortunate is an admirable Christian virtue, and a refutation of the amoral pragmatic hedonists that reign across our modern society. New Englanders are rightfully horrified by the greed and graft that they see throughout politics in the country. However, once again we find a Christian virtue has been inverted. With the abdication of the church from its headship of public social responsibilities, charity is now managed by the government, with a massive welfare state having been established to ensure the lofty goals of ending all want and hardship. “Freedom From Want” was indeed the title of the famed Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving painting, which vividly captures the dream that New Englanders have for all mankind: simple contentment. To advance and safeguard that freedom, New Englanders have pioneered the “Nanny State” in America. This seemed like the moral and even Christian thing to do, as what kind of men would we be if we did not share the fabulous wealth we had built in this land with our less fortunate citizens? There was no rational Christian argument made against the establishment of the welfare state, and so it set its anchors fast, and is with us to stay. This condition of state-enforced charity has now been coupled with our pathological altruism and tolerance to inspire the enormous influx of foreigners into our region. The sanctuary policies codified by our governments have ensured that violent foreign criminals find safe harbor among us, and our inverted sense of charity gives them access to our bountiful harvest, creating a path towards economic disaster which we are unable to escape. The native-born population struggles, with younger families finding that they cannot even afford to live in the towns they grew up in, so inflated are the costs of living. They uproot and move away, and the extended family is torn asunder. With that fundamental building block removed, the existing culture and society is doomed.
As with the previous virtues, Christian charity has been stamped out and replaced with the charity of the world. It is said that nature abhors a vacuum, but the Devil truly delights in seeing the church abandon ground for him to take. Christian charity must be replanted, so that it may yield fruit among the church, and for our nation. Let no man rob our land of that produce, for the increase of foreign interests. Nourish the homeland that so many Christians have forsaken, lest she be lost forever.
These three virtues are not the entire portrait, but they do form a significant portion of the New England spirit. The only path to revival and reformation in New England goes through these virtues, and the recapture of them from the enemy is of paramount importance. The exhausted and starving crusaders knew when they emerged from the gates of Antioch in 1098 that there is no battle impossible for Christians, as God is with us to be both our shield and our sword. New England, with her rich history of godly culture and governance, can be redeemed, and the raw materials for that redemption are already present in our corrupted virtues. We know this because the Accuser himself knew that his success in wrestling this jewel from the crown of the Kingdom depended on his capturing control of our people’s natural inclination towards Christian morality. For our Puritan founders, worship was an entire lifestyle which included their daily labor. That daily labor subdued the wilderness they discovered here, established a civilization dedicated to the glory of God, and sanctified this land for their posterity. The Lord will not forget those early settlers of New England, who were his faithful servants. The apostle Paul descended into the most depraved dens of idolatry to preach Christ crucified, and now it is no less of a task that Christians have to undertake in New England. Just as Greece and Asia Minor had never heard the Gospel before the mission trips of Paul, so our churches have not heard the Gospel preached in a generation. We hereby begin this endeavor not for our sake Lord, but for the sake of our forefathers, and our posterity. May Almighty God grant us victory, to revive New England for his glory. Amen.
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