“Anyone who is capable of speaking the truth but remains silent, will be heavily judged by God, especially in this case, where the faith and the very foundation of the entire church of the Orthodox is in danger. To remain silent under these circumstances is to betray these, and the appropriate witness belongs to those that reproach (stand up for the faith).”
— St. Basil the Great
Below you’ll find my first-ever guest post, which was written by my friend Mike’s wife, Lady Orthodixie. I don’t make it a habit of publishing other people’s essays, but Mike has been a godsend to me during these last few months. He’s an elder Orthodox Christian, who has listened to me, answered my questions, shared insights, and offered prayers as I struggled seemingly rudderless on the tumultuous seas of church covid directives, Southern cultural genocide, leftist terrorism, Ameridox gnosticism, historical erasure, anti-white fervor, and peaked illogic and conformity to the god of secular-humanism.
Mike reminded me often that Satan wants the haters to win and seeks to have the rest of us worn down and ready to abandon all that is good and right. Mike’s strength and counsel have helped straighten my course on numerous occasions, so I figured the least I could do is oblige his request to publish his wife’s essay.
Moreover, Lady Orthodixie eloquently lays out the spiritual battles we face, calling for Christians to pick up that cross and repel the poison of puritanical-progressivism. No apologies. No surrender. No virtue-signaling and no foot-washing. No matter the cost. Onward, Christian soldiers!
When looking for graphics to capture Lady Orthodixie’s voice, I stumbled upon Michigan State University’s website Seventeen Moments in Soviet History. It’s a user-friendly, multi-academic endeavor, where you can search Soviet history by year or by theme, and is filled with primary-sourced photographs, propaganda art, and archival videos, all with Russian-to-English translations.
Just take a few minutes to peruse at least the religion theme. This is where I snagged the images below, as well as the essay’s feature photo called “Gesundheit,” which comes from a 1923 issue of the “The Godless” magazine. It shows just how “grossly offensive the [communist] anti-religious campaign could be.” Orthodox Christianity was the sickness, you see, and must be stamped out in order to usher in the “new religion” of equality and justice.
It’s really mind-blowing the parallels between Soviet times and now. But then again, like King Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
“Our situation is dire”
By Lady Orthodixie
Our situation is dire. We stand at the precipice, just as the Christian Russians did before the Bolshevik annihilation.
We must mentally, physically, and spiritually prepare ourselves to stand up. We need thousands, and then tens of thousands, to gather together in public to defend our right to live. We must be non-violent but we have to be physically present. We must come out of the shadows to risk everything before we are so oppressed that we have nothing left to defend, including our dignity.
Some people will be doxed, but the idea of doxing 10,000 is laughable, and pointless, and if 10,000 are doxed, there are places of comfort and support. Furthermore, 10,000 can turn into 100,000 and more. White people, Christians, anti-zionist allies, and other groups fighting for God-given unalienable human rights must prepare themselves for suffering – temporary suffering for the greater good and to avoid WAR.
It is time to move to areas where we can gather together in communities. It is time to move and congregate in small groups that are willing to lead and organize. It is time to accept that they are coming for your job, and your property, and your reputation, and ALL of your rights: speech, arms, assembly, faith, and life.
You have to stand up to people who would do this to you. Because, if they would do this, they will take your life as soon as they have the power to do so. They rule us by intimidation and financial oppression. These people do not have real power against the group. They can censor and imprison individuals, and they do this to control and oppress the greater population. They know they cannot overtake the majority or even a significant minority of the majority.
But how are we to stand up? How are we to overcome our fears of financial insecurity, losing things we have or not getting things we want, imprisonment, social rejection, what we will eat, what we will wear, and where will we live? We worry we will risk all and our people won’t back us up. We know we lack power, we are demoralized. How are we to fight when we can’t keep our own marriages and families together? When parents and children are addicted to drugs, nicotine, alcohol, sugar, pornography, Hollywood filth, professional sports, gaming and casual sex?
We have no common morality, no cohesive group, and have become such rugged individualists that we can’t get along with anyone. So we retreat, and atomize and withdraw further. Emotions rule us, we are soft in every way that we should be hardened. We are weak and prone to despondency and confusion. We don’t know where we came from or where we are going.
We accepted views of the world that have no meaning. Each of us has our own religion and therefore we are all atheists. We have abandoned discipline and discomfort, reading for television, fasting for gluttony, purity for lust, sacrifice for carnal pleasure, and we constantly do the same things, like alcoholics drinking the poison we know is killing us.
We inherently know what is good, right and pure. We know these things. We know we are called to stand up for right, we know gratuitous sex, violence, vulgarity, and materialism are evil. We know what they bring, we know what drugs bring, drinking too much, we all know these things. What we lack is power.
Like the alcoholic, we are powerless over the type of evil that rapes and murders children, literally traffics children for sexual deviancy and political power (e.g. Epstein). Evil that uses the manipulation and emotional appeal of Hollywood to turn lies into truth and evil into good.
Evil that promotes and defends the murder of innocents in dozens of countries for the propagation of a truly racist state. An evil that facilitates countless wars in the name of lies, every form of degeneracy – a people who rule the world by deceit. They hide the genocide of women and children in America, South Africa, and Palestine. They conceal the greatest atrocities ever perpetrated in the history of the world during the Bolshevik takeover of Russia.
We cannot fight fire with fire, we cannot learn their tactics and turn their methods against them. We cannot defeat this kind of evil. We cannot become these people, it wouldn’t be worth it. It would be better to die than to be like them.
The alcoholic that recovers literally dies to himself. As a matter of survival, he admits that it has utterly beat him and that his only hope is to surrender to this truth. He then becomes willing to believe in a power greater than himself that has all power, and from this, a new man rises out of the ashes of the old, like a phoenix. He develops a new paradigm completely. He replaces drunkenness with sobriety, hopelessness with faith, changes every aspect of his life, and his outlook, and his actions and becomes a man that has Power.
This is our only hope. From the early Greek philosophers who understood eternal truth, the ultimate goal of transcendence, beauty for the sake of beauty and absolute morality, not dependent on relativity. They were Christians before Christ and they led the way for our pagan ancestors to accept the coming of the Logos.
This in turn led the way to more than two millennia of Western Christian order and beauty. This world has never seen power like the power of Christendom. It was only when that common faith, morality, and unity turned its eyes and its hopes toward the one and only God of the universe, that we were able to create real and lasting beauty on earth.
This beauty was created by the kind of fearlessness only people of real faith can have. Societies were created that strove to protect the innocent, and the weak, and the family, and the citizen. We all know the battles of the Christians, we all know the stories of the Martyrs, the fearlessness of the faithful.
The enemies of the Logos have deceived you. They will tell you anything you want to hear, to turn you away from that Power. They will tell you Christ is your enemy all the while they plot to kill him again and again in the hearts of our people just as they did at the Cross. You cannot deny there is none they hate as they HATE the Christ.
And without our faith, The Family of the Trinity, The balance of the paradox of absolute right and wrong with total redemption, fierce power with compassion, death with Resurrection, there is no purpose to your love. You don’t matter if there is no God. Only the cold and the ruthless of this natural fallen world you worship will prevail, and only they should prevail in that reality. In that view, the world is dead and meaningless, and only the strong deserve to live because there is no reality, no good, no God, everything is relative.
In the real world where nature and laws of nature are fallen by our weakness and restored by Our God, everything transcendent matters and everything physical matters because of the Incarnate God. And good wins, and water is purified, and death is conquered, drug addicts cleaned up, families reconciled, people unified under a common banner.
When Power is recognized as belonging only to the one true Trinitarian God of our fathers, and worship is removed from every satanic and evil thing they mesmerize us with, that is when we rise fearlessly from the ashes. We will throw off our self-imposed chains of weakness, despair and addiction. We will march into battle like our forebears with Holy things, and Holy banners, and they will tremble at the power. And then if you die, you are martyred, and you die with no bondage, having lived in good health, internal peace, with intact families and dignity.
How long have we watched dissidents get cancelled? How many years will we tell ourselves, we don’t have anything to contribute? That it’s better to keep your job and donate to the braver ones, only to sit on your money and quietly hide, never finding the courage to do the right thing.
If you are working and making money and honestly contributing significant amounts to truth tellers, keep doing it. But if you are going to live your whole life with dreams of valor that will never be realized, prepare for sacrifice. Ready yourself mentally, physically, spiritually, to give up all that you are holding onto. None of it will save you or add a cubit to you. And if you lack power, find the faith in the God that even the kings of our fathers worshiped.
Comments
An excellent intro to my wife’s insightful article. We are experiencing our own Cultural Revolution exactly as the one in China under Chairman Mao. It is also quite reminiscent to the same mood with the same players and kosher manipulators as in Russia just before the godless Christ-hating Bolsheviks took over that Holy Orthodox land.
Lady Orthodixie’s words are vitally important and I pray people take them to heart.
Indeed! These are modern day Bolsheviks who hate truth, morality, law and order, and Christian civilization. Their predecessors caused the Communist Holocaust, which the current leftist anarchists want to bring to America and all western democracies.
One of the cultural Marxists favorite gaslighting psyop is to scream, holler and outshout its opposition (see Twitter, for example), leaving us to think that they are the majority. In fact, they are not. They may be well funded, but they are not the majority, nor even a big slice of the minority. They may be as little as 10-15% of the population. That does not give the rest of us the privilege of being silent, as noted in the blog post. This knowledge makes it easier to get involved as truth leads to louder temper tantrums, which makes the cultural Marxists expose their cards.
This so-called TDS (Trump derangement syndrome) is nothing more than cultural Marxists having temper tantrums. Like children, temper tantrums go away when they are ignored. We are starting to see that, now that the economy is opening up. Believing that they are the majority means that the cultural Marxists have successfully gaslighted you into believing that you are the minority. It is one of their tricks. Economic warfare, which they attempted to do with the pandemic, failed and now they are having their temper tantrums.
Towards the end of summer, there will be another attempt at the pandemic, unless Trump succeeds in cleaning out the FDA, CDC and other health regulatory agencies of their DS puppets. However, unlike the one in April, I do not think Trump will impose the 10 people gathering order that enabled the DS to lock down economies. The media would have you believe that Trump ordered it – he did not; tyrannical governors, including many Republicans (like Doug Ducey or Greg Abbott) did. What Trump did do, though, is awaken the American people to the idea that while the coronavirus was real (just like H1N1 or other flus), the pandemic was fake. I expect it to be revealed by alternative health sites, that the common cold set of viruses include coronaviruses, so most of us are already partially immune to it.
You are much more hopeful in the Murican populace than am I. Just going out to the store and seeing every man, woman, and child in a mask is proof that most people are followers and will do as they’re told. I do think there is a remnant of people who understand the threats which you succinctly describe, although I’m hesitate to say if they’re the majority; sadly, I don’t think they are. But how to organize? How to build bridges? How to create parallel institutions? How to resist the systems at every level that aim to shut us down, monetarily, physically, and spiritually? How to create a critical-mass movement that becomes so persistent and so large that it becomes enforceable? How to grow said movement under the oppression of cancel culture and anarcho-tyranny? How to convince people that being called bad names isn’t the end of the world? How to encourage people to speak up, dissent, go maskless, go into the streets, and to defend others who may get in trouble with “the law”? I hope to be blogging about this soon because I think those are the questions that we must answer if we are to move forward in any meaningful way.
Some good Tocqueville quotes:
“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.” (he was a Catholic)
Ergo, to achieve something approximating liberty, we’ll need a living faith in Christ to guide and keep us there.
“As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power. Thus there is no authority on earth so inherently worthy of respect, or invested with a right so sacred, that I would want to let it act without oversight or rule without impediment”
We should be wary in trusting the governing authorities with any kind of monopolistic powers.
“A man’s admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.”
Is there any question of this? If you didn’t hate your neighbors, you wouldn’t deprive them of their liberty and force them at gunpoint to obey your will.
“The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.”
This is the truth of the Left’s siren song of equality. The more we are atomized and uniform, the easier will it be to rule us.
Love these quotes, and your closing words are so prescient. Creating atomized, identity-less, rootless, godless, materialist, complacent, and self-centered borgs was by design. Murica 2020 is the result.
Godlessness is always the first step to the concentration camp.
https://orthodoxnet.com/blog/2013/03/when-men-forsake-god-tyranny-always-follows/
Excellent article, Chris. What’s so shocking to me is that it’s Christians pushing much of the godlessness, but really, it shouldn’t. As you know, it has been fellow “Christians” throughout history who have undergirded the evil systems that aim destroy God and create Him anew in their secular fantasies. It has been these “Christians” who have pushed heresy after heresy, snitched on their brothers and sisters to gain favor with the law of man, and tacitly or outright supported the very strategies that aim to smash Jesus Christ and destroy the Church, and to elevate the cultists and put satan on a pedestal – a kingdom of the depraved, degenerate, and diabolical. Thank the Good Lord that church history is there for us to see that nothing is new under the sun. Our struggles are the same old ones, and I pray that the rebel remnant (people like you and me and a minority of Christians in the West who are resistant to the lies) stays strong, prepares, and boldly keeps proclaiming truth and backing the truth-tellers. God bless you, sir. Keep up the good fight – there is none more worthy!!
These sorts of “Christians” were responsible for much of the militarism of the early 20th century. Richard Gamble has a great book on this called, “The War for Righteousness.”
Great post, as always. Not only are we having to resist external forces such as these, we’re also, as you covered in your podcast with Mr. Harris, fighting on another front from within with the ‘woke’ church nonsense.
In some ways, this woke movement reminds me of the subversion that happened with the churches in Germany in the 1930’s with rise of Hitler. Fortunately, there were priests that refused to go along with this, even going as far as speaking out against it in their sermons. I feel like we are fighting our own verson “Kirchenkampf” today.
I had posted about my own experience with my church going ‘woke lite’ in another thread a while ago, but, this week I finally broke ties and told my pastor and his church to go jump in the lake….and not very politely. I had planned on meeting with him in August to hash some things out, but, his latest blog post was the final straw:
http://www.gospelrenewal.com/blog/2020/07/answering-objections-to-racism/
In my 49 years on this planet I’ve had disagreements with pastors, but, have never seen anything as condescending and arrogant as what I read this week. Of course, this attitude seems to be the same with any pastor that’s gone down this path. Part of me wants to just walk away and be done this bunch and part of me wants to send a warning out to anyone that’s still going to this church that might potentially be suckered into this craziness…I don’t know. Anyway, please continue praying that my family and I find the right church. Thanks, once again, for all that you do.
Thank you for sharing your experiences about your struggles within the church, BT. That post your “pastor” wrote is quite possibly the most shocking thing I’ve read from a Christian as of late, and that’s saying something. He seems to only care about his own hide, which is of course not serving his flock, not to mention that he’s pushing evil. For instance, he’d rather bitch and complain about segregation of yore than to fight against the cultural genocide that is unfolding right here right now and will eventually result in legit anti-white genocide against actual white bodies – people made in the image of God that he seems to have no care for. He is part of the problem, which is why I applaud your bold stance against his complicity in the great hate hoax.
I would warn people at your old church, but that’s just me. I’m going to be writing yet another essay tackling wolves in sheep’s clothing in Orthodoxy, and now, it’s coming from monks within the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia – in other words, people who should know better than to try to placate the American Bolsheviks and their godlessness.
I love the Kirchenkampf reference. I may have to steal that for said essay. It just perfectly encapsulates what I see as happening here in American Christianity in ALL quarters. There are very few refuges, sadly, but Jesus never said that the Church would be highly populated with lots of woke Muricans; He did say that the gates of hell would not prevail, and Revelation says that there’ll be a Great Apostasy and the real Church will just be Remnant. We must be that Remnant and we must stay strong in mind, body, and soul, prepare and ready ourselves, build bridges with the minority of people who have a clue, and keep fighting with the Sword of Truth.
God bless you, friend.
Thanks, DM! Feel free to use Kirchenkampf :-). I also recommend Eric Metaxas’ Bonhoeffer book if you haven’t read it already. I think I am going to figure out a way to warn those that aren’t wise to my old church’s game. Thanks, again!