Have The Courage To Declare Christ Is King
Christians Must Speak the Truth
Once again, a perfectly normal thing is being dubbed “racist,” and once again, weak evangelicals are falling for the charade. Just in time for Resurrection Sunday, a few right-wing Twitter trolls and their left-wing instigators accomplished the shockingly easy task of convincing evangelical Christians to abandon a core tenet of their theology in the name of not offending someone somewhere. “Christ is King,” is a phrase with obvious Biblical basis (Revelation 19:16, Isaiah 9:6-7, Ephesians 1:21-22, etc.), often uttered by those taking comfort in the fact that today’s ungodly political leaders will stand under God’s judgment, both in this life and after death. Laws promoting abortion, destroying the family, or allowing the genital mutilation of confused children will be one day made right because Christ is infinitely good and infinitely powerful. The problem is, “Christ is King,” is also uttered by Muslim Andrew Tate and openly anti-semitic Twitter trolls in Ben Shapiro’s comment section. How, then, are Christians to act?
“What we saw on Easter Sunday was a remarkable display of venom and hatred,” David French, never missing a chance to punch right, told MSNBC’s Mike Brezneski.
“It has become increasingly clear that Trumpism and the Trump ethic is really leaking into American Christianity itself. As we saw during Holy Week, Christians all over Twitter were posting ‘Christ is King’ specifically aimed at Jewish Americans, specifically aimed to assert religious dominance in a very gross and ugly way.”
The left has learned well that one need only find a few instances of a hobby, slogan, or aesthetic being used by various miscreants, accuse every enjoyer of said thing of bad intent, get higher profile bad actors to use the phrase in clickbait posts, and just like that the right has to run off guiltily for the crime of saying or doing a perfectly normal thing. They know that they can do this because the right is deathly afraid of being seen by their enemies as racist or sexist or homophobic, while the left laughs off conservative accusations of pedophilia, anti-American sentiment, or anti-white hatred.
The left has chosen “Christ is King” as its next target for a very simple reason. The phrase asserts precisely the political supremacy of Jesus. The sorts of conservatives who believe the “separation of church and state” is anything more than a made-up unconstitutional platitude are all too happy to cede this ground. French, for instance, has been ranting against “Christian Nationalism” as a loosely defined term encompassing figures as disparate as Nick Fuentes, Donald Trump, and Doug Wilson for some time now. “Christ is King” is merely the next linchpin for smearing Christians who misbehave politically. The point is to strip Christians of any meaningful political power by preying on their weakness for tolerance and policing their language to such an extent that more time is spent squabbling about how to assert a very true thing than is spent advancing that true thing in the so-called “marketplace of ideas.”
The hullabaloo over “Christ is King” came at just the right time for the language police, as the war in Gaza pulls a thousand anti-semitic trolls out of the woodwork to seemingly support the left’s theory that Christians are waging an all-out attack on Jewish people. Never mind that Christian evangelicals are a powerful voting bloc that has historically prioritized pro-Israel politicians over even such high-profile political goals as outlawing abortion or protecting traditional marriage. Republicans were quick to denounce Trump’s 2022 dinner with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West, but the response against his recent statement in support of IVF will be lukewarm at best. Democrats, on the other hand, are constantly qualifying statements in support of Israel with statements condemning hate against Muslims, a thinly veiled nod of support towards Hamas defenders in their party. One would think the divide would place Republicans firmly on the high ground in regard to combatting Jew hatred, protecting them against accusations of anti-semitism. But the secular left and the Christian right are not playing by the same rules. Christians are screaming into the void, accusing liberals of failure to police the anti-semites and Hamas supporters in their own ranks, while liberals watch gleefully as Christians tie themselves into knots explaining how they are actually very liberal and open-minded in their political priorities. Abortion is bad primarily because it hurts women, transgenderism is bad primarily because of consent laws and the erasure of gay people, Ilhan Omar is primarily dangerous because she hates Jews, and the list goes on. Yet to the right’s frustration, the left simply doesn’t care. They are impervious to accusations that they do not play by their own rules because after all, the rules aren’t for everyone to follow, they are a means towards political domination.
Just a second ago, the left tried to deem working out racist and the masculine red pill right laughed it off. The accusation didn’t stick, much to their chagrin, because these men simply didn’t care what their enemies thought of them. It appears the very online “gym bros” have more political courage than modern Christians. If evangelical pastors are ever confused as to why young men are shunning another Hillsong worship night to binge-watch Andrew Tate videos, they have their answer. Christians have chosen the good graces of people who hate them over what they know to be the truth.
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