The Latest Howler from Fr. Robert Hart

"I was in the Spirit

To the Church in America, write:

The sword of the Spirit is the word of God;

Not an AR-15.

You are called to bear the image of Jesus to the world;

Not the mark of Cain.

Talk of violence and civil war must never be uttered among you. 

For Christians there is but one Christ."

And I reply:

"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.  For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. . . .

(I)f any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."

How easily Fr. Hart opens himself up to criticism and ridicule, alluding to the words of Jesus in the Letters to the Seven Churches recorded in Chapters 2 - 4 of Revelation, putting his own words in Jesus' mouth as it were, when really it's just another example of him spewing rubbish from the lefty fever swamp he inhabits (though this time, thankfully, with no incendiary comments about "Trumpublican pieces of $#!+"). 

Christian lefties like Hart do this all the time.   They assume that their lefty politics are merely Jesus' politics.  I remember engaging a young, woke Neo-Anglican priest who averred that he was neither liberal nor conservative, but rather an advocate of "biblical politics". I answered how funny it was to me that his "biblical politics" are not too distinguishable from left-wing politics.  He was not amused.

It is anyone's guess as to why Fr. Hart would actually intimate that any American Christian gun owner truly thinks that the AR-15 platform, or any other semiautomatic platform for that matter, is the "sword of the Spirit."  Yes, I know he's trying to be rhetorically creative, but his attempt falls flat due to its sheer inanity.   Except for a tiny handful of postmillennialists in our midst, we trad conservatives do not identity our politics with the Gospel, but rather hold to a "two kingdoms doctrine" of one form or another.  The religious leftist's identification of his political agenda with the outworking of the Gospel is actually akin to postmillennialism

Like all "good" religious leftists, Fr. Hart embraces pacifism.  Well, I have dealt with the novelty of Christian pacifism many times here in this blog.  Here is a link to the archives, and here is an important reference to the Anglican theologian Nigel Biggar on the topic of Just War Theory.

What nonsense will Father Hart concoct next, I wonder?  And I await with rapt anticipation as I set my stopwatch to see how long it takes this time for him to accuse me of "libel." ;>)

C.S. Lewis: Why I'm Not a Pacifist