Deplorables
A Symphony of Logic from the “Basket of Deplorables” concerning Secularism, Racism, Money and War
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Chapter 3
What Is a Biblical World View?
If we are to live under a Biblical Covenant, we need to know what a biblical world view is, and how can it be active and effective in the world?
Should we not, in this world give credit where credit is due and rebuke where rebuke is due without respect of person?
When Donald Trump won the US presidential election in 2016, there was so much hysteria about it caused by the shock among the ideological left that he actually won. I thought I would do some of my own research on him and the people who hate him as well.
I searched the internet for the church affiliation of Donald Trump. I knew from reading his book “Crippled America, how to make America great again”, that he grew up as a Presbyterian in New York. However, I wanted to see if there was more, I could find out. In my search, several articles from the Guardian also came up.
One of them, published Sunday, February 18, 2019, was titled, “Under Trump the American Religious Right is Rewriting its Code of Ethics.” “From scorning immigrants to accepting the president’s profanity, evangelicals are proving just how flexible their values can be,” wrote Randy Balmer, professor in religion at Dartmouth College. It is a rebuke of Christians, and how could they ever vote for Trump? They compromise everything it is to be Christian. Then he listed everything Donald Trump is, beginning with, “He is a liar.”
Lying is all right as long as it serves a higher purpose.
It’s no problem being married more than well, twice.
Immigrants are scum.
Vulgarity is a sign of strength and resolve.
White lives matter (much more than others).
There is no harm in spending time with porn stars.
It’s all right for adults to date children.
The ends justify the means.
All these titles were embellished with mockery for Christians and Donald Trump, all off the wall and that I do not want to repeat.
The first thing I noticed was that Balmer thinks Christianity follows a self-defined and self-imposed code of ethics. Then where is the Bible? The Bible is central to evangelical Christians. But Balmer doesn’t want to know this, and he hopes the readers will not notice either because it doesn’t fit his narrative. He wants us to be narrow-minded ideologues that follow a code because then we are defeatable. However, when we put the Bible first, we may get stuck with something like that we find in Psalm 119 (AKJV) “I have seen an end of all perfection, but thy commandment is exceeding broad.”
When we as Christians participate in a democracy, we have limited choices. We do not have the mandate of the government. The choices that we make are not with respect of any person but with respect to God’s will for humanity. Therefore, we give credit where credit is due and rebuke where rebuke is due, without respect of person. All this matters and it determines our choices.
When Donald Trump promises to defend the Constitution by appointing judges who will uphold the Constitution and objective human rights in the face of the encroaching ideology, we give him credit for this and our support. What does the alternate choice have to offer? More ideological judges, changing justice and the US Constitution into the tyranny of ideology? This alone, apart from how sincere Trump may be in this promise—that it’s not some political hoax—is sufficient to support him, these being the only two choices. We can pray for him, also for Congress and Senate as well our nation and country. We can also engage all of them in government after the election on the same principles.
This I understand to be the active Christian or biblical world view that God will use for His purpose, working one step at a time with as many resources as possible and a lot of patience. Always being a witness for truth and its reality in any situation. We are not deranged hopeless people, we recognize repentance, forgiveness, and restoration.
Apparently for this writer and the Guardian as well, none of this is considered; it must be all nonsense. They do not see any threat to our justice, and what they see in Hillary Clinton they don’t say. What they really are saying to Christians is this: Your moral values are too good for the public process, so don’t participate in it. And if you do, you are a hypocrite who compromises your values; better keep your religion private. Keep truth in unrighteousness.
At the end of the article, they beg for money because they are an independent news organization that is influenced by no one, no special interests. Then they state they are progressive. They write, “Guardian journalism is rooted in facts with a progressive perspective on the world.” Progressive Guardian and a progressive professor in religion?
So, what do these progressives have as a progressive world view? They don’t have one. They only have a God-view. The world with all its evil is god, and God is the servant. They will tell God what to do and us how to serve them. We need to be subjugated. That’s their view. And yes, they are progressive, first the world is god, then the world with all its evil is god, then the evil world is god, and finally evil is god. In reality these elitist progressive ideologists are the ultra-pious religious fanatics of our time, trying to establish a pagan state religion through the courts and government. The notion of being objective appears to be completely lost.
Another very good reason for supporting Donald Trump that the writer doesn’t mention: Should Christians or anyone of any moral integrity support free trade over fair trade? There is nothing fair with a hybrid communist-capitalist totalitarian state such as China. Do we have free trade with a criminal enterprise? Should capitalism now contract a communist labour force to replace our labour force for their capitalist profit? Do we surrender to totalitarianism? Apparently, the progressives would.
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About the Book
When Hillary Clinton called half of Donald Trump supporters “A Basket of Deplorables” I knew she was talking about me. It requires an answer. This book is that answer; who we are, and what the ideology Clinton represents really is; and how to overcome it. There is a real solution.
This book is written out of need, and that makes a good book. It’s about my life, and thought experience, as a historian, living this ideological civil war in the USA and the west. This war is now in its first phase with lawfare. The prize of war is the revocation of the Constitution, our Liberties and Human Rights. These are all objective – that’s a problem for ideology – they want everything subjective. The final destination of subjectivism is demoralization, demonization, tribalism and cannibalism; we know this from our history.
In this book, are some good chapters, about covenant relationships, antisemitism, constitutional monetary policy, racism, reparation for slavery – which means debt slavery. Climate change, C02, the gas of life. The misinformation in AI. A topless female protester in front of our church, with her message. Then, the final chapter on the war ideology of the USA and NATO; an ideology, our woke historians will deny. It is our developing tragedy for the twenty first century. We need to stay grounded on objective truth, and defend it. It is truth that makes us free.
About the Author
Cornelius Van Blyderveen lives in rural Ontario on a farm with his wife of forty years. They grow horticultural crops on the farm. Apart from farming he is a freelance historian. And now an Author with the second edition of this book “Deplorables”.