The Orthodox Church keeps growing with thousands of new converts being reported in a short span of time. I was just godfather to a young man’s baptism this Sunday, and we have at least two more this year of the twenty some others within the last two years.
Christian men also need to know how to fight effectively. It doesn’t happen like in the Hollywood movies.
Knowing the vulnerable targets on the body and how to put an injury on them and what creating an injury gets you because of the spinal reflex reaction loop.
Tim Larkin and Target Focused Training gets you there.
Any major martial arts are a massive upgrade for a young man. Attend any reputable school near you and learn. After a few months or a year train somewhere else until you find what suits you best. Karate, Kickboxing/Muay Thai, Judo, Boxing, Wrestling, Jew Jitsu... 6 months of training will allow you to beat the tar out of an untrained opponent of similar size and athletic ability. Years of training might allow you to handle larger and younger opponents.
Obviously, avoid culty and mystical nonsense schools and stick to stuff that's got a track record like Tae Kwon Do, MMA and Judo.
"Or you can read the Bible, you can return to the church, and you can take it back and transform it back into the weapon against a fallen world that it was, that it is, and that it will always be. It won’t be easy. It won’t be immediate. But it will happen.
For when the men lead, the women will follow. They always have and they always will.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with but a single step.
And as for an army, as history shows, all we need are twelve."
Most powerful advice yet, Vox. Simple and so true.
There is a big fight brewing in the conservative Reformed churches over "kinism" and "race realism", they have excommunicated Rev Michael Spangler and Rev Samuel Ketcham (who are active on substack and X).
The problem these denominations will have is that the young men are doing real scholarship...and it turns out many church fathers agree with the "kinists"!
The book "who is my neighbor" by western front books is a valuable asset. It collects writings from great men of the western tradition, across denominations, and shows their opinions on the issues of the day.
Advice for young men: keep your eyes fixed on Christ. Repentence is important, but so is following the Lord. Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him. There is no better life than one spent doing His will.
The stats about young Catholic priests are very encouraging. The liberal ones are all boomers. The Gen Z ones make the Inquisition from Warhammer look like babies.
Some of them will be Bishops and Popes, and then forget the Jews and Muslims, even the grey aliens in Zeta Reticuli will fear them
The Boomer hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has been in an increasingly hysterical panic over this for the last decade. The incoming seminarians are basically a Boomer prelates worst nightmare. They are laser focused on Jesus, the Sacraments, and the moral and spiritual development of their flocks, and couldn't give less of a shit about tired liberal bromides. They just don't have time for it, too many souls to save.
- I had an older Millennial priest once tell me that he was certain Jesus would have shot every pedophile priest found guilty, before dusting off a beer in one go and ordering another.
- A young Gen-Z Nigerian priest and I were discussing some recent politics around the ongoing wars in the midst of a group of older parishioners and he posed a scenario to illustrate a point where he asked, "Phileas, if I came to your home and killed your wife and children, what would you do?" "I'd find you and kill you Father." "Exactly! If I commit evil and violence, then I invite justice on myself! This is the natural law." The older parishioners were visibly upset. I laughed.
- I had Gen-X priest, who came to the priesthood late in life, declare emphatically to me, "James Martin is a wolf in sheep's clothing, leading souls into hell! He's a horrible man and a dangerous priest. At minimum he should have been censored ages ago."
It's just a matter of time and numbers. 80% or more of the current and incoming seminarians identify as conservative, and the detailed survey responses reveal what amounts to thinly veiled open hostility to the present hierarchy's priorities. Eventually they'll have no choice but to elevate the, "least worst option," which translates as, "The better option," to the Bishopric.
The irony is that their undoing is their own fault, the gay/liberal bloc ruling the hierarchy that is. They told everyone for 6 decades that Church was optional, then stood back with a surprised Pikachu face when the only people left in the pews were the hardcore Catholics who disagreed, who incidentally have gone on to produce the next crop of Priests.
They created an environment where the selection pressure favored those capable of:
- Principled disagreement
- Loyal opposition
- Disregard for social clout
- Personal and private devotion
- Orthodoxy
If they could have gay'd up the teaching faster, like the mainline Protestant Churches, they might have been more effective and just driven EVERYONE away, but instead the Church still miraculously produced things like Pope Paul VI's, "Humane Vitae," and Pope Benedict XVI's, "Regensburg Lecture."
It's the Catholic view of things. One of our popes heard a conversation between our Lord and the Devil after mass. The Devil wanted a chance to destroy the church, and the Lord gave him a century to try.
The Devil tried to use Communism to infiltrate and destroy us. Communist / Masonic agents climbed the church hierarchy. But too little too late. The USSR collapsed when the century of testing ended. Now the Boomers are dying off and being replaced by zealous younger priests.
When one observes their own time over the years and reads a bit of history; the latticework and supernatural time-preference of a patient evil becomes apparent. Christianity not only resists it, but defeats it. Win and the flock will follow - support your local warlord.
Pithy, poignant and profound. As always. Thank you. Continued success in your good work. (And Chesterton's essay "Twelve Men" may be of interest. https://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/twelve-men.html )
The sodomites must be chased out but also the Judiazers. Darby and Scofield’s influence and subsequent false idol worship needs to be rooted out and destroyed as well. I grew up in those churches and the effect it has had on both the church and foreign policy is astounding.
Per the internal stats of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America, .5% of Boomers, 1.0% of Millennials and 1.5% of Gen Z of the American population are practicing Orthodox in good standing. Young women and young families are now entering in after the flood of young men that came for eight years. In the words of several priests I know "we don't know which saintly babushkas laid down decades of prayer work for this to happen." Even jurisdictions that had no issue of priest shortages now nor even on the horizon now have priest shortages because of the convert flood. Thankfully that flood of young men kicking in in the mid 2010's reliably produced readers, sub-deacons, deacons and now the first ordained priests.
Not surprisingly, the clergy who gathered those stats were overwhelmingly Gen X who ignored their own generation.
There is not much to lose, but there is everything to gain.
So return, with the sword. And others will follow.
""Why aren't you christian Kulak?"
Because every single church institution, from every single denomination (yes your "based church" too) has exactly one response to migrant rape of Europeans...
That the victims should forgive them.
In not ONE Church today (this sunday) on PLANET EARTH can you hear a single christian shout the true answer that is obvious to anyone with a spine.
In not one church will you hear the actual divine fury of your ancestors you know is true in your very soul and blood.
In my circles, including recently the not particularly religious ones and even among lefties, it’s becoming possible for normie women to talk directly - behind closed doors without men or blue hairs -about wanting to homeschool because because they don’t want their kids to be taught to hate themselves for being European, returning to church because the way of life makes sense in a world that’s losing it collective mind. Etc. Things that were churchy-trad-fringe things More women younger than me choosing home life with kiddos over office jobs. Being able to admit in not-mixed company that office jobs suck, and home is better with mom in it. Just being able to speak these things more freely and with less pushback and more curiosity from the other women than ten years ago.
I’m finding that even among my most lefty friends, my efforts at walking-the-walk are being well received. Without stepping out of place and preaching like a man. Just focusing on living a more Christ-like life myself, and extending hospitality to those in need of it as I can.
One secular girlfriend, Jane, sat next to me at a kids gymnastics class, and whispered “I heard your oldest daughter casually mention last week, that she’d be free for a playdate date after church. Do mind if I ask where you attend?” We had a lengthy conversation about my return to the church, she joined us the next weekend, and I made the right introductions, and her whole family got baptized eight months later. She’s not asking about faith in whispers any more.
On the morning of Jane’s baptism, totally out of the blue, my neighbor Jill who is a secular normie, brought over her husband’s Bible, a gorgeous old family Bible with incredible artwork. She said “we’re moving and John doesn’t want this, but I can’t bear to just give it away. Do you have use for it or know anyone who might?” And I said “That’s funny, Jane is getting baptized this evening, I think it’s meant to be hers.” Which looked like it planted a seed for Jill, the timing was too wildly perfect and we’ve been neighbors for almost a decade. But her reaching out to connect with a religious item was a first.
Another friend asked to attend Easter services with us this year, also out of the blue, and brought me a religious gift, despite being a secular lefty in public.
Which is to say, these are small ways that I am seeing the Holy Spirit working outward from our family. But it feels like the tide is changing, and God is at work in the women’s networks around me. I’d like to echo Vox’s statement, in that I think there will be a lot of women ready to follow, when the Christian men step up to lead.
Have you been following the riots in Belfast? Protestants and Catholics have set aside their differences to evict muslims. The UK media have gone into full blackout mode, threatening to arrest anyone who posts about the riots on social media. Because everything that gets reported about the situation in Northern Ireland inspires more mob violence.
Of course you will never hear about it in church. Protestants worship the Bible, and build their services around teaching and applying the Bible in their lives. Catholics celebrate the mass, which is built around the worship of our Lords death on the cross.
It would be completely inappropriate to expect Protestants and Catholics to stop worshipping God, and instead do what you want and make these services about your preferred politics.
It reminds me of that meme. "Sir, this is a Wendy's."
Sir, these are churches. They exist as places to worship God, not organize riots. Riot organizers are doing just fine in Belfast as is.
2. The Church is not perfect, it is a hospital for sick souls.
3. There is a process for resolving problems inside the church. It is the duty of every Christian to do their part in that process.
4. Christ called us to make disciples, which is the battleground for politics inside the church. These discussions happen in Bible Studies, small groups, or in private. Not during worship services.
True religion, pure and undefiled before God is to seek justice for the oppressed, and care for the widows and orphans. Which is why Christian men for two thousand years have done what the Christian men in Belfast are doing.
God will give you the good desires of your heart, and he answers the prayers of righteous men. Let us pray together for justice in our churches, in our governments, and in our lands.
"Because every single church institution, from every single denomination (yes your "based church" too) has exactly one response to migrant rape of Europeans...
That the victims should forgive them."
Not every one. Our church recognizes that forgiveness follows repentance. God doesn't forgive the unrepentant, and we don't need to either.
That's not at all true. It's definitely true in the majority of churches, but it is absolutely not true of all of them.
It wasn't pagan larpers who drove the Muslims out of Spain and Jerusalem. It won't be pagan larpers who defend Europe or America either.
The idiocy is that too many nationalists confuse the invaded and subverted institution for the faith. If you can understand that your government was subverted and turned against you, why is it so hard to grasp that the church institutions were too?
The pendulum swing has changed directions and is beginning to pick up momentum. Let’s pray that it ends the Eternal Asshole’s little season and wipes away all of its inversions.
Bane Voice: The fire rises brothers.
The Orthodox Church keeps growing with thousands of new converts being reported in a short span of time. I was just godfather to a young man’s baptism this Sunday, and we have at least two more this year of the twenty some others within the last two years.
Christian men also need to know how to fight effectively. It doesn’t happen like in the Hollywood movies.
Knowing the vulnerable targets on the body and how to put an injury on them and what creating an injury gets you because of the spinal reflex reaction loop.
Tim Larkin and Target Focused Training gets you there.
Any major martial arts are a massive upgrade for a young man. Attend any reputable school near you and learn. After a few months or a year train somewhere else until you find what suits you best. Karate, Kickboxing/Muay Thai, Judo, Boxing, Wrestling, Jew Jitsu... 6 months of training will allow you to beat the tar out of an untrained opponent of similar size and athletic ability. Years of training might allow you to handle larger and younger opponents.
Obviously, avoid culty and mystical nonsense schools and stick to stuff that's got a track record like Tae Kwon Do, MMA and Judo.
"Or you can read the Bible, you can return to the church, and you can take it back and transform it back into the weapon against a fallen world that it was, that it is, and that it will always be. It won’t be easy. It won’t be immediate. But it will happen.
For when the men lead, the women will follow. They always have and they always will.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with but a single step.
And as for an army, as history shows, all we need are twelve."
Most powerful advice yet, Vox. Simple and so true.
There is a big fight brewing in the conservative Reformed churches over "kinism" and "race realism", they have excommunicated Rev Michael Spangler and Rev Samuel Ketcham (who are active on substack and X).
The problem these denominations will have is that the young men are doing real scholarship...and it turns out many church fathers agree with the "kinists"!
The book "who is my neighbor" by western front books is a valuable asset. It collects writings from great men of the western tradition, across denominations, and shows their opinions on the issues of the day.
Godspeed all!
Just ordered WIMN from Amazon, as WF Books is sold out.
Praise God.
Advice for young men: keep your eyes fixed on Christ. Repentence is important, but so is following the Lord. Deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Him. There is no better life than one spent doing His will.
The stats about young Catholic priests are very encouraging. The liberal ones are all boomers. The Gen Z ones make the Inquisition from Warhammer look like babies.
Some of them will be Bishops and Popes, and then forget the Jews and Muslims, even the grey aliens in Zeta Reticuli will fear them
The Boomer hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has been in an increasingly hysterical panic over this for the last decade. The incoming seminarians are basically a Boomer prelates worst nightmare. They are laser focused on Jesus, the Sacraments, and the moral and spiritual development of their flocks, and couldn't give less of a shit about tired liberal bromides. They just don't have time for it, too many souls to save.
- I had an older Millennial priest once tell me that he was certain Jesus would have shot every pedophile priest found guilty, before dusting off a beer in one go and ordering another.
- A young Gen-Z Nigerian priest and I were discussing some recent politics around the ongoing wars in the midst of a group of older parishioners and he posed a scenario to illustrate a point where he asked, "Phileas, if I came to your home and killed your wife and children, what would you do?" "I'd find you and kill you Father." "Exactly! If I commit evil and violence, then I invite justice on myself! This is the natural law." The older parishioners were visibly upset. I laughed.
- I had Gen-X priest, who came to the priesthood late in life, declare emphatically to me, "James Martin is a wolf in sheep's clothing, leading souls into hell! He's a horrible man and a dangerous priest. At minimum he should have been censored ages ago."
It's just a matter of time and numbers. 80% or more of the current and incoming seminarians identify as conservative, and the detailed survey responses reveal what amounts to thinly veiled open hostility to the present hierarchy's priorities. Eventually they'll have no choice but to elevate the, "least worst option," which translates as, "The better option," to the Bishopric.
And then the tide turns.
This is so encouraging. I am hearing more and more of people returning to Christ with fire in their gut. It's long overdue.
So you believe that the Catholic church will be cleansed, one funeral or retirement at a time? Hope you're right.
The irony is that their undoing is their own fault, the gay/liberal bloc ruling the hierarchy that is. They told everyone for 6 decades that Church was optional, then stood back with a surprised Pikachu face when the only people left in the pews were the hardcore Catholics who disagreed, who incidentally have gone on to produce the next crop of Priests.
They created an environment where the selection pressure favored those capable of:
- Principled disagreement
- Loyal opposition
- Disregard for social clout
- Personal and private devotion
- Orthodoxy
If they could have gay'd up the teaching faster, like the mainline Protestant Churches, they might have been more effective and just driven EVERYONE away, but instead the Church still miraculously produced things like Pope Paul VI's, "Humane Vitae," and Pope Benedict XVI's, "Regensburg Lecture."
It's the Catholic view of things. One of our popes heard a conversation between our Lord and the Devil after mass. The Devil wanted a chance to destroy the church, and the Lord gave him a century to try.
The Devil tried to use Communism to infiltrate and destroy us. Communist / Masonic agents climbed the church hierarchy. But too little too late. The USSR collapsed when the century of testing ended. Now the Boomers are dying off and being replaced by zealous younger priests.
Amen
When one observes their own time over the years and reads a bit of history; the latticework and supernatural time-preference of a patient evil becomes apparent. Christianity not only resists it, but defeats it. Win and the flock will follow - support your local warlord.
Pithy, poignant and profound. As always. Thank you. Continued success in your good work. (And Chesterton's essay "Twelve Men" may be of interest. https://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/twelve-men.html )
The sodomites must be chased out but also the Judiazers. Darby and Scofield’s influence and subsequent false idol worship needs to be rooted out and destroyed as well. I grew up in those churches and the effect it has had on both the church and foreign policy is astounding.
Same. Well said brother.
We're about due for another Reconquista.
Charles Martel and El Cid would approve.
Per the internal stats of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America, .5% of Boomers, 1.0% of Millennials and 1.5% of Gen Z of the American population are practicing Orthodox in good standing. Young women and young families are now entering in after the flood of young men that came for eight years. In the words of several priests I know "we don't know which saintly babushkas laid down decades of prayer work for this to happen." Even jurisdictions that had no issue of priest shortages now nor even on the horizon now have priest shortages because of the convert flood. Thankfully that flood of young men kicking in in the mid 2010's reliably produced readers, sub-deacons, deacons and now the first ordained priests.
Not surprisingly, the clergy who gathered those stats were overwhelmingly Gen X who ignored their own generation.
There is not much to lose, but there is everything to gain.
So return, with the sword. And others will follow.
""Why aren't you christian Kulak?"
Because every single church institution, from every single denomination (yes your "based church" too) has exactly one response to migrant rape of Europeans...
That the victims should forgive them.
In not ONE Church today (this sunday) on PLANET EARTH can you hear a single christian shout the true answer that is obvious to anyone with a spine.
In not one church will you hear the actual divine fury of your ancestors you know is true in your very soul and blood.
In not church will the priest start screaming
"Blood! Blood! Blood!
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Kill! Kill! Kill!""
The time is coming though.
In my circles, including recently the not particularly religious ones and even among lefties, it’s becoming possible for normie women to talk directly - behind closed doors without men or blue hairs -about wanting to homeschool because because they don’t want their kids to be taught to hate themselves for being European, returning to church because the way of life makes sense in a world that’s losing it collective mind. Etc. Things that were churchy-trad-fringe things More women younger than me choosing home life with kiddos over office jobs. Being able to admit in not-mixed company that office jobs suck, and home is better with mom in it. Just being able to speak these things more freely and with less pushback and more curiosity from the other women than ten years ago.
I’m finding that even among my most lefty friends, my efforts at walking-the-walk are being well received. Without stepping out of place and preaching like a man. Just focusing on living a more Christ-like life myself, and extending hospitality to those in need of it as I can.
One secular girlfriend, Jane, sat next to me at a kids gymnastics class, and whispered “I heard your oldest daughter casually mention last week, that she’d be free for a playdate date after church. Do mind if I ask where you attend?” We had a lengthy conversation about my return to the church, she joined us the next weekend, and I made the right introductions, and her whole family got baptized eight months later. She’s not asking about faith in whispers any more.
On the morning of Jane’s baptism, totally out of the blue, my neighbor Jill who is a secular normie, brought over her husband’s Bible, a gorgeous old family Bible with incredible artwork. She said “we’re moving and John doesn’t want this, but I can’t bear to just give it away. Do you have use for it or know anyone who might?” And I said “That’s funny, Jane is getting baptized this evening, I think it’s meant to be hers.” Which looked like it planted a seed for Jill, the timing was too wildly perfect and we’ve been neighbors for almost a decade. But her reaching out to connect with a religious item was a first.
Another friend asked to attend Easter services with us this year, also out of the blue, and brought me a religious gift, despite being a secular lefty in public.
Which is to say, these are small ways that I am seeing the Holy Spirit working outward from our family. But it feels like the tide is changing, and God is at work in the women’s networks around me. I’d like to echo Vox’s statement, in that I think there will be a lot of women ready to follow, when the Christian men step up to lead.
Have you been following the riots in Belfast? Protestants and Catholics have set aside their differences to evict muslims. The UK media have gone into full blackout mode, threatening to arrest anyone who posts about the riots on social media. Because everything that gets reported about the situation in Northern Ireland inspires more mob violence.
Of course you will never hear about it in church. Protestants worship the Bible, and build their services around teaching and applying the Bible in their lives. Catholics celebrate the mass, which is built around the worship of our Lords death on the cross.
It would be completely inappropriate to expect Protestants and Catholics to stop worshipping God, and instead do what you want and make these services about your preferred politics.
It reminds me of that meme. "Sir, this is a Wendy's."
Sir, these are churches. They exist as places to worship God, not organize riots. Riot organizers are doing just fine in Belfast as is.
That post was a response to a German being raped in a Church ran youth centre, which they tried to cover up.
The enemy has made our Church about his politics. Being a coward is a sin and evicting Lucifer from the Church is necessary.
1. I condemn the rape and cover up.
2. The Church is not perfect, it is a hospital for sick souls.
3. There is a process for resolving problems inside the church. It is the duty of every Christian to do their part in that process.
4. Christ called us to make disciples, which is the battleground for politics inside the church. These discussions happen in Bible Studies, small groups, or in private. Not during worship services.
True religion, pure and undefiled before God is to seek justice for the oppressed, and care for the widows and orphans. Which is why Christian men for two thousand years have done what the Christian men in Belfast are doing.
God will give you the good desires of your heart, and he answers the prayers of righteous men. Let us pray together for justice in our churches, in our governments, and in our lands.
"Because every single church institution, from every single denomination (yes your "based church" too) has exactly one response to migrant rape of Europeans...
That the victims should forgive them."
Not every one. Our church recognizes that forgiveness follows repentance. God doesn't forgive the unrepentant, and we don't need to either.
That's not at all true. It's definitely true in the majority of churches, but it is absolutely not true of all of them.
It wasn't pagan larpers who drove the Muslims out of Spain and Jerusalem. It won't be pagan larpers who defend Europe or America either.
The idiocy is that too many nationalists confuse the invaded and subverted institution for the faith. If you can understand that your government was subverted and turned against you, why is it so hard to grasp that the church institutions were too?
The pendulum swing has changed directions and is beginning to pick up momentum. Let’s pray that it ends the Eternal Asshole’s little season and wipes away all of its inversions.