Keep Calm, Be Constantinian

Keep Calm, Be Constantinian May 24, 2015

Christians need to stop reading the news and thinking doom is coming tomorrow. Doom might be coming, but it does not come in time for the news. By the time the seeds sown in one generation bear awful fruit in the following, the next generation no longer remembers what had come before their own time. Christendom is timeless: we live in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. We are always losing in this age to somebody about something, but in two generations our enemies will change.

To those doing doctoral dissertations in two hundred years: Many of us knew the decadence of our time would lead to a reaction. We hope you have not over reacted or forgotten that there were many in 2015 who did not become libertines. We were calm and we carried on being Christians.

Amazingly, if Ireland, which rejected Irish culture ages ago for modern European decadence with a brogue, accepts gay marriage in a vote, some people feel like giving up while others decide it does not matter. Get this right: Ireland is no longer particularly Irish. Ireland has rejected the Catholic culture that saved it from barbarism and gave it a national identity. This is tragic and is a sign of the fall of the West, but the West had fallen before and we have survived.

Constantine started in Britain.
Constantine knew Christianity would be there in one hundred years.

When Scotland voted to stay in the United Kingdom, the proponents of independence began talking about the next vote. The defenders of real marriage should begin the campaign for the second vote for marriage. We will lose that one as well, but the defense of culture and civilization against barbarians is long. We need not panic. Once Ireland stopped making babies at a rate to sustain Ireland, then Ireland stopped understanding marriage. Combined with scandals in a broken Church, the Irish stopped being Irish or making new Irishmen. Eventually, this cannot continue!

A Constantine will come and liberate Ireland from the demon’s presumption and the tyrants’ false promise of freedom.

Some will advocate retreat and surrender to the spirit of our age. Given the way the rest of the world, the parts of the world having babies, is going, I advocate saving what we can of the West. The rest of the world thinks us mad and risks throwing out Locke with the dirty libertine behaviors. We will not let that happen. We will remain an alternative.

Constantine faced a much more difficult situation. His nation was falling apart in a world where falling apart was easy to do and no structure would replace what was destroyed. He built when everyone else was sacking and looting. He put his faith in the Cross when the rest of the world was moving toward living for personal peace and affluence. Constantine built a city for the ages and not just for his time.

We will do the same.

The bad news is that Ireland has decided that vice is virtue and deserves state approval. The good news is that this flies in the face of human nature and the only way forward for Ireland will be further folly. Eventually, the normal will defeat the abnormal and the holy will prevail over the libertine. This will come and when it comes Christians must be loving, merciful, and never make some of the mistakes that brought us to this pass: no hiding, no closets, no excuses, no cover ups.

The Christian age that is coming when the West is renewed will have learned from this time that “cover ups’ or hiding sin will never work. We must be real. We must all admit that we are not what we should be, but that the should be is still our goal. We all fail, fall short, but we all wish to do better tomorrow.

I do not know if I will see “victory” on some issues in my lifetime. I doubt it. So what? If we “won,” there would soon be another reason to reject the True, Good, and Beautiful. Humans cannot stand victory and soon will corrupt the best with the worst. Our heroes will be a mix of error and goodness. Our hearts will contain the seeds of the next crisis. And yet King Jesus will help us to do better this time than we have ever done before now.

We will keep calm, carry on, and win. This is the lesson of the ages.


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