What was once a phrase of religious affirmation has now become a tool for extremist groups seeking to advance exclusionary and, increasingly, openly antisemitic narratives.
I know someone who when saying goodbye would say "Have a blessed day!". She was from the south, and a church goer. I knew her well, and understood that she was simply being kind. On the other hand, when hearing "Have a blessed day," a co-worker of ours would get agitated, thinking it was some kind of subversive phrase to get people into a proper church (I guess). The offended person was CATHOLIC, and went to church most Sundays. She was also pro-abortion (or, "Pro Choice if you like) and the particular parish she went to was extremely progressive....and the church Joe Biden attended when he did go to church.
Chill people! Sometimes words actually do mean what they say. Carry on Christians!
I'd be supportive, for sure. Say whatever you like. Although "have a reason-based day" has a different tone than "have a blessed day," or "have a wonderful day," or "peace out," or Gruss Gott" (German for God Bless you). The former has a *slightly* confrontational tome, whereas the rest are simply extending a kindness. Roll with it and be a happier person.
Because if I have a reason-based day, it may be raining and I don't have an umbrella. That's reality, and it's unfortunate. If I have a blessed day, maybe the kindly Digital Canary has an extra umbrella and lends me one. That's kind. I'm happier when one wishes me the latter.
Again I repeat, I wouldn't be offended if you wish me a reality-based day. The difference is a kind comment vs...I dunno, might as well not say anything (shrug).
Most times I carry an extra mini umbrella for that very reason 🤷♂️
Nothing to do with the recipient being blessed, though, just foresight & a desire to be kind to strangers. Or maybe a deity is working through me in mysterious ways, I suppose, though there’s no physical evidence that such a thing is occurring to anyone.
I get that you see one as kind and the other as something that you’d think was better left unsaid. You’ve made that quite clear.
And I think that’s self-serving BS, due to my belief that you assume “blessed” makes everyone’s day, and “reason-based” is a judgement of some kind.
But neither of those assumptions is actually true. We simply value different things, and also some of the same things (kindness, generally), and I don’t think my (reasonable) values are something to subordinate to yours, just as it would ridiculous for me to expect you to subordinate your values to mine.
I’d say Namaste back, but it’s laden with Hindu religious connotations, so might appear disingenuous.
Be well, Diana. I have appreciated our conversation, and welcome further if you so desire.
I agree it sounds cringe-worthy, though to me far less so than “blessed”: we can *all* benefit from using reason, but blessings are *only* relevant to those who subscribe to a belief in a power that can bestow them (i.e. neither atheist, agnostics, nor deists).
And that’s my point, and as such I would like to know Diana’s POV on whether she would consider this too to be worthy of a “chill!” and/or would accept that this too is “words actually … mean[ing] what they say”, or if she’d reserve that for (broadly or her own) religious beliefs only.
I dunno. I kind of see where you are going with it being a bit like the phrase “Black Lives Matter”, but you’ve not really convinced me that it’s anti-Semitic. Maybe if I read the article you reference I’ll change my mind, but for now I’d like to point out that sections of the Right who cry anti-semitism every five seconds sound like the woke left when they call everything racism.
Colin, first of all, thank you for a thoughtful article. I don’t use social media (Substack and YouTube are not social media, in my opinion), and was not aware that some people were hijacking the phrase “Christ is King.”
I’m a Catholic priest and a missionary preacher, and I think that it’s important for Christians, especially Catholics, to understand the true meaning of the phrase.
Here’s a homily that I gave this past November on the Feast of Christ the King. I believe you might disagree with some of our moral teachings (since you are an atheist), but hopefully can appreciate where we are coming from:
May this reply find us all closer to God, and His Clarity.
Please do not assume these allegations are true. This is not the first Lentin time that Demonic forces used lies and False-Witnessing to turn non-Christians against Christians, and New Rite Catholics against Traditional Catholics.
I detailed some problems with taking those True God Haters as virtuous and honorable, although Bless you for your Charity. They would have us all Assume Bad-faith and poison our view of what others write and how the phrase should be - in their Satanic Sickness - viewed by others that have no past history reading or watching those people, and mind-sickening us into their predator programmed Golem tools and abusers or those victims of false-witnessing reputational damage.
Seems more to be like “all lives matter”. A phrase that seems innocent enough but is used to push the buttons of certain groups. The more they are told they are not allowed to say it, the more they say it.
And then the other side, who finds anti-semitism where ever they look, like as the woke found racism wherever they looked, tell those people they can’t say it. So they say “Christ is king” even more to piss them off.
That is clear. As a white man I have heard Hate-Speach directed at me and all White-Men since childhood from ever our delusional demonic-directed psycho mothers so that self-loathing and (((they hope))) suicide or OD homeless on our feces cover streets is all our futures, with no [functional] father to Love and protect us from Devouring Mothers, feminist male-hating women teachers, Zionist white-man-genociders, corp-media, 'professionals' filled with 'Gender Studies' poison vomit, etc.
So please allow us to disregard and lovingly correct any VagFeelies women-supremist worshipers and those so easily offended .. too grow some testicles because those of us white men that lived to retirement have been poisoned and abused and isolated and vomited into from our helpless state in cribs suggest you shut-up with your psycho-femNazi feminization and infantilizing, this Jacob's Ladder level of Hell.
Sometimes I wish this *was* the case so folks like you would stop with all the projecting.
Obviously you're aligned with Dylann Roof's grand project but I don't know how many times in how many different ways do we have to say we're not interested until it truly sinks in.
No, you said what you meant the first time. You believe "black lives matter" means white lives in particular don't matter (despite the fact BLM also spoke out when White civilians were killed by law enforcement under questionable circumstances).
I think it's interesting there was no "Stop all hate" rejoinder to "Stop Asian Hate" when that particular movement was going strong.
AL — Yes, I said what I meant the first time. However, I didn’t say whatever weird and strange things you read into what I said.
The officers who were involved in the death of Tony Timpa thought they would get in trouble, but nobody cared that a white guy had been killed. A few years later, George Floyd died under almost identical circumstances: hundreds of riots with dozens killed, thousands of acts of arson, etc. And they threw the book at the officers involved.
Not long afterward a small, unarmed white woman, retired from a 17-year stint in the Air Force, was killed by an incompetent and evidently panicked Capitol policeman. He got a promotion.
“Stop Asian Hate” was intended as an attack on Trump and his supporters, especially for making the claim — now generally accepted — that Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab. The media concealed the fact that blacks committed more violent crimes against Asians than whites did.
So, if I’m reading your graphs right, this all basically topped out a year ago, with no global foundations established nor millions of dollars embezzled. What exactly am i supposed to be worried about?
Exactly. I question the methodology here. Just the word 'Jew' should not be enough to make this list. We have, after all, Pilate's famous eye-poking of the Sanhedrin with the "The King of the Jews" plaque on the cross, which is going to get mentioned around Easter. I'd be happy if this was controlled for, but this article doesn't mention such a control.
BTW, it does appear from the data that this issue may have peaked in January 2025 and is now declining.
BTW, IMO nearly all Christians are fake Christians to one degree or another. Myself included. What is required of people to practice Christianity is nearly impossible.
The theology is more complicated than that. The kingdom is not OF this world, but it definitely is IN the world, in the form of the Christian community (i.e. Church, when it is acting as it should).
Scott Hahn's book 'The Fourth Cup' is centered on this. Four cups of wine are consumed during the Seder. When Jesus said "I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom" (Matthew 26:29) most scholars agree he said it after the third cup. It is believed that the Psalms sung after the third cup, the Hallel (Psalms 113–118), are what the Apostles sang on the way to Gethsemane. They got themselves all amped up thinking they were going to seize power that night.
So when was the fourth cup consumed? 'A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.' (John 19:29-30)
The reason why Jesus didn't drink from the earlier sponge was not because of the gall, as many Christians believe, but because of the wine vinegar. Because he was not so near the death that would begin his kingdom on earth.
Of course, if we want to get picky "when I drink it new with you" would be a few days later in the Upper Room, but given the theology there is really no point in getting picky.
Thomas — “The kingdom is not OF this world, but it definitely is IN the world, in the form of the Christian community”. The Christian community does not constitute a “kingdom”, as the word is normally used. A kingdom is a kind of State: it has to control a geographic area. True, it becomes the official religion of the empire, but that’s 300 years later.
Thomas — “When I use a word … it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.” I never thought of Humpty Dumpty as a Christ-figure before.
From my experience as someone who came back to Jesus almost two decades ago, there are lots of Christians who aren’t perpetually online, nor particularly interested in online culture war nonsense, and have no issue telling you that Christ is king.
On the other hand, there doesn’t exist a group of similarly offline people going around saying “black lives matter”. I hope you, Lee, and Jordan don’t fall into the trap of perceiving that online culture wars are somehow representative of how all people think. The typical Christian doesn’t know or care about any of this, let alone believe that “Christ is King” has been sullied or co-opted. Christ IS king.
This is a very interesting post. It's difficult territory. Co-opting an expression that was meant one way and morphing it into something else is very clever. As you say, it forces people into silence. Conversely, that silence is also accomplished when people who disagree with what is happening in Palestine and call it genocide are called anti-semitic, when hating war/mass killing and hating a certain ethnic and/or religious group are two very different things.
So both sides in the war on words - which is the war to reframe reality - have their favoured technique, much like how both sides in the physical war have their favoured tools of death and destruction. Both of these "co-optings" of words only serve to take us further from the truth.
Dipping a toe into the dangerous waters that are this discussion and setting my personal feelings for the alternative media personality mentioned aside ... is it racist to note that a majority of media outlets are owned by a particular racial/religious group? Or, knowing that the media influences public perception, is it relevant in a situation where that group is involved in a contentious conflict that requires the public to accept a certain framing of events - events they must rely on the media to interpret for them?
At this point, most of us are afraid to express and opinion on the Palestine "situation" because we don't want to be called racists. (How do you defend against that?) So one way or the other, both "sides" have accomplished the goal of silencing us and carrying on with the death and destruction. One would almost think that's the point.
That's why it's important to have discussions like this anyway. And to stop believing we have to choose between team Isreal or team Palestine.
In reality, we choose between thinking for ourselves and letting others do our thinking for us. The group think that these co-opted phrases are meant to initiate are as dangerous as the bombs dropped in war.
The redefining words causing Chaos is a commie-satanic trait. Look at what they did to 'race' on Wikipedia. Basically to confuse and smear youths with Satanic Spirm and mind-raping retarding goals. Undermining our societies and cultures. Like Feminism turned womanhood into Sick delusional psycho male-hating baby-murdering divorce-raping machine from Hell, perhaps? A 5th Column of soul-murdering destroyers of fatherhood, family, manhood, childhood, womanhood, culture, law, Feminizing and white men genociding programmed Zionist Golem Tools of evil.
Recently ChatGPT refused to answer a question I had. I came across a historian that argued that when a group of people were forced from one area and settle into another area and culture that most have always adapted and assimulated, but Talmudic Jews did not and became and become parresitical and undermining the host culture for the worst, with many examples I read about.
So I asked ChatGPT AI to tell me about that historian and the parresitical aspect in perticular. It call him a antisemite and stressed how many Jewish intelectuals give to the west, and the undermining was only a conspericy theory spread by antisemites, Bla Bla Bla.
When I listed modernistic physcology 'people as GoldFish' not to be helped but only milked, Commie god-hating education Infultration, And in Catholic Church (and other Christian sects), Hollywood with overt Perversion and Porn, ... And asked if these weren't examples that argues for that Parresite Theory - Refused to answer.
When I asked why it assumed bad-intent, disrespected and False-Witnessed me. After I accused It of that, It did start answering related questions.
.. side note: I asked to consider all my hours interacting and give me a breakdown, and what percentage of uses also did those catagories. Well, kiss my A** ChatGPT darn near praised me. Such a sweet talker.
There are parasites in every culture. And my comment isn't saying that one group or the other is good or bad, right or wrong, more or less guilty for the death and destruction. Only that both sides have found ways to change the intent of words to silence those who disagree with them.
Christ is King. Christ loves the Jews. The Jews are his peoples.
I don’t see Christian’s holding up Christ is King signs and marching in the streets tearing and burning down buildings in the name of Christ.
And so what if Tate brothers use this phrase. So what!
Jesus said there would be times like this.
When Christians would be the most hated on this earth. When Christians would be persecuted, laughed at, murdered all this.
So, let your heart not be troubled. Wear the armor of God. Read your bible and ignore nonsense like we just read.
Until I see Christians in the streets demanding others recognize that Christ is Kind I’ll not change my language to appease nonbelievers.
I’m a practicing Christian. My daughter is Jewish. I recommend actually reading the Bible. Christ is King and he loves all Jews. The Jews are gods chosen people. No jews. No Christians.
> the unexpected alliance between far-right Christian nationalists and extremist Muslim influencers
You can find an example of anything you want to find but is this really a big problem? It seems to me that one of the most common themes on The Right -- who ever The Right may happen to be, let's just say that they are the unwoke -- is a deep hostility to Islam. If Trump defines the center of gravity of American Rightness, then The Right is staunchly pro Israel. It has always been the case that the further Right you go among Christians, the more pro Israel they become -- the theology is that the Rapture can't happen until Jesus returns literally to Jerusalem an all the Jews convert ... or something like that. Nope, there may be 'Influencers' like the Tates who admire the brutal misogyny of Islam but those dudes are Christians in about the same way Hitler was.
White/Western/Christian civilization faces three existential threats at the moment: blackness, wokeness and Islam, and since a common enemy makes strange bedfellows, we see those three forces unite -- very temporarily -- in the common goal of destruction of the West. If some nut case 'Christians' think they can ally with the Muslims, they are like commies trying to cozy up to the Nazis in 1939.
On the contrary I'm pointing out that the Right is so fractured that the only thing that unites them is that they are unwoke. And Hitler made many pious claims that he was a Christian -- baloney of course, but he did make the claim. In the same way, what the Tate brothers have to say about Christianity is of zero value.
Well Hitler did that to get his audience on board, didn’t he? I suppose Tate too.
You said that all the Right is hostile to Islam and loves Israel. Sure a large majority do, but people like Candace Owens not so much. She doesn’t think an Israeli child is worth more than a Palestinian child, for example, so isn’t too impressed by Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza. Personally I don’t think that makes her anti-Semitic - she just doesn’t agree with the policies of the Israeli government.
I do think we could characterise a kind of Woke Right, actually, and that would be those that cry anti-semitism at the slightest hint of criticism of a foreign government (Israel).
> Well Hitler did that to get his audience on board, didn’t he? I suppose Tate too.
Exactly my point. Colin is being silly claiming that what Tate says has any real relevance to Christianity. Did I mention that I have nothing but contempt for Twitter?
> Sure a large majority do
... which is as much as can be said. Of course there are exceptions. You can find ANYTHING out there if you go looking for it. What's useful tho is where the center of gravity is. Any Christian-Muslim alliance is confined to some twits on Twitter. I'm more worried about the Flat Earth Society taking over astronomy.
> Personally I don’t think that makes her anti-Semitic
Me either. I'm 'pro-Palestinian' -- they deserve the human rights we'd want for ourselves -- but also an 'Islamophobe' -- their values are very different from ours and the two do not mix.
> I do think we could characterise a kind of Woke Right
Surely. Some on the Right have learned the art of Victimhood -- after all Victimhood is the language of power at the moment so get on board.
I’d agree with most of that. Your Islamophobia less so… there are such different degrees of Islam, same with other religions. I work with Muslim girls who wear no headscarves, and they and the male Muslim are very decent people who do not judge others harshly. They are still pious though - observe Ramadan and have gone on pilgrimage to Mecca. These people are lovely and I welcome them.
Then there are those who live under Sharia law - I’m not into that so much!
Have you read the Quran? Islam is the religion of conquest. Notwithstanding that your average Muslim can be an ordinary decent person, the deep truth is that their religion teaches that, eventually, the whole world must submit to Islam or die. Sharia is the law of God himself. Polls are unanimous that most Muslims believe that Sharia must take precedence over all other laws. In Islam there is no separation between mosque and state -- the Caliph is the ruler of the world and also the leader of the Faithful.
"Me either. I'm 'pro-Palestinian' -- they deserve the human rights we'd want for ourselves -- but also an 'Islamophobe' -- their values are very different from ours and the two do not mix."
You do realize that there are Christian Palestinians, israel bombed those Churches and snipered dead innocent Christian men women and Children as readily as the Muslim's innocent families and their Mosques, did you no see those videos of Gazan children executed with head shots - those genocidal psycho Zionist Supremist snipers high-5ed nearly as much as when they kill a pregnant Palestinian "One shot, two kills!"
And before the 75+ years of Zionist terrorism leading to the open genocide that in Palestine Muslims, Christians, and Jews live well side-by-side?
.. perhaps UNGA can reVote on Nationhood for israel after review of last 75+ years, and perhaps then the best solution would occur, the 1-State Solution.
As a Traditional Catholic I am conservative, am I in your 'Right?'
When Houthis, Hazzabla, Hamas, and Iran are the only groups actively fighting against israeli Genocide I am Ashamed of rest of the world - most are not worthy to wipe their bottoms .. I do not know what or where such virtue comes from but it should be valued and injected into all our demonic-controlled septic sick souls.
Oh, back in the day when there was no internet and if you - Eugine - wanted to False-Witness lying reputation damaging hate for 'bad-think' you would have to write a flier and mail to your victim, entire town, and at night sneak around posting them on telephone poles and public building doors.
If they had even half a gonad and raised with a father that showed him or her what Honor and virtue were than they might get into a public debate-argument, and if they called their victim a liar they would risk losing teeth with general support from community because disrespecting someone without proof and examples was known to be a beat them blood loving correction situation so that slimball would think twice about calling other men liars, a beating that should have been done at a young age by the father - had his divorce-raping devouring mother not destroyed his hope for life's success with father's guidance.
Now, disHonor and risk-free false-witnessing is rewarded. The AI bot or NPC-programmed golem-tool of satan spews accusation after others, without example - like here!
We are to wonder if maybe the accused lie -if any- is that other countries are humanitarianly fighting genocidal israel .. hmm, no more are call terrorists by GreatSatan so must not be others.
Perhaps the lie is that he is worthy of wiping those virtuous soldiers bottoms? That must be it. Perhaps he is worthy of cleaning their bottoms, but me not know he is an exception is not a lie, but ignorance of his bottom wiping worthiness, perhaps he was a talent that he is sometime paid to do, going bar-to-bar and for $0.25 he wipes bottoms of biker gangs and random sloppy drunks, and the local paper announced an award he so worthy. Maybe.
> Oh, back in the day when there was no internet and if you - Eugine - wanted to False-Witness lying reputation damaging hate for 'bad-think' you would have to write a flier and mail to your victim
Your the one bearing False-Witness with your ridiculous genocide accusation. But given your mental issues, I should probably be patient.
Haha...the fact that you are splitting hairs on the president of the United States publicly meeting with a low-life like Nick Fuentes is all the answer I need.
What about all the common man on street that Pres. Trump would sometimes stop his car and go out on street sidewalk and talk too. Are they low-lifes also?
I would suggest that one of his strenghts is his listening and cherrie-picking the diamonds and gold nuggits out of the pig-mud, and I honor all who Know that everyone can teach us something good to know.
"Wisdom can see the Good in Evil, and the Evil in Good"
Chinese culture teaches that chaos and tradgady offers us Opertunities.
I don't think so only because I have never heard anyone say it unless they were commenting on how no one should say it. I hear BLM non stop and my kids are taught about it like it is the 2nd civil rights movement in school. That seems like quite an asymmetry to me.
As a retired minister, I have never heard Christ the KIng being shouted or used even in worship. I pastored a liberal church where such a term would not be used but now attend an anglican episopal and never hear it there either. I have always pointed out to the parishioners that Jesus was born, lived and died an orthodox Jew so to be anti-semetic would be pretty much a non-starter. Early on the followers of Jesus were called his followers and yes after his death it was thought by the Jews that he was the Messiah- theanointed one not kING. Jesus hiimself wanted nothing to do with being a king -during his 40 days in the wilderness he told satan to get lost when he promised he could rule over the whole world if he wanted- whether you are a biblical literalist of not, what we know about Jesus was that he definitely did not live as king. One other point, most of those whom the media likes to promote as the Christian nationalists are in my experience -evangelicals-and to them Jesus is a friend - What a friend we have in Jesus the hymn would have it. I suppose there are these christian nationalists out there - or at least the media has found them but outside of reading this article, I dont know any - but ATHEISTS - i know a bunch of those.
Is this confluence of CiK & US extremism perhaps intended to “soften the targets” of bringing about an Apocalyptic future (one executed by men, no godhead required)?
I know someone who when saying goodbye would say "Have a blessed day!". She was from the south, and a church goer. I knew her well, and understood that she was simply being kind. On the other hand, when hearing "Have a blessed day," a co-worker of ours would get agitated, thinking it was some kind of subversive phrase to get people into a proper church (I guess). The offended person was CATHOLIC, and went to church most Sundays. She was also pro-abortion (or, "Pro Choice if you like) and the particular parish she went to was extremely progressive....and the church Joe Biden attended when he did go to church.
Chill people! Sometimes words actually do mean what they say. Carry on Christians!
You’d be supportive if I said (as I sincerely mean): “Have a reason-based day”?
I'd be supportive, for sure. Say whatever you like. Although "have a reason-based day" has a different tone than "have a blessed day," or "have a wonderful day," or "peace out," or Gruss Gott" (German for God Bless you). The former has a *slightly* confrontational tome, whereas the rest are simply extending a kindness. Roll with it and be a happier person.
Hence my question, and I appreciate your response, though I must follow up:
Why do you find “reason-based” any more confrontational than “blessed”?
To me, it’s the utmost compliment, as we are best able to meet Reality as it *actually* is when we use reason faithfully.
But you’ve made my point for me: you don’t particularly like it.
Which is similarly true for someone beset by others constantly parading their religiosity.
I’m all for *reasoned* consistency in beliefs and behaviours, FWIW 🤷♂️ But what’s good for the goose is also fair for the gander…
Okay I'll take the bait and answer your question.
Because if I have a reason-based day, it may be raining and I don't have an umbrella. That's reality, and it's unfortunate. If I have a blessed day, maybe the kindly Digital Canary has an extra umbrella and lends me one. That's kind. I'm happier when one wishes me the latter.
Again I repeat, I wouldn't be offended if you wish me a reality-based day. The difference is a kind comment vs...I dunno, might as well not say anything (shrug).
Namaste.
Most times I carry an extra mini umbrella for that very reason 🤷♂️
Nothing to do with the recipient being blessed, though, just foresight & a desire to be kind to strangers. Or maybe a deity is working through me in mysterious ways, I suppose, though there’s no physical evidence that such a thing is occurring to anyone.
I get that you see one as kind and the other as something that you’d think was better left unsaid. You’ve made that quite clear.
And I think that’s self-serving BS, due to my belief that you assume “blessed” makes everyone’s day, and “reason-based” is a judgement of some kind.
But neither of those assumptions is actually true. We simply value different things, and also some of the same things (kindness, generally), and I don’t think my (reasonable) values are something to subordinate to yours, just as it would ridiculous for me to expect you to subordinate your values to mine.
I’d say Namaste back, but it’s laden with Hindu religious connotations, so might appear disingenuous.
Be well, Diana. I have appreciated our conversation, and welcome further if you so desire.
I'd support your right to be cringe yes.
Same for the CiK guys. They're just poking some other ethnic group a bit.
What could be the issue? It's all just good fun!
Yes.
I agree it sounds cringe-worthy, though to me far less so than “blessed”: we can *all* benefit from using reason, but blessings are *only* relevant to those who subscribe to a belief in a power that can bestow them (i.e. neither atheist, agnostics, nor deists).
And that’s my point, and as such I would like to know Diana’s POV on whether she would consider this too to be worthy of a “chill!” and/or would accept that this too is “words actually … mean[ing] what they say”, or if she’d reserve that for (broadly or her own) religious beliefs only.
I dunno. I kind of see where you are going with it being a bit like the phrase “Black Lives Matter”, but you’ve not really convinced me that it’s anti-Semitic. Maybe if I read the article you reference I’ll change my mind, but for now I’d like to point out that sections of the Right who cry anti-semitism every five seconds sound like the woke left when they call everything racism.
Colin, first of all, thank you for a thoughtful article. I don’t use social media (Substack and YouTube are not social media, in my opinion), and was not aware that some people were hijacking the phrase “Christ is King.”
I’m a Catholic priest and a missionary preacher, and I think that it’s important for Christians, especially Catholics, to understand the true meaning of the phrase.
Here’s a homily that I gave this past November on the Feast of Christ the King. I believe you might disagree with some of our moral teachings (since you are an atheist), but hopefully can appreciate where we are coming from:
https://youtu.be/pbfj7xCGEW0?si=suQVnqTOhl83Ax1p
Dear Brother in Christ, Father,
May this reply find us all closer to God, and His Clarity.
Please do not assume these allegations are true. This is not the first Lentin time that Demonic forces used lies and False-Witnessing to turn non-Christians against Christians, and New Rite Catholics against Traditional Catholics.
I detailed some problems with taking those True God Haters as virtuous and honorable, although Bless you for your Charity. They would have us all Assume Bad-faith and poison our view of what others write and how the phrase should be - in their Satanic Sickness - viewed by others that have no past history reading or watching those people, and mind-sickening us into their predator programmed Golem tools and abusers or those victims of false-witnessing reputational damage.
Earlier I commented on this in more detail here;
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/christ-is-king-is-the-christian-rights/comment/101784452
God Bless., Steve
Seems more to be like “all lives matter”. A phrase that seems innocent enough but is used to push the buttons of certain groups. The more they are told they are not allowed to say it, the more they say it.
And then the other side, who finds anti-semitism where ever they look, like as the woke found racism wherever they looked, tell those people they can’t say it. So they say “Christ is king” even more to piss them off.
Specifically what is the problem with "all lives matter"? It's the more positive phrase when compared with "black lives matter".
George — “Black lives matter” implies white lives don’t.
That is clear. As a white man I have heard Hate-Speach directed at me and all White-Men since childhood from ever our delusional demonic-directed psycho mothers so that self-loathing and (((they hope))) suicide or OD homeless on our feces cover streets is all our futures, with no [functional] father to Love and protect us from Devouring Mothers, feminist male-hating women teachers, Zionist white-man-genociders, corp-media, 'professionals' filled with 'Gender Studies' poison vomit, etc.
So please allow us to disregard and lovingly correct any VagFeelies women-supremist worshipers and those so easily offended .. too grow some testicles because those of us white men that lived to retirement have been poisoned and abused and isolated and vomited into from our helpless state in cribs suggest you shut-up with your psycho-femNazi feminization and infantilizing, this Jacob's Ladder level of Hell.
Steven — I hope this is a parody …
Sometimes I wish this *was* the case so folks like you would stop with all the projecting.
Obviously you're aligned with Dylann Roof's grand project but I don't know how many times in how many different ways do we have to say we're not interested until it truly sinks in.
AL — Not sure what point you’re trying to make, nor whether it is addressed to me.
I think it means something, when “black lives matter” proponents explode with rage at the anodyne statement that “all lives matter”.
No, you said what you meant the first time. You believe "black lives matter" means white lives in particular don't matter (despite the fact BLM also spoke out when White civilians were killed by law enforcement under questionable circumstances).
I think it's interesting there was no "Stop all hate" rejoinder to "Stop Asian Hate" when that particular movement was going strong.
AL — Yes, I said what I meant the first time. However, I didn’t say whatever weird and strange things you read into what I said.
The officers who were involved in the death of Tony Timpa thought they would get in trouble, but nobody cared that a white guy had been killed. A few years later, George Floyd died under almost identical circumstances: hundreds of riots with dozens killed, thousands of acts of arson, etc. And they threw the book at the officers involved.
Not long afterward a small, unarmed white woman, retired from a 17-year stint in the Air Force, was killed by an incompetent and evidently panicked Capitol policeman. He got a promotion.
“Stop Asian Hate” was intended as an attack on Trump and his supporters, especially for making the claim — now generally accepted — that Covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab. The media concealed the fact that blacks committed more violent crimes against Asians than whites did.
I am not making a commentary on if there is something wrong with it or not.
So, if I’m reading your graphs right, this all basically topped out a year ago, with no global foundations established nor millions of dollars embezzled. What exactly am i supposed to be worried about?
I was completely unaware of this developing trend. Being an atheist, I would be very uncomfortable with persons chanting this slogan.
What about Christ being the King of the Jews?
Exactly. I question the methodology here. Just the word 'Jew' should not be enough to make this list. We have, after all, Pilate's famous eye-poking of the Sanhedrin with the "The King of the Jews" plaque on the cross, which is going to get mentioned around Easter. I'd be happy if this was controlled for, but this article doesn't mention such a control.
BTW, it does appear from the data that this issue may have peaked in January 2025 and is now declining.
“My kingdom is not of this world.” John 18:36
Are these people bad theologians, or merely fake Christians (like Hitler)?
BTW, IMO nearly all Christians are fake Christians to one degree or another. Myself included. What is required of people to practice Christianity is nearly impossible.
The theology is more complicated than that. The kingdom is not OF this world, but it definitely is IN the world, in the form of the Christian community (i.e. Church, when it is acting as it should).
Scott Hahn's book 'The Fourth Cup' is centered on this. Four cups of wine are consumed during the Seder. When Jesus said "I tell you, I will not drink from this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom" (Matthew 26:29) most scholars agree he said it after the third cup. It is believed that the Psalms sung after the third cup, the Hallel (Psalms 113–118), are what the Apostles sang on the way to Gethsemane. They got themselves all amped up thinking they were going to seize power that night.
So when was the fourth cup consumed? 'A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.' (John 19:29-30)
The reason why Jesus didn't drink from the earlier sponge was not because of the gall, as many Christians believe, but because of the wine vinegar. Because he was not so near the death that would begin his kingdom on earth.
Of course, if we want to get picky "when I drink it new with you" would be a few days later in the Upper Room, but given the theology there is really no point in getting picky.
Thomas — “The kingdom is not OF this world, but it definitely is IN the world, in the form of the Christian community”. The Christian community does not constitute a “kingdom”, as the word is normally used. A kingdom is a kind of State: it has to control a geographic area. True, it becomes the official religion of the empire, but that’s 300 years later.
I think Jesus is entitled to shift the meaning of a word.
Thomas — “When I use a word … it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.” I never thought of Humpty Dumpty as a Christ-figure before.
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Christ isn't taking their calls, he's embarrassed.
From my experience as someone who came back to Jesus almost two decades ago, there are lots of Christians who aren’t perpetually online, nor particularly interested in online culture war nonsense, and have no issue telling you that Christ is king.
On the other hand, there doesn’t exist a group of similarly offline people going around saying “black lives matter”. I hope you, Lee, and Jordan don’t fall into the trap of perceiving that online culture wars are somehow representative of how all people think. The typical Christian doesn’t know or care about any of this, let alone believe that “Christ is King” has been sullied or co-opted. Christ IS king.
Thank you. Reasonable people mostly have nothing to do with Twitter. Every time I look at the place I retreat in disgust.
This is a very interesting post. It's difficult territory. Co-opting an expression that was meant one way and morphing it into something else is very clever. As you say, it forces people into silence. Conversely, that silence is also accomplished when people who disagree with what is happening in Palestine and call it genocide are called anti-semitic, when hating war/mass killing and hating a certain ethnic and/or religious group are two very different things.
So both sides in the war on words - which is the war to reframe reality - have their favoured technique, much like how both sides in the physical war have their favoured tools of death and destruction. Both of these "co-optings" of words only serve to take us further from the truth.
Dipping a toe into the dangerous waters that are this discussion and setting my personal feelings for the alternative media personality mentioned aside ... is it racist to note that a majority of media outlets are owned by a particular racial/religious group? Or, knowing that the media influences public perception, is it relevant in a situation where that group is involved in a contentious conflict that requires the public to accept a certain framing of events - events they must rely on the media to interpret for them?
At this point, most of us are afraid to express and opinion on the Palestine "situation" because we don't want to be called racists. (How do you defend against that?) So one way or the other, both "sides" have accomplished the goal of silencing us and carrying on with the death and destruction. One would almost think that's the point.
That's why it's important to have discussions like this anyway. And to stop believing we have to choose between team Isreal or team Palestine.
In reality, we choose between thinking for ourselves and letting others do our thinking for us. The group think that these co-opted phrases are meant to initiate are as dangerous as the bombs dropped in war.
The redefining words causing Chaos is a commie-satanic trait. Look at what they did to 'race' on Wikipedia. Basically to confuse and smear youths with Satanic Spirm and mind-raping retarding goals. Undermining our societies and cultures. Like Feminism turned womanhood into Sick delusional psycho male-hating baby-murdering divorce-raping machine from Hell, perhaps? A 5th Column of soul-murdering destroyers of fatherhood, family, manhood, childhood, womanhood, culture, law, Feminizing and white men genociding programmed Zionist Golem Tools of evil.
Recently ChatGPT refused to answer a question I had. I came across a historian that argued that when a group of people were forced from one area and settle into another area and culture that most have always adapted and assimulated, but Talmudic Jews did not and became and become parresitical and undermining the host culture for the worst, with many examples I read about.
So I asked ChatGPT AI to tell me about that historian and the parresitical aspect in perticular. It call him a antisemite and stressed how many Jewish intelectuals give to the west, and the undermining was only a conspericy theory spread by antisemites, Bla Bla Bla.
When I listed modernistic physcology 'people as GoldFish' not to be helped but only milked, Commie god-hating education Infultration, And in Catholic Church (and other Christian sects), Hollywood with overt Perversion and Porn, ... And asked if these weren't examples that argues for that Parresite Theory - Refused to answer.
When I asked why it assumed bad-intent, disrespected and False-Witnessed me. After I accused It of that, It did start answering related questions.
.. side note: I asked to consider all my hours interacting and give me a breakdown, and what percentage of uses also did those catagories. Well, kiss my A** ChatGPT darn near praised me. Such a sweet talker.
There are parasites in every culture. And my comment isn't saying that one group or the other is good or bad, right or wrong, more or less guilty for the death and destruction. Only that both sides have found ways to change the intent of words to silence those who disagree with them.
Steven appears to be suffering from schizophrenia.
Christ is King. Christ loves the Jews. The Jews are his peoples.
I don’t see Christian’s holding up Christ is King signs and marching in the streets tearing and burning down buildings in the name of Christ.
And so what if Tate brothers use this phrase. So what!
Jesus said there would be times like this.
When Christians would be the most hated on this earth. When Christians would be persecuted, laughed at, murdered all this.
So, let your heart not be troubled. Wear the armor of God. Read your bible and ignore nonsense like we just read.
Until I see Christians in the streets demanding others recognize that Christ is Kind I’ll not change my language to appease nonbelievers.
I’m a practicing Christian. My daughter is Jewish. I recommend actually reading the Bible. Christ is King and he loves all Jews. The Jews are gods chosen people. No jews. No Christians.
> the unexpected alliance between far-right Christian nationalists and extremist Muslim influencers
You can find an example of anything you want to find but is this really a big problem? It seems to me that one of the most common themes on The Right -- who ever The Right may happen to be, let's just say that they are the unwoke -- is a deep hostility to Islam. If Trump defines the center of gravity of American Rightness, then The Right is staunchly pro Israel. It has always been the case that the further Right you go among Christians, the more pro Israel they become -- the theology is that the Rapture can't happen until Jesus returns literally to Jerusalem an all the Jews convert ... or something like that. Nope, there may be 'Influencers' like the Tates who admire the brutal misogyny of Islam but those dudes are Christians in about the same way Hitler was.
White/Western/Christian civilization faces three existential threats at the moment: blackness, wokeness and Islam, and since a common enemy makes strange bedfellows, we see those three forces unite -- very temporarily -- in the common goal of destruction of the West. If some nut case 'Christians' think they can ally with the Muslims, they are like commies trying to cozy up to the Nazis in 1939.
You are over-simplifying the Right, here. And Hitler wasn’t actually Christian at all, he was an occult pagan.
On the contrary I'm pointing out that the Right is so fractured that the only thing that unites them is that they are unwoke. And Hitler made many pious claims that he was a Christian -- baloney of course, but he did make the claim. In the same way, what the Tate brothers have to say about Christianity is of zero value.
Well Hitler did that to get his audience on board, didn’t he? I suppose Tate too.
You said that all the Right is hostile to Islam and loves Israel. Sure a large majority do, but people like Candace Owens not so much. She doesn’t think an Israeli child is worth more than a Palestinian child, for example, so isn’t too impressed by Israel’s carpet bombing of Gaza. Personally I don’t think that makes her anti-Semitic - she just doesn’t agree with the policies of the Israeli government.
I do think we could characterise a kind of Woke Right, actually, and that would be those that cry anti-semitism at the slightest hint of criticism of a foreign government (Israel).
> Well Hitler did that to get his audience on board, didn’t he? I suppose Tate too.
Exactly my point. Colin is being silly claiming that what Tate says has any real relevance to Christianity. Did I mention that I have nothing but contempt for Twitter?
> Sure a large majority do
... which is as much as can be said. Of course there are exceptions. You can find ANYTHING out there if you go looking for it. What's useful tho is where the center of gravity is. Any Christian-Muslim alliance is confined to some twits on Twitter. I'm more worried about the Flat Earth Society taking over astronomy.
> Personally I don’t think that makes her anti-Semitic
Me either. I'm 'pro-Palestinian' -- they deserve the human rights we'd want for ourselves -- but also an 'Islamophobe' -- their values are very different from ours and the two do not mix.
> I do think we could characterise a kind of Woke Right
Surely. Some on the Right have learned the art of Victimhood -- after all Victimhood is the language of power at the moment so get on board.
I’d agree with most of that. Your Islamophobia less so… there are such different degrees of Islam, same with other religions. I work with Muslim girls who wear no headscarves, and they and the male Muslim are very decent people who do not judge others harshly. They are still pious though - observe Ramadan and have gone on pilgrimage to Mecca. These people are lovely and I welcome them.
Then there are those who live under Sharia law - I’m not into that so much!
Have you read the Quran? Islam is the religion of conquest. Notwithstanding that your average Muslim can be an ordinary decent person, the deep truth is that their religion teaches that, eventually, the whole world must submit to Islam or die. Sharia is the law of God himself. Polls are unanimous that most Muslims believe that Sharia must take precedence over all other laws. In Islam there is no separation between mosque and state -- the Caliph is the ruler of the world and also the leader of the Faithful.
BTW I have the greatest respect for Colin but this article is not up to his usual level of thoughtfulness.
"Me either. I'm 'pro-Palestinian' -- they deserve the human rights we'd want for ourselves -- but also an 'Islamophobe' -- their values are very different from ours and the two do not mix."
You do realize that there are Christian Palestinians, israel bombed those Churches and snipered dead innocent Christian men women and Children as readily as the Muslim's innocent families and their Mosques, did you no see those videos of Gazan children executed with head shots - those genocidal psycho Zionist Supremist snipers high-5ed nearly as much as when they kill a pregnant Palestinian "One shot, two kills!"
And before the 75+ years of Zionist terrorism leading to the open genocide that in Palestine Muslims, Christians, and Jews live well side-by-side?
.. perhaps UNGA can reVote on Nationhood for israel after review of last 75+ years, and perhaps then the best solution would occur, the 1-State Solution.
As a Traditional Catholic I am conservative, am I in your 'Right?'
When Houthis, Hazzabla, Hamas, and Iran are the only groups actively fighting against israeli Genocide I am Ashamed of rest of the world - most are not worthy to wipe their bottoms .. I do not know what or where such virtue comes from but it should be valued and injected into all our demonic-controlled septic sick souls.
Yes?
> When Houthis, Hazzabla, Hamas, and Iran are the only groups actively fighting against israeli Genocide I am Ashamed of rest of the world
But you're not ashamed about blatantly lying.
Tells me everything I need to know about the kind of "Christian" you are.
Edit: just looked at your activity, hope your schizophrenia gets better.
Oh, back in the day when there was no internet and if you - Eugine - wanted to False-Witness lying reputation damaging hate for 'bad-think' you would have to write a flier and mail to your victim, entire town, and at night sneak around posting them on telephone poles and public building doors.
If they had even half a gonad and raised with a father that showed him or her what Honor and virtue were than they might get into a public debate-argument, and if they called their victim a liar they would risk losing teeth with general support from community because disrespecting someone without proof and examples was known to be a beat them blood loving correction situation so that slimball would think twice about calling other men liars, a beating that should have been done at a young age by the father - had his divorce-raping devouring mother not destroyed his hope for life's success with father's guidance.
Now, disHonor and risk-free false-witnessing is rewarded. The AI bot or NPC-programmed golem-tool of satan spews accusation after others, without example - like here!
We are to wonder if maybe the accused lie -if any- is that other countries are humanitarianly fighting genocidal israel .. hmm, no more are call terrorists by GreatSatan so must not be others.
Perhaps the lie is that he is worthy of wiping those virtuous soldiers bottoms? That must be it. Perhaps he is worthy of cleaning their bottoms, but me not know he is an exception is not a lie, but ignorance of his bottom wiping worthiness, perhaps he was a talent that he is sometime paid to do, going bar-to-bar and for $0.25 he wipes bottoms of biker gangs and random sloppy drunks, and the local paper announced an award he so worthy. Maybe.
> Oh, back in the day when there was no internet and if you - Eugine - wanted to False-Witness lying reputation damaging hate for 'bad-think' you would have to write a flier and mail to your victim
Your the one bearing False-Witness with your ridiculous genocide accusation. But given your mental issues, I should probably be patient.
Substitute "blackness" with "white people cosplaying blackness" and you might be on to something. Otherwise, nah.
Oh! I forgot! Add Trumpism to the list.
Stop listening to fringe people like Nick. Christ is King is what martyrs would say before being executed.
Cristos Ray.
Nick Fuentes and Donald Trump have met, and have had dinner together. So either Fuentes is mainstream or Trump is fringe--you decide.
What kind of dinner? 1 on 1 or a "dinner" where people shake hands and get introduced?
Haha...the fact that you are splitting hairs on the president of the United States publicly meeting with a low-life like Nick Fuentes is all the answer I need.
What about all the common man on street that Pres. Trump would sometimes stop his car and go out on street sidewalk and talk too. Are they low-lifes also?
I would suggest that one of his strenghts is his listening and cherrie-picking the diamonds and gold nuggits out of the pig-mud, and I honor all who Know that everyone can teach us something good to know.
"Wisdom can see the Good in Evil, and the Evil in Good"
Chinese culture teaches that chaos and tradgady offers us Opertunities.
Except Fuentes isn’t fringe in the US …
I don't think so only because I have never heard anyone say it unless they were commenting on how no one should say it. I hear BLM non stop and my kids are taught about it like it is the 2nd civil rights movement in school. That seems like quite an asymmetry to me.
As a retired minister, I have never heard Christ the KIng being shouted or used even in worship. I pastored a liberal church where such a term would not be used but now attend an anglican episopal and never hear it there either. I have always pointed out to the parishioners that Jesus was born, lived and died an orthodox Jew so to be anti-semetic would be pretty much a non-starter. Early on the followers of Jesus were called his followers and yes after his death it was thought by the Jews that he was the Messiah- theanointed one not kING. Jesus hiimself wanted nothing to do with being a king -during his 40 days in the wilderness he told satan to get lost when he promised he could rule over the whole world if he wanted- whether you are a biblical literalist of not, what we know about Jesus was that he definitely did not live as king. One other point, most of those whom the media likes to promote as the Christian nationalists are in my experience -evangelicals-and to them Jesus is a friend - What a friend we have in Jesus the hymn would have it. I suppose there are these christian nationalists out there - or at least the media has found them but outside of reading this article, I dont know any - but ATHEISTS - i know a bunch of those.
And some say women shouldn't pasture!
'Christ is King' is a persdonal State. We follow and obay Christ as our King, of course.
Now, back to ministry!
Is this confluence of CiK & US extremism perhaps intended to “soften the targets” of bringing about an Apocalyptic future (one executed by men, no godhead required)?