Radio Message
While I was driving the car on my way to town, I had the radio tuned to a more conservative station. While I wasn’t listening to the station carefully, I did hear a snippet that stood out. The speaker was explaining how people get angry when God does not change. I was not sure which way the speaker was going to take this topic, but then he began to discuss God’s specific values and civilization. Civilization, he was saying, gets mad because its values change and they call it progress and then they become perturbed with God because He won’t change His values to condone whatever the civilization decides is good. The examples he used were actions like adultery, and homosexuality. God, he said, is not going to rubber stamp these issues with approval, because He has all ready said they are not approved actions.
Gamergate Stuff
A little later, I was sailing about on the internet, and came across some fairly recent controversy concerning James Rolfe–better known as the Angry Video Game Nerd. I was well acquainted with his work as I’d seen it around when it first hit the web. I generally found it amusing along with Red vs Blue and all the other stuff that came out during that time that hit a similar nerve. Apparently, though, Rolfe took some payout for reviewing some game that he didn’t review recently, and this has caused a kind of Gamergate re-emergence accusation to emerge in no small part because Rolfe is probably the personification of a white guy. I’m not sure that Rolfe in 2025 reviewing games is still as good of an idea as it was in 2008 and before. There is something a little sad about someone still reviewing games when you are pushing 50–especially when those games were made mostly in the 80’s and 90’s. (I think he does more modern games now as well) What was weird, though, were how the people skewering Rolfe on several boards were coming at it from “Rolfe is part of the old web, and probably doesn’t even know trans people exist.” The critical, key parts that stand out here is that Rolfe is now, dated, which arguably has a basis as I mentioned playing and reviewing games in your 40’s as a lifestyle is definitely a little weirder than your 20’s and 30’s. It isn’t because he is playing the games though, but because he hasn’t updated himself concerning the trans agenda that seems to be trying to assert itself as some kind of “new thing”
Trans And God
Thing is, trans stuff is old—like Giants falling out of heaven old. God dealt with it then, and He did not deal with it in an approving way. This was because the Giants, which were the offspring of angels that fell out of heaven due to a desire to have sex with mortal, human women, had abandoned their posts and taught humanity a slew of things that were sorcery. Likewise, since they were not made to inhabit the Earth, their appetites could not be sated, and so they became cannibals and physically deformed. The key thing to remember is that the Giants fell due to DESIRE FOR SEX. It was not LOVE that caused them to fall, but lust. Their relationships were not authorized. Likewise, neither are same sex relationships authorized in the Heavenly Kingdom.
Modern and Hip is Old and Sin
With respect to James Rolfe, and the internet at large, what is being said is that he’s not cool because he doesn’t have the new thing with trans stuff down, which is actually an old thing that got the giants killed and ultimately condemned to Hell. Generations tend to go through these kinds of periodic revolts where they think they have something figured out that God hasn’t solved and then they expect that God is gonna change because they are so progressive and right about their interpretation of what is good and just. (like the radio program was saying) Of course, to determine that, one has to have their spiritual eyes fully open, and if we have learned anything over the past 2,000 years, it is that most people do not have their spiritual eyes open nor can they discern good from evil in a meaningful sense on a given day. The Holocaust which, in hindsight, now everyone regards as evil, was regarded as “maybe kinda a good idea” during the time it happened. Do you know how you know that was the case? Because it happened. Now, all sides want to try to claim the Holocaust as their rallying call, except the Holocaust was, primarily, against the Jewish people first and foremost. Do you know why that was? Because Jewish people have been hated in many places they have lived for a long, long time, in part because they serve as a reminder to civilizations that want to rubber stamp something that God doesn’t approve of that they exist and will not bend their knees to a given King or dictator. While it is true some will assimilate, the ones that are problems are always the ones who keep following God apart from the civilization they happen to be surrounded by in terms of “progressive agendas”.
Being Color Blind
At the same time, while everyone screams equality, they certainly keep alive certain narratives–and in the case of the Holocaust often one they have appropriated–that point out the differences perceived as opposed to the common causes shared. Jewish people can’t talk about the Holocaust in reference to their story, because well, nobody likes Jews, don’t you know? It’s a real Catch-22. A people are heavily discriminated against because of what they believe about God to the point they are tortured and killed, but they cannot freely talk about how that experience plays into being Jewish and the greater story of Israel because everyone else hates Israel and Jewish people too much and wants to hold them accountable for smaller versions of the greater sins they themselves are committing.
What No One Says
The thing everyone forgets, though, is God allowed the Holocaust to happen. For many Jewish people, that was a deal breaker. On the other hand, because God allows a thing to happen to His people, He will contend and correct them on His own, and THEN He will contend and correct the ones who thought they could issue the correction as being holier in some way than His chosen people. One can imagine the second correction is much more likely to be harsher than the first.
Which Brings Us To Progress and the Web
So finally, all these folks shouting Nazi and white privilege must believe, on some level, that they are more just than the people they are shouting down. This implies they have their spiritual eyes open, which means they must be serving God correctly, right? If that isn’t right, it means their spiritual eyes are closed, and they are not serving God but are in fact serving the adversary and dressing it up like it is progress, hip, cool, and whatever other word you want to use. (I’ll borrow a more recent one that fits, they think it is ‘fire’–yep) Going to Hell doesn’t make you more progressive, just, or cool, but it does make you potentially a great deal hotter. If a person wants to explore why the internet has degraded in quality and interaction, a good place might be this event with Rolfe and Gamergate, and what it portends.