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“The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote.” - RNS

Discussion

Tue, 08/12/25

The CREC is neither embraced by those who are Reformed or by those on this board as fundamentalist. They are a weird brand that masquerades as all sorts of things.

Tue, 08/12/25

...is that Hegseth is endorsing a brand of Reformed theology that tends to bring up provisions of the Torah when it's convenient, but for obvious reasons not the provision of stoning adulterers like Hegseth.

Just sayin'. I used to like a portion of what Wilson wrote, but I started to drift away when I read "Federal Husband" and realized that Wilson had pretty much completely failed to put together a good comparison between God's love for His Church and a man's love for his wife. Then I decided to abandon his work pretty much in toto when he decided to call Rachael Denhollander an ambulance chaser.

And really, regarding the notion of "women shouldn't be allowed to vote", I'm at a loss as to how to defend that one from Scripture. Yes, there is male headship in the Scriptures, but as far as I can tell, Wilson (and really our ancestors in this country) took it to places where I don't think Scripture ever went. One example is my great-grandfather got the farm my grandmother grew up on for a song because the widow who should have owned it had it sold for a song by an "executor" apparently appointed by the court.

That's the kind of thing, really, that got the 19th Amendment passed. Thank goodness that wasn't done to, say, Lydia in the Bible.

On a side note, there seems to be a phenomenon where a certain portion of "conservative" thinkers veer off into anti-semitism, Communism, and more. I'm thinking not only guys like Wilson, but also Michelle Malkin, Michael Savage, Nick Fuentes, and more. Dunno what's up with that.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

Wed, 08/13/25

I'm laying aside the question of whether women actually should vote.

To suggest that we try to remove women's right to vote, or that we should spend one cent of political capital working for that is stupid.

The CREC has always left me with a bad taste in my mouth, so I've spent very little time digesting the teaching out of it.