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Notes on Manhood will be changing its name to Dominion & Discipleship, to better reflect our ongoing focus. Keep an eye out. Two other factors reinforced the retreat occasioned by false eschatology. First, pietism saw life in essentially emotional and personal terms, and as a preparation for heaven. Work was seen as a chore, an aspect of the curse, not a way of dominion, and the goal of man was seen as an eternal vacation with the Lord. Pietism produced a shallow life, intellectually and vocationally. The test of faith was made an emotional experience, and, not surprisingly, women began to predominate in both Catholic and Protestant circles: religion became a woman’s affair, and the men in it were full of pietism and low on manhood. Pietism exalted the nothing people, pious poops who reduced the faith to pious gush and, for almost two centuries, have bedeviled the godly clergy with their sinful, sanctimonious ways. The nothing people avoid open acts of sin, not because they love and fear God, but because they are timid souls who love and fear people and dare not offend them. In their hands, virtue ceased to be associated with dominion and strength and came to be associated with weakness and fear. —R. J. Rushdoony and Martin G. Selbrede,
If you want Christian nationalism, focus on Christian localism
If you want Christian nationalism, focus on…
If you want Christian nationalism, focus on Christian localism
Notes on Manhood will be changing its name to Dominion & Discipleship, to better reflect our ongoing focus. Keep an eye out. Two other factors reinforced the retreat occasioned by false eschatology. First, pietism saw life in essentially emotional and personal terms, and as a preparation for heaven. Work was seen as a chore, an aspect of the curse, not a way of dominion, and the goal of man was seen as an eternal vacation with the Lord. Pietism produced a shallow life, intellectually and vocationally. The test of faith was made an emotional experience, and, not surprisingly, women began to predominate in both Catholic and Protestant circles: religion became a woman’s affair, and the men in it were full of pietism and low on manhood. Pietism exalted the nothing people, pious poops who reduced the faith to pious gush and, for almost two centuries, have bedeviled the godly clergy with their sinful, sanctimonious ways. The nothing people avoid open acts of sin, not because they love and fear God, but because they are timid souls who love and fear people and dare not offend them. In their hands, virtue ceased to be associated with dominion and strength and came to be associated with weakness and fear. —R. J. Rushdoony and Martin G. Selbrede,