My struggle with reconciling my faith & my politics
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Hey folks, I am the Shameless Spurg.
I hope you're doing well today.
So today I want to share with you what was originally intended to just be a substack post called You're All Over the Place.
And it's intended to be something of a follow-up to the video I made recently talking about the incompatibility of National Socialism and Christianity as I saw it.
But I want to explain exactly why I felt that way.
And kind of where I'm standing on that at this moment.
The reason that I found myself in that position of feeling sort of like I was in a state of cognitive dissonance about it.
So during a discussion on the phone with a fellow National Socialist, it was shared with me that a number of critics have communicated to him that recently I appeared to be all over the place, resulting in a loss of credibility.
At least among some people.
I've had a lot of people write to me who just cheer me on, tell me to keep going, keep doing what I'm doing, regardless of my twists and turns, to not worry about that, and to leave up every video I create so that people can see the development of my thoughts.
Look, I'm I'm not gonna leave up absolutely everything, alright?
If I don't really stand by what I've said, or if I made a video and I'm like, eh, I don't know, I'll just take it down.
And that's just how it is.
You know, and I know that the videos will survive because other people will download them or clip them or whatever, I don't care about that.
I care about if you go to my channel, I want the messaging that you're seeing to be pretty consistent and in harmony.
And so that's why I'm making this video as a follow-up.
Um, because I did take down, you know, my original video about National Socialism and Christianity.
Because I want this to stand as my statement on the issue.
Now the clearer heads have prevailed.
Alright.
So, to continue here, I do wish that these people that you know talked to him had asked me to clarify the matter, but that's okay.
No one's really obligated to do that, and I don't want to make myself their problem.
Alright, they're not they're not under any obligation to come to me and ask me to explain things.
I get it.
Um, so if they want to drop me at this juncture, fair enough, but I can at least explain things.
So just give me a fair hearing.
It's actually much simpler than it appears to be, though I understand from the outside looking in, it may look like madness to some.
My appeal to my audience has always been this.
As some of you may recall, all I ask is to be given a fair hearing.
In keeping with that spirit, that is all I ask of you now.
Most have probably heard my testimony by now and seen recent posts regarding matters of faith and national socialism, how I declared that Christianity can't be compatible with it because of a few key points and so forth.
Because of returning to my faith, I didn't know how I was supposed to proceed with my project.
The reason this became a complicated matter for me is because in returning to faith in Christ, I reverted to the only Christianity I've ever known in any depth.
Dispensationalism.
I know that it's condemned by most, if not all in our circles, but I was responding to what was happening in my soul, and I didn't know how to make the pieces fit.
Again, it's all I knew.
The bottom line is that unless I am missing something, dispensationalism is incongruent with National Socialism on just a few key points.
To return to it would necessitate me adopting something more like Christofascism, but Christophascism, so far as I understand it, lacks some components of National Socialism that I think are highly important.
The problem is that in trying to return to what I know, dispensationalism, I was again reminded of the main reason I had left the faith to begin with.
Not only will it not address our struggle as a people, it won't even acknowledge it.
If acknowledged at all, it is treated as a distraction from end times concerns at best.
How can the erasure of one's own people from the earth be a mere distraction?
How can it be anything but the gravest and most abhorrent kind of evil to abandon one's folk with the hope of spiritual rewards?
See, there's a lot I love about many people who are dispensationalists.
I feel at home and comfortable with them.
They're what I know, they're what I grew up with, and they're a large part of what constituted Christianity in the South where I was born and raised.
But they have never and will never address our plight as a race or treat it worth any consideration at all.
Far from doing anything about our problems, they ignore them at best or aid and abet them at worst, all while, of course, decrying the rise in anti-Semitism.
Well, that simply is not going to suit me.
I'd have to turn my brain completely off, ignore what I've learned, ignore what we see happening every day, and ignore the wisdom of the solutions that would actually address the sum total of our racial, social, and economic issues.
And while I believe prayer is important, sometimes you need to just say a prayer while you lace up your jack boots and get to work.
You follow.
Dispensationalism does not really allow for doing anything about what plagues our people, and it doesn't.
It just tells you, you know, look up for your redemption draweth nigh and all this stuff.
It's great at sending missionaries over to non-white third world shitholes, though.
They're really good about that, and they're really proud of it too.
So, whereas for a couple of weeks, my return to faith placed me in an odd position regarding National Socialism after those few Sundays and realizing the problems are still there, it places the Christianity that I know most intimately in an odd position.
It is untenable and offers nothing for our common struggle as a people.
Something had to give, so dispensationalism had to give.
It simply can't possibly work in harmony with taking our plight seriously and actually doing something about it.
Some people have given up on me and walked away.
No hard feelings.
I'm just a guy confronting the world we are living in and confronting the dramatic shift that has happened in my life the last few months since starting this project, which has given me a bit of whiplash.
It's been a wild ride, man.
And while this moment of personal difficulty has been challenging for me, I do now question the wisdom of having been so open.
And for this reason, I'll likely be more selective about sharing my thought process as I go.
People simply don't get it, and I can't expect or demand that they get it.
Instead, I have to accept that people will make of it what they will.
Even though I know that, provided proper context, an open-minded person would see where I'm coming from.
At most, I just ask you for a bit of grace, patience, and understanding.
I care about our people more than anything.
I can't even make myself care more about something else than our people and our struggle.
For me, fighting for my folk has to be viewed as the highest, noblest and most worthy and holy of all goals, and therefore the most righteous of all goals.
Again, I can't conceive of an evil more abhorrent than to abandon one's folk.
So much of the Christian world seems to demand that that I do just that, and I can't do that.
So I must persist with promoting national socialism as I sort through the matter of a Christianity that isn't individual and collective suicide.
So much of it has been and remains destructive to our people.
This is an obvious problem that has to be confronted and dealt with.
My first step in dealing with that issue is to step away from what I know isn't working and seek direction on what actually will work and be in harmony with my broader worldview, which is national socialism.
For those of you who have stuck with me regardless, you have my sincere appreciation.
Again, I don't blame ship jumpers.
I don't resent them or hold them in contempt.
I fully understand how that must look from the outside looking in, but in keeping with my long-standing policy about being shameless and authentic, I wanted to be even more open and transparent about what you've seen out of me recently, why you've seen it, and where I am going next with my NS content.
The only necessary change to my approach that I see is that I can't orient my content around attacking Christianity.
That was never the main thrust of my message.
In fact, it came as a big surprise to a lot of people when I came out with um messaging that was critical of Christianity.
Really surprised a lot of people.
So it certainly was not the main thrust of my work or message here.
So I appeal to reason and grace as I leave that behind.
Um, that aspect of my content creation.
I still have my criticisms of Christianity on the whole, as can be seen in some recent videos, and some of those criticisms are the same as they ever were, but my framing has to change on the matter for obvious reasons, and my appeals now are to other Christians to get their shit together regarding our plight.
I'm in the process of reaching out to various people To see how their faith works with their national socialism, because I know there are tons of national socialists that identify themselves as Christians of various kinds, not as the dispensationalists, though.
These are matters that have to be sorted out, but National Socialism itself will help to separate for me what is edifying versus what is destructive.
That is to say, instead of trying to find a politics that will fit with my Christianity, I have to reimagine my Christianity in a way that fits with my national socialism.
And I have no other choice.
Alright, that's the end of the post, but I'll just take it from here.
I have no other choice, right?
Again, like my anti-communism, for example, has been the single position that I've held my entire life.
I can't there's literally, I don't think any other single position, whether in matters of politics or religion, that I've held on to as staunchly as my anti-communism.
And the further that I moved uh kind of rightward, I found myself identifying with more and more of what I found.
I found my anti-communism perfected and sort of in its final form once I reached you know fascism and national socialism.
And I cannot realistically expect that that tendency of mine is ever going to go away.
It's the one thing that survives every twist and turn.
There is absolutely nothing in the world that can possibly turn me away from being a staunch anti-communist.
I fucking hate communist, I hate communism, I hate all of it, and that's just never going to change.
And given that that's never going to change, well, I have to do something about that.
It's kind of why I started this to begin with was to express what I see wrong with this world and what I want to do about it.
And that much really hasn't changed.
And so, you know, those personal experiences recently, it turned turned me back to my faith in Christ, yes, and for some very personal reasons, largely experiential reasons.
I know that experience doesn't serve as strong evidence for people outside of oneself, but I know that for me, my experiences do not permit me to just write it off completely.
Okay.
And again, since dispensationalism and similar things is all I've ever really known.
Um, and I felt called back to faith in Christ.
I just was like, well, I guess I have to be dispensationalist again.
But that didn't really last very long at all.
Really, I I tried to review some old material, I listened to a bunch of old sermons from pastors that I used to enjoy a lot, and though it felt very comfortable and familiar to me, I was confronted yet again, like they're anti-racist, they're you know, Jew loving, they will always insist on the chosenness of Jews, and they view Israel as this actual holy prophesied project, and they are fully supportive of it.
But how can I be?
I mean, I really can't.
That's not actually a position I can change.
And see, therein lies the problem is that I have a lot of positions that I can't change or budge on, and even those come into conflict with something like dispensationalism, for example.
So, right off the bat, I kind of found myself in a psychologically difficult position.
Like, what am I supposed to do with this exactly?
And the truth of the matter is, in terms of faith, I don't really know what I'm supposed to do with it.
Um, you know, I'm gonna reach out to a few people who are ostensibly Christian National Socialists and kind of see how that works for them.
Um, in the meantime, it just places me in an odd place with my faith.
Uh, I can't get away from National Socialism being such a coherent worldview to me, um, being such an answer to all the problems that I see.
I mean, it addresses them head on, unlike 99% plus of Christianity that won't even acknowledge our problems.
National Socialism addresses it all head on, and it offers something of a solution, a holistic complete solution to the problems.
And I don't I don't find that in Christianity, unfortunately, or at least any Christianity that I've known hitherto.
So that's just where I'm at.
I'm dealing with things on a very personal level, and maybe I was too open, maybe I was too honest, maybe I was too transparent.
I'm not trying to let anybody down over here, and I'm not trying to confuse anyone.
I just I wanted to share about the Process that I'm going through.
And I started this project in the first place to be very open and honest.
To just say it the way I think it and the way I feel it.
But what I don't want to do at the same time is shoot myself in the foot.
So I just wanted to make myself clear on that.
Um, perhaps more clear than I've been making myself.
You know, things have happened so quickly.
Uh, this whole project turned into something so big so fast, and there's been so much drama, and then the the gassing and the doxing and the fallout locally and with friends and family, and just the the sense of despair that that can bring you into is palpable.
And so, you know, I have a process I'm working through here, and that's why I asked for a bit of patience and understanding and grace.
You know, I'm still the shameless burg.
I still feel the same way about everything that I've been talking about.
Um, obviously, like I said, I can't continue to make content that attacks Christianity.
That is obviously going to be inconsistent and incoherent with any form of Christian faith.
So, that all being said, if you're still on board with me, if you still, you know, enjoy listening to what I've got to say, if you're still willing to lend me your ear, I appreciate that.
You know, I still want a place to talk.
I still want a place to be honest and transparent and open with people.
But you know, I'm not trying to like confuse the shit out of you or like make you go crazy or feel like I'm gaslighting you or something.
I'm not.
It's just it's been a lot to sort through, and I wanted to provide some context.
Um to help it make sense, you know, why I've kind of found myself in this odd place.
And but again, you know, just after a couple of weeks evaluating everything, I realized like, oh wow, dude, like I really can't get away from the fact I believe national socialism really is necessary as an antidote to our issues.
I just don't see any other way.
And you know, we have to take things seriously.
Like I said, praying's all fine and well, but maybe it's time to just say a prayer while we lace up our jack boots and get to work.
I mean, that's that's kind of how it's seeming to me.
So that's where I'm at.
And uh, so I appreciate all the love and support that you guys have shown me along the way, and I appreciate those of you going into the future with me.