Frequent readers of this blog are aware of what I call the Witch Test.
For our purposes, a witch is a shill for the Death Cult who uses Christian teaching as a convenient stick to beat Christians. Half the time they claim to be Christian themselves.
The Witch Test calls the impostor’s bluff by challenging her to do what every Christian is commanded to do: publicly profess faith in Jesus Christ.
Even though the Death Cultist could simply lie and make a false profession of faith, she somehow never does. This persistent phenomenon hints that the witch’s motives aren’t strictly human.
Again, no test subject has yet said, “Sure, I believe that God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now here’s why you’re a racist chud for not cheering black James Bond.”
What accounts for the test’s continued inerrancy?
Simple. Being a Christian heresy, the Death Cult presupposes Christian morality.
But being a Christian heresy, the Death Cult simultaneously embraces a worldview at odds with Christianity.
The Witch Test confronts the Death Cultist with the contradiction at the heart of her belief system and forces her to publicly demonstrate her moral incoherence.
She can’t profess faith in the God she hates, nor can she deny Him without forfeiting her stolen moral authority.
The Death Cult’s moral vision is totally parasitic on the Christian moral tradition. That’s because Christian morality isn’t just the dominant moral system in the West, it’s the ONLY moral system in the West–AKA Christendom.
The best way to fight witches wearing a fig leaf of Christian morality is to cut them off at the knees.
The Woke Cult always argues from a position of stolen moral authority, so take that stolen authority away. Use the Witch Test. Declare that those who fail have forfeited their moral authority, and block.
Don’t pay attention to witches that hate you. Support writers who entertain you.
Objection! Even demons can confess that Jesus is Lord, so the witch test is just a fedora test.
The witch test is a witch test.
Fedoras are edgy atheists who not only do not claim Christian moral authority, they mock it. They will silently smuggle in many moral teachings from Christianity, since they need some morality and don’t have any foundation to build it on, but they will deny that this is what they are doing. They won’t try to justify their perversions by saying “Jesus said to judge not” but will instead say that their perversions deserve more respect than the whole of the Christian tradition.
Similarly a full blown demoniac may acknowledge Jesus (“Jesus I know, Paul I know…” but he won’t try to steal Jesus’s authority to justify his teachings. Rather, he will say that Jesus is an enemy to be overcome to be truly free or some such nonsense.
A fedora can respond to the witch test by saying “Why would I agree to your demand? I’ve already said that Jesus is a foolish myth.” A demoniac could admit that Jesus rose from the dead, but then would attack Christ as enemy, so that while I guess he might “pass” the test in a sense, no one would be confused by where he stands.
A witch is someone who misuses Christian trappings to argue for a non-Christian view, and thus cannot deny Christ openly, since then the jig is up, but simultaneously cannot profess faith openly, since the witch does not actually believe.
While I erred when I categorized a “witch” as a fedora tipper, Brian should rethink his rhetoric.
The defining feature of Roman Catholicism is its autism, especially when contrasted against the mysticism of the eastern churches. With this in mind, to call a fake Christian a “witch”—a “witch” who can’t even confess that her god is Lucifer—makes the fake seem cooler than she actually is. Just taunt her for her fake discipleship until she finally casts a spell on you—then you can call her a witch.
Just to put myself in the clear:
I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ: the only begotten Son of God who was born of the Father before all ages—God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten—not made—and consubstantial with the Father. Through Him, all things were made.
For us men, and for our salvation, He came down from Heaven—and by the power of the Holy Spirit, was incarnate of the virgin Mary and became man.
For our sake, He was crucified under Pontius Pilate. He suffered death and was buried—and on the third day, he rose again in accordance with the scriptures. He ascended into Heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and His kingdom will have no end.
“Brian should rethink his rhetoric.”
Brian has several examples of the Witch Test being properly administered, and also several examples of how it can go wrong when Smart Boys use it in the wrong situation or try to put their own Smart Boy spin on the wording of it.
Try again.
“Brian should rethink his rhetoric.”
No
My objection is semantic. The test itself performs as advertised.
Witch Test passed.
Do they, actually? Doesn’t one of the New Testament Letters say that one can tell good spirits from evil by demanding them to profess that Jesus is Lord and risen from the dead?
You’re probably right, but I was thinking of Mark’s Gospel when I posted what I did. As it is written in Mark 3:11 – 12 of the Challoner revision of the Douay-Rheims, “And the unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him: and they cried, saying Thou art the Son of God.”
I also confess that Jesus is the Christ in my reply to Rudolph.
It is fascinating that “materialist atheists” can’t seem to let go of a moral system they proclaim doesn’t exist. Atheism cannot make a case for the value or centrality of human life. This explains why Animal Rights groups exist to defend beasts while humans starve.
I am sure our gracious host can explain this far better than I can. For my part, I’m reminded of an observation Francis Schaeffer the Elder made in his examination of the nature and failure of modern “philosophy.” He noted that even relativists and existentialists act as though numbers have objective meaning, while they otherwise deny anything like transcendent truth, or assert the necessity of assigning meaning to the meaningless. They must do so, or else their checkbooks wouldn’t balance. They must give meaning to things, because pure nihilism is intellectual and spiritual suicide. I think those who deny the truth of our moral system while observing or assuming parts of it may do so in part because a way of life predicated on transcendent reality and objective truth is functional and feasible, while their way is not. The existentialist is whistling past the grave-yard, and in do so doing, tacitly admitting that their way ends in death.