05 August 2023
Some of you have been asking the wrong questions lately in our private discussions.
Reminder: This blog is about the Radix Fidem way of faith. Radix Fidem is meta-religion, a religious study of how to do religion. It's not even a movement. This blog is nothing more than one guy asking readers to consider certain questions about how to build religion for yourself. The only question is: How can we stand closer to our Savior, Jesus Christ?
If you are determined to join a community based on the Radix Fidem approach to things, go and join the Radix Fidem forum. There are a few people there who chatter socially about their shared faith, supporting and praying for each other, talking about ways to move forward in their faith. There are a couple of shepherding figures there providing something that resembles leadership. The Catacomb Resident blog itself will never be the basis for forming an online faith community. Don't think of it that way.
Should this blog disappear, it's not as if you lose any kind of social contact. Right now, there's not much threat of this blog being shut down by outside forces. But there is a threat looming on the horizon: de-banking. Your host is a real person, an individual who is currently rather vulnerable to something like de-banking. But this is not a request that you rally around me for any reason, but that you understand the nature of tribulation.
My Father will take good care of me no matter what happens. He'll do the same for any of you seeking His peace. The issue is that you rely on Him, not the human system. Consider ways you can make yourself less vulnerable. It's uncertain whether this whole process of ESG wokism hijacking every social, legal and financial system in America is going to succeed, but the effort is certainly engaged.
Don't get lost here; this is not religious persecution. It's political. Current church leadership has displayed a vast depth of idiocy in pursuing an obvious political agenda. Do you understand how the LGBTQ movement is being used as a wedge issue to destroy the apparently political unity of so many big and wealthy churches? It's not an attack on faith, but a response to the political thrust of churches. Those who wield the sword of politics will die by the sword of politics. The wrangling here is purely political; the church leadership has strayed into a minefield.
Church leadership cannot remain faithful to God's divine agenda because they aren't even aware of it. The whole thrust of western Christian religion was compromised by political concerns way back in about 300 AD and hasn't looked back. They lost track of what God was doing through His Son. What we see today is the result of that derailment. De-banking is a threat only because church leaders have poked the hornet's nest.
If I were organizing and raising funds for a Radix Fidem "church" institution, we would be at risk of de-banking right now. The way to handle this is to become nothing more than a mist for them. As long as everything we do is informal and personal between individuals, there is nothing to attack. As long as there is no fund-raising and no membership lists, nor even an official prayer list, there is no target.
That reduces the threat. Our attack surface is confined to the risk of censorship. For that to become a bigger issue for my mission here, it would mean drawing big enough crowds to be noticed. Our current small readership of less than 100 means this blog is likely to continue rolling forward until the purely political censorship sweeps us up in its very big net. That can still happen, but the strategy I'm using pushes things out farther in the likely chain of events.
The most important thing you can do is absorb the teaching here. Make it your own. That's the whole point of this blog. It's not a question of believing what I believe, but approaching your own way of doing religion by asking the right questions. The only reason I share my answers is to provoke you to seek your own. I'm not raising funds; I'm raising consciousness. I'm asking you to move your conscious awareness into your hearts, to learn how to read your convictions.
You aren't supposed to hang around this blog until it closes. You are supposed to hang around long enough to receive what God wants for you. At some point, I rather expect most of you will move on. That is what is supposed to happen. I'm just one among many spiritual influences God will use to bring His people closer to Him.
The Radix Fidem way is not for the masses. It's for a tiny few who need something the majority does not. That's as much strategy as any of us can see. None of us can say why God chooses to work with such tiny groups in this way. Our human side would very much love to see a mass movement of people finding our kind of faith. How could we not want to share this sweet blessing? Our treasure is the souls of people who stand with our testimony.
But for whatever reason, the Lord has seen fit to keep this small. The only way it could get bigger is by His hand. If we started using the methods of human persuasion, it would make us just like every other mainstream religious institution walking deeply in spiritual compromise. It would bind us to the fleshly concerns of persuasion, and the bodies-budget-buildings obsession of human organizations.
Sure, pray for me and this ministry. Don't offer to send money. If you are exceptionally wealthy, about the only thing I could dare to wish for is a substantial motor home, big enough to make my personal residence. That's about as much as I can point to as a material prayer request. It's the only thing I might wish for that is not within my reach already. I'm fine otherwise. Put your money to work some other way.
Should de-banking start to reach this small of a target, we will all be in trouble. It's possible, even likely, that the states will step in to protect us. Already, some state governments have begun hammering banking institutions about this issue. Wait and see what God does with it. Don't engage in activism, just prayer.
This Catacomb Resident persona is not important. I'm not your leader. Walk your own path.
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