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Don't Join That Cult

29 June 2024

As noted yesterday, I had written something about Vox Day and it disappeared. What follows is more or less the same content, but there's a new aspect.

I sometimes comment on Jack's Sigma Frame blog under the guise of "Tomb Refugee" because the Gravatar login service I use for commenting on that blog won't allow me to use "Catacomb Resident". Indeed, I cannot use my chosen nick on quite a few popular "free" services on the Net. It's blocked all over the Net.

On some recent posts, Jack mentioned Vox Day and his "Socio-Sexual Hierarchy". I made the comment that this entire taxonomy is devoid of any reference to Christian faith or biblical models of manhood. In other words, his list of types of males is a cultural artifact of Western Civilization, and wholly secular at that. If you introduce the biblical model to the discussion, you will have to drop that list in the trash. The shepherd male is not accounted for in any way. Vox insists that his list accounts for objective reality, and that the Bible has nothing to say about it.

As this discussion was launched on Jack's blog, Vox's cult members showed up and began immediately picking at everything any of us regulars had to say. Keep in mind: Vox denies having any interest in followers of any kind. Yet, he does cater to them in subtle ways. He's aware a much bigger public reads his stuff, and is contemptuous of them, but treats his cult members as chums.

It's elitism no matter how you slice it. Vox pretends to be a Christian -- as he defines it -- but by no means does he represent anything biblical men say and do. He cannot condescend to care about anyone who isn't at least somewhat on his level of intellect. For him, Christian religion is an intellectual exercise, and the whole fabric of his faith appears to be logic alone. He seems incapable of grasping the moral fabric of faith.

Over the years, he has revealed an immoral predatory nature that is quite anti-Christian. He crowed that he took the virginity of at least one college girl and dumped her, never once hinting at the notion of moral regret or repentance. He continues to write as if there is nothing wrong with this kind of behavior. Instead, he promotes it. If you try to call him on it, he simply insists you are not on his level and you aren't intelligent enough to understand. He will not hesitate to publicly excoriate and shame anyone who isn't up on his high intellectual plane, should they dare try to engage him in any way. He doesn't care about much of anyone.

He's a toxic moral wretch. I'm not trying to get his attention or correct him. He has made it clear he cannot understand moral and spiritual truth. He will not understand it until God humbles him and reveals it to him. Meanwhile, he will reap what he sows. I write this so that my precious few readers will understand the moral defilement that will fall on them if they follow his lead on anything. Yes, he offers intriguing insights on many academic subjects, politics and economics, etc. But he always has these glaring moral gaps in his comments.

On top of this, should you dare to point this out to anyone, his cult members will attack. Again, he has disavowed them, and I doubt there's much he can do about them. However, he surely knows about them, and continues operating in a fashion that draws and encourages such people, by promoting himself and his ideas as the rebel elite.

Finally, he has flatly rejected anything that hints of a non-western approach to Scripture and Christian religion. After at least a couple of attempts to inform and warn him that the Bible is an Ancient Near Eastern document, that Scripture is best understood from that mystical outlook, he pointedly refused to consider it. He has no interest in the depth of scholarship behind the effort to understand how the Hebrew people approached the various questions of life and the basic assumptions about the nature of things. He writes as if the western intellectual approach corrects the inspired revelation of God.

Thus, Vox will castigate anyone who fails to devote their energies to fixing this world, at least by carving out a private domain. It's a siege mentality. It's really quite odd; he is convinced the world can and should be saved, but he encourages everyone to hole up in their own castle. He promotes martial arts and weapons training, collecting firearms, training attack dogs, etc. He's the philosophical force behind preppers everywhere. But you will never catch him taking the gospel to the world the way Jesus and His disciples did. He has contempt for everyone who isn't on his level, so reaching out to the lost sheep of the Kingdom is a foreign concept.

Keep in mind that I am not silly enough to have read everything he has ever written on his primary blog, so it's possible I've missed some detail that might counter my limited experience. However, I maintain that I've seen enough to justify what I have posted here.

Now, have I answered sufficiently why I will not entertain chatter of admiration for him?


Comments

Jay DiNitto

He publishes one writer, Jon del Arroz, who wrote a series of steampunk adventure books that are pretty good. They were clean enough that my son read a few of them. But he does mostly comics now, I believe, and he seems to be okay with using revealing/slutty artwork in them... so much so that some fans complained about one of the covers and clamored for a cover without so much t'n'a. I don't blame them... even if you aren't into pin up artwork, you feel kind of skeevy reading a comic book with that blatant imagery on it. From a supposed Christian writer. After I noticed that, I decided not to bother with him (Jon) anymore.


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