06 January 2025
Social sciences recognize that the fierce restrictions of the fake COVID pandemic had the effect of tribulation on the population. The MSM has begun to notice that the population at large treated it as some kind of wake-up call.
As you might expect, it appears that the majority remained rather passive. That is, instead of active resistance and organization, they have turned inward. Most of the stories in the MSM promote this by ignoring how many people did organize to resist the next round. I'll grant you that the organized resistance doesn't look like much, but there is an awful lot of noise in the alternative media. I'm not saying it will be nothing, but I'm skeptical that an organized resistance is going to deter the oppressors as they ramp up for a bird flu hysteria.
That is, I am convinced we should assume that globalism is already crumbling and will make desperate moves to seize more power before it collapses. Right now the focus is on the alleged bird flu. If that fails to take hold, we should expect them to force upon us a war with Russia. Don't get confused here; any war will do. However, the business with Iran or China is not a globalist concern but more of a neocon thing. For the globalists, Russia is the designated prime target of their wrath.
There are related themes at work here. Like it or not, Russia has come to represent both the whipping boy of the globalists and the model of those who resist them. Globalism is inherently whiny and feminine, and western men who have had their fill of this crap no longer have a clear model for American manhood. Instead, they have a pretty clear Russian model because it is now the ultimate image of the Bad Boy, and the MSM has noticed a surge of interest in Eastern Orthodox (EO) religion here in the US.
People who go through tribulation (real or fake) develop an appetite for various measures of self-denial. The draw of Orthodoxy is a long history of self-denial. It's not sold as spiritual merit (as per Catholicism), but as a strong option for self-discovery. The EO folks suggest you can shed more of yourself and get closer to God through their tradition of testing physical extremes. While nothing in the Bible promotes it directly, there is plenty of Scripture that recognizes how reducing the power of the flesh through self-denial is the path to spiritual growth.
It's one thing to notice this shift in culture as an artifact of human behavior at large. That's a matter of social science investigation. It's another thing to pay attention to genuine spiritual dynamics.
I'm not downplaying the work of the Holy Spirit. We've taken the position that religion is a human artifact, and this blog will always discuss ways to do religion. That's because religion as a human activity should be a response to activity in your spiritual awareness. They are cause and effect -- spiritual cause and human effects -- so don't get them backwards. An apparent revival movement may reflect the work of the Holy Spirit, but there's no way to avoid fleshly influences in the visible response. The whole point of a religious law code in Covenant faith is to prevent the fleshly activity from getting in the way of spiritual work.
It's a major theme of this blog and the Radix Fidem community to pay attention to how we go about building a religion among humans that best expresses our genuine faith. Radix Fidem is not about the religion and culture that you build, but about the process. So while I don't promote EO doctrine at all, I see nothing wrong with the allure that such a religious tradition offers to men who have had their fill of western feminist oppression.
We want to promote Radix Fidem as a method, but we cannot avoid the call for discussing the implementation. I'll do what I can to note the distinction between method and outcomes, but I'm praying that readers will not get lost in the latter and forget how we arrived there. Thus, the method is Radix Fidem, but the localize manifestation is still called Kiln of the Soul in our community. The latter name represents our implementation, and you'll likely find more about that on the Radix Fidem blog. This blog will continue aiming more at the method of Radix Fidem.
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