I Wasn't Joking
I put up a tweet that has generated some controversy. The tweet read, “The devil cannot endure to be mocked. Neither can the wokes. Make of that what you will and let’s go Brandon.”
One person replied, “I know this is what your audience demands but I hope deep down you know that it's embarrassing.”
Tweeted another, "Actually God loves it when you curse your enemies.”
Another emailed, “Erick, brother, you’re better than this.”
I’m not joking though. I actually believe this. It is not me cursing my enemies to point out what is going on. “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”
The wokes, or as I call them, Woke-o Haram, are of the world. The world hates the things of God. The world is with the devil. The wokes, cancel culture, and this rise in graceless contempt for others is part of spiritual warfare and it is on the dark side of the fight.
Now, I know for the secularists of the age this is too much and I should be embarrassed for believing it. But I really do believe it. I really do believe this cancel culture effort we are seeing and the angry, hostile, humorlessness we see is part of a Satanic fight as this country moves away from God.
While most of you are nodding along with me, I should not I think it is affecting the right as well. We are seeing the rise of a post-Christian right that wants to just beat the left. It holds the left in contempt just as the left holds the right in contempt. It is bitter, humorless, and focused on fighting. It has as little grace as the wokes. It is filled with self-proclaimed Christians who neither darken the doorway of a church nor crack open a Bible and even a few regular church attendees who’ve become obsessed with winning a fight instead of letting Christ win for them.
Ironically, those who are pissed off at my tweet would most likely be fine with me saying that about the post-Christian right springing up within conservatism. It, like the left, puts political victory ahead of the cross. Both sides are playing the devil’s game. The devil cannot endure to be mocked. Neither can the people who think Jesus will save them from COVID, but have to take a cavalcade of pills to save them from heart disease, diabetes, asthma, and all the other ailments they have. The devil cannot endure to be mocked. Neither can the people who still believe the election was stolen by electronic voting machines.
The devil cannot endure to be mocked. Neither can the wokes.
The issue at hand, for today, is a bunch of woke progressives who spent five years saying “F— Trump” now trying to find and fire a Southwest Airlines pilot for saying, “Let’s Go Brandon.”
The left is beside itself that Let’s Go Brandon has taken off. They were fine with people wearing knitted pussy hats (sorry, not making that up) and burning down small businesses and constantly storming the streets against Trump. But they want to destroy anyone who says Let’s Go Brandon.
That is a worldliness that plays the devil’s game. Those of us who see the world in three dimensions should not shy away from pointing out this nation is in the midst of spiritual warfare playing out through both the left and right.
And I should note too that a lot of self-proclaimed Christians are going to side up with the post-Christian right and betray their faith before it is all over. But that doesn’t excuse the secular left and its gracelessness today.
The only major difference between Woke-o Haram and Islamic Jihadists is the former won’t kill you. They just want to destroy your life. Because a Southwest Airlines pilot allegedly said “Let’s Go Brandon” over the intercom of an airplane this weekend, he must be destroyed.
Legion, upon departing the drowned pigs in Mark 5, got bored and started social media. Now it storms about looking for souls to devour.
No, I was not joking. So don’t expect an apology.
My grandmother used to fuss at me for saying dang, yet when she got mad she would say "oh foot!" Let's go Brandon is an innocuous way to express displeasure at the policies and failure of the current administration without using expletives and being crass. Also Eric, you can make fun of me for being unvaxxed (although I am on NO pharmaceuticals), and for beleiveing the election was stolen, though the machine theft is almost secondary to the mail in ballot, dead people and all the collective cheating that moved the needle. I saw it in my very red small town that has not voted for a Dem president in anyone's living memory, but where our Dem governor appointed our election commission which appointed our registrar who has used all sorts of trickery and broken many laws. Of course despite the strange lack of Biden signs and Trump all over town, we bizarrly went for Biden. Also my brother had his vote stolen. Never got the absentee ballot he requested, but found out he voted anyhoo. When cases are brought to attempt to rectify the situation, the dem judge promptly throws them out. As such, I saw on a small scale the same things being alleged in other localities and it was not my overactive imaginiation, though my imaginiation probably is overactive. No worries, though. I am cool with you thinking differently as you are my brother in Christ and I also have a son named Gunnar. When life is outpacing the Babylon Bee we should all embrace our senses of humor and work at not being offended.
I love everything about this, Erick! We ARE in the war of our lives for this country. AND, as Christians, we are to speak up according to God's word. You can like or dislike the Let's Go Brandon chant, but it doesn't change the fact that evil is afoot in this nation. Let's put on our armor and fight.