This week, another transgender shoot-up of a Christian school provides more chilling evidence that the culture war is a spiritual war. The Minneapolis shooter’s actions and Democrats’ interpretation of them both demonstrate this.
The New York Post published excerpts of the shooter’s journal posted on YouTube that include a drawing of him communing with a Satanic figure in a mirror. As I’ve written before, Satan-worshippers can be startlingly more direct than many Christians about the connections between their spiritual and political beliefs.
This image is yet another striking testimony — from the dark side! — about the connections between queer ideology and the demonic. So are passages in the shooter’s journal that read as if they came straight out of the mouth of a demon: “I also love when kids get shot, I love to see kids get torn apart.” Pictures of his arsenal show a gun magazine inscribed with the words: “Where is your God?”
According to reporter Andy Ngo, transgender ghouls are celebrating the attempted mass murder online. The quotes he provides read like a leftist fantasy about what a “fundamentalist Christian” movie script would put in the mouths of trans activists: “MORE DEAD CHRISTIANS LOL.” “Based. Take the fight to their kids so they can feel what it’s like to be attacked for your identity.” “Future religious extremeists [sic] dying isn’t a bad thing.” “Won’t someone please think of the poor innocent Christian transphobes that just want trans people dedd??”
Many Democrats also (probably unwittingly) provided more evidence of the overlap between leftist politics and Satanic behavior in issuing mocking condemnations of the Christian God and prayer, even while the attacked children were receiving emergency care. Here’s a Democrat member of Congress from Florida:
Frost went on MSNBC the same day as the shooting to say, “We’ve had it with the thoughts and prayers for years, for decades.” If you made a list of who hates prayers, Satan would be at the top of that list for sure. Prayer is perhaps the pre-eminent way to fight him. The less prayer, the less Satan is restrained. Now why would Democrats want that?
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who bows down and worships the false god of racial strife, covered the airwaves to bash the idea of praying to the true God. “Don’t just say this is about thoughts and prayers right now — these kids were literally praying,” he said in an immediate press conference. “It was the first week of school, they were in a church.”
The sentiments he’s communicating are the straightforwardly demonic, despairing lies that prayer does not work and that God is not listening and He doesn’t provide justice. After swift social media backlash, Frey went on MSNBC with Jen Psaki the night of the shooting to soften his prayer-bashing while still continuing it: “I believe in prayer — these kids were literally praying, though… Words are not enough.”
Psaki herself had tweeted that morning a similar sentiment: “Prayer is not freaking enough. Prayers does not end school shootings. Prayer does not bring these kids back. Enough with the thoughts and prayers.”
MSNBC host and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele told Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., on TV Wednesday, “I agree with the mayor [Frey] — the ‘thoughts and prayers,’ I’m so beyond, so beyond that nonsense, the lie of that.”
Here’s a gun-control-supporting leftist with nearly a million X followers:
He then doubled down repeatedly, including with this:
The Christian answer to these demonic screeches is: God was there with these children in their suffering, and He is with them now. God is not dead, He is alive, and so are all who have died in the faith, who with Christ will one day be resurrected. All martyrs have overcome Satan forever “by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.” Death is not a moment of despair for a Christian, it is a moment of triumph and glory.
My former Federalist colleague Emily Jashinsky explained well why all this prayer-bashing is illogical, in bad faith, and displays analytically disqualifying ignorance of the United States’ majority religion: “Almost no one ever ‘just’ says the reaction should be about thoughts and prayers — even the conservative Christians with whom Frey disagrees on gun control believe in policy solutions of their own. (Arming teachers, tighter security, etc.) He just doesn’t like those solutions, which is fine. But it’s really time to retire this cheap hit on people of faith, especially in cases where they’re actually the direct targets of an attack. Those little kids don’t believe the prayers they were saying today shield them from earthly tragedy or excuse them from doing good works.”
The main point I’m making here, however, is different. It’s to highlight the directly Satanic words coming out of the mouths of Democrat Party leaders and followers. There’s a truly shocking overlap between what Satan would say and what well-known political leftists are completely comfortable saying to hundreds of millions onscreen. The spiritual undertones of political events have typically been far more subtle and nuanced than this.
The Bible does not define one perfectly moral gun policy. It offers guidance on prudent gun policies by legitimizing self defense and banning murder, but Christians are free to argue about specifics within broad biblical parameters. This expectation of using freedom to develop practical wisdom is an important part of Christianity and what makes it far less susceptible to theocracy than religions such as, say, atheism and Islam.
Now, however, our culture seems to be explicitly stepping outside the zone of permissible debate within broad Christian parameters, and into a completely different kind of existential politics. This has definite cultural dimensions, hence why American politics are increasingly defined by what we call culture war issues, such as the purpose of sexuality and whether men and women are different.
But it also has massive spiritual dimensions. We are in an apocalyptic era — apocalyptic defined in the biblical manner as in revealing previously deeply hidden realities.
The political tribes are, unlike any other time in American history since the Revolution, mapping directly onto religious divisions. In fact, one could say religious divisions are the true root causes of Americans’ cultural and political divisions. That spiritual division is the same as the oldest spiritual division on this earth: Between Christians and everyone else.
Where formerly this was more nuanced in our culture, it’s less so today, probably as a result of the loss of Christianity throughout our nation and its increasing replacement with other gods that Christianity calls idols and demons.
Now the religious underpinnings of our politics are about as nuanced and complicated as a leftist transgender child murderer drawing pictures of mind-melding with demons before following their commands. They’re about as nuanced as top political figures — the “princes of the power of the air,” you might call such TV figures — demonically mocking Jesus Christ and His explicit commands that Christians “pray without ceasing” and steadfastly expect that God will answer.
That is to say it’s not nuanced at all. It’s direct. It’s so obvious even the simple can see and understand. Increasingly the people who don’t understand what’s going on are not those who cannot, but those who refuse to. They are not misinformed or confused, but purposefully rejecting the complete authority of Truth — exactly like the fallen angels they serve.
