NATIONAL CHRISTIAN ACTION
A rebuttal to surrender [5 Minute Read]
“But how does it effect you personally?”
In my experience it is inevitable this question will arise during any (generally controversial) discussion regarding politics, religion or current events - for much of the general public apathetic indifference has come to replace any loyalty they once would have held to their nation, faith or community.
This attitude is completely predictable coming from an irreligious or secular person. After all - they disbelieve in any concept higher than themselves and as such have no rational reason to direct attention to, or sacrifice for, a cause that does not benefit them within their lifetime. Without theism there can be no objective morality or order, in which case the only rational reason to sacrifice for anything would be to trade future personal discomfort for a lesser or equal discomfort in the present. Without God, maximising personal comfort or fulfilment is the highest goal an individual can rationally work toward.
On the other hand, what I am always disappointed by is the same indifference from Christians. Unfortunately modern Christians, myself included, are incredibly lukewarm in comparison to the disciples who travelled to the ends of the earth and suffered martyrdom to execute Christ’s will. While every Christian will acknowledge that loving their neighbour and doing charitable works are Christian imperatives, it is all too commonplace for these same Christians to behave as though this imperative ends where difficulty begins. The specific difficulty I have in mind is the task of saving Australia from her ongoing spiritual and cultural decline.
For some reason mass charity of this kind is disregarded by many Christians, instead commonly repeated are sentiments to the effect of ‘change the world one person at a time’ or ‘focus on yourself’. I don’t doubt the genuineness of those who express this sentiment, though it can often serve as a rationalisation for cowardice in the face of the enormous task that stands before us. If changing the life of one person for the better is good and necessary, helping two people is twice as good and ten people ten times so - follow this sentiment to its logical conclusion and you will find it demands every Christian help the maximum amount of people they possibly can. When charity is approached in this way, thinking in terms of maximums, I believe it is impossible for any honest Christian to disagree with me: Nothing less than a complete societal overhaul is acceptable.
Australian decline becomes more apparent by the day: abortion, promiscuity, pornography, prostitution, feminism, contraception, lgbtq indoctrination, usury, drug abuse, heresy and secularism have all taken firm root. Every day Christians are torn from the church by the siren-song of modern Australia’s many evils, a phenomenon that has seen Australia become a minority-Christian country in our time. The average secular Australian would most likely be oblivious to the corruption that day by day engulfs this country if not for the unignorable consequences: skyrocketing suicide, nihilism and a multitude of mental health crises.
Would you ever willingly subject yourself to these consequences? Would you subject a loved one to these consequences? A neighbour? Of course not! Christ’s instructions at the last supper could not have been more clear, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this will all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” [John 13:34-35]. I ask only that you extend this love to your countrymen and the nation they live in.
Every Australian is your neighbour, in fact according to Jesus Christ every man, woman and child is your neighbour [Luke 10:25-37]. This being the case, it is our Christian responsibility to save our nation by arresting her cultural and moral erosion. This can only be achieved by what I will term ‘National Christian Action’: active Christian concern for the health of the nation and the salvation of its people - a true expression of nationalist Christianity. This ‘national’ action finds strong basis in our scriptures - every Christian know’s Christ’s command to his disciples “Go out and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the father and the son and the Holy Spirit”. Make no mistake, Christ’s command here is not optional: “Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels’ for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me” [Matthew 25:41-43].
Every English-speaking person living in Australia in 2023 knows who Jesus Christ is, and yet a majority of the population is non-Christian, the evils of this age are the reason. Trying to convert people living in modern Australia is like planting seeds in a concrete sidewalk and expecting a fruit-bearing tree to grow from it, the culture, laws and government will swallow and choke out the truth long before it can take root. You could say modern Australian society is to Christianity as stony ground is to a seed, “Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away.” [Matthew 13: 5-6]
It is clear that to fulfil his duties to God in modern Australia, a Christian man must take part in tearing up the cold, dead culture that has set around the seeds. By this I mean: loving ones neighbour necessarily includes concern for his soul, which every day suffers attack from the subversive enemies of Christ. In practical terms this means much like Emperor Saint Constantine we must replace our present anti-Christian elites in every consequential position of power they hold, in their place installing Christians who will reform our culture at a national level.
In his letter to the Corinthians St Paul explains that the MOST IMPORTANT virtue a Christian must acquire is love. “And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” [1 Corinthians 13:2]
and shortly after:
“And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” [1 Corinthians 13:13 St Paul ]
I believe it is in these words that Australian right-wing Christians can find our ‘mandate from heaven’ to act boldly to save our nation. After all, every element of St Paul’s sentence contains a call to action:
Faith: Our belief in Christ necessarily compels us to action, St James famously explained that ‘faith without works is dead’ [James 2:18]. Works include everything from prayer and fasting to charity, visiting those in prison, helping the sick, the poor and our fellow countrymen.
Hope: St Augustine wrote that “Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.” If you are reading this you are most likely already well aquatinted with the first daughter, I hope this article has introduced you to the second.
Love: In the words of Jesus Christ: “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” [John 15:12-13], if I could boil down this article down to two sentences, these would be it.
So, how does it effect me personally? Because saving Australia is the right thing to do in our time, I would not be fulfilling my duties as a Christian if I didn’t. At the end of history when every material aspect about our nation - from the wealth to the land beneath our feet crumbles into nothingness, all that will remain are the eternal souls of every man and woman that was born, lived and died here. Can we truly say we did our duty as soldiers of Christ if we didn’t do everything we can to save them?