day no. 16,843: God alone constitutes a majority

"There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free-- if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending--if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us! 

They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come. 

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” — Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775

God alone constitutes a majority. The man who acts in accord with His commands does not act alone. He is never rogue.

2 Kings 6:15-17

And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, "Alas, my master! how shall we do?" And he answered, "Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them." And Elisha prayed, and said, "Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see." And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.

He is no renegade who relies entirely upon the written, immutable Word of God Almighty. He is no slave to self or State. He is free in Christ before God and man: clean in conscience and clear in conflict.

"One man with God is always in the majority.” — John Knox

God alone is the only majority. Anyone joining Him merely joins the majority. He is never the minority. He cannot be outvoted. Anyone to whom He gives grace is a minority. He cannot be strong-armed into action. Anytime He shows mercy, He shows it to an inferior. He is a majority who looks out for the needs of minorities. He is a majority who is not exclusively self-interested. He is the kind of majority who leverages His position to set the minorities free.

Galatians 5:1

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

The one who walks with God never walks alone or in shackles.

day no. 16,842: men cannot honor a past that indicts their present failures

"Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures." — Rousas John Rushdoony, The Biblical Philosophy of History

Man cannot create meaning. He cannot extend to history what he doesn't have. Man cannot manufacture and export existential value. He doesn't have the ability to produce it or the authority to confer it. He also cannot import the meaning of history into the present without being tongue-lashed by the past. He cannot be a prodigal who runs home unrepentant. He cannot return to the past without reforming his present behaviors. And since man has no intention of being humbled, he doubles down on his pride and invents religions as though they were meaning machines and ignores the past as though it were not meaningful.

Psalm 78:1-11

Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old: Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle. They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law; And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

History tells us of some fathers who forgot God and fell and others who lived to report it. Our faithful fathers differentiate themselves from our false fathers by living to tell the stories of God's faithfulness of our false father's unfaithfulness. Our covenant keeping kin have survived to relay the tales of our covenant breaking brothers.

“People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.” — Thomas Babington Macaulay

We must honor our covenant keeping kindred while heeding their warning regarding our covenant breaking forebearers.

"Men who raise families that remain in fidelity to tradition will end up with descendants ruling the world.” – E.H. Looney (cf. Psalm 112:1-2)

We must not keep the traditions of our false fathers, but we must keep the traditions of the patriarchs who endured the disdain of our covenant breaking brothers in order to preserve for us the faith once for all delivered unto the saints.

day no. 16,841: John Smith was better attuned to nature than Pocahontas

"The revival of natural law thinking among Protestants today has led many to see in nature more than the Hobbesian red and tooth and claw. This is a positive development, but let us not fall into the opposite error, into the Disney-fied view of nature in which benevolence alone domesticates nature, somehow making the crops grow and wild animals prance and dance around us. John Smith was better attuned to nature than Pocahontas." — Stephen Wolfe, The Case for Christian Nationalism

You cannot properly understand the world without knowing the Word. A Christian is better equipped to take dominion than a noble savage. That isn't to say that noble savages cannot rise to the level of their understanding, but it is to say that a Christian worldview rises above noble savagery. It is uniquely capable of viewing the world correctly and of shaping it according to the commands, purposes, and pleasure of its Creator and Sustainer.