Today’s political circus and cultural collapse make radical softness difficult. I pledged back in 2024 to be radically soft, and overall in 2025 I practiced that goal in my personal life well. But since the Epstein files, something in me broke. Something changed. The evil is everywhere, and we aren’t going to vote our way out of this. How then do I remain soft when the world is full of evil and violence? I don’t want to spread cheerfulness and flowers. I want to fight and I want to stick child predators into fire. I’m not interested in peace with the enemy. I’m interested in destroying him.
But last night, as my family and I watched a great movie about the Apostle Paul on netflix, I ruminated on the issue. In the movie some angry young men break into the prison and kill guards to free Paul and Luke from prison. Of course, the apostles do not go. And the young men try to convince the other christians to fight the romans.
On a human level this makes sense. And self defense is not inherently wrong. Nor are we required to tolerate evil among us. But if the christians had fought with the Romans, Christianity might have taken a very different turn and might not have spread across the west the way it did, because all pagan people would have come to hate the Christians, rather than merely see them as Nero’s scapegoats, as most did. When someone is lighting your people on fire and feeding them to lions, it is not unreasonable to want to kill them. That is self preservation. And it’s also giving them what they deserve. But the problem is we all deserve the depths of hell and Jesus, in His goodness offers us a way out of that.
All this to say, in a roundabout way, that God’s plan was bigger. We follow God because His ways are higher than ours and He knows the future. If we are wise we listen to His voice because He ultimately does things for our good. The church was watered to grow with the blood of the martyrs. If the early christians had fought, they may have won temporarily, but christianity may not have spread across the west, as it would have become a legitimate enemy of the roman empire and likely not adopted by an emperor, and all the universities and hospitals that the church established may not have been established and europe might not have gone on to centuries of innovation and high culture. And peace to practice Christianity as you will for various pockets of time.
In an human sense, wisdom would be to drag these small groups of “elites” in the files from their homes and finish them off in a matter of hours. With some weapons and determination, the people could clean out the evil political class like a closet, and there’d be nothing left within a day. And honestly, the world would be a better place. For now. But we must try to put pressure on the justice system. If that fails, pray. The end is near, and God has a plan. Pray you can be His instrument – of peace or of war, whatever you are called to.
I am not saying we should not rebel against our child sacrificing overlords. But doing so needs to be done without descending into barbarism, even if that barbarism is richly deserved. Not because sticking these kinds of people in a wood chipper would be a bad thing, but because we are called to be like our Maker, who hung on a cross for us in spite of all our iniquities. So before we do anything else, let’s pray for our enemies. If they do not turn from their evil ways, they will suffer for eternity in ways that are absolutely too horrendous to even fathom. And don’t get me wrong – they really, really deserve that. But so do I. I have never hurt a child or murdered someone, but my life has been full of sin. I also belong in the lake of fire, but I pray earnestly the Lord will accept my soul and love me because I try to do better. I must pray the same for others.
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