Young man, look to Jesus Christ. Look! Look! Look! You have nothing to do but look and live!
The Battle Of The Vices.
In case you missed the 50 million mentions of Sydney Sweeney in the past week, I’ll catch you up on what is, as of now, the most talked about “news” story of the week. This past week, Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle released several ads that portrayed Sydney Sweeney wearing skimpy clothes, showing off too much cleavage, and wearing AE jeans — each ad had it’s own degree of promiscuity, but none of them were particularly tasteful or even remotely Conservative. Rather, they were a glimpse into the ancient days of the 1990s in which blonde women with busty bodies were paraded around by corporations in order to get virtueless (horny) men to buy their products — or convince their wife to buy the products.
In all honesty, the ads aren’t really interesting and they’re not worth watching. Many millennial men who claim to be Conservative and Christian will praise the ad for it’s wonderful and timely return to a false version of “conservatism” that is rooted in the “virtue” of being an absolute horndog and objectifying anything and everything that walks — no surprise. On the other side, the liberal regime has been and will continue to be SHOCKED by the ad, claiming that the ad is super similar to Nazi propaganda — yes, of course if Mr. Adolf Hitler was alive, he would have bought the Mr. Squatch Sydney Sweeney bathwater soap and would definitely have gotten a pair of these nice American Eagle jeans to show off to his friends.
The ad had a catchy phrase, ‘Sydney Sweeney has great genes jeans’. Very thought provoking — brilliant marketing. The left is actually saying that American Eagle is promoting blue eye, blonde hair naziism because Sydney Sweeney has blue eyes and blonde hair and so everyone who has blue eyes and blonde hair is secretly really a Nazi and loves their Nazi genes and jeans. The left is really bent out of shape not because of the promiscuity and the objectification of women — no, no, no, they’re mad because they wish that American Eagle would have filmed a 600 pound LATINX sitting on a boat showing some cleavage wearing American Eagle jeans (or whatever is left of them after she puts them on). And so we have it, horny right-wing Republicans VS horny left wing Democrats — in other words; Millennials VS Millennials. The matchup of the century.
I’m not going to give my analysis on who will win this battle — it’s very hard to predict at this point. What I will say is this; sexualizing women and using their half naked bodies is not Conservative. I know, a lot of Republicans are very confused by this — how could being horny for a half naked woman that I’m not married to be bad??? Aren’t those the American principles we’re trying to reintegrate into the social imaginary? Isn’t “Make America Great Again” a slogan that is synonymous with “I want to live in a world in which my preferred sexual vice is the one that everyone arbitrarily accepts and I can engage in it without feeling any shame from society?”
Sadly, this is what the vast majority of so-called “Conservatives” think in America. They think that we (real Conservatives) are attempting to preserve 1990s America. We aren’t. In fact, we’re trying to reestablish Biblical values and doctrines into the cultural fabric so people can live flourishing and meaningful lives and so our children don’t have to see ads with mostly naked women on them and then, as a result, become obsessed with sexual promiscuity and become addicted to porn at the age of six.
Of course, Millennials don’t really care about any of that because only 50% of them have children and, as of 2020, 44% of Millennials are actually married — so their value systems and life decisions are so utterly out of line with the truth that there’s absolutely no reason for any of them to care at all about anyone else or future generations. Just give them their sexually deviant fantasies and we can all continue to pretend that the worst generation in history isn’t the worst generation in history.
The Birthrate In America Is The Lowest Its Ever Been.
Staying on the topic of babies and cultural collapse, one question we could ask is this: how can we have cultural collapse if we don’t even have a culture? You know, because cultures are made up of people in communities and families. Federal data just released shows that in 2024 women were having less children than ever before in American history — just 1.6 kids per woman.
The plan is working all too well for the Millennials, right? Marriage is the oppressive patriarchy, so they stopped getting married. It’s believed by most millennials (they won’t say it, but trust me) that a College education makes you inherently better than everyone else because, with your $100,000 piece of paper (that most everyone else gets in society — so it’s not very unique) you can go make $80,000/year for 40 years and have a really high credit score and go on vacation when you retire at 65 and have a really nice big box to live in (that you obviously don’t own) and a really nice piece of metal to drive in (you obviously don’t own that either) and look down on those idiots beneath you who have no degrees and live in worse boxes than you and drive worse metal scraps than you.
With this phenomenal education that they received from only the “most prestigious” Universities in the country — like Harvard, who is doing beginner High School math courses for new students (the best and brightest) — what did the Millennials do? Well, they got right to work building successful companies and getting married and having children and giving to the poor and helping their communities and — just kidding! They actually decided to expedite American civilizational collapse by rejecting the entire concept of marriage and having almost no children and raising the credit card debt in America to $1.18 trillion (but they pay their balance off every month — so the numbers must be wrong) and electing narcissistic Socialists.
Listen, I’m really not trying to harp on the Millennials so much — it gives me no pleasure to know that an entire generation has decided to destroy The American Dream, reject fundamental Conservative and Biblical values, and refuse to repent of their sin. It’s devastating. But I am a realist and I like numbers and data. And the numbers and data prove what the Proverbs already did thousands of years ago,
“A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.”
Luckily, our hope isn’t reliant upon filthy rich and degenerate generations. It’s reliant upon Jesus Christ and his atoning sacrifice on the cross. My hope is that Gen Z and those that come after us will choose the difficult, meaningful, and rewarding work of the Lord — having children, mothers staying home, educating our own kids, working honest jobs, and rejecting materialism.
Gen Z Has Its Own Problems — And So Does The World.
Pew Research released a Party Affiliation Fact Sheet that showed this sad and not very surprising data,
See that? Gen Zers are more divided than any other generation. While the Millennials are in agreement on their destruction of America, Gen Zers are much more divided. This can be seen in two ways: good because that means that Gen Z men have had enough with the left wing virtue signaling bullshit and bad because Gen Z women are more liberal than ever and will most likely refuse marriage and having babies. There are a couple of other data points that I would be interested in seeing, like what sorts of Republican “values” do these Gen Z men align with? Are they pro-marriage, pro-family, and pro-Christianity? Or are they just anti-liberal virtue signaling bullshit and very resentful at their parents, schools, friends, and families? I take the second option.
I think Gen Z is the most drugged up, mindless, and suicidal generation in history. Unlike the Millennials, who took on a Marxist ideology and aimed at destroying everything in their sight, Gen Z is taking on a Nihilistic ideology and walking as dead corpses through life with no meaning, only cursed with the ability to see the societal fallacies and Millennial propaganda but without the ability to articulate the problems because of their lack of real education.
But, I have always had more hope for Gen Z. I would take a group of Nihilistic deadbeats over a group of narcissistic wannabe’s any day of the week. The narcissistic wannabe’s are so consumed with their own crippled and twisted worldview that they only reject Wisdom when it’s presented. On the other hand, Jesus was clear that one must die to himself before being raised with Christ. A generation of dead men are already halfway to new life. Like Ezekiel in the Valley of Dry Bones,
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. 2 And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. 3 And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” 4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I prophesied, there was a sound, and behold, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 And I looked, and behold, there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army.
As you can see, the only way in which a dead man be brought back to life is through the absolute proclamation of the Word of God (that is, the Logos — Jesus Christ). No man made Gospels or false teachings will do. We have to preach Christ as Christ preached Christ. We have to proclaim to these dead souls what was proclaimed to a young Charles Spurgeon in the dead of winter in a small church during a blizzard in which the Pastor couldn’t make it to church, so a layman had to preach. He recalls the event here,
Now it is well that preachers be instructed, but this man was really stupid. He was obliged to stick to his text, for the simple reason that he had little else to say. The text was--"LOOK UNTO ME, AND BE YE SAVED, ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH" (Isa. 45:22)
He did not even pronounce the words rightly, but that did not matter. There was, I thought, a glimmer of hope for me in that text.
The preacher began thus: "This is a very simple text indeed. It says ‘Look.’ Now lookin’ don’t take a deal of pain. It aint liftin’ your foot or your finger; it is just ‘Look.’ Well, a man needn’t go to College to learn to look. You may be the biggest fool, and yet you can look. A man needn’t be worth a thousand a year to look. Anyone can look; even a child can look.
"But then the text says, ‘Look unto Me.’ Ay!" he said in broad Essex, "many on ye are lookin’ to yourselves, but it’s no use lookin’ there. You’ll never find any comfort in yourselves. Some say look to God the Father. No, look to Him by-and-by. Jesus Christ says, ‘Look unto Me.’ Some on ye say ‘We must wait for the Spirit’s workin.’ You have no business with that just now. Look to Christ. The text says, ‘Look unto Me.’ "
Then the good man followed up his text in this way: "Look unto Me; I am sweatin’ great drops of blood. Look unto Me; I am hangin’ on the cross. Look unto Me, I am dead and buried. Look unto Me; I rise again. Look unto Me; I ascend to Heaven. Look unto Me; I am sitting at the Father’s right hand. O poor sinner, look unto Me! look unto Me!"
When he had . . . . managed to spin out about ten minutes or so, he was at the end of his tether. Then he looked at me under the gallery, and I daresay with so few present, he knew me to be a stranger.
Just fixing his eyes on me, as if he knew all my heart, he said, "Young man, you look very miserable." Well, I did, but I had not been accustomed to have remarks made from the pulpit on my personal appearance before. However, it was a good blow, struck right home. He continued, "And you will always be miserable—miserable in life and miserable in death—if you don’t obey my text; but if you obey now, this moment, you will be saved." Then lifting up his hands, he shouted, as only a Primitive Methodist could do, "Young man, look to Jesus Christ. Look! Look! Look! You have nothing to do but look and live!"
I saw at once the way of salvation.
The message of the stupid preacher should echo through generations — "Young man, you look very miserable — Young man, look to Jesus Christ. Look! Look! Look! You have nothing to do but look and live!”
If you haven’t noticed, your cowardly little gospel of Jesus the therapist or Jesus the effeminate liberal or Jesus the sexually deprived Republican isn’t actually saving anyone’s souls. The diluted gospel of postmodern jargon so tightly held in many churches across the country does nothing to incite a revelation in a stone heart. It’s the words of the uneducated preacher quoting the uneducated Messiah — “Look unto me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.” I pray a pastor, theologian, or Christian layman would make one attempt at preaching Christ in this God-forsaken society filled with God-forsaken generations — our methods are not Christ’s, so we should stop pretending that they are.
What to read…
This week I thought that it would be good to recommend a book that most people love to give lip service to but rarely actually read, The Holy Bible. That’s right folks, the B-I-B-L-E, yes that’s the book for me (and you). For some reason, I’m compelled to just tell you to read the Bible this week. The news is always bad (which should make you believe that maybe human nature isn’t so good.. idk) and often when new statistics are released about the state of our society, it’s easy to become discouraged — it’s easy because discouragement is the proper response catastrophe. I’m not going to tell you to read the Bible so you can feel a lot better about yourself — you may be surprised to hear that everyone in the Bible (besides one guy) is insanely messed up and does unbelievably wicked things. Adam and Eve start the whole book out by ushering sin and death into the world, one of their sons murders the other, God floods the world because of sin and evil, Israel continually rejects God despite his mercy and grace, King David sleeps with a man’s wife and then murders him, Solomon builds up his own Army in rejection of God’s providence, the disciples of Jesus reject him, misunderstand him, and flee from him at the most pivotal moment in human history, the Jews and Gentiles alike slaughter the Son of God — I could go on and on. I, and no preacher or Christian worth their salt, would ever tell you to read the Bible because it will make you feel good. No, you read the Bible because it reminds you of your poor, miserable state of sin and God’s just and impending wrath upon you and your helpless inability to save yourself. I’m an Anglican but I come from the tradition of the fire and brimstone Baptists, the realistic Puritans, and the theologically precise Calvinists. You and I are dead and headed to hell prior to salvation. We read the Bible so we can be reminded of our absolute and complete necessity of Jesus Christ. I’m sure that after reading the Bible you may feel good, it depends on what you read. But I’m positive that if you read the Bible in good faith, you’ll feel the insufferable weight of sin and the immeasurable mercy of Christ. We read the Bible because it’s true and because it’s revelatory — not merely because it makes us feel good.
