A “DOCTORAL STUDENT” from various “progressive” propaganda strongholds (former universities) gave me a good belly laugh this morning, including me and the Church And State conferences in her long winded diatribe against everything right of Stalin and/or Biblical.
Lucy Hamilton, funded by taxpayers through a government “research training program” scholarship, demonstrated the ability to string together dozens of unoriginal leftist euphemisms for everything Biblical, traditional, established and proven in a demonstration of the intellectual pedestrianism of critical theory, the pet philosophy of cultural Marxism.
Perhaps believing herself to be in anyway original, Hamilton exuded critical theory from every pore of her conspiratorial ravings.
Like all incurious acolytes of Marcuse and Horkheimer, she appears to truly believe challenging systemic power relations in society and arguing that received knowledge and long established institutions are fundamentally shaped by power dynamics between dominant and “oppressed” groups is somehow logically coherent.
The obvious incoherence is the underlying premise that any group in dominance must necessarily result in other groups being oppressed. The premise is self-defeating: once dominant groups are reduced to powerlessness, they must then, by the same argument, be “oppressed”. Therefore, critical theorists and other “progressives” now being ascendant and terrified of traditions like Christianity must be the baddies and deconstruct themselves.
Let’s not hold our breath waiting for that first moment of honest self reflection.
Hamilton opens her “research” with the incredible assertion:
“The Republican Party thought it could ride the tiger of the Christian Right: instead, that movement swallowed the party whole.”
Demonstrated here is the belief that the two alternate parties of government must both be atheist leftist – unwilling to represent voters who lean right of centre and share the Christian beliefs of the writers of the American and Australian Constitutions and the popular sentiments of their foundational societies.
Her insinuation is that the Republican Party and Australia’s Liberal and National parties must reject right of centre voters who believe in the sanctity of life and the Jesus-endorsed definition of marriage, sexuality and gender.
In a manner unseemly for someone aspiring to be taken seriously as an intellectually honest academic, Hamilton hysterically claims:
“Religious freedom is a decades-old American war cry, not merely for the freedom to practice, but rather the freedom to impose their definition of Christian values on the country.”
This is the type of facile comment one can find in the gutters of social media from people who’ve spent their days and lives pursuing more productive occupations than the rigours of intellectual discipline. The most pedestrian of God-mocking, “progressive” activists are that alarmist about people who disagree with them politically, casting philosophical critics as villains with shrill words like “impose their definition.”
You can rest assured no such accusation was made by “progressives” who relentlessly sought to undefine marriage in the decades before 2017 in Australia.
No – when “progressives” exercise civil rights to advocate, lobby, convene, associate, publish or speak on behalf of the religion of critical theory they are merely engaging in democracy. But when Christians contradict them and quote Almighty God, the humility demonstrated by our Founding Fathers, then it is an “American war cry” to “impose” Chrisitianity.
Hysterical!
It’s an indictment of tertiary education that this writer is a candidate for a PhD.
Hamilton’s intellect finds it remarkable that the Coalition responded to a survey from the ACL (Australian Christian Lobby) which represents more voters than the memberships of all major parties combined. One can only conclude she either believes Christians should be effectively disenfranchised and not permitted to make an informed vote, or that Australia’s constitution already literally prohibits the Commonwealth from permitting Chrisitians to participate in democracy with all of their convictions and conscience.
In a display of willful ignorance and intellectual suicide, Hamilton sensationally claims:
“The ACL is not lobbying for the traditional Australian definition of Christian, which leans more towards “live and let live”. Rather, this is an organisation committed to coercive, American-style Christianity. It has been listed as a “hate group”. Rumours in Pentecostal circles that the ACL is encouraging its leaders to undertake training from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a radical right American organisation that has argued for the “state-sanctioned sterilisation of trans people”, need to be addressed.”
Okay – let’s address that brazenly demonic lie.
Hamilton links to the source for her defamation, the Southern Poverty Law Centre, one of the most rabidly bigoted, anti-Christian, far leftist organisations on the planet. One could not come up with a less credible source if one tried.
In that source, the SPLC describes laws in France to allow trans-identifying people to lie on official documents about their gender, requiring them to at least have undergone the mutilating surgery to “affirm” their tragic delusion.
I wonder if Hamilton even read or comprehended her own source, as it reveals The Alliance Defending Freedom most certainly did not argue for state-sanctioned sterilisation of trans people, but for the responsibility and right of the French government to decide what medical procedures were a prerequisite to trans-identifying citizens seeking new documentation. That’s all.
It’s a remarkable if self-serving moment of honesty for Hamilton and the SPLC to acknowledge the devastating harms to trans-identifying people by the sterilising drugs and surgeries their own activists demand tax-payer funded access to and state-sanctioned clinical supervision of.
They way “progressives” flip in and out of lucidity and reality-resistance when it suits their narrative with a straight face and no loss of sleep is remarkable.
“Rumours in Pentecostal circles” addressed.
Now let’s address Hamilton’s other lie, that “the traditional Australian definition of Christian…leans more towards “live and let live”.
“Christian” is not an Australian, Western or even white invention. It’s a Middle Eastern religion founded by Abraham and fulfilled by Jesus in A.D. 33, which then exploded in popularity when persecuted by the States and Empires it spread to organically.
Secularist “progressives” trying to appropriate an “Australian definition of Christian” to suit their political agenda are straight up lying. They only believe in “live and let live” while they infiltrate universities and politics, at which point they become obscenely intolerant of authentic Christianity.
Jesus alone gets to define Christianity, no one else. He certainly doesn’t believe in the traditional Mohammedan method of proselytising by slavery, crippling taxation or threat of sword, but by persuasive preaching – which hacks like Hamilton pejoratively label “imposing”.
Jesus said the Way which leads to life everlasting is through a narrow gate and along a difficult and very unpopular path, but the path which leads to destruction goes through a wide (inclusive, tolerant) gate and is actually quite popular by contrast. He told the woman caught in sexual immorality to stop sinning, although He wouldn’t participate in her execution then and there without more witnesses, per the Law of Moses.
Impose devotion to God by the power of the State or sword? Never!
“Impose” moral legislation and boundaries per the duty of all Constitutionally authorised lawmakers and courts by democratic mandate? As we all seek to do with every bit of activism, advocacy, associations, conferences, surveys and published writing or speeches we do.
“One rule for me and another for thee” is the stock and trade of faux intellectuals and transparent “progressives” like Lucy Hamilton, who, devoid of valid arguments or coherent logic, frame the villainy of their targets by mere association with the list of people and organisations they despise only for facile, confected reasons as demonstrated above, and a rubbish bin full of innacurate invective and emotive epithets, amounting to little more substance than political and philosophical difference.
There is no valid or coherent argument for excluding Christians from full and enthusiastic inclusion in democracy and political organisation or representation, as much as “progressives” may clutch their pearls.
If you would like to be better equipped to know and say what God says about culture – in particular mothers and femininity – the next Church And State conference will be in Hobart, two weeks after the federal election.
Hamilton concludes her blog with the appeal:
“Australians must act to stop this replication of America’s Christian extremist takeover.”
If I wrote such a statement, one can be certain the likes of Lucy would claim I meant something sinister and ominous if not infer incitement to violence. If she means people who disagree with Christians must also engage fully in democracy with rhetoric and advocacy, who am I to resent anyone franchise, no matter how wilfully ignorant?
What’s more likely is she means with the power of the State, traditional Christians and Christian organisations must be silenced and neutered. Sadly, the Church has done that to ourselves these past decades while Marxists marched into our institutions, and the first stirrings of this sleeping constituency present a mortifying terror to critical theorists who hate all things good and True.
If you would like to appreciate the soaring heights of intellectual rebuttals to authentic Christianity in the public square, you can read Lucy Hamilton’s fresh bowel movement here (including the obligatory pagan animism in the footer).
The blog which published her piece was founded by a former private Secretary to Gough Whitlam, and is edited by a former senior adviser to a minister in the Rudd and Gillard Governments who also claims “a lifelong commitment to gender equity”. Make of that what you will, but it goes some way to explaining how anyone agreed to publish Miss Hamilton.
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Dave Pellowe is a Christian political educator & writer who gives priority of philosophy to God’s Word. He founded Church And State ministries in 2016, which has grown to include annual teaching conferences in Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and regional Australia by invitation.
Specialising in what God says about complex ethical and social issues, Dave Pellowe is a sought after guest speaker at churches, Christian schools, TV, radio and podcast interviews and other secular and Christian forums where love of Truth and nonpartisan thinking are valued. [more]
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