A Voice of Reason

As I was working my way through the steps to get ready for LORD’s Day worship, I came across the following Proverb.

He who walks with wise men will be wise,
But the companion of fools will be destroyed (13:20).

I think this is the battle of the age at the moment. As you look at a previous post, you can see that in conservative circles there is a lot of confusion about whom we should follow. In many sectors of the far right, the answer is Nick Fuentes. I don’t get it at all. The man is nothing but a spectacle, who appeals to the base nature of a man’s flesh in the worst of ways.

In Paul’s first letter to Timothy, he warns the pastor about those “who give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in the faith.” Fuentes does this in our modern context, and shows a real lack of godly wisdom.

Fortunately, there are those who do put forth a voice of reason.

Victor Davis Hansen is a voice of reason, at least when it comes to political conservatism. In the video below,  he nails it on the issue of anti-semitism, and actually goes through an explanation of why we want Israel as an ally. It has been a while since I’ve heard anyone put forth the reasons why we have always been behind and allied with Israel. I know many try to tack on a religious component, claiming them as God’s special people and all, but that is not the reason. Israel is strategic. Israel is an ally.

 

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Hansen also points out that what many in our society are given over to are the voices of those who are revisionist historians. They are not historians at all, but simply put forth history as truth without any basis. (This is what Fuentes does concerning the number of deaths in the Holocaust, offering no real evidence, put forth as evidence, without actual evidence. In other words, all he does is offer questions and more questions without any truth to his arguments).

Now what Hansen misses in the discussion, is not just that that men like Fuentes are antisemites, but that they are not Christian at all. This is my biggest concern, since so many young men in the church are listening to Fuentes. I’ve heard enough of him to know he is not a Christian. He does nothing to build up the body of Christ. He does nothing to further the cause of Christ. His entire MO is destruction and the fruit he is putting forth is not Biblical.

Not some might say I don’t have the right to declare that about Fuentes. But Jesus made it clear: you can tell a tree by its fruit. This is why I put forth that he does nothing to build up the body of Christ.

I was also thinking: what is the best way to understand Fuentes? Let us ask a few questions of our own.

Would you want Fuentes dating your daughter, given his unstable, hateful nature? Would you want this man to be a part of your family, this man who has no regard for authority (thereby breaking the fullness of the 5th Commandment)? Would you want him in your church, bringing division, casting dispersion, seeking the destruction of others?

As men of the church, is this who we want to follow? Is this who we want to emulate? It doesn’t matter that he has a large following or not: Hitler had a large following. Large followings mean nothing. After all, Jesus said and says, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destuction, and there are many who go in by it, because narrow is the gate and difficult which leads to life, and there are few who find it.”

Fuentes is the voice of a fool. Let us be those who saturate ourselves into the way of Christ (see Psalm 1), and not sit in the counsel of the wicked.

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