Christianity as Political Civilization at War

It's time to stop thinking about Christianity as an individual activity for self improvement. If you take Christianity seriously it's probably not going to improve your life in the bourgeois sense of "improvement." You will not be living in a white picket McMansion with a BMW and two opposite gender children. The goal is to imitate Christ, and he died homeless and childless. The goal is to imitate the prophets, and they were sawed in half and stoned. The goal is the imitate the apostles, and they were tortured and crucified in weird ways.

Christianity is not primarily an individual activity. When Christ returns it won't be a bunch of individual Christians who are reconciled to him so much as a single bride, the Church. When Christ threatened the churches in Revelation he threatened them as whole churches, not as individual Christians. The "Church" is an "ecclesia" (the political assembly of a Greek city-state). Are the vast majority of narratives in the Old or New Testament primarily about individuals operating as individuals, or are they about individuals operating within the context of a group? The prophets almost always prophesied to the entire nation rather than individuals. The apostle's epistles were generally written to entire churches, not to individuals (with the exception of Philemon and the epistles to Titus and Timothy that dealt with the churches from a leadership perspective). Christians can't survive as islands, we need the political unit of the church to survive and thrive.

Baptism adds one to the kingdom of God. It is the entrance of the individual, or group, into a universal civilizational unit under the Emperor Christ. All the components of a civilization are realized inside the Church: religion, culture, hierarchy, art, and history.

Just like any earthly state, the citizens of Christian civilization must understand themselves as a distinct unit separated from the "other." We are not the world, we are not Muslims, we are not bourgeois capitalists, we are not communists. We are loyal citizens consolidating Christ's gains. We are a vanguard force infiltrating enemy territory and inspiring revolution against Satan.

The individual is weak, but the collective is strong. Individualists almost always lose to units of people possessing strong collective identities. The reason our secular enemy's win is because they're united in their hatred for us, for our king, and for Christian civilization and everything it stands for. Our enemies are not in open conflict with each other despite their massive internal differences. SJW feminism, LGBT rights, abortion advocates, and the "coalition of minorities" that includes Islam is far from a united bloc, and yet they've made incredible inroads against Christianity in all our traditional homelands (Europe, America, and pre-Islam Middle East).

The civil war within Christianity, our protracted five hundred year civilizational crisis, has divided our attention and allowed our enemies to make headway against us. We are not united, we are not focused, we are not confident, and we are not keeping our eyes fixed on the eternal narrative of history: that we must conquer the world, and that we will conquer the world. Our civilization will indeed become the "eternal Rome," the universal Kingdom of Heaven.

We should view our present struggle as being geo-socio-political and civilizational. We're engaged in protracted conflict with civilizations of money, immorality, and heresy. We're locked in a zero sum total war in which the Prince of Darkness is constantly seeking to undermine us from within and without. We should cease from fighting each other. All Christians have more in common with each other than we have with our enemies.

Of course, our enemies are also potential allies. We conquer by drawing the raw material of civilization, which is people, into our own tribe. This is not a war against flesh and blood, but it is fought over real geographic territory and populations. Christianity is not just therapeutic self-help idea. In fact, it's nearly the opposite. Christianity is a political civilization at war. The more we obsess over ourselves and our own condition the more energy is stolen from our collective cause.