Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
¡Viva Cristo Rey!
Okay, “Conceptual James”, now do “Allahu Akbar,”
Christ is King.
Whether he wants it or not.
He is just perpetually ungrateful.
This is from Jeremy Boring of the Daily Wire:
How is saying “Christ is King” antisemitic?
The same way anything becomes antisemitic – when it is used for the purpose of expressing antisemitism. It’s like asking “how does a shovel become a murder weapon?” When it is used to murder someone. This isn’t hard. A shovel is not innately a murder weapon. Saying “Christ is King” is not innately antisemitic. It’s all about how a thing is used. Saying “Eat some cornbread” is not racist if I say it to my three-year-old when she is refusing her dinner. If I start saying it as a response to X posts by black commentators I don’t like, it has taken on a meaning beyond what is innate. In other words, it is connotatively racist, not denotatively racist. So too “Christ is King” may be antisemitic in connotation while not in denotation when it is being used to express antisemitism.
When did this become so?
It has always been so.
Is it so?
Yes. Innately.
Additionally, saying “Christ is King” for an evil purpose – like using it as a weapon to express your hatred or disdain for the Jews – is a grave sin. It plainly violates the Third Commandment “Thou shall not carry forth the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.”
Surely if I rape and murder someone – like Hamas did on 10/7! – and all the while I shout at them “Christ is King,” – or “God is Great!” – we would agree that I have committed three grievous crimes, not two. Rape? Yes. Murder? Yes. But also the great crime of implicating God in the first two crimes.
So one must be cautious how one uses the Name of God. God will not be mocked. Invoking Him in vain self-promotion, or to troll Jews, or to attack your political rivals is to carry forth His Name in vain.
Jesus Christ is King, sure enough. King of Heaven and of Earth. King of Jew and Gentile alike. Yet a bruised reed He will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not smother. So don’t use His Name as a cudgel to bash those in whom the Light of God yet flickers.
If you do, you are a blasphemer and an antisemite and a piece of crap generally, and the feat of the Lord is clearly not in you. It will be though.
…. yes, Christ-ians, the followers of Christ, say Christ is their ultimate leader.
People who do not think Christ is King are not Christ-ians.
Thank you, captain obvious.
I wonder, for his next trick, will he prove vegetarians eat vegetables?
Funny how all these centuries later, they’re still saying in effect, “Do not write ‘King of the Jews,’ but ‘He said I am King of the Jews.”
(I saw a brief clip of “conservative” Andrew Klaven kvetching about the title “Christ the King.” Is that where this whole “meme” started, I wonder.)
Yeah, it started with Klaven. I am normally a fan of his but he is off the deep end on this.
There are no E’s in Klavan.
He was thinking of ‘Craven’. 😆