Have you seen the establishment talking heads on TV and in print calling for grace and unity? I have, and we saw these calls for forgiveness and unity after COVID-19; one article in the Atlantic comes to mind. The problem is these people are missing a step, and not even Jesus will forgive you without it. All forgiveness requires repentance. That is to say, I did X, Y, and Z. I know X, Y, and Z are wrong, and I am not only sorry, but I am going to actively try to kill those parts of myself that lead me to do X, Y, and Z trying to change how I am so fundamentally I don't do X, Y, and Z again. As Christians, we are told to crucify our flesh with Jesus, and that is a complex and painful thing to do. It takes effort and genuine regret for what you have done and the offense you have given. That isn't what these calls for forgiveness and unity are. Paul talks about "work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" in Philippians 2:12, specifically because crucifying your flesh and killing off offensive parts of you is hard.
These calls for grace and unity from the left display a total failure of repentance, with the expectation that the offended will just let the behavior slide. They are saying we did X, Y, and Z, and we will probably do them again. We don’t want and can't handle escalation or accountability, and we don't want to face the consequences. So rather than own their evil and repent, they demand we let it slide until they do it again, and again call for unity and forgiveness without repentance. Not even Jesus, whom as Christians we are called to be like, offers forgiveness without repentance. It doesn’t work that way.
These people are like incorrigible children. It always starts with not me, and I don't know who did that. It then moves to falsely incriminating someone else, and when presented with irrefutable evidence that it was them, they beg for unity and forgiveness without consequences to escape accountability. The only regret or remorse they feel is that of having been caught and not for what they have done. It is a pattern we see all the time. It is a satanic demon-driven ideology based entirely on lies that looks to exploit and twist grace without repentance to perpetuate and justify evil. How long have we been slurred and dehumanized, exactly as Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, and Stalin dehumanized the groups they targeted? How long have these tactics been used to silence polite discourse and prevent the sharing of opposing views? Since Obama, at least, that is when it became the mainstream ideology. After Covid, the summer of love, and now with the blood of a martyr still fresh, there is no repentance, but there are calls to let it slide for unity. How much more are we going to take before we demand repentance before reconciliation and unity? How much longer are we going to be silent and take the abuse for the sake of getting along? I am going to side with Jesus and will not forgive until they repent, and remember the early church wasn’t persecuted because they were silent to get along, they were murdered in the most horrific ways because they spoke the truth. If we let it go again, it won’t stop, and they will escalate only to call for unity again. Without repentance, there is no change, and they will continue to malign us, mutilate our children, and kill us if we don’t be quiet. The killing part is especially true if we are effective and objectively not who they say we are. There is no grace, no unity, and no forgiveness this time without widespread sincere repentance. Share if you agree (I have included a convenient button at the bottom).
Luke 13:3
3 No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
God Bless you!
-Sam