Jesus Is Lord

In the past couple of weeks, several articles have quoted Christian activist David Lane quoting my Between Babel and Beast: America and Empires in Biblical Perspective , most recently here .

The most damning thing from my book seems to be this: “Americanists cannot break Babelic or bestial power because they cannot distinguish heretical Americanism from Christian orthodoxy. Until we do, America will lurch along the path that leads from Babel to Beast. If America is to be put in its place – put right – Christians must risk martyrdom and force Babel to the crux where it has to decide either to acknowledge Jesus [as] imperator and the church as God’s imperium or to begin drinking holy blood.” Lane quoted this in a piece on World Net Daily , which later removed the post.

I suspected my book would be an offense to the political Left. But it’s worth noting that the thesis of the book is designed to be more offensive to the Religious Right. BB&B takes direct aim at the Religious Right’s narrative of Christian America and I conclude that the US is today a “Babelic” empire. (Not that I blame the watchdogs for missing this. I doubt they’ve read a word I’ve written beyond the quotations from Lane.)

It’s worth noting that there’s nothing especially “rightwing” about the quotation above. It exhorts Christians to bear witness to the fundamental Christian truth, “Jesus is Lord,” with the corollary that “America isn’t.” If that confession makes me a dangerous and radical theocrat, well, I’ll have to live with it.