The National Jellyfish

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Here at the Sojournal we have been suspicious of Luxon from the beginning. Claiming to be a Christian, he has regularly exhibited jellyfish-like tendencies – a lack of a spine, and a willingness to drift with the current. (Other articles on Luxon are here, here and here.) His latest folly comes a day after Christians and conservatives the world over are celebrating the best bit of news we’ve had for a long time: Roe v Wade being overturned. Simon O’Connor, posted the following on his Facebook page which sad death-loving leftists took umbridge with.

Luxon forced O’Connor to take the post down because, and I quote “it was causing distress and does not represent the position of the National Party.” In this Luxon demonstrates once again that he is an unprincipled coward. To care more for the distress of some trauma queens over the loss of a ‘right’ to dismember babies more than the tens of millions of dead bodies that Roe v Wade has led to shows a broken moral compass. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil. And the first step to calling evil good, is refusing to celebrate good or castigate evil.

What the overturning of Roe v Wade has demonstrated is that Christians can impact culture through smart politics. For too long, many pietistic Christians have personalised their faith and shunned things like politics because our personal faith in Jesus is more important and politics is dirty. As important as that personal faith is, we have been commanded to make disciples of the nations and teach these disciples to obey all that Christ commanded. What’s sad, is a man like Trump, who does not seem to have lived any sort of Christian life is responsible for a major change like this, but a man who claims to be a Christian like Luxon, can’t even let a fellow Christian celebrate it. Christians can and should be involved in seeing Christ’s rule and reign extended. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem that we can expect National to enact godly law while it is led by such a jellyfish. My encouragement to all Christians is to give up on National at the next election. This man is not the leader we are looking for. He lacks courage and conviction and is focused on gaining power at any cost without holding to any real principles. In this he represents no real change from Jacinda Ardern.

2 thoughts on “The National Jellyfish”

  1. Faithful

    If we don’t go to the voting booths it gives the big parties an even bigger share of the vote. Who shall we vote for?

  2. Rob Berger

    Elections solve nothing, that should be apparent by now.

    I’d suggest that a good metric to estimate the number of Christians in the country is to estimate the number of poison rejecters: the Christians will be less than the poison rejecters. Consequently their impact on an election is negligible.

    Far more effective is someone like Jordan Peterson, who makes statements and sticks to them regardless of the fire he takes. He only has one vote…but many will hear his voice and be emboldened to speak louder themselves.

    Is Luxon a Christian? He is certainly a jelly fish.

    Voting for the lesser of two evils is either ineffective if unsuccessful; or if successful results in the lesser evil becoming the greater evil. And the candidates these days are not worth voting FOR.

    Anyway, time is up. You don’t want to believe it. You don’t believe it. But it is still true. The elections don’t matter one bit…within seven years every city on the planet will be flattened.

    So what matters is that those who are righteous become more righteous still, while those who are wicked assuredly become more wicked still. Because the time of giving account fast approaches. Grow a backbone while there is time: proclaim God’s judgment on these evils without backing down. God will remember and repay.

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