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I, Colonel Dillon Carey of the CC, the Christian Church, assist in its establishment and engagement. The Christian Church is the body of Christ's followers across the globe, not affiliated with any denomination nor requiring any overt act rather than faith in Christ and an ongoing commitment to fulfilling the Gospel. We are all members of Jesus's church, as evidenced by Christ's words to Simon Peter. He was speaking of the broader community of followers; that is the rock. The Christian Church's goal is to spread the Gospel.

The usage of the term Christian Church is deliberate. It's not redundant. It's there to make it very clear that we are speaking of the true Church, the automatic and ubiquitous community of Christ's followers. No one man or institution has a hold on the community. There are people who confuse the term church with the Catholic Church, the Methodist Church, and so forth, but these are only institutions and communities within the true church. It is no building, and there are no officials who can lay claim on it. We are all a member of the broad, true church. To emphasize this, I call it the Christian Church, but I of course am not the one who established it, nor am capable of offering or managing membership.

The Christian Church is defined just as it is said in Scripture. Consequently, I will hesitate to lay claims on precise definitions on what exactly constitute its boundaries and methods. The certainty is that it exists, and it is defined by fellowship in justice and charity. But it is not to be rigidly captured by dogma. The truth exists, and we must seek it. We must all assist each other in finding the truth.

The Christian Church as I know it is based in America, which should be understood as the veritable most Christian nation on the Earth, yet it includes all members across the globe and certainly wishes to aid us all. And so we will aid us all, because there are no borders in the church.

We are a primarily Protestant, or Protestant-based, version of Christianity. That’s not to say we don’t include Catholics or Orthodox Christians. Protestantism is the main asset of Christianity that accepts that only the individual can come to know Christ, and that we are all members of his church. What any one member may get wrong, it is incidental because we have no sole or higher power over Scripture than any other person. The Catholics typically assert, or have a tendency to wrongfully believe, that the Catholic Church is the true and only Church, and that various individuals like popes or bishops have higher authority to interpret Scripture. It, and similar groups, have the gall—to be polite—to proclaim themselves as the real and perfunctory followers of the creed! And yet the Catholic Church and its cohorts are sorely mistaken: Christ was very clear we are all members of his community, that this community constitutes the Church, and that we must come to know him ourselves, without depending on the will or testament of any human. So the Christian Church is not meant to exclude Catholics, but it is based on the understanding that we are all the church and members of its body. It’s meant to say that Catholics who don’t understand or accept that cannot in the same manner be considered ultimate earthly kin, because they consider themselves, when they do, a distinct and superior community. If you understand there is no superior community but God, and that institution belongs to all members, you are welcome. Because that is the Church, and we call it knowingly the Christian Church, or the CC.

We are all heavenly kin. And so in order to realize this, we must identify our earthly kin, and how to bring the rest of us toward that kinship. That is the meaning of Protestantism. It’s important to declare the virtues of Protestantism, in America and outward. The reason is because it is just in community, and that community is the best. We all have eyes. As we have forgotten that equal party, so I will have reason to stress it. That’s why it’s necessary to stress today.

Those who are neither our earthly or heavenly kin are those who spit upon the word of Christ. They must be given neither handshake nor openness. The Christian Church, led and assisted by me, will end their caterwauling.

So Protestantism is the foundation of the Christian Church, as any discerning reading will go. Nevertheless, if you are Catholic but you accept that your affiliation is just a group within the true, broader Church of all Christians, and you accept the pope and bishops are just neutral arbiters of Scripture, without any special powers of interpretation or command, the same powers that you possess, then you may come aboard fully. When I say we are Protestants, I mean to say that the fundamental principle of individuality and awesome community is our defining factor. If you accept this, then no matter what branch of Protestant you fall under, we’ve got your back.

And it’s true. Community and individuality is the highest power here. There is no Word but the Lord, and Jesus says to Peter that this faith is the foundation of the Church. Anyone who has faith, therefore, can do great things. And they must, because this faith rests in each one of us, and cannot be arbitered, as if to say there is another Word than the Lord’s. It is one thing to see the Word, but another to proclaim to another, as if you speak on its divine behalf, what it is. That’s Protestantism. It’s the foundation and essence of America as well. This country flourished so much because we understood that principle, and found mutual brotherhood and sisterhood among ourselves.

Therefore, although it would be fair to say the Christian Church is a Protestant Church, it is not accurate to say it is the Protestant Church, because again there is no the church but us all in communion.

The Christian Church’s goal is to fulfill the Gospel. Now I, the one who runs this platform, which by this platform I mean to say this internet website application and this particular enterprise, believe that Christians in the modern world have a particular and probably peculiar duty to fulfill that Gospel. See, Christianity is somewhat under attack in the modern landscape, not believed or acted upon as much as it should. And even when it is appropriately acknowledged, the devout actions necessary to instill justice across the Earth are not always taken. There are those among us who would swear allegiance to peace, and then promptly make themselves to do however many unholy things, usually justified by some half-hearted slogan resembling an appeal to atheistic gusto or deontology, and feel no shame, guilt, or yearning for great acts by an opinion that mere testimony to the positivity of peace is sufficient. But being a good Christian requires more than a swearing of banal fealty, or a couched statement of irredeemable lust. It demands an untempered willingness to act bravely, boldly, and with imminent bravado to do the same.

To be a Christian, you need to be willing to act as one.

Therefore, a particular goal of mine within the broader Christian Church is to help our members to advance the faith more in the atheistic modern landscape, devoid of itself. The particular way I seek to do this is by first securing the community of good, loving Christians that exist, then acknowledging to others or similar our shared belief in the idea of peace, and finally getting those people to enact Protestant and loving communion by an inner dose of individuality and originality in meaning to that end.

Reminder: I am not saying the people must be Protestant, although yes that could certainly be helpful. But no. I am saying that the communion with justice must be Protestant, meaning that it must come from within and not without.

Throughout our entire mission, and assisted by me, I will state firmly that you cannot force another person to act well and bravely. You cannot even, often, recommend that they do so. You must point out to them their desire for peace, and make it clear what it provides to yourself—not to them—so that they may of their own free will and volition see peace, and choose to enact what is peace. I stress this now and later.

Indeed, however, we Christians love peace, which is why we must pursue it so ardently. Living peacefully is often, on Earth thus far, a mission with an end in mind. Jesus tells us in Matthew that just as we must forgive our enemies, we must be wise like serpents and willing to, with a sword, bring division to those who are terrible. This is, I would think, not a call to violence, instead a cause for careful reflection over how to get others to see the light through compassion, but that compassion must be strategic and bold.

Let it indeed be remembered that we are a Protestant Church. We are the Christian Church, but the very fact that we include all Christians, and let them ordain themselves without requiring them to submit to any interpretation of ours, makes us Protestant.

Earlier I said we won’t exclude Catholics, Orthodox, and so forth. But that’s only on the presupposition or the condition that they accept this core Protestant tenet. Give me a Catholic who claims the Catholic Church is the true church, or that the pope’s reading of Scripture is superior to mine or any other, and I will turn them away. We will. The Christian Church is inclusive, and so we are inclusive of all those who are inclusive. The only people we are exclusive of is those who are exclusive. Accept that we’re all capable of interpreting, seeing, and achieving unity with Christ, that we all form his Church, his Christian community. Or else then, as a matter of being so welcoming, we must turn you away for refusal of the same.

Therefore, we are a Protestant Church. You are welcome to believe whatever you wish to believe, provided you can articulate firmly why you believe it and why that interpretation or rendering of Jesus Christ is sensible. We are united by our belief in Jesus, and our acceptance of those individuals who come to do the same.

So that does mean, in fact, that if you are a Catholic who thinks the pope or a bishop can read Scripture better, has more authority than others, you will not be accepted. You will be turned away. One of our core tenets is that we are all equal under Christ, and can all heed his words equally. Thinking that anyone can do so better, or on another’s behalf, contravenes the core tenet of Christian equality that Jesus spoke of to Peter. We will turn away those Catholics. We will turn away those Orthodox.

That’s not to say, even still, we don’t have things in common; we do. We have in common faith in Jesus, and a desire to become closer to him. We disagree rather fundamentally on the means to do so, and the community that it consists of which is equal and universal. We do agree that Jesus exists and that he is the Son of God. So we have things in common, and we can probably be allied. But you will not admitted into the Christian Church if you are what I’m going to call a hardcore Catholic. Not if you say that the Catholic Church is the true church, superior to all other Christian communities. You will be barred from joining us, since we are all an equal community of Christians, and that is the church, no matter denomination. Again, the fact that you exclude us, means we must exclude you, even if you are otherwise Christian and therefore one. You are Christian and of our community, but since you reject our community, you can’t be considered veritably a part of it.

We can ally with Catholics and Orthodox because they are still Christian, even if they refuse to consider us equal Christians under the sole banner of Christ. But we will not consider them core members of the Christian Church. We’re doing that not because we want to exclude them. We are doing that because we offer them unity under faith in Jesus only, giving the individual the power to believe, to open their eyes, to act on his behalf. Then they say that the community of Christians is not all Christians, but only those who believe in specific teachings handed out by people who dare to speak on the Lord’s behalf as well as other’s behalf, refusing them individual communion with the Lord. While we can ally with these groups who refuse to accept this core Protestant tenet, we cannot consider them core members. We’re all Christians, but the Christian Church, the true community, demands accepting equality for everyone to exist.

So the Founders did believe that America should be a Christian nation. They were all Protestant. Remember why our American foundation is important even though the Christian Church is everywhere; it’s because we’ve got to take up the mantle, the most bright followers, then we shall go. To that end, we need to know what’s right. Who we are. Where we come from. Where we’re headed. All of it.

Let’s start off with Joseph Story, one of the most prolific Supreme Court justices in the U.S. He wrote:

The real object of the [First] amendment was, not to countenance, much less to advance Mahometanism [Islam], or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but to exclude all rivalry among Christian sects, and to prevent any national ecclesiastical establishment, which should give to an hierarchy the exclusive patronage of the national government.

That’s from his Commentaries on the Constitution 3: 1865–73. This is in sync with Jefferson’s letters to the Danbury Baptists, where he emphasized freedom of religion in the Bill of Rights was about sects of Christianity. I’ll provide Virginia’s Declaration of Rights, where it emphasizes the Christian nature of freedom.

[R]eligion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence, and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other (emphasis added).

The Founders were very concerned about a free society not being able to operate without the unifying fixture of Jesus. There’s a lot of this in Founding and auxiliary documents. That’s why they were indeed so worried about unity they were hesitant even to include Catholics, since they feared they would possess a higher allegiance to the pope rather than the equal community.

People in the U.S. were jailed for blasphemy up to the 1800s. We pray in Congress, at the beginning of every session. God is on our money. There were state churches in early America, officially.

Here’s a letter from John Adams to the Massachusetts militia in 1798, where he wrote that “[o]ur Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

And might I say, rightly so! Systems of worldly conceptualization other than Christianity are dangerous. I’ll hesitate to use the word religion, because Christianity can take place even in the form of reverence for its ideals and acceptance of its formative and loving values.

It’s far better than atheism, far better than Islam, than Judaism than Hinduism or any other. I definitely know about some aspects of those religions, groups, ways of understanding. They’re inferior. I was told by the modern left that all religions and cultures and groups and people are equal, no matter what! Yes, we are all equal, but not all actions or manifestations of being are equal. So even though I am Christian and have always been, I’ve looked into them at the left’s behest. They are indeed inferior, and no wonder we are a Christian nation, the freest one on Earth, and are so glorious.

Atheism and Islam are probably the big ones. Judaism is a concern, but there are many people railing at the Jews right now, so I’ll join in on that later. Atheists are idiots. There are way too many Muslims pouring into our country. We should not accept Muslims. I suppose I can use Islam as a symbol for the horror of what the left wants to happen. Islam is an exceptionally dangerous and inferior religion, or group of being or thought, because it is not only that but a book of law. The Muslims believe in Sharia law and practice it in many parts of the world, where they believe in amputating limbs for stealing, stoning women for adultery, and taxing non-Muslims for disbelieving.

And even in countries where Sharia law is outlawed or not practiced, a significant proportion of Muslims when polled according to most reputable outlets want Sharia law to take place. In places where it is outlawed, many Muslim groups seem to start underground or local, de-facto courts outside the bounds of law, which in Western nations is Christian-based. Hideous, ignorant, despicable.

Not only that, but Islam is just a very ugly religion. It’s an ugly conceptualization of the world. The Quran is an ugly Holy Text. Muhammad is the main guy in Islam, he’s their superstar. Muhammad married a six-year-old. I’m not making that up. It is in the Quran, which is their Holy Text. But it’s okay, some pathetic idiots will say, because he only consummated the marriage when she was nine. Now, I know that age of consent was different back then and people got married at around 14, 15, 16 very commonly, but there’s still a big difference between a 14-old-old, who’s at least gone through puberty and a nine-year-old. Muhammad, in the Qur'an, his favorite wife Ayesha, was nine when they engaged in the marital act, and 6 when they were wed. That’s an inferior religion, an inferior way of thinking, to support anything having to do with that.

So I suppose I am not saying there aren’t any Muslims who are good people, who sort of pick and choose, or ignore large portions of, their Holy Text and philosophy. But Islam itself is a bad religion, and a significant proportion of its followers support ugly teachings, do ugly things, and support a violent and despicable version of Sharia law, which is despicable.

And as a result, we are against Islam, and most Muslims. Get out of our country, stop allowing them in, via illegal or legal immigration, and denounce that awful practice. We are Christian, and there’s a reason we are Christian. We don’t stone women to death for adultery, even though it’s bad, nor amputate the limbs of thieves, even if they sin.

It’s why Christianity is better, by far. Yes, there are certain parts in the Bible, in the Old Testament, where you can point at as bad today, but it’s why we have the New Testament. That’s why we believe in Jesus, and know him to be the Savior of the world, who shines in the darkness. Jesus undid all of that bad stuff, drawing a line in the sand. The ultimate law is to love your neighbor as you love yourself, and do unto him as you would have done unto you. We have Jesus. We need to accept him.

So to hell with Islam.

That’s why we’re Christians.

And yet it’s not just Islam, to be clear: they’re just the worst of it and pouring into our country like bats out of hell. I’ve got to start with them, to make a point. See, even atheists in America, whether they know it or not, are Christian-based atheists. I’ll expound on that. Atheists in America, which is a nuanced group, derive their atheism from Christianity. They’ll say that you don’t need to believe in a God in order to be a good person. But they don’t understand that the core values they hold to be self-evident, like freedom, truth, charity, are derived from Christianity and its set of ethics.

That took us many, many centuries to work out, and it was delivered to us by Jesus Christ, where then afterward we knew. American atheists don’t understand that atheists in other countries do not hold those same self-evident values. Atheists in other countries, from what I’ve gathered, do not believe as Americans or other Westerners kind of do in free speech, in truth, charity. What seems obvious as an atheist in America is only obvious because it was derived from Christian ideals. You do need those Christian ideals, and to acknowledge that’s what they are.

When I say modern atheists are a peculiar group, I do mean because there are many who are atheists, either those who openly admit it, those who claim to be agnostic or uncertain, those who have what they call a tilt to Christianity but don’t veritably practice it, and those who are fervent in open profession but their fruits speak otherwise to their faith. All of these people need to be condemned, revived if they can be. Understand what our justice is. Justice is Christianity.

So there are atheists in America, like the Dawkins and other type, who say that you don’t need to believe in Jesus to be a good person. Obviously anybody can do justice, engage in charity, forgive others, have eternal patience and love, and actively assist others at every point. “That’s simple!” he says, juggling a flurry of erroneous gusto. What people like Dawkins fail to understand, however, is that engaging in charity, forgiveness, and eternal patience is precisely what it means to be a Christian, to practice Christianity.

Indeed, as I’ve stated, in the parable of the two sons in Matthew 21:28-32, those who refuse to profess faith in the Father, but carry out his work of love and justice, are Christian. If Dawkins really does truly believe in justice, charity, goodwill, if he carries that out, then he is a Christian in every sense that matters. In fact, very truly, as this parable teaches us, he is far more Christian than someone who claims to believe, but does not carry out the Father’s will. That is the fruit Christ spoke of in Luke 6:44. He said, “each tree is known by its own fruit.” A sinner can claim faith. An atheist can claim to not have faith. What faith we have is known “by its own fruit.” If you have true faith, you are saved. Truly, Jesus tells us, we are. And we can know that.

Judaism is also a concern. The Jews do not accept Jesus Christ. Consequently, they don’t believe in the values of ultimate justice and the sort, forgiveness and the like.

Yes, they can choose to accept those values, and if they act them out then that’s great. But Judaism is dangerous inherently as a religion for not having that at its core. It’s no wonder they don’t, seeing as they’re the ones who killed Jesus Christ! Which is rather rude. An apology would be acceptable.

The prime fault of Judaism is that lack of faith, belief, and knowledge of the Son. They believe that one day the Savior will come. Well, guess what, Jews! He has come. The fact that they have been presented with the truth yet refuse to accept it, cannot accept its self-evident being, is dangerous. Maybe a lot of Jews still essentially more or less act out many Christian values, but they need to firmly accept that those values are superior to Judaism.

A lot of people have lots of practical grievances with the Jews, like that they think they control the media, have firm in-groups, or act outside the bounds of Christian law or behavior. There could be some truth to that in certain instances, according to what I’ve observed. There are what appear to be reputable statistics showcasing that: yes, the Jews do control a rather disproportionate share of media and other big industries compared to their share of the population in America. There are those who will use this, along with other evidence, to propose of them a long catalogue of behavior, like them being the reason for America’s continued involvement with Israel. That will have to be investigated and closely analyzed, because whenever a small group controls large portions of the media, shares values other than that of Christianity, and controls other industry, there is always at minimum the chance they could be using power to assist themselves and not the country or American community at large. I say this because while a core tenet of us is to accept everybody, the Jews generally accept only other Jews. I’m not saying that without reason. It’s a foundational element of their religion, as it’s written very clearly over the Old Testament.

I don’t know whether all of those things about the Jews are true, but they do have a more exclusive group than Christians by virtue of their religion than Christians do. While many or at least some may choose not to enact that from what I understand, the fact remains their core system of thought is exclusive. So if they do have any power they misuse to that end, that’s bad. The fact they control a lot of industry could, presumably, make it worse.

That’s why Jews can be dangerous. Because they don’t accept us all as a community according to their system of thought, and don’t accept Christian values. This doesn’t mean that’s true for all of them, but that is an essential essence of Judaism if they follow the Old Testament. Is it not? I have read the entire Old Testament.

Primarily for these reasons, their refusal to always practice Christian forbearance and charity, at least at as a core tenet, perhaps otherwise more often, Judaism must be thwarted as to the degree it does this. I would kindly ask Jews to believe in Jesus Christ. That request is firm, and I should get into how precisely how to help guide all them to seeing that the Savior has indeed long come, and is here now.

Investigating the nature of our values of founding in America, and somewhat other Western countries, is important. That’s why I’m delving into Judaism, the rest. The Christian Church will unite us all.

So we need to identify ourselves.

This is, too, something to be discussed about Catholics, about Orthodox, and certain types of Christians. I know I’ve focused on the two sons.

The Christian branches who claim themselves to be the sole and superior community do need to be stopped. Or separated.

I’ll be focusing mostly on the Catholics here. The Catholics wrongfully assert their church as the “true and only” church. I would know, let me tell you, because I went to Catholic school for 12 years. It was the only Christian school remotely nearby, and one of the few good private schools. I tell you, I appreciate the fact they were Christian, but it’s a hearty thing to choose a school simply because it’s the most suitable one closest. Such a hearty diet does actually poison the intellect, but poisons the heart and soul. I would take this opportunity to profess to my readers to choose the school most suitable for them in Christian love, not any other, no matter the distance, even if that means making some awkward arrangement. Yet I still don’t regret going there, nor regret anything of that enterprise, since I do what I do for Christ, and always will.

The Catholics are wrong. Jesus tells Simon Peter that he will build his church on his rock, by which he means the faithful. He tells us that wherever two or three of us gather, there he is. He tells us in the parable of the Sower that we must all listen, and all those who choose to listen shall listen equally. Many times does he tell us we can all hear him on our own, and that we are all equal brothers and sisters.

And the Catholics blatantly get this wrong. They wish to opine about their church being true and only, and how priests have the special power, or bishops, to read Scripture for others. Their people are supposed to just sit and listen, and never really, in that sense, get to know Christ for themselves. They need to know Christ as the bishop says it’s appropriate to. Well, I’ve got something to say to those bishops. You are mistaken. You, just like any other person, can only interpret Scripture as well as I can, and you have no right to tell me how to read it. I’ll tell myself how to read it, and can guide others as to how they might somewhat, but only God can speak to people through his Son, no other.

That’s what I want people to take away here. So Catholics can’t be included in the Christian Church. Nevertheless, they are Christian, so it’s difficult to say precisely what should happen. It depends on the Catholic. They can’t be included because they reject the broader community and equality of belief. I don’t mean to without warrant exclude them. I am actually excluding them by their own desire.

I’m accepting their exclusion. I’m saying, “This is the Christian Church. We are all equal Christians under Jesus. We can all accept him ourselves.” The Catholic bishop will tell me, “Not quite. The Catholic Church is the one and only, above all other Christian groups, really. We’re not a part of the broader Christian community,” he would laudably assert. “There is no community but ours.” And that might be an over-characterization, but you get the point. I certainly did.

So if they themselves state, if you follow me, that there is no broader Christian community, then all right, then. They do not want to accept the community of all Christians. So I’m accepting that choice of theirs. I’m saying, “Very well, then. If you don’t want to admit or accept our broad Christian community as just, equal, truthful, and supreme, then you mustn’t be so forced to.”

And that’s it. The Catholics don’t want to accept all Christians as equal, generally and with many exceptions it would seem. So they don’t have to be a part of it. That is why I say we must not consider Catholics a tremendous part of the Christian Church, because they don’t want to be.

Yet the Catholics are Christian, all the same. That means there might be more of them that A) we can save and get to see the truth or B) that may just outright acknowledge we are all equal, and consider themselves Catholic knowing full well priests and bishops have no special power and the Catholic church is a sub-church. The Christian Church is the real one.

The B group of Catholics can be welcomed right in.

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Now, as for the Orthodox Christians, or for other groups who make similar mistakes, that’s trickier. First, I know far less about the Orthodox than I do the Catholics. I actually don’t know if they proclaim themselves to be the only church, or have special superior powers. I recall that they are an offshoot of the Catholic church, having rejected many of its teachings. They thought the pope and the dogma had gone too far from what it originally was and supposed to be. They made their own church, presumably based off of it, but going back to the earlier versions of it.

So those of them who profess that their church is the only must be rejected. Special powers, rejected. Any other group that does this, rejected. We’ll convert you if we can, through reason and patience. Not making claims of divine right.

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Not just that, but perhaps this represents a far broader problem with the country. The Christian Church ponders.

It’s the fact that there are so many groups today who claim to be an amazing and prestigious group. They claim to be better than other groups. They tell their members to be loyal to them, not to others. Not to the country. Not to the common community. Then there are pundits or members within these groups, granted special powers. The people are told to listen to these members, they have their best interests at heart.

The classical example has to be the political parties in America: Republicans and Democrats. People swear an allegiance, not to their country, but to their political party. And the political party of the Democrats or other functions like a sort of Catholic Church.