Grant Van Brimmer

A great privilege to have a piece published on @_Theopolis blog.

@Brian_Sauve @PerfInjust Nah, go read Kuyper, Van Til, Rushdoony, Jordan, North, and Boot...you'll be much better off.

Absolutely chuffed that @PerfInjust got about 10k of you to listen to an incredible lecture on political theory because you thought he would cancel us. Our friends are the best, and we have the most fun. Now stop talking and go get involved.

“We’re just selling Third Reich literature at a Christian conference, is all.” This isn’t about a flyer.

@PerfInjust @riemersonck @SamuelHolden_ @douglaswils really?? Say it ain't so!

@riemersonck @SamuelHolden_ What’s funny is that Doug actually thinks this is true.

We know who is really in control @SamuelHolden_

@PastorAndyWebb Good word.

I listened to Eric Conn and Brian Sauve explaining how a Nazi publishing house ended up at the "War for Normal" conference hosted by their publishing house, New Christendom. I don't personally feel at all relieved by their explaination, in fact I think they did more to highlight why so many Reformed Christians are alarmed by the spread of certain strains of Christian Nationalism. Let me try to explain why. First, I have been going to Reformed Christian conferences of varying sizes for 33 years, and I have never been to one that was selling pro-Third Reich, Pro-Nazi books. In fact, at every one I've been to, had someone set up the same table that was at the "War for Normal" conference, people would have been appalled, and the organizers would have booted them in less than an hour. In this case though, the table was up throughout the conference and only became controversial AFTER the event finished. As for the ridiculous "inadequately vetted" idea, no deep dive was necessary; all you had to do was visit the Antelope Hill website. The top page is literally full of works by men like Josef Goebbels and Adolf Hitler. You can't be anywhere on the site without realizing it's clearly pro-Third Reich. Second, at no point in their discussion did they repudiate the actual Nazi stuff, which promotes the entire Aryan, Master Race, Nuremberg laws, liquidation of the Jews and "useless eaters", twisting of Christianity, slavery of the subhumans, agenda. They called those "varying political works" and encouraged people to read them for themselves. The only thing that they admitted to being upset about was the "Pro-White Businesses" card given away with the books that sent people to businesses selling tarot cards, porn, and a Nordic cult. They didn't even mention the Nazi jewellery site. They made it clear they don't have any problem with selling actual Nazi propaganda. Brian Sauve speaking of Antelope Hill, actually said, “I don’t have a problem with them” and mentioned he owned and was looking forward to reading one of their premier, 'It's all a Jewish conspiracy' books. Third, they used the podcast to call people's concerns about Nazi propaganda at a Christian family conference, "Faux outrage" drummed up by "marionette people." Sauve had this message for those on Twitter who are posting about this (which I assume would include people like me): “I have no respect for you as a person. I think you’re bad people and you are actively doing harm against the church, and you should repent or you will go to hell.” I'm not sure what part of being concerned about Nazi material being sold at a Christian conference is "actively doing harm against the church"? but I'll move on... Fourthly, they actually spent time peddling some of the outright lies that are becoming part and parcel of the "anti-PWC" community. I'll just give you one: they claimed that Churchill was the one who initiated incendiary raids on civilian targets, when in fact the Nazis had bombed plenty of civilian targets in Spain during the Spanish Civil War (Guernica, for instance), and had already bombed Wieluń, Warsaw, and the city center of Rotterdam with incendiaries, killing thousands of civilians. The Dutch actually surrendered BECAUSE they were afraid their cities would be wiped out one by one. At the time, the British were still conducting pointless leaflet raids and fruitless attacks on military targets. All in all, this was not an apology nor even an excuse. Yes, they are clearly embarrassed that Nordic pagan/occultic material that was part and parcel of the Third Reich was promoted at their conference, but they are certainly not embarrassed and will not apologize that books glorifying the Third Reich, Nazi leaders, Nazism, and the twisted Christianity of the Reich were being sold and read. More alarmingly, subsequent comments seem to indicate that very few of the people who attended the conference were concerned either. In fact, a lot of the attendees seem to want a lot more of this material (something Sauve actually alluded to). Prior to 2020 if you'd told me that an American version of the "Positive Christianity" of the Third Reich (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_… ) would have a following among people calling themselves Reformed, I wouldn't have believed it, but today, I'll admit, it's happening.

@Brian_Sauve How about we tackle all those AND the Nazis

There are Muslim rape gangs brutalizing our women across our ancestral homelands. And they're hunting Nazis. Our governments have betrayed us, protecting the Muslim rapists from their own people. And they're hunting Nazis. Our people are being robbed and replaced at government gunpoint. And they're hunting Nazis. Our sons can't buy homes to raise a family in. And they're hunting Nazis. We have been told to hate ourselves for our whiteness, our maleness, our Christianity, and for the civilization our fathers built. And they're hunting Nazis. Our courts are a mockery, releasing violent criminals back on the streets for the virtue of their blackness—even as they wage relentless lawfare against our kinsmen. And they're hunting Nazis. Our cities are in disarray, our economy is fake, our currency debased, and our soldiers sent to die in foreign lands. And they're hunting Nazis. Our churches are led by cowards and knaves, heads buried in books while their people learn the liberal catechism by heart. And they're hunting Nazis. What if we stopped living within the liberal frame? What if we stopped caring what names they call us? What if we stopped letting them manipulate us with fear and with cancel mobs? What if we were men again?

@james_d_baird Grant

taking name recommendations for our next son must start with “G” top pick right now is “Gatorade”

@jonharris1989 That's so wonderful! Gotta baptize that kid!!

We hadn’t had devotions yet. My almost two year old walks up to me carrying my big Bible exclaiming “Bible” and places it in my hands. What a moment.

@HilaireNereus Culty?

To call out the Pastors at Refuge Ogden, is to be in danger of hellfire Brian Sauve said the accounts on twitter that call them out "are going to hell" if they don't repent Same day - Joel Webbon says PCA as a whole is demonic. Crickets "Touch not the Lord's Anointed" is back

Having gratitude for what God has given you is good and right. Thinking since God gave it to you means it or you is better than those who don't possess the same thing is pride—which is a sin to be repudiate. Let him who has ears, let him hear.

@BonifaceOption Whose boots?

I did not support the war in Iran. I DO support boots on the ground in the UK.

@Brian_Sauve You should just admit you did something wrong, make denouncements, and give @AntelopeHill their money back. Your post gives "but Pharisees helped us oppose the Sadducees"

I believe there are vanishingly few actual "Nazis" out there, but quite a few young men transgressing social/political boundaries out of spite for our current politics and social order—and that this is a classic "fire extinguisher and flood" situation straight out of Lewis. Liberalism is the default software programming of the entirety of our society, save a small rounding error. Much of that rounding error is coterminous with right winger young men. Because of this, my energy is directed to building real things that defy the liberal spirit of the age as aggressively and practically as possible. As a result of this focus for over a decade now (all in the same church and same community), God has been kind enough to let us see a growing church, hundreds of godly families pursuing Christian piety, a flourishing and growing school, a growing local economy, and an influential Christian publishing house arise in our midst. I also think many need to work much harder to understand why they're seeing the reaction amongst young men that they are seeing in right wing circles instead of playing cancel games, guilt by association, refusing to accept people's own self-descriptions as an honest portrayal of their positions, etc. For example, I am *not* an advocate of National Socialism. I'm an American Christian Nationalist. My interest in anything WWII related is—as I have said countless times—an interest born of the understanding of how these events have functioned as a "founding mythology" of the modern liberal order and its fruit. On this point I have been clear, and repeatedly so, for several years. If anyone listens to my talk at our conference this week, subsequent panel interactions, and my sermon on Sunday, they would see me speaking and behaving consistently with these convictions, especially after the post-conference response we issued.

"Do you believe Brian and Eric knew those things at the time they accepted the vendor?" Yes, I do. Eric has admitted to READING one of the Antelope Hills books, which they claim is "anti-zionist." It isn't merely that, as Hitler Hated Christ has demonstrated here. (Or Eric has dangerously poor reading comprehension.) x.com/not_our_guy/st… James White went into even greater detail about the book on his livestream this evening. x.com/AominOrg/statu… For the past two years, Ogden has enjoyed posting and reposting White Boy Summer / Holden Brothers videos, which are well-established to have many layers of Nazi and Neo Nazi imagery. They have been warned about this by peers and brothers in the faith. They have ignored those warnings, and even posted another video this weekend. In a recent Kings Hall podcast, Eric and Brian engaged in a little casual Holocaust revisionism, which I put in the introduction to this video: youtu.be/63aUtCq8VNI?si… The first page of the Antelope Hills website *just two scrolls down* shows four books in the same vein of the above. (see pic) I do not believe they were ignorant of this material. I do believe they platformed Antelope Hills knowingly as promoters of Nazism. I do not have access to their private emails (if such exist) nor do I have recordings of their private conversations. I do not believe they have given a full accounting of what took place. I do not believe they have taken responsibility for anything beyond "my bad." I do believe that they have caused grievous error to the body under Christ's name and I do not think they or you understand the gravity of it. But that's OK. Because my call to accountability wasn't from a position of authority over them. Just an example that they (or any man) could follow, in order to put all sorts of situations to rest, forever. Or at least make a good start of it. This has not been put to rest, not in my estimation. Seeds have been sown. We'll see what fruit will be borne. Just remember, they could have cut it off from the root. They didn't. The continuing controversy today proves that.

@DefiantBaptist Haha who's coping???

I know, right? Cope harder, Grant.

@willspencer @not_our_guy Anyone with a cursory understanding of the online kinist subculture knew who they were. If they truly didn't exercise that much due diligence or discernment, should they be Pastors?

@not_our_guy If Brian and Eric didn't know who Antelope Hill was, why was Eric reading a book they'd published? Also, this is two scrolls down on the Antelope Hill homepage. Goebbels Irving MacDonald "Lifeblood of the Nordic Race"

Brian Sauvé and Eric Conn's description of this book being sold by Antelope Hill at their "new christendom conference" as merely an "anti-zionist" text doesn't match up with reality.

Such a dishonest description of the book. If Conn's already read it, he should be warning his friend and his listeners not to waste their time because its full of vile content. Thanks @not_our_guy for doing the research.

@DefiantBaptist Hahaha "in full"

I debated about how to cover James White’s crashout stream over the Ogden Bros, because there was so much there. Since Brian and Eric already addressed the controversy in full, there wasn’t any reason for me to respond to James point by point, so I opted for a supercut. Enjoy!

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