Why eXile Now?

For the casual visitor, Christians in Exile 2000 (eXilemm.com) may appear to be a mishmash of conservative or populist rantings. New articles appear on a monthly basis, or as often as the author can manage. These exhort Christians to participate in what could be seen as various acts of protest.

Many who occasionally browse this site could justifiably have that impression. Those who are conversant with the site understand that eXile aspires to a counterrevolutionary plan of action, one that may seem overly ambitious or impracticable.

But then, what are the alternatives?

For decades, Christians have followed a conservative strategy to maintain the status quo by voting Republican. Obviously, this is a failure. The current Republican President favors federal gunbanning. Four of the six Supreme Court Judges who fabricated Constitutional rights to abortion and sodomy were nominated by Republican Presidents.

Third party candidates like Patrick Buchanan and Howard Phillips have turned in some shining efforts. Unfortunately, these efforts have not produced even a glimmer of hope. Even In Europe, where a "two-party" system is not entrenched, third parties have made little real impact. There, media conglomerates smeared Messers Haider and LePen as effectively they did Mr. Buchanan here. And while Europeans until now have had a stronger sense of national identity than Americans, the European Union and its immigration policies are going to change that, and right quickly, too.

In the United States, ordinary political means have failed and will continue to fail, because the enemies of Christ have already implemented a cultural and demographic revolution.

The cultural revolution was accomplished by a deChristianization process that federal judges started in 1947. By 1956, academicians such as Robert A. Dahl created the false ideal of “pluralism” (later called “multiculturalism”). By 1970, media signed onto this agenda, and allowed an anti-Christian, anti-European bias to pervade its programming (e.g. producer Norman Lear, who later founded “People for the American Way”)

The demographic revolution was accomplished by overturning laws that protected childbearing and restricted immigration.

Federal immigration policies started to change in 1948 when Congress granted preferences based on the criterion of ‘persecution.” In 1965, quotas on non-European immigration were abolished. A massive influx of non-European and/or non-Christian immigration followed.

Native European Christian population was suppressed by a domestic campaign against childbearing. Starting in 1968, federal judges started to strike down state laws banning contraception, abortion and homosexuality. Even though the “Equal Rights Amendment” was voted down, federal judges imposed it anyway. “Feminism”, which is is truthfully defined as the opposition to motherhood, is a court-ordered ideology

As a result of this cultural and demographic revolution, accomplished largely by federal judges violating their oaths to the Constitution, European Christians have become a minority in their own country. As a matter of right or practical possibility, we have no reasonable expectation of prevailing in a democratic process. For Christians, politics as usual is no longer a viable alternative.

A second alternative, according to some “just war” advocates, would be a civil war on an illegitimate federal government. But for Christians, war, even if practicable or justifiable, must be a last resort.

Another alternative, equally unacceptable but still the prohibitive favorite, is doing nothing.

So why eXile now? eXile is a currently legal and nonviolent strategy. eXile recognizes that ordinary political means have failed but stops short of advocating civil war. eXile makes full use of our remaining freedoms to withdraw support from an evil and illegitimate federal government. eXile’s goal is for the European Christian remnant to not merely survive, but thrive.

For more answers to the question, “Why eXile now?” please consider ithe following:

1. Christ-centered imperative

We insist that Jesus Christ is "the way, the truth and the light." The refusal or reluctance of many Christians in politics to insist on Jesus Christ is disturbing. Many of us seek only a return to "values" or some nebulous "Judeo-Christian heritage." Christians who venture into politics should not appease atheists or non-Christians; they should convert them.

Our two thousand years of European Christian accomplishment was not the product of a diffident Christianity. Constantine and Charlemagne were not wimps.

One of the ten principles of Christian separatism is “Proselytize.” We cannot ignore the “great commission”, the risen Christ's last command to date: "Go forth and make disciples of all nations."

2. Missing the forest for the trees

The propensity of many Christians is to view politics through the media's distorted lens as a collection of separate "issues." This results in a myopic misapprehension of political reality. The idea that contraception, abortion, feminism and homosexuality are separate issues is false. These are tools of domestic population control. Divorce-on-demand, court-ordered child support, day care, pre-K and public schools are not separate issues. They are the means of replacing fatherhood and the family with government indoctrination. The idea that “tolerance”, immigration, English literacy, and the "separation of Church and State" are separate issues is deluded - these are the weapons of deChristianization and multiculturalism.

The idea that the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms is merely a single issue, when it is the effective means for all our rights to be secured, is dangerously false.

3. Misplaced concern for the events of the day

Related to the foregoing, Christian political commentary is often "journalistic", chronicling the events of the day, and ignoring the significance of decade long trends and the critical issue of rate of decline.

A journalistic view of politics plays into our enemies' incremental strategy. When only the events of the day are considered, our enemy appears to be advancing slowly, and sometimes not at all. This false perception leads to complacency.

There is a high and middle ground between journalism and history, between the minutiae of the moment and that which is already done and over with. From this vantage point, we can accurately survey the field of battle, track our enemy's movements and see things for what they are. Intellectually and strategically, this is the ground eXile seeks to occupy.

4. Underestimating our enemies

Similarly, because many Christians tend to view politics as a collection of "issues", they fail to understand the coherence of our enemies' strategy. And because they tend to interpret events within a journalistic framework, they fail to appreciate the magnitude of our enemies' success over time.

It takes intense commitment to eradicate a two-century tradition of school prayer. To turn the crimes of abortion and sodomy into "Constitutional rights". And soon, to nullify our right to keep and bear arms.

Underestimating the strength and commitment of your enemy is a potentially fatal tendency.

5. "What is to be done?"

Finally, and related to all of the foregoing, Christians in politics have not developed an effective plan of action. A typical conservative Christian approach is to summarize recent political developments on "an issue" and conclude in words to this effect: "Isn't that terrible?!" As far as action is concerned, conservatives encourage Christians to continue their futile involvement in a political process that is both illegitimate and irretrievably corrupt.

Unlike conservatives, revolutionaries understand that the point of politics is not to describe the world, but to change it. And as Whittaker Chambers observed in his autobiography Witness, overthrowing the atheist revolution requires a counterrevolutionary strategy, as opposed to a conservative one.

Part of the reason Christians remain in this dysfunctional, conservative mode is that no counterrevolutionary alternative is out there.

EXile proposes a counterrevolutionary plan of political and economic action that is currently legal and nonviolent. EXile is based on the Christian theology of St. Augustine, who taught that good may exist apart from evil. but that evil needs good to survive.

EXile proposes that Christians may facilitate evil's self -destruction by withdrawing support from our government, e.g., declining to serve in the federal government’s Armed Forces and declining to participate in the government's public schools.

EXile maps out a strategy of cultural separatism that starts with childbirth and homeschooling. Eventually, geographic separatism may be achieved by a pilgrimage to new Christian communities. The Libertarians of the Free State Project are working towards a similar goal.

By separating ourselves from the evil, we shall render ourselves more self-sufficient, independent and free.

For Christians, eXile is the logical next step and best available alternative.

6. Urgency - What is needed is change now!

Related to all of the foregoing is a general underestimation of how little time we have left. What seems to be lacking among many Christians is a sense of urgency and willingness to change or make some moderate sacrifices.

Again, the current Republican President favors gunbanning. A federal Court of Appeals held that Americans have no Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. For thirty years, the Supreme Court and federal government has by threat of force denied the power of States to protect unborn children.

Are matters not yet sufficiently grave? Do we sit idly by and wait to see what comes next? Ought we to refrain from "extreme" or "radical" action until "things become serious"? Do we wait until the feds are ready to take all our guns away? Do we wait for the dreaded ‘knock at the door?”

Christians have waited too long already. It is time to demand more from ourselves. It is time to raise the ante.

Just before He was captured, Jesus told his disciples, "Let him who has no sword sell his mantle and buy one." How much longer should we wait before we prepare to fight and survive?

Many Christians will ignore the call to eXile. Those who believe the conventional political process can still work, those who think things aren't that bad yet, those who are too comfortable to change, those who are content to stave off one of many attacks while the enemy gains ground all around them.

But just as surely, many Christians will see that eXile represents the near future of Christendom in America. Already, so many Christians are pulling the plug on television and homeschooling their children.

So, as present trends continue, eXile should hold a broadening appeal. For the time being, please sign up for our mailing list, forward articles from this site to your friends and participate in our upcoming message boards.

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Luke Exilarch - luke@eXilemm.com
September 6, 2003