The Devil Doesn’t Mind If You’re Right—So Long As You’re Rooted in the Wrong Thing
There’s a kind of deception that doesn’t tempt weak men—it tempts the strong. It doesn’t offer softness. It offers certainty. And in an age of collapse, clarity is a seductive thing.
Men look around and see institutions compromised, churches neutered, families fractured, and nations overrun. So they reach for something solid. But if that “something” is a totalizing system—an ideology—they’ve only traded one lie for another.
Ideology is not just error. It is idolatry. It replaces the Word of God with a grid of man’s making. It flattens the world into a single cause: race, class, sex, genes, or power. It offers a clean lens—but at the cost of truth.
And it always begins with something real.
Why Ideology Grabs Hold of Men
We’re not talking about academic theories here. We’re talking about why men build their lives around movements instead of the Messiah. Why “based” men with a deep hatred of wokeism still fall into tribal echo chambers. Why some abandon Christ’s church for bio-determinist message boards.
They see what’s wrong. But they forget what’s ultimate.
They forget that Christ is not a variable in your system. He’s the King.
He’s not here to baptize your theory. He’s here to rule it.
“Ideologies reduce men to parts—they give one lens to explain the whole world. But God’s world is more complex, and more beautiful, than any man-made system.” —Jon Harris
That complexity matters. Because once a man buys into an ideology, he stops discerning categories the way Scripture does. He starts treating everything as equally ultimate—or equally irrelevant. And this is where many men on the Right, in their well-meaning revolt against liberalism, fall into a new kind of reductionism.
They rightly reject the colorblind, Marxist delusions of the Left. But instead of returning to the creational order as God defines it, they build new hierarchies rooted in biology alone. For these men, race becomes the key, the lens, the system. They treat it not as providential and real—which it is—but as essential and determinative—which it is not. So let’s ask the question honestly: Is it inconsistent to affirm sexual hierarchy while rejecting racial supremacy? Not at all. In fact, making that distinction is precisely what keeps a man biblical, rooted, and sane.
Sex, Race, and the Error of Racial Absolutism
Both sex and race are real. But they are not equal in nature, nor in how Scripture treats them. Understanding that requires a return to the categories of classical philosophy—particularly substance and accidents from Aristotle. These aren’t just abstract terms. They help us understand the structure of God’s creation.
A substance is what a thing is in itself—its essence.
An accident is a feature of that thing that can change without altering its fundamental nature.
With that framework in place, we can say this confidently:
Sex is a property of substance. Race is an accident.
Genesis 1:27 says, “Male and female He created them.” You cannot be human without being male or female. The binary is essential to our nature and our ability to fulfill the creation mandate. Sex is not a social construct. It is ontologically baked into what it means to be human. Immutable. God-given.
Race, on the other hand, is providentially real, but not essential. Adam and Eve were not white, black, or Asian. They were human. Racial distinctions developed across time—through lineage, geography, culture, and history. These are natural, inherited, and important—but they are not part of human substance. They are accidents, not foundational to image-bearing.
Avoiding Two Extremes: Egalitarianism and Racial Absolutism
This distinction helps us steer between two ditches:
Liberal colorblind egalitarianism, which pretends race doesn’t matter.
Racial absolutism, which turns race into a religious category.
Both are wrong. One denies creation’s diversity. The other distorts it.
We affirm that nations are real, that race matters, that peoplehood is not a fiction. But we also understand that the strongest bonds of nationhood are necessarily forged not at the racial level t but in shared worship, law, language, history, lineage, and land. These are all accidental features in the philosophical sense—but they are powerful. And they are used by God to forge real, providential unity.
In truth, I have more in common with my black Christian neighbor than I do with a white atheist in Siberia. I share faith, moral order, covenant, and culture with one—and nothing but biology with the other. Biology matters. But biology is not the key to unlocking everything.
Christ Redeems Nature—He Doesn’t Replace It
Galatians 3:28 tells us there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, for we are all one in Christ. This passage speaks to salvation, not the erasure of distinction. We know from the rest of Scripture that male headship remains (1 Cor. 11, 1 Tim. 2). We also know that national distinctions persist—even into glory (Rev. 7).
But nowhere in the New Testament is spiritual hierarchy granted along racial lines. Nowhere are the nations ranked in spiritual authority. The church is ordered by sex, not ethnicity. Because sex is essential, and race—while real—is not.
This is why it’s not a contradiction to affirm sexual hierarchy while rejecting racial supremacy. It’s simply recognizing the nature of the distinction.
To deny that is to confuse categories and ultimately, distort creation.
The Ideologues Error
This is where many on the Right falter. They abandon liberalism but fail to re-anchor themselves in God’s truth. So they drift from woke lies into reactionary ones—from egalitarianism into a kind of fascistic mysticism, where race or will or volk is made ultimate.
But conservatism—true conservatism—is not just a rage against modernity. It is a love of order rooted in reality. It honors fathers, borders, and bloodlines without making them gods. It does not need to invent a system. It simply receives the world God made, and seeks to govern it righteously.
Ideology hates the real world. It replaces it with theory.
Conservatism lives in the world while working to uphold the good traditions of the past because it knows something the ideologue forgets: man is not a problem to be solved. He is a creature to be formed. That formation requires fathers, families, worship, and the wisdom of centuries—not slogans and charts.
Final Word: Christ or Chaos
In the end, it is about Christ!
Every ideology will ask for your loyalty. Every system will demand your blood.
But only Christ gave His blood first.
Only Christ is worthy to rule over your identity, your household, your people, and your future.
Don’t settle for half-truths. Don’t swap one idol for another. And don’t be deceived just because the deception feels “based.”
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