Papers of a Perverse Patriot (2)
Perverse Patriotism is the unique and exclusive loyalty (what we call “faith”) to apocalyptic Jesus that serves him in a Subversive Counter-Revolutionary Movement (SCRM, a.k.a. in polite society as “church”) Perverse patriots can only be that if they know who they are. That’s not as easy as it sounds. In North America the church knowing who it is and understanding the difference between that identity and a living in America is problematic because the confusion between the two is profound and pervasive. It is my contention that across the board in whatever form we find God’s people, that is a people fleeing Egypt, wandering nomads, a united and divided monarchy, a people in exile in Babylon, and a people exiled in their own land under foreign rule, they are to be a Subversive Counter-Revolutionary Movement (SCRM). Jesu...