How an Agnostic and Homosexual Taught me to Trust in God

“Why is it him?,” I thought, listening. “Of all people he shouldn’t be the one saying these things.”

And yet he was. Talking about how joy is Christianity’s great gift to the West, that many conservative and white churches tended to be joyless, that the Papacy in Rome was controlled by pedophiles. I listened to him shatter the greatest taboos of our age, talking about the predatory nature of many homosexual relationships, that fatherhood is the key to human meaning, and the importance of real femininity vs the cancer of feminism, and all I thought was,

“Why is it Milo Yianopolous who is saying these things?”

Aren’t these the things that Christians should have been saying?

Shouldn’t they have been the ones to notice that the media control our moral judgments, and that the church is being catechized by the world instead of the other way round? Shouldn’t it be the Church, no Milo, talking about how feminizing the Church is destructive and that there are no men left?

And yet it was an excommunicated blasphemer, a professional troll, the greatest provocateur, the gayest man in America saying all these things.

And That’s Not All, Folks

And he said these things to Jordan Peterson, at a time when Peterson’s podcast and book, Twelve Rules for Life, were guiding millions of young men in a sea of confusion. His lectures reconciled sons to their fathers, helped people accept personal responsibility for “sin”, saved many people from drugs and suicide.

He lectured on the Bible, especially the Old Testament, and found in those stories “foolishness” to confound the wisdom of this age.

Shouldn’t that have been the role played by a Christian?

(Listen to their conversation here or here)

The Upside-Down World

We seem to be living in an Upside-Down world. A world where Ricky Gervais calls out Hollywood and Kanye West declares on the largest podcast platform in history that Jesus is Lord. We live in an Upside-Down world to the shame of those who claim to be righteous, explored more here.

The conversation between Jordan Peterson and Milo Yiannopoulos is worth listening to — it’s a fascinating look at sexual trauma, fatherhood, family, and the socio-political state of the United States in 2019. And Milo gets plenty wrong — but the things he gets right are things he never should have.

In the course of their conversation, as Milo was a senior editor for Breitbart, Peterson and Yiannopoulos inevitably strayed onto the topic of Trump and his 2016 victory.

Milo mentions that he was one of the 7 people who, in his estimation, put Trump in office, allies that have largely abandoned him now in 2020. People like Ann Coulter, Mike Cernovich, and himself galvanized the disparate parts of America, especially the traditional working-class voters who went for Obama in 2012 that barely gave Trump the age.

Whose Glory?

But none of those people were Christians. And that’s significant when you consider the Upside-Down world.

Because in the Upside-Down world, people as wicked as Donald Trump end up being good rulers, appointing just judges, ending wars, protecting the working class, and elevating the disadvantaged in the Black and Latino communities. In the Upside Down, agnostics like Jordan Peterson buck against modern heresies and speak the truth without knowing the Truth, and turn to the Bible for a solid foundation. And homosexual deviants like Milo Yiannopoulos call the Church to repentance in a fashion that could be called faithful.

In the Upside-Down, a bunch of political misfits elected a President who is morally a rat, but as a President is more faithful than either Bush and most other “Christian” conservatives.

God doesn’t need His people to accomplish this. His people need Him. And if that’s true…

…then God doesn’t need Trump either. Although He does love to use the foolish to shame the wise, and claim glory for himself.

The Conclusion of the Election

It’s now 10:34 PST, I haven’t checked the polls for 40 minutes. Last I checked, it was neck and neck. Which was predictable. And I keep coming back to this conversation between Peterson and Yiannopoulos.

In the end, listening to these two pagans (meant lovingly) talk more faithfully than the faithful often do, I realized then that it is God who raises up, and God who tears down. God appoints rulers, and judges them, and rules over them.

This doesn’t justify wicked men like Biden and Kamala, or the demonic acts they support. In fact, it means they have a higher power over them against whom they are in rebellion.

But it does mean that just as God does not need Christians to accomplish His purposes, neither can the wicked thwart His purposes. It does mean God doesn’t need Trump, even if He has used Trump to bless His people, even if briefly.

God doesn’t need Trump, but if he wins, it will be a mercy. If Trump loses, it will be a judgment.

But, in the end, God is good, and His judgment for His beloved is meant for discipline and reprovement and improvement.

And His mercy will be new in the morning.