Stop celebrating the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
Beginning over the weekend, the US pulled out of Afghanistan after 20 years in the country. Over the course of the pull-out, the Taliban have effectively taken control of Afghanistan. Images coming out of the region brought sympathy from much of the world, as videos and pictures of hundreds of people gathered around airports trying to escape the country in fear of the new regime that has taken power. In all this, many on right-wing Twitter have decided to celebrate this as a victory against the “Great Satan” (the US). Since the Taliban is a radical Islamist group, they have of course declared intentions to enact laws that will attempt to stamp out degeneracy such as homosexuality and sexual promiscuity. Given the current state of the West in regards to degeneracy, many Christian right-wingers on Twitter have *unironically* celebrated the Taliban’s takeover of the US, with some going as far as to say that the Taliban is “on the same side” as Christians who are opposed to degeneracy.
It’s clear to anyone who can make a friend-enemy distinction, that the Taliban is so obviously not a group that is on the side of any Christian. The Taliban is not even a group worth supporting, given that they have in the past they used child sex slaves as weapons of war, despite their banning of the practice of “bacha bazi” which makes use of these child sex slaves. Not exactly a moral use of the trojan horse in battle. Aside from that, the Taliban are known persecutors of Christians in the region and persecution of Christians is projected to rise following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, so it makes absolutely no sense for a Christian to be jubilant about the situation. The US is not a moral or good force and is arguably an antichrist government as they do use their power to leverage the promotion of many kinds of degeneracy in smaller nations. However, looking at the Taliban, they are as much an antichrist movement as the US, if not more. They subscribe to a religion that outright denies the divinity of Christ and enforce that error on Christians with violence. Looking at 1 John 4:3, this is clearly an antichrist group. Yet many Christians are still supportive of a violent and antichristian group simply because they are not the other antiChristian group that promotes homosexuality as foreign policy.
This is an idiotic approach to the situation, akin to saying you prefer trash over garbage, and highlights a tendency that many on right-wing Twitter have, preferring the devil you don’t know over the devil you do know, to twist the idiom slightly.
Many Christians on right-wing Twitter love cheering on the enemies of the Anglo-American world order when in reality many of them are no better and would behave exactly the same in the same position. China, Iran, the Taliban, etc are not governed by people who are better than the elites that lead America. They are governed by people who, like those in charge of the Anglo-American regime seek power and dominance and are willing to sacrifice anything to achieve that. They aren’t good leaders who “care” for their people, they are led by pragmatic actors seeking more power. The Taliban, as we’ve seen, is willing to use child sex slaves in war, China has such a comprehensive surveillance state that would make what’s happened to Alex Jones and Curtis Yarvin look like a slap on the wrist. Iran is both an Islamic theocracy and allows for loopholes in transgenderism. They are all antichrists and move according to the spirit of Antichrist, as 1 John 2:18 says, there are many antichrists. A Christian should not support one antichrist over another, imagine a Christian in the 2nd century living in the Roman Empire supporting the Parthian Empire, choosing one pagan state over another because the current Roman empire was more degenerate. It’s simply a case of trash vs garbage.
For a Christian living today, there aren’t many good options in terms of regimes to support, much like a Christian living in the first 3 centuries of the Church age, and like them, all we can do is simply follow what St Paul says in regard to living under the government in Romans 13:1 and look forward to Christ’s Kingdom in the age to come. Amen.
