I grew up in a Free Holiness family in North Alabama. Both of my parents had the Holy Ghost when I was born and it was all I ever knew until I went to public school, where I discovered that other denominations exist. For a period of time after this revelation, I still believed that everyone must be either Holiness or Baptist.
Free Holiness is a Pentecostal denomination of Christianity which is local to Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, but also has some churches ranging from Kentucky to Florida, and perhaps some other states I’m not aware of. It shares many commonalities with other Pentecostals in general, but is unique in a number of very significant ways. A common characteristic of all Pentecostals, in the very name, is the event known as Pentecost and the poorly understood phenomenon of speaking in tongues. In these churches, a person receives the Holy Ghost (the Holy Spirit, i.e. salvation) with the sign of speaking in tongues. This is proof to those around you that you did in fact just receive it. Speaking in tongues can also occur after the event of salvation while having an ecstatic religious experience, such as shouting around in church or even private prayer in the closet.
A significant factor motivating my writing of this article is the fact that Free Holiness has a very small online footprint. Besides their website, it is very difficult to find anyone talking about this denomination online. I have come across a few people who seem to be talking about it, but rarely is it made concrete that it is Free Holiness being discussed. One solid reference point is this article from a website called Sacramento Present Truths in 2013, wherein the second section of the article specifically discusses this denomination I grew up in and even provides a picture of Higdon Free Holiness Church, which is supposed to have been the first established church in this region. There is a short video of what appears to be a social media ‘reel’ of John Crist visiting Sequatchie Valley Free Holiness Church in Tennessee. There are plenty of different Pentecostal and Holiness denominations, as well as online personalities who discuss being in/leaving them (such as the website and YouTube channel of Berean Holiness), almost all of them either Christians or typical atheist types. I believe that Free Holiness distinguishes itself enough to warrant being identified, outlined, and analyzed for the sake of a better public understanding and so that those familiar with or who grew up in this church can finally read a shared experience of someone who left. I will not be reiterating the technical history of the church, as their official website does a fine enough job outlining that. This is not particularly necessary anyway as the church and this style of charismatic Christianity is relatively young. There had been Quakers since the days of Royal Colonial rule, and ecstatic experiences developing from Weslyian and Methodist groups throughout the 19th century, but tongues speaking can only be pinned down to an origin in the first decade of the 20th century. Many cite the ‘Azusa Street Revival’, which funnily enough took place in Los Angeles, California in 1906, as the start. Of course, it is quite possible that there were unrecorded experiences and practices of this sort for some number of years prior to this event before this style of ecstatic worship broke onto the scene in a public manner at this event.
Doctrines, Beliefs, and Standards
In Free Holiness, it is believed that you can only get the Holy Ghost one time. Jesus only died on the cross once for us, so we can only die to ourselves once – or so it goes. This is coupled with the fact that they believe in ‘entire sanctification’ and ‘Christian perfection’, and thus after receiving the big HG you will not sin again, or more like you cannot if you want to keep your salvation. If you do willingly and knowingly sin again, you lose the Holy Ghost and cannot ever get it back. For this reason, as well as ‘speaking in tongues’ and overblown/fabricated stories of ‘snake handling’, many outsiders see this sect as extreme, and it receives the accusation of being a cult. Snake handling has been a practice taking place in the church house in other Pentecostal denominations, but the extent of snake handling in Free Holiness appears to be testimonies of the Lord letting people handle a snake in the woods when they prayed about it. This was more common, but still rare, in the 20th century and does not really take place today. Regarding the church members who have the Holy Ghost, commonly known as the ‘Children of God’, there is to the public a very false perception of asceticism, yet the true ridiculousness of that image is known only to those who grew up on the inside.
Tongues
Speaking in tongues is a fundamental part of the Holiness belief system. It is the only way you can be recognized as saved. A strong distinction needs to be made between the common gibberish nonsense words you may have seen on TV and what happens in the Free Holiness churches. When someone with the Holy Ghost speaks in tongues, it is a repetition of a few sounds, usually one consonant and one vowel, e.g. ‘eee nanananan’ or ‘lalalala’ or some variation. They do not make up a language, e.g. ‘sim bo lak ti mah far di po ner mick’. They exhibit this form of glossolalia, a concept whose basis in the scripture we will cover in the following paragraphs. This is a topic that very few people understand or even think can be understood. To those within the church it is an undeniable proof that this is real and Holiness is Right. To those without, it is insanity, drunkenness, demonic possession, or just suggestive mass psychosis of some sort. Let’s start off by saying that speaking in tongues is a completely genuine and real experience (although there are known to be some fakers) which is ineffably profound to the tongue speaker.
Glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, is not exclusive to Free Holiness, of course. Pentecostals of many stripes experience this, as well as other protestant denominations, and has been known in limited examples in Catholic and Orthodox groups, though apparently not until after the American phenomenon came onto the scene. Regarding the other denominations who speak in tongues, they will say that the others have ‘weird spirits’ or demons. It is also not exclusive to Christianity, as there are some rare examples of American Indian tribal religions having these kinds of experiences. It can also be exhibited in a (somewhat) non-religious context, such as the well established record of people experiencing glossolalia during intense psychedelic mushroom experiences, and has been reported on Ayahuasca, DMT, and I’m sure others as well. These are incredibly intense spiritual experiences, and so there is obviously some physiological function where an intense and ecstatic experience can make one lose control over their motor functions and triggers something in the language/speech part of the brain. I do not mean to examine this from a purely scientific, materialist, or rationalist viewpoint, as I do believe there are genuine spiritual forces at play here. I do believe that Holiness people are actually worshiping an entity known as Yahweh and that this worship does actually channel these feelings to the members, aside from a purely psychologically intense experience. The two aspects are not exclusive to one another, however.
The Free Holiness understanding of speaking in tongues comes from the contents of the second chapter of Acts. In it is described the day of ‘Pentecost’ (the 50th day after the Jewish Passover, so approximately 50 days after when Jesus was crucified according to the Gospels) where the Holy Ghost made its first appearance to many people gathered there.
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Particularly important is the 3rd verse, ‘there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire’. The imagery is clear, but there is another important part in verses 6-7, where despite all present speaking different languages, they were able to understand what was being said. This is a debate in Christianity about what is actually happening here, whether it is glossolalia (language in the absence of meaning) or xenoglossia (speaking/understanding a language that one does not know). It is not explicitly said in verse 3 that the cloven tongues are glossolalia, but if you’ve ever seen a Holiness person speak in tongues you can see how this could be what is suggested. The xenoglossia in the following verses is undeniable. As well, there is tongues speaking described by Paul in 1 Corinthians 14 where someone does speak in an ‘angelic language’ but another church member should interpret these tongues. He even comments that it profits none to speak in tongues without someone to interpret what is being said. If this was supposed to be the way things were, if this was the main sign of salvation, you would think that it would be made explicitly crystal clear. In fact, the entire paradigm believed by Holiness, their view of being lost, getting called to go to the altar, being condemned, speaking in tongues, shouting around, etc, is not explicitly laid out in the scripture, it is deduced by inferring from many different books and chapters. Of course, this is what most other Christians do too, because the New Testament is really not clear about what Christianity is supposed to look like in this regard.
A curiosity regarding their belief that everyone must speak in tongues is what is said by Rabbi Shaul of Tarsis, known by his ‘gentile’ name Paul, in 1 Corinthians Chapter 12:
27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
The obvious implied answer to all the questions posed in verses 29 and 30 is no. Not all are apostles, not all are prophets, not all are teachers, not all work miracles, not all have the gift of healing, and not all speak with tongues. Yet, Free Holiness teaches that all (are supposed to) speak with tongues. This leads me to a theory I have about glossolalia, which is that there is a gradient of sensitivity for being able to exhibit it. For some people, they have a very low threshold of ecstasy to speak in tongues. These might be those that speak in tongues almost as soon as they hit the floor the first time they go to the altar, and who likewise speak in tongues every time they testify in church. There is another segment of people who have a higher threshold, and some have a threshold so high that is truly takes some other worldly levels of spiritual experience to be able to speak in tongues, and some of these rarely if ever speak in tongues again for the rest of their lives. Then there is some segment of the population that is not able to speak in tongues at all, their brain or body just isn’t wired that way. As is the case with so many other physical phenomenon that some people can do easy, others find more difficult, and others can not at all. Another factor in the levels of spiritual ecstasy that one can experience is how much ‘blind’ faith they have in the experience. Many people who get ‘stuck’ in the altar and cannot receive the Holy Ghost are those that are more aware about the experience, some that ‘know too much’, have had any doubts whatsoever at any point, all of these create an inhibition to being able to give oneself over completely to the experience.
Laying of Hands
During any given church service, most of the Children of God will spend a lot of time with their hands raised in the air, particularly once the service really gets moving, once a song brings a good feeling or the testimonies start. They are feeling the power of God, hands raised to the sky as if to receive his power like an antenna. These hands are shaking, sometimes violently, as the power of god courses through them. Officially, they are not the ones moving their hands, it is purely the power causing the shaking without any input from the person. The Children of God have a practice called ‘laying of hands’ where they will walk to someone, led by the spirit, and lay their shaking hand on their forehead, top of their head, side, etc. This is supposed to bless the recipient somehow, think of transferring power from the hand of the layer onto the layee. For example, someone who is sick can get hands laid on them in hopes of getting better, or someone who is lost will get hands laid on them. It is commonly known as the Lord ‘looking at you’ if you receive hands. An advanced form of this is anointing of oil, typically done by a preacher, where some kind of oil is applied to the hand before it is laid on someone. This is an extra special blessing, an extra special ‘getting looked at’.
Miracles
Healing and miracles are so very dear to the Free Holiness movement and are perhaps the strongest proof for those within the church that their way is the right way. Disregard the fact that many other denominations apparently have so many likewise amazing miracles. There is a perfectly sensible question in how these miracles, which I fully admit to and can appreciate the profundity of, can happen if Holiness is not the true way, or perhaps at the very least Christianity is not the true way. Let’s try and understand how and why miracles happen. The scientific rationalist may say that it is pure chance, that miracles are bound to happen sometimes. Besides, what about all the times that people desperately pray en masse for an outcome, such as a loved one not dying, and the miracle does not happen? And what about the apparent curses and sheer lack of mercy like the Christian girls camp in Texas being flash flooded and all those white girls being drowned to death? People will praise god for one person surviving, but will never take into account the fact that this was permitted to happen in the first place. God is the author of all things, after all. However, I am not a scientific rationalist, and I do earnestly believe that people can petition the gods and the metaphysical realms for outcomes in life. Jacques Ellul (a Christian theologian) argued in his 1954 book The Technological Society that magic was the very first form of technique, and of technology, of human beings directing their will to affect outcomes in the natural world. There is an argument that the very act of people praying as a group, or even as an individual, and directing their will and energy towards a certain goal can affect change. Some would call this ‘manifestation’, which is a term with a lot of cooky baggage, but there is certainly something to it. Very few people would deny the existence of synchronicities, of people both happening to think of each other and call one another at the same time after not speaking for years, of premonition dreams and of impossible wishes that seemed to magically come true.
After all, consciousness is the substrate of existence, of creation. The Christian and the Heathen would agree on this. Mind did not arise from matter, but matter arose from mind. We would both agree that we have a spark of the divine in us, of that which constructed creation, that we are in the image of the Almighty. We have the ability to have our prayers heard at the throne, at the highest levels of the heavens. As I said, I do believe that Yahweh probably exists as an entity, and he is being worshiped. The ancient Greeks believed that people and the gods had a sort of symbiotic relationship, with human devotion, veneration, and particularly sacrifice providing pnuema, or spiritual energy of life, to the gods. In return the gods can affect this world, hopefully in our favor. Pnuema is the root of words like pnuematic, and means ‘breath, spirit, or wind’, like the Genesis story tells us that Yahweh breathed life into Adam. In my perspective I do see Yahweh as a sort of chaos demon who is ultimately malicious but may cause favorable outcomes for his devotees. Yahweh’s ultimate goal outlined in the Torah is for his chosen people to rule and reign over the Earth with their Messiah and for all the goyim (gentiles) to bury their idols and worship the one ‘true’ god. He is a very jealous god, much like the character of his ‘chosen people’. So, if gentiles are worshiping him as such to prepare the way for his world ruler to come, then why wouldn’t he provide for them sometimes? This ties in with manifestation as some have argued that the gods are concentrations of will and energy of a people group, such as Mars being the marshal will of the Roman people. So perhaps some of this is manifestation, some is intervention by the gods, or it could be that the two are more intertwined than we understand and overlap. This line of argumentation may be getting off in the weeds for some, but I’m leaving my perspective on this here for the record. The reader is free to believe whatever they wish regarding if Yahweh may or may not exist and if miracles are tied in with developments in the metaphysical realm.
Structure of a Free Holiness Service
Any given meeting at the Free Holiness church house reliably starts with some welcoming words from the preacher followed by singing a few songs to get the service going. The singing is a good way to ease people into the worshiping headspace, with their minds on heaven and the power of music they get in the mood to have spiritual experiences and intense feelings. This helps to spur someone to really get the service going by testifying and shouting around in the power. Testimonials are often the bulk of a church service, and one after another Children of God volunteer to testify and praise god, usually walking around with their hands raised, shaking, laying hands or having hands laid on them, some speaking in tongues, until they end the testimony and return to where they were. If someone gets really high on this they call it ‘getting a blessing’ and they can fall out in the floor, shaking and yelling. When this happens the rest of the Children of God will form a circle around that person and shout as well, praising god and raising their hands. The testimonies may be broken up by the occasional song, which likewise may be accompanied by someone feeling the power, walking around and shouting, raising hands, laying hands.
After the testimonies, or even between two segments of testimony periods, the preacher will usually deliver his sermon and read from the Bible. This is not like a typical Protestant, Catholic, or Orthodox sermon where a carefully prepared lecture is delivered quite matter-of-factly. The Holiness preacher claims to be led purely by the spirit of what to say, what to preach on, and what to read from the scriptures. It is usually very passionate, with lots of shouting and laying of hands, although it can be more reserved depending on how ‘on fire’ the service is. The preacher may preach to the Children of God and/or to the ‘lost’ in the back of the house, hopefully getting some lost person to finally make their way to the altar and try to receive the Holy Ghost, or to help and condemn the people already going to the altar. The meeting is then concluded by the altar call, where everyone stands, a song is sung, and the lost people get on their knees in the altar and pray for the Holy Ghost. The lost will commonly raise their hands and say ‘glory glory glory glory…’. Some pray for just a few minutes before getting up, some can pray for 30 minutes, an hour, two hours, depending on how dedicated they are and how ‘close’ they get to receiving it. There are those who get the Holy Ghost the first time they go, others it takes weeks or months or years, and for some it takes decades of going to the altar, even half a century or more. In rare cases a lost person can go to the altar every church service for their entire life and die without the Holy Ghost. Even so, without fail when any of these people finally receive the Holy Ghost, no matter how long they went to the altar, they will all say ‘It was so easy, it is the easiest thing in the world!’
When the lost are praying in the altar, people will gather around them and pray for them, shouting, raising hands, etc. If someone is doing ‘really good’ they will probably get more people gathered around them than the ones who are seemingly making little progress. When a lost person who is doing good is still struggling to actually get the Holy Ghost, they will be stopped by someone around them and given some kind of sage advice on how to let go and give themselves over to god. This usually consists of some variation of ‘You just have to believe he’ll do what he said he’ll do, just believe him!’. They may go back to praying, stall out, get advice, and repeat this cycle many times during a prolonged Holy Ghost attempt.
Standards
The personal standards for members of the church are shared with other fundamentalist sects. In Free Holiness, women cannot cut their hair, they cannot wear pants and must wear skirts, they must dress modestly (although this standard keeps evolving to bend the rules more and more, whereas skirts used to have to go down to the floor, they can now pass as long as they are just below the knees), it used to be that women couldn’t wear jewelry (this standard is also now being rolled back, but they still cannot have earrings or other piercings), women cannot wear makeup (although many now wear concealer, foundation, or clear mascara whereas this would have been unacceptable a couple decades ago). Men must wear pants (no shorts), must keep their hair cut short (above the eyebrows and preferably higher), must likewise dress modestly (no tank tops/sleeveless shirts showing shoulders), and men cannot grow facial hair. This last standard for the men is especially hilarious considering that many of the founders of the Free Holiness movement had beards and mustaches. The New Testament makes zero mention or recommendation about men’s facial hair and the Old Testament actually commands (Jewish) men to have an untrimmed beard. I have asked plenty of people in the church about this standard and no one can give anything approaching even a poor answer to the question. When pressed, at the end they will relent ‘If its our tradition then why can’t you just obey? Are you vain and caring about what you want instead of what God wants?’ This tradition seems to have started around the late 50s or early 60s. A speculative reason I’ve heard is that it was to differentiate Holiness men from the hippies of that era who had beards, but who knows? Whatever the reason, Yahweh apparently gave a preacher the feeling to preach that at some point, and Holiness preachers are basically Apostles who can set new standards if they are ‘led by the spirit’.
The Holiness Church Following ‘Progress’
As you can tell by the caveats and clarifications of the changing standards I just described, the Holiness churches are experiencing a phenomenon common to all other groups in our progressive, liberal society: the ratchet effect. Conservatism at large has been pulled in this manner for decades, they have their values subverted and relent to go along with the apparent progress in society but always want things to go back to the way they were 30 years ago. The conservatives of today are last generation’s liberals. Every clink of the turning ratchet cannot be undone; once they make any move in the direction of ‘progress’, they are there to stay, and a new line is then drawn to defend – that is, until inevitably their values are dragged left once again by the changing society. And how could it be otherwise? Each generation’s children is increasingly assaulted and groomed with ever more sophisticated means of subversion, indoctrination, and propaganda. No one, not even these ‘fundamentalist’ Holiness people, have the guts, the backbone, or simply the understanding to actually keep their children from the myriad vectors of influence which surround us in this age. Thus, the skirts shrank slowly, and once a few people broke the standard, whilst still shouting around in church and being recognized as still having the Holy Ghost, then it couldn’t be effectively combated or reversed by the leadership.
Free Holiness people see themselves as separate from all the ‘worldly’ people who don’t have the Holy Ghost. However, they still have no problems watching whatever poisonous subversive (Jewish) Hollywood movies and shows that get pumped out to the masses, scrolling and posting on vain social media, listening to whatever toxic and degenerate worldly music they please, participating in electoral politics and supporting whatever evil traitorous puppets available – essentially whatever they want as long as they obey most of the standards. Young Holiness boys and girls everywhere listen to tons of black thug, drugs, and sex rap ‘music’. Let’s circle back to the false perception of Holy Ghosters as ascetics. Many see them as some sort of monks, denying the self and the sinful temptations of the world through extreme dedication and the grace of Jesus, or God, or the Holy Ghost, or all three (I mean one?), they manage to maintain their Christian Perfection. ‘Oh I just don’t think I could live it’ says the Baptist down the road from the Holiness Church. However, as I just mentioned, Holiness people can indulge in whatever toxic sludge they wish to as long as they publicly obey the big standards.
Upon this topic rests one of the biggest bombshells for me that shattered any perception I once held of Holiness people being serious or respectable in their beliefs in any way: the men can watch porn. Yes, you read that correctly. Apparently, porn is not bad enough to be considered a sin. This blew my mind, because even as a kid and as an atheist teenager I knew that pornography was wrong and evil without having to be told so. It is obvious to most except those truly desensitized by exposure or hedonistic nihilism that it is a horrible toxic evil filthy subversive (Jewish) poison on our society that has wrought untold destruction and degeneracy, destroying the minds and bodies of young men and women and smashing beyond repair any normal or natural conception of the divine love that is supposed to be sex between a man and his wife. I have word from the inside from a young fellow with the Holy Ghost that all of his Holy Ghosted friends watch porn, and he doesn’t think it is an issue. Unsurprisingly, he and his wife have issues in the bedroom, which likely further drives his consumption. I’m sure this progressed slowly just like the skirts shrinking, at first a few men got sucked into the extreme drug-like powers of pornography but still had the Holy Ghost, rationalizing why its not actually bad or sinful to do so in a number of ways. Once that precedent was established, the new line was drawn. This is such a low bar that even some atheists can admit that watching porn is cheating on your wife. If nothing else, it is looking on a woman with lust. I beseech ye, brethren, is adultery not a sin?
‘But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.’
Matthew 5:28
Given that these are fundamentalist conservative Christians, you might think that they may be at least marginally better on the issue of race and the preservation thereof, but unfortunately like every other Christian, they are complete race traitors. Without a second thought they would rather have their beautiful white daughter marry a Christian negro than to marry a white Heathen. The Free Holiness church is now beginning to have increased outside racial admixture. There are some blacks and mulattos, and after WWII there were some Holiness men that took Japanese wives upon returning home, but the biggest foreign cohort which are now so readily accepted, celebrated, and mixed into their families are Mexicans. Holiness girls have birthed a number of mixed race children in the past decade. Of course, it is mostly the girls marrying men of other races, the white men in the church apparently don’t have much of an interest in black or Mexican girls. Sadly, plenty of these girls are victims of an all-encompassing decades-long cultural saturation of propaganda designed to promote and encourage race-mixing among whites, to paint our mixing-out as cool, modern, enlightened, and just.
Many readers may gasp at this point, being conditioned by modern liberal values of racial universalism (which ultimately comes from Christianity, liberalism is just secularized Christian values), and young whites being made to believe that the white race is evil or that any desire to preserve it is likewise abhorrent. Face your racial destruction if you wish. Besides, why does it matter if we are destroyed, Jesus is coming back soon, so we have already won. We don’t have to do anything. Don’t mind the racial destruction wrought upon us by millions of Africans, Muslims, and Mexicans being flooded in our nations (by Jewish forces lobbying for open borders, propagandizing for this cause by media power, and directly helping these people get here with NGOs like the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society or Isra-Aid). No need to worry though, the book they gave us says we are actually winning when we lose.
I would like to end this article by looking at the direction that the younger generation in the Free Holiness church is heading. Just as we discussed, they are becoming more and more liberal in many ways. However, they are also evolving in how much they actually hold the Free Holiness doctrine as completely true and as it appears. I have learned from speaking to Millennials and Gen Z members that there are several of them who know far more than they are supposed to. One young woman with the Holy Ghost said something to me which made it clear that she knows there are many problems with the church, the doctrine, and she even admitted that there is no evidence that Jesus actually even existed as a real person. Yet, she still has the Holy Ghost, still shouts around in church. Another young woman with the Holy Ghost in High School was engaged in a lesbian relationship, and knowingly broke several cosmetic standards, yet she still officially had the Holy Ghost and shouted around in church. Several young members have engaged in sexual relationships before marriage, even with other members who they were not dating, yet they kept the Holy Ghost. Because there are so many young people who grew up in church that never go to the altar and end up leaving the church, it seems that they cannot afford to declare that a member doesn’t have the Holy Ghost anymore unless they absolutely have to. Preaching saying this message has been sounded in many churches in the last decade, whereas in the past these infringers would have readily received a vote of no confidence from the church elders.
For these young people who know too much about the church and even realize things aren’t as they seem, yet choose to remain in the church anyway, they are quite understandably remaining in the place that they grew up in and fit in. No need to rock the boat, they have a community they belong to and works for them. The high from shouting and running around in church is a nice bonus. Some have even faked speaking in tongues to join the Holy Ghosters in the congregation. It isn’t really that hard to say ‘eee nananana’ anyway, as long as you can do it without laughing. Who actually knows how many members have done this, more or less consciously, and then do their best to forget about it and live their Holy Ghost life? A few years ago I was at a ‘regular meeting’ church service where the altar call was going on for 2 hours and people were waiting to eat the dinner prepared. One of the people waiting outside said ‘Go in there and tell them to either make it or fake it!’.
So, what would my desired outcome be? For all the Free Holiness churches to clear out and all the members stop believing? Certainly not. Holiness clearly does a lot of good for a lot of people in providing a moral structure. It does a lot of damage too, however. Being good because you are scared of burning forever or simply in hope of eternal paradise is not a true basis for morality. When Christians stop believing with no coherent worldview to take its place, many of them dive into nihilistic hedonism and degeneracy, into abject and apathetic atheism. They lose their foundation and are sunk into the poisons of our modern liberal society. There is the phenomenon of the preacher’s son or daughter, where when they come of age they rebel and dive off the deep end because they have felt repressed and want to taste the taboo fruits. Some Christians will say, ‘why not just rape and kill if you don’t believe in hell?’. This thinking clearly demonstrates a lack of true ethical understanding, why we ought to be good instead of bad. The damage Christianity does to us as a people is hard to overstate, giving so much power and reverence to the Jews as chosen, to their god, and to their ethno-religious vision for the Messianic world order where a Jew will rule the world. The damage it has done to us by deracinating and corroding our self-preservation instinct with the lie of racial universalism, leading to the present sorry state we are now in. Undermining the family and sabotaging our loyalty to our people above all else. If we are ever going to survive as a race and defeat the international conspiracy arrayed against us, we will have to go the way of Julian the Great, known to Christians as Julian the Apostate, and return to our native ethnic gods, the gods of our fathers and mothers, our own religion and philosophy which is far greater, more beautiful, more moral, more sophisticated, more thorough, more objective, and truer than anything that came out of the Abrahamic Semitic Yahweh cult. I truly believe that there will be in this 21st century a great Heathen revival and a righteous rejection of Jewish religion.
As you can tell, I am not a Christian. I see Christianity as a Jewish deception on the gentile world to get them to worship the Jewish god and facilitate their vision for their global rule from Jerusalem. To neuter, to neutralize the big bad pagan Gentiles which historically dominated them. They could not win on the battlefield and so in order to survive and achieve their goals, they had to turn to the pen, to rhetoric, to storytelling and propaganda, and while the insurrectionist movement of the first century was never able to conquer Rome militarily (rather was ruthlessly crushed and their temple destroyed by Titus the Great), the works of high level Pharisees and Rabbis such as Shimone Peter and Shaul of Tarsis, with the blessing of the Sanhedrin top sage Gamaliel, became the ultimate weapon against the Romans. It may have taken three centuries, but in the end they did conquer the mighty Roman Empire when after all Constantine the ‘Great’ made Christianity the official religion of the Empire. The proud Romans buried their idols and worshiped the god of Israel, outlawing their ethnic religions and persecuting anyone who refused to bow the knee to the king of the Jews.
My disbelief in the Free Holiness church is a source of needless tension between my family and I. Their belief that I am going to burn forever in magic lava because I won’t go down there and speak in tongues, then run around the church house shouting like a fool, is a source of such unnecessary raw, visceral grief for them. They have no idea what I truly believe, they do not know that I have taken within myself the spirit of my fathers who are long time gone. I have embraced and come to revere the gods of my ancestors, our own native racial culture before the foreign Semitic disease invaded by the tip of the sword our white homelands and convinced our children that we worshiped demons and fallen angels. That us stupid gentile dogs were lost before we knew the King of the Jews, that we were nothing before Yahweh and Rabbi Jesus decided to graft us in to the Jewish tree. For any Christians, Holiness members, ex-members, or the like who have completed this article, do not take my words as unnecessary abrasion or snark. I would like for you to see that we face very real and fatal threats, and that no Rabbi is coming to save us from them.
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