My Credo

A few pointers on my social media presence – and how you might respond:

A credo is usually thought of in terms of a religious, philosophical or theological declaration or statement of beliefs. What I offer here is sort of different, because the main aim I have in laying this out has to do with the social media. As anyone who posts on controversial issues knows, there is incessant warfare and battles to be found there. It is not a place for the faint of heart.

So it seems that one way for me to avoid some unnecessary controversy and enmity is to declare my hand early on. I have discovered over the years that I might post some things that folks quite like, and they want to become my friend (as on Facebook) or follow me (as on X).

But sure enough, after they stick around a while they start to find things that I write or believe or post that they really dislike. Often they get into major fights with me or simply block me. Indeed, it is a bit humorous to watch all this unfold.

One minute the number of my followers is going up, and the next minute it is going down. Folks see something I posted and think I must be worth following, but then they see something about me that they cannot stomach, so they quickly give me the flick. But thankfully the number of followers overall is slowly going up.

So to prevent anyone from going down this route of first quite liking me, only to discover that they can’t stand me, let me lay out some of my core beliefs and values. It is up to you to then decide if I am worth following – or being in the same room with!

My (social media) credo

For anyone thinking about become buds with me on the social media, or latching on to this website, let me be quite open about where I stand on key matters. I will try to go from the greater to the lesser – from what matters most to what I am more flexible on.

-First and foremost, I am a Christian. More specifically, I am a Protestant, and more specifically still, an evangelical, biblical Protestant. If you hate Christians and Christianity, then CultureWatch is not for you, nor is my presence on the social media. Please feel free to avoid me like the plague if it offends you to hear biblical truth and Christian conviction.

-After some years as a radical lefty and Marxist, I am now firmly in the conservative camp when it comes to political, cultural and social issues. Thus I reject socialism, wokism, political correctness, identity politics, critical race theory, cultural Marxism, intersectionality, sexual revolutionaries, DEI, race-baiting, and so on.

-No one claiming to be a Christian (or anyone with a heart and soul) can promote the slaughter of millions of unborn babies. Thus I am thoroughly pro-life and oppose both abortion on demand and euthanasia. Pro-lifers support both the mother and the child in the abortion debate. Human rights begin with the right to life.

-No one claiming to be a Christian (or anyone concerned about the fate of Western civilisation) can claim to promote the war against marriage and family. The ideal of raising children in a two-parent heterosexual home must be paramount, and the Christian rejects all forms of sexuality outside of heterosexual marriage.

-The trans war against reality and biology (and against women and children especially) must be utterly opposed. Maiming children for life and stripping rights away from women to placate the delusions of men who pretend to be women is just not on.

-I strongly understand that the 1400-year reign of terror by political Islam MUST be resisted at every turn if the West is to have any hope of surviving. While decent individual Muslims exist, this ideology is simply a murderous death cult and is totally inimical to Western values and beliefs. We are NOT the same.

-I strongly support the right of Israel to exist in its ancestral homeland (the only Jewish state in the world) and defend itself. If that makes me a Zionist, then I am proud of it.

-I will not tolerate pathological antisemites, Jew-haters and Israelphobes on my page. But there is a place for constructive criticism of Israel and some of its policies.

-I will not tolerate pathological nutters with a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome on my page. But there is a place for constructive criticism of the Trump administration and some of its policies.

-I will not tolerate pathological nutters who worship at the altar of the increasingly unhinged grifters like Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, and Megyn Kelly on my page. As with so many other conservatives, I used to quite like these three folks, but now they have become a house of cards and a den of demons sadly.

Lastly, because I am a committed Christian, I will of course constantly share Bible passages, Christian quotes, and scriptural and theological truths. If that gets you bent all out of shape, you are not obliged to remain friends or to follow me.

Note: this is a partial listing, and I could add more things, but hopefully you get my drift.

On secondary matters and co-belligerency

There are of course all sorts of less important matters where I can agree to disagree with others. For example, if you are a Christian and have a differing view on eschatology and the like, I will not cast you out as a heretic. Similarly, if you are a lefty but are moving rightwards, like American Democrat John Fetterman, I have a lot of time for you.

Another example is the ongoing trans wars. I am dead set against the trans lunacy, and as such, I am getting plenty of folks liking my posts on that matter and following me. But we may be at best co-belligerents. That is, we are happy to work together on this particular issue, while differing bigtime on other matters.

Thus there can be a number of feminists, lesbians and atheists who I am happy to support on the trans issue. But they likely want nothing to do with me given my stance on feminism, homosexuality, atheism, secular humanism, and so on.

As but one particular example of this, tennis great Martina Navratilova is doing a terrific job in attacking the trans madness. But as a lesbian and a gung-ho lefty (just check out her X page), I realise that I have next to nothing in common with her. Thus I will not follow her, and I am sure she will never follow me, but I sometimes share posts of hers on the trans issue.

Let me offer one more particular example. I mentioned just above that I support Israel and loathe antisemitism. When I got heavily involved with X a few months ago (after being booted off Fakebook), I quickly found that many Jews or supporters of Israel were following me.

But then some Jews ended up turning on me, because I made it clear that I was a Christian. That was of course disappointing, so early on I had to post the following to lay out where I stand:

Having been a regular on X for barely a month now, it is sad that I have to say all this:

-In general, evangelical Christians are among the most vocal supporters of Israel today.

-I am an evangelical Christian who supports Israel and has many Jewish friends.

-If you are a Christian who hates Jews and rails against them, you are not my friend.

-If you are a Jew who hates Christians and rails against them, you are not my friend.

-If any of this upsets you, then do not follow me because I will not follow you.

-If you want to go to war over this, I will just block you.

That resulted in a few more folks unfollowing me. But that particular problem now seems to have abated on my X page. So it seems it was worth spelling things out and taking a stand on this. And I may likely have to do it again sometime in the future.

In sum, on some issues I will work with others because they are important issues, but that does not mean I agree with them in every other key area. The truth is, I need to pick my battles carefully, and I need to discern who I can work with and who I should avoid.

Indeed, we all must decide what our core values are, and who we are happy to partner with, and those who we have to say no to. So my list is admittedly subjective, but it reflects where I am at and where I stand on some vital issues. If you more or less can countenance all this, then feel free to keep coming to this website, and/or following me on the social media.

If not, well, adios.

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