G3 Ministries has been on a race to lose credibility as it embraces the path set by those the ministry was originally created to provide a biblical alternative to. Many online have taken to call G3 TG3, in reference to The Gospel Coalition (and perhaps also their T4G conference). G3 Ministries is full of pietists who have made Christian Nationalism an issue to divide over where previously it was not. Their personalities such as Josh Buice, Nathaniel Jolly, Virgil Walker, and Scott Aniol have generally operated in bad faith on this issue.
Enter Charles Haywood, a right wing personality whose views overlap with Christian Nationalism; however, he calls his political theory “Foundationalism.” Nevertheless, Josh Buice, the president of G3 Ministries took aim at Charles Haywood, because of his association with Nate Fischer, the founder of New Founding.
Regarding Nationalism, Charles Haywood, and a New America 🧵
— 𝙅𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙘𝙚 (@JoshBuice) August 28, 2023
Recently, I was made aware that a man named Charles Haywood has penned a manifesto that described a revolution that would include violence and chaos to usher in what he calls "Foundationalism."
The 12-Pillars of… pic.twitter.com/9EDl4DCynS
The 800+ word tweet goes after Charles Haywood as a proxy for going after Nate Fischer and Christian Nationalism.
True enough, although I certainly sympathize with Christian Nationalism.
— Charles Haywood (@TheWorthyHouse) August 28, 2023
Charles Haywood explicitly doesn’t apply the label to himself although his ideas have great overlap including a government that favors Christianity. So what is the actual problem?
The problem is that Charles Haywood believes that a time of violence and instability is inevitable.
How is Foundationalism to be accomplished? Not easily, and not without the world first being broken and then remade. The first requirement is smashing and irretrievably discrediting our current system, that is, the cultural and political dominance of the Left, the poison of the modern age. This, when done, will destroy forever the philosophical dominance of autonomic individualism. When that is successfully accomplished, the ground will be cleared for Foundationalism. If that is not successfully accomplished, there is no point in talking about a worthwhile future for human flourishing. The future will instead be a sickly random walk into the distant future, and perhaps be no future at all, if man extinguishes himself.
Achieving Foundationalism will inevitably occur, in part, by first passing through chaos and violence. Through the chaos, there will be steps forward and steps backward, but if our leaders are bold men informed by Foundationalism, more steps will be made forward than backward. But if Foundationalism is truly a system based in reality, it will succeed in its goals.
Success breeds success, resulting in that public opinion will, to the extent not already turned to Foundationalism, decisively turn in that direction. While Foundationalism does not take its direction from public opinion, it realizes that a society must, to a large extent, reflect public opinion, and that in a modern technological society, opinion will always be widely and quickly formed. The system, therefore, while led from above, must also grow organically from below, and become a living thing, strong and flexible, able to face the future with confidence, audacity, and determination. This is the way.
Charles Haywood believes that the current regime is a more fragile than it appears and will likely resort to violence to defend its hegemony. His views are that this is inevitable not desirable.
So why does Josh Buice, a novice when it comes to politics, go after a relatively obscure figure and how does he even know who Haywood is?
The answer seems to be somewhere in the coordination of the 800+ word tweet. Enter Michael O’Fallon.
An important thread on the Society for American Civic Renewal, Charles Haywood, Nate Fischer and New Founding 👇 https://t.co/3T6IiClJ5C
— Michael O'Fallon - Sovereign Nations (@SovMichael) August 28, 2023
Michael O’Fallon was the former board member of G3 Ministries who was removed from the board, a story first reported by Evangelical Dark Web back in June.
The political messaging, particularly his emphasis on the US Constitution as a supreme document for Christian political thought, it being the first question in Josh Buice’s 800+ word tweet, is certainly O’Fallon’s MO. Yet it’s not clear what explains combing through GoodReads reviews.
It seems that you are obsessed with power. In your book review of Lenin on Good Reads (https://t.co/1eL0aZJljX), you stated the following:
— 𝙅𝙤𝙨𝙝 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙘𝙚 (@JoshBuice) August 28, 2023
"I find myself finding Lenin strangely attractive, in these latter days, when everything old is new again. Not his goals, which are silly…
Conclusions
Josh Buice is willing to attack any Christian who does not share his pietistic views and believes that the government should favor Christianity. Moreover, he believes it dangerous for one to believe that political violence is inevitable given our current trajectory. These are odd issues to attack a fellow believer for believing, and thus contribute to the diminishing credibility of G3 Ministries.
