I rarely do, or will, comment on current events. But this week, we got to enjoy the sight of the left celebrating the lynching of a racial minority by an extremist group of separatist traditionalists. No need to moan about hypocrisy, they have the power and you don’t.

I’m a bit pissed off about something else though. To be honest, I have very little sympathy for Mr. John Chau. I don’t know where he resides in America, but I guarantee that within a mile of his home, maybe within a thousand feet of his front door, there is a young man in deep crisis or a young woman on the brink of becoming a whore. Young people who are not Christians, or maybe they are bad Christians, whose lives would be bettered by a bit of old strong religion. Who would find some meaning and purpose; the joy of a family maybe, or the peace and humility of worship.

But evangelizing the troubled youth that assuredly exist in his community is not glamorous. It wouldn’t get him on the news. It might even get him scorned and attacked for a lack of sufficient progressivism, were he to evangelize his local community. The money he spent on a plane ticket to the literal other end of the earth, so he could take bible-thumping selfies with a bunch of ungrateful primitives, could have paid the trade school tuition for a young Christian man contemplating suicide in the face of a hopeless future, could have sent a young heroin addict to the oil sands to get clean.

He does not ‘love his neighbor’ in any sense of the phrase. His trip to the other end of the earth is a display of contempt of his neighbors, or sheer stupid folly, if he thinks that they have already found God, and do not need His help.

These evangelists should be put on notice. Your communities are watching. Make no mistake, the young men and women of America are struggling: physically, morally, and spiritually. When they see men like Chau, men like you, turn your backs on them for virtue-signalling trips to ungrateful and savage lands? They turn away from you, and away from your Church, and away from God. Why shouldn’t they? Your charity is meant to demonstrate the mercy of your Lord. What you are telling them is: “No room for thee in Christ. You are below the heathens of the jungle in the eyes of the Lord”.

The tribals he attempted to evangelize, so isolated for so long that they likely do not even share our species in the eye of honest science, are smarter than he is. They understand what neighborliness means; maintaining the integrity of their group at any cost.

Matthew 15:26

But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.