meow! D. G. Hart zings the Bayly brothers and Doug Wilson on Labor Day

There's nothing quite so intriguing about the Christian blogosphere as its capacity for rants and cyber-battles about ideas and ideals.  :)  It's what makes so many of us so very, very American.  Which makes it fitting on Labor Day that, among other things, D. G. Hart decided to zing the Brothers Bayly and Doug Wilson about their postmillennialism (Hart's gotta speak up for two-kingdom theology, of course).  Presented for brief consideration, the following:

... In other words, is Christendom a creation or is it heaven on earth? Does [Doug] Wilson violate every canon of Christian and conservative conviction by immanentizing the eschaton? It sure looks like his postmillenniaism and repeated briefs on behalf of Christendom has a lot of immanentizing going on. Then again, it’s a slippery Christendom and a libertarian theocracy he advocates (oxymoron intended).
  
In point of fact, Wilson does not acknowledge that Christians are aliens and strangers. His model for Christian political and cultural engagement is Christendom (minus the Crusades, papacy, Index of Books, Jewish ghettos). ...

and a bit more: 

Of course, the image of Christians as persecuted and martyrs doesn’t play well among folks who like to hurl “sissy” as an epithet. Turning the other cheek is not a model for cultural domination or for Mere Christendom — not sure it works for cultural engagement, actually.

Of course two-kingdom theology could and did become handy in the antebellum South as a reason not to get too swift in addressing slavery, just as two-kingdom theology could and did become handy in Weimar years when it was easier to let some things happen than to make some objections.  Any systematic applied across the board is going to lead to an atrocity of some kind when wielded by flesh and blood.  The history of the internet, and of the sorts of humans who invented it (i.e. the human race) is that we've got a long history of convincing ourselves our ideas won't have the same consequences as the ideas of those other people even if history could be shown to have proven otherwise. 

Or as some author of some book put it, there is none who is righteous, not even one.  But we peoples have a habit of thinking that quote is supposed to apply to you and never quite come around to applying to me.