By Kerwin Holmes, Jr.

Dishonest scales are detestable to the Lord,
but an accurate weight is his delight.
-Proverbs 11:1

This is what I have to say so far about the 2020 USA presidential election:

The Cornerstone
The above quotation of Holy Writ comes from the Hebrew biblical book of Proverbs. The particular word for abomination, תּוֹעֵבַה (to’e-bah), when referring explicitly and specifically to God being offended, always means something that God finds evil no matter what. It is an abomination that violates His very nature. No, despite the many Biblically-illiterate people in the world, shellfish and mixed fabric garments are not “abominations” to God in the distinct meaning of this word. Some may cite Deuteronomy 14:3 as a counter to what I say. I will simply point out that that passage does not say that those animals are “abominations to the Lord.” Rather, they are the same as when the same word is used (with historical accuracy) regarding how the Ancient Egyptians detested shepherds and Asiatic customs (see Genesis 43:32, Genesis 46:34, and Exodus 8:26). In the case of Deuteronomy 14:3, the (new) dietary restrictions placed upon the Ancient Israelites under Moses (which none of them lived by in previous generations) were to be their new cultural standard. Also, note how at the end of the section of law concerning shellfish and other foods in Deuteronomy 14:3 (which I helpfully included in the hyperlink) that foreigners in the land of Israel or those outside the nation’s boundaries were allowed to eat those things. This means that those animals, as foods in themselves, did not violate God’s nature, as opposed to many other things which God forbade not only from the Ancient Israelites but from all nations. Those many other things were what God explicitly told them He hated from the various foreign nations around them. This is very clear from (within the same law book) God’s commandment against the idolatry of the surrounding nations (peep verses 23 to 26 as you finish reading the hyperlinked citation).

In case anyone is still contentious, then I refer them to a place (within the same law book) where the distinction between something that is “an abomination to God” is established apart from something that is simply to be culturally binding to the Ancient Israelites under the Mosaic Covenant: (you can find that here).
Note that in that same passage (within the same law book), it is laid out word-for-word that actions that are “abominations to the Lord” are wrong for anyone to do no matter who they are or when they live.
It simply goes against God’s nature.

I make that distinction for the reason of this blog post, not for apologetics. Though, by all means, take it apologetically. This is how you read the Bible: some things written in its books are law, especially within the Torah/Law, and therefore one should read them as such. For novices, the Torah (aka “Law”) is contained in the books Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Now, the particular verse above in the introduction, Proverbs 11:1, gives a reference that actually is given in the Torah/Law. In Deuteronomy 25 (yes, again, the same law book I have kept referencing) the Torah states:

¹³ “Do not have differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light. ¹⁴ Do not have differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller. ¹⁵ You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. ¹⁶ For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the Lord your God.
_{Deuteronomy 25:13-14, with the bold indicating the Hebrew word for to’e-bah}

The Book of Proverbs, as its name indicates, gives usually laconic and minimalist sayings within its contemporary context meant to steer any reader into living the wise and fulfilling life. For millennia, men and women from many cultures worldwide have used this book’s principles to guide their lives. Some of these people were Jewish, some were Christian, some (like myself) were both, and some were neither. Even the Ancient Israelite writers who compiled these sayings realized that this statement about dishonest measurements from their Torah applied to all human beings at all times. It was universal and eternal. God hates dishonesty full-stop, especially the dishonesty that takes advantage of another human being. It didn’t matter whether one was an Ancient Israelite before Moses enjoying some ham-hock, or an Ancient Israelite after Moses repulsed at the very notion of being anywhere near swine. It doesn’t matter whether one was a Cushite or is a modern-day Hawaiian. Anyone who uses dishonest scales is under the angry judgment of God.

The Edifice
Now, having made the case for how this standard is eternal and universal, let’s get into what we should consider for the present circumstances surrounding the election results from 2020.

In this present electoral season, there have been so many dishonest scales in use that the wrath of God is weighty. Even to the sensitivity of anyone who fears any divine retribution, this is a weighty time to be in the United States of America.

Now, I have already stated that the principal reason for why I did not cover what President Donald Trump has done these past 4 years is because there was already ample coverage for it, suffocating coverage for it in some instances, and not all of it true and certainly not all of it helpful. I was also not interested in covering Twitter posts, since President Trump tends to rely upon Twitter to promote his public policy.

Speaking of which…

About two days ago (as of me beginning to write this on January 8th), there was a rally for those who supported the president and his call, however far-fetched, to reject the Electoral College results. At the most, many US citizens (including myself) desired an official review and full-scale electoral audit of the controversial states down to the very marrow of the bone of the ballots so that this election issue would be settled. I said as much earlier. The president showed up at that rally on January 6th with his usual bravado, and the venue where he spoke had a pretty peaceful turnout. The problem came after the president either suggested, commanded, or informed (from some prior plan) his supporters to march to the Capitol Building to voice their concerns. There, a riot ensued among some supporters of the president, an event which has now caused the moral hearts of many wusses, pansies, deadbeats, and worthless people to suddenly rile up within themselves in moral outrage.

Now, yes, you may see my descriptors there and say “Wow, Kerwin, those are some serious ad-hominems that are not conducive to ‘reasoning humbly before God’ as you’ve been championing.”

And to that I say: You’re quite incorrect. I am being very justified before God. See above verse in the introduction and the long-winded defense of the same just afterward.

I actually left off a descriptor for the outrage that is being shown by those rather abominable people. Their hearts riled up in selective moral outrage. Most of the people bleating like lambs now about “law and order,” mere dog whistles for white supremacy just weeks ago, were busy trying to convince us that fiery protests last year that destroyed much more property in Washington D.C. were simply the result of the oppressed getting their voices heard. Many were trying to convince us, burning buildings in the background, that all sorts of riots and looting were really “mostly peaceful” protests.

And who can forget this jewel?

That, ladies and gentlemen, is the future VP who is going to lead us all back to “unity” over the next couple of years to a near-decade.

…hooray…

And as a woman, she can surely use that nurturing nature built into her sex to help us all heal. Heck, she already cares so much for children– just ask David Daleiden. She has demonstrated a great motherly nature fitting for the loving care she will have to espouse for all of the citizens she must now lead.

I listen to right-wingers, just like I listen to left-wingers. I also listen to those in-between, though those are admittedly and understandably right now far and fewer in between than in years prior. I have found one particular video from a Trump-supporter that has been beneficial concerning the riot from January 6th. And since even his initial suspicions of foul play and psy-ops seem to have some indication of veracity (although this isolated incident does not at all absolve the actual Trump-supporters who broke the law and, even according to the president, should be prosecuted), I leave it here so that at the very least those not accustomed to listening to such people (or seeing such a descriptor for such a person) can tune into “the other side:”

If I were to sit here and go through every indication and incident of unjust scales when it comes to rioting in the USA, I would not only have to go through the events of last year, but events from the previous four years. I am neither prepared nor willing to do that. This will simply be one of those times where I lead you to the water, and where you will have to drink. You will even have to trace where the source of the river came from and how long the stream goes.
However, this is enough provided information for me to be wholly justified as I state that every single politician, Republican down through to Democrat, Mitt Romney down to Maxine Waters, who justified any of the outrageous crimes perpetrated by crowds in the past, or who apologized however briefly by distinguishing those who were peaceful from those who were violent, and who also does not even attempt to do the same now for this latest riot, is detestable.

Yes, I detest them. And God detests them first before me. Being like God is one of my goals, and I’m very happy to be on point at least on this (it doesn’t happen often enough). And I encourage all of my readers to be the same.

It is only in this manner that we may be able to see our way out of this mess. We need to have honest scales. We need to be impartial judges. We need to exercise making the right call. But we must have a standard and a justified basis for the scales we apply. I have defended mine, and now you must defend yours (even if you choose the same Biblical standard that I hold to).

Like many millions of US American citizens, many who voted for either candidate, I desired to see the election results from last year’s presidential run get reviewed adequately and transparently so that, at the very least, our constitutional republican government may be assured of the necessary foundation of transparency in its electoral process. But, that is expressly not what the United States Congress fought for on January 6th (though some nobly did). Though they bicker and conflict in matters related to those below them so that hardly anything beneficial gets done, when it comes to themselves, as I have said many times, they’re very resolute for that “general welfare” clause of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

Consequentially, this means that even if the Biden-Harris ticket actually did secure the vote legitimately, that detail will never be legitimized, at least at this point. Functionally, that makes their win illegitimate, though it may not even be existentially so, and that is the problem. We are a bit too divided to afford this national discrepancy. But how did we get here?

Dishonest scales.

The same party that pushed the Biden-Harris ticket past any investigative scrutinizing also lobbied and stalled Congressional investigative powers in order to investigate the previous election for years, ending in an impeachment that was largely vacuous and symbolic. The same media that for years pushed the disproven Russian conspiracy now convinces families hunkered in their living rooms (Panic 2020 still being in full force) that anyone questioning this election is a deranged lunatic who needs to accept the past election as they did the 2016 election (see here for how that stacks up on the judgement scale). They have not even afforded this election the same level of scrutiny for a single day, let alone made it clear that they would be open to such an investigation for the upcoming term.

The same media and the same party covered for one of their own when she used alarmingly provocative language in a similar political situation on the ground just about four years ago. And her track record was scandalous enough.

And yes, the past rhetoric of the current president did not help at all in this, despite his being censored at precisely the same time that he was calling for peace during the D.C. riot, and even now as he has been permanently banned from Twitter– despite law officials previously ruling a principle that stopping anyone from having access to the president via this medium was unlawful– and this after he has called for those responsible for the riot to be prosecuted. But his raucous rhetoric of the past, even during his first presidential race, has had consequences.
And what more could anyone expect from a non-Christian man who embodies the blow-hard mentality of the standard New Yorker businessman? Our leaders are as much a reflection of us as the mirror next door, and so we have what we have. Now, instead of the celebrity-turned-president (who replaced the president-turned-celebrity), we have the establishment candidate who has already reneged on some alliances and who promises freedom in the form of draconian laws I have long warned endanger the principle of democratic choice and freedom.
I suppose now our collective appearance is Orwellian.

Yes, we are about to learn, proverbially, at what temperature paper burns.

I highly suggest that you begin saving digital resources on hard drives and taking screenshots of what you see about these matters from now on. I already figured this season would be heavy, and given the number of hyperlinks and the embedded videos in this post alone, I am proven correct.

But the takeaway here is that we live in the moment and the culture where our national oligarchs rule by dishonest scales through and through,
even as they eat lobster in crowded exclusive restaurants while we cannot visit grandmas who are dying in hospitals or travel home for Christmas holiday,
even as they champion the rioters who make people fearful to vote for them while lambasting rioters on a much smaller scale who clearly did not vote for them,
even when they decry people who vote solely according to skin color and turn around and do the same for their own team,
even when they decry gallows being built in D.C. during the riot and yet keep mum when guillotines are constructed during an earlier riot for monopolizing fascio-corporatists,
even when they say that the murder of innocent humans is wrong but then champion abortion as godly or dismiss when police officers are killed during riots,
even when they make calls for law and order while straining the very systems designed for such a thing and throwing justified enforcers under the bus for optics while letting bad actors walk freely.

These people are detestable, and until they repent (as even our president needs to do) they deserve every ounce of condemnation and ridicule, as does anyone else like them who has ever lived.

The moral of the story so far is simple, mi gente: Don’t be a detestable person before God.

“Judge with righteous judgment!”