With a very heavy heart, we announce the passing of our old friend and sparring partner, Chris Witmer. He was struck and killed by a car at 9 or 10 a.m. Thursday morning, Tokyo time. This was the final comment he left at SWB. Our server time is showing Pacific when it should be showing Eastern, and I think Tokyo is 14 hours ahead of Eastern. If my calculations are correct, this comment was left the night before he died, and he was killed the next morning, presumably while trying to get to work on his bicycle in that crowded city. He was 48 years old.
As many of you know, Chris was a kindred spirit in many ways. He knew the score, and we have scads of private emails from him that clearly show it. But because of his personal situation, he was torn. He was “married” to a Japanese or Korean woman and had seven children by her. I can’t imagine how he must have made the natives seethe. As he once wrote to his group of friends:
I like to think of my own international marriage as an “exception that proves the rule” (solely by God’s grace) but in any case I suspect that even most people who are *happy* in their international marriages (at least when the cultural gap is large) would put all sorts of caveats in front of any recommendation of international marriage. Of course, by the time a young person has gotten to the point where one feels the need to warn him about a prospective marriage partner, he is no longer in any frame of mind to heed anyone’s warning, so everyone has to learn the hard way.
He saw that no pastors were really challenging us scripturally and trying to engage in debate. He grew tired of waiting for the fish to snap, and so he took the challenge upon himself to write the first biblical and systematic refutation of Kinism. He mentioned this here on the 8th. We were all looking forward to it. As I wrote the next day:
Chris is a rare bird. He is the only person I know who has actually considered refuting us in a logical fashion instead of simply calling us racists and pretending that the charge of racism itself is sufficient proof. I welcome his critique, because I know it will be responsible and well-reasoned. We truly desire to approach such critiques with an open mind and be willing to receive correction. The only trouble is that we’ve never seen one.
We normally deal with pastors in personal interaction, and their tendency is to denounce anything they don’t like as sin, rather than merely error, without first taking the steps that Chris is beginning. As a result, they tend to swim in logical fallacies, such as straw men, red herrings, and ad hominem.
Chris was always very friendly and loved to engage his mind, even with those with whom he disagreed. He said he took a lot of heat over his friendship with us.
He was extremely intelligent, and a worthy adversary. There aren’t many American adults who are able to learn the complex Japanese language, and Chris mastered it. He was much like us, having a profound respect for the Japanese, and a great deal of his respect was accorded to their homogeneity and the culture that flowed from it. This seems like a contradiction to us, but this is indeed what we witnessed.
He was not just brilliant and a hard worker. He also loved to laugh and create silly poems and puns. Perhaps this sanctified silliness is what caused our paths to cross.
We have no idea how he found the time, but we always enjoyed reading the comments he left scattered about, such as this one, under the name “Dontbia Nass.” He was also the Nous Tweaker.
Here is a good encapsulation of his views on anti-Semitism and white supremacism. This was very recent, but his always thought-provoking comments are spread throughout the archives.
One person who revolutionized his thinking is our compatriot and friend, Scott Mooney. Chris wrote:
In recent years I have become increasingly inclined to believe that lending money at interest has to be seen as a method of conquest (of enslaving people) in terms of the way it affects those who must pay the interest. There was a time when I dismissed this view of interest as utter nonsense but as much as I might try, I can’t shake from my head the thought that Scott C. Mooney’s basic thesis (http://tinyurl.com/czzc7f) is correct… For me, Mooney’s call to go back and take a new look at Jesus’ Parable of the Talents was pivotal.
Chris will be sorely missed. With him might have died our last hope at finding a courageous adversary willing to do his homework. I hope not, but let the record show that Chris deserves the honor.
We close this announcement with another comment from Chris, and I think it would please him if we consider these his final words:
From the perspective of eternity, even the most long-lived among us realize that this mortal coil is actually but a brief moment. Rather than attempting to cling futilely to life in this world, what is really important is that right now, while there is still time, we get right with God.
I am quite stunned. I was on Chris’s eMail list and followed his comments here and elsewhere. Only rarely have I had the time to engage in the comments, but I always have been here reading and following the discussions. He, indeed, will be sorely missed. In God’s own Providence we are where we are and we have what we have. Onward…..
Dear Admin:
Sad to hear of the death of anyone, even more so, someone on this forum. As you already know, I check the comments and articles you link on an almost daily basis, especially when i don’t have the time to do the research you fellows do.
What I wish to point out, and to commend, is that you folks, AS KINISTS, are the ONLY ones who seriously, sincerely, GIVE HOMAGE to someone ‘of the opposition.’
I know of no Liberal, Pagan, Jew or Black that would laud their ‘enemy’ in such a fashion.
Clearly, being white IS a privilege from YHWH God, indeed.
Requiescat in Pace, Christopher.
God Bless you Chris.
Thank you to SWB for posting the consideration of Christopher Witmer’s last words to his friends and sparring partners in the Kinist Meditations and reports published on this blog.
“From the perspective of eternity even the most longlived among us realize this mortal coil is but a brief moment. Rather than attempting to cling futilely to life in this world, what is really important is that right now, while there is still time, we get right with God.”
Even as our Lord founded his universal Church, among his final words he expressed his Kinist thoughts and affirmations; so too on the eve of his own crucifixion did the thoughts of young St Thomas (his baptismal name) Kosaki aged 14 years turn to his family and his mother. And he expressed this in a letter written to his mother shortly before his death in Nagasaki in 1597 under the Hideyoshi Edict.
“Dear Mother,
By the grace of our Lord, I wanted to write this letter to you, dear mother. According to the written sentence all of us will be crucified with the padres in Nagasaki. We are twenty six in all.
Please do not worry about father and me for we will be waiting for your in Paradise.
Should you not be able to finad a padre for your last rites, please be sorry for your sins and keep the faith. Remember also the innumerable blessings bestowed by the Lord Jesus Christ.
Everything in this world can be lost soon, even if you might become poor and have to beg for food, please take care not to lose the glory of Paradise.
No matter what people may say to you, please forbear with patience and love to the end.
It is important that my brothers Mancio and Felippe (named for their patron saints) not fall into the hands of the pagans. I will pray for them. Please pray for us all.
Consider, I beg of you, one most important thing above all others. Immerse your heart in contrition for sins. May God protect you.”
St Thomas Kosaki – raised to the altar of Christ’s universal Church together with his fellow Japanese martyrs by canon of Pope Pius IX in Rome 1862.
Young. Chrstian. Japanese. Kinist like this blog. Universalist like our friend Christopher Witmer. Glorious in heaven and reigning with our Lord.
St Thomas Kosaki, for our friend Christopher, please pray for the repose of his soul.
De profundis clamavi ad te Domine: Domine exaudi vocuem meam.
Out of the depths have I cried to Thee, O Lord: Lord hear my voice.
Fiant aures tuae intendentes ad vocem deprecationis meae.
Let Thy ears be attentive to the voice of my supplication.
Si iniquitates observaveris Domine, Domine, quis sustinebit?
If Thou, O Lord wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it?
Quia apud te propitiatio est, et propter legem tuam sustinui te Domine
For with Thee there is merciful forgiveness: and by reason of thy law, I have waited for Thee, O Lord
Sustinuit anima mea in vero eius: speravit anima mea in Domino
My soul hath relied on His word: my soul hath hoped in the Lord
A custodia matutina usque ad noctem speret Israel in Domino
From the morning watch even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord
Quia apud Dominum misericordia, et copiosa apud eum redemptio.
Because with the Lord there is mercy and with Him plentiful redemption
Et ipse redimet Israel ex omnibus iniquitatibus eius
And He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities
Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord
Ex lux perpetua luceat eis
And let perpetual light shine upon them
Requiescant in pace, Christopher.
Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum; benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Jesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.
Rest in peace, brother.
“I am come ONLY for the lost sheep of the House of Israel.’ – Jesus Christ
Lynda, not to belabor the point, but canonization by Rome confers no canonization at all, in the view of the Orthodox Church. Reformed don’t even BELIEVE in the process; So why waste electrons with aberrant theology on this forum? Universalism has long been a facet of Roman theology of the Hegemony- but, as G&S put it, ‘That DON’T make it right.’
http://www.amazon.com/Dominion-God-Christendom-Apocalypse-Middle/dp/0674036298
I don’t mean to demean your sentiments, but we must keep the ‘prize in sight’, even on a forum, and in a topic such as this. Kinist are NOT univeresalitst. Rome is… as long as the masses submit to the Pope. That is ‘their gospel’ which is a ‘different gospel’ according to St. Paul.
Chris can be said to at least have ‘baptism/sainthood by desire.’ But, ‘not everyone who says unto me, Lord, Lord, will enter, etc.’ Those, too are Christ’s words. It would behoove us to LEARN from Chris’s death, rather than seek to put it into the ‘Matrix’ mindset, that would call racial Chaos, radical Kinism.
There are a lot of good things I could say about Chris Witmer. I’ll sum them up this way:
For a man like him, there will always be a steak, a beer, a pipe, and a comfortable chair at the Smith home.
I will miss our “gentleman-brawler.”
A great tragedy for the family indeed. They’ll be kept in prayer.
Dear Father John,
It would seem that many of the Kinists writing here are Protestant for the most part. And the Protestant and Reformed Churches have sent missionary societies and Bible societies all over the world with the Gospel for centuries. Why don’t you tell them they are misguided.
To my mind this catholic Mark of the Church does not in any way contradict that entire families or clans or nations can be baptised such – as the family of Cornelius or the nation of France as a nation at Rheims in the 5th century. It is of course very Christian and desireable that nations should live together as a Christian polity and the long history of Europe’s wars East and West with the support of Rome would indicate to me that the Church has always supported the Christian polity of nations living on their own ancestral lands as nations. And it has supported settlement and mission to pagan nations. And it has supported the invasion of pagan nations.
Your view that the Evangel was intended to be proclaimed to the white nations of Europe only is a heresy refuted many times. Universal in the sense of all tribes, nations (ethne) and tongues is a Mark of the Church. This does not mean that the Christendom was, is or ever could be multicultural hash. The importance of ethnic heritage and its ancestral lands is as important for the Church in Greece as it is for the Church in France. What we all oppose is the masonic, multicultural diversity of open borders, affirmative action etc.
This is a counterfeit of the Church’s universalism.
I made many Orthodox friends among the Old Calendars when I corresponded with people on the Real Jew News web blog – many of whom I still correspond with and one to whom I speak on the phone several times a month – recently returned from Greece. And they have all told me that your idea – the Lord’s Evangel is for whites only (which you identify with Israelite) is not what they believe as Orthodox Old Calendars. Chinese Orthodox wrote to that website and were welcomed as long, lost pals by all the Orthodox. And there was a lot of info on the Russian Orthodox missions to the Innuit peoples of the Berring Strait which was of interest to everyone. Remember George of RJN? He is very jealous for Orthodoxy. Unless you want him to write to SWB and refute you (again) – stop giving the Calvinists the impression that Orthodoxy agrees with you in this defacement of the catholic / universal Mark.
Protestants do too have a place for saints in their thinking and practice. They confess the Apostles Creed – I believe in the communion of the saints. Well let them believe it then.
But if a universal Church is going to recognize a saint and the entire Church is going to petition a saint for prayers – such as St Simon of Trent and St Hugh of Lincoln are being petitioned now across the world for prayers for the Christian faith that is everywhere being subverted by Judaism – then you have to have a process of inquiry into the life of a person that the locals believe “worked out their salvation” and correspondingly received the grace of sanctity. These people are going to be petitioned for their prayers anyway. As Padre Pio was in recent times. No one waited for his canonisation by the Novous Ordo. But a process of canonisation will from time to time make universally known the life of a person whom the living authority in the Church decides is a saint for all nations. Their history becomes part of the liturgy and the Ordo and we all get to learn about them.
Jehann d’Arc was the saviour of her nation during the Hundred Years War – the French of all faiths and none regard her that way. She is a saint of the Catholic Church because of her military defense of her nation and its unique Desposyniac royal house. When Pope St Pius X canonized her, he proclaimed her as such for the Church Universal. This defense of one, Christian people as a nation is an example that not only Catholics but all Christians can look to in our struggles against this counterfeit universalism of the NWO. In fact, St Pope Pius X sermon on the occasion that St Jehann was raised to the altars of the Church is filled with classic Kinist thoughts. You should read it.
I did not have the honor to know Christopher Witmer personally, nonetheless, I was blessed by his excellent comments on this blog. He was an intelligent, well-versed, and eloquent man. In view of his family/personal situation, I now understand his conflicted comments posted here. I will greatly miss Christopher. May God grant peace and comfort through the Holy Scriptures and His Holy Spirit to Christopher’s family and friends. Rest in peace my Brother.
“For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.” I Thessalonians 5:9-10
“For none of us lives to himself, and no one dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.” Romans 14:7-9
“Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed– in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:51-57
By accident, I saw this comment that Chris left on the SPLC website just a couple of weeks ago. He went out with a bang.
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/10/01/yankee-secessionist-back-in-cahoots-with-neo-confederates/
Christopher Witmer said,
on October 2nd, 2009 at 9:46 pm
The SPLC is a sick joke, at best. Secession is the wave of America’s future; get used to it.
As our friend Christopher and his family continue in our prayers, it is good to acknowledge here, I think, how evangelical Christians have been toward his adopted land.
Even though we are at home amongst our own nation – spiritual, cultural life of our Christian family – the universal Mark of our Lord’s Church summons many. I like reading about missions and the last few days I have been reading the history of the Orthodox Research Institute.
What is it with the 19th century? Apparently that was the heyday of Russian Orthodox missions as well. “The great century of Russian Orthodox missions” which say 16 missions established in Japan, Korea and China.
http://www.reasearchinstitute.org/…/mission/saliba_mission_evangelism.htm.
With the Christian faith under threat from all sides it is going to be a supreme challenge to be both kinist in the sense of our own national, household of faith and mission minded toward the multiethnic / lingual populations of these geopolitical, masonic superstates (such as the EU) that has just been formed.
We don’t want to see America and Canada rolled into the NAU trilateral, but just as Christianity conquered the old pagan Roman Empire and then took the Evangel beyond its furthest reaches after the Edict of Milan – those who hold to the faith have the solution. The Church is now in defeat, but it can again arise.
What a terrible shock. We are truly a vapor that remains a little while, and then is gone. Chris’s insights will be missed. I thought he was a bit inconsistent, but I didn’t know his family situation, and now that I do, some of his statements are more understandable. Regardless, he was always a christian gentleman, through and through.
May he rest in peace, and may his family know the love and comfort of our God in this hour.
http://www.rememberingchristopherwitmer.com
Thanks, Emeth. I love that little haiku he wrote:
You don’t resemble
My caricature of you
Because you’re lying.
Thank you Emeth Hesed for posting the link to http://www.rememberingchristopherwitmer.com here. I read it this morning with much appreciation.
The Witmer perspective and contribution will be sadly missed here. He certainly cultivated a thoughtful, humorous and whimsical take upon the “sign of contradiction” that is part of the Christian vocation. You probably could not find a culture anywhere in the world that is more Kinist than the Japanese at their best; racially bigoted at worst. Yet Christopher adopted that culture as his own and chose to live his Christian life with his family there. And was obviously a great blessing to his community.
Thank you for this fascinating portrait of Christopher. I enjoyed it very much.