Religious Revival Trumps Secession, Literally

​On December 22, 2020 this site posted my piece entitled Secession and Sanctuary: A Call for Action. My call for a return to home rule via secession by Southern counties was an emotional and reason-based, response to the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear the multi-state claims of a rigged presidential election.


It is of little consolation that every aspect of Biden’s presidency I predicted in that post came to be, because now I find my skills at social predictions seriously wanting. Paradoxically I presently support not only the polar opposite, Trump’s efforts towards nation-building, but also his efforts to restore the powers of the presidency under Article II of the U.S. Constitution.


Recently, for my next book that concerns itself with a need to return to address what we are as a species, I have studied what we have learned about human intelligence and the human brain. Neuroscientist Ian McGilchrist states emphatically that the human brain instructs us that nature consists of co-existing opposites. He states further that there exists “a tension between opposites that is at the heart of all creativity… Although a thing and its opposite, or a thing and its negative, are customarily thought of as separate waring entities, they are mutually sustaining, inseparable, and intertwined.”


Further, what really struck me was that after reading his two volumes consisting of 1373 pages of text entitled The Matter of Things, Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World, was his very last few pages entitled Religious belief and the health of individuals and societies. There, using history and modern statistics, this scientist ends with stating that the religious in each culture and society:


"Both communally and individually, are happier, and dramatically healthier, both mentally and physically, as well as better adjusted, more resilient and more prosocial in their habits.”


We have all seen a great deal of beliefs and behaviors that are the polar opposite of those with religious beliefs. To the extremes of these opposites, we have church shootings and political assassinations. And not just a few of them. This brings me to September 10, 2025, seven months into the second Trump presidency. To say that the return of Donald Trump to the presidency generated a great amount of hatred from those whose beliefs were opposite his and his MAGA supporters would be accurate. But I don’t think even neuroscientist Ian McGilchrist could have predicted the scale of the religious revival that came into existence in response to Charlie’s murder, the creative outpouring born of the tension between opposites.


I stated my skills at social predictions lacking as of late is because religious revivals aka “awakenings” are nothing new, there were three in our American past. Knowing that history repeats, we have been past due in America for another. But, unlike the three previous Great Awakenings, the Fourth now in its infancy has a single event which triggered it, Kirk’s assassination, and a single political figure, President Donald Trump interictally tied to the revival.



You can read dozens of historical accounts about the Great Awakenings in our past, but missing in all of these accounts is with the split in Christianity via Luther and the Germanic culture that gave rise to and the eventual domination of the scientific method and mind, dominance by the human’s left brain, people felt something was missing. They were right, but at the time they were unable to put their finger on it. A series of passionate and inspired preachers grew out of the void and for a time, addressed the need and filled the spiritual void.


Before I go into the present Fourth Great Awakening, I want to share what I have learned about this phenomenon and all humans. These past six years I have been fortunate to find the research by a handful of disconnected archaeologists. Thanks to the incredible research by Dye and King who researched the burial mounds all over North America and discovered that during the Archaic Period there was a substantial increase in inter-group violence and warfare, across North Americat. Later and in opposition, thanks to mound-builder researchers ( Jon Gibson, Poverty Point and A Martin Byers, Hopewell Mounds) in the subsequent Early Woodland Period in the same areas there was a revival of an older and ancient religion. The resulting transcontinental religious cult that was generated was so powerful that it spawned immense built ritual complexes through intergroup cooperation all over in the following peaceful centuries before the arrival of the Europeans.


Bottom line is that this record and the resulting reasoned understanding indicates a human, if not a principle inherent in life, based on the existence of opposites. Currently we can expect that the opposing forces in America will in opposition increase their violence and negativity incrementally in direct response to the words and deeds of the Godly. Imagine that they achieve their shortsighted and agreed upon dream, the death of Donald Trump. In reality such an event would only rush their complete defeat as what is left of the nonbeliever’s rush to convert.


Based on the conversations here on Reckonin’, my pretty complete trust of Donald Trump is not shared. I refer to trust as it is defined: the assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something
 


Joining wholeheartedly with the people of faith, the children of God, such trust is of course not equal to my trust in the Divine. If I have learned anything from the past three weeks, that’s it. Working with the principle of the power and dynamics inherent in opposites, those events in 2020 that resulted in the Autopen Presidency and lawfare against Trump and people of faith was necessary in order to bring into existence the Fourth Great Awakening. The Universe sensing the need for a spark, had a transgender sympathetic nut job take out not only Trump’s most ardent and articulate spokesperson but one of our nation’s most ardent and articulate defenders of the Faith. If you can't see George Whitefield in Kirk’s ministry and political activities, you’re not paying attention.
 


Returning to Trump’s seizing and utilizing Article II powers. My efforts to organize a secession by counties was in itself an acknowledgement of something missing. The system of checks and balances put forth by our Founders has vanished. The political power assured We the People ended up in the hands of unelected member of Washington’s deep state and global corporations. Sure , correcting that is the job of the people’s house. It is in my opinion fantasy to think, given their history, that Congress, composed of opposites, will step up to bat. For now, we have a willing and experience executive branch committed to proactive solutions to stop America’s decline.
 


Trump in 2016 stated he was committed to reducing the size and waste of the federal government and begin the process of decentralizing power. While he and his first administration were successful with their work to restore our economy, many of his objectives went on hold as he spent an inordinate amount of first term defending himself from false conspiracies and congressional impeachments
 


The lessons learned and four years to plan generated a very different Trump presidency in 2025. While he and now his administration devote 24 hours a day and seven days a week in the short term, the victories have been unprecedented. These victories have all resulted from Trump’s seizing of his Article II powers have subsequently been weaponized by his political opponents as proof positive of his being a dictator- in-training. But even Trump knows that under federalism and in order for his reforms to become permanent, surviving future administrations, Congress must codify each one in these voluminous executive orders into law.
 


One can see the wisdom of the Divine plan that at this time when states with populations on the opposing side have begun to refuse to obey federal law, we have a committed and unflinching executive. So, spare me your libertarian whining! There is something much bigger at stake.
 


Barring annihilation via nuclear war or an out-of-control free thinking superintelligent AI, Congress remains our one and biggest obstacle to taking our government back. While I applaud those efforts in red states to redistrict in our favor but, without federal election laws and enforcement, such is worthless. Critical and, in keeping with the Great Awakening in progress, those who run and replace the corrupt and selfish Republican representatives must get religion and grow a moral compass. This is essentially out of our control and that of the president. But Trump’s endorsements, like the March 2025 endorsement of Lindsay Graham by Trump and not by his MAGA followers, warrants careful consideration.
 


We can follow Charlie Kirk’s example of being out there, vocal, in action and never backing down. We can live in the awe that a Great Awakening is happening I our lifetime and not some history book.