It's Time to Talk About Nose Rings and Crazy Women. Also, the Devil.

Whatever is afflicting America's women is deeper than the snout decorations. But come on, man. I can't be the only one to have noticed.

Most of discernment work is about 99% “training the powers of your discernment with constant practice” (Hebrews 5:14). The other 1% is being given the power to notice things. I can’t prove that noticing is a spiritual gift, but it’s certainly part of one. The best advice I can give you is try to start noticing. Observe. Watch. Contemplate. Notice.

Nietzsche, who knew a thing or two about the devil, was correct when he said, “The devil is in the details.” Often, that is exactly where the devil hangs out.

About two-weeks prior to election day, I was bookmarking crazed leftist’s predictions of a Kamala landslide, hoping and praying that the glorious crying videos we saw on November 8, 2016 would be back. Then, I went back to those accounts to watch them cry. Some, like Rob Reiner, never posted on X again, and somebody needs to call to check on him. But most of those account-holders didn’t disappoint.

Surely, I’m not the only one to notice that ubiquitous in the Libs of TikTok videos of crying women is a certain facial decoration that grabs your attention. Or, at least it does, if you live in a sane part of America. The snout ring, the septum piercing, is ubiquitous in most of those crying videos.

Look. I made you a photo collage from Libs of TikTok election-related crying videos.

I didn’t have to cherry-pick. They - almost all of them - have the septum ring. This defies coincidence.

It’s here that I’m going to lose some of you, and that’s okay. Just hear me out, but first I probably need to clarify that I am a doctrinal fundamentalist but not a stylistic fundamentalist. My wife wears pants and my girls don’t wear culottes to gym class. Not only am I not against make-up, for some women, it should probably be required. There is nothing in me that thinks one particular body piercing is acceptable based off its bodily location innately, and another is sinful based upon bodily location, innately.

But, back to noticing things. Once you notice that all these crazy-eyed, mentally unwell women in our culture have septum piercings (for example), it should raise your curiosity. Why?

Did all the fringe lunatic, prone-to-hysteria, abortion-celebrating, “non-binary because it’s a cool phase” ladies all get together behind closed doors, perhaps just them and a few transgender women (men) in the public restroom, and plan out their coordinated nasal fashion? Why is this?

Before I give you that answer, let me remind you of the Polemicist’s Manifesto # 2. Polemics must cease to to focus on personalities, and instead focus on principalities.

In other words, it’s my contention that we don’t talk about demons or the devil nearly enough as evangelicals. But, that makes us feel really awkward, and we don’t want to be looked down upon by the “respectable” armchair theologians who never mention the demonic, despite it being frequently mentioned in the Bible.

And this is why I wrote Polemics Manifesto # 3. Polemics must be unashamed of the influences of Fundamentalism on the left, and unconcerned about accusations of Charismaticism on the right, and embrace the Supernaturality of God.

In other words, I’m pretty much admitting that in coming months we need to get really weird, talk about Satan, and we shouldn’t give two-shakes about anybody who claims we talk too much about him. The Bible very clearly tells us there are powers and principalities of darkness in high places (Ephesians 6:12) and I promise you, our time is better spent attacking the devil than making fun of unraveling leftist women (although we can make time for both if we prioritize our time correctly).

Often, we polemicists can sniff out a Jehovah’s Witness the moment they knock on our door. We can detect “little god” theology the moment we turn on TBN. We can tell you who the Oneness Pentecostals are by the way they wear the “low-classy bun” atop their head. And I can tell you, on a scale from one to gay, exactly how bad a preacher’s theology is going to be by the tightness of his pants.

Unfortunately, in a world of increasing and growing presence of overt Satanism - a real and actual and literal religion - Christians commonly overlook the tell-tale signs. And frankly, that’s the fault of polemicists, who’ve been treating Satanism in our culture like a fairy tale when it’s very, very real. I hope to equip evangelicals to observe and notice signs of demonic influence in our culture, which currently we are almost altogether glossing over.

Before I explain the origin of the nose-ring and its cultural anthropology (including Bible verses that talk about nose-piercings), first, let me ask you, have you noticed something…peculiar…about women this election cycle?

A common occurrence at women’s rallies, like this one that took place November 2-3, includes tribal dances. It appears that these (lily white) natives have left the reservation of modern civilization. The rules of cultural appropriation seem to not apply to super-white, upper class, college educated broads eager to adopt anything but western culture.

Today’s “liberal white lady religion” seems to be heading back to tribal paganism, doing anti-fertility dances, wanting to throw babies into the ovens to appease Molech or the Aztec god, Huitzilopochtli, and interpreting natural disasters as punishment from the weather gods.

But, I’m not just imagining it. I am noticing it. And it has a name, although if you hold down a job and come home to children every night, I can’t blame you for being out of the loop.

It’s called Indigenous Feminism, and the various signs of American women adopting tribal (and demonic) tribal religion is all around us. That includes the rings in their snouts. It’s not secular style; it’s religious.

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