By John Immel (Click here for MP3 audio)

The original publication of Moral Seduction was my first effort to show how the seeds of tyranny are sown with precise ideas beyond the narrow confines of church and Christianity. 

My first months of blogging stardom were spent highlighting tyranny’s philosophical elements as displayed in the Charismatic Reformed denomination called Sovereign Grace Ministries.My familiarity with their doctrine and practices made it an effective stepping off point.Plus, other voices needed to rise up to join the existing blog commentary concerning their blight on the vineyard.I was happy to take up in 2007 where I left off in 1998 before the blogging world took notice. 

People tend to think that this blog revolves around the very narrow criticism of Sovereign Grace Ministries.This is understandable but not true.No matter how much I enjoy poking those specific intellectual and spiritual thugs in the eye, they are hardly the bulk of my concern.… Read the rest

I originally posted this on Texas HB 36: Informed Consent to an Abortion in response to something Canary, resident commentor extraordinaire, said about the concept “First among equals.”

Here is what she said:

BU-WA-HA-HA-HA.

Gee – I thought the Greeks were a bit wiser than that. To tell someone “We are all equal, but I’m first” is really dumb, and that Christian Theology adopted the idea is even dumber. Even a first grader at the end of the lunch line knows just how DUMB that saying really is in literal terms. “If I’m equal, hows come I didn’t get a slice of the sausage pizza like those in the front of the line, and hows come I didn’t get equal time to eat my mystery meat casserole?” Amazing what sort of nonsense we will ingest simply because a leader assumes authority over us and therefore must know everything. Down, Kitty.

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Her Daddy told her this day would come. He told her there would be boys who took her out for a drive, who said they wanted to know her better. She’s sixteen, with a boy she likes, big baby blues wide with affection. He’s whispering sweet nothings in her ear. It feels right, but it doesn’t. Something is missing, but she can’t tell what exactly. He keeps telling her this is what people do when they get to know each other.

But should they be doing…this?

Respect yourself, her daddy says.

Don’t give yourself away.

Expect commitment!

Be cautious with intimacy.

But…oh the sweet agony…

The boy is giving her attention, he’s focused on her. Whispering in her ear, telling her how pretty, how valuable, how profound it is that God would put her in his life.

She wants to belong!

She doesn’t want to make him angry.… Read the rest

My sister has cooties but she loves me anyway, so I said: “Nah…you don’t want that. That would really clog up traffic and crush the American auto market.”

“Clog up traffic,” she said as she rolled her eyes. “American auto market…?”

“Well, the flowers would bring the bees, and the bees would bring the birds, and the birds would bring the cats, and the cats would bring the dogs, and pretty soon we’d have a whole bunch of Asians all over the roads in their Lexus.”

It is my keen eye for logical interrelation that makes this blog possible; a skill that I relentlessly exploit for my Never-To-Be-Kantian disinterest.

My keen eye notices that women do not really want “a guy that can make them laugh.” If that were true, Robin Williams would be the quintessential rock star and I of course would be much closer to my s a ed mo ive.… Read the rest

• • Universal Guilt
  • Incompetent masses
  • Dictated Good
  • Abolition of Ambition
  • Collective Conformity

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A Shepherd and a three sheep walked into a bar

     The Shepherd stands at the door and says: “All manner of temptation is in this den of inequity. Don’t drink the beer, you might get drunk.”
     Sheep One says: “Baahhhhh!”
     Sheep Two says: “Baahhhhh!”
     Sheep Three got drunk.
     The Shepherd said: “Stupid sheep! I shall discipline you! ” He then struck the sheep with his staff and the sheep died. “We shall flee the temptations of this world. Follow me to the Promised Land.”
     The Shepherd and two sheep walked into a forest. The Shepherd says: “Beware of the wolf. He wants to eat you. He hates you. But I love you.”
     Sheep One says: “Baahhhhh!”
     The wolf says: “Sheep Two was very tasty.

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Modern Christianity is filled with doctrines that dis-empower and de-humanize people into the cogs of a vast church machine, designed to do little else but employ a few in the business of making the machine bigger so they can travel in nicer cars, and bigger planes, and fill larger buildings.  

We are no longer a people of freedom, but a people of serfdom, with many of the doctrines of the Medieval Three estates being enacted before our eyes:  some pray, some preach, all others work.