Super Bowl XLVI was played between the New York Football Giants and the New England Patriots. The Giants won because Tom Brady can’t throw and catch at the same time. (Yes, Gisele, you were not the only one that noticed.) Towards the end of the game, Wes Welker dropping a flying in the air, over the back shoulder catch. It would have been an extraordinary catch, but I think most people believed Welker incapable of dropping passes. Cris Collinsworth pointed out from the NBC broadcast booth, “Welker makes that catch 100 percent of the time,” which he does, because he is such an extraordinary talent. Maybe he should be absolved. Gronkowski didn’t have a good game, obviously, hobbled from his high ankle sprain. But he had a shot at the buzzer, Hail Mary to pick off a tipped football, and win the game.… Read the rest

Somehow I ended up on a Frank Viola e-mailing list. Someone was very kind to add me. I suspect that the motive was either counterargument by proxy or they assumed that I would agree with what Mr. Viola is teaching. Whatever the reason and whoever put me there, thanks. I now have more fodder for my Spiritual Tyranny grist mill. Of course, I know some of you are Frank Viola fans, so this could get interesting. My fans are most affirming and vocal when I’m taking on the Sovereign Grace Ministries phenomena. I’ve said repeatedly that they are not my obsession, only a stepping off point. Anyone making a bid towards Spiritual Tyranny is fair game. To that end, let the frolic begin.

It must have been a divine appointment that I actually read the e-mail. As a rule, I delete what looks like spam. But I happened to notice that Frank weighed in on the Harold Camping End of the World deal.… Read the rest

Unless the rapture only included about four people, I’m going to assume that it didn’t happen. I know, I know, some of you are shocked. Your calculator said the same thing that Harold Camping’s calculator did. I could crack a blonde joke, but that might get me in trouble. We can just all agree that math is hard.

What have we learned?

Well, if history is any measure … probably not much. I remember the first time (within my lifetime) that this whole Jesus is coming back in 5 minutes and 31 seconds occurred. Then the book was called 88 Reasons Why Jesus is coming Back in 1988 and lots of people were all in a dither about Jesus knocking on the Rapture door. The dithering was not limited to the Christian superzealous fringe as I had the opportunity to learn.

I made the unfortunate miscalculation of laughing riotously when my good friend’s mother offered the book up for discussion.… Read the rest

But … I was having such a good time.  Pleasure addict that I am, the reasonable thing seemed to be rewrite, and rewrite and rewrite and see if we could get the 15% closer to 1,000,000%.  (No one will ever accuse me of thinking small.)

For the better part of three years, I have been nibbling around the edges of a much, much larger cookie, with occasional assaults on a chocolate chip in the middle.  Actually, the cookie is more like the proverbial Antarctica.  The Arena of Ideas is a landmass all on its own with a hostile environment that requires some very specific gear and survival skills.  My ongoing mission is to boldly take you where few men have gone before, by summarizing and repackaging a conversation for public consumption.  Most importantly, I’ve wanted you to see that specific ideas are the foundation of tyranny in all forms in all ideologies.  These ideas are as consistent as their outcomes.… Read the rest

Read on or Click Here for Audio Mp3  of this Namaste Nemesis Article(48 Min)

“Namaste, I kill you,” says Yogi Maha Gumby.

Hmmm… that does not have the same ominous ring as Achmed the Dead Terrorist’s “I keeelll you!”

Somehow yoga is on the Theological watch list of Albert Mohler. It seems that the bending and breathing of the far eastern practice is subverting Christian doctrinal purity. Reports that went far and wide attributed Albert with saying that you can’t practice yoga and be a Christian. Since I’m no a fan of media outlets–particularly the Associated Repress when it comes to covering Christians–I decided to look it up myself on his blog: www.albertmohler.com. And, yup, it’s true. Al Mohler is anti-yoga.

Albert Mohler opens his article on Monday, September 20, 2010, with this:

When Christians practice yoga, they must either deny the reality of what yoga represents or fail to see the contradictions between their Christian commitments and their embrace of yoga.

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I feel my temperature rising
Higher and higher

It’s burning through my soul
Abdul, Abdul, Abdul
Gonna set the book on fire

My brain is flaming
Don’t know which way to go
Lord have mercy

What would Jesus do?

Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love
Just a hunk, a hunk of burning love

A recent release on Elvis Gospel Greats released by Infi Del Records.

Uh…

Er…

Ehem…

Qur’an burning…

The Muslim world heard about this issue half a planet away, so  it is a fair expectation that few people haven’t heard that Terry Jones, a preacher in Gainesville, Florida was going to burn Islam’s bible on 9/11.  The common summary of the story is: Preacher says Islam is of the devil: crazy preacher is gonna burn the Islamic Holy book.  Mass criticism flooded the ether from all quarters seeking, begging, cajoling Terry Jones to stand down.… Read the rest

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

                                                      - George Santayana

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

                                                      - Adolf Hitler

We learn from history that men and women never learn anything from history.

                                                      - Friedrich Hegel

Men without the sense of an idea’s history are slaves.

                                                       – John Immel

The ravages of collectivism are upon us and the Christian world is profoundly silent.  A few voices are rising, addressing the elements of liberty, participating in tea parties, and advocating a return to the Founding Fathers’ vision, and God.  The typical prophetic melody of America getting her comeuppance for sin—men are buggering men the forecast is brimstone and rocks—sings out with the endless refrain to humble ourselves and pray–God will heal our land, God will heal our land, God will heal our land, please, please, please… if only the Church would… if only the Church would… if only the Church would… blah blah blah blah.… Read the rest

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This article is a continuation of a conversation on Family Member Tomczak Responds.  What follows is my unrelenting determination to hammer this point down with nails.

Some have attributed my tirade to fury… that notwithstanding… the thing I am specifically critiquing is the fraud in the whole apostolic submission and authority doctrine and the sub-theme called “covering” that is being trotted through the United States.

There is a general cry emerging in American Piety: our leaders abuse us.  Any number of outlets have emerged, voicing a litany of abuse, perpetrated by leaders of many doctrinal persuasions and flavors of Christianity.  Some Churches under discussion are national ministries, others are local mega churches, some are mid-size interconnected community outreaches, and some still are small town gatherings.  While the problem might not be in every location and in every denomination, the theme of leaders leveraging bible ideas to exploit and dictate their congregations has come to the forefront.  The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse and other resources addressing the same issue are becoming staples in Christian reading lists.  Believers feel the need to doctrinally arm themselves against their leadership.  As a trend in American Piety, this is a bad, bad sign.  My goal is to illustrate the theme is no accident; it is the logical outcome driven by specific ideas.… Read the rest

Allahu Akbar! Or in the immortal words of Achmed the dead Terrorist: “I Keell You!”

Another Muslim took to violence and began killing. Can you believe it? Certainly you Believers in Pervasive Depravity are not shocked. You are way ahead of all of us. It is the grace of God, after all, that prevents such atrocity from occurring every minute of every day.

That is the moral relativistic logic offered, I believe. But, whatever.

Even a small familiarity with Islam’s history, and fundamental philosophy, should remove any surprise that yet another act of Mystic Despotism occurred on American Soil.

I need to add the word “allegedly” to my comments since Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, survived his killing spree. He is presumed innocent, and as is correct in American Justice, will be confronted in a military court with his accusers and the amassed evidence.… 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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Here is what I mean by this: follow the metaphor.

You get out of high school and take a JOB at a local factory, or a grocery store, or restaurant. The first day on the JOB, your boss beckons with a finger as he walks towards a large empty floor. He hands you a broom and says: “You got to start somewhere.” After the first hour, you are a master. After the first month, you are desperate to volunteer for any other JOB you can find.

We’ve all been there. I started my working life hauling trash for 5 bucks an hour and all I could eat. I started there for the same reason everybody else starts the world of work–using muscle and brawn; I didn’t have skills much past the very basic:  a pulse body temperature… and if I was really good, I showed up… AWAKE.

This is how we acquired employable ability.… Read the rest

I actually have another post coming uno momento called Spiritual Roofie, but it is not quite finished and I got sidetracked in my mind musing to myself as I am wont to do. So, apropos of nothing here is some stream of consciousness fodder.

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You know Paul Revere would have been screwed if the British were coming from both directions: land and sea. What the heck is a guy to do if they are coming by both?

I fancy that I’m kinda like him… just a guy galloping about on my blog talking about tyranny, pounding through some of our delicately-held beliefs, and paper-thin sensibilities. The methodology is just a tad better than horseback and signal lights but not mass communications enough to be more than elaborate Morse code. Or at least, that is how it feels sometimes.

If I wrote posts about tyranny in China by the beloved people’s state against Christians, we would all nod our heads in agreement at the terrible oppression of the masses.… Read the rest

The only charge absent in the list is that I might not like kitties, puppies, and refuse to kiss little babies. That would make moi really mean, wouldn’t it?

So what is the logic here? There are two assumptions in this logic.

1.  Blunt, harsh, direct, passionate, satirical commentary can only have a malignant source.

2.  Passionate, unequivocal, emotional, moving, cajoling, raving observations canNOT be accurate observations.

As my Church History Professor, Dr. Shelton, was fond of saying: “Rubbish!”  This is the Ad Hominem argument rehashed and garnished with some psychological claptrapery, but it is still the same non-argument…uh…argument.… Read the rest

A poster, MC, asked the following on my article Dear Christian Chicken Little. The question is a good one that needs some clarification. (I edited their comments for brevity, but tried to maintain the integrity of the comment.)

I stumbled onto this site, and I have read a fair amount of it. I never heard of Sovereign Grace Ministries or their previous names until maybe two weeks ago.

I would appreciate it if you would do me the favor of responding as directly and as simply as possible. At this point a lot of what you say refers back to what may have been said before, so as an outsider I am not getting it.

Could you please state directly and clearly what your specific points of criticism or disagreement are with SGM? I can see that you are passionate  …  [could you state your objections] …as emotion-free as possible.

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My temptation at the moment is to rant and rave and then rave and RANT! I did read Noel’s Story on www.sgmsurvivors. It takes a while to get through for two reasons. There are lots of details and the emotional content will make most anyone with a pulse who is not a statist/collectivist have to walk away and hug their children every few paragraphs as they head to the phone to threaten their pastor. I don’t have children, so I hugged my stuffed animals and called my mom.   Then I went to a comedy club and listened to jokes for two hours. THEN I came back and finished the story and the thread that followed. It was a long night.

However, my rants are much better when I can cause carnage with my wit and humor.… Read the rest