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		<title>The Walls of Mystic Despotism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Walls of Mystic Despotism I dares ya ta&#8217; step across this line. - Bugs Bunny Click here for audio I had thought to let this series of posts go, (June 12th, 12:20 a.m. to June 13th, 2:43 p.m.) on Women and Children First, offered by self-identified Mike Doherty. My reasons were equally divided across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Crack</title>
		<link>http://spiritualtyranny.com/spiritual-crack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Any preacher teaching spiritual dependence is as much a drug dealer as any South American cocaine lord.  His drug is Spiritual Crack.     And the effects are equally horrific.  People are robbed of everything that is dignity.     The disaster is harder to see because people appear 'respectable' in their Sunday best, and live in neat and tidy houses, and retreat to the very sterile safe haven of steepled buildings.]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Seduction</title>
		<link>http://spiritualtyranny.com/moral-seduction-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is how modern History’s Hitlers joined forces with ancient Mystic Despots: they use morality as cudgel to drive the “depraved” masses into Collective Conformity. Collectivism, also known as Tribalism, also known as Sectarianism, also known as Socialism, also known as Communism, also known as the “Greater Good,” has always been the Holy of Holies in political, social, and religious, corruption, death, and destruction. No need to send in the High Priest to offer sacrifice because the people have been seduced into bloodletting themselves.]]></description>
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		<title>Ducks, Bar, Man, Pastor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tools of Tyranny]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://spiritualtyranny.com/?p=447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["Look, if you ask me one more time if I have got any bread, I'm going to nail your beak to the bar!"

"Got any nails?"

"No"

"Got any bread?"]]></description>
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		<title>Broom-Pushing Theology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have decided that starting a JOB without skills is the same as GIFTING in the Body of Christ.

Why do we think this?  Simple: Uber Church leaders need free work so they need a carrot to go with the stick of "Submit to Authority."   It isn't all that hard to sell folk on the idea that "ministry" starts with lowly service and manufacture a hierarchy of important church occupations.  Big Spiritual Stuff is preaching in the big room to the big people, under the lights to 5,000 filled seats. Everything else is less important.]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Roofie</title>
		<link>http://spiritualtyranny.com/spiritual-roofie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collective Conformity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctrines of "Community" and "Relationship" are making the rounds in Christianity, AGAIN, for the umpteenth time, trotting us down the path to where collectivism ALWAYS ends: Bloody Despotism.  

The Doctrines play on our feelings of isolation and our fears of inadequacy.  It appeals to our deep seated drive to be KNOWN, to embrace and be embraced.  It uses a series of bible passages to set a standard of transparency and vulnerability that is utterly absent personal boundaries, or common sense.  
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		<title>From Whence the Destroyers Cometh</title>
		<link>http://spiritualtyranny.com/from-whence-the-destroyers-cometh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cry of wisdom fades in their ears after a moment or three and they remain oblivious to the cause and effect of success, prosperity, life, and blessing.   They blame the meagerness of their survival and the injustice of life on the intentions of divine will, or the moral superiority of Altruism, or the selfish indulgence of the successful, or the evil actions of demonic hordes. ]]></description>
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		<title>I Will Give You &#8230; Covering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come to me all you are weary and heavy laden and I will give you ... covering.

As of today, I have decided that I want be all y''ll's covering.  That is right... today is the day.  I am officially, in all my self appointed glory the effective "covering" for everybody.

I'm a leader.  I'm spiritual.  I figure hey... I can do this.   I can be a covering.]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking of Church Polity</title>
		<link>http://spiritualtyranny.com/speaking-of-church-polity/</link>
		<comments>http://spiritualtyranny.com/speaking-of-church-polity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Educational Posts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anytime we speak of church polity, we are talking about government. There is nothing specifically magical or pure in this government just because it is the Church. So often the conversation about the who, what, when, and where, and how of Ecclesiology gets lost in an endless pursuit of doctrinal precision. But the foundation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God Is Sovereign&#8230; Sort Of</title>
		<link>http://spiritualtyranny.com/god-is-sovereign-sort-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I find funny is: for all our collective talk about God being “Sovereign,” men are relentless in looking for a way to “control” how others think and act.]]></description>
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		<title>MODESTY CHECK FOR MEN</title>
		<link>http://spiritualtyranny.com/modesty-check-for-men/</link>
		<comments>http://spiritualtyranny.com/modesty-check-for-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Concerned</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is my own version of Carolyn Mahaney's "Modesty Check for Women". Many SGM women are subjected to this list during their membership in SGM. I always fought against the legalistic and condemning spirit behind this - and the implication that women alone are to blame for men lusting. Time to take the chains off ladies - and realize that we each give an account to God - check yourt hearts of course and don't be foolish in your dress, but don't be legalistic about it.]]></description>
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		<title>The Myth of Accountability and Team Leadership</title>
		<link>http://spiritualtyranny.com/the-myth-of-accountability-and-team-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am confident that the universal answer from most any Church that has a group of leaders, is they have a TEAM accountability fully equipped with stories where the big leader has been reigned in and had his mind or heart changed by someone’s gallant opposition.  >shrug< of course they have stories to affirm their practice.   

So, what follows is my take on Accountability and TEAM Leadership…   at its heart and soul the idea is a myth.   I’ll make my point with a conversation I had with a Pastor.  The conversation that I recount really did happen.]]></description>
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		<title>A People of Freedom&#8230; a People of Serfdom</title>
		<link>http://spiritualtyranny.com/a-people-of-freedom-a-people-of-serfdom/</link>
		<comments>http://spiritualtyranny.com/a-people-of-freedom-a-people-of-serfdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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