The excerpts that follow are from the book’s second chapter circulated in PDF form by the Peace Makers organization (click here). I haven’t read the whole book. But since the PDF is being circulated as a self-contained document, I am going to focus my comments on the ominous undercurrents of this chapter.

It is my understanding that Ken Sande is a lawyer. And in light of what follows, I’m curious how good a legal beagle he actually is. I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve watched enough Law & Order to get the gist of a good legal argument.… Read the rest

If you haven’t caught it yet, here is a review of Blight in the Vineyard.

This article was originally posted at Pauls Passing Thoughts.… Read the rest

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

“Run, run as fast as you can! You can’t catch me! I’m the Gingerbread Man!” Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there were two bloggers taking on abuses in twenty-first century American Christianity. Rumpelstiltskin was clever, adorably blunt and talked about Metaphysics and Epistemology. The Gingerbread Man was sweet and cuddly, serving milk and cookies to his readers while grumbling about blogging for the greater good. Rumpelstiltskin talked about Ethical and Political theory. The Gingerbread Man gave people a safe place to tell their stories of being under the thumb of giants up the SGM beanstalk chanting, “Fee-fi-fo-fum! We smell the blood of an Arminian.” Rumpelstiltskin combated the roots of the Giants’ power and the absurdity of reform. The Gingerbread Man railed against the “unbiblical” nature of Sovereign Grace Ministries’ polity. 

For many days Rumpelstiltskin’s blog was listed on the Gingerbread Man’s blog.  And then one day, it was not.… Read the rest

(For those of you who don’t care about the specifics of the SGM phenomena, give me a minute. This is going somewhere.)

 Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead.

Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!

Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.

Wake up – sleepy head

Rub your eyes, get out of bed.

Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead.

She’s gone where the goblins go,

Below – below – below. Yo-ho,

let’s open up and sing and ring the bells out.

Ding Dong’ the merry-oh,

sing it high,

sing it low.

Let them know

The Wicked Witch is dead! 

So some time has passed since Vicar Charles Joseph headed off to sit in the bad preacher doghouse. Rumor has it that the doghouse has traveled to other states and other countries south of the border where he is speaking in behalf of the very church he said he should not be leading.… Read the rest

The gist of the letter/post is easy enough to understand: “People told me I’m a bad, bad sinner. (Whispering: ‘and they said the same thing about other leaders in SGM’) So I am going to put myself in timeout so I can morally navel gaze.”

If one is able to look past the coils of SGM speak slithering around the one-thousand-word document that threatens to squeeze your mind into a spiritual warm fuzzy, if you can remain conscious enough to spot the Harry Houdini level logical sleights of hand, it is rather obvious that CJ doesn’t really think he has done anything wrong.… 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

I mean… Mystic Despotism is still running rampant through people’s lives, and the angelic utopian socialism and her evil twin Marxism is running amuck all over the globe. There was so much work to be done to eradicate the Kantian Altruistic Ethic and restore moral clarity to the minds of men. And Platonist/Augustinianism is metaphysically wrecking man.  On the bright side, TRUTH and freedom was getting closer as I played puppet master to important people.  But … sigh… It seems like it is not to be.… Read the rest

From Valuable Intellectual Traits:

Intellectual Humility: Having a consciousness of the limits of one’s knowledge, including a sensitivity to circumstances in which one’s native egocentrism is likely to function self-deceptively; sensitivity to bias, prejudice and limitations of one’s viewpoint. Intellectual humility depends on recognizing that one should not claim more than one actually knows.

I confess 2010 has been a good year for me. When I am not writing or researching the arcane world of Theology and Philosophy, which is a full-time preoccupation, I manage a Technical Division for one of the top five educational companies in the US. My part in the company started as a very small concern—a line item on a much larger ledger sheet—and in the last two years the line item has grown … a lot.

On some level, that has put a damper on my plan to rule the world. I had to defer amassing armies and developing training camps for corporate P&L statements, acquisitions, and IT infrastructures.

I still wrote quite a bit over this last year, (close to 100K words) but the goal of launching the book publishing wing of my empire was deferred.… 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.

… Read the rest

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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

This is how the enemy of our souls wins the wars of death and destruction. The advocates of life and prosperity quit the field.  Men retreat from social, religious, and political conflict as if their private virtue is a sufficient protest against vocal, defiant, demanding, insolent evil.  As if standing amidst the fight, raising a voice with passionate dissent, and waging a war of defense is to discredit the substance of virtue, to soil some mythical pristine righteousness.… Read the rest