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		<title>Rumpelstiltskin and the Gingerbread Man</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by John Immel &#8220;Run, run, as fast as you can! You can&#8217;t catch me! I&#8217;m the Gingerbread Man!&#8221; &#160; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pay No Attention to the Doctrine Behind the Curtain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ By John Immel (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 &#8211; sleepy head Rub your eyes, get out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CJ Mahaney’s Metaphysical Magic Mayhem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CJ Mahaney, El Primo Doctrinal Mover and Shaker of Sovereign Grace Ministries fame, recently released a letter stating that he is stepping away from being the Alpha Big Dog at the top of the “First Among Equals” governing egalitarian hierarchy. It is my current understanding that he wrote this letter to the leaders within his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Viola Lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Immel 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camping Lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Immel 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campy Camping Camper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK … so, I just heard that the world is supposed to end in a few days.  I should be excited but, I must confess, I’m sad.  I have been so stoked about my plan to rule the world, my “zeal” and “Concern” have been driving me towards that expression of leadership.  I can’t believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intellectual Humility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A poster offered this addition to the ongoing spiritual tyranny conversation.  While I am not familiar with the whole of Dr. Linda Elder’s work and it is possible that I’d find myself in agreement with much of what she says, I must confess that as I pondered Dr. Elder’s points that follow, I found myself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the Blog 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t speak of my life beyond the web page much, but I am feeling particularly self-revelatory at the moment. So I’m going to offer a few lines of personal disclosure in my State of the Blog for this year. I confess 2010 has been a good year for me. When I am not writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Engage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am hardly hiding, but have avoided being express in laying claim to some intellectual or spiritual pedigree for three reasons: 

To let my critics twist in the wind.
To let interested parties come this historic conversation without having to wade through the preconceptions imbedded in those pedigrees.
To illustrate that I don’t give one good rip about being an intellectual pure blood vetted by the historic consensus and refuse to pay homage to dead men’s ideas.    
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		<title>Namaste Nemesis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Soooo… in the grand scheme of threats: the tides of European Collectivism washing across the face of American culture; the Social Gospel preached with ever increasing regularity from pulpits; Islam’s overt declaration of Christian/Western destruction; and Communisms enforced Atheism perpetrating despotism throughout entire continents.  The threat befuddling Christians is yoga? 

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		<title>Hunk of Burning Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alakazam poof!  Dark Ages. 

But this narrative stands against the easily verifiable historic realities: Middle East, Egyptian, and Mediterranean cities continued to thrive, as centers of learning, commerce and development long after the fall of Rome.  It wasn’t until the mid 7th century that the decline began.  In case you are unfamiliar the founding of Islam dates roughly 620 and was in full tilt conquest boogie by 700 AD.  

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		<title>Private Virtue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The time is now, you men of private virtue, to emerge from your fortress of solitude, and demonstrate that you are worthy of the life that bears your name.
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		<title>Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What was the lie that man exchanged for truth? 

The answer is: man must pay to appease the gods in their endless hostility or purchase grudging benevolence of a demonic benefactor. This was how man believed he fended off life’s pain and suffering. The ultimate sick joke of human existence is man bowing before an image chipped out of stone, believing that somehow it might provide a way to think about life
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		<title>The Walls of Mystic Despotism</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://spiritualtyranny.com/the-walls-of-mystic-despotism/</link>
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		<title>Sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By John Immel  (Mp3 audio) 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 [...]]]></description>
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