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Divine Tolerance

If you take yourself too seriously, you cannot follow Christ. Holy Cynicism is not dismissive of humanity, but of human motivations. When we keep in mind that this entire universe is a deception, locked under the Curse of the Fall, … Continue reading

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Plowing up Roman Roads

This part doesn’t fit into the document I’m constructing about our online parish, but is evoked by the discussion. Rome built some really fine roads across Europe and the Mediterranean. The primary reason was to move troops and other government … Continue reading

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Babylon is Fallen

Babylon is fallen, but has not collapsed. Babylon is the fallen world of human commerce, of human achievement. It symbolizes unjust dominance and all the trappings of oppression. Dominance is not evil in itself because it’s essential to human nature … Continue reading

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Spiritual OpSec

Terminology first: spiritual — relating to matters of the Spirit Realm; OpSec — broadly recognized as a bureaucratic acronym for Operational Security, those considerations that help to protect some operation from interference and hindrance from any source, whether internal/external, natural/artificial, … Continue reading

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Election Day Warning

Today in the US is a major election day. On the one hand, the fiction of competing political views is widely known. Republicans are not actually conservative and Democrats aren’t really all that progressive. Maybe the folks at the grass … Continue reading

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Sovereignty: More Than Just Theology

God is sovereign. It should be just that easy, but most people need a little explanation to get the full impact of that truth. This is His Creation; it is not merely a static collection of various bits of matter. … Continue reading

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Elitism Is No Sin

That is, elitism is no sin unless practiced as pretense by those who lack the proper background for it. You’ll notice Daniel had no criticism for the elitism of Nebuchadnezzar. And when nobles are truly noble, nobody complains. When middle-class … Continue reading

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More Senseless Comment on Social Inanity

Gamers don’t own the Internet, but they are closely allied with those who do. In the face of genuine masculinity, there is only so much a feminazi can do. Her magical powers fail and she throws a hissy fit. She’d … Continue reading

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Yes! Means “NO” Part 2

Refer to the previous post on this subject here. So it hasn’t gotten any better. The upper management must have been closely watching. Every time we had a park manager who tried to be close to us residents, they were … Continue reading

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Death and Hell Stalking Us

Maybe it’s not so different in substance; maybe this is just the veneer peeling away. Western Civilization is especially bad about forgetting the past in the sense that we have no ability to transmit from generation to generation what it … Continue reading

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