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Phone Conversation Overheard Somewhere in Midwest City, OK

Hello? George! Long time, no see, dude. What’s up? I need a job, man. My company went belly up. You need to get in the school business, man. It’s keeping me fat-n-sassy, and it’s recession-proof. I don’t know nuthin’ ’bout … Continue reading

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Apocalyptic Deception

If your image of reality is flavored by movies in any way, you will never understand what’s going on. Our minds have been conditioned to expect a dramatic shift overnight, that there will be massive destruction everywhere at once. Apocalypse … Continue reading

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Other-Worldly Terrorist

I am the greatest threat to every government in the world, simply because I am totally disinterested in them. This is the one thing in which I most sure of my understanding, and find the most difficult to write. Most … Continue reading

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Your Facebook Spyware Is from the Government

Forgotten in all the hubbub about OBL is something the Electronic Frontier Foundation reported a few days ago. When fixing computers for people, most of what I do is remove spyware, followed numerically by a handful of viruses. The biggest … Continue reading

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Martial Law? Of Course

Count on it. We will soon be under martial law in the US, or at least some parts of it. The stage has been set. This is no joke, nor merely some hyperbole. That they have been slow to actually … Continue reading

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The Limits of Conspiracy and Oppression

The basic theory of conspiracy is the most accurate view of history, but we need to realize conspiracies do have limits. Every government is a conspiracy, unless it arises organically from the extended family setting. Good moral people do not … Continue reading

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The Political Lesson from the Tower of Babel

Hebrew narrative was designed to offer one central theme, but provided enough threads to apply to several different areas. So while we draw spiritual and religious lessons from the Tower of Babel narrative, there is a distinct political message, too: … Continue reading

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Danger in Dominionism

There is a very dangerous and heretical movement attaching itself mainstream evangelical Christianity, particularly in America: Dominionism. Regular readers know how much I despise Aristotelian epistemology as the foundation for trying to understand the Bible. It breeds a literalist mindset … Continue reading

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Step Outside to See In

Our intervention in Libya makes more sense when you understand who is in charge of what we are doing there. For the Christian Mystic, to be truly objective about the world requires a position external to it. The third pillar … Continue reading

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ANE Culture and the Place of Violence

We should not assume we understand violence the way it was understood in Scripture simply because we know how to use the word in modern English. The world today as we know it is not what God had in mind. … Continue reading

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