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All Too Soon

Posted on October 20, 2022 by ehurst

If survival is your god, your prime directive, you will be disappointed to find that it is a powerless god whose blessings are altogether random. Survival in itself has no meaning. If your prime directive is the glory of our … Continue reading →

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Just Being Evil

Posted on October 13, 2021 by ehurst

Don’t mind me; I don’t take myself too seriously. This blog is not nearly so private as it once was. It went from ten views per day for a couple of years to more like 100 in recent weeks. Once … Continue reading →

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See the Forest 01

Posted on September 12, 2021 by ehurst

See the broad sweep of things, the mega-trends. See the trees as part of the forest, so that you understand the forest itself. The West is dying, with the US as the crown jewel that will die the hardest. It’s … Continue reading →

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Breaking Chains

Posted on January 26, 2021 by ehurst

Today I did my laundry. When I was stuffing the wet washed bed linen into the dryer, I prayed out loud, asking the Lord to prevent the sheets from swallowing the smaller items and entangling them into little pockets where … Continue reading →

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Stringent Boundaries

Posted on December 20, 2020 by ehurst

For me, the basic principle is infiltrate, don’t assimilate. We have plenty of examples how various cultural minorities do this: Orthodox Jews, Romany, and in some locations, Muslims. These groups move to different parts of the world and, to varying … Continue reading →

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Conditions Not Ripe Yet

Posted on November 26, 2020 by ehurst

When I talk about how the elements of the Garden Temptation and the Fall are so clearly manifested in Western intellectual culture, I’m not giving you a complete analysis of the Fall, nor of Western Civilization. Rather, I am characterizing … Continue reading →

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The Answer Lies in Your Heart

Posted on August 20, 2020 by ehurst

This may be difficult to follow, but I am obliged to try explaining it: Many of the controversies and theological debates of the Early Church Fathers were inherently false from both sides. That’s because they were asking the wrong questions. … Continue reading →

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The Bible on Child Sexual Abuse

Posted on July 12, 2020 by ehurst

Nobody’s telling you what to think, but I wanted to share the biblical viewpoint, in contrast to the common American viewpoint, on child sexual abuse. It is a sin — but not for the reasons most Americans assume. It’s a … Continue reading →

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The True Guardian of Souls

Posted on February 18, 2020 by ehurst

I won’t tell you that your heart will protect your mind, only that it can. There is a large body of clinical literature on the power and limits of verbal manipulation. It works best when practiced by a certain group … Continue reading →

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The Tribe of Heaven

Posted on August 5, 2019 by ehurst

An essential element in Satan’s mandate from God is to build sustainable deceptions. Once again: The mainstream Western view of Satan is all wrong. There are certain details it gets right, but the underlying assumptions are false. We can blame … Continue reading →

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