Not yet six months ago, while writing my memorial tribute to TB Joshua, I discovered that the Emmanuel TV YouTube account had been deleted and therefore the hyperlinks to several videos highlighted in my blogposts no longer worked. I have already made mention of Google’s massive and malevolent assault against the memory and legacy of … More Update
Both persons of faith as well as agnostics will struggle in incomprehension to digest the Kevin Smith story. Unfortunately, the lessons we all need to learn demand greater insight into human behavior and potential and into the nature of reality than our limited vocabulary at present allows. Dismissing in disgust, whether as charlatan or Satanist, … More Cosmology and Consequence (Association)
Paul’s sentiment that it is better to publicly surrender one’s soul to Satan for destruction of the body than to allow moral reprobation to spread unchecked throughout the church is no longer considered appropriate. Peter’s zeal, amplified by the anointing, left liars permanently slain before the altar, but today, the cowardly and hypocritical leaders of … More A time to kill
” when it comes on to pastors, priests, evangelists, and prophets, I do not believe in them, and no one can get me to believe in them. This has pained me. It has pained my family. It has destroyed a lot of persons’ lives,” Former congregant of Pathways International Kingdom Restoration Ministries led by the … More Hallowed be Thy Name 2
I can’t say that I’ve had a single new revelation in the last 35 years. I would attribute all of the content of my thinking and writing to a single epiphany in an instant of time…. an unforgettable moment. All the multilayered thought expressed in each of my blogs is merely an attempt at articulating … More Living in the Thunder
It will be a mark of maturity when people of faith no longer find it essential to use the word ‘belief’ or ‘believers’ in referencing their spiritual practice. Rather than talking about one’s beliefs, how much more enlightened to speak of one’s understanding. Beliefs are a conversation killer. Everyone has them and everyone is equally … More Caught up
Freedom of religion it turns out has its boundaries, like all other rights in society, it comes with attendant responsibilities. It used to be that only marginal cults like the Jim Jones People’s Temple or the early Jehovah’s Witrness’ issue with blood transfusion tested the boundary lines of religious criminality. However these days, distinguishing fringe … More Religious beliefs are not sacrosanct
“The Bible is literature: It is divinely-inspired and inerrant literature, but it is literature all the same. This means that we must read it as literature. Some parts are meant to be literally understood, and they are written accordingly – as history, or theological propositions, or whatever. But one would not expect to read the … More Bible Literacy: Literaturists and Literalists
For twenty years, I have largely remained silent about certain popularly accepted, and almost never questioned cosmogenetic presuppositions of fundamentalist believers, wishing to steer clear of controversy. However, if one’s vision of the past is impaired, so likely will their depth understanding of the present and their ability to accurately project into the future. For … More Chronfoundment
The Vox populi and Vox Dei are not always aligned. The democratic ideal of an Aaronic leadership responsive to popular demand often causes God’s anointed to break the Tablets of Covenantal Law in pieces in enraged protestation. But at times, it is exactly the other way around. So, discerning the Vox Dei demands discernment of … More Vox Dei
