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Category Archives: Politics and sociology
Surreality and Messianism
No, they are relevant, honestly! I have downloaded, and am currently reading, The Great Secret of Islam by the French popular historian Odon Lafontaine (and you can too – searching on his name will take you to the free download site). The book is one attempt at an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence that the standard narrative of Islam is complete fiction, and that Islam actually began as a Messianic Jewish Christian sect linked to Arab imperialism beginning in the seventh century.
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More on Comrade Musk
It was, I suppose, predictable that, in the light of the gaslighting on MSM about the Unite the Kingdom rally on Saturday, Elon Musk’s dramatic interview with Tommy Robinson would be spun by Labour as a call to seditious violence. Once I would have marvelled at their crass incomprehension of what he actually said, but now I see it as quite deliberate misdirection of the majority of people who didn’t actually hear the interview.
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Keeping the revolution velvet
There were many different issues and moods amongst both crowds and speakers at the London Free Speech Festival yesterday. The most revolutionary voice was probably that of Elon Musk, whose message was that we probably don’t have another four years to replace this government (and the Uniparty structures around it) before too much damage has been done to personal freedoms and the economy. People in sleepy villages (like mine) need to wake up, he said, and act to bring about such change. It’s difficult to interpret that in any other way than as a call to revolution.
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If it quacks like a duck… it’s probably Pentecostal
I have in mind the Toronto Blessing and similar phenomena in my title. Thinking in some recent posts about the singing of Bethel songs in non-New-Apostolic-Reformation Evangelical churches, I’ve thrown around the names of a few of the “big players” that many conservative believers think should be avoided, such as Bethel, Elevation, and Hillsong. But it’s instructive to look at some of the most popular “worship songs” not emanating from those sources.
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Affections meet passions
I’m working through Jonathan Edwards’ Treatise Concerning Religious Affections of 1746, which I downloaded in 1999 when thinking and writing about the then current Toronto Blessing and Pensacola Revival for Prophecy Today, but which i never actually finished.
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Luxury beliefs
A change of subject from the last few posts. I rarely watch the BBC’s stuff, but occasionally Mrs G. and I sit down to see something on archaeology or history, and most recently it was Fake or Fortune, a series in which art dealer Philip Mould and BBC general factotum Fiona Bruce investigate disputed works of art. Given the conventions of documentary-making, my guess is that unsung researchers do the actual investigating, whilst “the talent” reads the script convincingly. After all, with Fiona on the news every night and on Question Time every week, and trekking round the country with Antiques Roadshow, there must be little real opportunity for lengthy … Continue reading
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Who will lead an apostolic counter-reformation?
Leaving the Message is an excellent, and exceptionally prolific, YouTube Channel run by a survivor of William Branham’s Message cult, John Collins. You may or may not have heard of Branham, but you ought to have done, because his teaching underpins much of what is wrong in Evangelical Christianity today. To attempt a pithy summary of the channel’s aims, it is to prove the direct personal and ideological connections between the heretical Latter Rain Movement of the years after World War II, and the so-called New Apostolic Reformation of Bethel Redding, IHOPKC and so on that fascinates so many Evangelicals in Britain and elsewhere, and has virtually cornered the lucrative … Continue reading
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There’s a perfectly logical explanation
A video from a couple of years ago has been doing the rounds. The maker spotted a whole flotilla of inflated RIBs at Dover, each one with an official label showing that it had come ashore stocked with illegal immigrants.
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Righteousness exalts a nation…
…but sin is a reproach to any people. Opponents of the Deep State both in the USA and here are wondering why President Trump has “turned on a dime” from demanding full transparency on the Jeffery Epstein affair to showing every sign of covering it up, from doctored prison videos to denying there is even anything to investigate. Lawyer and commentator Robert Barnes provides what, to me, is the most plausible explanation for the change here.
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The pen is mightier… but words will never hurt me.
“The pen is mightier than the sword.”“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”These can’t both be right, surely?
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