For what reads like a pretty fair summary of the broader issue of sola scriptura click on this AI link.

This post is about my personal experience with the doctrine.

I was baptized at the behest of my parents when I was a young teen in a United Methodist Church in Maryland.  I did it mostly for my parents, which is probably typical for all Christians who are baptized while a child of any age.  That is to say that baptism at that age is more about the adults who surround the child than the child.  They are too young to have any rigorous theological or philosophical understanding of the liturgy.  The Church community contextualizes the event in the months that follow.  As months turn into years the child becomes a man and grows in his responsibility to fully understand the indelible spiritual quality of what happened when the Church baptized him.

I was presented with an inscribed Bible by the Church at the baptismal liturgy.  I have it today, some fifty-five or so years later.  I think the sola scriptura idea/doctrine was probably mentioned to me as part of the preparation for the baptismal liturgy, but I’m not certain.  I remember having a special feeling about the inscribed Bible.  I read from it periodically as a child.  I never developed a habit of daily Bible reading.

I found written and visual material of an erotic nature to be much more meaningful than Bible verses as a teenager.  While I wanted to act out what I read, and viewed, in the “literature” I never developed the habit of fornication beyond self-stimulation inspired by the jewish-promoted “literature” known as porn.  I always knew that the Bible I owned was critical of the habit, and of all forms of lust.  Talmudically, I chose to rationalize the dichotomy.

I fell in love at eighteen years old with the woman I would marry.  Raised in the Pentecostal Church she had a deeper, more emotional, connection to sola scriptura than did I.  We both attended Protestant Bible College where she studied music, and I obtained a degree in Religion & Philosophy.  I accepted the doctrine uncritically all through this process until 2020 when I entered the Roman Catholic Church. That’s when I started to think deeply about it.

As I write this blog post I’m celebrating the end of my sixth year as a Catholic.  I find deep peace in having a Priest, and the Bible, in my life.  My Priest spent years sorting through the theological and philosophical issues/controversies that followed Luther’s articulation of sola scriptura’s modern form in the 1500s.  I trust my Priest on this point mostly because the alternative in America is Protestantism, which has disintegrated into tens of thousands of small groupings that each rally around some novel interpretation and/or charismatic personality.

The oldest of the Protestant groupings are all woke now.  Their biggest concern is transgendering. They’ve developed all sorts of theological and philosophical “reasoning” to support the insanity.  They get away with it because almost nobody attends their “worship” services anymore.  They are all closing, along with the Catholic Churches that maintain a relaxed attitude toward jews and their Talmudic ideas.

During my lifetime the only christian churches that enjoyed growth were evangelical zionist enterprises.  They were captured politically by the Republican Party at the time of Ronald Reagan.  The zionism was buried in eschatology that probed from the margins of daily and weekly worship until Trump was elected for a second time.  It appears that zionism is now a major dogma of the evangelicalism that I defended for twenty years as leader of the Christian Civic League.

I never defended zionism.  I stayed away from eschatology.  I’ve always reasoned that the future belongs to God and I was never comfortable with current event, headline driven “prophets”, teachers and preachers.

I’m not surprised to see what is happening right now in Washington D.C.  After spending four years leading a Christian community that ministered to troubled souls I entered Maine’s political world at the highest layer of engagement.  I spent twenty years as the spokesman for the century old Protestant institution who’s job it was (and is) to influence public policy, The Christian Civic League of Maine.

What Trump is doing makes perfect sense to me.  He has surrounded himself with evangelical “judeo-christian” Americans who sincerely believe that Old Testament verses are as timely, relevant and authoritative today as they were when they were written.  Sola Scriptura requires that the social order honor the absolute right of every individual Christian to interpret and apply the Bible for themselves alone. Protestant pastors teach this duty, and each denomination develops unique and independent rules to tamp down the inevitable chaos.

Most teach that the Old Testament must be interpreted through the lens of the New Testament, which introduces Jesus into the interpretation and application of Old Testament ideas.  But … never forget … that the doctrine empowers every individual to interpret and apply any, and all, Bible verses themselves.

This highly individualized and sovereign characteristic, encouraged by the doctrine, creates men like current Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.  The Pope recently reminded the world that the gospel cannot be used to justify war, “Brothers and sisters, this is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.”

The American Evangelical Christians who are the most enthusiastic supporters of Trump’s war of choice against Iran are quoting the Old Testament out of context.  Hegseth quotes from it regularly.

I’m not a theologian.  Never have been.  I’m barely a philosopher having merely earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.  I do, however, have practical experience at 65 years of age.  And it is from those decades of experience that I respectfully offer my perspective.

Christians in the West desperately need the help of educated Priests with their spiritual lives as they work to sort out the world that is emerging from the ashes of the American empire.

Protestantism isn’t helping.  It will end up in the dust bin of history because it has always been nothing more than a heresy.

Selah

I offered my immediate impressions of a trial in a post yesterday.

This morning Tim messaged me this music video he created after the trial.  It’s worth the time.

While Laurel Libby is soaking up the DC accolades Tim is slogging away on the same issue from his wilderness hideout somewhere in the woods of Maine.  He produces his online content with electricity provided by a gas powered generator!  He released this video on the day of an emotional trial where he fearlessly faced down his accusers in front of a Judge.

I was there.  The entire trial was the image of what our “society” is now.  It is an anti-society.  There is nothing real, true or reasonable about it.  It is like social media and the internet now.  The Western world is womanized.  If you don’t emote properly then you face humiliation, or worse if you live in England — jail time.

It was a great honor to be there yesterday with Tim, his wife Jen, Richard and a young man I met for the first time.  Tim respected the Judge and the law but he didn’t give an inch to the crybabies.  I wish the trial had been video LIVEstreamed and recorded.  At least there is an audio copy that is being acquired by Richard and will be released publicly on X.

The trial makes it painfully obvious that Maine’s anti-harassment statutes must be tightened up.  Public officials must not be allowed to abuse them to deny a member of the public the right to speak at a public hearing.  Personal insults and politically motivated fighting language must not be interpreted as harassment.  When you sign up for public responsibilities in Maine you’re signing up for battle without bullets.  Words are the ammunition.

If we fail to honor this Western tradition, and definition of free speech, bullets are going to fly.  One of the legitimate functions of politics is the release of public tensions without violence.  Maine has a proud tradition, going back to 1820, of resolving all of our major statewide disputes without organized violence.  We debate and vote through elections and legislative wrangling.

These school board members are forcefully undermining this mechanism so that they can get their way on sexuality and gender.  Maine people are suffering more deeply every day because of the weaponization of sex and gender.  We will arrive at a more natural and wholesome consensus either through lawmaking or violence.  This hellish trajectory cannot go on forever.

If you aren’t slinging truth it’s definitely time to start.  Join me in doing some thoughtful real life truth slinging on June 14th in Central Maine.

Selah.

I’ve known Larry Lockman since 1990 — thirty five years.  He made me his enemy, and kept it that way, ever since.  He’s good at keeping enemies once he’s made them, unless his enemy is gay.

Click here for his latest column length demonstration of intelligence and wit.

Larry went to war with me over the Christian Civic League of Maine’s decision to use the referendum to confront his pet political enemy — gays.  In the late 1980s the League reasoned that Maine’s lobby/political class was compromised on all things sexual morality.  The century old ministry knew it had a spiritual, as well as political, duty to confront the sexual orientation movement.

The religious institution pivoted from historic concerns related to gambling, drug use and drunkenness to worry over the consequences of the sexual revolution.  The board’s decision to employ Maine’s populist legal mechanism known as the referendum drew instant fire from Maine’s Secretary of State, Bill Diamond.  He denied the group a petition.  While the League awaited the results of a lawsuit Lockman obtained a petition that was circulated publicly and in the churches.  He obtained the required number of signatures and his “anti-gay” proposal proceeded to the ballot.

As the freshly minted leader of the League I was tasked with managing the political fallout inside Evangelical Christianity unleashed by the competing populist ideas.  I might as well have been a flaming sodomite as far as Lockman, and his band of loyalists, were concerned.  The battle resulted in Lockman’s ballot initiative failing, notwithstanding the League’s qualified endorsement of the measure.

While he’s never forgiven me — or the League (as far as I know) — he apologized to “gays” while serving as a Legislator for his work against them in his pre-electoral politician days.  His current column suggests the apology wasn’t even skin deep.

Larry Lockman, like Evangelical Christianity in Maine, is more ferociously Zionist than the Rothchild’s ever dreamed possible.  His Judeo-Christianity is much more Judeo than it is Christian.

Every politician in Maine at every level — local, state and federal — knows there is only one talking point that is off limits.  Criticism of Jews means automatic career obliteration.  And that’s not because Jews are visibly here in large numbers.  They never have been.  It is because of Lockman’s Protestantism, especially the current rabidly toxic “conservative” version that loves Israel more than Maine.

It is this version of Christianity that is now aggressively, and stupidly, driving American foreign policy under the current Republican MAGA movement’s leader, Donald Trump.  America’s most corrupt, and generous, political family — the Adelsons — own Republican foreign policy.  Realizing their days are numbered because young Evangelicals have abandoned the Zionist cause Israel’s drunken addiction to America’s backing against Iran is fallen in the dark alley of genocide.  Israel is barely breathing as it approaches it’s end.

Like the Jewish holy book, the Talmud, Lockman’s ideology provides him with bottomless “reasons” and wit to argue against his enemies.  The latest low hanging fruit in Maine is obviously the confused individuals who can’t sort out their gender.  When I was leading it was the confused Mainers who choose to conflate marriage with sexual orientation.  In both cases irrationality and sin are given the upper hand in political discourse.  A moral crisis is reduced to only two sides.  And both sides enrich their bank accounts at the expense of Maine’s people.

Lockman, and his followers, cannot lead Maine through what is coming.  They are political and religious opportunists.

Only an honest Christian will do.

Know any?

Amen.

I nearly always agree with the X posts of the channel posted above.  This one drew a loud “Boom” from my soul.

Israel is a foreign nation.  Full stop. 

Holocaustianity convinced tens of millions of Westerners to feel irrational sympathy for Jews.  Did you know that the first concentration camp created by Hitler, in the mid 1930s, was Dachau?  You know who was sent there in the greatest numbers?  Roman Catholic Priests.  Hitler’s Nazis knew that the Catholic Church posed the greatest threat to their plans for war.  So they were imprisoned there well into the 1940s.

The book that defined the German concentration camp experience in the 1950s was written by one of those Priests — “Christus in Dachau.”  The idea that Hitler built them for the purpose of murdering Jews didn’t emerge in a big way until later.  Don’t believe me?  It’s all documented in two recently published books that you can purchase here.

Before I had done my deep dive into this issue I visited the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C.  A hatred for Christianity pulsates in that place.  It deeply offended me.  But at that time I thought of myself as a JUDEOchristian.  It was confusing.  The confusion inspired my research since.

At the time I published criticism of the Museum because of their inclusion of a sodomy celebration event in the basement when we visited.  My published criticism earned me public condemnation by Portland’s Rabbi.  I was leading Maine’s Christian Civic League then.

Abortion and homosexuality are Jewish religious sacraments while Christianity condemns both.

Amen.

Christianity elevated the idea of preaching to a new level of significance in religion.  To be more specific Paul the Apostle told Christians living in Corinth that the preaching of the Apostles, the Church, would draw heaven and earth closer together.

America isn’t allowed to have a Church.  The First Amendment to the Constitution empowered business and government at the expense of religion’s unity/authority.  This fracturing of Christianity means England, the birthplace of this revolutionary thinking about religion, now celebrates Ramadan instead of Lent.  If that can happen to a legally Christian nation that still holds on to a Monarchy where do you think America is headed?

We got a foretaste last night six miles from where I’m writing this blog post.  The elected leader of the town’s legal body responsible for raising children from age five to eighteen mounted her pulpit and declared the path forward.  She did this after employing the long arm of State law to silence a loud and hilarious social media influencer by abusing harassment statute.  This womanish “leader” is calculating that Maine people are so dumbed down now that they will see in her preaching the marks of seriousness and maturity appropriate to her authority.  Especially in comparison to a religious zealot on X.

And you know what.  Before the November election she might have gotten away with this play acting.  I don’t think she will be able to now.  If the Trump administration were smart they’d globalize the Gardiner Tranny Clinic debate.  But maybe we’ve reached a point where America’s constitutional system is going to start working and we don’t need centralized control to realize that children ought not be worshipped.  Maybe we’ve realized that children must be raised to goodness from the fallen state in which we are all born.

Tim and Jen over at Truthslinger central on X have exposed the arrogance, hatred and futility of Maine’s womanish political culture.  The masculine edge that is forcing it’s way on to the main stage of the globe is encouraging.  Cowards like Zelensky, Biden and Netanyahoo are being exposed.

Men don’t murder women and children.  Full stop.  Men protect the vulnerable, weak and innocent — especially when it is feminine (not feminist).  Men don’t brag about sexual conquests.  Men choose virtue every single time.  Men know that humanity is capable of dark horrors that would make satan himself blush.  Men make war based on law.  Emotion isn’t a thing for men in battle.

Tim is winning his battle with the school board in Gardiner because he is unafraid and masculine.  Sadly, I’m told by men in the know from the small historic town that these “women” will ultimately get their transgender clinic installed in the school.  Maine’s men are too busy eating themselves fat while scrolling porn on their phones to rise up to protect their women and children.

Tim refuses to count himself among these cowards.

Amen.

Bellows is an incredibly stupid ideologue.

The Human Rights Act is not in the constitution.  It is a creature of statutory law.  It is blatantly unconstitutional.  It carves out “rights,” absent any responsibility, for citizens based on how they decide to manage their sex organs.  Everybody knows that if you mismanage your sex organs you can hurt yourself and others.

The constitutional freedom she mentions should have nothing to do with sexual evil, or biological nonsense.  Mainers should be free to choose to love, or hate, the good.  Individual choices against society’s good will bring trouble … or it should.  Bellows, and her fellow travelers, conflate all sorts of truths and realities in order to avoid thinking about, and applying, the moral law using practical reason.

For one thousand years Christianity shaped the West, referencing the moral law using practical reason.  Theology gave birth to science, and was known as the Queen of the Sciences.  Economics replaced theology as the arbiter of all value in the West, beginning in the Anglosphere.  And now the world’s hegemon (America) is forty trillion dollars in debt.

The Bellows ideology is designed to excuse sexual sin to make us docile.  Sexual evil distracts us from the real work of building strong families and communities.  Bellows cut her political teeth on the bodies of Maine babies.  I met her many years ago when she was being paid handsomely to push legislators to legalize baby murder as a lobbyist for Planned Parenthood.

Maine people have been so distanced from their own State House that they either chose to excuse baby murder, or they participated, without reasoning practically about the consequences.  The chickens are roosting all over the place in Maine now.  Horrors too numerous to name are all connected by our willful choice to neglect the moral law.

Since it’s unrealistic to replace the entire governmental class we’ll have to seek opportunities to bring incremental change using the means God makes available.

I’ll continue to blog.

Amen.

Maine’s Governor has pondered her spat with The Donald in the White House a couple weeks ago.  She and her team have decided to compare the President to a French King who probably doesn’t even exist as a footnote in Maine textbooks outside Lewiston, Biddeford and the St. John Valley. 

If you’re losing in politics then it’s time to Get Smart.

It’s almost scholarly to compare the gold loving Trump to the Sun King.  I for one am thrilled with this turn of events.  Thank you, Governor, for injecting a bit of modern European history into all of this unhinged gender madness.  Mills must turn to something with built in gravitas to divert everyone’s attention from the fact she is defending the least popular idea in human history.  Why not the European King who cultivated an image of himself as an omniscient and infallible Sun King.  Talk about gravitas.

And it fits Trump.  She might make this stick to him.  I hope she succeeds.

Unknowingly, she and her Satanic progressive pals, are reinforcing the reason so many Americans are turning away from their ideas.  We’re rising from our slumber and rejecting the “progress” they are using our laws to enforce.  Trump represents our manly rejection of their evil.

So what if he has to suffer comparison to a political leader who enjoyed revealing a bit of leg.

I’m impressed.

A Mainer was inspired a week ago to call the public to Augusta.  This Mainer was motivated by Trump’s confrontation with Governor Jezebel Janet Kills.

An acquaintance of mine promoted the call on X and Fakebook.  Others picked it up.  Five hundred Mainers showed up on Saturday!

A video of the event is posted above.

I know for a fact this was grassroots.  Nobody was paid to organize this.  Soros agents weren’t passing out fifty dollar bills to the attendees.  This was real Mainers, mad for a good reason.  Out-of-state Zionist non-profits weren’t donating staff and money to make it big, loud and successful.

Even though the establishment Augustatarians didn’t show they know it happened.  And I guarantee you they are factoring the significance of this event into their political math.

Some leaders were hurt by staying away from this event.  Jezebel Laurel Ribby was hurt the most.  All five hundred of those folks wanted to see her there.  They are disappointed she was a no show.  After the week she enjoyed in the spotlight she had the most to lose.

Why wasn’t Billy Bob there with bells on?  Where’s the public statements praising the organizers, and championing the cause?  The Maine GOP should be all over this event.  I didn’t see any evidence of their support.  How about Senator Rick Bennett?  I’m told he’s the frontrunner for Governor in 2026.  He can’t win without strong support from this group.  Yet, he wasn’t there.

Hat tip to @uninquirer on X.  Richard was a major force in creating this turnout.  It was also a delight to see Tim the Truthslinger there with his bullhorn.

When I considered running for Governor a couple years ago I coined the phrase “Jezebel Janet Kills” referring to Governor Janet Mills.  In similar style I’m going to think of House Representative Laurel Libby as Jezebel Laurel Ribby.  She is the more Zionist side, with an Evangelical identity, of Jezebel Janet.

Ribby is a play on her gender.  In the Garden the man gave his rib to make the woman. Today men surrender their nature to serve in the Legislature with their opposite gender.  Politics is war by other means. 

“Good christian” hidden men like Joshua Tardy must love making war on this increasingly womanish battlefield.  The emotion and chaos make it easier for him to help his clients — casinos and big pharma.

Jezebel Laurel is headline news internationally right now.  That’s because the jewish revolutionary movement benefits from her exaltation.  Curious that her second fifteen minutes of glory comes as a result of the world’s most well known jewish revolutionary, Donald Trump, calling out Jezebel Janet last week in the White House.  The issue that is permissible to fight over now is boys defeating girls in sports.  When I enjoyed my decade of glory it was the political pillow fight over “sexual orientation.”

Everything that Christianity upholds as good, true and beautiful must be replaced by what the rich and powerful (revolutionaries to a man and woman) decide is legitimate, meaningful and serious for humanity.  Anybody who interferes with this global systemic change in human nature can be justifiably murdered or fired.  If you’re a Christian in Palestine today you either abandon the homeland of your ancestors or suffer obliteration by an American bomb.  If you’re a Christian leader in Maine you make nice to the jews, sodomites and baby murderers or look for another job.

Jezebel Laurel was allowed to throw a politically ineffective hissy fit last year on baby murder.  She produced a lot of heat but no light.  This year she is crusading for women’s sports and credited with placing a Voter Identification proposal before the people by referendum.  Both issues will play out this year.  Jezebel Laurel commands the political high ground on both headline grabbing crusades just in time to put together a campaign for 2026.

I’m told Billy Bob isn’t happy.  Laurel is sucking up all the pot smoke that fills Republican meeting rooms statewide.  For guys like Billy Bob to be happy they need their share.  Jezebel Laurel Ribby doesn’t share with anybody that isn’t approved by Alex Titcomb’s fund raising church pot luck scam known as the Dinner Table.

Politics aside the time is fast approaching when the curtain will be pulled back.  The people will realize that Maine’s political class has managed a show for decades.  Monied interests have done well for themselves.  The rest of Maine, not so much.

All of us must blow the dust off the moral law.  That law in Maine is written down.  It defines rights that every single Mainer is benefitting from today.  We simply must choose to appreciate that fact as we develop knowledge and skills that enable the assertion of more of what is written there.

No politician is coming to save you.  If they are smoking the glory weed be careful.

Amen.