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

Below you’ll see a tweet from Richard.  He’s commenting on some outstanding political work performed by Maine superstars, Tim Bodnar and Nick Blanchard.  Last night they peacefully spun up the Trans cult to the point where they revealed their true nature.  They are the most violent among us.  And all this violence is made possible by the decades long cowardice of Maine’s institutional “leaders.”

I’m probably going to write a more lengthy essay on all this for a future Weekly Issues Summary.  It’s free to subscribe.

Selah.

There’s plenty of outrage. 

Absent morality. 

There is no moral outrage in Maine.

I shouldn’t suggest that there is absolutely none.  Institutionally it is true.  None exists.

There are individuals starting to get a bit of traction online.  Three courageous men come to mind.  Nick, Tim and Richard.  They are active on X, and showing up in the real world.  Nick and Richard started showing up when the West collapsed the world into madness over the flu in 2020.  Tim joined them in the last couple years.

While pastors and priests remain hidden in their stained glass fortresses these men hit the digital and real world streets with their moral outrage.  Jesus Christ is proud to stand alongside these sinners.  He approves of their masculine expression against obviously unhinged insanity.  Why aren’t you standing with them?

I’ll tell you why.  Laurel Libby, Alex Titcomb, the Dinner Club, the Republican Party, the Catholic Chancery and the Christian Civic League of Maine provide you with a pass.  All you have to do to express moral outrage is send them an occasional fifty bucks, show up at their pot lucks, and speak out nicely when they give you permission.  This grift was permissioned by law and practice over the decades by the Israel loving Jewish revolutionary spirit.  None of this has anything to do with Making Maine or America Great Again.  The womanishness of Maine men is a direct result of the Jewish Revolutionary Spirit that pornified their souls.  Full stop.

Christianity hates porn.  Jews love it.  They own it, in fact.  Google it.  Jews defend and promote abortion.  Christianity doesn’t.  Jews hate the idea of a Bible showing up on a teacher’s desk.  Christianity, of course, recognizes that ignorance of the Bible is ignorance of basic morality.  Maine’s institutional culture does not benefit from the influence of Christianity.  Holocaustianity defines the lingering pathetic influence of religion on Maine.  Just beneath the surface is deeper dedication to Israel and Jews than to Maine as our collective home.  And there are hardly any Jews in Maine!  They’ve never been here in big numbers.  Their influence, however, is nearly all that’s left of religion. 

Especially in politics.

Stop the grift.  Unplug from holocaustianity. 

How about we save Maine before sending another batch of our young men off to die for the jews in Eastern Europe or Iran?

Amen.

This mixed martial arts celebrity, Jake Shields, is more Christian than every so-called Christian I’ve ever met.  And I’ve met a few Christians in my lifetime.

But you won’t take time to learn more because … wait for it … HOLOCAUSTIANITY!

All I can say is, “Bomb, bomb, bomb .. bomb bomb Iran.”

Selah.

Blah, blah … blah …….. blah.

Please forgive me for having this reaction to a “Good Guy” Influencer video.  I started watching this former FoxNews celebrity podcast awhile ago.  His content is better than … I would have said “most” a year ago … but now I say “some.”

This video offers a helpful illustration supporting my downgrade.  To reinforce the point I’m making you should watch the short Voidzilla video below about Tucker Carlson.  The Redacted video takes over ten minutes to make two obvious points.  One is that RFK Jr is going overboard into politics as the newly minted DHS Commissioner.  I agree that this is true.  It is hardly news.

Second, and more important, is RFK Jr’s recent X post claiming (without evidence) that Antisemitism is a major health threat in America.  Most of the Redacted video is handwringing over the Kennedy assertion about the jews.  The hosts were, of course careful never to use the two words together — “The” and “Jews.”  To do so is to commit the crime of antisemitism.

I was at this handwringing state about the jews a decade ago.  It led me to think deeply about the issue, and even *gasp,* take time to read some books.  I concluded rather quickly after looking into the whole “antisemitism” issue that something else is going on.  Actually there’s a lot going on.  All of it, however, can be tied together persuasively by the religious idea concerning a decision the jews made two millennia ago.  The jews decided to murder their Messiah.

NOT ALL JEWS.  But certainly the Pharisees and the Sadducees.  Jesus and Mary, after all, were themselves jews … as were the Apostles.  Jewish officialdom murdered Jesus Christ.  The Romans were complicit.

The Gospel writer, John, pointed out that Jesus Christ is reason itself.  That’s why he wrote that famous first sentence opening his narrative, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”  The English “Word” is the Greek word “Logos.”  John’s gospel was written in the common Greek language of the time known as koine.

The book I found most helpful in thinking through this matter was published by a PhD in American Literature two decades ago.  Dr. E. Michael Jones concluded that what America is really confronting is not antisemitism, but “The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit.”  The idea is so powerful that the jews forced the world’s most powerful book publisher, Amazon, to delete not just this book but the account that made over thirty of the books Dr. Jones published over the past forty years easily available.

Amazon was forced to take this draconian step because the combined weight of the arguments in the books would lead to a restoration of constitutional order in America.  That, at this point, is the LAST thing the West’s oligarchy can abide.  They’ve invested their life’s blood in creating the global technocracy that threatens not just one nation, a group of nations or a region.  No, the jews are at the threshold of global control using their many versions of soma.

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.

The creator and leader of a Christian group called “Rules for Radicals” interviewed Dr. E Michael Jones yesterday.  I’ve included the one hour discussion above.  Timothy Gordon is an attorney who wrote the book, “Catholic Republic:  Why America Will Perish Without Rome.”  I read it shortly after it was published, around the time the world collapsed into insanity over the flu.  I had pivoted my lifelong learning in the sphere of religion to the Catholic Church.  This personal interest eventually led me to authors like Gordon and Jones.  I followed video bread crumbs, leading to books written by men like these, that were offered online.