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

Back when I was doing my deep dive on Nick Fuentes I came across this once young (now forty year old) Livestreamer.  He’s interviewed Dr. Jones a few times.  We need a lot more conversations that jump the artificial generational divides fueled by psychological warfare.  Great work gentlemen!

Tim Bodnar is in more than a political hair tangle with Mike Hein, a man who worked for me for six years in the first decade of the new millennium.   The above post provides a hint of how vexing the situation has become for Tim and his wife.

The AI manipulated image of Hein weeping is brilliant.  Hein told me more than once that he loathes public exposure.  Well, looks like those days are over my friend.  And you’ve made the bed you are about to be forced to sleep in.

Hein showed up in my life around the time Maine was collapsing to the sexual orientation cabal.  The Christian Civic League of Maine decided in 1990 to go on political offense against the sexual orientation movement.   That last decade was consumed by that very public fight.  The League decided to use populism, instead of lobbying under the dome.  The strategy worked.

The enemy responded with unlimited funding for grassroots lying.  They went door-to-door and lied to all the folks who signed our petitions.  It took millions of dollars and a few years but they managed to knock off the few points that provided victory in close statewide elections.

The stress in my office was intense through these years.  It was a small staff doing a big job.  Hein showed up as the worm was turning in the direction of sexual liberation.  Hein stepped into the role of Administrator and single handedly managed all the detail related to mailings and bookkeeping.  He was the most efficient and competent person to ever serve in that position during my twenty years of leadership.

During those years that ended with my forced resignation a gulf opened up between me and the small evangelical churches that provided one third of the operational funding that kept the lights on at 70 Sewall Street, the headquarters building purchased on debt and named in honor of Protestant Prohibitionist Ben Bubar Jr.

This building is now abandoned and the operations are managed from Bangor.  I eliminated the hundred thousand dollars of debt that I inherited from my predecessor and left the League with money in the bank, all bills paid and the building much improved for professional operations of an effective Christian witness in Maine’s State Capitol.

While I find it hard to believe that Hein’s mailings to the pastors contributed to the collapse of their support for my leadership his actions since 2020 leave me scratching my head.  As things deteriorated  toward my resignation in 2009 I was told countless times that my “tone and style” was harsh and mean — even though I blow dried my hair, always wore a suit and never (well, rarely … lol) used the word “sodomite.”  Ironically this is the same tactic that the sexual orientation cabal was using to undermine the League’s success.  They turned their opposition from hundreds of thousands of voters into one man.  Me.  They froze me in place and created a fictional version of me in the media.

This was the days before effective social media, podcasting etc.  Those communications channels were just appearing.  I attempted to get set up but never assembled the necessary resources to make it happen before I resigned.  And after I resigned I decided to put the League in my rearview and move on with my life.  I didn’t want to set up in competition by leading my own version of the institution.

The guy who was paid to replace me just retired.  He was praised in person at his retirement party by Janet Mills, Paul LePage and Susan Collins, two Governors and a serving US Senator.  He was described as thoughtful and effective in comparison to me, his predecessor, who was represented as having practically destroyed the institution. 

Politicians and pastors had no use for me because they just wanted the sexual orientation issue to go away, or they wanted to use it to raise money or keep the pews full.  That’s what the guy that just retired did.  He raised a bunch of money as the woke version of the sexual orientation cabal took over everything.

All was quiet for me with respect to Mike Hein until Covid hit.  Activist friends told me Hein had abandoned his conservatism and become socialist/communist.  It was true.  And one of his tactics for gaining the confidence of his new Leftist friends was to publicly attack my family.  I didn’t learn how detailed and hateful those attacks were until the fall of 2024 when Tim Bodnar showed me one of the posts during a LIVEstream interview.

Right after that LIVEstream Hein scrubbed the X account that featured those posts and cut me off in writing.

He started a public and private crusade using his X account, texts and emails against Tim Bodnar in the fall of 2024.  He attempted to recruit me into his crusade.  Tim’s provocative public image bothered Hein … a lot.  To this day he chooses to ignore Tim’s public Christian testimony and effective political work (that Hein publicly claims to agree with) in favor of using gossip and subterfuge to undermine the connection Tim has with his Maine audience.

It appears Hein stooped so low that he found an estranged daughter living in Colorado and recruited her into his crusade to destroy Tim’s effective activism against the Gardiner School Board’s attempt to insert a Tranny health clinic into that small town’s public school infrastructure.

I’ve either been deeply embedded in Maine politics, or remained aware on the margins, since my late 20s.  I’m 64 years old this year.  Nothing Mike is doing surprises me.  He is a smart and ruthless political operator.   While I’ve never been involved with crusades of personal destruction I’m sure used to being accused of doing that.  This was the favorite tactic of people like Betsy Sweet.  Probably still is, if she’s still active.

She and the legacy media loved to accuse me of carrying on a personal vendetta against “gay” people.  It worked because everybody knows that Christianity is judgmental and mean when it comes to sex.  It was really sad to watch all my Christian friends in the Evangelical movement drink deeply from that well of lies and choose to believe the commands of their oppressors.  The recently retired leader who took my place was the choir director who led them in singing their surrender to satan.

And all the people of Maine are now paying the price — especially the children.

I don’t know what Mike’s problem is, and a big part of me doesn’t want to know.  Maine is  a broken place in very fundamental ways.  None of us adults can avoid responsibility.  We all need to stop scrolling and start thinking deeply about our own role in creating this reality.

We didn’t comment during diversity training.  We blamed someone else when our son or daughter “courageously” bragged to us about their sexual sins, and claimed that those sins were their identity.   We created this mess.  If we don’t fix it, God will.

Pray we wake up before God’s grace is withdrawn.  You don’t want to see what happens after that.  Believe me.

Selah.

When Paul LePage was Governor I took the time to call a press conference in the State House to defend him.  He was taking it on the chin in the global media over a comment he made about a political adversary.  He alluded to sodomy in his comment, claiming he wouldn’t “bend over” to his enemy.  Paul Madore and I were the only Mainers to publicly defend him.

He showed his gratitude by publicly condemning … us.

Now he’s campaigning to go to Washington DC as a congresscritter.  As follow up to his embarrassing defeat in the recent gubernatorial campaign he thinks maybe a win is possible for him in the conservative Second Congressional District.  Maybe so, maybe no.  We’re all going to find out because LePage owns the Maine GOP.  What he wants, he gets.

Being the lover of all things gay that he is, he’s put out the call to Scott Presler, the sodomite activist darling of Trump’s MAGA movement.  I don’t doubt that LePage is collaborating with the pro-homosexual Christian Civic League to make it happen.

If you haven’t figured it out yet allow me to enlighten you.  Maine politics is a progressive grift.  Both sides are politiking toward their own vision for heaven on earth.  Republicans and Democrats only disagree on one thing — who should have the power to govern the utopia.  They are both progressing toward only marginally different definitions of utopia.

Both parties want a fake and gay utopia that rewards their political colleagues with money and power.  And the majority of Maine people want to continue scrolling porn, and jumping in and out of bed with whoever, to anaesthetize themselves from the troubling effects of our disintegrating culture and economy.

Presler and Lepage provide Mainers with the political distraction they desire.  If we continue down this road of irresponsibility and passion we will get what we deserve.

God writes STRAIGHT with crooked lines.

Amen.

It’s obvious to everyone that Maine is a gay brothel. 

All this stuff makes me physically ill. 

I’d heard that the Governor’s Chief of Staff is “married” to someone in leadership in the House of Representatives.  I just wasted five minutes doing some searching.  It appears that Speaker Fecteau is “married” to someone named Dylan.  Maybe Dylan is the Governor’s Press Secretary, not Chief of Staff.  I’m not going to waste anymore time thinking about the lies they tell themselves and the rest of us.

A prominent Maine businessman met with me yesterday to tell me to move on.  He told me, “The gays won the war, Mike.”  We’re all gay now, whether we like it or not.  And don’t you dare think for a minute that you have any right whatsoever to interfere with the noble sexual and gender development of anyone you love.  Every individual has the right, and the responsibility, to choose well how to serve in the gay brothel.

And there’s only one rule for providing good service.  Don’t ask, don’t tell. 

Homosexuals have the exclusive right to define everything, especially the meaning of words.  There is no reality outside of what they preach.  All contradictions and criticism are forbidden.

Maine became this way by willfully choosing to believe lies.  And now we live in a darkening dystopia.  We hate our children so much that we fund clinics equipped to emasculate them supported by staff trained to obfuscate reality.

We’ve descended to such a low level of hell on earth that all we can do is look up.  I don’t think we can descend any further down wearing our skin suits.  Our souls will have to depart this world to burn in the eternal sexually oriented hell we’ve chosen.  We have created a death culture.

God weeps.

And so do I.

Amen.

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.

Israel, and therefore America, is soooo over.

If you don’t believe me just take fifteen minutes to watch this video about the sodomy loving and tolerant “leaders” of America.

Amen.

Five days before a brand new Maine institution called the Christian Civic League of Maine (CCLM) pledged to encourage all the people of Maine in good citizenship Wilhelm Reich joined the human race in what is now Ukraine.  Reich was born on March 24, 1897.  Since that time the CCLM has worked to enact good laws, provide for their impartial enforcement, and elect honest and competent public officials.

The President of the Farmington State Normal School (Now the University of Maine at Farmington), Maine’s college for public school teachers, joined with the President of Bowdoin College to create the CCLM in 1897.  Forty three years later Reich discovered the latent atmospheric power of sexual orgasms while camped on the shore of a Maine lake near Rangely.  He was thirty miles from Farmington.  He was on the same rural dirt road — Bald Mountain Road — on which my grandfather created Wildwind Camps one year later in 1941.

Reich would return to Maine many times in the 1940s and 50s, going so far as to purchase a one hundred and thirty acre farm in 1942 that he used as a laboratory for his experiments.    He died in a Pennsylvania prison in 1957.

Wilhelm Reich matters.  He literally wrote the book on the sexual revolution … in 1930.  You think the crisis started in the U.S. in the 1960s.

According to Manus.im:

“The Sexual Revolution” was originally published in German in 1930 by Muenster Verlag under the title “Geschlechtsreife, Enthaltsamkeit, Ehemoral” (Sexual Maturity, Abstinence, Marriage Morality). It was later republished by Sexpol Verlag in 1936, and then translated into English and published by the Orgone Institute Press in 1945 and 1949. The book has been republished multiple times since, including by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1962 and most recently by the Wilhelm Reich Museum Press in 2023.

Reich is a major, if not THE major, thinker inspiring the rise of sexual libertinism in Maine and the West.  After being thrown out of Europe he headquartered his work out of New York City and Western, Maine.

Maine’s current Governor, Janet Mills, is daughter to the lawyer who both legalized — and later criminalized — Reich’s work in the United States of America.  The Governor is locked in a pitched political battle of international import with Donald Trump over the latest expression of Reich’s ideology.

Her brother Paul, also a lawyer, is directly tied into an illegal Chinese marijuana grow operation that affects nearly three hundred properties in Maine.  Paul’s father, Peter, served as Wilhelm Reich’s personal lawyer during the 1940s.  He then pivoted to prosecuting the controversial Jewish European immigrant when he became the Federal US Attorney.  Reich died in prison in 1957.  Mills had six tons of Reich’s books destroyed.

Reich’s theories about sexual orgasms were aimed at undermining the authority of religion, especially the Roman Catholic Church.  He argued that only good can come from following one’s sexual impulses wherever they lead.  He hated all forms of authority and traditional marriage.

Under the leadership of Janet Mills Maine erased civil marriage in the first decade of the new millennium.  And she is a forceful advocate for Reich’s rubrics related to sexuality.

Reich invented a device that he believed was capable of absorbing and concentrating sexual orgasmic energy from the atmosphere in such a way that he could affect the weather.

Ideas have consequences.  I’ll be exploring the fascinating life and work of Wilhelm Reich in blog posts going forward.

Amen.

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.