Tag: Gnosticism
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A Christian Defense of James Lindsay’s Interpretation of Gnosticism
James Lindsay, of New Discourses and Sovereign Nations, has come under fire in the de facto public square of Twitter over his definition and application of the term Gnosticism. Lindsay’s efforts over the last few years in pushing back and exposing the intellectual foundations upon which so many civilization-destroying ideologies rest is undeniable. The attacks […]
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The CIA Wants Me to Believe What? — Part 3: Having Read the Fiction Volumes of Sekret Machines
My last two posts were reflections about the non-fiction volumes of Tom DeLonge’s Sekret Machines series. The conclusions I reached based on those two volumes can be summarized in the following points: Each of these elements is on full display in the fictional narrative of the two published volumes of Sekret Machines, subtitled Chasing Shadows […]
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The CIA Wants Me to Believe What? Part 2 — Addendum to Analysis after Reading Sekret Machines: Man, Volume II of God’s, Man, & War
It’s almost impossible to write or speak about the things that DeLonge and Levenda discuss–and to do so in a way that considers them and their implications serious topics–without a certain degree of anxiety. That anxiety isn’t over the topics themselves. I am not in fear of being abducted by EBEs and taken to their […]
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The CIA Wants Me to Believe What? — An Introductory Analysis of Sekret Machines: Gods, Volume I of Gods, Man, & War
The UFO phenomenon has been ongoing since at least the summer of 1947, when the Roswell UFO incident occurred. Since then, stories about several famous UFO incidents have consistently been told. Barney and Betty Hill‘s abduction experience in 1961. The Rendlesham Forest incident in 1980. The Phoenix Lights event of 1997. And many others in […]
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The Political Consequences of the Resurrection
If Jesus is risen, then all things are subject to him. The Son of Man lays claim to dominion over the earth’s “peoples, languages, and nations.” This is an explicitly political claim. Therefore, the fact of Jesus’ resurrection is politically consequential. He is the object of the Christian’s ultimate loyalty and, therefore, a direct threat to the state insofar as it is controlled by forces that resist his dominion.