Look at This Effin Hipster!
July 15, 2010 2 Comments
Hipster extraordinaire F.N. r0b gives us his effin weekly review, bra!
Collins Brothers on the Occulturation of Culture
July 12, 2010 2 Comments
The Collins brothers desconstruct the modern occult explosion in this podcast, in particular the Twilight tripe, as well as other dark manifestations.
There is No Such Thing as Calvinism
June 5, 2010 1 Comment
John Calvin's Beautiful (Purported) Grave
(Back by popular demand. -Jay 
By M. B.
One thing that amazes me when I read Reformed people’s arguments against Rome is not so much what they say about us, but the gall and arrogance they have to even say anything at all.
The funny thing about the Calvinism vs. Arminianism debate is that there is no such thing. What? That’s right. Calvinism does not exist, at least not any more than the Ku Klux Klan does. Oh sure, there are still several groups that run around in rural communities in the South, calling themselves everything from “The Traditional Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan” to the “International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan”. But everyone knows what Nathan Bedford Forrest started over a century ago after the War Between the States has long since disbanded, only be revitalized by kooks, losers, and provocateurs trying to keep the torch aflame every other decade or so. And the ironic thing is that they’re trying to revitalize some thing that, any student of history knows, would not be blessed by the men who first established it to fight Yankees and carpetbaggers.
And it’s the same with Calvinism, with its “Reformed Presbyterian Church General Assembly” and “Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States ”. These amounts to little more than malcontent American whites trying to revamp a failed experiment, some thing that has long since been swept away into the dustbin of history. Read more of this post
Mainstream Historian on the Revolutionary Carbonari Conspiracy
June 4, 2010 Leave a comment
By: Jay
As with my article on the prevalence of the masonic-Illuminati in top, mainstream historians’ works, the truth is often uncovered even in scholarship opposed to the principle of “secret cabals” influencing history. Cambridge historian David Thomson writes on the back cover of his Penguin Europe Since Napoleon that “The pattern of European development since 1789 can be understood only by study of those all-embracing forces that have affected the whole continent, from Britain to the Balkans.” [emphasis mine]
One of these dark forces was the Carbonari. Thomson writes:
“The ultimate models for most secret societies were the Lodges of eighteenth century Freemasonry and from them was derived much of the ritual, ceremonies of initiation, secret signs, and passwords. The more immediate models were the secret societies formed in Italy and Germany to resist the rule of Napoleon: especially the Tugenbund (League of Virtue) in Germany and the Carbonari (the charcoal burners) of Italy, both founded by 1810. But a rich variety of similar organizations appeared throughout Europe: the Federati of Piedmont and the Adelphi in Lombardy, the Spanish liberal societies after 1815, the Philomathians of Poland modelled on the German students’ Bursenschaften, the Russian Union of Salvation of 1816 and the Republican Society of the South.” (pg. 140) Read more of this post
The Importance of Biblical Inerrancy
May 27, 2010 4 Comments
Moses receives the Law from God
A Presuppositional Critique: It’s Inseparability from Faith
By: Jay
I shouldn’t have to go to my local church [!] and end up having to defend the accuracy and authenticity of the Biblical texts. Unfortunately, this happened more than once. In a casual conversation one Sunday with someone I assumed was a kindred spirit, a heated discussion erupted over the reliability of the biblical texts. This prompted me to post some thoughts that hopefully illustrate the central importance of maintaining and defending, not just the accuracy and inerrancy of the texts, but also of the patristic and Traditional understanding of the texts as inerrant and historically reliable.
This is not a strict “scientific” treatment. This defense is more practical, patristic and presuppositional in nature. So please, no comments about an “unscientific” approach. I am familiar with different codices and their histories. That is the subject of another blog post or a whole series. And, on top of that, please, no comments about “fundamentalism.” I know firsthand what fundamentalism is (having been raised a Baptist “fundamentalist”), and I’ve read liberal higher critics. I’ve also read the Church Fathers, and conservative biblical scholars. I hope to show a couple presuppositional flaws that are apparent in the higher critical approaches, that it’s completely foreign to Tradition, and that the patristic tradition is unequivocally clear concerning inerrancy.
The first error made by my friend in conversation Sunday was the same error made by virtually all higher critics: because there are similarities in pagan texts and rituals in comparison with Christianity, the various biblical authors must have borrowed from these pagan sources. So, for example, the Gilgamesh Epic has a flood myth. Other pagan narratives have a first man or woman, so, the argument runs, the biblical account must have been borrowed and redacted these Ancient Near Eastern traditions. Note first of all that this rests on an obvious assumption—that the biblical authors borrowed from their pagan neighbors. Why not the other way? What if the devil inspired his minions to borrow from the true account and obscure it. “Absurd,” you say—”unscholarly and unscientific.” Beware, lest you come to find the hard way that “there is no wisdom or counsel against the Lord” (Prov. 21:30), and that “He overthrows the words of the faithless” (Prov. 22:12). Read more of this post
Recommended Articles
May 24, 2010 Leave a comment
This week I read some really good articles I want to pass on.
“Temple of Man: Freemasonry, Civil Religion and Education” by: Terry Melanson
“The Church Impotent: The Feminization of Christianity” by: Leon J. Podles
Lost Ends Up Lost in Syncretistic Gnosis
May 24, 2010 Leave a comment
By: Jay
The “television event of the decade” ended with what is, in my opinion, the cheesiest and empty theme it could have possibly had. As it turns out, as many had speculated, the entire storyline was Jack’s (and the other Oceanic passengers) afterlife – or the season 6 alternate reality…? Either way I was disillusioned. This was all fine and good. We were led about with notions of alternate realities, time travel, other worlds, and so on. All of this was also interesting and even within the realm of possibility. However, what isn’t within in the realm of possibility is the overall message of Lost – all paths lead to “God.”
I noticed back when we were in season 2 or 3 we were dealing with some esoteric notions that were likely of a occultic and gnostic flavor, and with mainstream Hollywood and TV, this is nothing suprising. We are bombarded with this on a daily basis, as we are being indoctrinated via pop culture into any and every religion other than what is actually biblical. Read more of this post
Problems in Thomistic Epistemology
May 13, 2010 17 Comments
By: Jay
Plato, Philo, Plotinus, Dionysius, Augustine, Basil, John of Damascus, Maximus the Confessor, Isaac the Syrian, John Scotus, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure and many others all profess a doctrine of divine exemplarism. This is Plato’s forms or universals or logoi as located in the divine mind or essence (depending on whether it’s Eastern or Western). The problem will be, however, whether this can work as an epistemic foundation in Thomism.
It should go without saying that both Aristotle and Aquinas’ epistemology is basically an empirical method. A certain Thomist fussed to me about this, since “epistemology” and “empiricism” are anachronisms. As if we cannot use modern terms that accurately describe an ancient belief or system. No one says we cannot say “Post-Apostolic theology” because that term wasn’t used in the Post-Apostolic era. But it’s quite simple to show Aristotle and Thomas’ method is empirical.
Aristotle says in De Anima 12:8:
“Since according to common agreement there is nothing outside and separate in existence from sensible spatial magnitudes, the objects of thought are in the sensible forms, viz. both the abstract objects and all the states and affections of sensible things. Hence (1) no one can learn or understand anything in the absence of sense, and (when the mind is actively aware of anything it is necessarily aware of it along with an image; for images are like sensuous contents except in that they contain no matter. “
Aquinas writes in De Veritate, Article III:
“19. Nothing is in the intellect that was not previously in sense. But in God there is no sensitive cognition, because this is material. Therefore, He does not know created things, since they were not previously in His sense. Read more of this post
Paul Washer is a False Prophet
May 3, 2010 40 Comments
By: Jay Dyer
I was, for several years, a huge fan and follower/disciple of Paul Washer. I thought he was a godly leader: a real missionary, and a true “reformer.” I had several of his sermons on tape and, in fact, made copies of his tapes and distributed them to my fellow college students who needed to hear the “true Gospel of God’s grace.” I met him and spoke with him on theology several times. However, I was on a Path that Paul Washer was not on.
As I researched biblical theology and Church History more in depth, and in particular, the formation of the biblical canon, I came to reject common Protestant notions, such as sola scriptura. The simple reason for this is that it was unheard of until the time of the Reformation. Prior to Luther and Calvin, the doctrines of sola fide and sola scriptura were non-existent. There is a complete blackout of Protestant theology for 1,500 years of the Church. Apparently, the Holy Spirit forgot the Church. But that brings me to an interesting point in regards to Paul Washer… Read more of this post
Schtuff You Otta Read
April 29, 2010 1 Comment
Why I Believe in God by Dr. Cornelius Van Til.
Theological Introduction to the Mystagogy by Dr. Joseph Farrell
Certainty by Dr. John Frame
The Virtues, The Unity of a Human Life, and the Concept of a Tradition by Dr. Alisdair MacIntyre
The Myth of Diversity by Dr. Jared Taylor
From Theology to Philosophy in the Latin West by Dr. Phillip Sherrard
