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Updates and commentary. The site software does not support a proper blog so old posts that do not fit on the page are not retained. Commentary on recently encountered publications Reports on recent news and interviews of special interest Observations on current trends and events These are far from being ordinary times. There is massive concentration of ownership of news and entertainment media, used to promote a unified propaganda line (including designated opposition with partial truths). This also is the means for censorship of a vast range of opposition viewpoints. This is accompanied by election manipulation, medicine as genocide, and justice as lawfare against those who seek to defend freedom. In the midst of this is fake Christianity, which claims that to speak of these things would be outside the narrow spiritual mission of the churches. As far as Via Moderna is concerned, it is the function of Christianity to deal in reality.

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The Solari Report Trends Research Institute The Corbett Report Operation Freedom, Interviews, also with health information

Posted: Monday 3rd March 2023

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Monday 11 August 2023

Kash Patel gave a very good interview on the x22report. He is promoting a new book Government Gangsters. I just read a book that came out several years ago: The World Is Christ’s: a critique of two kingdoms theology. The book itself isn’t so great. It is interesting for two reasons, the philosophical commitments of the author and who is backing the book. It was written by Willem J. Ouweneel, a Dooyeweerdian. He has written many other books laying aspects of this type of thought. As a Dooyeweerdian his is committed to Dooyeweerd’s ground-motive analysis of all other points of view. That is, Dooyeweerd started from what he claimed was reflection on the suprarational (in the supratemporal) root of experience. All other points of view were based on a starting point in temporal experience. This, he claimed, made that temporal starting point a false absolute (also called autonomous thought) which generated what Dooyeweerd called an apostate ground-motive. He then interpreted intellectual history in terms of these ground- motives, of which he claimed there were three. Ouweneel aproaches topics though the whole book by claiming everyone else is mistaken because they are proceeding from one of these, the scholastic ground-motive. For what is wrong with this see my Theosophy, Van Til and Bahnsen. One of the blurbs used to promote the book is by John Frame, who is also quoted throughout the book. Frame says; “In any case, this book will have to be the starting point for any further discussion of the matter. I will not respect future articles and books on this subject unless they show a thorough understanding of Ouweneel’s argument.” So has Frame taken back his rejection of Dooyeweerdianism? It looks like it. The publisher is Joseph Boot’s Ezra Press. Boot is also quoted in the book. It Boot also a Dooyeweerdian? Does he base his apologetics work on the ground-motive nonsense? Boot is being promoted these days by Baptists such as Joel Webbon. Are Baptists going Dooyeweerdian? This isn’t even Christianity! Thursday 10 August 2023 We have added a review of a supposedly encyclopedic introduction to the types of Reformed theology. But this typology gives no place in its scheme to the type of underlying covenant theology. In fact, that is the strange thing as there seem to be really four covenant types, but these types are generally ignored when people make their categories. They are Reformed bicovenantalism (Covenant of Works and Covenant of Grace), Baptist bicovenantalism (Covenant of Grace only operative from New Testament on, though anticipated in the Old Testament), Neocalvinist tricovenantalism (Adds the Common Covenant and is the basis for both transformational theologies and for Radical Two-Kingdom theology), and monocovenantalism (Seems to be a sort of reaction by disappointed Kuyperians, who try to rebuild theology on the basis of a single covenant that unifies everything. This group includes Protestant Reformed, Federal Vision, and various mavericks.)

Tuesday 13 June 2023

London Real has released an interview with Milli Willis about his new documentary, The Great Awakening: The Truth About What’s Really Happening. What is most interesting for our purposes is the explanation for the change in message. There is no point, he says, to release a movie before the people are ready for the message, and that is why there has been a great change in message. But why can this play on Youtube, when their earlier material was banned? I see the issue as best illustrated by Twitter. Once the mass news media was completely discredited, team B, the “truth” team was brought out as the voice of the controlled opposition, which was tasked with saying what could no longer be denied, but no more than that. So how can you tell who is team B, and which are the actual truth tellers? Often you can’t. For a look at one branch of this see: “Meet the So-Called Independent Alternative Media,” by Amazing Polly. Then there are the nuts. Take the x22report, for example. Probably this is someone trying to be a truth teller, but he has sold himself on his own narrative to the point that he sees Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping, and Putin as saviors who will join with Donald Trump to deliver the world from the globalists. Another point by Mikki Willis is that we cannot allow ourselves to be divided. We much all join together, meaning uniting with the perverts and what not, which means giving up our values, even our identity - a consequence he does not point out. This, he says, is the only way to fight the culture wars. This message is also coming from a lot of the Alternative media. On this point the warriors of woke and the opposition are really the same thing. In effect, that is the main message.

Sunday 11 June 2023

Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media studies at New York University, who has been reporting statistics of the rise of sudden deaths around the world, has an interview in which he explains the efforts of NYU to silence him. London Real has made a big change of emphasis, and is promoting many stories that very recently would not be allowed on Youtube, but somehow London Real is allowed this big change of emphasis. The latest is “Why We Must Stand Up to Government, Big Tech & Mainstream Media Lies”. Why is this message suddenly permitted? Why has their frequent guest, Jim Rickards, gone very hard core with his messaging?

Wednesday 31 May 2023

There is a new interview with Dr. Pierre Kory on Greg Hunter. There was enough data to tell you to use Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin in combination. Had that been the national protocol, the hospitals would have emptied, and the market for Remdesivir would have disappeared. You get what I am saying? There would have been no global CV19 vaccine campaign. There would have been massive ‘vaccine hesitancy.’ Who is going to line up for a shot when you know this is a small illness you can treat with a couple of safe drugs?” I just got in a book by Willem J. Ouweneel, against the Radical Two-Kingdom theology. He calls it NL2K, which stands for Natural Law and Two Kingdoms. Unfortunately, Ouweneel seems to be very much under the influence of the Neo-Calvinists such as Dooyeweerd. He views philosophy through the unhistorical Ground-motive analysis of that movement, so he cannot understand Scholasticism, for example. Thursday 25 May 2023 Theosophy, Van Til and Bahnsen is now available in hardback. Stansberry Research has released two important interviews. G. Edward Griffin, author of the The Creature from Jekyll Island, gave one of his infrequent interviews to Daniela Cambone, and Jim Richards was also interviewed by Stansberry Research on 'The Next Victim Is Being Teed Up' in the Banking Industry. Daniela Cambone has been conducting interview after interview with writers and on concepts generally censured from the media. If you are in one of those institutional “ministries” you had better pay attention, as soon you will not be getting money from your donors. Sunday 21 May 2023 Theosophy, Van Til and Bahnsen is now available at Amazon. A hardbound edition for libraries should be available in a few days. The deeper message is that theology and pastoral training has been in the hands of seminary kooks for way too long. Greg Bahnsen as at least right about one thing. In an interview with Contra Mundum in 1992, he was asked: CM: You have had considerable experience in academia. If you were beginning a seminary education now, would you attend, and why? Bahnsen: That is a sad question. All things being equal, I would not encourage anyone to attend seminary right now. Most seminaries are either very poor academically or theologically unhelpful. It would be a dreadful waste of three years and a lot of money…. We are living, though, in testing times. At some point people will ask, in the course of all we are going through, have these people been good for anything? While the state and the economic establishment has been trying to wipe out Christianity, have the seminaries been any use?

Wednesday, 10th May 2023

It has been quite a while since anything was posted here. There is an excuse, namely that I have been busy writing the book shown on the left. It should be out in a couple of weeks or so on Amazon. What made the book possible was a work by J. Glenn Friesen (Neo-Calvinism and Christian Theosophy) that came out a few years back, but which I only read recently. He documents the influence of theosophy on Kuyper and especially Dooyeweerd. But more importantly he explains Dooyeweerd, and it is possible to see how all the terminology of antithesis, autonomous thought, sphere sovereignty, worldview and so on has very particular definitions and connections. Suddenly lots of odd things Van Til said make sense, if viewed from the theosophical perspective. This book is about how that makes for bad apologetics and epistemology. Oh, you want it in English? That should follow soon after.

Sunday, 19th March 2023

It is interesting to see what first attracts attention. The answer is everything except the statement on hyperpreterism. Only one person has looked at it. The issue is that the highly self-promoted Gary DeMar, also the last torch carrier for Tyler Reconstruction, has been sounding very open to full preterism (that all prophesy including the resurrection and last judgment have already been fulfilled in 70 AD) and when asked to clarify his theology on three points that were submitted to him, refused to be pinned down, and instead insisted on the discussion of specific Biblical texts and that only. Now the trick here, and it is a trick, is that for any cardinal theological issue there are certain proof-texts that have been traditionally cited. To avoid the doctrine, and also avoid the bald denial, the alternative is to insist that the Biblical and only sound approach is the discuss the texts not the doctrine. Then for each text all the variant interpretations are collected from the commentaries, and the conclusion drawn is: every text supporting this doctrine is disputed; we must do more exegetical work before going forward. DeMar claims that he is a “world view guy”, that is he works in terms of broad systematic views, but on this topic he is doing the opposite. Reformed theology developed from a systematic approach, comparing Scripture text with text, interpreting the difficult in terms of the clear, and finding a harmonious reading that was also coherent with the rest of Christian doctrine. In the famous Clark–Van Til case, Gordon Clark’s fitness to be a minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church was challenged by Van Till and his fellow Dutchmen on the grounds that following that procedure of comparing Scripture with Scripture to find a coherent interpretation, the procedure which built Reformed theology, was in fact rationalism, and impermissible in the church. Van Til himself took this to the point of tampering with the doctrine of the trinity. Gary DeMar is in the Van Til tradition, and so it is actually he, and not his critics, who is being faithful to his tradition. Some years ago J. Glenn Friesen published his book, since revised and now running 588 pages, Neo-Calvinism and Christian Theosophy: Franz von Baader, Abraham Kuyper, Herman Dooyeweerd. It shows in detail the theosophical sources of neo-calvinism, for the most part hidden by those writers. The important point for our purposes is that a comparison of Dooyeweerd’s theosophical view with the philosophy of Van Til shows that they are structurally the same, especially in their epistemology, (Friesen does not do this work of comparison to Van Til.) Also much key terminology remains, though definitions change. The key alteration is that where Dooyeweerd had the supratemporal, beyond cognitive knowledge but nevertheless the source, Van Til replaced this with the “ontological trinity”, also not cognitively knowable, but somehow the “presupposition” of knowledge. Of course Van Til started out as avowedly Dooyeweedian, and took decades to make his break from it. Still the systematic structure of Van Tillianism goes back to theosophy. It has never been orthodox. Yes, you read that right. The big “Reformed” seminaries have been promoting quackadoxy throughout their entire existence. In the News: Yesterday USAWatchdog.com released another in depth interview with Karen Kingston, a biotech legal analyst, about Pfizer fraud and other criminality in connection with their COVID injections. Kingston also has a substack at https://karenkingston.substack.com/. Over at American Reformer there is a reply from Stephen Wolfe to a review of his book. It is to their credit the AM has been covering this topic and promoting discussion. What I would like to see, however, is not comparison of Wolfe’s thesis with the dead end of pluralism, but with other discussions of nationalism, such as Democracy Without Nations? by Pierre Manent. Wolfe represents neither the libertarianism of Tyler Reconstruction nor the woke idealogy now mandatory among Evangelical intellectuals, if they want to get ahead in the institutions. Rather he represents the via antiqua, which from our perspective is also unfortunate. What is new: Some of the old Second Screenings material has been added with some revisions.

Posted: Wednesday 12th March 2014

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Posted: Monday 20th January 2014

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