The Quiet Riot

September 16th, 2009

The pictures speak for themselves: there’s something beautiful underway at the Identity Project at KSU, did you know that?  No you didn’t! But now you do…

It’s only been a few weeks, yet we’re close to breaking 40 students. Along with the influx comes a rash of complaints and arguments and grumblings about–guess what? — Kyle said “sh**” at his teaching. That’s a real big deal now.

See the remainder of the pictures at the Picassa gallery

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The Rich Get Richer…

August 1st, 2009

So Ted Kennedy gets the Presidential Medal of Freedom, while anyone else would be serving a jail sentence for what he did.

It’s undeniable proof of the point I made in The Illusion of Freedom: all our perceived American freedoms come only because we’re rich and powerful, like Roman aristocracy. That’s all.

It doesn’t matter if you’re Democrat or Republican, what matters is power and wealth. Then you get the Ted-Kennedy-treatment.

Ted’s Fling With Murder

Dike Road

Dike Road where the crime occurred.

Few people remember that Ted killed a cute, young secretary in a dark, dirt road one night in 1969. He knew her well, and “Kennedy requested the keys to his car from his chauffeur” to drive her home alone from a big drinking party with six other girls (his wife wasn’t there).

He killed her on “Dike Road”, then hid for eight hours or more, and finally turned himself into the police, claiming he was “disoriented” from a driving accident. In his own words:

“I remember walking around for a period and then going back to my hotel room. When I fully realized what had happened this morning, I immediately contacted the police.” Kennedy Press Release

“Immediately” is untrue. He waited eight hours to call police, until his blood-alcohol level was normal. He certainly could have called the police immediately if he wanted:

“His route back to the cottage would have taken him past four houses from which he could have telephoned and summoned help; however, he did not do so.” reporter Jack Anderson investigation.

Manslaughter is Murder

So at the very least he committed manslaughter, which is third-degree murder. The girl was alive and suffering  in Ted’s car while Ted walked the booze out of his system for eight hours:

“Had I received a call within five to ten minutes of the accident occurring…there is a strong possibility that she would have been alive on removal from the submerged car.” Police Diver Testimony

And what did Ted get, besides the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Since the crime occurred in Massachusetts where his family is well-connected with all the judges and prosecutors, they only charged him with “leaving the scene of an accident” and a verdict full of sympathy!

In announcing the [suspended] sentence, [Judge] Boyle referred to Kennedy’s “unblemished record” and said that he “has already been, and will continue to be punished far beyond anything this court can impose”. Court Records

Since Ted didn’t lose his seat in Congress and continued to chase women for the rest of his career, and now that he received the Presidential Medal, it’s rather difficult to understand how he “will continue to be punished,” as the friendly judge claimed.

But if you know how the World System works, it all makes sense.


National Lampoon was able to find something humorous about it.

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I’m a BAD Dawg

July 30th, 2009

I’ve got other issues besides the “Old Dawg” problem.

Look at what I did last week at CT:

Current culture on the left; the Christian response on the right.

Current culture on the left (from the move "28 Days Later"); the Christian response on the right.

They say  a picture is worth 1,000 words, but just in case here’s the 1,000 words (10-minute version of the teaching)…
by all means, feel free to comment and let me know if I lost my mind or not…

Rage Virus

The teaching concerns the following passage:

Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing. 1 Thess. 5:11

And they had a contageous love:

Indeed, you already show your love for all the believers throughout Macedonia.  Even so, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you to love them even more.  1 Thessalonians 4:10

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I’m a DAWG…

July 27th, 2009

I’m not too proud; I’ll admit it: I’m just an old Dawg.

The guys in my Cell Group are sniggering among themselves, glancing over at me. They found a picture of poor old me and they laughed; but it’s pathetic old Sot …

REAL FUNNY, GUYS - laughing at an old crip like me...

Ambushed by a photographer lurking in the shadows to get the perfect "OLD DAWG" shot

Just know this: that’s not my normal hunky pose. The photography surprised me, and I couldn’t suck my gut in on time.

My Life

Let me show you why I’m such a saggy, baggy old man. It’s really quite simple: compare these two different blogs  describing  the same event, and you’ll understand (it’s Mike’s story of his “visitation” to another church, while he’s talking to Pastor Joe):

I brought up that we didn’t sing at Xenos. And he was baffled, you don’t sing? No I said, but we worship God in other ways…“What do you mean you told him we don’t worship????!!!” – quoted by Keith McCallum.
(From Mikey’s Blog)

Really, why does the Monster-Keith yell at poor Mikey for telling Pastor Joe we didn’t sing? More astounding, I accused poor Mikey of saying we “don’t worship at Xenos”, which was sooo unfair because Mikey clearly said, “We worship God in other ways.” So  typical of the grumpy-frumpy-old-man!

But wait!

Look, there’s another “Official Mikey Version” of the story published at the NeoZine, which Mikey endorsed after a brief-but-very-poignant discussion with me:

I brought up that we didn’t have a Worship Service at Xenos. And he was baffled, “You don’t worship?” “No,” I said. I did get burned on that one the next day by Keith. “What do you mean you told him we don’t worship????!!!” – quoted by Keith McCallum

That’s why I look so worn-down in that picture above: it’s just…so very wearisome, at times.

But I will say I do love those guys, which even includes that dude with different versions of the same event — they crack me up, even if it is at my own expense.

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The Illusion of Freedom

June 26th, 2009

I wish I understood this at the beginning of my ministry instead of the end: I think my ability to see things (and my dismal ability to communicate things) would’ve benefited tremendously.

And it isn’t all that complicated.

In a sentence, it’s this: all our perceived American freedoms come only because we’re rich and powerful, like Roman aristocracy. That’s all. Read the rest of this entry »

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It’s a B-Kinda World

June 14th, 2009

Judge for yourselves…

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“I Wanna Join a Cult, Ma!”

May 8th, 2009

That’s what it sounds like these days if a kid gets too excited about Jesus Christ: “You’re in a Cult!”

I first encountered this when I started a Bible study with Kyle, my 7th-grade son, and Sean, my handicapped, 8th-grade son. It was a circus, or what some would call a “Cult”.

The Wonder Years
The “Wonder Years”

“Wonder” was my co-leader (Neil Wonderchuck), with a bare-breasted woman tattooed on his arm (crude, but nice boobs!), and he always wore wife-beaters to show it off. Not quite two years old in Christ, “Wonder” soon took a Sabbatical to study “The Attraction of Canine Regurgitation Habits in North America”, or some nonsense.1  But we did start a Bible study with a motley crew of Jeff, Steve, Tom and BK. The kids were mostly interested in hanging out at the Black Wolfe pool hall after a brief Bible study.

Some new kid came one night, and we were entering the pool hall when his mom came peeling into the parking lot and shouted through her car window: “Get in!” Read the rest of this entry »

  1. A reference to 2 Peter 2:22 [↩]

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Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid!

April 27th, 2009

I promised to reveal the hidden agenda behind the persistent “Xenos Cult” rumors, and this time I will deliver.

It’s really not-so-hidden, and it’s really quite simple: read about it at RevolutionaryJoy.org.

We foment Revolution!

Xenos Fomenters

Xenos Fomenters

It’s a big no-no when Christians show some energy and have a good time.

Christianity is supposed to be the “Opiate of the Masses,” according to Karl Marx. People like Marx want Christians to be docile. They want us to be wimpy and weak so they can whip it and whip it good (as Devo said).

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The new Savior of humanity?

People like Marx lie about Christians because they fear the freedom that real Christianity brings to people, and I can prove it: Marx and his followers actually wanted to seize power and setup a “dictatorship of the Proletariat,” as they called it. Marx advocated dictatorship. If the Communists really believed Christianity was an opiate, why were they so afraid of it? Why kill millions of Christians? Christianity would help opiate the population and help setup a Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Marx lied about Christians, and he knew it. The Communists knew Christians were free-thinking, freedom-loving, noble and very formidable obstacles to their ambitions. The Communists wanted to control people’s minds. They censor free speech wherever they setup shop, don’t they?

That’s why I say: don’t drink the Kool-Aid.1

It’s a great badge of honor for Christians when mind-controllers like Communists hate them—what an insult if Marx loved Christians! It’s fair to say that people who hate Christians, like Marx and his fellow-atheist Dawkins, historically wrestle with serious hate issues (Dawkins was emotionally-battered in his youth, he says).

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  1. With apologies to the Meeting House, who first coined the term “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid” in this fashion. [↩]

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The Cult Thing

April 24th, 2009

(This is Part 2 of the Xenos-Cult Controversy – read Part 1 here.)

Ok, I promised to reveal the secret “insider information” that explains the Xenos-Cult controversy, since it keeps burbling in the background…

But first! Consider some other ways to explain the Xenos-Cult phenomena.

Strict Doctrines?

I ran across this “Church Discipline” Web site where the owner/moderator is trying his best to figure it out. He’s a critical thinker, and objective, but he’s working in the dark without any firsthand experience with Xenos. He ran into some bizarre stories which led him to research Xenos, and he initially finds Xenos has “a rather strict doctrine on right and wrong,” and then says:

[Xenos] publishes on its website heavily on the issue of church discipline. They make use of shunning and excommunication and are fairly strict for a mega-church. (Source: CD-Host, Breaking Away Case Study)

Naturally, I’m surprised that Xenos “publishes heavily on church discipline,” so I lookup the links he gives: one is from the Christian Principles Class (CPC), and the other is a policy paper on leadership and authority. Although he reached a more positive conclusion later (in Part 1), I just couldn’t believe Xenos was starting to get “strict” …

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Look Ma! I’m Famous!

April 23rd, 2009
Beacon-Journal-JustKeith

Front page, top headline: Mr. Smith stares blankly, beside cult-prophet-leader...

See ma?
You told me I’d never amount to a hill-o-beans,
and here I am on the front page of the newspaper!

They say everyone gets “15 minutes of fame” (or an hour?), and I guess this is mine. Well done. At my funeral they’ll say, “He was a GREAT cult-prophet-leader!” (Among other things.)

I’ve been dying to blog about it for a few months, but I didn’t want to hurt anyone. Maybe it’s OK now: the dust has settled, the inflammatory tenor is abated. I’m very thankful for the experience. As I recently told J. Carney (the ABJ reporter), it opened my eyes to how meaningful this cause is: they say “Jesus Saves,” and they’re right, and that’s why He’s worth fighting for. (Read this article to get the background, if you’re lost…)

I learned what “Joy under persecution” means, and why so many people in the Bible (and in the history of Christian martyrs) all experienced joy under such adverse conditions.

I highly recommend it for every Christian—godly persecution, that is, not persecution for idiocy. I researched persecution extensively in the Bible, and from other writers during this time (but I’m surprised at the paucity of current Christian books published on persecution!) and I’ve arrived at a most-astounding, scandalous conclusion:

PersecutionMOG

The people causing us trouble think “persecution” doesn’t fit us, because we’re a “cult”. But their exhaustive efforts to raise public alarm has turned us into the most well-researched, closely-examined, and certified-safe church in Ohio. Months of work with hundreds of man-hours by many outside parties ended—and we were clean. No dirt. Nothing. Their work firmly established this as a classic study in persecution: some people consider Christianity a threat. (Duh).

And that’s all they found here: Christianity on-the-move.

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Police investigation report--one of several investigations declaring all complaints groundless.

Numerous local Christian groups examined us too, like the Christian Missionary Alliance, Riverwood Chapel, Hudson Chapel, Akron Chapel, Campus Crusade for Christ, and even the local Catholic diocese weighed-in with an opinion: without exception, they all agreed we were receiving persecuted for our faith. They all expressed their sympathy and support!

(The people causing us trouble aren’t convinced: we bribed the ABJ reporter, the police are incompetent, the mayor is in our pocket, the high school principal is lazy, etc., etc., etc. See what I mean here >>)

Why Me, Oh Lord?

Which begs the question: why does Xenos draw the Cult-attack flack?

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