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Woodstock 99 was proof that none of us should be surprised by the Israelites dancing around a golden calf, or the Benjamites violating the Levite's concubine. It was an example of people casting off all restraint or even a hint of dignity. This little slice of America was Gomorrah during that festival, and we should be ashamed of it.

Are we sure about such a take? Did record execs really get in a meeting and went "Wow uh, White men sure get rowdy when this music plays, they might start a revolution! Quick, popularize hip-hop some more!" Or was it the rapes and mass heat stroke?

NEW SPIRITUAL WARFARE POST NOW UP! Ok so we've discussed what and who the devil and his angels are, what motivates them, and what they are capable of. Now let's get down to brass tacks and start talking about how to fight them. Audio: https://soundcloud.com/verylutheran/lutheran-warfare-2-the-first Video: https://youtu.be/fqZsyaZE32Y Support the VLP! We've got a lot of ground to cover, especially as more and more demonic stuff comes to light in the news. https://verylutheran.gumroad.com/

Let's check on Paul Washer. https://youtube.com/shorts/xPrphsiBal8 Oh. So repentance and rejoining the Church is... going to hell. That's enough Paul Washer for today. (H/T Tortuga)

24 When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?” 25 He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?” 26 And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. 27 However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.” -Matthew 17:24-27 In theory, taxation is put in place so that the ruling powers may provide services to the people which would otherwise not occur. Our taxes pay for the military, infrastructure, trade protections, societal/cultural expansions, law enforcement, etc. A day laborer cannot pay for his own military to protect his home from invading armies, so he pitches in from his own income to help *everyone* benefit from such protection. But royalty is not expected to pay taxes. Why would they? They're the beneficiaries of taxation, not the ones to hold the burden. They are supposed to *provide* and coordinate the services the people are paying for, not fund such services themselves. It would be like asking a soldier to pay his own salary for his own work. Jesus boldly tells St. Peter that He is one such royal. In fact, He is the Son of the King, and therefore has no tax burden and needs not submit to any earthly authority at all. Being Divine, He is providing everyone on earth with their daily needs anyway, and does not have any need for funding to do so. So He is exempt from taxation, and only pays the tax (with a miracle) so as to not give offense. Question. This is all well and good for Jesus, who is our God and King. But Scripture tells us that believers are adopted into God's family, being united with Christ in Baptism. Why then do we pay taxes, as the Word commands in Romans 13? The answer is simple: since you and I are adopted sons and daughters of our Lord, the rulers of the world work for Him to serve *us.* God appoints them to serve in their capacities of law enforcement, public order and defense so as to preserve His people. They are not ontologically superior to you nor above you, and they most certainly are not above the Law - whether that is God's Law or the law of the land. They work for believers because believers are in God's family. Unfortunately, most rulers in history do not see it this way. They insist on riches, pomp, praise, and power for its own sake. They insist on the unjust use of the authority loaned to them from on high, and invariably end up persecuting the very Christians whom God ordained them to serve. Think of them as bad employees, those who misuse the wages we pay them on frivolous or abusive matters. Inevitably such rulers or their systems are replaced: God fires them for their malfeasance. Yet whether a ruler is a good servant or an evil tyrant, we are still to pay. First, because we follow Christ's example and must not give offense. Second, because the funds are the justification for whether a ruler is kept on or deposed by our Lord. Certainly one may advocate for lowering the tax burden, but nonetheless we may not rebel against it, lest our poor rulers turn to oppression to do their job like a starving man stealing bread (I say this in jest of course, but nonetheless it is true). Yet while we pay, remember that it is not because the rulers own us, but rather because we - being God's children - own them.

Oh yeah, that and marxism. This kid loooooved him some marxism. So much so that he decided that women are the sexual bourgeoisie and "favored males" are the sexual robber barons, leaving the "common" men as his proletariat that needs to Rise Up (tm). He shot a cop and died because he explained the world through incelism, darwinianism, and marxism. What an awful combination.

"I'm frustrated at being lonely. Time to swallow darwinian psychological models whole and go do suicide by cop." Yeah OK dork, how about you get right with God instead?

I swear, with some of these guys the only thing that will make them happy is if every man over 5' 11" is executed by the state to make room for the "dispossessed" males. They would only be satisfied if a brutal totalitarian regime forced arranged marriages on every woman - with state enforced sexual frequency or something. And their resentment at this not being the state of affairs is leading them to act like the anarchist bombers and assassins from the 19th century, throwing their lives away to do "propaganda of the deed." Absolute garbage.

Reading over the Montreal shooter's manifesto right now, and I don't think I have ever seen a more pathetic screed in my entire life. Like, the efilism kid who bombed a fertility clinic was stupid but at least he didn't try to put a thin veneer of intellectualism over his extreme resentments. When we do a Godcast on this one, it's going to be a long, long day of me trying not to blow my lid at this goofball.

The latest Evaluating Gnosticism episode is now up! The nag hammadi library shows that the major branches of Christianity suffer from syncretism with gnostic distinctives. As we finish up reading the valentinian liturgical texts, we can start to see how that all took place. Join me for a more stream of consciousness exposition on the history of the gnostic "movement." https://soundcloud.com/verylutheran/evaluating-gnosticism-pt-111 (also shoutout to my wife for drawing the lil' guys here in the thumbnail)

First time I ever saw a troon, I was 10 years old and living in Vermont. I was in the dollar store, and one of the employees walked up and very kindly asked if "he" could help me. I looked at "him", short, very doughy frame, woman's voice inspite of the patchy poorly grown in facial hair, and thought "what the hell happened to this woman?" and that she had beautiful eyes and would have been very pretty if she wasnt fucked up everywhere else. She was nervous and uncertain, and could tell that this 10 year old boy looking to spend his $5 on shitty snacks could tell she wasnt a dude. Ten years later, Im checking in on my meth addict parents. They've turned their home into the neighborhood flop-house. There's a woman who looks 30 going on 60 sitting on the couch crying about how the state took her daughter. Her face is worn, scabbed, scratched, and picked apart. Apropos of nothing, she just launches into a meth induced orgasm. Ten years and a thousand miles apart, I had the exact same feeling for her as I did for that weird troon lady in Vermont. Sad, atrocious, and completely avoidable waste of a body and life. @GenderDystopia

22 As they were gathering in Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men, 23 and they will kill him, and he will be raised on the third day.” And they were greatly distressed. -Matthew 17:22-23 It cannot be stressed enough that Jesus *told* the Apostles exactly what was going to happen to Him. They are greatly distressed, not knowing whether they can ask anything further: St. Peter tried discussing it and Jesus rebuked him. We cannot fault the Apostles for their lack of understanding. Christ spoke in parables and metaphors all the time, and while sometimes they understood it they were often left in the dark. How were they supposed to know that Jesus was speaking literally here? One might point to the Old Testament prophecies concerning the Messiah and say that they had no excuse, but that would make us all hypocrites. The first arrival of the Messiah was prophesied with enough vagueness that no one - not even the angels - could figure out what was to happen; we often feel the same angst regarding the Return of our Savior. If He were to come and tell us how the Second Advent will happen in plain language, we would probably feel the same confusion as the Apostles felt when hearing that He was to die and rise again. We cannot fault them for their lack of understanding, but we *can* say this, that they had problems with faith. They believed in Jesus, but they had a hard time TRUSTING Him. St. Peter should have said, "Lord I do not know what You mean with all this crucifixion language, nor do I understand Your rising that you speak of. But I shall be with You and follow Your instructions, please help me to honor You." Instead, he opposed what Jesus said and got yelled at. Then when Christ spoke of His impending death again, they kept silent and became distressed instead of trusting or asking more questions. When Jesus says one must enter the Kingdom of Heaven like a child, we can see now what He meant. When a child's father leaves home for work every day, the boy doesn't know when his father will be back. Yet he does not fret, despite his total dependence on his dad for daily life and food. He knows he will see his father again, not being anxious but trusting despite his lack of understanding. Of course, believers learn and mature *after* they have entered the Kingdom, but at the outset we must simply let God lead us by the hand, that we may be on solid ground when it is time to learn.

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