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Because you are lukewarm
(spiritually useless),
and neither hot nor cold,
I will vomit you out of My mouth 
[rejecting you with disgust].
–Revelation 3:16 (AMP)–

Burn the end and fall away
Try to look the best to portray this death
The air around me is cloudy, smells like cancer
Seems like my need to be something God’s not called me to be
Give me that feeling I’ve fooled myself
Concerned with perception, can’t come off looking weak
Least of all with you
If I need this image to be me
Then where is my God able to shine through?
Burn the end, fall away
Light up another representation of my insecurity
When I stumble, don’t follow my small rebellion
Corruption collapse
Compromise will breed corruption

–Living Sacrifice, “Burn the End”–

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Dr. Roger Olson, Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities (IVP, 2006). Not to be confused with Gordon C. Olson, the holiness preacher who completely rejected propitiatory, penal, substitutionary atonement in his pamphlet The Moral Government of God (Men for Missions, 1966). To make matters more confusing, there was a Baptist theologian named C. Gordon Olson, which I mixed up with him in this podcast. This last guy did not reject substitutionary atonement. The first guy is the heretic teacher: Gordon C. Olson–and he’s had a clear influence on at least some street preachers on YouTube, especially those associated with SOAPA.

Dr. B. B. Warfield, Perfectionism, vol. 2 (Oxford UP, 1931), ch. 1: “Oberlin Perfectionism.”

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed…it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
–Isaiah 53:4-5, 10 (KJV)–

Being now justified by his blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through him.
–Romans 5:9 (KJV)–

Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
–1 Thessalonians 1:10 (KJV)–

He that believeth not the Son shall not see life,
but the wrath of God abideth on him.
–John 3:36 (KJV)–

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Adam Clarke, Christian Theology (Schmul, 1990).

Dr. Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1998).

Dr. Kenneth J. Collins, Wesley on Salvation (Zondervan, 1989).

Dr. Donald Bowdle, Redemption Accomplished and Applied (Pathway Press, 1981).

Dr. Channing Crisler, 40 Questions About the Atonement (Kregel, 2025).

Dr. J. Matthew Pinson, 40 Questions About Arminianism (Kregel, 2022).

Dr. Roger Olson, Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities (IVP, 2006).

Dr. B. B. Warfield, Perfectionism, vol. 2 (Oxford UP, 1931), ch. 1: “Oberlin Perfectionism.”

Gordon Olson, The Moral Government of God (Men for Missions, 1966). This heretical booklet rejects the substitutionary atonement of the cross; and has influenced all the SOAPA street preachers. The Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center says: “Gordon C. Olson (1907-1989) was an engineer, pastor, teacher, author, and theologian. He had no affiliation with the Assemblies of God, but his theology must have caused some concern. Howard L. Bailey, AG ordained pastor of Evangel Temple, Ann Arbor, Michigan, wrote a critical report on Gordon’s theology in 1976.” Albert Barnes’ The Atonement (Bethany, 1980) should be avoided as well: as it may be the true originator of the substitutionary-atonement-rejecting moral influence theory. So far as I can tell, Olson took his lead from Barnes more than from Finney. In this book, on pages 20-22 of the old 1860 version, Barnes actually rejects the satisfaction theory as too pagan: the idea that blood sacrifices can appease the wrath of the angry gods! Hasn’t he read the Old Testament? Hello! And so he rejects penal substitution and the view of the Bible that the cross satisfies the wrath of God at human sin. So don’t use Barnes’ Notes, ok? The 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica says that Barnes “had been tried (but not convicted) for heresy in 1836, the charge being particularly against the views expressed by him in Notes on Romans (1835) of the imputation of the sin of Adam, original sin and the atonement.”

Face the enemy
Stare inside you
Control your thoughts
Destroy, destroy ’em all

You censor what we breathe
Prejudice with no belief
Senseless violence all around
Who is it that keeps us down?
Down

Once all free tribes
Chained down, led lives
Blood boils inside me
We’re not slaves, we’re free

–Sepultura, “Slave New World”–

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For freedom Christ has set us free;
stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
–Galatians 5:1 (ESV)–

Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. BAD MEN NEED NOTHING MORE TO COMPASS THEIR ENDS, THAN THAT GOOD MEN SHOULD LOOK ON AND DO NOTHING.
–John Stuart Mill–

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Dr. John R. Rice, False Doctrines (Sword, 1970), ch. 13: “Communism and Socialism.”

1984 (Virgin Films, 1984). Available on VidAngel to clear out the bad stuff. This is what I used for the clip at the beginning of the podcast. This story was inspired by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. A terrifying depiction of a state where the government controls thought itself (brainwashing). Deeply anti-totalitarian and often interpreted as a critique of Marxist regimes, especially Stalinism. Strongest philosophical and psychological portrayal of the loss of freedom.

The Printing (Unusual Films, 1990). Censorship of Bible printers in the Soviet Union. This movie might be the clearest at communicating the how Marxist ideology criminalizes Christianity, suppresses free speech, and controls nearly every aspect of life. Even printing a Bible is seen as a punishable offense. Freedom of conscience and speech are shown as completely annihilated under Marxist rule. Unlike other films that touch on broader themes (war, oppression, personal stories), The Printing is focused explicitly on the suppression of freedom under Marxist ideology. There’s no ambiguity—the government is Marxist, and the loss of freedom is total and ideological.

China Cry (TBN Films, 1990). Persecution and torture of Christians by Chinese communist soldiers. Exposes the horrors of communist China’s ideological purges, forced conformity, and abuse of dissidents. Strong anti-communist message, particularly regarding religious and personal freedoms.

Doctor Zhivago (MGM, 1965). Depicts the communist revolution that happened in Russia under Vladimir Lenin starting in 1917. What happens when Marxist ideas take over a government. Its awful.

Tortured for Christ (VOM, 2018). Persecution and torture of Christians by Romanian communist soldiers. Shows the brutality of Marxist regimes, especially toward Christianity.

The Twilight Zone. “Death’s Head Revisited,” “In the Presence of Mine Enemies,” “The Obsolete Man,” and “He’s Alive,” are all against Nazism, Hitler, and totalitarianism.

Schindler’s List (Universal Pictures, 1993). Available on VidAngel and Clearplay to clear out the bad stuff. Portrays life in Nazi concentration camps.

The Hiding Place (World Wide Pictures, 1975). Portrays life in Nazi concentration camps. Persecution of Jews and Christians.

Richard and Sabina Wurmbrand (VOM, 2009). Documentary.

The Truth About Communism (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, 1962).

Communism and Co-Existence (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, 1963).

Richard Wurmbrand, Tortured for Christ (Bantam, 1977).

—. Marx and Satan (Crossway, 1986).

—. Underground Saints: The Communist Persecution of Christians (Spire, 1969).

John Foxe, The New Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Bridge-Logos, 2001), p. 319. For refusing to stop preaching about Christ, Evangelist Nio-Tio-Sen had his eyes gouged out, and his tongue and both hands cut off. He was then sent to a prison in Shanghai.

Larry Burkett, The Word on Finances (Moody, 1994).

Wikipedia, “Symbionese Liberation Army.”

The Voice of the Martyrs, “Global Prayer Guide.”

And if a ship meets your car
You know you can’t go real far
Well they could treat you real nice
Or put a tracking device
Way down inside

I’m checking out inventions
At the UFO convention tonight
Planes above the Hilton make it sunny
Brought my money tonight
Blue blonde ladies of abduction
Strumming guitars of instruction delight
A lot of wannabe truckers

I’ve got my hands on some sights
Electric glasses with lights
They got me feeling deluxe
For just a couple of bucks
Way down inside

I’m getting patterns from a trekker
And it sounds like soul records to me
They’re waving hi from some gazebo
Waving on to Arecibo to me
Getting patterns from a trekker
Sounds like soul records to me
Patterns from a trekker
Sounds Desmond Dekker to me

Sleep machine
In your silo
Transmarine
Things you’ve never seen

Parry the wind high, low

–Frank Black, “Parry The Wind High, Low”–

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
–Genesis 6:4 (KJV)–

We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
–Ephesians 6:12 (KJV)–

Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
–2 Corinthians 11:14 (KJV)–

Always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, worthless in regard to the faith.
–2 Timothy 3:7-8 (NASB)–

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181. This wall then which I have mentioned is as it were a cuirass for the town, and another wall runs round within it, not much weaker for defence than the first but enclosing a smaller space. And in each division of the city was a building in the midst, in the one the king’s palace of great extent and strongly fortified round, and in the other the temple of Zeus Belos with bronze gates, and this exists still up to my time and measures two furlongs each way, being of a square shape: and in the midst of the temple is built a solid tower measuring a furlong both in length and in breadth, and on this tower another tower has been erected, and another again upon this, and so on up to the number of eight towers. An ascent to these has been built running outside round about all the towers; and when one reaches about the middle of the ascent one finds a stopping-place and seats to rest upon, on which those who ascend sit down and rest: and on the top of the last tower there is a large cell, and in the cell a large couch is laid, well covered, and by it is placed a golden table: and there is no image there set up nor does any human being spend the night there except only one woman of the natives of the place, whomsoever the god shall choose from all the woman, as say the Chaldeans who are the priests of this god.

182. These same men say also, but I do not believe them, that the god himself comes often to the cell and rests upon the couch, as happens likewise in the Egyptian Thebes according to the report of the Egyptians, for there also a woman sleeps in the temple of the Theban Zeus (and both these women are said to abstain from commerce with men), and as happens also with the prophetess of the god in Patara of Lykia, whenever there is one, for there is not always an Oracle there, but whenever there is one, then she is shut up during the nights in the temple within the cell. –Herodotus, Histories 1.181-182

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Unsolved Mysteries: UFOs (First Look Pictures, 2004).

Wikipedia, “Unidentified Flying Object.”

—. “Ancient Astronauts.” I don’t agree with every little thing suggested by this belief system. What I do admit is that demons seem to have counterfeited the so-called Chariots of the Gods that von Daniken spoke about.

—. “Will-O’-The-Wisp.”

Creation Ministries International, “Alien Intrusion.”

Gary Bates, Alien Intrusion (Master Books, 2010).

John Weldon and Zola Levitt, UFOs: What On Earth Is Happening? (Harvest House, 1975). This was written from an evangelical perspective. It was considered so well done that it was released by the secular publisher Bantam in 1976.

Chuck Missler and Mark Eastman, Alien Encounters: The Secret Behind the UFO Phenomenon (Koinonia House, 1997).

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Columbia Pictures, 1977).