See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. –Colossians 2:8 (ESV)–
Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind (Regnery, 1995). This used to be the Christian conservative manifesto in 1953 before Ayn Rand’s godless capitalist philosophy took over American politics. In this book, he preaches against the type of ideology of Rand espoused. Kirk was Catholic.
Dr. Dustin J. Byrd, A Critique of Ayn Rand’s Philosophy of Religion: The Gospel According to John Galt (Bloomsbury, 2019). This appears to be the most thorough Christian academic critique of Rand. But it might come from a liberal Christian perspective.
David Chilton, Productive Christians In an Age of Guilt-Manipulators (Institute for Christian Economics, 1981), p. 220. “Autonomous capitalism is a washout. It is an attempt to grab the blessings of God by secularist methods. The fact that Robert J. Ringer’s Restoring the American Dream spent five months on the New York Times Best Seller List should be no cause of rejoicing to those who desire a return to Biblical free enterprise. His book should be retitled Anarchist Nightmare. It is a libertarian lawlessness. Its basic thrust can be guessed from the titles of his other hits: Looking Out for #1 and Winning Through Intimidation. That kind of capitalism can produce only cultural disintegration. Nothing will change a spiritually enslaved culture apart from freedom in Christ.”
Jeff Farnham, The Octopus of Humanism (Sword of the Lord, 2009).
Here is a vision God gave me last Wednesday, 29th October 2025.
I saw a woman in a city, and she was running away from all the demonic activity and evil in the world, and I saw her run into a church to hide, and she quickly closed the doors behind her. She turned around and everyone inside was standing there looking at her. The people in the church all appeared to shine, they were so beautiful and friendly, but then when the people turned around they all had demon tails coming out from behind them! Then I noticed the church floor and it was covered in bones. Immediately the verse Matthew 23:27 came to me: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.” God said to me: “This is where Christians come to die,” and instantly in my mind I questioned this with God and thought, “No, those words are way too harsh.” God instantly rebuked me: “Do not soften My words!”
Yesterday I was just a boy In days of youthful hero worship My kind have been molded by images on the screen Brought up to emulate the big guns
Just another guest on death’s best show The influence cuts deeper than mom’s Those electric waves The demons fly
Now could we just be Bred to kill or die
There must be somethin’ else For the blame I place on myself Behind the tired eyes The tears go uncried
In the box Doin’ time In the box Just like doin’ time In the box Doin’ time In the box
Now that I’m grown Abandoned childhood toys But still what danger Have I retained To grab the brass ring To go in for the kill And covet the good you know ‘dem got for murder
It’s just another guest on death’s best show The influence cuts deeper than mom’s Those electric waves The demons fly
Now could we just be Bred to kill or die
There’s got to be somethin’ else For the blame I place on myself Behind tired eyes The demons stir The tears go uncried
In the box Doin’ time In the box Just like doin’ time In the box Doin’ time In the box
Minds are locked down
–Snot, “The Box”–
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The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. –Galatians 5:22-23 (KJV)–
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together. –Jeremiah 6:10-11 (KJV)–
Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet. Declare to my people their rebellion and to the descendants of Jacob their sins…Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? –Isaiah 58:1, 6 (NIV)–
While Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was greatly angered when he saw that the city was full of idols. –Acts 17:16 (AMP)–
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. –Ephesians 4:31 (KJV)–
Note that “blessed are the meek” (Matthew 5:5) is not about nor a teaching against expressing anger or indignation against injustice–like sexual perversion and abuse for example, preaching sermons against sin, preaching repentance, or about preaching sermons against injustice, as is required in evangelistic ministry. This is about the way we carry ourselves in relation to others in the church, in business, in family, etc. There is a sense of self-control there. This is more related to people in pastoral ministry, because of their constant interaction with people acting annoying with petty irritations and nuisances. Not being easily provoked by people’s comments or crazy behavior. To say that Matthew 5:5 is a teaching against the whole idea of preaching with anger against flagrant societal sin, would be to condemn John the Baptist, Jesus Christ himself, Stephen, Peter, and Paul (Matt. 3:7; 23:13-39; Acts 7:51; 8:20; 13:10).
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Watchman Nee, The Spiritual Man. (Teaches Quietism; all emotions are called “soulish”).
Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer, pp. 491-492, 495. “This is the principle that stands out from the writings of this sect. Given that some practical resolution is to be made, action will be taken solely when we are urged thereto by God. As long as the Holy Spirit has not set the soul in motion, she will wait without doing anything whatever…abandonment, exaggerated to the point of reducing oneself to a passive state of expectation…in this way desires and abandonment were falsely considered as two dispositions incompatible with one another…Let us not think of God as a jealous, intractable, sullen king who will not tolerate any initiative and who wishes to reduce us to a slave’s mute obedience.”
Richard J. Foster, Streams of Living Water, ch. 5. (On Social Justice).
Dr. John R. Rice, Why Preach Against Sin? (Sword of the Lord, 1946, 1985), p. 6. “I preached so hard against sin that some pastors of the city criticized me severely.”
—. What Is Wrong With the Movies? (Sword of the Lord, 1938).
—. Adultery and Sex Perversion (Sword of the Lord, 1978).
Leonard Ravenhill, Revival Praying (Bethany House, 1962), ch. 14: “Be Ye Angry.”
Miguel de Molinos, author of The Spiritual Guide, and father of Quietism. He taught mental passivity, emotional stoicism, and self-annihilation. To mortify the flesh and allow the spirit to find its place in perfect contemplation on God. His anti-emotional teaching was condemned by the Catholic Church in 1687. The Spock-like expression in the painting is clear. You can almost hear him calmly say, “Don’t be angry, just look at the candle.”
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. –Deuteronomy 6:6-7 (NIV)–
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. –Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)–
Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. –Colossians 3:21 (NKJV)–
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. –Joshua 24:15 (NKJV)–
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I’m tired of your open mouth Crawling inside my skin Endless pain we never quit The fight within that pride’s begun
Saying it’s too late What a man’s got, he’ll learn to hate
Forget the time I said I would Replace that with I never will Beyond the facts held in your face Ignore the facts beyond your nose
Saying it’s too late What a man’s got, he’ll learn to hate
This week, our Nation observes Anti-Communism Week, a solemn remembrance of the devastation caused by one of history’s most destructive ideologies. Across continents and generations, communism has wrought devastation upon nations and souls. More than 100 million lives have been taken by regimes that sought to erase faith, suppress freedom, and destroy prosperity earned through hard work, violating the God-given rights and dignity of those they oppressed. As we honor their memory, we renew our national promise to stand firm against communism, to uphold the cause of liberty and human worth, and to affirm once more that no system of government can ever replace the will and conscience of a free people.
For more than a century, communism has brought nothing but ruin. Wherever it spreads, it silences dissent, punishes beliefs, and demands that generations kneel before the power of the state instead of standing for freedom. Its story is written in blood and sorrow, a grim reminder that communism is nothing more than another word for servitude.
In the 34 years since the end of the Cold War, the world has witnessed both the triumph of democracy and the persistence of tyranny in new forms. New voices now repeat old lies, cloaking them in the language of “social justice” and “democratic socialism,” yet their message remains the same: give up your freedom, place your trust in the power of the government, and trade the promise of prosperity for the empty comfort of control. America rejects this evil doctrine. We remain a Nation founded on the eternal truth that liberty and opportunity are the birthrights of every person, and that no ideology, whether foreign or domestic, can extinguish them.
As we mark Anti-Communism Week, we stand united in defense of the values that define us as a free people. We honor the victims of oppression by keeping their cause alive and by ensuring that communism and every system that denies the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness will find their place, once and for all, on the ash heap of history.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim the week of November 2 through November 8, 2025, as Anti-Communism Week.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.
Now the king told the boogie men, “You have to let that raga drop The oil down the desert way Has been shaken to the top” The Sheikh, he drove his Cadillac He went a-cruising down the ville The Muezzin was a-standing on the radiator grille
Sharif don’t like it Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah Sharif don’t like it Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah
By order of the prophet We ban that boogie sound Degenerate the faithful With that crazy Casbah sound The Bedouin, they brought out The electric kettle drum The local guitar picker Got his guitar-picking thumb As soon as the Sharif Cleared the square They began to wail
Now over at the temple Oh, they really pack ’em in The in-crowd say it’s cool To dig this chanting thing But as the wind changed direction And the temple band took five The crowd caught a whiff of that crazy Casbah jive
The king called up his jet fighters He said, “You better earn your pay Drop your bombs between the minarets Down the Casbah way” As soon as the Sharif was Chauffeured outta there The jet pilots tuned to The cockpit radio blare As soon as the Sharif was Out of their hair The jet pilots wailed
(Sharif don’t like it) Thinks it’s not kosher (Rocking the Casbah Rock the Casbah) (Sharif don’t like it) Fundamentally can’t take it (Rocking the Casbah Rock the Casbah) (Sharif don’t like it) You know he really hates it (Rocking the Casbah, rock the Casbah) (Sharif don’t like it) Really, really hates it
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