“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” — George Orwell

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” ― Hannah Arendt

Biblical Forgery and Academic Authentication: Persisting Patterns of Guile and Gullibility zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2026/10/25/b...

Biblical Forgery and Academic Authentication: Persisting Patterns of Guile and Gullibility

This is going to be exceptional. Biblical Forgery and Academic Authentication describes and decries the roles academics have played in the authentication of biblical forgeries. The most notorious r…

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War is terrorism.

“War is the terrorism of the rich. Terrorism is the war of the poor.” ~Peter Ustinov

if you vote for the people billionaires support, you're just a useful idiot in the hands of manipulators

AI as Cognitive Surrender zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2026/10/23/a...

AI as Cognitive Surrender

A recent report from MIT noted that while AI chatbots can easily produce answers, they often trigger “cognitive surrender.” Indeed, in my own interactions with students, I realize that the issue is…

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Cognitive surrender: Artificial intelligence’s threat to democracy #TheHill

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Cognitive surrender: Artificial intelligence’s threat to democracy

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Am I an elitist? If by elitist you mean someone who thinks they're superior to others, then no.  I'm not. If by elitist you mean someone who respects expertise and who expects YOU to respect expertise too, then yes.  I am 100% elitist.  Unashamedly.

The Bare Bones Basics zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2026/10/22/t...

The Bare Bones Basics

The biblical languages are the skeleton of biblical studies. Listening to a preacher who doesn’t know them is like going to a physician who doesn’t know what a femur is. If they don&#82…

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The Bible in its Traditions: Art as Expression of Scripture zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2026/10/22/t...

@VivekGRamaswamy and @VP are examples of how low and loathsome the thirst for power will make you. It corrupts the soul and strips the heart completely of any semblance of human decency. Be warned. You will become just like them if you crave authority.

Demonstrating the benefit of integrating histories of culture and scholarship with historical theology, this book invites readers to view the Reformation and its writings with fresh eyes. tinyurl.com/46r9nmch

Our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. - Paul, to the Ephesians Something worth remembering.

The Society of Authors has withdrawn from the ill-conceived concession to the dark side that was the "ethical GenAI" charter because of the mass and vocal outrage of authors. Publishers need to be made afraid of this level of anger too.

“Democracies get the governments they deserve.” — but the pain of our collective decisions is not fairly distributed. – Peter Williams

The marginalized always become marginalizers when they achieve even a semblance of power and the oppressed always become oppressors when they are granted the opportunity, no matter how slight. See Israel.

Mapquest Now Includes a Layer on their Maps for 'Surveillance' zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2026/10/17/m...

Mapquest Now Includes a Layer on their Maps for ‘Surveillance’

Check out the tiktok which shows you how to turn the layer on.

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Katie Zacharia lasted less time than one of the red shirt guys on the old Star Trek series.

If your faith is about power your faith isn’t Christianity. ‘Take up your cross, and follow me’ Jesus said. Not ‘take up the sword, and enforce your will’. That so many Christians seem to think that they are to be power-seekers proves the fact that they don’t understand Christianity.