Ephesians 6 talks about how to confront evil:

You stand firm, you put on the belt of truth and the breastplate of righteousness. 

For your shoes – whatever helps you get out there and preach. 

You take on the shield of faith to defend yourself against Satan’s arrows. 

And the helmet of salvation. 

These are all defensive things. You “take up” the sword, but it doesn’t even say to use it. 

Struggling to fight evil? 

Stop attacking it. 

Start defending yourself and the ground you stand on. 

That’s enough. Trust in God to defeat Satan. Your role in the fight is to not yield. 

Cool stuff – I think we can handle that. 

But can we handle this? 

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Like many so-called problems, they’re a symptom.  

No man with his life together, meaningful relationships, a great job and a glowing love life would ever consider using one. 

Well, maybe not “never”. We’re all flawed in weird ways. 

But if every guy lived like that, the AI girlfriend bots wouldn’t be viable. They’d die on the vine. 

So would many other things that thrive off human suffering and weakness. 

Like gambling, addictive video games, OF and the worst of social media.  

I tell you to fortify your mind not to save you, but to save everyone else. 

It’s time for an economic crusade – a rejection of the satanic elements of our economy. We don’t need to convert everyone. Not today. Pinching off the degradation at the level of money is enough for now. 

Give your time, money and attention to where you know it deserves to go. 

Easily said, I know. 

Need help doing it? 

Here’s the simple start: 

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There comes a point where you don’t know what to do next.

The next step seems so unclear.

It happens.

And it’s a strange metaphor. If this happened to you in real life, what would you do?

You’d probably consult a map.

Or backtrack to find a better path.

The analogy is clear here. A map tells you all the best paths to take. It’s a solid plan. While backtracking means getting a better view of things, seeing the bigger picture and rethinking your approach.

There’s a lot of life advice in that.

You’re probably making so many assumptions around what you “should” do and what you “can’t” handle.

If things are going well, fine.

If not…?

It’s time to go back to the basics and rethink everything.

That requires having some mental fortitude and flexibility though.

That’s why this would help:

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Every day has sunshine for making hay and darkness for sleeping off your haymaking.

Unless you live close to a pole – then your day and night cycles run over months.

As Ecclesiastes 3:8 says, there’s a time for peace and a time for war.

There’s a time for creativity and a time for implementation.

There’s a time for studying and a time for applying.

I don’t know where you are in this cosmic dance of life.

But the next time it’s a time for studying, come back here:

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Because they’re oblivious hypocrites, the woke are deranged colonisers who reframe everything in terms that suit them.

“Hatshepsut was a woman, but her statues depict her as masculine! That means she – I mean, HE – was trans!!!” Sure, the radically conservative ancient Egyptians were down with 21^st Century Californian political theory.

Or the first female pharaoh depicted herself more masculine because that’s what female rulers do. They know people will judge them for it and their political enemies will use that against them.

Queens wage more wars than kings, and female politicians and business leaders dress in masculine suits.

Feminine women leaders like Cleopatra are rare throughout history. She embraced that side of herself and used it as a political weapon, seducing as many powerful Romans as she could.

That’s rarely the winning play, so it doesn’t often show up.

“Many indigenous cultures recognise trans people!” Yeah, about that…

Some First Nations in Australia have “sister girls”. These are people born with male bodies but have female souls. So they have the concept, sure, but they don’t respect or tolerate them . Sister girls were/are generally outcasts.

Besides, many cultures have the concept of schizophrenia. That shouldn’t mean we should celebrate or normalise it. You’d expect mental illness to show up wherever there are humans, after all.

But things get weird when you look at women.

Most cultures, through most eras view women as property.

Plenty expect them to be tough, clever and resourceful. The frontierswoman who can birth a cow with one hand and fire a rifle at marauders with the other is a Western concept, but not a uniquely Western one.

It’s a tough world out there. It takes tough parents to keep children alive.

The only cultures that could get away with treating women as ornaments were relatively safe, stable and successful.

I’m not saying I’d want to be a woman in 19^th Century America or anything. But I wouldn’t want to be a man back then either.  I am saying you could be a feminist (by 1970s standards) and not be too weird, historically speaking.

Every human culture is unique, yet they mostly follow the same patterns.

Except Christian societies, of course.

They break many of the bad patterns of the past.

Not perfectly.

Not completely.

But better than anything else out there.

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One Good thing about the state of the world right now:

It’s getting real easy to spot the bad guys.

The don’t hide it. They flaunt their wicked agendas with plans to seize the food supply, depopulate the planet and create a generation with no knowledge of history.

This is great. It means you don’t have to doubt or hold back when fighting their schemes. Anyone who calls you a conspiracy theorist is crazy – you’re just hearing them talk.

The unfortunate thing about the world right now:

Not all the wolves are so clear.

Many wear wool, donning sheepskin to blend in.

You can’t assume anyone is noble or just, not even me. I could be controlled opposition. So could anyone you admire who doesn’t have a literal halo.

It’s a dark time.

That just means you must be especially vigilant.

Keep your back upright, your arms at the ready and your eyes clear as you work on improving yourself.

You can only rely on God and you.

God is sorted – that just leaves improving your other ally.

Here’s a great way to do that:

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For some reason, I’ve been thinking about Lex Luthor lately.

Pop culture struggles to write smart characters. The quip “you can’t write a character smarter than you are” is untrue – when you design a problem for your character to solve, you can see through it. They can’t. They need their genius to see the problem as clearly as you do from your elevated position.

But it’s not completely off.

When a dumbarse writes a genius, they leave tells. A badly written genius finds the solution too fast and directly. A real genius makes interesting mistakes then learns from them.

A solid example of this is Lex in Red Son – comic or animated adaption, either works.

An excellent example is Lex in the fan work Metropolitan Man.

Even Lex in Batman vs Superman takes his time to develop a decent plan.

And a terrible example is Lex in 52.

He creates something called the Everyman Project – technology to give anyone superpowers. It’s a brilliant move, achieving multiple goals at once:

It undermines the Justice League. The JL aren’t just powerful – they’re morally Good, too. By democratising superpowers, Lex lessens the world’s reliance on them. It also lets him set up his own team to counterbalance them.

The technology lets him remove the superpowers he gives them – remotely and instantly. You don’t need to be a genius to find uses for that.

It makes him truckloads of money.

And his plan works brilliantly.

Until he throws a tantrum and switches off all the Everyman superpowers at once, causing chaos and countless deaths.

That’s… not Lex. Lex is smart, while that’s the dumbest move he could have possibly made.

Even if he blamed it on a technical error, the aftermath of a failure like that would ruin his company.

Imagine every iPhone suddenly exploded. Regardless of the cause, even if you prove it’s not their fault, that’s the end of Apple.

It also proves that the world relies on the Justice League after all.

The move cost him everything, including the cultural victory, while getting him nothing for it.

Yeah, he was angry when he did that. He lashed out in pettiness. A flawed genius makes for a fascinating character – but that’s not Lex. His anger is slow and dangerous to his enemies, not an inferno that’s dangerous to him.

Lex Luthor is a Good character. Not morally, obviously, but he’s fascinating. Using only his intellect, he has to cultivate enough political and financial power to challenge literal gods.

There are no gods in our world.

Only demons.

And you don’t have to rely on your intellect to fight them. You have Lord Jesus in your corner.

But that doesn’t mean you can coast through life.

It’s a spiritual war, so you need to grow strong enough to fight back.

Here’s how:

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Men and women think differently.

Those differences entice and infuriate us.

A Beautiful, feminine woman – to a man – is a confusing storm of emotion and fleeting fancies. Her mood and preferences can change from moment to moment, defying male logic but adhering to a deeper Truth. That Truth is intoxicating and something men struggle to reach on their own.

A Good, masculine man – to a woman – is frustratingly cold, goofy, stubborn and distant. He might not always meet her mood or energy, but his resilience and consistency soothe her. This soothing feeling of safety is intoxicating and something women struggle to reach on their own.

This is all wonderful stuff.

So is water and oil, but if you put water in your car’s engine it’ll junk it real fast.

Generally, there are two types of Good men. There are those who show up to do an honest day’s work for a fair amount of pay. They enjoy the routine and they like feeling useful.

Blessed are these men – and blessed is their society. Things work smoothly with enough of them around.

Other Good men gaze over the horizon. They follow JFK’s advice and ask “why not?” They balance Truth, tradition and progress as they reshape society to be better.

Blessed are these men – and blessed is their society. Each generation tends to live better than the last.

Then there are women.

They have a lot of Good intentions and a lot of strong opinions on how society should run.

At best, those opinions tend to come from a place of Goodness, but not Truth. They talk about how nice society could be, if you rewrote the laws of reality. At worst, they’re simply following their own untamed emotions.

“Equality! No more work! Infinite money for all! Let’s just burn it all down and start again!”

Those feel nice, but there’s no path to them. You can’t build a society that works like this.

Civilisation needs grounding in Truth first. Only then can it aspire to Goodness, then Beauty.

The funny thing is Truth creates room for people to pursue their emotions. If you go solely by what you feel, though, it crowds out Truth.

This explains all the major problems facing the West.

“I feel like I’m a different sex, so I am.”

“DEI feels like it’s fair, so it’s a great idea.”

“Some demographics make me so angry, so they must be bad people.”

“I’d really like to get money for nothing, so I deserve it.”

Yikes.

It’s time to rebel against this and recontain emotions.

Not suppress them, but to stop using them to make all our decisions.

Bring back Truth, pursue Goodness and nurture Beauty. The rest will sort itself out.

How, though?

This is all big picture and abstract – how can you do this in your life?

As always, my first recommendation is to be a better Christian.

The second?

It’s right here:

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Once again, Christianity proves to be an astounding personal development tool.

Christians tend to call each other out for bad behaviour. We might all be tribal allies in this pointless culture war, but that doesn’t mean we let each other off the hook.

If a Christian does something foolish, selfish or evil, other Christians will judge them for it.

Not so with the woke.

An example to please you:

They will criticise you if you don’t love drag queens. Apart from that being valid from an aesthetic point – the woke are blind to Beauty – this judgement is purely tribal.

Because when you point out that drag shows for kids are disgusting and creepy, they go one of two ways:

One, they defend the practice. That just confirms how lost and rotten they are.

Two, they say not all of them are like that. Every group has its bad apples, including and especially religious folks, so maybe we should be kinder to them.

Sure – the moment the Good woke call out the behaviour of the bad woke.

I’ve yet to see that. In fact, I’ve seen say accusing drag queens of being inappropriate with kids is just queerphobia… while defending the Olympic Opening Ceremony.

You know, where they depicted a child in an orgy.

If they woke genuinely hated those accusations, they’d hate anyone who made those accusations valid. That’s how adults operate. Instead, they aren’t valid about much.

And if I’m wrong about this – if there are wokies who love how unburdened by what has been they are but hate all the creepiness, they should speak up. If they tolerate everything Good instead of just everything, they’ll win more hearts and minds – and deserve it, even as wrong as they are.

Moving on to happier topics:

In the culture war, we win. The reason the leftist keep changing the narrative every few months is because they scramble from broken weapon to broken weapon.

But the Gates of Hell can’t stand against the Church.

Christianity wins in the end.

But that’s no guarantee that you will come out unscathed.

All you can do is pray, fight, think and train.

This will help with the thinking and training:

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Far too many folks are still defending that creepy, hideous display of blasphemy in Paris. I’m not ready to forget the lockdowns, the assassination attempt against Trump or the Opening Ceremony, no matter how much society wants to move on.

No mercy for wickedness.

“I thought Jesus told you to turn the other cheek.”

Yeah, He also said to pick up my cross and follow Him. That means fighting sin without hesitation or mercy.

Turning the other cheek means loving – or at least not resenting – the sinner, among other things. It doesn’t mean to tolerate bad behaviour. It can’t. Jesus firmly opposed sin, to the point of suffering and dying to counter it.

“I’m sure the all-powerful creator of the universe appreciates you defending him.”

I defend Him not for His sake, but for yours.

If you’re not a Christian, that’s fine – neither was I for 3.5 decades.

You can believe whatever you want.

But if you’re too historically ignorant to see the merits Christianity has for society, then go read Mere Christianity.

It deserves respect – not for being a religion, but for being the best religion.

But, again, I tell this for your sake. Christianity is formidable – and we’re overdue for a Crusade or Inquisition.

I hope it doesn’t come to that. Christianity is strong enough to protect itself with peace. But that doesn’t mean we won’t reach for the sword if we have to.

Spiritual war is physical, spiritual and mental.

For the physical and mental, you know what to do.

For the mental?

One of the best tools is this:

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