An idiotic take on Christianity:

“Jesus hung around sinners and sex workers, but modern Christians are so judgemental. They should be more like Christ!”

And you should open a Bible before talking about it.

To put it pithily, Jesus loves sinners and despises sin. He hung around sinners and sex workers because they needed Him the most.

That’s hardly a radical interpretation. He says as much when the fusspots of His day challenged Him on it.

I think folks picture Jesus having a Good time with sinners, passing a blunt around and talking about unconditional love. That’s not the Christ. He didn’t pass the time with them – He lectured them about sin.

Jesus is judgement.

Modern Christians only fail this by being too soft of judgement, not by being too strict.

My Goodness, imagine calling modern Christians too strict.

That’s what happens when you let ignorance around basic Christian concepts thrive.

In the interests of enforcing some discipline, I’m putting my foot down.

Open your Bible, do some exercise and level up your nervous system.

That last one you can do here:

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I’m a mutant – are you?

My mutation is formidable – maybe not omega-tier, but still powerful. It’s lucky that I have this and not someone with a less robust moral compass.

Ready to learn my secret?

For most people, their ear canals are basically straight.

Mine apparently has a slight bump upwards and a slight curve to the side.

Dun dun dunnnnn.

At least, I assume that’s the case. It’s not as though I can peek inside my own ear. A doctor told me as much during a checkup and it explains a few things.

I’m also assuming it’s a mutation. It might have happened this way for environmental reasons.

What am I, an earologist?

I guess it’s not the best superpower. All it means is I have to flush out my ears with olive oil on the regular.

If I’m special, I hope it’s for something more meaningful than this.

One thing that makes me different is I can see how special other people are.

No one is boring or simple, even when they’re dumb and predictable. People have rich inner worlds that you can’t access or understand.

With Your Story Isn’t About You, though, people make a lot more sense.

If you ever get confused, frustrated or surprised by others, that’s a sign you need to learn this:

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It’s a bad idea to, as a man, get dating advice from women.

Most of what they’ll tell you is insane and wrong.

Most of the rest is obvious.

I caught a video recently of a woman telling men to ask a girl out. If they’re interested, stop flapping about, man up and say you want to take her out sometime.

The comments were all the usual:

“Nooooooo this only works if you’re a rich chad!”

“Heh, yeah, this is what I did. We’ve been together ever since – for 30 years.”

“I… have to… DO SOMETHING? Uh, no thanks, single life forever!”

And my favourite:

“Ugh, I hate the phrase ‘man up’. So annoying.”

Sigh…

Yeah, look, I get it. Insane women tell you to man up all the time. They tell you you’re not a man unless you work harder to make more money they can steal.

But if you get triggered by two harmless words, you need to grow a pair.

Yeah, I’m telling you to man up over the phrase “man up”. This isn’t me being clever or witty or anything. This is me telling you to be less pathetic.

I didn’t even hear her say those two dreaded words. That’s where you need to get to – not where “man up” doesn’t bother you, but it doesn’t even register.

Because it doesn’t matter.

Unless the woman in question is your mother or the Virgin Mary, a woman’s opinion about how you live your life doesn’t matter. If they offer advice, smile and nod while thinking about swords or Rome. It’s the same as if a five-year-old gave you career advice – it’s just adorable.

So man up.

Stop letting the small things faze you. Hellfire spews from the ground and you’re upset over women telling you to man up?

You need a confidence boost, my friend.

You need to be able to see through people and to keep your head on straight.

This will help:

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With all the talk about the Olympics going on, I caught this story for the first time:

In 2008 in Beijing, Usain Bolt lived off chicken nuggets and bottled water. I mean he lived off them, eating nothing else. The local food didn’t agree with him, so he downed a hundred nuggies a day for ten days.

Then he went on to set a world record or three.

At school, I learned the food pyramid – a dietary guide based on the best science. As an adult, I learned the food pyramid was corporate propaganda – if anything, it should have been upside down.

Neither diet would suggest that a thousand chicken nuggets in a week and a half will let you perform at your athletic peak.

That was only for ten days, though. It wasn’t as if he ate like that all the time. A good diet draws on all the food groups in moderation, right?

Right.

Except for pretty much any indigenous cuisine. Few cultures had regular access to red meat and white meat and eggs and root vegetables and leafy greens and fruits and dairy and seeds.

An African tribe lives off beef, supplemented with milk and blood.

Most cultures base their diet around one or two grains, or maybe one or two vegetables.

Then there was John the Baptist, living off locusts and wild honey.

Nutrition is weird.

It’s easy to get it wrong, yet there are many ways to get it right.

This applies to everything.

Conventional wisdom is, at best, incomplete.

And that’s never the best path.

If you break the rules, you might succeed in ways no one saw coming. Move laterally, experiment, abandon conventional wisdom.

Thrive.

I don’t know how you want to thrive. I don’t know what dream you’re chasing or what skills you want to master.

It almost doesn’t matter.

I reckon, whatever you chase, this will be essential:

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Normally, I’d put more effort into my emails.

Today, I’ve been disorganised. I’m working on some other project and my head is scrambled. I’m also on a cleanse, so my body is scrambled too.

So let’s talk about Your Story Isn’t About You.

The modern world is filled with mental traps. Technology distorts interactions, the world is full of lies and you don’t have the tools to deal with it.

Not yet, at least.

The ability to see things from other perspectives sounds simple. I bet you think you already do that well.

Doubtful.

But even if true, you can still improve on that here:

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“Christianity just stole all its ideas from paganism!”

Utterly untrue. The core idea of Christianity – that God took on human form to die for our sins – is uniquely Christian.

When folks say this, they point to Horus coming back from the dead. Cool. Many cultures compare death to sleep – the idea of waking up isn’t so special it needed swiping.

Or they point to Christian celebrations being rebranded pagan rites.

That’s less true than what most folks realise. The Christmas tree, for example, represents St Boniface being a huge chad.

But whatever, let’s say Christmas is just a rebranded pagan festival. That’s fine. Admitting that doesn’t contradict anything in the Holy Bible.

And admitting that is a nice argument against the claim that Christianity spread by the sword.

Not that you need any more arguments against that. Christianity was illegal for the first few centuries. Then it converted Europe’s warrior cultures, including the Celts and the Norse. In modern times, it survived Soviet attempts to keep it down – and the Soviets had much more firepower than the churches ever had.

Christianity took some superficial and irrelevant details from pagan celebrations. It did this out of kindness and mercy. Even with the power of the sword on its side, it chose to make assimilation easier.

If Christianity is just brutal, militant colonialism, it would have erased all traces of these ceremonies. Instead, it stripped them of the spiritual elements but kept the trappings.

Nice.

Wokeism tries to do the same thing. It takes things like institutions and culture, hollows them out and replaces the meaningful stuff with their perverted take on things.

But it fails. Woke institutions crumble, woke media gets ignored.

That’s because Christianity values Truth, Goodness and Beauty. Replacing lies with Truth, evil with Goodness and ugliness with Beauty isn’t always easy, but the results last. Try to go the other way and people naturally resist.

This is how Christianity wins. This is a Christian victory – a return to basic virtues.

Modern culture warriors need to remember that.

If Christianity becomes merely a faction in the culture wars – or, worse, a pawn for conservatives – then it’ll fail.

What we need to do is stick to our virtues, be morally superior to our enemies and follow the teachings of Jesus.

Nothing else matters.

Of course, this is easy to say. It takes real mental strength to do this, though.

Maybe you think you can go it alone.

If you’re not that foolish, then I direct your attention here.

This, right here, will level up your mental strength in ways I can’t even say.

You don’t have to trust me on that. All you have to do is see for yourself:

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It’s simple, really.

Take three virtues: Truth, Goodness and Beauty.

Show how your country and the Olympic spirit exemplify these values.

It’s not hard, unless you’re so deranged you flinch away from these virtues.

This explains why everything the woke make is so hideous, false and evil.

Paris is a joke, defeated from above by evil overlords and from without by illegal hordes. All while the woke celebrate the end of such a bunch of meanies.

It perfectly exemplifies the modern secular globalisation – an ugly, hostile, divisive, narcissistic parody of Good taste and virtue.

Reject globalisation, reject secularisation, reject lies, evil and ugliness. We’ve all been too tolerant of these fools for too long.

It’s time to push back.

And the best – and only – way to do that is to be the best version of yourself:

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Terrible advice:

“Do better!”

The sentiment is right – we can, and should, all do better. The trouble is social activists use this – and they’re vague, deranged hypocrites. By “do better”, they mean be less straight, less white, less smart, less coherent, less male and less just less.

It’s also directionless. With that as your mantra, you could justify – or condemn – anything.

Decent advice:

“Grow stronger!”

Much better – although it’s still vague, at least it gives you something to work with.

It eliminates huge tracts of foolish endeavours.

Activists talk a big game because talk is cheap. They’d rather lecture, complain and hypothesise than do anything themselves.

They might dare, on a good day, to utter this, but they’d never live by it.

Excellent advice:

… Train yourself in godliness; for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

1 Timothy 4:7-8 (RSV)

And there you have it.

Grow emotionally, mentally and spiritually stronger.

Here’s one way to do that:

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Obviously, Jesus never said that or anything like it.

During His ministry, He impressed crowds and scholars with His leaning and wisdom. Even as a child, His visit to the temple left folks amazed. As an adult, He left them confused.

He hadn’t studied to be a rabbi, yet He could outreason them.

But while His scholarly knowledge impressed others, their knowledge never impressed Him.

Jesus praised the woman who healed herself with her faith, just by touching the hem of His robe.

And He praised the Roman who expressed pure faith in His abilities and divinity.

Don’t forget how the Gospel of Matthew ends – Jesus doesn’t say to study Him; He says to follow Him.

In His eyes, faith always trumps knowledge.

Now, knowledge still matters. If it didn’t, the gospels wouldn’t mention His so often.

But we all know folks who are all brain but no heart, no soul. It might be the Christian who has the Bible memorised but struggles to tell you what it means. It might be the chef who knows recipes, ingredients and techniques, but can only make merely technically perfect creations.

Study Christianity.

Learn it well.

But your priorities are to have faith, avoid sin, do Good works and grow your knowledge – in that order.

Even if you’re purely selfish and materialistic, the best thing you could do right now is pray and abstain.

Far down on the list is to follow this link.

Then again, it might just help you be a better version of yourself – the sort of person who finds prayer and abstinence easier.

So follow Jesus, then follow this:

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I like a good casual board game.

Or something more complex. My all-time favourite is the Starcraft Board Game, which is plenty complex.

But things like Coup, Story War and Fluxx are good fun.

So when I say I don’t like Exploding Kittens, it’s not because it’s not my style. I like those sorts of games. Even The Oatmeal – the webcomic it’s based on – is okay at times.

It’s just a boring way to pass the time.

So colour me curious when they made an Exploding Kittens TV show.

The synopsis:

To better understand His creation, God is sent to Earth as a cat.

So it’s the premise of Christianity, only dumber and worse in every way. How like the modern world to casually mock the one True faith. They’re lucky Christians don’t retaliate the way Jews or Muslims would.

A shame – I could use a braindead, bingeable comedy. Not that I had high hopes for a modern animated show based off a bad card game based off a decent webcomic.

I’ll have to go back to my Bible for entertainment, I suppose. That’s one silver lining in this bleak era of fiction – it makes the older stuff look great.

As always, this email was sponsored by me.

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