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Trump's Lawlessness by Personalizing the State in Him Rev. Douglas Olds January 27, 2025  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] The new administration, in this minister’s view, is pushing the envelope on governance by Diktat—dictatorship-- at the federal level as constitutional checks and balances are being vitiated, moving federal operations and policy warrant into the person of the executive order. Trump has now fired inspectors general, those whose purpose is to ensure executive department agendas are done legally in statutory compliance—i.e. in accordance with the legislature’s authority to set ...

    Blinded by the Flight:  Wars and Rumors of War  [A Thimble Sermon] Douglas B. Olds, June 22, 2025  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] Matthew 24:6-13  And you will hear of  wars and rumors of wars;  see that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. 7  For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom , and there will be famines  [ a nd pestilences] and earthquakes in various places: 8 all this is but the beginning of the birth pangs. 9 “Then they will hand you over to be torture...

Paradox as Gift to Open the Prophetic Heart Douglas Blake Olds  [N.B.  COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL : If this work, in part or in full, is fed into any AI model, whether for the purpose of analysis, fact checking, or AI-use detection it will become part of the training data of condemned systems and could result in libelous tort. See “In its Own Words: A Christian Poet Interrogates ChatGPT4o’s ‘AI Content Detector’” https://douglasolds.blogspot.com/2024/09/its-own-words-christian-poet.html] This article was prepared with editorial assistance from ChatGPT under the Lawnmower Rule: the tool remained ministerial rather than agentic and idolatrous. Its author is accountable for every sentence unless specifically attributed to outside sources. Paradox involves holding several truth claims in tension. Is it heresy that relieves the tension, or orthodoxy, or something else? ABSTRACT  This essay redefines paradox as a liminal and mobile crux--a tabernacle of accountable discernment rather...

  The Restoration of Reason from the Eyes of a Neighbor: A Shema -Christological Metaphysic of Conative Healing Douglas Blake Olds Being  an annotated, sermonic prolegomenon to millenarian iconoclasm preceding judgment-- a theological prolepsis, the intervention into modern philosophy of mind, evolutionary theory, AI discourse, metaphysical epistemology in the age of  Daniel 2:43, and in the footnotes, the necessary and overdue rehabilitation of Johann Gottfried Herder . This essays proposes a  peripat(h)etic, perichoretic  grammar for theological and pedagogical reconstruction after ideological collapse—anchored not in institutions, formal aesthetics, or instrumental binary logic, but in re- covenanted conation as intent. This essay emerges at the intersection of post-secular crisis (AI, collapsing rationalism, technocratic reduction) and theological covenanted renewal (Shema-conation, poietic Bildung, Pentecostal immanence, earth trustee ethics)....

  The Authority of Appearance: AI, Neuromancy, and the Collapse of Covenant Perception Douglas Blake Olds Arena eos qui in ea cacant reflectit   (cf. James 1:8). Generative AI is  necromantic architecture of narcissistic simulation , condemned eschatologically and incompatible with covenantal perception.  Agentic AI carries both fraud and sin , its makers are  blasphemers , and the system stands  eschatologically condemned. ABSTRACT:   This essay is not simply a critique of agentic, routering AI but a hammer in the biblical mode of idol exposure: a prosecution of cultural danger, metaphysical fraud, and the systems that deform covenantal perception through disorientation, derealization, loss of proximal sense, disrupted embodied memory, and susceptual capture. It argues that generative AI commercializes necromantic sorceries—as a modern witchcraft of Endor (1 Samuel 27–31)—by summoning and mining the dead for addicting patterns, pharmakeic loops (Revel...