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  Thanksgiving in the Ebb Time of Antichrist: Atonement, the Empty Throne, and the Reparative Leading by the Meek toward the New Advent   Rev. Dr. Douglas Blake Olds, Ret. November 21, 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] 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.   “The present world, a world without consecrated authority, seems caught between two impossibiliti...

    The Ladder Tearing:  A Christopoietic Rejection of Ascent without Neighbor Bearing...and of DB Hart's Platonic-Inf(l)ected Teaching Douglas Blake Olds 17 November 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] 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. T here is a certain kind of metaphysician—learned, serenely confident, mistaking the florid for the elegant—who peers at th...