Amazing.

Repeal the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 that Milton Friedman helped design: ``` During World War II (1941–1943), Friedman worked as an economist in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Division of Tax Research. He played a key role in designing the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943, which introduced mandatory withholding of federal income taxes from employees' paychecks. His work included researching foreign tax systems, consulting with employers, and helping draft the policy framework that made large-scale tax collection feasible during the war. Although Friedman later became a leading advocate for limited government and free markets, he acknowledged his role in creating the withholding system—one he ultimately regretted. He stated that while the system was necessary for wartime revenue, it made taxes less visible to citizens and enabled the growth of government. In his memoirs, he wrote: "It never occurred to me at the time that I was helping to develop machinery that would make possible a government that I would come to criticize severely as too large, too intrusive, too destructive of freedom." ``` (source: brave search)

Part of the curse on 'Israel' under the Mosaic covenant: > The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. [Deuteronomy 28:25](https://esv.org/Deut+28), ESV

Nick Fuentes is the new Ben Shapiro. Both equate Zionism and Semitism. As long as you accept that fundamental premise, they don't really care who you prefer. This is my tin foil hat theory.

"All our technologies are but improved means to unimproved ends."

(my question about contradiction was meant for Jared)

True. They anathematized themselves, per Paul's Epistle to the Galatians, as well.

But I was told Hitler and the Nazis still live there

How 'bout maybe just #EndTheTSA

GM Nicea or bust. https://heidelblog.net/2026/03/contra-webbon-hall/

Respectfully, this comes from a misreading of texts like "the letter kills, the Spirit makes alive." That's not what it means. Paul is referring specifically to the Mosaic Law in all its strictest demands--the law that reveals our need for Christ, and drives us to him. He is not saying "all written words kill." What advice did he give Timothy, the young pastor? "Give himself" to ... what? And what advice did he give about his pastoral role? For what were the Bereans praised? "Searching the Scriptures daily..." Everything David says about God's word in Pslam 119 is still true today. The two sides of this equation are these: 1) the perspicuity of Scripture (i.e., it is clearly visible in and of itself); and 2) the perspicacity of the reader (i.e., his ability to see clearly that which is clearly there). We are born blind, sinful, and with 'scales on our eyes' such that we cannot see clearly what is clearly to be seen. The Spirit's work in us causes the scales to drop so that we can see Christ in all the Scriptures (where others find only laws and a righteousness that comes from following the law vs a righteousness that comes by faith). Saying that we don't need scripture if we're "really" saved is like saying we don't need the North Star if we're "really" sailors.

The doctrine of _sola scriptura_ is not really about 'which books' but about the ground of authority--is it in God or is it in men? Do the Scriptures create the church, or does the church 'create' the Scriptures? Does the church recognize and receive the inherent and self-attesting authority in the Scriptures, or does the church 'bestow' its authority on the Scriptures? The Creator-creature distinction requires the former option in each of the three questions above. That's the essence of this argument between the Roman denomination and the Protestant & Reformed denominations. Both sides of the argument make an appeal to authority--but the former appeals to its own man-based authority, and the latter appeals to divine authority. But to your question in particular, I think Jerome had the better canonics (vs. Augustine) even though I tend follow Augustine's soteriology (contra Rome, which returned to semi-Pelagianism centuries ago).

* "one of our [catechisms]" -- not "confessions", I misspoke.

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The **ground** of our acceptance before God is the completed work of Christ _alone_, received by grace _alone_, through faith _alone_ as an instrument. But _the kind of faith that justifies_ is never alone--it produces good works.

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Was thinking about this -- if you haven't read Rothbard's _Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought_ and/or his _The Progressive Era_ -- I think you would find them simply fascinating. Especially in the former, he bucks the trend of ignoring the religious ideologies (specifically, eschatology) of economic thinkers to see how those 'top-level' / 'upstream' concerns (i.e., metaphysics and eschatology) impacted their tactical-level / 'downstream' political and economic positions.