"No demons I can slay on behalf of my Lord?"
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
The decline of the West
Based right-winger Edward Dutton is interesting when he says really controversial things neither the left nor the right will likely agree with (although I suppose right-wingers will agree with his negative take on immigration later in the video). Sorry chaps, neither the Labourite "welfare state" nor Tory "family values" will help get the crime levels down, not even in a ethnically homogenous population...since everyone is getting more and more stupid anyway! Ever since 1900, if I understand Uncle Eddie correctly.
The dark matter hoax
Tick tock tick tock...
A *very* interesting video about dark matter c/o Sabine Hossenfelder. Dark matter simply can´t be true, and I see a yuge crisis in cosmology and physics in my crystall ball. Not to mention the cow entrails!
It will be like the fall of the Soviet Union. A good thing in itself, brought about by the stupid choices of the regime...which will soon have all kinds of really bad consequences. Sure wonder how a science-skeptical public will react when Lambda-CDM comes crashing down?
Let´s hope the public doesn´t care about Big Bang cosmology and concentrate on other dark matters.
The Nazi hoax
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A polemical review of a book arguing that Paul was a scheming Jew who invented Christianity to undermine the Roman Empire by converting the Gentile masses to what was really a Jewish sect. Headed by a ditto "cabal", no less! The author of "The Jesus Hoax", David Skrbina, is an anti-Semite, a crypto-Nazi, and a admirer of the Unabomber. Or so the reviewer believes. He´s self-published, too.
I admit I didn´t know that the Nazis considered Paul to be the bad boy who turned Christianity "Jewish". After all, Paul is obviously de-Judaizing. His epistles even contain anti-Semitic content! (Although some scholars believe these are later interpolations.) Weirdly, Skrbina rejects not just Paul, but also the Gospels - which also contain content that could be spun as anti-Semitic.
What I don´t understand is whether Skrbina is a Jesus Mythicist or whether he believes that the Nazarene was an Aryan super-hero with flexing muscles whose real message of Lebensraum and Drang nach Osten (or is it Mesopotamia) was turned into its anti-Roman opposite by St Paul´s cabal. How deep is this rabbit hole?
Sabine is in the Epstein files
Sabine Hossenfelder is mentioned in the Epstein files. She isn´t compromised, but everyone else just might. Epstein was seriously interested in science (including niche problems in physics) and he had money. You do the math...
Most of the video is about quantum physics. And yes, the comments are extremely funny. Light in the darkness, as it were.
Monday, February 9, 2026
Tagging the paradigm
An atheist(?) criticism of the Transcedental Argument for God (TAG) promoted by Eastern Orthodox apologist Jay Dyer. Not sure why, since presuppositionalism (in this form at least) is a conservative Calvinist thing. Indeed, the video mentions Bahnsen and Van Til.
TL/DR: the TAG is de facto used in a rhetorical fashion to confound the opposition, while never really demonstrating "the impossibility of the contrary". Which may explain why it attracts the more pugnacious kinds of interweb polemicists.
A relatively interesting contribution.
Frat boy pseudo-science?
A Skeptic (and perhaps atheist) criticism of Jay Dyer, the bad boy of the Orthobro interwebs. "Frat boy brand of Christianity" is a keeper.
TL/DR: Dyer is a young earth creationist and presuppositionalist. He actually references an essay by Traditionalist author Titus Burckhardt against evolution. (Our old friend Huston Smith had a similar argument about Platonic forms manifesting in the material world. Perhaps he got them from Burckhardt.)
More unexpectedly, Dyer sounds agnostic on the existence of dinosaurs and even heliocentrism?! Which I suppose is inevitable if you interpret the Bible too literally. Not sure why Seraphim Rose´s name never comes up in the video. This content seems to be a kind of "parallel plot" to the recent drama between Dyer, Professor Dave et al.
The demon defeater
If you believe in a revealed religion (and many religions are of that nature), how do you *know* you´re not being tricked by demons? We could call this "the demon defeater". For instance, many Christians would argue that the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith was duped by demons. But how do you know *your* religion isn´t the result of demonic trickery?
Apparently, some Jews (half-jokingly perhaps) consider the archangel Gabriel to be a herald of misfortune. After all, when he showed himself to Mary, the end result was Christianity, which persecutes the Jews. And when he appeared to Muhammed, the result was Islam, which also persecutes the Jews. Maybe Gabriel was a demon?
"But Jesus fulfilled all the OT prophecies". First, he probably didn´t. Second, maybe that´s part of the deception. How would you know? I´m sure demons can stage a couple of miracles here and there, and even make a dead man rise. So what´s the objective criterion for knowing that one revealed religion is true and the others are phoney? It can´t be the miracle-claims, since they may be faked by demons. Nor can it be the revelation itself (obviously).
The only criterion I can think of is that it makes people more moral and/or spiritual. But even assuming that everyone agrees on what these terms mean, the number of sinners and saints in each religion seem to be about equal. If saints predominate, I suppose all religions would be "true". That is, some form of religious pluralism would be the bottom line. If sinners predominate (which seems to be the case), all religions would be "false". Then, agnosticism - at least towards the really existing revealed religions - would be called for.
And if really heinous sinners are everywhere dominant, maybe they are all demonic...
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