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The Naughty Boy of Evangelicalism Monday, March 21st, 2022.

Introduction.

One of the things I learned from the late Gary North was the threefold division regarding

different kinds of religion.

There were, according to his taxonomy, these three.

Our religion, escape religion, and dominion religion.

This grid can be applied to all religions, which means that it can also be applied to

the evangelical subsets that exist within the broader religious realm.

Evangelicals also divide up neatly into these three categories, but before we get to that,

we need to survey the current state of affairs.

This is because the three evangelical subsets can best be evaluated against the backdrop

of the prevailing faith of our culture which would be power monkeys.

The dominant religion of our day is most emphatically a power religion.

They are after control, nothing but control, and with no remainder.

You, the people, are a saddled horse, and they are standing by, booted, spurred, and ready

to ride.

They want to control everything.

They have claimed authority over how much water comes out of your showerhead.

They want to control whether your car will start or not.

They want to be able to define any and all descent as hate speech.

No lovers of liberty here, no sons of liberty will be welcome in the suffocating world

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