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People pleasers C Henry and J Stott imposed their de haut en bas half truths on us, and on the powers that be who still had better potential then, by stealth in plain sight, milquetoast pretend non-dominators. By mid 1970s their system was plainly full of holes (Jim Jones), got rent further by popes’ incompatible “stitches”, and by mid 1990s (Kansas City) far more so. Since before “9 / 11” christianity itself is total passivity and is uninterestedness in any of nature, crafts or values – except for unknown pockets of people of no “influence”.

Brad Todd speaking to Rev Angela Denker traced the current world system to the prominent churches’ already having embraced relativism in morale (my wording): believers became a despised chattel like the sons of the upper class religion hangers-on with their initiation at creepy camps and showbiz copies thereof. The secular world was aghast for many years but has increasingly taken permission to dominate like the spiritual destroyers we unwittingly trotted after.

The partisan and supposedly “credal” politicising of values, nature and basic culture that became prominent under US and British regimes, stole these from the right of all humanity, and turned them into a punctured football. Bad religion invented artificial unintelligence on the principle that what got bound thereby on earth, became bound in heaven.

In my childhood we didn’t see clergy as bosses (we thought they were there to run a demonstration). In my teens my peers believed in co-participation in all the Holy Spirit filled ministries and this is the benchmark I look for ever more anxiously in all fellowships, of whatever nominal “churchmanship”.

Because God’s invisible spiritual economy got swapped for material manoeuvring (our being manipulated), whether milquetoasts or their lurid variants, acted like the sorcerers’ apprentices – in the void of the destructions and false reconstructions of the 1540s – resuscitating Nicholas of Cusa-like gnosticism (counterfeit Platonic sophistry) and the “order” Columbus had belonged to, into the Dr Fludd and Dr Dee / Winter King-like Divine Right of Dr Foster (Faustus) and Archbishop Laud.

In vain the Bard warned: Guildernstern and Rosenkrantz (references to counterreformation and “Reformed” dangers), my Lord, are dead (in the I Cor 15 sense of dead wood and dead hands). For Roland Barthes the Ignatians started up industrialised faith while in Timothy Gloege it was Moody-H P Crowell-R Torrey (Stott formant); all these fitting into the Max Weber enterprise paradigm.

I used the transcript. Astute McLuhan ref by Woodward. Too much line-toeing by Woodward on Acts 2 as flashy and boss-related – while Acts 1 is the more significant infilling (interceding in fear the radical ministry of all).