Let’s help MeWe put Facebook in its place.
What with all the hubbub recently about how the Big Tech guys are openly aiming to economically punish and deplatform all who would dare dissent from their precious Progressive Narrative, I’ve decided to diversify and decentralize Fire Breathing Christian’s social media presence. My first step in this direction comes by way of our brand new […]
Yes, God made your smartphone (and everything else).
What do stars, trees, seas, and iPhones all have in common? God made ’em. All of ’em. 100%. He made the iPhone just a surely as He made the sun and the oceans, however much we’re inclined to pretend otherwise. One reason we tend to dismiss and avoid the notion that God really and truly […]
What happened to Star Wars? And why does it matter? (VIDEO)
What happened to Star Wars? How bad was Episode VII? How much more damage will Disney do in Episode VIII? Why should these things matter to Christians? These are some of the questions we kick around in the latest post at the FBC video channel. This is something of a follow-up to an article we posted in […]
The Dying Dinosaur Of Centralized Education
Dinosaur media empires are dying. Dinosaur business empires are dying. Dinosaur political empires are dying. But perhaps the most exciting (and important) news on the dino front is that dinosaur models of education are dying, too. By God’s grace and right in the nick o’ time, an age of radical decentralization is beginning to dawn all around us, and while […]
God’s (Better Than Sci-Fi) Gift Of Health Tech
The means by which God often chooses to accomplish His purposes and bring glory to Himself often mystify, confuse, and even anger us. He frequently chooses to employ what seem to be very crude physical tools (all of which are His property to use as He sees fit, of course), the likes of which we […]
Soaring Above The “Need” For State Managed Roads
One of the biggest (supposed) hurdles routinely trotted out by those clinging to (or lazing in) a “we need the State to manage our lives” mentality is the subject of roads. As in, “if the State didn’t build and manage roads, what on earth would we do?!” Because obviously there wouldn’t even be roads if […]
Preparing for Terminator, Part 2: Cultivating Our God-Given Talents In An Age Of Radical Change
Yes, the robots are coming. They’re coming to push us. They’re coming to challenge us. And they’re coming to take many of our jobs. Technology of all sorts are at this very moment in the process of radically transforming our culture and civilization. So what are we to do? What are we to think? What are Christians to say in […]
Preparing For Terminator, Part 1: Identifying Our God-Given Talents In An Age Of Radical Change
We live in an age of radical change, challenge, and opportunity. This hit again as I read through an interesting article, The End of Employees, posted yesterday at The Wall Street Journal. The piece chronicled yet another profoundly challenging economic reality facing those enmeshed in the Corporate/Statist approach to life. The challenge in question centers on the fact that […]
From One Ark To Many: How God Is Preserving His People And Purging His Enemies
Contrary to popular opinions currently dominating American evangelicalism (and thereby leading the rest of American culture down the drain), it isn’t God’s people who are destined to be swept off the face of His earth. It isn’t the people of God who ultimately lose out here in “the real world”. It isn’t supernaturally saved, Spirit-filled New Creatures […]
How The City On A Hill Leads To Cities On The Seas
In articles like How God’s Gift Of Technology Is Forcing Us To Think And Grow Biblically and Technology, Family, and the Awesome Opportunity for Decentralization, we’ve tried to remind Christians of the beautiful truth that God owns everything and that He’s using it all to build His Kingdom in His creation on His schedule through His people […]
Flying Taxis, Freedom, Prosperity, and Decentralization
Trump/Clinton notwithstanding, things are getting better. Much better. And fast. God is not only preserving His people, but He’s raising up life-, liberty-, and prosperity-enhancing technology all around them. Decentralization is coming, phony empires are crumbling, and the Kingdom of God is advancing. Back in June, we posted How One Inevitable (And Fast-Approaching) Tech Will Radically Change Our […]
Pikachu!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! (Or: When Christians are terrified by Pokemon, you know we’re in serious trouble.)
There are certain telltale signs of how the culture war is going. Whether we notice ’em or not, whether we like ’em or not when we do notice them, or whether we want to deal with them or not once we decide we don’t like ’em, they’re there all around us, jumping up and down […]
From Babel To Pentecost: How The Kingdom Of God Is Built Upon The Ruins Of Enemy Empires
From the rubble of Babel through the fire of Pentecost, a Kingdom is rising. A Kingdom has come. Even now this Kingdom is conquering everything, building itself upon the ruins of all wannabes and pretend empires built by men who will not have Christ to rule over them. That’s what’s going on here, Christian. That’s why things […]
How One Inevitable (And Fast-Approaching) Tech Will Radically Change Our World
Believe it or not, things are getting better. Much better. All the time. Things are getting much better in many ways, yet we’re not inclined to notice ’em because of so many other things getting so much worse so quickly. And let’s face it: We’re much more inclined to dwell on the negative – the disaster […]
“God’s Gifts Of Technology And Decentralization” – The Hell Razer Report Podcast (Episode 9)
In this edition of The Hell Razer Report podcast, we explore the purpose and nature of technology, with an emphasis on the opportunities God is providing right here and now for the radical decentralization of power, as well as the economic and creative liberation of individuals, families, and local church bodies. You can access the program by clicking here. […]
Technology, Opportunity, Hope and Decentralization – Fire Breathing Christian Podcast Episode 8
In this episode we take a look at the incredible blessing that God is even now making available through His provision of rapidly improving technology. We explore several ways in which technology is being purposefully used by God to challenge and equip His people while also paving the way for radical decentralization of economic, industrial, […]
How God’s Gift Of Technology Is Forcing Us To Think And Grow Biblically
Another day, another news story reporting on how automation is about to replace large numbers of human workers. Along with this comes the predictable combo of unbiblical joy and unbiblical fear – unbiblical joy in that those ridiculous McWorkers campaigning for fifteen bucks an hour are about to be replaced by R2-D2, and unbiblical fear that […]
“Real Men Don’t Tweet…Or Do They?” – The Hell Razer Report Podcast
In this episode of The Hellrazer Report podcast, we tackle recent news regarding North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” and the backlash it inspired from companies like Apple and PayPal. In this context, we consider how Christians are to interact with the products and services of top tier technology companies, particularly when those companies are run by people at war with the Kingdom […]
What to do about PayPal. And Apple. And Target. And AT&T. And the fake money that fuels ’em all.
Back when I last lived in Seattle, I got connected with Eric Holmberg of The Apologetics Group. Eric was working on a manuscript for a documentary chronicling the sexual chaos movement and was looking for some help. The previous two times I’d lived in Seattle, I was quite comfortable avoiding the big Gay Pride Parade that rolled […]
California and New York pass sweeping robot employment legislation (a.k.a. “minimum wage increases”).
With the passage of a $15 minimum wage into law in California and New York states this week, one thing is clear. Well, several mostly unfortunate and ugly things are clear, but one in particular that we will focus on is this: There is now even more reason to expect the rapid expansion of a […]
Most working class jobs will soon be automated away. How are we going to deal with that?
“Most occupations that pay less than $20 an hour are likely to be automated into obsolescence.” Should this sentence frighten us? If so, why? And what, if anything, does this tell us about our faith? The sentence in question plays a central role in an interesting article entitled Robots Are Coming For Your Job, published this week […]
Answering a question about the Enterprise (or Galactica or Millennium Falcon) to come.
Yesterday’s post (Fear Not: The Future Is Christian) revisited a topic that we just love to touch on here from time to time, that being the awesome future prepared and secured by God in which His supernaturally saved and sanctified people will learn, grow, explore, cultivate, and adventure forever unencumbered by sin in a restored creation. Well over a year […]
Fear Not: The Future Is Christian
One of the great things about a new Star Wars flick blowing through the land is the incredible opportunity that it gives Christians to engage, process, and clarify to a watching culture what is truly beautiful, what is truly ugly, what is truly good, what is truly bad, why it all matters and where it’s all really going from […]
A long time from now in a galaxy far, far away…
A long time from now in a galaxy far, far away (and in every galaxy in all of creation, come to think of it)… All evil empires will have been completely vanquished and long faded from the scene… The LORD said to me, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you. Ask of me, […]
Technology, Family, And Our Awesome Opportunity For Decentralization
I don’t know about you, but I like good news. Especially The Good News, which thankfully carries along with it an infinite amount of lesser (but still incredibly powerful) good news through which we can actually do great things right here and now. (See: The Awesome Gospel.) And probably like you, I could really use […]
Warp speed fantasies, realities, and the never-ending adventure to come.
In a recent article posted at The Daily Mail, the University of Sydney’s Professor Geraint Lewis talked about the possibility of something like warp drive from Star Trek becoming a reality in light of Einstein’s theory of relativity. While the article was loaded with enough qualifiers to make it anything but an endorsement of the inevitability […]
Taking Children’s Education and Video Games Captive to Christ (Interview with Colin Gunn of “The Colin Gunn Show”)
“Christian, Liberty and Scottish Perspectives” With a tagline like that, you know something supercool is coming. That’s exactly what you get with Colin Gunn, the creative force behind some of the finest Christian worldview based documentaries that have ever been made (see: IndoctriNation:Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America and Wait Till It’s Free). Colin also […]
Our Star Trek just got one step closer to reality.
Back in October, we asked the question: Enterprise, Falcon, or Galactica? What will Christians use to explore the restored cosmos? It appears that Enterprise may have jumped out to an early lead of sorts. According to a report posted by The Mirror earlier this week, something akin to “Star Trek impulse drive” may have actually been developed: Flying to […]
Why the supercool hi-tech future terrifies us.
Having grown up immersed in a combo of (often) dystopic sci-fi and laughably bad “end times” views of Bible prophecy, I was once a very bold pessimist when it came to the long-term prospects for technology in particular and the future of humanity in general here on God’s green earth. Ironically, it was the “Christian” Left Behind-style worldview that offered the most […]
The Vision of The Avengers and the Vision of Christianity
I was four when Star Wars happened and pretty much changed my world. About a year and a half later, Superman: The Movie hit the scene escorted by the promotional tagline, “You’ll believe a man can fly.” It was a magical time. From there, it was off to Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, a reborn Star Trek and […]
Isn’t our robotic future exciting? (Or: Should Christians fear or embrace technology?)
China has announced plans to construct an all-robot manufacturing plant. And this scares some people. There are good reasons for healthy concern (not to be confused with fear). A whole lotta folks and families are about to have their economic worlds – and overall worldviews – fundamentally rocked. They’re going to learn the hard way that the “reality” […]
Four Family-Empowering Techs That Christians Should Master
For all the “end times” wackiness unfolding around us, there’s a whole lot to be excited about in a very good way right here and right now in God’s creation. Sure, American culture is coming apart at the seams on a macro level in pretty much every realm of life as a consequence of its proud, ongoing rebellion against […]
The Reality of Transhumanism and the Glory of God
We see and hear all kinds of crazy things these days…or at least we categorize them as “crazy” so that we might more comfortably push them off to the side, safely out of focus and away from serious consideration. And while that can seem to work for a while, it never really does. In the end, […]
Enterprise, Falcon, or Galactica? What will Christians use to explore the restored cosmos?
Enterprise, Falcon, or Galactica? What’ll it be? Yeah, I’m serious. And yeah, this is a big deal. (I will explain later; please hang in there and humor me ’til then.) Now, back to the important question: If you were living in a place and a time where things like space travel and space traveling ships were […]
Why All Christians Should Own Robots
Every Christian should own robots. If not literally, then at least conceptually. We should definitely own the idea of robots. The present and potential uses of such perpetually improving wonders ought to have us jazzed in ways that no pagan could even dream of matching. But we don’t tend to take that route, do we? [Tweet “Every […]