When “Good Report” Dies: Bernie Sanders (and a Biblical Reckoning)

Statement by Bernie Sanders on the Iran War

One month after starting the war in Iran,

this is the statement of the President of the United States

on Easter Sunday. 

These are the ravings

of a dangerous

and mentally unbalanced individual. 

Congress has got to act NOW.

End this war

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A Don Kenobi Monologue on Philippians 4:8–9

Exposing false Christianity by inverting Scripture, and calling believers back to Christ’s truth.

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What if the clearest way to understand Scripture is to flip it upside down?
Philippians 4:8 tells us what to think on.

But what happens when we invert it?
The answer, though uncomfortable, 

may explain everything we are seeing today.
Trump may truly be “anointed”… 

but as a GOOD REPORT?

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Let’s read it together:

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are true,
whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just,
whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue,
and if there be any praise,
think on these things.

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Verse 9 continues:

Philippians 4:9

Those things,
which ye have both learned, and received,
and heard, and seen in me, do:
and the God of peace shall be with you.

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Inverting the Scripture

As I have argued in a previous post, sometimes the clearest way to understand Scripture is to invert it.

Let’s do that together.

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Philippians 4:8 — inverted:

Finally, brethren,

whatsoever things are false,
whatsoever things are dishonest,
whatsoever things are unjust,
whatsoever things are impure,
whatsoever things are hateful,
whatsoever things are of ill report;

if there be any vice,
and if there be any blame,
think on these things.

Do I really need to say anything more?

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Philippians 4:9 — inverted:

Those things,
which ye have neither learned, nor received,
nor heard, nor seen in me, do not:
and the absence of peace shall be with you.

I do not need to say more.

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Why I Speak

Here is what I will say.

I often wonder:
Would I respect Christianity if I did not know Christ personally?

That question explains why I rail, day and night, against false Christianity and the lazy theology that props it up.

The simple explanation is love, love for Christ.

The more complicated one is this:
so that non-Christians can clearly see the difference between Christ and what is falsely presented as Christianity.

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A Moment in Luton

October 2025. Luton, UK.

A Muslim taxi driver listened as I explained:

“These are not followers of Jesus.
They are followers of the antichrist.”

He exhaled, almost in relief.

“You know how much I have wondered about this?” he said.
“I know the teachings of Isa. He is a prophet in Islam.
How can these people claim to follow him, yet act like this?”

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For His Name’s Sake

Even taking the time to write this is for my Lord, Jesus.

It is my way of defending His name, for His name’s sake.

So why does the Lord seem silent?

He is not.

He has given us His Spirit, to discern and to speak boldly.

This is the separation spoken of in the parable of the wheat and the tares.

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The Question

The question is simple:

Are you wheat?
Or are you tares?

Are you comfortable remaining under false teachers, saying,
“Let God be the judge”?

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A Hard Truth

I will post links to earlier essays on this “Let God be the judge” theology.

But I have little faith many will change.

The cancer of false Christianity is widespread.
It runs deep.

Christ warned us about such men.

They travel the world to make a single convert,
and make them twice the sons of hell.

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A Sobering Scripture

We must do the work, and pray for those caught in this web.

Because Scripture says something sobering:

God may allow people to believe lies,
so that they may be judged.
(2 Thessalonians 2:10–12)

Think about that.

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Closing

All that needs to be said has been said…
in this here rickety old Molue.

I rest my case.

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Don Kenobi

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#OldManInTheMolue