Thursday, March 12, 2026

The Holy Spirit Is a Unifier (and the Priest Is a Lighthouse)

Priests Stand Tall: Father Pfleger and the Courage of Christian Witness

A reflection on Father Pfleger, courageous priests, and

why true Christian witness stands like a lighthouse against

those who presume to write memos for God.

The Holy Spirit Is a Unifier

The Holy Spirit is a unifier.
Connect to Him and you connect to all who are connected to Him.

Father Pfleger. Just one interview or one article about him, and I waxed lyrical about the man.

I had never heard of him before. I think I wrote a piece titled something like “The Priest Is a Lighthouse” and used his image, which I later replaced with that of my namesake, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.

When I later heard Barack Obama refer to him as “a crazy priest,” and the camera panned to him, I smiled and thought with some satisfaction, “That’s my man!”

Placing him beside some of today’s culture-warrior MAGA-Catholic priests is like placing a fountain of living water beside a swamp.

(Harsh? I don't think so!)

The Priest Is a Lighthouse (Not a Memo-Writer for God)

Here is an excerpt of the post inspired by Father Pfleger.
Link to full post in Postscript.

The Priest Is a LIGHTHOUSE (Not a Memo-Writer for God)

When priests stand tall, the memo writers shrink to size,
those self-appointed scribes who presume to tell God
whom to love and whom to reject.

Discover how true spiritual discernment stands as a shining lighthouse amid the dark sea of “memo writers for God.”

This reflection by Don Kenobi exposes counterfeit inspiration, contrasts it with authentic holiness, and calls readers back to truth, back to integrity, back to genuine Christian witness.

False Faith, True Darkness

Just yesterday, EWTN was lit up in a #MolueMonologue.

You may read it here:

False Faith, True Darkness
https://donkenobi.blogspot.com/2025/12/still-on-armageddon-molue-apocalypse.html

Christians of the Cross are slowly but surely rising up.

Enough seems to be, finally, enough.

A Priest Worth Admiring

Now, there is a priest I stumbled across on social media. I had never heard of him before. But he made me shake my head in admiration and say aloud to no one in particular:

“These are the kinds of priests the early Church Fathers had in mind when they institutionalized this great faith of ours!”

Yes, Christianity was institutionalized.

It did not fall from heaven fully formed, complete with Bibles, thuribles, and canon law.

And if you have read Church history, you will understand why that step, making the Church an institution, was of vital necessity.

The continued existence of Christianity depended on it.

Why the Church Became an Institution

Many have argued: why bother?

After all, Jesus gave us the parable of the wheat and the tares, saying:

“Let them grow together until the day of the harvest.”

And they have a point. Because in weeding, since wheat and tares look so similar, there is always the danger of pulling up some wheat by the roots.

But the truth is this.

In the early centuries of the Common Era (Anno Domini), Christianity was a wild marketplace of writings. A chaotic flood of texts, teachings, gospels, letters, prophecies, visions, and doctrines, some profound, many dubious, others outright dangerous.

This swirling chaos was one of the driving forces behind the councils, beginning with Hippo and later solidified at Trent, where the canonical books of the Bible were formally recognized and set.

Two Points Within the Point, Worth Pondering

1. The Kingdom of God Has Always Suffered Violence

Should I mention that today the same violence often comes at the hands of Magamaniacs, among them self-important priests and media organizations?

Or should I stay quiet, lest this digression obscure the point?

2. Those Who Fold Their Arms at Heresies in the Church

Those who fold their arms at heresies in the Church, masking their lack of fortitude with the tired refrain:

“Let God be the judge. We cannot judge! Perhaps God is using these devious, manifestly anti-fruits-of-the-Spirit personages in ways beyond our ken…”

They forget one thing.

The very Bible in their hands already stands as a witness against them.

Against their lukewarmness.
Against their spiritual lassitude.

Think about it.

No cars. No trains. No planes.

Yet the Fathers of the Church still traveled to far-flung places, even by today’s standards, to sit in council and set forth the boundaries of the faith we now take for granted, or worse, reduce in some sects to a mere business transaction with God.

Hats off to Father Pfleger.
My Man!

Thank you for reading.

Don Kenobi
03/10/2025

Postscript:
Link to full post:

https://donkenobi.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-priest-is-lighthouse.html

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Thinking Men BUILD Civilizations

Thinking Men…

…Civilization Is Built by Those Who Think

The Old Man reflects on the TRAPATT diode,

elegant thinking, and the danger of borrowed opinions

in the Information Age.

The TRAPATT Diode

When the Old Man was young he worked as an engineer.

While preparing lecture notes for a course at the Naval Institute he discovered something fascinating.

The TRAPATT diode.
TRApped Plasma Avalanche Triggered Transit diode.

He confessed he barely remembered the physics.

But he remembered the feeling.

Awe.

Someone had observed a strange behaviour in nature.
Instead of ignoring it, that person studied it carefully.
Understood it.
Harnessed it.

The result was microwave generation.
Communication technology.
A new capability for humanity.

That day he coined a phrase.

Thinking Men.

Civilization, he said, is built by thinking men.

Elegant Thinking

The Old Man distinguished between two kinds of thinking.

Elegant thinking.
And borrowed thinking.

Elegant thinking is careful.

It considers counter-arguments.
It welcomes correction.

Borrowed thinking behaves differently.

Borrowed thinking refuses to change.

Because the person holding it did not arrive there through reasoning.

They arrived there through imitation.

And imitation cannot surrender without humiliation.

Debating Fools

Debating fools can be dangerous.

Not intellectually dangerous.

Physically dangerous.

When someone has tied their pride to an opinion they cannot surrender it.

Even if the argument collapses.
Even if evidence disproves it.

Few people enjoy looking foolish.

So debate often turns into anger.

The Old Man offered simple advice:

“When a discussion stops being about truth and becomes about pride… run.”

The Information Age and the Fool

We live in the Information Age.

Knowledge is everywhere.

Yet foolishness has not disappeared.

If anything, it has multiplied.

Because misinformation spreads faster than truth.

Rumours travel instantly.
Conspiracy theories become belief systems overnight.

The Old Man once said something that startled everyone.

“Running your life on rumours, stereotypes and conspiracy theories is intellectual necromancy.”

Someone asked him what he meant.

“Necromancy is communicating with the dead,” he said.

“And rumours are dead ideas.”

A Final Thought From the Old Man

Civilizations do not collapse because of lack of information.

They collapse because people stop thinking.

When a society begins to prefer rumours over evidence…
noise over reason…
and pride over truth…

Then borrowed thinking becomes the norm.

And when borrowed thinking becomes the norm, civilization begins to decay.

The Old Man looked out of the Molue window and sighed.

Then he said quietly,

“The survival of civilization depends on thinking men.”

And with that, he came down from the Molue.

I rest.

Don Kenobi

#BigAgendaAfrica
#OldManInTheMolue

Saturday, March 7, 2026

Still on Lazy Theology: “God Sanctions Genocide?”

“God Sanctions Genocide”: A Sentence That Should Never Be Spoken

Don Kenobi reflects on LAZY THEOLOGY, genocide,

the Amalekites, and the Christian command to love enemies.

What happens when believers justify violence in God's name?

Those were the words I heard this morning.
7th March 2026. At a Pentecostal men’s fellowship.
And I thought to myself:
The lengths people will go to in order to silence their own consciences.

“God sanctions genocide,” he said.

Probably because the victims are people we have been carefully indoctrinated to hate.

Very well then.

What about the genocide of the Jews under Nazi Germany?
Did God sanction that too?

Ironically, the gentleman making this claim would likely be deeply offended if one were to suggest that the massacres carried out against his own tribe were sanctioned by God.

Of course not.

The devil sanctioned that one.

I suspect he would also reject the idea that God sanctioned the atrocities in the Belgian Congo. Or the German extermination of the Herero and Nama in Namibia. Or the brutalities carried out by British and French forces across parts of West Africa.

Why would he reject those?

Because he has not spent hours listening to propaganda portraying the Congolese, the Herero, the Nama, or West Africans as evil people deserving divine destruction.

But Gaza?
Muslims?

Those are different, apparently.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Where do we go from here?

Are we the salt — or the gall — of the earth?

Are we the light — or the poison — of the world?

The Damage of Lazy Theology

How do we undo the damage done by that lazy theology which has inoculated the hearts and minds of men and made empathy and compassion anathema?

Yet they still consider themselves believers.

Believers in what, exactly?

Is there not already enough gall in the world?
Enough hurt and pain and hatred and bitterness?

What is your belief in Christ for?

#DeepSigh

In this condition we become disturbingly similar to the servant Jesus himself called wicked — the one who buried his talent and justified his fear with these words:

“Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.”

When people in the twenty-first century — especially Africans — claim that God sanctions genocide, the killing of innocent men, women, and children, they are saying something very similar to that wicked servant.

They are saying, in effect:

“You are a hard master. You commit injustices. And because of that, I am afraid to challenge what is done in your name.”

In doing so they abdicate their moral responsibility as Christians.

Worse still, they spit on the graves of their own ancestors.

Such is the blindness that lazy theology — the mother of the prosperity gospel — brings to the table.

Negating the Lord’s Prayer

They unconsciously negate the very prayer Jesus taught his followers:

“Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

Instead it becomes something closer to the opposite:

“May Thy will not be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

Consider this.

If the Lord’s Prayer — taught by Jesus himself — is abandoned, what remains of Christianity worth practicing?

What is your belief in Christ for?

Salvation?

What salvation do you believe in if you break Christ’s second commandment — to love your neighbour as yourself?

You think I have not seen the videos of atrocities against Christians?

Of course I have.

But if you truly understood that the word Christian means Christ-like, and if you truly understood the nature of Christ, then you would be salt — not gall.

Light — not darkness.

#DeepSigh

Christianity Without a Cross

We are a generation shaped by at least five decades of false teaching.

A generation influenced by teachers who preached a Christ without a cross.
A Christ without love.
A Christ without sacrifice.

A Christ who rewarded only those who paid their tithes — not those who strove to be virtuous.

A Christianity of double-double blessings without burden.

The Amalekite Lesson

Now let’s talk about the Amalekites.

Yes, Scripture records that God sanctioned the destruction of the Amalekites.

But the context matters.

For centuries the Amalekites had pursued the destruction of the descendants of Jacob. Amalek himself was a descendant of Esau, and the hostility between the two peoples stretched across generations.

Even as the Israelites came out of captivity in Egypt, the Amalekites attacked them from behind — striking the stragglers: the weak, the old, the exhausted.

Generation after generation they carried forward the bitterness of their ancestor Esau toward Jacob.

Twenty generations later the hatred had not died.

For eight hundred years that hatred had been taught.
Nurtured.
Passed down.

A generation with no personal grievance inherited the animosity of their fathers and continued the war.

The Spirit of Amalek

Yet this ancient episode is now casually invoked to justify modern violence carried out in God’s name.

And those who do so forget something crucial.

In repeating inherited hatred against people they have never personally wronged, they are not escaping the spirit of Amalek.

They are continuing it.

And in continuing it, they perish.

As Scripture warns:

“They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved… therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false.”
(2 Thessalonians 2:9–12)

The Command Christians Cannot Ignore

When Jesus said in Matthew 5:44,

“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,”

he meant every word.

He was not joking.

If you cannot obey a commandment so clearly stated — so fundamental to his teaching — then I must ask that uncomfortable question again:

Why do you bother about Christ?

What exactly is your belief in Christ for?

You cannot pick and choose.

Luke 6:27 repeats the command:

“Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you.”

The command is clear.

The only question is whether we will obey it.

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

WardWatch | BigAgendaAfrica

WardWatch

by BigAgendaAfrica

Lagos Pilot: Eti-Osa, Ikorodu, Apapa

Every citizen is an observer of the republic.

Report problems in your ward, track government response, and help build Nigeria’s Big Agenda from the ground up.

Schools

Hospitals

Roads

Electricity

Security

Sanitation

Report an Issue (QO / QIR)

Step 1: Choose location

Select LGA and Ward. Keep it simple.

Step 2: Describe the issue

QO for observations, QIR for serious incidents.

Step 3: Add evidence

Photo optional, but it boosts credibility.

For launch: keep the form short. You can add a map, photo upload, and verification later.

Find My Ward Dashboard

Each ward page shows participation, reports, resolution rate, and response time. Make every ward link shareable.

Civic Scoreboard

Public rankings create pride, accountability, and friendly competition.

Rank	Ward	Citizens	Issues Reported	Resolved
1	Ikorodu, Ward B	122	86	21
2	Eti-Osa, Ward 4	97	63	19
3	Apapa, Ward 2	88	55	14

Make “Most Improved Ward” a weekly highlight. People will recruit friends to climb the table.

MyPolitifesto

A personal civic page where each citizen can track their QOs and QIRs, and follow issues raised by others.

Later, you can generate URLs like mypolitifesto.com/08012345678, or a secure ID-based link.

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Grace, and the Dangerous Illusion of Merit

Grace, and the Arrogance It Should Kill

If salvation is by grace alone, what justifies pride?

What did you do to deserve the Truth
while others remain in darkness?

Nothing?

Ahhh… Grace.

And yet you are so proud?

Pointing at other religions.
Telling them how wrong they are.

What are you doing?

What have you done with Grace?

Saved by Grace.
Not by brilliance.
Not by birth.
Not by effort.

But by Grace.

Why the pride?

Don Kenobi

#OldManInTheMolue | #MyFrancisEssays

Monday, February 23, 2026

Foxes In Waste Places – A Monologue

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Theologia Acediosa: How Lazy Theology Sanctifies Evil

How Theologia Acediosa
(Lazy Theology) Sanctifies Evil....

A reflection on 2 Thessalonians 2, the Lord’s Prayer, and how “God can use anyone” becomes dangerous when Christians sanctify evil.

God Can Use Anybody?

God can use anybody. But by making them devise evil? Go astray?

We need to pay more attention to this line in the Lord’s Prayer. It teaches more than we admit:

“Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

People choose their actions.
They act out of the condition of their hearts.

Where those actions are evil, and the victims are evil, read my lips, God stands by.

We find corroboration in 2 Thessalonians 2:9–12.

Those who already perish, already, who reject the truth that would have saved them, to them is sent a grand delusion so that they may believe a lie.

The Grand Delusion

I used to ask, why would the Lord send a grand delusion to those who already perish?

Let me try to explain.

Remember solving a quadratic equation. You worked through the rigor, arrived at the answer, and then underlined it. Not because the teacher needed help seeing it, but because you were saying, I know I am right. Give me full marks.

It appears the Lord allows a person to underline his erring ways in the same fashion. To present them back with swagger. To insist, This is truth.

That is not cruelty. That is justice meeting freedom.

It aligns with God’s nature: all love, all justice, yet all mercy.

Now imagine a man who already perishes. To whom that grand delusion comes, perhaps in the form of a political figure, a movement, an ideology. Imagine he pauses and says, “This is wrong.”

Has he not stepped back from the brink?
Has he not refused the lie?
Has he not been delivered from evil?

The delusion does not destroy him.
His rejection of the grand delusion delivers him from evil.

The Harder Truth

But here is the harder truth.

While we all know that a certain divisive figure devises evil and has clearly gone astray, we choose to sit ensconced, at rest, tucked safely in a cleft on the sides of the limestone mountain called Torpor Animi (Lazy Theology).

Spiritual sloth.
Comfort disguised as prudence.

We have no problem with the fact that though he needs salvation, we would rather it be delayed.

That though a part of his soul is diminished daily with every act of gratuitous wickedness, we are not bothered.

It serves our ends.
“He’s making our faith great again.”

It is thus acceptable to us that he stand in sin.
In the sight of God, for our sake.

A role he appears to relish. As any false messiah seeking to replace Jesus of Nazareth would.

The Deeper Danger

And here is the deeper danger.

While we pray, “Lead us not into temptation” for ourselves, we pray, “Lead him, O Lord, into further temptation” for the man of lawlessness.

We sanctify his going astray.

We whisper, God can use anyone.

True.

And you?

Can He not use you to redeem the times?
To plant tiny acorns of truth daily?
To defy and, like Daniel, boldly declare, Non Serviam?
I shall not serve. I shall not follow this falsehood.

God cannot use you for that?

Yes, God can use anyone. Anything. He is sovereign. YHWH. I Am That I Am.

But sovereignty does not excuse complicity.

“Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.”

Sometimes the evil is not only in the one who acts.

Sometimes it is in the one who watches, calculates, benefits, and calls it providence.

The Four Horsemen

The four horsemen of the apocalypse, it is Jesus who allows them.

Scripture is clear: it is the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who releases the four horsemen by breaking the first four of the seven seals on the scroll.

Each time a seal is broken, one of the four living creatures around God’s throne summons a horseman to bring judgment to the earth.

The first horseman, the one on the white horse, is a deceiver.

Wearing a stephanos, a crown he has done nothing to deserve.
Carrying a bow but no arrows. His lies, those are the arrows.

Now let us talk about the second horseman.
The one on the red horse.

In the Book of Revelation, the second horseman is given power to take peace from the earth.

Not to create righteousness.
Not to heal.
Not to reconcile.

To divide.

To make men turn against one another.

That is the spirit of the second horseman.

And here is the danger.

When we chant “God can use anybody” without discernment, we risk confusing sovereignty with endorsement.

Yes, God can use anybody.

But the second horseman is also used.

Used to reveal what is already in men’s hearts.
Used to expose allegiances.
Used to test whether we love truth or power.

And so the question is not whether God can use a divisive figure.

The question is whether we recognize the spirit at work.

Is peace being built?
Or is peace being removed?

Because the second horseman rides only where hearts are already ready for war.

We shall speak about the other two horsemen in due course, as the Spirit leads.

Brethren.

Do not be deceived.