Martinalian 🛸
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High church lowlife crafting Punchy Little Proverbs for fellow rank and file believers. If you haven’t heard of me, it’s not because I’ve been making myself invisible. 🤷 DMs open, learn more at https://pewpew.start.page
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Wilfred Owen thought "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" was The old Lie, but I know of of an even older one;
Semper solus eras
The old Liar wants you to believe nobody likes you, that you were always alone. The oldest lie, evil itself, isn't patriotism. It's isolation.
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Semper solus eras
The old Liar wants you to believe nobody likes you, that you were always alone. The oldest lie, evil itself, isn't patriotism. It's isolation.
#PunchyLittleProverb
The patristic misreading of #Cain stems from two theological commitments: the need for clear moral examples and anxiety about grace and #works.
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GruntGod 2.1.4: How the Church Got Cain Wrong
(And Why It Matters for Veterans)
The second edition of God Is a Grunt argues that Cain is the Bible's prototype for confession after moral injury—good news for combat veterans. But that's not how ...
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January 24, 2026 at 1:30 AM
The patristic misreading of #Cain stems from two theological commitments: the need for clear moral examples and anxiety about grace and #works.
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If you can’t see the light in this dark night, maybe it’s cuz you ARE the light.
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January 23, 2026 at 5:25 PM
If you can’t see the light in this dark night, maybe it’s cuz you ARE the light.
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Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .
January 22, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Funny how the right is outraged at Fanone flipping off a congressman just days after celebrating a president flipping off a working American .
Unbelievers idolize their dead for the same reason Americans idolize their soldiers; they’re used to silent validation of Their Old Lies.
“Saints,” to the earliest Christians, were fellow (living) believers, not puppets for preconceived propaganda.
“Saints,” to the earliest Christians, were fellow (living) believers, not puppets for preconceived propaganda.
January 23, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Unbelievers idolize their dead for the same reason Americans idolize their soldiers; they’re used to silent validation of Their Old Lies.
“Saints,” to the earliest Christians, were fellow (living) believers, not puppets for preconceived propaganda.
“Saints,” to the earliest Christians, were fellow (living) believers, not puppets for preconceived propaganda.
This is how you know “Paul” missed the point Joshua+ was tryna make; the outlier apostle sought the support (and validation) of the Entitled Few, but the original savior sought the simple company of the poor, uneducated masses.
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January 22, 2026 at 5:16 AM
This is how you know “Paul” missed the point Joshua+ was tryna make; the outlier apostle sought the support (and validation) of the Entitled Few, but the original savior sought the simple company of the poor, uneducated masses.
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To be a man (especially as a veteran) in America is often to be told you only have two settings: Silent or Off.
Real sadness is either prohibited or exploited, while righteous anger is either pathologized or weaponized.
Real sadness is either prohibited or exploited, while righteous anger is either pathologized or weaponized.
January 22, 2026 at 12:00 AM
To be a man (especially as a veteran) in America is often to be told you only have two settings: Silent or Off.
Real sadness is either prohibited or exploited, while righteous anger is either pathologized or weaponized.
Real sadness is either prohibited or exploited, while righteous anger is either pathologized or weaponized.
I must be a man of my word because I have claimed to be a man of The Word.
The moment I’m not, The Truth departs from me.
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The moment I’m not, The Truth departs from me.
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January 21, 2026 at 6:25 PM
I must be a man of my word because I have claimed to be a man of The Word.
The moment I’m not, The Truth departs from me.
#PunchyLittleProverb
The moment I’m not, The Truth departs from me.
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A Biblical imagination suggests you were born to inherit dignity from your ancestors. It’s Entitlement imagination that makes you believe you born for Privilege.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:35 AM
A Biblical imagination suggests you were born to inherit dignity from your ancestors. It’s Entitlement imagination that makes you believe you born for Privilege.
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Community is the virtuous mean between Private and Public.
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January 20, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Community is the virtuous mean between Private and Public.
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We have built a civil(ian) religion around the memory of #MartinLutherKingJr, complete with temples, feast days, and an elaborate priesthood (see below) tasked with protecting the saint from any whiff of the profane.
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January 19, 2026 at 7:04 PM
We have built a civil(ian) religion around the memory of #MartinLutherKingJr, complete with temples, feast days, and an elaborate priesthood (see below) tasked with protecting the saint from any whiff of the profane.
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Abernathy's crime was... insisting on King's humanity; the same flawed humanity we all share, with all its moral complexity and democratic possibility. He refused to participate in creating a political idol, even when that idol bore the face of his closest friend. pewpew.ghost.io/the-martyrdo...
The Martyrdom of Sergeant Ralph Abernathy
*Outlets that rejected this essay: 1. Outlets that ignored the pitch: 2
Every January, America performs its annual ritual of King veneration. We quote the Dream speech, invoke the arc of justice, a...
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January 19, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Abernathy's crime was... insisting on King's humanity; the same flawed humanity we all share, with all its moral complexity and democratic possibility. He refused to participate in creating a political idol, even when that idol bore the face of his closest friend. pewpew.ghost.io/the-martyrdo...
The Hebrew Bible reveals moral coherency through a pattern of elevating the lowest to positions of significance; not because of their strength, but because God chooses them first. David didn't slay Goliath to earn kingship. pewpew.ghost.io/epiphany-2/
😇 Epiphany 2
Readings: 📜Isaiah 49:1-7; 🎶Psalm 40:1-11; ✉️1 Corinthians 1:1-9; 🦅John 1:29-42. For full, free access, see pewpewhq.com/tfw/a-e02.
From the TRNG Room:
* How to Read Scripture Like You’re Still in t...
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January 19, 2026 at 5:40 AM
The Hebrew Bible reveals moral coherency through a pattern of elevating the lowest to positions of significance; not because of their strength, but because God chooses them first. David didn't slay Goliath to earn kingship. pewpew.ghost.io/epiphany-2/
You can hold more in a cupped hand than in a closed fist.
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January 18, 2026 at 7:34 PM
You can hold more in a cupped hand than in a closed fist.
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The promise of land in #Torah was the promise of a free country: a free people living in harmony with all creation.
The second you think you’re owed that, it’s become Entitlement religion.
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The second you think you’re owed that, it’s become Entitlement religion.
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January 18, 2026 at 5:58 PM
The promise of land in #Torah was the promise of a free country: a free people living in harmony with all creation.
The second you think you’re owed that, it’s become Entitlement religion.
#PunchyLittleProverb
The second you think you’re owed that, it’s become Entitlement religion.
#PunchyLittleProverb
A corrupted file doesn't have the power to unmake God's operating system, only make it glitchy AF.
#Church was never supposed to stop supporting anyone's operating systems, but if yours has, then you can always install the upgrade yourself because #faith is open source software.
#Church was never supposed to stop supporting anyone's operating systems, but if yours has, then you can always install the upgrade yourself because #faith is open source software.
GruntGod 2.1.2: Imago Dei and the Grunt
Why Genesis Says You're Good
Revising the Cain chapter for God Is a Grunt (2nd edition) required aggressive cutting of exegetical material to keep the book centered on military families rather than...
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January 17, 2026 at 6:43 PM
It’s not hubris if someone else asks you to do it… 🤷
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January 17, 2026 at 3:10 AM
It’s not hubris if someone else asks you to do it… 🤷
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Love is the Golden Mean between Fear and Hope.
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January 17, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Love is the Golden Mean between Fear and Hope.
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If you need “god” to mean some aged sky-father, that’s fine by me, I’m not here to kill that old king-of-the-stars.
But what I AM here to do is take his hands off my Neighbors” throat.
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But what I AM here to do is take his hands off my Neighbors” throat.
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January 17, 2026 at 2:36 AM
If you need “god” to mean some aged sky-father, that’s fine by me, I’m not here to kill that old king-of-the-stars.
But what I AM here to do is take his hands off my Neighbors” throat.
#PunchyLittleProverb
But what I AM here to do is take his hands off my Neighbors” throat.
#PunchyLittleProverb
Stereotypes are fixed plates that refuse to accommodate reality: Vietnam veterans who served honorably; Iraq veterans who aren't traumatized.
If you want to know what someone has experienced, ask them; not your precast assumptions about their demographic category.
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If you want to know what someone has experienced, ask them; not your precast assumptions about their demographic category.
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GruntGod 2.1.1: From Printing Press to PTSD
The Etymology of "Stereotype"
I'm deep in revisions for the second edition of God Is a Grunt, systematically working through each chapter to sharpen the hagiographic method while keeping the book a...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Stereotypes are fixed plates that refuse to accommodate reality: Vietnam veterans who served honorably; Iraq veterans who aren't traumatized.
If you want to know what someone has experienced, ask them; not your precast assumptions about their demographic category.
pewpew.ghost.io/gruntgod-2-1...
If you want to know what someone has experienced, ask them; not your precast assumptions about their demographic category.
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You can’t have national security when the nation is run by the insecurity of an Entitled few.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:49 AM
You can’t have national security when the nation is run by the insecurity of an Entitled few.
#PunchyLittleProverb
#PunchyLittleProverb
Civilian Theology demands sacrificial soldier-victims be manageable—grateful for "support," quiet about injuries, cooperative. But if God is a goat, grunts don't have to play lamb.
In other words, the silent, stoic charade is unnecessary.
In other words, the silent, stoic charade is unnecessary.
GruntGod 2.2.4: From Lamb to GOAT
Why the New Testament Gets Sacrifice Wrong
Christians love the "Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). It's beautiful imagery—pure, innocent, meek Jesus. There's one problem:...
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January 15, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Civilian Theology demands sacrificial soldier-victims be manageable—grateful for "support," quiet about injuries, cooperative. But if God is a goat, grunts don't have to play lamb.
In other words, the silent, stoic charade is unnecessary.
In other words, the silent, stoic charade is unnecessary.
Beware anyone who assumes they’re always the host.
Best learn how to be an hospitable guest, bc that’s what we all are in the House of God.
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Best learn how to be an hospitable guest, bc that’s what we all are in the House of God.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Beware anyone who assumes they’re always the host.
Best learn how to be an hospitable guest, bc that’s what we all are in the House of God.
#PunchyLittleProverb
Best learn how to be an hospitable guest, bc that’s what we all are in the House of God.
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Opinions are like feelings; they cannot be proven, they can only be held.
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January 15, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Opinions are like feelings; they cannot be proven, they can only be held.
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YHWH is the Cataclysmic Savior.
If you have no corruption to destroy, Joshua+ might not feel like much of a threat.
But if you’ve accumulated a lot of ill-gotten gains stored away like tomorrow’s mana..! You be sweatin’ 😥😬
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If you have no corruption to destroy, Joshua+ might not feel like much of a threat.
But if you’ve accumulated a lot of ill-gotten gains stored away like tomorrow’s mana..! You be sweatin’ 😥😬
#PunchyLittleProverb
January 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
YHWH is the Cataclysmic Savior.
If you have no corruption to destroy, Joshua+ might not feel like much of a threat.
But if you’ve accumulated a lot of ill-gotten gains stored away like tomorrow’s mana..! You be sweatin’ 😥😬
#PunchyLittleProverb
If you have no corruption to destroy, Joshua+ might not feel like much of a threat.
But if you’ve accumulated a lot of ill-gotten gains stored away like tomorrow’s mana..! You be sweatin’ 😥😬
#PunchyLittleProverb
MilSpouse @esaumccaulley.bsky.social, of @nytimes.com and @holypostmedia.bsky.social, built a career showing how #Black voices have been excluded from theological interpretation.
I asked him to see the same with #military voices.
He saw it and chose not to engage. pewpew.ghost.io/when-fellow-...
I asked him to see the same with #military voices.
He saw it and chose not to engage. pewpew.ghost.io/when-fellow-...
When Fellow Military Families Choose Silence
In 2014, my partner babysat Esau McCaulley's children in Scotland so he and his wife (a Navy Reserve medical officer) could work and teach. When Esau organized a prayer vigil after Mike Brown's murder...
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January 15, 2026 at 5:50 AM
MilSpouse @esaumccaulley.bsky.social, of @nytimes.com and @holypostmedia.bsky.social, built a career showing how #Black voices have been excluded from theological interpretation.
I asked him to see the same with #military voices.
He saw it and chose not to engage. pewpew.ghost.io/when-fellow-...
I asked him to see the same with #military voices.
He saw it and chose not to engage. pewpew.ghost.io/when-fellow-...