Tag Archives: Batman

Why Pilgrim’s Progress is Better Than The Sequel: Part The Third

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Awry Stoic

This is an outline of why Pilgrim’s Progress is better than the sequel. The sequel even features a bodyguard who as Pastor Bennett stated, is the allegorical equivalent of Arnold Schwarzenegger (or at least an 80’s action hero) who is … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Why Pilgrim’s Progress is Better Than The Sequel: Part The Second

Posted on February 4, 2024 by Awry Stoic

Conflict is the engine of fiction. . . . The more hopeless you can render the situation, the more powerful your ending will be. — Jerry B. Jenkins[1] A life without tests and challenges is a life without growth and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The Wages of Sin Is Death and The Debts of Orthodoxy are Heresy

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Awry Stoic

The seesaw of Docetism is that whenever Christ’s humanity and divinity are not balanced, heresy will result, and this will have an effect on how sanctification is viewed. If the humanity side of the seesaw is overleaned on, Arminianism results, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Projecting Feeling as Thought

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Awry Stoic

Jeremiads teach us the impermanence and misguiding of emotions through a false filter as shown by Amusing Ourselves to Death and the Screwtape Letters. My father valued Spiritual emotions as one of the greatest and most important books he ever … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Rotting Fruits of the Spirit: Pride and Joy

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Awry Stoic

Using wisdom to weigh the objects of supposed joy may be more important than you think. Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

When Anger is a Fruit of the Spirit: The Anger of Joyful Thankfulness

Posted on April 29, 2020 by Awry Stoic

According to Ephesians 4:26, and Proverbs 8:13, anger is indifferent, and can only be good or bad based on its object. It can be the fruit of the spirit, or the fruit of the flesh. To not be angry at … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 9 Comments

The Abolition of Batman: Joker Colored Christmas Lights

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Awry Stoic

The abolition of man has consequences in art, especially art pertaining to the incarnation of Christ. Like man, many symbolic artefacts employed in present-day celebration of Christmas that formerly were more archetypal in nature. Icons are smashed and combined with … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

The Abolition of Batman: Part the First

Posted on December 22, 2019 by Awry Stoic

An introductory psychology textbook defines the term archetype: “A universal idea, image, or pattern found in the collective unconscious.”[1] C. S. Lewis defines the Tao as a kind of universal standard created or manifested by God that exists outside the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 4 Comments