Gail Riplinger causes James White to get his lunatic on again

What is it about Christian internet apologists and mental health? On the Romanist side you have Dave Armstrong who considers his collected blog posts to be more world historically important than the collected works of Luther and Calvin together; on the Protestant side you have James White, a man so immature and self-absorbed he's constantly in danger of putting his own eyes out with his swift and numerous self-references.

Here is his latest.

First of all, his fans know how he operates and what makes him happy. Do you think it's possible one of them made up a story that Riplinger's mail order operation wouldn't sell him a book because it was in care of James White? Anyway, James White is kind of a common name, no? Even with the added bit of information of Arizona, look in an Arizona phone book and there are probably scores upon scores of James Whites.

He also calls people who value the King James Bible a "blight on the church." Yes, on his church. The church of churchianity. The church of academic priests. Scholar priests. In White's case, scholars-wannabee? Yes, let's all follow the scholars who followed the furry characters of the 19th century who pulled off a massive downgrade on the Word of God. Right, as a born again Christian with discernment from the Holy Spirit Himself I am going to do that. OK.

And this disdain for Gail Riplinger. It is the exact equal of left-wing elitist disdain we see for Sarah Palin. They imagine the narrative then it becomes fact and reality in their heated, deranged minds. What it is (in both cases, really) is the chaotic lunatic hatred the unregenerate feel when confronted by one of God's own. And *confronted* is the key. How dare God's own confront the world. In this case how dare one of God's own confront the academic priesthood on their corrupt bible products. Their sacred playthings that get them honor in the world. You're not supposed to challenge them or point out the shallowness and the unbiblical nature of their worldly endeavor. You're suppose to be impressed with them and to thank them for *giving* you the very Word of God. All those Christians who actually passed on and defended with their very lives the pure and whole Word of God, they are kept silently out of the narrative.

Imagine with what 'scholarly' objectivity James White is now going to pour over Riplinger's latest book. They are so blinded with rage it's like expecting Keith Olbermann to assess fairly and accurately a Sarah Palin statement, or to expect a liberal publication to publish a photograph of her that actually looks like her. (Notice White does that with Riplinger too? In his videos against her he meticulously finds a frame of her putting her in the least attractive light. One was of her in the midst of a hand gesture that made it look like she was giving the finger to somebody. Imagine the glee James White felt when he came upon *that* frame! Oh, the joys of the priesthood of scholars...)

Notice this typical Romanist rhetoric in this sentence from his post: "Many simple believers have been troubled by their wild-eyed fanaticism." Yes, "simple believers" who need protection from the Magisteri-, oh, no, the clerical hierarch-, no, the priesthood of scholars! yes... If one were to type White he is a Jesuit operating along the classic counter-Reformation lines of attacking the Word of God and the authority of the Word of God so as to replace it with the word and authority of man. This was the main line of attack by the Jesuits during the counter-Reformation. White and other 'scholars' have picked up on it (channeled it perhaps unwittingly) as a matter of course of being driven by the spirit of disobedience which is the spirit of the devil. They need to humble themselves to God's Word, something they will never do as long as they see God's Word as something that needs them more than they need it.