A guy left a post on Dalrock’s illustrating a trap that MGTOWs can easily fall into:

“I.m in a rough way right now….I where I work and live (a Salvation Army run facility for low income senior citizens) gently “ordered” me that I had to work the whole weekend as the staff on duty. I have worked the past five Christmas holdays. The past six Thanksgiving holidays. I even returned from my backpacking trek in June on July 1st and had to work the whole four day holiday weekend. I have worked Easter / Good Friday since 2011.

I am always told “but I have children” and .you.ll understand when God brings you a wife someday. or .i have relatives coming from out of town with their kids.

The mission statement for employees here is: Family first

I don’t have one. Therefore I am the guy who always has to work on holiday weekends. I take it in stride as a “good soldier should” but I am feeling like a chump more and more.”

That is chumphood. No offense, friend, I’ve been there myself, but the plain fact is that if you don’t respect your own time then nobody else will either. Similarly, if you think their free time is more important than yours just because they have a family then you’re hating yourself.

You’re facing burnout. They’re slacking off. Nobody is winning.

If you don’t want to work a holiday then tell them no, you don’t want to work that holiday. It’s that simple. You owe them nothing. They are not God. God will not disapprove of you cutting back to one holiday in three or four, as if He needs help to keep the world spinning.

And funny thing, your married peers will respect you more for doing it. They won’t take you for granted. They’ll be more grateful when you do show up… and if not, then you need to cut those slavers loose.

The entire reason MGTOW is a thing is because the two-way street called society has broken down. The demands never stop, the rewards never come. Not with women, not with work, not with church, not with government. In order to be a proper MGTOW, you must push back. Refuse the demands. Insist upon rewards. If they won’t treat you as their peer then walk away.

In my case, I once tried to invest heavily in a church. It was at risk of feminization but had managed to impress me, so I tried to ingratiate myself to the leadership. I volunteered for duties. I served as an assistant Scout leader. I donated to missionaries. I even enrolled in a correspondence seminary, hoping that a low-level certification as a clergyman would impress Pastor enough that he would heed my warnings and advice concerning feminism.

What. A. Waste. Of. ME.

I grew weary of my duties and was swiftly replaced with teenagers. I, a highly skilled professional and supervisor during the work week, was no more useful to Pastor than a kid whose parents forced him to attend church. Pastor treated me accordingly.

As an assistant Scout leader, I quickly realized one of the kids was so badly behaved that he was ruining the entire group. He was bringing pornography into church and making false accusations against me and others. Absolutely unacceptable. Getting him banned took far more effort than it should have and a couple months later, he showed up again and was allowed to stay despite the ban. That’s how much power the church trusted me with: none.

The missionaries I donated to? Feminists.

And one class before finishing the seminary certification, Pastor made the decision to install a female pastor into formal Church authority teaching the men. Black-and-white Original Sin. I had an e-mail discussion with him. My concerns mattered nothing. I’d failed to impress him with all my efforts. I asked around the other church leaders, looking for support that women teaching men was evil. Nobody thought my opinion legitimate. Two years of determined, sacrificial effort and all of the leaders had no more respect for me than the day I walked in the door. If they ever missed me after I subsequently left, they never said so.

I regret every kindness and support I ever gave them.

To close in the spirit of Easter, let me point out that Jesus was not a martyr. He was a merchant. Christ purchased us with His sacrifice.

Revelation 5:9: “And they sang a new song, saying: .You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation.”

2 Corinthians 6:16: “What agreement is there between the temple of Godand idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: .I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people..

Christ did not go to the Cross for no reward. Neither should you suffer for no reward.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article195434409.html

The state’s top cop issued a warning to California employers Thursday that businesses face legal repercussions, including fines up to $10,000, if they assist federal immigration authorities with a potential widespread immigration crackdown.

.It.s important, given these rumors that are out there, to let people know . more specifically today, employers . that if they voluntarily start giving up information about their employees or access to their employees in ways that contradict our new California laws, they subject themselves to actions by my office,. state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said at a news conference. .We will prosecute those who violate the law.. …

Authored by San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu, the [Immigrant Worker Protection Act will]:

. Requires employers to ask immigration agents for a warrant before granting access to a worksite.

. Prevents employers from voluntarily sharing confidential employee information without a subpoena.

. Requires employers to notify their workers before a federal audit of employee records.

. Gives the attorney general and labor commissioner exclusive authority to enforce new provisions of state labor laws.

Prohibits employers from re-verifying information on employment verification forms, unless compelled to by federal law.

Let that sink in. The California government is PUNISHING voluntary cooperation with the Federal government.

Meanwhile….

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article195683679.html

A Republican candidate for California governor said Friday that employers should help federal authorities conducting immigration raids and defy the state attorney general who says a new state law restricts such voluntary cooperation.

Travis Allen, an assemblyman from Huntington Beach, said Attorney General Xavier Becerra.s warnings of prosecution and fines for voluntarily cooperating with the U.S. government were so egregious that federal officials should consider bringing charges of their own against the Democratic official.

.To have the attorney general of California use California businesses as pawns in his ongoing war with the White House is not just wrong, it’s illegal,. Allen said in a Friday interview. .This is textbook criminal obstruction of justice and he should be prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice..

FINALLY, for God’s sake, a California Republican finally accuses a Democrat criminal of being a criminal. Maybe this Travis Allen isn’t controlled opposition. Then again, maybe it’s just midterm season. It’s Sessions who needs to file the obstruction of justice warrant and he isn’t doing it.

Interesting times, baby.

I delayed this post in order to document the fallout.

http://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/16/los-alamitos-might-challenge-state-over-sanctuary-law/

Los Alamitos might try to opt out of California’s new sanctuary law.

The City Council in Orange County’s second-smallest city is scheduled to vote Monday, March 19 on an ordinance that calls for exempting itself from the California Values Act, SB54, a new law that limits cooperation between law enforcement and immigration authorities.

The state law, which took effect Jan. 1, .may be in direct conflict with federal laws and the Constitution of the United States,. reads the proposed local law.

Stating that council members have taken an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, the ordinance says the council “finds that it is impossible to honor our oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States” and at the same time be in compliance with the new state law.

Well, well. It’s a tiny place but finally, a bit of pushback against an open declaration of treason against the Federal Government of the United States.

THEY PASSED IT! AND THE STONE IS ROLLING!

https://www.ocregister.com/2018/03/20/anti-sanctuary-push-could-spread-far-beyond-los-alamitos-2/

The County of Orange and several cities in Southern California soon might join Los Alamitos in its bid to opt out of a controversial state law that limits cooperation with federal immigration officials.

Officials with the county as well as leaders in Aliso Viejo and Buena Park said Tuesday they plan to push for various versions of the anti-sanctuary ordinance approved in Los Alamitos late Monday by a 4-1 vote of that city council.

.There’s a pretty good amount of cities interested and they want to know about the process,. said Los Alamitos Mayor Troy Edgar, who spent Tuesday fielding calls and e-mails from officials in other cities and others interested in the push. …

Orange County Supervisor Michelle Steel soon plans to introduce an opt-out ordinance to the county Board of Supervisors, her spokeswoman said in an e-mail. …

In Aliso Viejo, Mayor Dave Harrington said his council plans to discuss similar action at its April 4 meeting. …

Buena Park Councilwoman Beth Swift said she plans to request at the next council meeting for the issue to be placed on a future agenda for discussion.

Robin Hvidston, executive director of the Claremont-based We the People Rising, said she has heard from residents in Upland and Fullerton who want to approach their councils to suggest the same.

Another city that had been discussing something similar, even before Los Alamitos. vote, is Huntington Beach, according to Assemblyman Travis Allen, a Republican who represents both Huntington Beach and Los Alamitos.

So, what does it take to push back against illegal immigration and the traitors who prosper from it?

More than half of Los Alamitos. 11,700 residents are white and about 2,700 are Latino, according to census data. The median household income is close to $81,000.

My additional research:

Buena Park, 25% white, median household income $70k, 45% English-speaking, 37% foreign-born

Aliso Viejo, 61% white, $103k, 72% English, 21% foreigner

Huntington Beach, 64% white, $85k, 78% English, 17% foreigner

Fullerton, 34% white, $67k, 53% English, 32% foreigner

Claremont: 53% white, $94k, 71% English, 19% foreigner

The obviously consistent statistic is the median household income is well above the national average of $55k. This should be partly attributed to California having a higher cost of living but even so, it’s significant. It’s also notable that English-speakers are 20 points higher than white demographics, indicating Latinos who successfully assimilate into the American way of life (enough to at least communicate).

Some other cities for comparison:

Pico Rivera, recently covered here and next to Kevin De Leon’s area: 6% white, 57k, 29% English-speaking, 32% foreign-born

Paso Robles, wine country: 56% white, $62k, 70% English, 18% foreigner

Bakersfield, central valley: 35% white, $59k, 59% English, 19% foreigner

Oakland: 27% white, $58k, 60% English, 27% foreigner

Redding in the Land of Jefferson: 79% white, $45k, 90% English, 6% foreigner

Demographics taken from neighborhoodscout.com.

In a post on climate change activism, Fabius Maximus asks an age-old question: “When will activists learn?”

http://fabiusmaximus.com/2018/03/22/roger-pielke-jr-climate-policy-debate/

My answer: the activists already know they’re wrong. They’re outright lying about climate change. They lie because it justifies what they want to accomplish, generally totalitarian government control of society. When this lie stops working, they’ll invent a new lie and keep going. That is The Narrative in a nutshell.

At the time he made his famous movie, Al “Inconvenient Truth” Gore owned four mansions and three private jets. There are dictators of banana republics with smaller carbon footprints. He knew he was a hypocrite preaching lies. He didn’t care because he was winning, because the movie was profitable and popular.

You can’t win by proving these people wrong. You can only win by proving they’re Evil. Prove them wrong and they’ll either ignore you if the lie still works or change to a different lie if it doesn’t. Just like “climate change” used to be “global warming”.

Prove them Evil and then they can’t get away with any lies. But once you get people thinking about Good & Evil, well, that’s a problem if you are not very Good yourself. The Republican who get elected by mortgaging some of his soul isn’t going to confront a Democrat for mortgaging all of hers. Instead, he’ll find a way to defeat his opponent without daring to even say why she needs to be defeated in the first place. Good vs. Evil slouches into Us vs. Them because nobody cares to be too honest.

This is how Satan does business. Everybody is partially Evil and therefore unwilling to expose worse Evil. The darkness hates the light.

To expose the Evil in this world, one must first confront the Evil in himself. Then he can denounce other people’s Evil with integrity, having made peace with Good. That is, with God. The light hates the darkness.

This is every man’s fate. Light or Dark. Heaven or Hell. Either the one single Truth or any of ten million Lies. Compared to this choice of final destination, worldly success is meaningless.

This is why exposing the deeds of wicked men works. It honors Christ, thwarts Satan and forces humans to pick a side already.

For my 101st blog post, I challenge Glosoli to a debate on whether God approves of polygamy and, optionally, whether I am a modern-day Pharisee. This sort of thing is how we Protestants do business so rest assured, it’ll be a fair debate. After all, if you’re right then I can get lots more sex than I do right now.

http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2018/03/16/why-game-is-a-threat-to-our-values/#comment-262768

Awaiting your convenience.

White people made a mistake. When we saw other races adopting our principles of individualism, self-determination and free speech, we thought we were uplifting them. That they were embracing an obviously, objectively better way to live than the politics of greed and Us vs Them and licking Massa’s boot heel.

What was actually happening: they embraced our freedom and opportunity because they were weak, therefore willing to accept whatever treatment we gave them. It just happened to be good treatment. We had the power and that meant we were the masters, and they embraced freedom & indoor plumbing only because we ordered them to.

As nonwhites seized (were given) the reins of power over previously white-ordered societies, turns out they can’t loot, marginalize and even kill us whites fast enough. We never actually uplifted them. They just did as we told while biding their time until they got their turn. They didn’t realize or care that we were tying to help. That their squalor and senseless violence upset us so much that at our own expense, we would show and teach a better way to live. It never occurred to them that we were being kind.

And so, when White Man sat back and let them show the virtue, honor and concern for others that we’d spent decades of Manifest Destiny and centuries of example beating into them, they shanked us in the back and hissed “my turn, white boy”. From Zimbabwe and South Africa to Sweden and UK to California and Canada, everywhere whites have lost control of our governments, we’ve been targeted for looting and… disposal.

Whites must control the government at all times, exclusively. This is for our protection, because we are a generally kind and free race in a world that loathes the concepts. We must hold an iron grip on power everywhere we live as the primary condition for our continued existence. At least in Current Year.

And the strange thing is, the other races want this. Whites are nobody’s first choice of rulers (everybody wants to rule themselves) but we’re everybody’s second choice because they know we don’t play identity politics. We don’t have a racial compulsion to exploit others just because we can. The lesser races appreciate that even as they try to exploit that. What a fucked-up, feminine world this is.

My apologies to the Talented Tenth, that small percentage of nonwhites that actually learned what we taught and are therefore trustworthy and productive folks. It’s not about you and you won’t be worse off in my ideal world. Because unlike your ethnic group, mine doesn’t care for ethnic cleansing.

My people aren’t like your people. That’s why we must be the ones to rule.

It is not possible to understand or solve modern troubles without resorting to Christianity. The war we fight is religious; the battles, symbolic and in the mathematical sense, functional.

God’s Plan: God created Man to keep Him company, then created Woman to keep Man company. God->Man->Woman

The Fall: Woman rebelled against God, then Man changed loyalties from God to Woman. Devil->Woman->Man

All human societies throughout history have existed on a continuum between these two poles. Mostly on the Fallen side; endless warlords, cronies and God-Emperors commanding legions of disposable male slaves. But on rare occasions, we’ve seen the flipside: men regarding each other as peers, government serving instead of oppressing.

Servile government happens most often when government is nonexistent, which explains the desire of many Manospherians for a tribal existence: if the chief gets too obnoxious then regime change is only a headshot away. Ignoring that, good governments happened most often when many governments competed against each other. The example here is Europe vs China. Europe’s broken geography made governments sending armies against each other difficult while allowing for migration of outcasts and dissidents. A selection of societies forced governments to have at least a passing concern for the welfare of their people, measurable in technological progress and actual social experimentation. (Not the ‘experiments’ of exterminating fatherhood to foment rebellion against Father God.)

By contrast, China and central Asia had massive tracts of level ground, ideal for military conquest. The result: China is the oldest nation, at least as old as Egypt, and historically among the least innovative. It’s no coincidence both that the Chinese people lacked alternative governments and the traditional Chinese diet includes dogs, grass and almost anything even partially edible. Oppression was that common.

The most “Chinese” society was the Tower of Babel, where humanity unified in rebellion against God. God thwarted the rebellion by confusing human language. With groups of humans unable to cooperate, the humanist project of the Tower fell apart. Ever since, humanity has been in a spiritual “Europe” situation, allowing us to slowly, painfully crawl towards the light of moral truth.

Thanks to modern telecommunications, however, the safeguards God imposed at the Tower of Babel have been undone. The world is increasingly united and not coincidentally, united in rebellion against God. “China” syndrome.

Every secular leader at every level of government of every nation in the West pushes feminism and nonwhite immigration.

Every clergyman in every church of every denomination of every branch of Christianity is eager to please women and blame men.

In the workplace, every innovation and new development is to enable women to be as good as a man… when not centralizing information and power into the hands of Elites.

Society is not a huge collection of human molecules in Brownian motion being acted upon by outside or random forces. We have hardwired behaviors and the moral hardwiring is faulty. Society is a group’s position on the continuum between Heaven and Hell, a position determined by how well that society’s infrastructure acknowledges and corrects that faultiness.

There is no solution to humanity’s marital problems and their consequences outside of Christianity. There appear to be secular solutions in smaller societies because individual leaders may be Christian or at least, advanced enough towards the Christian end of the continuum to force people to act against their id. The larger the collection of leaders, indeed, the larger of any collection of humanity, the more humanity will regress to its id.

When society is just you on a deserted island, what your society believes about God doesn’t have deep implications. When society is the entire world united through technology and common language, it will only be ruled by either Christ or Satan. Mediocre gods of varying moral utility will give way to either Right or Wrong as surely as building a bridge allows less tolerance for error the farther it must span.

Because Original Sin is the central fault of the human soul, Wrong looks like a handful of devils lording over vast harems of women and disposing of male life with a gleeful lust for death and destruction… and the male slaves themselves reject that God ever meant them to be free.

This is our fate because humanity has united into the greatest single society ever and we have no alternative.

Famous journalist Bernard Goldberg wrote a book, “Bias”, about how he accidentally destroyed his career in a single act of admitting that the mainstream media had a left-leaning political bias. He wrote a letter to the editor of, I recall, the WSJ, thinking that it was a worthy discussion to have. Goldberg himself was not opposed to the bias–Jewish CBS news anchor, go figure–but he was honest enough to wonder if the truth might be getting skewed too much.

In the book, he recounts bringing the letter up in conversation pre-publication with his friend Dan Rather. Per Goldberg, Rather’s immediate reaction was, quote, “THAT’S LIKE RAPING MY WIFE AND KIDNAPPING MY KIDS!”, end quote. Friendship dead.

Publicly admitting that CBS had a soft spot for liberals was like raping his wife and kidnapping his kids. Goldberg’s other superiors were similarly intolerant and he was quickly fired.

Now, both Goldberg and Rather were hard Leftists. When presented with the truth “Big Media is biased liberal”, however, Goldberg stopped to think about it and Rather went ballistic.

That’s a world of difference.

We can make a litmus test out of this. Many, oh so many people are wrong today about very important matters. But are they ignorant or evil? Is there any chance you can reach them? You need a quick sorting rule, a test to see if a particular guy is worth your effort.

Tell them that their beliefs are wrong. Just a simple statement. “Tradcon, it’s the women who are to blame for men’s bad behavior. Mr. Liberal, socialist healthcare is bankrupt everywhere it’s been tried.” If they stop and think about what you say then they’re reachable. If they refuse outright, and especially if they go ad hominem, put them on your personal Defarge list and save yourself the effort of giving them a clue.

That’s the Goldberg test.

The book “Bias” is worth reading. The content is nothing new for the Red-Pilled but it’s a recounting of the “early days” of social justice activism, when the Left’s monopoly on American awareness of the outside world began to crack. Also, a heartwarming story of how an honest Leftoid was backstabbed by his own, recovered in masculine fashion and ultimately reinvented himself to be an honest Man.

Virginia congressional Democratic candidate Karen Mallard thought a good publicity stunt would be cutting up one of those dangerous, evil “assault rifles” and posting it on youTube.

What you just saw is Mallard violating Virginia’s Sawed-Off Shotgun and Sawed-Off Rifle Act, a felony. The ATF is already investigating her. There’s so many gun laws on the books, Karen, you can’t even dispose of one without seeking legal advice, now can you? So what if you didn’t INTEND to commit a felony? Ignorance of the law is no defense! Suck it, Barbie! Suck it hard! Drink your own bitter poison! HA HA HAAA!

ATF, if you stick the charge to that frumpy feminazi then I’ll vote for you to replace the FBI when it gets shut down as soon as Comey begins singing like a jailbird who just dropped his soap. You know Trump is looking for a few good replacement lawmen these days….

Contrary to frequently voiced opinions in the Manosphere, antidepressants and Ritalin-style drugs do not cause psychotic and/or violent behavior. This came up most recently in the latest Florida school shooting but has been a long-running source of hysteria.

Antidepressants are emotional crutches. The reason so many school shooters and other social failures are on them at the time they snap is because their lives were already so messed up that they needed the chemical crutch, usually because of fatherlessness. The reason psychiatrists prescribe antidepressants so easily is because they can’t prescribe a father. It’s that simple. Even the substitute fathers like Boy Scouts and military service are gone, strangled by feminism. What then should a shrink do when he’s asked to treat a boy starting adolescence with the entire world sabotaging him left and right? There isn’t much he is able to do beyond offering drugs that will make life somewhat easier to face.

Ritalin is undeniably abused by tyrannical parents and school officials. However, they prescribe it to pacify the boys, not inflame them towards murder. Why would oppressive authorities try to control a difficult boy by giving him drugs that would make him more uncontrollable? Just because it’s a variant of amphetamine doesn’t make it crystal meth.

If drugs were causing this violence then the perpetrators would be remorseful afterwards, like a drunkard who wakes up in a jail cell to discover he killed a pedestrian while driving home from the bar last night.

Blaming the drugs is not only misplaced, it distracts from the central causes of rebellious youth. Namely, fatherlessness, a disgustingly corrupt culture, his-fault frivorce destroying fathers, hatred of men, a economy dying under the weight of parasites and women choosing to raise kids without a father. Put the blame where it belongs, upon women and the men who white-knight for them.

Here’s a news story that understandably didn’t make lamestream headlines. You need to read the entire thing; this is actual investigative journalism.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-15/a-chinese-company-has-conquered-a-piece-of-america

Also http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/07/chinese-casino-penalized-14-million-for-smuggling-workers-saipan/

Excerpt:

Dr. Marty Rohringer was ending a graveyard shift at the lone hospital on Saipan, the exceptionally remote U.S. island, when four Chinese men arrived with a body.

The figure they had with them.a middle-aged man, also Chinese, naked but for his underwear.was unresponsive, and had clearly suffered severe trauma. As an orderly lifted him onto a gurney, the four men indicated in broken English that he had fallen from a hotel-room balcony.

Rohringer began to evaluate the man under the ER.s harsh fluorescent lights. His skin was pallid and turning blue, and it was obvious that he could not be revived. One of the men who.d arrived with the body started to mime chest compressions: Was there really nothing to be done? Rohringer pronounced the man dead just before 8 a.m. on March 22, 2017. Already, the medical staff suspected that the story of his fall was a lie.

The hospital had been inundated with patients from a construction site a few blocks away on this speck of rock among the Northern Mariana Islands, in the deepest part of the Pacific. To get a sense of Saipan’s isolation from the Lower 48, imagine flying from Denver to Honolulu. Then fly that far again. Then go farther still. Saipan (population 48,000) is nevertheless American soil, with U.S. dollars, U.S. mail, and U.S. laws. But the place has seemed less and less like America since 2014, when a Chinese casino operator arrived and.with near-total impunity.turned Saipan into a back door to the U.S. financial system.

At a temporary storefront, the company, Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd., was somehow handling more than $2 billion a month in VIP bets. And at the construction site, it was building a gargantuan casino with a crew of hundreds of Chinese, scores of them working illegally on tourist visas. So many laborers were getting hurt that Rohringer’s colleagues began keeping an unofficial spreadsheet, separate from standard hospital records: a grim catalog of broken bones, lacerations, puncture wounds, dislocated limbs, and eyes penetrated by flying metal. The dead man Rohringer saw was not, of course, a tourist who.d stumbled over a railing.he was a builder named Hu Yuanyou, and he’d plummeted from a scaffold. His colleagues hadn’t called 911; instead, they.d pulled the work clothes off his broken body in a clumsy attempt to obscure his identity. The less that outsiders learned about the casino, the better.

Hu died building what’s become, on paper, the most successful gambling operation in history. In the first half of 2017, table for table, Imperial Pacific turned over nearly six times more cash than the fanciest gaming facilities in Macau, which themselves dwarf the activity in Las Vegas. And that was before Imperial Pacific opened its lavish megacasino in July. …

Even before ground was broken at the construction site, [Imperial Pacific] got permission to open a temporary casino across the street, in a duty-free mall. It was a ho-hum space, the size of a suburban Olive Garden. Yet in its first three months after opening in November 2015, VIP bets totaled $5.3 billion, across fewer than 20 tables.

To aid its efforts in laundering Chinese money, specifically getting it out of the country where the Communist government couldn’t confiscate it, Imperial Pacific enlisted the following people to help it circumvent American legislation and oversight:

David Paterson, former governor of New York

Haley Barbour, former governor of Mississippi

Ed Rendell, former governor of Pennsylvania

Mark Brown, previously ran Donald Trump’s casino empire

Louis Freeh, former FBI director

James Woolsey, former CIA director

Eugene Sullivan, a retired military judge

JT asks about the origin of “Priesthood of the Believer”. That’s a good question because at first glance, it’s a doctrine that would make for a very confused Church.

I personally agree with Syndrome but hold that thought. Officially, the reason for the principle is 1 Peter 2:4-9:

And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. For this is contained in Scripture:

.Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious corner stone,
And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed..

This precious value, then, is for you who believe; but for those who disbelieve,

.The stone which the builders rejected,
This became the very corner stone,.

and, .A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.; for they stumble because they are disobedient to the word, and to this doom they were also appointed.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; for you once were not a people, but now you are the people of God; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Building on that, priests are defined by several traits:

1. Direct access to God. Ephesians 3:12, This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which [God] carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him. Also, the tearing of the curtain in the Temple at the moment of Christ’s death.

2. Offer sacrifices. Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

3. Mediate between God and men. Most of everything the Apostles said and did and told us to do.

Lastly, before the time of Christ the Holy Spirit was only given to selected members of society, chiefly Judges, Levites and prophets. But in NT times, the Holy Spirit is given to all believers. Christ declared this in John 14, it was realized at Pentecost and it was prophecied in Joel 2:28-29:

It will come about after this
That I will pour out My Spirit on all mankind;
And your sons and daughters will prophesy,
Your old men will dream dreams,
Your young men will see visions.
Even on the male and female servants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

So, all believers now have the privileges and duties of priests, therefore we have “priesthood of the believer”.

Now that the official explanation is out of the way, I think it’s incorrect. What we actually have today is Priesthood of Christ. While He has not taken His throne, Christ is active today as humanity’s high priest. The book of Hebrews has much to say about this, particularly Heb. 3:1-6:

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession … Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house.whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

And Heb. 4:14-16:

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin. Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Christ is our active High Priest, therefore we no longer need a human intermediary… not even each other. The official Prot position isn’t wrong so much as it ignores the fact that Christ is still active in the world, even if only by proxy of His Spirit. We become like priests only because God conforms us to be like Christ, the Priest. No believer is a substitute for Him. This view also avoids the appearance of anarchy/disunity that I suspect moves many Catholics against Protestantism. We aren’t all priests, we don’t each decide for ourselves what God wants. Christ told us what God wants and He’s still active in our affairs. (John 14)

On a closing note, there’s still good reasons to have official clergy. Affairs of the Church won’t handle themselves, as the Apostles found out and elevated Stephen to handle. False doctrines must be confronted, missionaries supported, disaster relief moved about. And it’s nice to have a designated, Godly man available for life’s major (and frequently sudden) events.

But none of that requires a specially trained professional who gets a privileged hotline to the Big Man. To the contrary, “Elijah was a man just like us.” James 5:17.

For Protestants, the definition is straightforward:

1. Does not allow laymen to wield authority.

2. Regards any portion of the NT as obsolete or subject to interpretation.

3. Does not call out evil leaders in society.

The first is rejection of “priesthood of the believer”, the second is rejection of “sola Scriptura” and the third is rejection of Christ’s example. So, effectively all Evangelical churches are now Churchian, if not yet Feminist like the Mainstreams.

For pity’s sake, half of the vaunted Great Commission is making disciples. In other words, training your replacements. The other half, preaching the Gospel to the world, has been completed in our lifetime via the Internet. How do our pastors intend to make disciples when they don’t give laymen any opportunity or encouragement? Answer, by holding onto power until their Golden Parachute Pension kicks in and abandoning the people they taught weekly for years to get a replacement from Central Casting because none of them were taught well enough to take his place. To Hell with such useless sods.

By contrast, this humble blog qualifies as a church. An ordinary dude upholding God’s Word and calling out scumbags. Any more Christian than this and there’d be fireballs from Heaven. Or singing.

I’m not sure what Catholic Churchianity looks like but I’ll guess it involves a rejection of Church Tradition, like Vatican II. Some of us are rooted in Scripture and others in Tradition but the Churchians have no root at all.

An article from the Los Angeles Times about the government’s inability to spend $2 billion for helping homelessness is remarkable in that a female lawyer is the good guy this time.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-homeless-housing-bond-stalled-20180301-story.html

“The idea for the homeless housing program originated in January 2016. State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Le?n (D-La Raza*) proposed a $2-billion bond to finance new and rehabilitated housing for mentally ill people living on the streets.