World War D: A Message from Your Commander in Chief

Greetings, Mars Mountain people! As you all know, Satan and his demons target high profile Christian leaders. And boy, he sure targeted me. I took refuge in the Cayman Islands for a bit. But let me tell you: God has been faithful and those demonic critics that said I was up to no good have been silenced by the will of God. So I’m back behind the pulpit at Mars Mountain, which is where I was meant to be.

And speaking of Satan and demons, there is an alarming trend in our society to pretend that Satan and demons aren’t real. Liberal, post-modern, pluralistic, elites like to explain away Satan and demons, using all kinds of devious arguments. To quote pastor/teacher Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle (no connection to our own Mars Mountain Ministries, LLC):

Don’t think Satan’s real? Then explain this!

“We live in a day when, through psychology, through explanation, through a resistance to the supernatural, people don’t even believe in Satan and demons. We turn them into fictitious cartoon characters and mythical parts of our historical narrative; the stories we tell and the fairy tales we enjoy—we don’t think they’re real . . . You think, ‘Well, Satan and demons—that’s very primitive; that’s from a bygone era. We’ve evolved beyond that.’ And Satan would say, ‘Nice job with the pride. I appreciate that. I appreciate that you think that you’ve evolved beyond the primitive teaching of the Bible and Jesus.’ Satan is real. We have a real enemy.”

This map shows the Earth in the center of the universe. As it should be.

As always, pastor/teacher Driscoll hits it out of the park. Post-modern, pluralistic, liberal elites are so full of pride!!!!! They think their beloved “science” and “reason” can explain everything. Like that time they tried to tell us that the universe is not geocentric! They said, “Hey everyone, guess what: the Earth revolves around the sun!” And Satan said, “nice job on the pride.” Such blatant, blatant pride!!! It’s so obvious that the sun revolves around the Earth, and only prideful, hedonistic, “enlightened” pagans would think otherwise.

You have to understand this: Satan and demons are real! Very real!! And we know this because pastor teacher Mark Driscoll proclaims it with tremendous loudness:“It’s a war! Do you know that? Most Christians don’t!  . . . It’s a war! It’s a war! How many of you feel like this life is just a freaking war? You know why? It’s a freaking war!”

Let’s take a look at what the Bible says about this epic battle with demons, about World War D. All the way back in Genesis, we see that this war against Satan and demons is so powerful and so important that no one talks about it. God doesn’t warn Adam and Eve about it before he sets them loose in the Garden of Eden. But really, why would he want to warn them? I have kids, and I love them, but I don’t warn them about potential dangers that they might encounter in the world. Why not? Becuase what doesn’t kill them makes them stronger.

So what does Jesus have to say about World War D? This war we’re waging against real Satan and real demons is so important that Jesus doesn’t talk about it. He never warns his Disciples about the possibility of demonic attack. He doesn’t tell  them, as pastor/teacher Driscoll tells us: “The closer you get to Jesus, the more resistance you’ll get! The more you advance to the kingdom of God, the more shots you’ll take!” On the contrary! Jesus doesn’t talk about it at all! Sure, he casts out some demons and resists the temptation of the Devil in the wilderness, but that’s the extent of it. He doesn’t tell his Disciples to prepare for all-out war.

But he should have. He should have. Jesus missed a real opportunity. He missed the chance to come off like the badass, tatooed tough guy he really is. The war metaphor is just so damn powerful. As Mark Driscoll describes the Apostle Paul’s teaching on this subject in Ephesians 6.10-17: “This is a military word from a commander in chief to troops on the ground for what is to come.”  That’s badass! Military! Commander in chief!!

What Peter could have been . . .

But when Jesus is asked about his Kingdom, he says, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” He had a chance to say something like “my servants fight a different kind of war, but it’s still a war, Goddamn it! And I’m the commander in chief and my followers are the troops on the ground! And the Gospel of peace is the ammunition in our assault rifles.” But he doesn’t say anything like that. He could have told his Disciples that they were an elite band of Godly warriors and that they were in for a serious, all-out ground war. But he doesn’t. I don’t know why. Peter was the rock upon which Christ built his Church, and that’s a decent metaphor. But imagine if Jesus had called Peter an expert in guerrilla warfare, a man who’s the best with guns, with knives, with his bare hands. A man who’s been trained to ignore pain, ignore weather, to live off the land, to eat things that would make a billy goat puke. A man whose job was to dispose of enemy personnel. To kill! Period! Wouldn’t that be awesome?

Well, I’m not going to make the same mistake. I’m going to call a war a war. It’s a war, people! You hear me? A WAR!!!! Satan is real. Demons are real. If you think they’re just primitive “mythic” ideas, if you think they only really exist in our own psyches somewhere, then you are going to lose this freaking war. Becuase, make no mistake: it’s war!! It’s a FREAKING WAR!!!And the best part of the war analogy is that it makes me Commander in Chief. It makes my words from the pulpit the equivalent of divine marching orders. And if you don’t want to listen to me, guess what: you’re filled with sinful pride, just like Satan!!! As pastor/teacher Driscoll explains, “Some of you don’t even believe in Satan and demons, but let me say that the root of demonic work is always sourced ultimately in pride. ‘I don’t need to listen to someone else; I’m smart enough. I don’t need to submit to someone else; I can take care of myself. I don’t need to follow someone else; I’m the authority in my own life.’ “ 

If you won’t submit to my Godly authority, if you won’t obey my marching orders, you are Satan’s pawn. We’re at war people. Did you hear me? WAR!!!! Does life feel like a war sometimes? Well, it’s a freaking war!!!!

So, onward Christian soldiers. As God’s army, we make up the most powerful military force in the universe. We are badasses armed with the state-of-the-art weapon of loud truth. And we’re going to kick some serious demon butt.

Just remember, they drew first blood . . . they drew first blood . . .

–Your Commander in Chief, Dale Deakins

Time to Fire up the Pastoral Search Committee!

Greetings, Mars Mountain!

It’s with much regret (and some quick, anxious glances over my shoulder as I type this) that I have to announce some big news: I’m retiring.

Now, I can hear some of you asking: “But how could you, Pastor/teacher Dale? You’re our Pastor/teacher!”

Well, there comes a time when your Confidentiality Agreement and Covenant Membership Contract can’t keep all of the pigs from squealing. In the coming days and weeks you may hear some nasty rumors about me. For example, some people might say things about a teensy-weensy bit of tomfoolery between me and some of our former and current female staff members. Some others might spread rumors about a teensy-weensy bit of misappropriation of funds. You might hear others talk about lawsuits and unlawful termination of employment contracts and abuse of power and things of that ilk. There may be still others that throw around clever phrases like “un-Biblical”, “un-Godly”, “false teacher” and such and such.

Don’t believe any of it. Satan loves to attack pastors. He just does. All of the haters out there (do you hear me, various “discernment ministries”?) are just doing the will of the Evil One. And so what if some of the mud sticks? I mean, whoever is without sin among you, cast the first stone, okay?

That is NOT my boat . . .

Anyway, bottom line is that Pastor/teacher Dale has to go away for a little while. Don’t come looking for me in the Cayman Islands, because I won’t be there. No way. I don’t even know where that is.

So, let me just say that it’s been a pleasure to be your pastor/teacher all these years. It’s been a pleasure to beam my face onto screens all over the country. It’s been a pleasure to be in one HD sermon trailer after another. It’s been a pleasure to make you believe Mars Mountain was blessed by God and doing work that no other church was doing. And, most of all, it’s been a pleasure to be a part of your faith journey at Mars Mountain Ministries–a unique faith journey that is manlier, slicker, cooler, and more spiritually empty than other faith journeys you could have been on. That, for me, is worth every sacrifice.

Until I need money and resurface with a different identity,

–Former Pastor/teacher Dale Deakins

 

Not Giving Enough to Support Our Church? Get Tagged for Christ!

Mars Mountain People,

I am writing to you today to share some exciting news with you. We’re always trying to be cutting edge here at Mars Mountain Ministries, LLC. From our high-definition sermon trailers and Men’s Retreat promos, to our original praise bands like Pillar of Salt–we’re all about setting trends.

And one area we’ve been really taking a hard look at is financial stewardship. The Executive Council of Elders and I have been working feverishly to come up with a way to make it easier for us to get your money. Let’s face it: the days of paper money are almost gone, so counting on our congregations to put cash or checks (and who wants your pocket change?) into the “hat”, so to speak, is wishful thinking at best. And we don’t believe in wishful thinking. We believe in Godly thinking.

To deal with this crises in cash, some churches have started to try new technology to appeal to the tech-saavy masses. Elevation Church, for example–a thriving mega-church led by fellow multi-site pastor, Steve Furtick–has installed what they call “Connection Kiosks” to make it easier for church-goers to donate in this age of plastic. Here’s what their website says about the kiosks:

And here’s what they look like:

A Connection Kiosk. This is not a pagan shrine. It is a Godly, sanctified piece of stewardship technology.

These kiosks are the handiwork of Secure Give, a company specializing in digital payment technology. However, what Pastor Steve Furtick and his team of pioneers don’t know is that we’ve partnered with another company, Digi-Donate, and they’ve given us access to an exclusive system of payment that no other church is using.

It’s called “Instant Give Technology”. It’s powered by a tiny Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag that we embed into an item of your choice (your hand, the back of your neck, or any other Godly body part). Your checking account information is stored in this RFID tag, and every time you get within fifty yards of one of our churches, you’ll make a donation to our ministry. If you enter the building, leave, and then enter again, a new donation will be made in your name. You can sign up for a set amount to be donated each time, or you can select “random” and leave it up to the Lord to decide. It’s a painless, seamless, faithful transaction for the glory of God.

Giving has never been so easy!

I’m pleased to announce that this Sunday we’ll start the role-out of this thrilling new technology. After every service, we’ll have tagging stations set up. Just look for the “Get Tagged for Christ” banners throughout the church. Being a responsible, faithful, financial steward has never been so easy!

I’m excited about what God is doing here at Mars Mountain Ministries, LLC. And I’m excited that we live in a time when advances in technology can be used not only for shallow, pagan, worldly purposes but also for deep, Godly, Kingdom purposes like giving financially to support your local mega-church.

Oh, and a little piece of advice? I’d go with “random” if I were you . . .

–Pastor/teacher Dale Deakins

You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too: The Slippery Slope of Contextualization

All right, Mars Mountain People, the gloves are coming off today!

You know that I’m a big supporter of my fellow mega-church Pastor/teacher/vision-caster Mark Driscoll. I quote him all the time and show high-definition clips of his sermons (I can’t wait until the internet goes 3D). Generally, Mark and I see eye-to-eye on issues of “the Faith” and how to run a mega-church, multi-site ministry. But he said something in a sermon this past Sunday that has got me all riled up.

While preaching on Ephesians 6.5-9, Mark tackled the tough issue of slavery in the Bible, and he asked this question: “When Paul here speaks of slavery, why does he not—why does he not altogether reject the institution?” 

Slavery was different back in Roman times.

Now, this is a very good question. It’s not the question that bothers me, it’s the answer. Mark explains: “I believe it is because ancient slavery was different . . . what happens as soon as we hear that word ‘slavery’ is we import into it slavery as was practiced in the United States of America, but might I remind you, he’s speaking to those who are part of the Roman Empire roughly two thousand years before the United States of America even became a nation . . . so what we’re looking at is perhaps not the same meaning in the Roman Empire as is meant in American history.”

Pastor/teacher Mark? Do you hear yourself? Do you really want to go down the “it was different two-thousand years ago” path?  If we do, we’ll slide down the slippery slope of contextualization. And contextualization is a dirty, dirty word. Couldn’t we also say that the word “provide” in 1 Timothy 5.8 means something a little different to modern Americans than it would to an ancient Roman? Contextualization is dangerous business! But more on that in a minute. Let’s read a little more of Mark’s argument:

“[Paul's] silence on the institution of slavery, as well as other things, is not to be in any way interpreted as a tacit approval of those structures. Similarly, here he is writing a letter to people who are under a certain governmental authority, and he’s teaching them, both slaves and masters, how to act in a way that is godly within those social structures.”

So Paul is not endorsing slavery with his silence? His goal is not to challenge the structures in place, but rather to teach Christians how to live within those structures? If that’s true, it implies that the structures actually are worthy of being challenged, it’s just that Paul chooses not to because he’s trying not to upset the proverbial apple cart of Roman government. Charles Elliot, an American pastor writing a few years before the Civil War said this: “To have preached the emancipation of slaves, by the apostles, would have been the same as to attempt an overthrow of the Roman Government.” So the argument goes that Paul is actually against slavery, it’s just that he doesn’t want to challenge the government. Doesn’t that make Paul out to be a weak pansy of a man, lacking in courage and Godly masculinity?

The painful truth is that Mark Driscoll is bending over backward to avoid offending people with the fact that Paul’s silence on slavery is actually an endorsement of the Roman system of slavery! Paul is no weak-minded, liberal, post-modernist! No!!! He speaks the truth in love! To suggest that he is afraid of the Roman government is to severely underestimate Paul (and to even more severely underestimate the Holy Spirit speaking though Paul). No, Paul is giving advice to slaves and masters just like he gives advice to husbands and wives: because this is the way of God’s creation!

If you look at it, Paul’s teaching on marriage is very similar to his teaching on slavery. In both instances, he takes structures already in place (slavery and patriarchal authority) and finds a way to make a divine parallel to human experience. Slaves are to obey their masters just as they are to obey their true master, Christ. And husbands are to be the heads of their households just as Christ is the head of the Church. So if we say that Paul’s silence on slavery is not an approval of the structures of slavery already in place, then it also follows that we can say that Paul’s silence on gender equality is not an approval of the system of patriarchal authority woven into the structures of Roman society. Are we willing to suggest that Paul actually disagrees with the system of patriarchal authority in Roman society, but that he’s unwilling to tackle the issue head on? May it never be!!!! Paul is a man and he tells it like it is. He’s bold, he’s brash, and he won’t back down from anyone.

You want to pull out the “Roman Slavery is Okay” block? Be my guest.

Friends, sound Doctrine is like a huge, cosmic game of Jenga: remove one block and the whole thing falls apart. Thus, Mark’s noble effort to explain Paul’s silence on slavery is a serious threat to our most cherished belief: complimentarianism!!!!! A man is to have headship over the woman, because the “woman is the weaker vessel” (1 Peter 3.7). This is not contextual, this is Bible-based fact!!! I will not allow for anyone to undermine this fundamental teaching. I will not allow anyone to challenge my authority in my own household, and, frankly, I’m surprised that Pastor/teacher Mark–who I thought was a staunch defender of masculine headship–would open the door for this kind of liberal, pluralistic, rebellious, un-Godly thinking. Beside, what’s next: rules against homosexuality are contextual, because things were “different back then”?

Pastor/teacher Mark can’t have his cake and eat it too. Either nothing is contextual in Scripture, or everything is. You can’t pick and choose.

And any true, Reformed, neo-Calvinist will agree that nothing is contextual. So Pastor Mark can stop bending over backwards to avoid offending people. He needs to grow a backbone and say it like it is. Therefore, until he recants and officially endorses the Roman system of slavery (thus protecting the Roman patriarchal system of gender roles in marriage), I will no longer value his opinions on matters of Doctrine.

The world is filled with false teachers. We must stand our ground and not be fooled, no matter how learned their arguments may seem. Now . . . anyone know where I can get a cheap Roman prisoner of war?

–Pastor/teacher Dale Deakins

Advice from the Pastor/teacher’s Chair: Logical Fallacies are Your Friends, Part II

Warning: the following post contains top-secret, Biblical teaching for pastors. It is not for laypeople. If you are not a pastor of a church, please do not read any further. Thank you and God bless.

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I don’t like Latin. Mainly, I don’t like it because it’s the language of the Catholic Church, and you know how I feel about priests wearing dresses and taking vows of celibacy. I also don’t like Latin because Jerome’s Latin translation of the Bible is called the “Vulgate” which really means “vulgar”. And this is blasphemous.

All that being said, I have a Latin phrase for you pastors out there. Here it is: Non causa pro causa. Translation: “No cause for a cause”. Now, I know what you’re thinking: what in the Hell does that mean? Well, let me explain:

As pastors, we’re always trying to find ways to convince people that the Bible is true and trustworthy. But more importantly, we’re trying to convince people that the things we say the Bible says are true and trustworthy. And one of the best ways to convince people that what we say about the Bible is true is to point out what happens when people don’t believe us. It’s crucial to point out how bad things have gotten as a result of unrepentant, liberal, post-modern sinners rejecting the truth of God’s Word. Let me give you an example:

This is what happens when you take God’ Word out of courtrooms, classrooms, and culture.

My fellow mega-church pastor/teacher, Greg Laurie, of Harvest Christian Fellowship in California, recently participated in the National Day of Prayer. In his prayer he said this: “We see the breakdown of the family, crippling addictions, and random acts of horrific violence . . . In recent days, we have done our best to remove Your Word and Your counsel from our courtrooms, classrooms and culture. It seems, as President Lincoln once said, that we have ‘forgotten God.’ “

You see what he did? He made a statement: that our country is all screwed up (family breakdown, addiction, violence). Then, he gave us a cause: we’ve removed God’s Word from key parts of our once-Godly society. A keen observer will notice that Greg has failed to include any connective tissue between the problem and the cause of the problem. Where is the evidence to support his claim, you might ask? It’s not there. And that’s what’s so great about a non causa pro causa argument: you don’t need evidence!

Let me give you another example from a true expert in this technique: Pastor/teacher Mark Driscoll, of Mars Hill Church in Seattle (no connection to our own Mars Mountain Ministries, LLC). In a recent sermon about parenting he said, “So, you go out into culture, and they’ll basically tell you people are basically good, children are altogether innocent, and, essentially, we need to just create an environment where they can naturally become whoever their heart declares them to be. Look at the world—it’s not going well.”

This is what progressive, Godless liberalism does to kids. Simple cause and effect.

Mark is a genius at this kind of logical fallacy. He starts with the cause: weak, liberal, post-modern culture that teaches us that kids are good at heart and just need some nurturing to turn out okay. And then he throws down the hammer: “Look at the world–it’s not going well.” Simple cause and effect. And where’s the connective tissue? Where’s the evidence that shows how the world being all screwed up is the result of liberals and their un-Godly ways? It’s nowhere to be found . . . because you don’t need it!!!! And Pastor/teacher Mark knows you don’t need it. It’s enough simply to link the two things together: liberal ideas & screwed up world. The average church-goer will automatically assume that the former is the cause of the latter. It works like magic.

Of course, we could get into a discussion about whether or not the world is actually any more screwed up now than it was a hundred years ago. And we could talk about the fact that Pastor/teacher Greg’s implications that there are more broken families, more addiction, and more violence now then at other times in our country’s history may not be substantiated by facts (if we were to bother to try to find some). But none of that matters. We don’t need facts to sway our congregants.

And the best part about all of this is that it’s Biblical. It’s Biblical. Jesus himself is against evidence. When he’s dealing with Thomas the Doubter, he tells him: “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20.29). It is a virtue of Christians that they believe without seeing any kind of supporting evidence. So, as a pastor, you are under no obligation to provide any support for your own arguments (or any other claims, for that matter).

In conclusion, as you prepare your sermons for this Sunday, consider using the logical fallacy of non causa pro causa. Because the best way to get people to believe that the bold, brash, Scripturally unfounded messages you preach each week are like spiritual gold is to make people think that not believing you is the reason our country and the world are as screwed up as they are. It’s a powerful approach, and one that we can use to advance the cause of the Gospel.

Preach it loud, long, and strong, men!

–Pastor/teacher Dale Deakins

Parents, How Do You Know if You Hate Your Kids? You Give Them A Safe Environment and the Freedom to Become Who They Want to Become

Mars Mountain People:

You know I don’t shy away from tough questions. You also know I don’t shy away from telling the people that ask me tough questions that they’re sinning by asking those questions. Anyway, one unrepentant, rebellious question I received via text message recently was this:

“Are children innocent? If so, at what age do they become sinful?”

A sinful zygote.

Let me go ahead and answer this: CHILDREN ARE NOT INNOCENT!!!!! They are depraved, evil, sinful little reprobates. The innocence of children is a serious misconception. I think it comes from the 1960s, when people believed in “flower power” and John Lennon was singing “Imagine” and people thought that love could actually change the world. Well, children are not innocent. Not in any way. Paul says that “All have sinned” and we know that our Father Adam screwed this up for everyone. The bottom line is that children are sinful from the get go. As soon as they come out of the womb. Actually, even before that. Sin goes back to the zygote stage. It just does.

My fellow mega-church pastor/teacher, Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle (no connection to our own Mars Mountain Ministries, LLC) explains this very well in a sermon he gave recently titled “I Am Fathered.” Hear what he has to say about children and sin, starting at the :50 second mark and going to about 3:50:

As Pastor/teacher Mark explains, in Ephesians 1.4-6, the Apostle Paul is urging children to repent of their sinfulness and get right with Jesus. It’s right there in the text. As Pastor/teacher Mark says: Ephesians has been “Talking a lot, in chapters 1–3, about who Jesus is and what Jesus does . . . So, after learning about what Jesus has done, now there’s some things for us to do—in Christ. This includes an exhortation to children, that they need to come to Christ and have their sins forgiven in Christ. We don’t believe that people are born in right relationship with God; we believe that they must be born again in right relationship with God.”

So to the question of whether or not children are innocent, the answer is right there in the text! I don’t see how people miss this!!!! I mean, Paul says it so CLEARLY. Read it for yourself:

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother’—which is the first commandment with a promise—^‘so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.’Fathers,do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.”

Did you see it? Did you see where he talks about children being sinful and needing to repent of their sinfulness? Good, because I didn’t. But it must be in there, because Pastor/teacher Driscoll said it is. But who cares? I mean, we all KNOW that children are sinful through and through. How do we know this? Well, look at the teachings of Jesus. He has this to say about children:

“Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it” (Luke 18.16-17).

“Color me sinful.” The Kingdom of Heaven belongs to kids like this? Yeah . . . right . . .

Okay, maybe that’s not the best example. Well . . . I’m sure there are other passages in the Bible that talk specifically about how sinful children are. I’ll post them when I find them. But come on: do we really need Scripture to tell us what is so painfully obvious? Anyone that has kids can tell you how evil they are! It’s our post-modern, secular, pluralistic, confused culture that likes to throw the Satanic wool over people’s eyes and try to say how angelic these diabolical little sinners are. Heathen, pagan liberals love to blind us to the truth. They just do. As Pastor/teacher Driscoll explains, “You go out into culture, and they’ll basically tell you . . . children are altogether innocent, and, essentially, we need to just create an environment where they can naturally become whoever their heart declares them to be. Look at the world—it’s not going well.”

Amen! The world is most definitely not going well. Things are all screwed up, and the reason is clear: parents are providing environments for their children where they can naturally grow and become who they’re going to become. This is a terrible approach to parenting! It is our duty as Godly parents to reject this kind of “parenting philosophy  and nonsense”, this crazy, dangerous notion that “The kids are basically good. Just create an environment that they’re safe in, and then let them grow and be whoever they will be.” As Pastor/teacher Mark explains, if you raise your kids like this, you hate them. You hate them.

You see? Kids are sinful. Why, in your right mind, would you want to sit back and simply let your child grow up to be whoever he or she will be? It’s much more Biblical and Godly to remind your kids of their abhorrent nature and the depth of their depravity from the start. Otherwise, they’ll start believing that the Kingdom of Heaven actually belongs to people like them. And what kind of a fool would believe that?

–Pastor/teacher Dale Deakins

Are You a True M.A.N.? Then Grow A Pair and Sign the M.A.N.ifesto!!!!

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a weak man. I preach on this all the time. It’s kind of the bread and butter of Mars Mountain Ministries, LLC. Well, I’m sick and tired of some of the lukewarm men that we have in this church. That’s why the Council of Executive Elders and I created the M.A.N.ifesto! This is a revolutionary document (and a binding contract) that puts men’s feet to the fire and challenges them to live according to the Doctrines of Biblical Manhood. Each doctrine is supported by Scripture and will stand up to even the most ardent scrutiny. Of course, anyone that questions the M.A.N.ifesto is just being rebellious and is obviously unrepentant. Anyway, here’s it is. Read it. Sign it. Take the challenge and be the man that you know you’re meant to be.

The M.A.N.ifesto