The modern Church has turned the parable of the Prodigal Son into a license for evil. You can spend your days doing whatever you feel like, and at the end of it all, God is willing to forgive you! No catch!
Yeah, okay, that is indeed half of the story. The other half is the catch, that the Prodigal is a permanent charity case, in Heaven with nothing to show for his time on Earth, gaining salvation “as a refugee fleeing through the flames.”
It’s bad to end up a Prodigal. It’s not the end of the world, no… but as Dave Hollis’ recent suicide will demonstrate, it can still be a life-ender.
Christian author Dave Hollis died from accidental overdose of cocaine, ethanol and fentanyl
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By CP Staff, 26 April 2023
Dave Hollis, a former executive for Disney, Christian author and the ex-husband of Girl Wash Your Face author Rachel Hollis, died of an accidental overdose, a medical examiner’s office revealed nearly three months after the 47-year-old’s death.
According to an autopsy report obtained by NBC News from the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office, Hollis had lethal amounts of cocaine, fentanyl and alcohol in his system. The report also revealed that Hollis had a history of drug and alcohol abuse, high blood pressure, depression, hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and moderate to severe atherosclerosis in his heart. The Medical Examiner ruled Hollis’ death as an accident.
That was a suicide, not an accident. Accident is “Excuse me, waiter? I think somebody dropped a speedball in my martini… uh, chest pains…”
And Hollis had much to die for:
Hollis led theatrical distribution at Disney from 2011 to 2018, helping to launch successful film franchises like “Frozen” and “Black Panther.” He left Disney in 2018 to relocate to Texas with his family and ran Chic Media, which was owned by his then-wife Rachel.
A Devil Mouse executive turned kitchen bitch for a feral woman. Living in Austin, the most feminized hole in Texas. Publishing books & podcasts about how his downward spiral was bringing him closer to God.
He wasn’t wrong.
In a 2021 interview with The Christian Post, Hollis said 2020 had been the “hardest year” of his life, “outpacing any other year by a factor of 100” due to his highly-publicized divorce.
Yet, he said he was the “strongest” he’d ever been, mentally, emotionally, relationally and spiritually.”
“There is, for every single one of us, a very intentional purpose that our Creator has placed us on this planet for, and our work in this life we have is to do everything we can, every single day, to honor the intention of that Creator,” he said at the time.
The Creator’s intention was male headship. Also, not divorcing. His wife did the divorce, but he didn’t see it coming even as he set it up because he acted like God’s intention was female empowerment.
Sex roles are not personal choices. They are life-and-death important for both individuals and societies. I won’t pretend or respect otherwise. How God-Damned, pigheaded stupid must a man be, to claim Christ but practice female rebellion for decades?
We are out of time to stop this foolishness.
Hollis’ ex-wife, Rachel Hollis, an author and influencer, said in a statement that they were devastated by his death and requested prayers for their four children: sons Jackson, Sawyer and Ford, and daughter Noah.
No female introspection detected.
. The couple was married for 16 years before announcing their split in June 2020.
Better to say, they were married for only two years after Dave quit being an Important Disney Executive in order to serve his wife at her media company in 2018. A textbook case for the Red-Pilled: she lost respect for him because his social standing went from “top of the entertainment world” to “kitchen bitch”. Never mind that he did it for her sake. Women do not appreciate sacrifice. They aren’t men.
I cannot accuse Hollis of wickedness because he followed his own beliefs to his own destruction, but how did he never notice Original Sin? You can’t be both a Christian and a feminist.
You can’t be both a Christian and a feminist.
You CANNOT be both a Christian and a feminist!
And one has doubts about that high-level career at Devil Mouse.
Regardless of whether you’re stupid or evil, a life spent in defiance of God’s Will is likely to end in a bottle. Forgiveness or no. The Church needs to quit with its Prodigal-Son idolatry. It is not a free pass, and unless a pastor points out that the loyal son in the story is the only son with an inheritance, he risks his audience hearing “free pass for sin”.
It’s far more common, for clergy to portray the Loyal Son as bitter and butthurt about Daddy seeming to play favorites… as having a sin of his own to repent of.
More about Hollis’ divorce:
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Dave Hollis still cringes slightly when he remembers the speech he gave at the Hollis Company Christmas party in 2019.
“I audaciously, to our collective team at a Christmas party, said I was going to have my best year ever in 2020,” The New York Times bestselling author and host of the Rise Together podcast told The Christian Post.
“I’d saved it for my 45th year on the planet, it was going to be the best year ever. And what I did not appreciate in the declaration was that I would not have a say in the conditions through which my best year would show up.”
That year, Hollis weathered a highly publicized divorce from his wife, Rachel Hollis, the controversial self-help author of Girl Wash Your Face. His book tour was subsequently canceled, and he transitioned away from the company he’d spent years building with his wife.
Navigating a pandemic, grappling with the fallout from the end of a yearslong marriage and parenting four children alone, Hollis said, was anything but easy.
Dave Hollis misspent his life in feminism’s service, but at least he has the chance to enter Heaven as a Prodigal. Zero is better than Hell. He’ll also be much better off on Judgment Day than Ex-Wife Rachel the Adulteress will be… offing himself demonstrates remorse and a willingness to stop the evil. Whereas Rachel took the income then left him with the kids.
Yay Prodigal going home? Or, should the Church rediscover the concept of living like you actually believe all that Jeebus morality stuff?
So, just asking, …what does zero in heaven look like? I mean, does he just get to stand inside the gate, a little to the left, and face to the wall for all eternity? And what do the low, mid, and top earners get? And by gosh, I would like to see that earning point chart, chapter and verse please.
“I would like to see that earning point chart, chapter and verse please.”
I am happy to provide!
Luke 11:31: ““‘My [loyal] son,’ the father said, ‘YOU are always with me, and everything I have is YOURS.” Emphases mine. He wasn’t talking about the Prodigal always being with him.
1 Corinthians 3: 10-15: “By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should build with care. For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 their work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each person’s work. If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames.
Again, emphasis mine.
The Bible describes Judgment Day in two different ways. One is binary. Either you are in or you are out:
Matthew 25:31-33: “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.”
That is the saved-by-grace-alone Prodigalism that I admitted is correct but only half of the matter. Here’s the other half… the other description of Judgment Day:
Matthew 25:14-18: ““Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more. So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money.
You surely recall how that turned out. The ones who accomplished with what they were given, were rewarded in keeping with their accomplishments. The one who didn’t do anything was FUBAR. Sorry I cannot provide an objective price chart, but as I boldfaced above, our merit is assessed individually. We are not SJWs. We are not compared to the merit of our peers. That way lies envy.
Hollis was near the top of DisneyCorp. He was apparently trusted by its Globohomo management during its descent into pedophilia and historical revisionism, releasing films such as Black Wakanda, err, Black Panther, so I reasonably wonder about his accomplishments. Leaving that job to pursue his personal interests is fine… what God calls merit is not what the world calls success… but he left to SERVE HIS WIFE AS HIS NEW BOSS.
Which is feminism, aka Original Sin. Another bad sign.
Then his wife lost respect for him BECAUSE she was now his boss, and his death spiral began. Is Hollis responsible for the ensuing divorce? Technically no, but he did set it up by not living the basic basics of Christianity. Forgiveness is great but the divorce still happened. Also, his death spiral afterwards.
So, there you have it. You can be Prodigal and still go to Heaven… but only as one escaping through the flames of what could have been.
Aim higher, yes?
Aim higher, yes. But I have been thinking a lot about this these past couple of years. We just don’t know much of anything of the afterlife. I assumed correctly that you would reference The Parable of the Talents, but that is just a basic table of multiplication; what, in fact, IS the reward? Nobody actually can answer that question.
And as to the Hollises, I am sure you are not far off, given that he worked for the evil mouse in an executive position. As we are discovering more and more, so much is a lie. Just where that string pull ends is hard to say. The more I look at the freak show that is the church, the more I wonder about the story of Annanias & Saphira. What they did seems rather tame by comparison to say a Todd Bentley or Kenneth Copeland. I suppose it could be argued that they are not true believers. But I digress.
My question is, why are you so hard on women categorically (it seems)? I go back to “the original sin”, which you lay squarely at Eve’s feet, and as the story is told she is the first to fall, but again, it looks set up to me. Why allow an antagonist so close, if the temptation (the tree of G&E) was known and present. We have to assume that up to that point, Eve complied until she was nudged forward.
But you seem to condemn the entire gender. I am fully of the opinion that the suffrage movement was an insufferageable disaster for all humans, a point that began the the process of eroding true gender roles, but you seem to throw the babes out with the bath water.
Did he not make the woman Eve, a integral part of the man, and call it good?
“He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains the favor of The Lord.” And the proverbs says much more concerning this.
At any rate, your writing about such issues as The Hollises is amusing.
BTW, what us GAE?
Global American Empire. NYC, London, NATO, the post-WW2 world order that’s gone all fake and… GAE.
“what, in fact, IS the reward? Nobody actually can answer that question.”
We are not allowed to know what our eternal reward is. Very likely, it would not make sense if we were told. My personal guess is it’ll have something to do with our new bodies. They’ll be specialized per our past behavior, not generalized like today, but that is only my guess.
“My question is, why are you so hard on women categorically (it seems)?”
The first of three reasons is Original Sin. It may look like I’m singling out women because O.S. is female rebellion and male submission to female rebellion. Both sexes are involved and guilty, but since both sexes are working towards female empowerment, it could appear as favoritism.
Women would be happier if they were second-class citizens. It is sincerely in their best interests for us to force their submission and silence the whispers (and whisperers) that make them discontent. We men would not want to be treated that way, of course, because we aren’t women. We aren’t wired to stay home and be led.
It’s a different standard, not a double standard.
The second reason is that women are now in the positions of (formal) authority. I’m not going to blog against the people who cannot change the way things are wrong.
The third reason is that women respond positively to being dominated. That is not my fault. I did not invent this game of genders, but so long as I’m forced to play it, I will play to win.
I’m more relaxed in meatspace than on my blog, because here is where I try to convince people who are best convinced by emotion rather than reason. That’s what Derek Ramsey was getting at a couple posts back, when he said he knew my abusive language wasn’t meant ad hominem. It was a kind and correct insight.
I agree with all of that, and IMO it is the most intellectual interpretation to the fall, as far as Adam & Eve’s part, that I have heard. Wholeheartedly agree that women love to be dominated, and that that is the way it’s constructed. It is ultimately a failure of leadership on men’s part (which includes not being pussy whipped and pussified).
Prior to the above clarification, you were coming across like you had a nasty divorce or a domineering mother – not being critical – just how it sounded on this end.
Feminism and Satan’s mouse will never end well and they aren’t meant to.
Being mad at daddy and trying to get back at him has just about destroyed this society.
Enjoy it girls because the replacements don’t play that game.
Self-murder won’t bring you closer to God and one shouldn’t pickle their brain with drug cocktails.