Tag Archives: Teflon Christianity

WP-10: From Diagnosis to Repentance

Posted on June 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim, and it is the claim the entire suite exists to reach: that the detection of self-exemption, however complete, changes nothing of itself, and that what changes a man is the turn from exposure … Continue reading →

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WP-9: The Standard You Set Is the Standard You Will Meet

Posted on June 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim, and it is the claim toward which the whole suite has been building: that the measure a person establishes for others — by his judgments, his demands, his published verdicts — becomes the … Continue reading →

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WP-8: Moral Credit and the License to Offend

Posted on June 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that a record of good deeds, real and even admirable, can be converted by the deceitful heart into a private permit to break the very standard the good deeds appeared to honor — … Continue reading →

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WP-7: The Mechanics of Self-Insulation

Posted on June 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that the deceitful heart does not exempt itself by a single gross act of denial but by a small set of recurring, identifiable moves — techniques of self-insulation that can be named, catalogued, … Continue reading →

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WP-6: The Golden Rule and Its Imitations

Posted on June 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that the command of the Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew 7:12 — “whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them” — differs from its frequently cited … Continue reading →

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WP-5. Partiality as the Enemy of Justice

Posted on June 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that partiality — the practice of weighing the same act differently according to who performed it — is not a minor imperfection in justice but its direct contradiction, and that the law of … Continue reading →

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WP-3. Naming the Sin in the Story but Not in the Mirror

Posted on June 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This brief defends a single claim: that a person can possess complete and accurate moral judgment about an act when it is set before him in another man’s story, and total blindness to the identical act when it is … Continue reading →

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The Measure Ye Mete: A Biblicist Treatise on Reciprocity, the Rod of Judgment, and the Hard Labor of Measuring Oneself

Posted on June 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

PART I — PROLEGOMENON 1. Statement of Purpose and the Three Governing Questions 1.1 The plain problem stated: the human ease of measuring others and the difficulty of measuring oneself There is a strange unevenness built into the way a … Continue reading →

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Paper 8: Weaponization and the Authority-Symmetry Problem

Posted on June 11, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This is the diagnostic paper of the suite. The seven papers before it answered the question is the claim sound? and found that it is not — no office, no polity, no process, no live paternal role, no avenue … Continue reading →

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White Paper 17: Elite Exemption in Medieval Christianity: Indulgences, Clerical Privilege, and Sacramental Asymmetry

Posted on May 23, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper continues the fourth cluster’s comparative examination of how the Teflon pattern operates within religious institutions across multiple traditions, focusing on the period of medieval Christianity in which the patterns the Lord originally identified within first-century Judaism reappeared, … Continue reading →

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