James Patrick Holding, the guy I'm suing for libel for about the 4th time, has at his tektonics.org advertised the link to another apologetics ministry website. I found out who published that site and sent them the following email.
Barry Jones <barryjoneswhat@gmail.com> |
Tekton Website Updates
January 10, 2021
The site review continuies. Meanwhile here are some external notes:
An up and coming apologetics website; sample here and here.
Special notice: Nick Peters now has a Patreon account.
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Even assuming you don't "partner" with or otherwise work with Holding in any Christian activity, the apostle Paul requires you to disassociate yourself from so-called Christian 'brothers" who commit certain sins, one of them being "reviling":
11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler-- not even to eat with such a one.
12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church?
13 But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES. (1 Cor. 5:11-13 NAU)
The Greek word for "reviler" there is λοίδορος / loidoros. BDAG says it means "abusive person".
TDNT explains:
2. Christians should try to avoid calumny (1 Tim. 5:14), but when exposed to it (cf. Mt. 5:11) they should follow Christ's example (1 Pet. 2:23; cf. Mt. 26:63; Jn. 18:23), repaying railing with blessing (1 Pet. 3:9). This is the apostolic way of 1 Cor. 4:12: “When reviled, we bless” (cf. Diog. 5.15). By this answer to calumny the reality of the new creation is manifested. [H. HANSE, IV, 293-94]
DANKER says loidoros means "insolent person".
In English "reviler" means a person who subjects another to "verbal abuse"
Chrysostom thought those who committed the sins Paul listed there were dishonoring God:
Chrysostom: The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon: Homilies on 1 Timothy
And, "If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater" (1 Cor. v. 11.), such a man honors not God.
Origen says the person who reviles is not a true brother:
Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, ch. 30
as the Apostle says, "If any one that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, etc., with such an one not to eat;"14 for no one who is an idolater, or a fornicator, or covetous, is a brother; for if he, who seems to bear the name of Christ, though he is named a brother, has something of the features of these, he would not rightly be called a brother.
Clement of Alexandria noted that you shouldn't even eat with a reviler:
Clement of Alexandria: The Instructor, book 2, ch. 1
Thus the apostle, in his solicitude for us, discriminates in the case of entertainments, saying, that "if any one called a brother be found a fornicator, or an adulterer, or an idolater, with such an one not to eat;"5 neither in discourse or food are we to join, looking with suspicion on the pollution thence proceeding, as on the tables of the demons.
Apostle Paul says abusive speech indicates the speaker is acting according to their old unredeemed nature:
6 For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience,
7 and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them.
8 But now you also, put them all aside: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.
9 Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices,
10 and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him-- (Col. 3:6-10 NAU)
Paul says filthy talk is a sign that the speaker is under the wrath of God:
3 But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;
4 and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
5 For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. (Eph. 5:3-6 NAU)
Jesus said slanders defile the person who speaks them:
18 "But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man.
19 "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.
20 "These are the things which defile the man; (Matt. 15:18-20 NAU)
The bible forbids you from associating with a person who gossips or otherwise "reveals secrets":
19 He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets, Therefore do not associate with a gossip. (Prov. 20:19 NAU)
Why did I give you all that biblical precedent?
Because since 1998, James Patrick Holding has engaged consistently in filthy speech, insults, abusive talk, gossip and slander, and he has never stopped, including into the present. I have sued Holding for libel, that lawsuit is currently pending, and his slanders of me were so extensive, my Complaint had to be 534 pages long just to document it all.
That Complaint is attached to this email as a pdf for your convenience.
Ever since 2015, Holding has posted to the internet numerous libelous comments and videos about me. He even got hold of the video of my bus accident, photoshopped it, replaced the original audio with a fast-paced comedy song, then looped it so that the viewer would see me getting injured repeatedly about 500 times in a single minute. He posted that to YouTube.
When I complained that this video was libelous and caused me emotional distress, YouTube refused to take it down, and Holding refused to remove it.
My Complaint also documents Holding's tax scams. When I sued him in 2015, he dissolved his Tekton Apologetics corporation. When I sued him in 2016, he dissolved his Apologetics Afield corporation. And yet he has, ever since, been asking for "tax-deductible" donations at his website. For a couple of years he said he works with other 501(c)(3) organizations, but he never identifies these, and recently he changed the statement so that whether he still does or doesn't work with third-party ministries is ambiguous, and yet up until recently he said the donations would be used to support the "urgent work that we do here" (i.e., at tektonics.org... which to my knowledge Holding doesn't have tax-exempt status for, and which to my knowledge is not claimed by any legitimately tax-exempt organization to be their own ministry work product).
For years I tried to get the few Christian scholars that ever publicly endorsed Holding to engage in a Matthew 18 discussion since he was clearly committing sin toward me and was clearly unrepentant of it. While none of them cared to do this, they have stopped publicly endorsing him.
It gets worse. Holding does not merely repeatedly commit the sin of slander...he has posted a long article attempting to show biblical justification for it. And yes, in 2016 he libelously redacted a frivolous court order and appended it to this article. Holding cannot be satisfied to stab me, he finds it necessary to twist the knife.
It gets worse: During my 2015 lawsuit against Holding, he stated under oath that he has never deliberately intended to insult anybody. That was his "tenth act of perjury" See Complaint pp. 451 ff. My blog page explaining this, including link to free download of said Complaint, is:
It gets worse: since 2015, Holding has repeatedly communicated to multiple people his allegedly good-faith belief that I have a very serious emotional disorder. In other words, when Holding was posting all the libels about me between 2015 and 2021, he strongly believed that I was particularly susceptible to emotional distress. A recent manifestation of his ill-will and hostility toward me (which the State of Florida says will make him liable for slander even if the comment he published about me was factually truthful) was his creating several websites each exclusively devoted to slandering me by means of libelously photoshopped court documents. Just google "Christian Behrend Doscher" and/or
"Doscherleaks". My lawsuit accuses him of misrepresenting my prior court cases.
Holding might know a lot about the bible, but in my 35 years of reading it, I cannot find any verse that says there is ever a time when it would be spiritually virtuous to use lies and gossip to subject severely emotionally disabled people to severe emotional distress. For all of Holding's endless screeds about how "Jesus insulted the Pharisees, so we have automatica license to insult people too!", he appears to have overlooked, or else to not care about, "thou shalt not lie". Lies are not only direct falsehoods. It is also lying to knowingly give somebody a false impression.
It gets worse: Holding had to create the DoscherLeaks website several times, because every time I complained to the domain host that the site contained libelous material, they suspended the site. The first host was a Christian company InMotion Hosting, the provider that Holding had used for nearly 20 years to also host his
tektonics.org website. After finding a Canadian host company that doesn't care about libelous content, he switched his
tektonics.org site over to another and non-Christian host.
One might say those actions bespeak a mentally unstable individual who has a pathologically obsessive need to slander his critics.
You may contact Holding at
jphold99@gmail.com, the address he gives the readers who might want to give him tax-deductible donations, even though he doesn't ever name the 501(c)(3) organizations that he is required to work with before that tax-exempt status can be lawful.
You may contact his lawyer Scott Livingstson at
slivingston@cplspa.com. Livingston used to be equally as boistriously mouthy and insulting toward me as Holding was, and didn't simmer down until the court entered an order admonishing him to quit using childish and stupid comments.
Perhaps the worst part is that Holding first paid a lawyer more than $20,000 to get my original lawsuit dismissed on the technicality of lack of jurisdiction, which means that he continued slandering me between 2016 and the present despite losing most of his life-savings to answer the legal action. I have a reasonable belief that if the jury in the currently pending case awards me nothing, Holding will boast that this is because God made them see the light. And if they award me substantial damages, Holding will merely insist the judicial system is controlled by the devil. All of the consequences that would otherwise motivate mature adults guilty of libel to cease slandering mentally ill people, happened to Holding, yet these events did nothing but embolden him to increase his libelous harassment of me. So because his spite and ill-will toward me are so clear, my lawsuit is asking for substantial punitive damages.
My current lawsuit has so far cost Holding what I conservatively estimate to be about $10,000, if his attorney's latest fee-disclosure is truthful. And yet Holding refuses to remove any of the libelous postings about me. Holding has thus spent nearly $30,000 answering my legal actions, and shows not the slightest hint that he might perhaps be in the wrong.
If in your opinion Holding's comments about me as documented in the Complaint did at some point transfer from "justified rebuke" over to "sinful slander", I would ask you to either ask him to stop advertising your ministry at his website (I'm assuming you agree with the bible, supra?) or demand that he participate in a Matthew 18 meeting. He is, without any doubts whatsoever, that "reviler" from whom the apostle Paul says you must disassociate yourself.
Every legitimately credentialed bible scholar that ever endorsed Holding in the past says there is ZERO biblical justification to either use insults to react to those who publicly criticize the gospel, or to use insult to repay insult. Even Gary Habermas rebuked him for it. Holding will have none of it. Nope, if Jesus insulted the Pharisees, Holding thinks this grants automatic carte blanche to modern-day Christians to slanderously hiss and spit at anything they disagree with.
The language of Holding that the Complaint documents as slanderous is also sexually filthy and sounds like it came from a demented juvenile delinquent, so make sure no children are with you when you read the Complaint.
Sincerely,
Christian Doscher
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