James Patrick Holding violates Proverbs 13:5-6

I have decided to start a new series at this blog. 

James Patrick Holding is a Christian apologist, who for the last 20 years has not made himself known by anything much more than his love of slander and insulting rhetoric against anybody who disagrees with his view of the bible.

Mr. Holding lives in both perpetual and willful violation of those biblical ethics that most Christian scholars agree apply to the modern-day Christian.

The first four words for the title to each of these new blog-pieces will be  "James Patrick Holding violates", and the words that follow will describe the specific bible verse or passage that Holding lives in violation of.

Try to keep in mind, as of the date of this first post (noon, October 25, 2019), my third defamation lawsuit against Holding is still pending.  It was filed earlier this year, and despite Holding's attempt to suppress the truth by filing a frivolous motion to dismiss, the Court delayed so long ruling on it that we were required to start exchanging discovery.  But Mr. Holding's reply to my first round of discovery questions was dishonest and illegal.  I will give those documents to anybody who asks.  Email me at barryjoneswhat@gmail.com, or reply to this post here. 

Mr. Holding's lawyer is also a professing "Christian".  So you might wonder:  Even if there is no necessary contradiction between being a Christian and being a lawyer, what should we think of a "Christian" lawyer who refuses to advise his client to plead guilty, and pretends that his client's obviously libelous words justify the thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend in front of a jury, when a simple "I'm sorry, I was wrong", would more than likely save everybody the trouble?

You can answer that question for yourself.  I think it has something to do with sin and the unsaved person's reluctance to admit guilt.

Mr. Holding violates Proverbs 13:5-6:

 5 A righteous man hates falsehood, But a wicked man acts disgustingly and shamefully.
 6 Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless, But wickedness subverts the sinner. (Prov. 13:5-6 NAU)

Mr. Holding has been spreading lies about me since even before 2015, but it was in 2015 that he began his most concerted effort to do so.  I will send to anybody who asks the 2015 Complaint, the 2016 Complaint and the 2018 Complaint that started those three lawsuits.  These extensively document not only Mr. Holding's specific words about me, but why they were lies (i.e., libelous).

The 2016 complaint contains the most extensive documentation for my more nuanced claim that Holding is a closet homosexual and talks like a completely demented 6 year old raised by criminal gangs.

What follows is commentary on that passage from a Christian who accepts "biblical inerrancy", therefore, neither Holding nor his idiot followers can wipe them off the page as heretics (one wonders what they'd think if atheists wiped apologists off the page merely because they were apologists?):

Type: Parallel, Catchword (13:5–6). 13:5–6 These two proverbs are set in parallel on the basis of “righteous” and “wicked” in v. 5 and “righteousness” and “wickedness” in v. 6. The NIV translation of v. 5b is flat; it ought to be rendered, “But a wicked man makes a stench and causes shame.” The tie between the two cola of v. 5 is that whereas the righteous are concerned for the truth (over against malicious gossip), the wicked promote scandal. By itself v. 6 is a rather colorless proverb. In context with v. 5, however, it implies that disregard for truth and the spreading of scandal is ultimately self-destructive. Those who care about the truth, however, are preserved by their integrity.

Garrett, D. A. (2001, c1993). Vol. 14: Proverbs, 

Ecclesiastes, Song of songs (electronic ed.). 

Logos Library System;The New American Commentary

(Page 135). Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers.

The "Word Biblical Commentary" might not be "inerrantist" in ideology, but is still conservative "evangelical" for its strong promotion of Christianity.

5–6 These verses are united by the catch words just/wicked. 5 The “word of deceit” is simply plain lies, whatever might be the particular situation. V 5a could refer either to the harm caused to a community by the wicked person, presumably through lies or even calumny, or it may be simply descriptive of his character. In any case, a high premium is placed on honest speech.

Murphy, R. E. (2002). Vol. 22: Word Biblical Commentary :

Proverbs. Word Biblical Commentary (Page 96). Dallas: Word, Incorporated.

For obvious reasons, Holding does little more in life than manifest his love of spreading scandal and lies, and clearly loves controversy and spreading of salacious gossip far more than "honest speech".  It's sad that it was only due to being sued multiple times for libel that he conveniently starting "choosing" to stop being quite as rambunctious about it as he was in 2015 and before.

Read v. 5 again...the Proverbs-author thinks the opposite of the person who hates falsehood, is the person who acts disgustingly and shamefully.  That is, if what Mr. Holding said about me, which justified the lawsuits, was in fact false, his own bible would condemn him as a person who acts disgustingly and shamefully.

This is a strong reason to suppose Mr. Holding is not morally qualified to hold the office of Christian teacher, an office that his own bible cautions most people against holding, James 3:1.  Yet Holding bandies about his teaching-duties as if he isn't doing anything more solemn or grave than showing the kids where extra water balloons are being stored.

Libel lawsuit: court approves of my request to file ECF

James Patrick Holding assured his readers, in the comment section of a youtube video, that they could consult his channel for "updates" on my libel lawsuit against him.

For unknown reasons, those comments have disappeared. 

My blog won't disappear however, and readers can stay updated here.

Since readers might wish to talk about or dispute any specific update, I will be creating new posts for each update in the future instead of just modifying one post and making it longer and longer.

Here's where we are so far:

• I filed the original complaint in court.  
• I sought to have the filing fee waived, which means the court must review the Complaint for possible frivolity or other problems before waiving the filing fee.
• The magistrate judge threatened dismissal with an Order using vague language accusing my Complaint of "loosely" alleging facts but not in any coherent complete fashion, and gave me a chance to "amend" the Complaint to cure such alleged pleading defects.
• I filed a motion for reconsideration of that Order, but in an abundance of caution, also filed a 1st Amended Complaint just to leave the Court one less excuse to tank the case.
• The court denied my motion for reconsideration, without going into why I was wrong to accuse the Order of being directly contrary to clear and binding precedent that requires liberality be extended toward "pro se" litigants.
• As of today, May 10, 2019, the Court  granted my motion to proceed in forma pauperis (i.e., waiving the filing fee).
• Granting such a motion means the Court also waived the expense of service of process, and directs the Clerk to assign a federal marshal to serve the papers on Defendant Apologetics Afield. 
• So if you were wondering why Mr. Mouthy Narcissitic Asshole Apologist suddenly got all demure in the last month or so and stopped yapping so frequently about the lawsuit, now you know why.  It looked for a while like Holding would get his wish and the Court would, again, tank my lawsuit on unjustified grounds.
• Now that Holding's dreams have had their brains bashed out against the rocks (Psalm 137:9), yes, we fully expect Mr. Mouth to suddenly discover that God has suddenly decided that he go back to being Mr. Mouth again.
• Then again, I sued Holding in a way that forced him to hire a real lawyer...and since Holding earlier testified on YouTube that his prior lawyer didn't see things his way and had to tell Holding things he didn't wish to hear, there's a fair chance that if Mr. Mouth doesn't return to his insulting ways, its because his lawyer has told him what his prior lawyer told him...Shut the fuck up with all of this online pestering of Doscher, it only makes it seem Doscher's criticism of you as an incorrigable know-it-all unlikely to change his ways, is correct, and might make the jury think only a higher amount of punitive damages has any hope of setting your stupid ass straight for the first time in your life.

(you can also watch the updates for free either at PacerMonitor here, or go to the Florida Middle District "recent opinion" page here and search the case titles for "Doscher", and if they have uploaded any order in the case, you'll get a pdf of the entire order)

For obvious reasons, I won't be making available online all of the material I plan to use or argue; no attorney in the world would say "yeah, just thrust everything in your argument out on the internet to satisfy the Christians infected with the Jerry Springer demon"

The link to my original Complaint is here.

The link to my motion for reconsideration and 1st Amended Complaint is here.

A rather comprehensive list of Holding's gayness and spiritual immaturity was recorded in the extensive Complaint I filed in the 2016 lawsuit. That Complaint and more can be downloaded from here.

I was going to post a bit more commentary, but for reasons I cannot disclose, I decline.  What I've already posted should give a fair clue as to the shit-storm Holding created for himself.  See here.

Since I presume Holding's followers will likely wish to dispute specific case developments that happen to go in my favor, I'll be making separate posts for all future updates.  Then again, Holding has probably already notified his pussy-followers than his lawyer recommends they not engage with me.  Which means they are more willing to follow worldly advice from non-Christian lawyers, than they are willing to act according to the "fuck you" style of apologetics they usually employ everywhere else on the internet.

my latest challenge to James Patrick Holding

Today, Friday, April 26, 2019, at 11:42 a.m. PST, I posted the following challenge to one of Holding's latest videos:  Admittedly it was off-topic, but I posted there to make sure I'd get noticed, not because the video had anything remotely challenging to bible critics.

This was designed to be considered by his followers, who seem to think that none of Holding's faults are sufficiently serious as to consider him disqualified under biblical criteria from the office of Christian "teacher":

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Let's put your stupidity to the test, Mr. Holding: If you are so sure that when calling me a moron or otherwise impugning my character, you

a - aren't committing any sin, and
b - aren't doing anything illegal, and
c - are promoting a biblical and godly rebuke to those who publicly criticize Christianity,

...then let's see you prioritize god's ways over man's ways...by taking court documents mentioning me, adding your own vitriolic criticisms therein, then uploading these to your DL website....you know, similar to what you already did in the case of certain of my "interrogatories".

After all, doing so wouldn't be a sin, and would actually promote further godliness on your part....so why not do it?

I'm not giving you permission to libel me. I'm merely asking that you act more consistently with the way you have in the past, IF you continue to presently claim that none of your comments about me in the past were sinful or illegal.

If you never committed any sin and only promoted Christian godliness with all your online comments about me since 2015, then why have you changed your ways? Where's that vitriolic mouthy asshole that pranced around Tweb like a juvenile delinquent on crack? Or did I forget that you already told Habermas you don't really know what it was that caused you to back off of the "strong comebacks"? Gee, it wouldn't have anything to do with the reasons that motivated you to stop asking for tax-free money for yourself, would it?

Or is this another opportunity for you to give one of your dishonest excuses, and cover up your inability to answer by saying "I'll let him be surprised by the answer." ?

FUCK YOU.
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See here.

Since Holding will probably remove the comments from public viewing, here's a screenshot: