Global condemnation of Iranian attack...

Global condemnation of Iranian attack; IDF hits Hezbollah weapons plant in north Lebanon  99% of 300-plus projectiles fired by Iran at Israel were intercepted * US, UK, Jordan, France help stop drones * Israel reopens airspace * Mossad: Hamas rejected hostage deal proposal  

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Why Iran May Have Just Overplayed Its Hand by Attacking Israel  The Islamic nation could now see many of its most important strategic sites hit, including its nuclear facilities. In return, they can only fling low-tech drones and missiles over at Israel, most of which will never make it through. The status quo of its proxy militias launching largely ineffective attacks will also continue.

New York City Council Opens Meeting by Praising Allah as the Supreme Lord of the World (VIDEO) 

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

    “May they be secure who love you!

Peace be within your walls

    and security within your towers!”

 For my brothers and companions' sake

    I will say, “Peace be within you!”

 For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,

    I will seek your good. -Psalm 122:6-9

There Is Hope...

There Is Hope/CityAlight

1. There is hope in grace unceasing

You withhold your wrath from me

Poured it out upon my Saviour

On the cross of Calvary

2. There is hope now for the hopeless

There is victory all can know

For the tomb lies bare and broken

And deaths pow’r is overthrown

CHORUS

Jesus Christ my hope forever

Hope unlike the world can bring

Your steadfast love beyond all measure

There is hope in Christ my king

3. There is hope for sons and daughters

Who have wandered on their own

Hear the songs of joy from heaven

As the lost are welcomed home

BRIDGE

Hallelujah, Hope of heaven

Precious treasure of my life

All my joy is in your presence

I am yours and you are mine

4. I will wait until I see him

Though the twilight turns to night

For my hope is not defeated

It will greet His dawning light

When churches go woke, they die; The U.S. Is Facing Record Drug Shortages...more

When churches go woke, they die  But there’s another issue here involving organised Christianity, and one that goes beyond semantics. Throughout the Western world it’s the liberal, perhaps woke, churches that are in worrying and sometimes terminal decline.

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The U.S. Is Facing Record Drug Shortages In the first quarter of 2024, the U.S. faced 323 active medication shortages, surpassing the previous record of 320 in 2014, as reported by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and the Utah Drug Information Service, the report says. 

    The American Cancer Society highlighted a particularly alarming shortage of chemotherapy drugs, which has led to severe impacts on patient care. Hospitals and clinics have reported completely running out, with doctors having to ration or prioritize who gets the limited supplies first.

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Muslim Convert Planned Ramadan Attack on 21 Idaho Churches Mercurio is one of a growing number of American teens who convert to Islam, often in out-of-the-way places and then get involved in Islamic terrorism. Recent cases include Trevor Bickford, 19, of Maine, who tried to attack NYPD officers in Times Square with a Machete, Xavier Pelkey, 18, also of Maine, who tried to recruit two teens for a terrorist attack in Chicago, Cole James Bridges from Akron, Ohio, Mateo Ventura, a high school student in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and Jonathan Xie, a 20-year-old from a New Jersey suburb.

   There is a pattern of teenage boys, resentful of their parents and society, with nothing to aspire to and nothing to believe in, drifting into fantasies of violently terrorizing everyone around them.

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Parents in Seattle furious over program for gifted children being terminated simply because “it had too many White students”  The gifted and talented program has been replaced with the Highly Capable Neighborhood School Model, which requires teachers to come up with individualized learning programs for all of their students. The school district claims the new model will “be more inclusive, equitable and culturally sensitive.”

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California Anti-Israel Activist Charged After Threatening City Council and Mayor An anti-Israel activist in Bakersfield, California recently attended a public meeting where she threatened violence against members of the city council and the mayor for what she saw as insufficient support for a ceasefire in Gaza.

She left the meeting in handcuffs.

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"Covid" Didn't Destroy Businesses and Lives; The Government Did   It therefore is long past time to put a stake through the heart of such phrases as “During Covid…” or “Covid caused…” or “Covid destroyed…” any of the multiple disasters and outrages the government forced upon us. Instead, from this day forward, I shall employ accurate language to describe what was done to us: Instead of “During Covid…,” it must be, “During the government shut-down.… And, “The government [not Covid] destroyed my friend’s business,” and the like, for the entire parade of horrible and unconstitutional acts.

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The Week in Pictures: Eclipsolypse Edition 

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Trump Indicted For Taking More Chick-fil-A Sauces Than He Actually Needed For His Order https://t.co/Oq1jU7nBlm pic.twitter.com/v9FJzR0t04

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 11, 2024

Plastic Madness; The Hot New Trend....more

Plastic Madness 

So we went and banned plastic straws and plastic bags in much of California and elsewhere because they are made from fossil fuels and a solitary turtle was once found snorting fentanyl through a plastic straw, or something. In any case, Greta/Gaia was displeased, so plastic products had to go.

Well guess what: the substitutes for plastic products mostly produce higher greenhouse gas emissions than plastic. Not by just a little but by a lot.

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The Hot New Trend Is...Bed-Rotting? 

Of the untold number of Americans who no longer have to leave home to go to work, half sometimes don't even bother to leave their beds. It's called "bed-rotting" and for only the fourth time in my 20-plus years as VodkaPundit, I find myself with nothing to say at first except "I can't even."

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Portuguese Catholic Church announces it will compensate victims of sex abuse  20 victims have asked for compensation so far, according to church officials

Review into alleged historic child sex abuse by monks on Welsh island announced An abbey on a remote Welsh island has commissioned an independent review into alleged historical child sex abuse by monks....Caldey, off the coast of Pembrokeshire in west Wales, home to Cistercian Order monks, has been facing allegations since 2017.

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'Hero' Wyoming teen stabbed to death while protecting girlfriend in mall attack: report  Bobby Maher, 14, reportedly arrived at the mall after his girlfriend called him and said the juvenile suspects were following her.

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Planet Fitness' Pro-Trans Policy Blows Up in Its Face 

Does a naked dude in a women’s locker asking a woman to rub lotion on him and shower with him sound like someone who thinks he’s a woman or someone who is exploiting the gym’s pro-transgender policies to gain access to private women’s spaces? Image

The Brainwashing of America; Islamic prayer in Westminster...more

The Brainwashing of America 

With that in mind, the current mood of restrained capitulation should be of utmost concern. As this trend progresses, where, pray tell, is the spirit that gave a ragtag band of freedom fighters the courage to hide in trees and take shots at the most powerful standing army in the world -- and win? Instead of refusing to submit, Americans like automatons mask up, line up, and take "shots" of a different kind. Like it or not, our nation stands on the precipice of losing all that is sacred. That’s why, those who have enjoyed the “blessings of liberty” must rouse from the fevered dream they’ve been lulled into and refuse to submit to the sort of tyranny our Constitution was drafted to prevent.

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Islamic prayer in Westminster

Many areas of London have a Muslim population of between 20 and 46 percent.

   They have the numbers and the strength to project Hamas slogans onto Big Ben. And they have legions of useful idiots at their side.

   Practically every day in London there are prayers on the lawns of Westminster. And no one says anything: politics, police, media.

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Germany: ISIS Pair Allegedly Kept Yazidi Child Sex Slaves The couple also exerted “harsh physical violence” on the girls, who were prevented from practising their own religion and coerced into household work and childcare, prosecutors said. The man on one occasion allegedly hit the older girl with a broomstick, the woman is accused of scalding the younger girl’s hand with hot water and both children were repeatedly forced to stand on one leg for half an hour as punishment.

Christians Out, Muslims In: The Islamic Takeover of Germany 

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Islamized France: 13-year-old Girl Attacked for Non-Compliance with Ramadan  In Achenheim (Bas-Rhin), France, a 13-year-old minor was attacked by four Muslim minors who criticized her for not respecting the Ramadan fast as she was getting off a bus on her way to school. Accompanied by her father, the adolescent filed a complaint Tuesday afternoon for the acts of group violence.

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Scotland's destiny and the rewriting of history...The return of paganism and the demonisation of Christianity 

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WHO Coming Down the Home Stretch with Invasive Testing and Vaxxing Requirements for Tourists and Others Traveling Legally Across Borders   The proposed amendments would include adding the terminology for so-called conveyance operators, which includes operators of planes, trains, subways, cruise lines, buses, etc.

    These operators, both public and private, would have to comply with “health measures which may include isolation and quarantine as required, for application on board as well and embarkation and disembarkation.” That means you could be confronted both getting on and getting off of a plane, cruise ship or train, and asked to take a PCR test, or to show proof of vaccination against whatever disease they are looking for.

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Mayo Clinic argues it has legal right to punish professors for voicing unpopular opinions 

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Harvard Becomes the Latest Elite University to Reverse Course and Bring Back Standardized Testing   Other elite universities have also gone back to requiring standardized testing, including Dartmouth, Brown University, Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rutgers Unexpectedly Drops Student Vaxx Requirement, Litigation Proceeds   What all of this boils down to is that there is not now and never was any legitimate public health rationale for COVID-19 vaccine mandates, and any institution like Rutgers that exercised even a modicum of due diligence would have known this from the start.

   Accordingly, all of the students who got the shot and suffered lifelong injuries or died, as well as those who refused and were expelled or denied admission, are owed reparations.

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“For as the earth brings forth its sprouts..."

“For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, 

 and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up, 

so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to sprout up 

before all the nations." -Isaiah 62:11

Asiatic lilies

Daffodils

Periwinkle

Early spring garden blooms....

The Ministry of BS Will See You Now; A Corruption Too Deep To Fix...more

The Ministry of BS Will See You Now 

I mean, it is simply amazing how much BS I shovel down the American people’s throats every single day.”

   The notion that powerful people lie to the public is certainly not new.  You can go back through the centuries and find essays, songs, drawings, and folktales that all attest to the timeless truth that every generation sees its “rulers” as an unworthy camarilla of cutthroats, liars, backstabbers, and thieves.  Still, the lies being told today are just so brazen.  Damaging tornado?  That’s what we get for driving cars.  Too many white mathematicians?  Obviously another bout of “systemic racism” rearing its ugly head.  Trump’s beating Biden in the polls?  Duh — that’s because America runs on “hate”!

UK: How woke policing betrays ordinary people...The cops now care more about offensive tweets than burglaries    But today concerns about private property are increasingly seen as an expression of ‘privilege’. These crimes are seen, consciously or unconsciously, as less important. Hence why shoplifting is on the verge of becoming socially acceptable, looting is viewed by some as an act of rebellion and TikTok terrors like Mizzy can barge into strangers’ homes with near impunity. Caring about violations against private property is now considered out of touch and gauche.

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Pfizer And A Corruption Too Deep To Fix   

Notice the absence of the word Paxlovid, making it all the more difficult for regular people to find. Nirmatrelvir is the clinical name.

   And the conclusion: “Nirmatrelvir–ritonavir was not associated with a significantly shorter time to sustained alleviation of Covid-19 symptoms than placebo, and the usefulness of nirmatrelvir–ritonavir in patients who are not at high risk for severe Covid-19 has not been established.”

   In other words: this drug does not work. At all. It is no better than nothing. It is not useful. Countless billions later and this is what we have, a completely useless thing. At best. In fact, that Pfizer itself admits that its own drug is useless, one wonders what the bad news is!

So the CDC knew all along about those 780,000 side effects to its COVID vaccine as it was assuring us it was 'safe'  Had enough? They were lying all along. And nearly a million people suffered from it, some with very serious side effects such as facial paralysis, miscarriages, seizures, Bell's Palsy, shortness of breath, heart palpitations and other serious side effects.

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Activists Want Energy Companies To Pay Climate Damages. That Could Imperil US National Security, Former Joint Chiefs Say.  Oil and gas 'critical to national security, economic stability and military preparedness'

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Army Invites Retirees as Old as 70 to Return to Active Duty in Attempt to Fix Recruiting Woes  “There is no age limitation, although personnel older than 70 are not normally recalled.”

U.S. Navy Facing Major Shipbuilding Delays While China's Navy Expansion Accelerates 

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Anti-Israel Protesters Storm Senate Cafeteria...Hey, does this qualify as an insurrection?  

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Even the Moon Is Racist Now 

No, that headline is not satire. It sounds like it, but it's not. That's just how unhinged the radical left has become. Nothing can happen in this world without the left finding a way to play the victim card — and not even rare solar eclipses are exempt.

This Is the Dumbest Thing We've Heard From a Dem Since Hank Johnson Said Guam Would Capsize "Sometimes you've heard the word full moon, and sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon... that complete rounded circle..." 

   Well, at least she got that part right. The round moon is really roundly rounded. 

   But then she added that the moon "is made up mostly of gases."

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Mayo Clinic Study Raises Serious Questions about ‘Reversibility’ of Puberty Blockers...Sex Change Surgery for Minors Could be ‘Greatest Ethical Scandal in the History of Medicine’’  The findings cast doubt on the ‘reversibility’ of puberty blockers — a key claim of the trans activists who promote the drugs, saying they only ‘pause’ puberty and buy time for trans kids to make decisions about their gender.

   Instead, researchers say puberty blockers hurt the development of testicles and sperm production in ways that are not fully reversible and could affect users’ ability to have children when they grow up.

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Happy hops.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/uu10W1ZUoc

— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) April 10, 2024

Biden Making Christianity More Invisible; Med schools dropping standardized testing...more

Biden, Transgenderism, and Making Christianity More Invisible Biden’s administration is unquestionably hostile to the faith that he claims to hold. We’ve seen it in his policies and his propaganda since his first day in office. The “Transgender Day of Visibility,” regardless of it falling on the same day as Easter, doesn’t deserve to be legitimized, let alone worshiped on such a day sacred to the nearly 2.5 billion Christians around the world. There’s too much disinformation in Biden’s proclamation to dismantle but one assertion stood out more than others. He claimed that “transgenders deserve, and are entitled to, the same rights and freedoms as every other American, including the most fundamental freedom to be their true selves.” I’m all about freedom of expression. That doesn’t translate, however, into their movement’s freedom of oppression.

Biden’s Latest Student Loan Bailout Has Election-Year Bribe Written All Over It  The Democrat’s election-year bribe would be paid for by taxpayers forced to shoulder an ever-expanding national debt.

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Democrats’ Systemic Normalization Of Property Theft Birthed America’s Squatter Crisis  America’s current squatter crisis is the result of Democrats’ systemic effort to normalize property theft. Their ultimate goal is to destroy property rights and replace America’s free-market capitalism with socialism. Never forget that socialist revolutions in countries such as China began with demonizing landowners and abolishing private property rights. Since private property rights are the cornerstone of a free society, Americans must wake up to how the left has led our nation on a dangerous trajectory and do everything possible to defend our property rights.

US home insurers are using drones and satellites to spy on customers   The widespread adoption of digital surveillance in the industry has raised concerns among consumer advocates, especially regarding customers’ ability to challenge potentially outdated or inaccurate images. It has even forced some employees to quit their positions with insurance companies.

   “It’s like they’re using anything as an excuse to get people off their books,” said Nichole Brink, who quit her position with Farmers Insurance. Neil Pearson, a consultant working with imagery companies, says aerial images could be updated daily by 2030 if satellite launches go as planned.

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Doctoring So Easy, Even a Caveman Can Do It...Some schools have dropped the standardized Medical College Admission Test Arguments abound as to why the “scholastically inferior” do worse on tests and in earning high grades. For our purposes, this is of no interest. All that matters is that these inferior students happen to be from the so-called “underrepresented” groups. That they may be “underrepresented” because they are scholastically inferior is irrelevant.

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Watchdog Group Challenges Biden Administration & NOAA over Massaging Climate Disaster Data   A non-partisan watchdog group asserts that a key agency monitoring weather disaster outcomes for the Biden administration used misleading and self-serving data analysis to claim storms are becoming more extreme and expensive due to climate change.

The Wheels Come Off the Woke Agenda in Massachusetts The irony here is that in a culture in which racism, bigotry, and whatever-phobia are whatever the biggest and loudest mob decides they are on any given day, no one is safe.

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Vanderbilt University suspends, expells students who occupied chancellor's office during pro-Palestinian protest  Three students were charged with Class A misdemeanor assault after they pushed a Community Services Officer and a staff member who offered to meet with them while they forcefully entered Kirkland Hall on March 26, a Vanderbilt spokesperson previously told Campus Reform.

The Vanderbilt students called 911 because one of them had their tampon in too long pic.twitter.com/Nqxh5C91iY

— Stand Back and Stand By 🇺🇸 (@texasbeauregard) March 30, 2024

 

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 Paul Harvey's Words From 1965 

Should Be Heeded by Americans Today

The Left Wants to Destroy Your Neighborhood; Secretive Experiment To Shoot Aerosols Into The Sky...more

NYC Homeowners Told They Will Be Arrested If They Turn Off Electricity, Water As Squatters Take Over Squatters are taking advantage of New York City laws while homeowners go broke. 

     Several homeowners told CBS that they would be “arrested instantly” if they were to change the locks, evict the squatters, or turn off necessities such as hot water. They are forced to pay for the upkeep of the homes while squatters, many of whom are illegal immigrants, get to live in them for free.

The Left Wants to Destroy Your Neighborhood 

If 30% of the residential units in your neighborhood were suddenly transformed into low-cost units, what would that do to the neighborhood? To the parks? To the schools? To the crime rate? To the quality of life? But Johnson is just getting started. This specific project is just the beginning of what he calls "our shared commitment" to "creating affordable housing in every single neighborhood."

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Canadian father fights for life of daughter approved for MAiD...his 27-year-old daughter was approved when she only has autism and ADHD   A Canadian father is fighting for the life of his 27-year-old daughter who sought and was approved for the nation’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) program. In March, a Calgary court issued a decision that would have allowed the young woman to proceed, but that decision is now headed for appeal, as her father argues that she should not have been approved based on current statutes.

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Secretive Experiment To Shoot Aerosols Into The Sky Over San Francisco To Increase Cloud Cover The report notes that there is little data on the potential negative effects of such geoengineering projects and that they “could also harm communities and ecosystems in unexpected ways.”

   Shuchi Talati, the executive director of the Alliance for Just Deliberation on Solar Geoengineering, remarked how the test had been “kept under wraps” with little public engagement whatsoever.

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7 Tips for Reading the Book of Revelation 

The temptation is to write off the book as impossible to understand and thus keep it closed. But doing so comes with significant loss. We understand why as we read the extraordinary promise in the book’s third verse: Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. (Revelation 1:3)

Antisemitism and the Devil 

The evil we are confronting is so flagrant, irrational, and diabolical that the literal hypothesis, if not demonstrably empirical, still remains persuasive. As a Jew, I am tempted to believe that the devil has once more unleashed his hordes, that demons actually do exist, and that they are really here again.

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Elites at War with the People; Biden planning to label goods coming from Jewish settlements...more

Elites at War with the People 

An important takeaway from the last four years for many governments is the surprising ease of winning public compliance with demands for intrusive behavioural changes that completely reset the balance of rights and responsibilities between citizens, society, markets, and the government. Instead of implementing policies to give effect to voter priorities, the emboldened dominant metropolitan elites are entirely dedicated to the proposition that citizens should be forced to live by their rules on what to say, think, read, watch, do.

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Wait, The Biden Administration Is Going to Label Jewish Goods Now? Sounds Pretty Hitlerian.  The Biden administration is drawing up plans to require goods produced in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank to be clearly labelled as coming from there, according to US officials, another sign of White House unhappiness with the government of Benjamin Netanyahu. 

'Death to America,' 'Death to Israel' chants pour out of Muslim protesters in Michigan on last day of Ramadan   Protesters in Dearborn, Michigan, shouted "Death to America!" and "Death to Israel!" during an International Al-Quds Day rally held in the town.

"Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Al-Quds Day, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America," Tarek Bazzi, a Michigan-based activist associated with the Hadi institute, said in a video from the rally that was shared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).

Bazzi’s comments were followed by crowds chanting "Death to America!" in the background.

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World population predicted to fall for the first time since the Black Death   “We are facing staggering social change through the 21st century,” senior author Professor Stein Emil Vollset said. “The world will be simultaneously tackling a ‘baby boom’ in some countries and a ‘baby bust’ in the others. As most of the world contends with the serious challenges to the economic growth of a shrinking workforce and how to care for and pay for aging populations, many of the most resource-limited countries in sub-Saharan Africa will be grappling with how to support the youngest, fastest-growing population on the planet in some of the most politically and economically unstable, heat-stressed, and health system-strained places on earth.”

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Anti-white, anti-male, a woke voice in the Anglican wilderness   

Which brings me to the present, and to the Venerable Doctor Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, the newly appointed Anglican Archdeacon of Liverpool. She recently tweeted: ‘Let’s have anti-whiteness, and let’s smash the patriarchy.’ This outburst, resulting from her attending a conference on ‘whiteness’, prompted a litany of outrage in the media, her comments being described as racist, divisive and nonsensical. Her views on the patriarchy are certainly odd given that the first words of the Lord’s Prayer, taught by Christ, are ‘Our Father’ which seems very problematical for someone who wants to smash the patriarchy. She has, of course, backtracked and stated that her comments were part of a more nuanced discussion. Yea, yea, but out of the abundance of the heart the fingers tweet (to misquote Christ)....

....She exemplifies the current problems facing the Church of England which is that as far as many are concerned it speaks not with a clear, authentic voice, only the babble of noise reflecting the many woke issues of today, but with a veneer of clericalism and religious language applied liberally. As in the Baptist’s days the religious elites seem totally disconnected from the people they are supposed to serve which is as far from ‘a voice crying in the wilderness’ as is possible.

    In my town there are at least four lively, independent churches, all conservative evangelical in theology, and each with very ethnically diverse congregations, (whiteness does not seem to be a problem). The large Anglican church in the centre of town holds coffee mornings and the usual poorly attended services, but with little discernible life.

Christian social worker has job withdrawn because LGBT patients 'might kill themselves'  Mr Ngole, of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, told Leeds employment tribunal he has worked as a youth worker, teacher and pastor for 20 years, and has helped gypsies, lesbians, gays and trans people during that time.

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How Sweden proved the world wrong about lockdown 

The evidence is clear: authoritarian restrictions did not save more lives.

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Puberty Blockers Are Not a ‘Pause Button’, They’re a ‘Sterility Button’  A 12-year-old boy who had taken puberty blockers for 14 months had nearly 60 percent of his sex glands had "fully atrophied."

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Can your dog do this.pic.twitter.com/3en4HkcYW6

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 7, 2024