Biden's Plan to Censor Christians, Conservatives Before 2024 Election...more

Christians Faced Astonishing Levels of Persecution in 2023  The Open Doors’ World Watch List 2024 ranked “50 countries where Christians face the most extreme persecution” and provided sobering statistics for 2023. Last year, 4,998 Christians were murdered for their faith, an average of 13 every day, with 4,125 Christians detained. A staggering 14,766 Christian properties and churches were attacked. Persecution is especially harsh in Asia and Africa, with North Korea ranked by the World Watch List as the top most dangerous country for Christians, though Nigeria’s Christians accounted for 82% of Christians killed for their religion in 2023.

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Biden's Monstrous 'Anti-Terror' Plan to Censor Christians, Conservatives Before 2024 Election   The Media Research Center (MRC) has uncovered a Biden Administration plot — yes, plot —  to silence conservatives before the 2024 election with a "media literacy" program that targets conservatives, Christians, gun owners, and the GOP in the name of fighting terrorism. The program uses federal taxpayer funds to pay people to write, blog, and podcast messages that are anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Republican, and anti-anyone who ever thought Donald Trump wore nice ties.

A Government that Sows Division and Subsidizes Madness   When “justice” loses all meaning, injustice becomes pervasive.  When delusional behavior is celebrated and honesty is outlawed as “bigotry,” insanity thrives.  Why are Western governments pushing irrational, unscientific, ludicrous nonsense that is physically and emotionally harmful, socially dangerous, and economically destructive?  Perhaps because those with power find it useful to sow division and subsidize madness.  Do not comply.

I Bought A Bible, Slingshot, And Sports Gear. So I’m Probably On A ‘Domestic Terrorist’ Watchlist   Americans who shopped at sporting goods stores and bought religious books “like a Bible” were flagged through their banks as potential domestic terrorists, Rep. Jim Jordan revealed Jan. 17.

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Maine Bill Allows Authorities to Take Children Away from Parents Who Resist Transgendering   Parents would have no parental rights on the issue; either they allow their children to be exposed to dangerous and permanent transgendering drugs and surgeries, or they lose them to the state.

The Leftwing Media’s Declaration Of War Against Homeschoolers Has Nothing To Do With ‘Protecting Children’   The leftwing media declaration of war against homeschoolers — by far the best performing and safest students in the United States, according to the data — comes even as victims of government schools suffer from massive levels of illiteracy, innumeracy, mental-health problems, suicide, sexual abuse, gender confusion, and more. 

Federal data show less than one in three students in public schools are proficient in any core subject, with some government schools failing to produce a single student proficient in anything. Meanwhile, over 10 percent of children in government schools will be the victim of sexual abuse perpetrated by staff members of those schools including teachers and officials, U.S. Department of Education data show.

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The Silent Epidemic Eating Away Americans’ Minds...A sudden, unprecedented change in mental disorders has scientists worried about what it could mean.  The social acceptability and pervasiveness of screens often make it hard for people to realize that their screen time may be getting out of control.

So far, no consistent criteria on what counts as screen addiction exists, but there are increasing data suggesting that many Americans have problematic screen use.

Digital Detox, Intentional Ignorance, and the Proximity Principle   For Christians to thrive in the modern era, there are two spiritual disciplines we must adopt: Digital Detox (fasting from screens) and Intentional Ignorance (fasting from information).

    The rapid growth of digital technology has implications for our spiritual formation. The form of connectivity that comes with smartphones and watches is fundamentally new in human history; this isn’t necessarily good or bad, but it is certainly different. Thus, the countercultural spiritual disciplines that serve our growth ought to be different as well.

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Tens of thousands gather in Washington, DC at US March for Life  Image

Abortionists Capitalize on Prop 1 in California...How D.C.’s DuPont Clinic stands to gain clients by pushing the late term abortion debate.   It was only a few months later that the state of California passed Proposal 1, a ballot measure that purported to add a legal right to abortion, on demand with no restrictions, to the state’s constitution. As some speculated at the time, the amendment would almost certainly sanction late term abortions, the practice of killing an unborn child after the second trimester of pregnancy until as late as 32 weeks of gestation. While 20 years of California statute affirms a viable child—approximately 24 weeks old—may not be killed unless the life of the mother is at risk, Proposal 1 will upend that.

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Iceland's Recent Volcanic Eruption Shows  Reawakened Long-Dormant Fault Line...Japan’s coastline shifted more than 800 feet after the devastating Jan 1. earthquake 

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Is God Real? Lee Strobel explores the ultimate question of life  Is God Real? never states that any of its arguments prove that God exists. Humans are limited and such proof is beyond our reach. Rather, Is God Real? gives the reader a taste of the knowledge and reasoning behind Christian faith. Given the centrality of the Judeo-Christian tradition to our embattled, but very worth cherishing Western Civilization, the book is doing important work that serves the needs of believers and non-believers alike.

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Covid Didn’t Suddenly Become ‘Deadly’ in April 2020  My contrarian thought is that if millions of people had already been infected by mid-February 2020 or the lockdown dates and we know there was no spike in “all-cause” deaths, we can conclude with confidence that Covid was not causing a spike in deaths. 

   In other words, this was not a “deadly” virus and the world did not have a real “health emergency” that was causing large numbers of people to die.