News and Views: September 7, 2024

Angels Over Budapest: A Short Meditation On Bearing Suffering In Faith  As we walked back after the beer festival, we went back and forth about how hard it is to learn how to accept God’s will through suffering, even if it is only the suffering of loneliness. I told him that it’s not easy to accept that God’s will for us may not include earthly happiness — that He seeks our good, not necessarily our happiness. There’s an important distinction.

     “In my life, there have been times when God had to intervene with a sign to let me know that He was still with me, that whatever I was going through was part of His plan, and that He had not abandoned me,” I said. [Rod Dreher]

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World Economic Forum Finally Tells the Truth About Covid: It Was a 'Test' of Our Obedience to Rapidly Forming New World Order They were testing us. That’s what Covid was all about. They wanted to see how many of us would give up our individual freedom and individual sovereignty by complying with a “new normal” that consisted of restrictions bordering on the absurd.

   Why, for instance was it “safe” to shop at Lowe’s or Home Depot but unsafe to shop at a small business or attend church? Why was it OK to go to strip clubs in Michigan but you couldn’t buy seeds for a garden?

   What the WEF is implying with its above statement is that in order to be “sustainable,” people and societies will need to be compliant with a new more authoritarian global order. Don’t ask questions. Don’t resort to logic. Just obey.

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Harris And Walz Avoiding The Press Isn’t A Savvy Campaign Strategy — They’re Just Cowards  Even The New York Times thinks Kamala Harris’ answers are ‘vague’ and ‘vacuous’ — why is someone this scared of opening her mouth running for president?

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Newsom Vetoes Bill Allowing California Illegal Aliens to Apply for $150,000 in Home Loans   California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed AB 1840, which would have given illegal aliens $150,000 for housing through the California Dream for All program because, well, no money.

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The Week in Pictures: Deja Vu All Over Again Edition 

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