Tuesday, December 24, 2024

News and Views: December 24, 2024

Woke carols are the latest sign of a church that’s lost faith in its convictions  If you’re planning to attend a carol service tomorrow night, you might want to check out the hymn sheet first – make sure you don’t end up bellowing out: O Come, All Ye Wokeful.
   You see, priests have been told to edit popular carols this Christmas in order to avoid (I really need to create a custom keyboard shortcut for this phrase) “causing unnecessary offence”. Quite why you would be in a church to begin with if you found Christianity so offensive has not been made clear. Image

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Recently, I was asked what I thought was the seminal event in the first quarter of the 21st Century. The past twenty-five years, beginning in January of 2000, have been fraught with wars, terrorism, religious persecution, natural disasters, political intrigue, and financial instability. Yet nothing compares to the impact, both short and long-term, of the global elites’ malevolent exploitation of the COVID-19 pandemic to permanently embed an authoritarian international world order.
     The politically motivated and unprecedented overreaction to a virus with a 99.5% survival rate was launched in March 2020, unleashing what can best be described as a once-in-a-century fiasco. Nearly five years later, it is impossible to look at the United States and the world and not conclude that this country and many nations throughout the globe were in the grip, not of a virus, but of delusional madness and malevolence.

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Christians in Haifa prepare for Christmas after months of Hezbollah rocket fire  While few in number, Haifa's Christian community is diverse, consisting of five different churches including the Anglican, Catholic and Greek Orthodox.

Israel's Pager Operation Disoriented and Severely Damaged Hezbollah, Here's How They Did It  Those pagers set off a sequence of events that changed the region in ways we cannot yet fully understand...
...The walkie-talkie operation was ten-years in the making. The pagers shorter but still over several years.

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Biden administration throws out proposed Title IX transgender sports rule The rule, if it went into effect, would have barred schools from banning transgender athletes from participating in sports teams different from their sex assigned at birth.

Biden administration withdraws student loan forgiveness plans. The department wrote that it was terminating the rulemaking proceeding due to “operational challenges in implementing the proposals.” It said it would “commit its limited operational resources” in these final weeks of the administration “to helping at-risk borrowers return to repayment successfully.”

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The Man and the Birds by Paul Harvey

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