Wednesday, April 02, 2025

O Lord, as long as I am apart from you...

O Lord, as long as I am apart from you, I am self-satisfied, because I have no standard by which to measure my low stature. But when I come near to you, there for the first time I see myself. In your light I behold my darkness. In your purity I behold my corruption. My very confession of sin is the fruit of holiness.
Oh! Divine Man, let me gaze on you more and more until, in the vision of your brightness, I loathe the sight of my impurity; until, in the blaze of that glory which human eye has not seen, I fall prostrate, blinded, broken, to rise a new man in you. Amen.   -George Matheson

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News and Views: April 2, 2025

Can We Fix Our Demographic Doom Loop?  
Falling birth rates in rich nations threaten collapse, while poorer regions boom—forcing tough questions on economics, culture, and why modern women choose not to have children.

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Elon Issues Cryptic Warning to Those Funding Tesla Terror Attacks: We Know Who You Are, and We’re Coming   Musk called the attacks against Tesla "wide-scale domestic terrorism."
   Numerous analysts have suggested protests, especially ones that disband at a very particular time, appear to be astroturfed by an outside source.

70-Year-Old Man Arrested for Allegedly Striking Tesla Supporter with Car  Arrests have also been made in a Pennsylvania vandalism incident and Arizona road-rage case. The defendants are beginning to experience the FO phase of the FAFO cycle.

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Democrats Have Made Violence an Acceptable Part of American Life   No matter where you live, liberal mobs will see to it that you can’t express conservative ideas in public. If you decide to wear a MAGA hat, you place yourself at risk of assault. If you refuse to bow down to the demands of Black Lives Matter and Antifa, they will burn your house to the ground with you in it. My neighbor told me she was afraid to display an American flag in front of her house. This is not the same country I grew up in. The irony is that a majority of Americans voted for Donald Trump and his conservative platform.

Jayapal: We‘re Training Americans to Take Down Potential Trump Dictatorship Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said Monday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that she was training Americans to help take down a potential “dictatorship” of President Donald Trump.

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DOGE Reportedly Finds Millions of Illegals on Social Security Rolls   A comprehensive investigation published by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) found potentially 39 million cases from 2012 to 2016 in which Americans had their identities and Social Security numbers stolen by illegal aliens.

Five Ways Non-Citizens With Social Security Numbers Can Scam America   Once non-citizens living in the United States have a SSN, opportunities to commit fraud become clear.

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WATCH: Sen. John Kennedy Destroys Nationwide Injunctions   Kennedy’s questioning explained that universal injunctions lack any basis in statutory law, Supreme Court precedent, or historical common law and exposed their use as a judicial overreach that disproportionately targets President Trump’s policies.
   The left's weaponization of universal injunctions against Trump continues unchecked, but Senator Kennedy just exposed their game.

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As I’ve gotten used to this — which happened long ago, I’ve been writing morning pages for thirty years or more — I started to notice that I actually enjoy writing in longhand. The feel of the paper, the pen in my hand, the unstudied elegance of the words appearing in black ink on the white paper. If I get up in the morning in a bad mood, or feeling the effects of a short night, or if I’m worrying about something, the morning pages let me talk it out. The notebook doesn’t judge — and if you feel like you are being judged, I’ll tell you a secret. It’s you all the way down.

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Even critics have noted how heavy-handed the messaging is, but the BBC is leaning into the show. Smoggie Queens is revolutionary – not in the sense that it is great art, or even good art, but in the sense that it is a deliberate attempt to subvert whatever remains of gender norms, the natural family, traditional sexual values, and any other norm you can think of. It is worth remembering, here, that this is a taxpayer-funded revolution: the BBC funds its projects through a mandatory license fee levied on British households. 
   In other words, traditional families are paying for propaganda that ruthlessly mocks their values. The revolution is top down, and taxpayer funded.

Let’s try a little test, folks. Which of these is an April Fool? Four-year-old suspended from nursery for “abuse against sexual orientation and gender identity” at an age when most small boys still happily identify as a tractor. Highly respected professor denounced and cast out by her university for stating biological facts. A family on horseback allegedly menaced by two men and the wife later summoned to the police station for describing the pair who terrified them as “effing pikeys”. A grandmother visited by plain-clothes policemen because she posted a private message criticising a Labour councillor. A builder in Bedfordshire who got a police record for racial hatred after whistling the Bob the Builder theme tune at his neighbours. OK, Bob’s treatment of Wendy could be seen as a tad misogynist, perhaps, but how is it racist? Muck the Digger – is he a member of the traveller community?
Surely, I hear you wail, that last one can’t be true? Amazing to report, but all of them happened.

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  • "Deadnaming and Misgendering" as a discriminatory act
  • Weaponizing custody battles
  • Gender ideology forced into ALL schools
  • Courts will not be allowed to enforce laws from other states that protect kids
  • No more gender-based dress codes
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Monday, March 31, 2025

Fear not the storm...

Fear not the storm, it brings healing in its wings, and when Jesus is with you in the vessel, the tempest only hastens the ship to its desired haven.  -Charles Spurgeon Image

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News and Views: March 31, 2025

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In sum, we are witnessing the greatest effort to reinvent or, rather, restore the U.S. since the first 100 days of FDR’s radical New Deal revolution. It can succeed even against the street theater nihilism, mainstreamed vulgarity, neo-terrorism, lawfare, and the congressional circus arrayed against it.
   But success hinges on speed and audacity (“L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace!”), the rapid reassertion of its constitutional duties by the Supreme Court, constant discipline to prevent needless errors and leaks, calm and tragic explication and messaging rather than boastful high-fiving, and a constant reminder that their desperate opposition wishes to destroy this last effort to stop what had become sheer madness.

Democrats and their corporate media allies have co-opted the popular narrative on various social issues, including sexism. Republicans provide little, if any, pushback for fear of what the low-rated Sunday talk shows or the Washington Post might say about them.

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Sally and Nigel Rowe, whose sons attended a Church of England school, said they received a letter from the headteacher and chair of governors which declared pupils could be designated the term if they showed 'an inability to believe a transgender person is actually a ''real'' female or male.'
   They claimed the letter also added that refusing to use a transgender pupil's adopted name or gender appropriate pronouns would be considered 'transphobic behaviour'.

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A few years ago, research by the Church of England’s General Synod found that more than one third (38%) of CofE congregations had no members under 16. 68% had fewer than five. I would imagine that broadly similar figures obtain across many different Christian denominations, with the possible exception of various independent and Evangelical congregations, and perhaps some redoubts of Catholic traditionalism. In the contemporary world it is clearly very difficult for Christians to keep their children in the church.

Even atheists in secular countries show intuitive preferences for religious belief   The study offers new insights into the evolving landscape of religious and secular belief, challenging the assumption that cultural shifts away from religion necessarily erase pro-religious intuitions.

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The media distorts reality, twisting Trump’s actions into tyranny while excusing its own abuses—an artful exercise in deception and bias   The real message of Collinson’s essay, and the entire worldview for which he speaks, can be paraphrased as: “Only we are allowed to do such things! We can attack our ideological opponents, thus distorting the rule of law and social comity. But any effort to resist those depredations and restore the rule of law is illegitimate because we alone have the authority to do such things.” It’s nice work if you can get it.

Yes, The Left Supports Domestic Terrorism; Liberals Remain Silent About It  The people keying Teslas and stopping people on the streets to attack them are not the paid shills of the Democrat establishment--these are the mentally deranged people they are appealing to--but ActBlue is funding the Tesla Protests, and an organization called Indivisible is backed by leftist billionaires and funding most of these protests.

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More Gruesome October 7 Details: The Oldest and Youngest Victims of Hamas  Groups of women and girls were raped before and after their murders. Infants were shot in their strollers or buried alive. Corpses were lined with grenades so that those who tried to help were killed or maimed. The terrorists played mind games, using the victims' phones to send messages to their friends and family or upload disgusting videos of the attack to the victims' social media pages. They looted. They set fires. They brought machetes along, not to use as weapons, but to dismember and desecrate bodies for fun.

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Violent Crime Soars in Germany, Number of ‘Non German‘ Suspects Up While the considerable rise in “non-Germans” may be striking, German crime statistics are not very sophisticated and can frustrate further enquiry. Because ‘German’ in this case is broadly defined, and actually means anyone with a government-issued passport, the statistics can hide a greater trend in migrant crime involving second generation residents, or even first-generation migrants who have achieved citizenship.

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Britain and Europe, as a whole, are run by proto-totalitarians who see arresting parents, Christians, and any ordinary Britons for wrongthink as necessary to building an ideal society. Dissenters are enemies of the people, of the ideal order and must be disposed of or suppressed. 
   The left and the center-left embrace their "comply or else" attitude as a necessary stage in the evolution to a better society.

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Abortion Activists Freak Out Over States Teaching Basic Biology  Groups like Planned Parenthood and Reproaction aren't concerned with that though. Pro-abortion activists don't want what's best for the people they claim to serve; they just want to force death upon infants and a life of misery, self-loathing, and regret on women. I guess misery loves company. And they'll attempt to knock down anyone who stands in their way. If they truly cared about the young girls and women, they'd welcome a full, well-rounded education on pregnancy and all things associated with it.

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Repeat COVID vaccines provoke two kinds of inferior antibodies, study finds  With vaccines "in their iteration of the sixth, seventh and eighth boosters, it looks like they're counterproductive" and flooding the body with spike protein that won't go away "on its own," McCullough said, pointing to a patient who still had the protein 22 months after boosting. 
   New Yale research, not yet peer-reviewed, also found spike protein in the blood of never-infected study participants as long as nearly two years after inoculation, and concluded that COVID vaccination is responsible for some cases of so-called long COVID – also plausibly caused by wearing higher-quality masks, loneliness and physical inactivity.

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Sunday, March 30, 2025

If you do not worship God seven days a week...

If you do not worship God seven days a week, you do not worship Him on one day a week. There is no such thing known in heaven as Sunday worship unless it is accompanied by Monday worship and Tuesday worship and so on.   -A.W. Tozer

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Saturday, March 29, 2025

But for the Cross of Christ...

 
But for the Cross of Christ 
-Bryan Fowler

Vs 1
What is the truth
That ever anchors me
Amidst the waves of all my guilt
That Christ has shed
His blood and pardoned me
At the cross, at the cross

Vs 2
He bore my sin
I bear His righteousness
Oh what a glorious exchange
The wrath of God
Laid on the spotless Lamb
Oh what grace, oh what grace

Chorus
Behold the cross
There is no greater love
Heaven’s Son
Laid down His life for us
Oh my soul would be lost
With no hope to find
But for the cross of Christ

Vs 3
How do I walk
With humble confidence
I look to Christ Who is my peace
He sealed my hope
And my inheritance
At the cross, at the cross

Vs 4
When I am weak
And stumble into sin
There is an ever-flowing stream
His cleansing blood revives my soul again
Oh what grace, oh what grace

Vs 5
One day I’ll stand
Before the King of Kings
One day I’ll see Him face to face
For Jesus rose
Death lost its bitter sting
Christ has won! Christ has won!

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Friday, March 28, 2025

The Light and Glory of the Word...

The Spirit breathes upon the word,
And brings the truth to sight;
Precepts and promises afford
A sanctifying light.

A glory gilds the sacred page,
Majestic like the sun;
It gives a light to every age,
It gives, but borrows none.

The hand that gave it still supplies
The gracious light and heat;
His truths upon the nations rise,
They rise, but never set.

Let everlasting thanks be thine,
For such a bright display,
As makes a world of darkness shine
With beams of heavenly day.

My soul rejoices to pursue
The steps of Him I love,
Till glory break upon my view
In brighter worlds above.
-William Cowper

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News and Views: March 28, 2025

 
Devastating Myanmar earthquake...Bangkok declared ‘disaster zone’

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But I will be damned before I accept the moralistic preening of Europeans about preserving democracy or listen to the transnationalists who look down their noses at us as we defend free speech. 
   Germany may be freer than Russia, but it is not a free or democratic country by any standard that I recognize. Nor is Great Britain, for that matter. They are creeping their way toward becoming full-blown police states mirroring China's social credit system, and they are demanding we go along with them for the ride.

Seemingly ignoring the fact that the major terrorist threat to the UK comes from Islam and the industrial levels of rape and sexual abuse meted out to young white girls by Muslim men, we are gaslit into believing that ‘diversity is a strength’. We are exhorted to celebrate the religions and customs of our minority communities, not only Muslims, almost to the complete exclusion of our own

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Dismissing Evil and Denying the Holocaust — What’s the Endgame?  It’s true that we’ve lived into an era where — now more than ever — we can’t trust the media. But we must teach new generations of young people how to discern truth from fiction. That starts now — with an ethical duty to deny antisemites and Holocaust deniers a platform to distort and erase history. Because it all happened ...

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The last thing anyone is going to do is continue expanding in a place that wants to charge them for the privilege of bringing jobs to a community. They might be willing to accept a certain degree of taxation—property taxes, for example—but being forced to pay a tax for creating jobs? Yeah, that’s not going to fly.

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When we finally learn the full melodrama of the so-called Signal 1-2 day “scandal” of inviting a leftwing, Trump-despising, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg onto a supposedly secure conference list, involving most of the top Trump security officials, lots of questions need asking and answering.
   Most importantly, who exactly had Goldberg’s private number, and ostensibly (in error [?]) could have possibly inserted it into the cleared list of participants in the discussions? Why Goldberg, rather than some random person of some 345 million Americans?

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Marco Rubio On Student Visa Revocations: 'Why would any country in the world allow people to come and disrupt?'  “We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist that tears up our university campuses.”


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America’s Librarians Became Militantly Political, And Now They Suffer The Consequences  But this is not about local libraries providing resources for gay people in the community. This is once again, about kids. If ordinary people know anything at all about the ALA, it’s because of their annual list of the “Top 10 Most Challenged Books” and the corresponding celebration of “banned books week.” (Of course, when you get down to brass tacks, even the ALA concedes there’s no actual book banning in America – which is why they make a list of “challenged,” rather than banned books.) Every book on the list has explicit sexual content, with the list being heavy on LGBT themes, and every book on the list is specifically aimed at kids.

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Did the last five years, call it “the age of woke,” really happen — or were they just a fever dream?
   Apparently we all imagined a time where COVID and cancel culture collided to oppress us.
   No one was shunned for saying really obvious and true things, schools weren’t closed indefinitely under pressure from teachers’ unions, and race conflict wasn’t pushed on Americans from every direction.
   At least that’s what the left would have us believe.

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Billionaire Cancer Researcher Says Covid & Vaccine Likely Causing Surge In Aggressive Cancers  In sum, Dr. Soon-Shiong’s claim is that the pandemic has set the stage for an explosion of aggressive cancers: the COVID virus itself (especially if it persists in survivors) might suppress immune surveillance, and the mRNA vaccines “that didn’t stop it” might inadvertently contribute to an immunosuppressive environment. These effects, in his theory, could be unleashing cancers that the immune system would ordinarily have kept in check.

"The Country's Largest COVID Fraud": Somali Immigrants Allegedly Stole $250 Million From Child Nutrition Program   Nearly all of the 70 people charged in a massive $250 million fraud case targeting federal child nutrition programs in Minnesota are Somali immigrants, according to the Washington Free Beacon.
   Between March 2020 and January 2022, they allegedly stole funds meant for feeding children, funneled through a nonprofit called Feeding Our Future. So far, 37 have pleaded guilty, and 7 have been convicted; the rest await trial.
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Thursday, March 27, 2025

O Lord our God, Who has called us to serve You...

O Lord our God,
Who has called us to serve You,
In the midst of the world’s affairs,
When we stumble, hold us;
When we fall, lift us up;
When we are hard pressed with evil, deliver us;
When we turn from what is good, turn us back;
And bring us at last to Your glory.
-St. Alcuin 

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News and Views: March 27, 2025

Jonathon Van Maren’s new report at Life News reveals that in 2024, the Netherlands put 219 people to death, based on “psychological suffering” of the individual. For reference, this was a 10,850% increase over the previous 14 years. Thirty of those lives, or around 14%, belonged to either very young, or relatively young people.
   It gets worse, though, from UnHerd’s Yuan Yi Zhu: “An unspecified number of minors were also euthanised.” The one specific given is that one of the minors, a teenage boy, was euthanized over his autism.
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With Each Injunction, The Courts Become An Unelected Ruling Class  America increasingly lives under a Judicial Oligarchy, where the district court system that functions below the Supreme Court has assumed power far beyond its intended limited role, subverting the executive and legislative branches to impose a policy agenda dictated not by elected representatives but by unelected judges.

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A review by CBS News discovered that Massachusetts has been releasing illegal aliens charged with violent crimes—including child rape—from courts and jails on low bail without allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the opportunity to intervene.

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Furious at their own increasing impotence, these contemporary Democrat Jacobins are dabbling with their own version of a reign of smut terror.
   They are probably too impotent to derail the country, but they are certainly destroying themselves. -VD Hanson

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70 Christians Beheaded: Time to Shine a Light on Persecution in the Congo   It’s evil rarely seen. Last month, over 70 Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were bound, marched into a church, and beheaded. Local church leaders are devastated: “We don’t know what to do or how to pray; we’ve had enough of massacres.” This method of execution was intentional, designed to put terror in the hearts of Christians in the region.

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The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has announced that multiple state agencies are investigating a project to create a “Muslim city” in the state, with some fearing that Sharia law may be applied within the settlement. The East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) is behind the project, dubbed “EPIC City,” which plans to create a new city in Collin and Hunt Counties.

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Big Tech, Democrat politicians, and radical anti-life activists vilify pregnancy centers that provide medical, material, spiritual, and emotional aid to mothers. Yelp, Dem lawmakers, and more refer to them as “anti-abortion centers” or “fake abortion clinics,” but actually pregnancy centers provide women all the resources necessary to choose life for their babies. Renzi, whose company insures many of the pro-life centers, provided some details on their work and leftist terrorism against them in exclusive comments to PJ Media.

Youngkin Vetoes Democrat Bill Allowing Pro-Lifers To Be ‘Jailed Simply For Carrying A Sign’  The bill would have restricted the activities of pro-life sidewalk counselors

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One consequence is anger on the part of whites.  Most reasonable people are willing to judge others of all races on the basis of merit, but the depiction of whites and blacks in today’s advertising does not reflect merit.  Whites who have worked hard in school, earned postgraduate degrees, and devoted themselves to their jobs find themselves depicted as innately inferior to blacks.  They know that this is not the case, but there is no way to escape the barrage of hateful depictions.

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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

True Christianity brings with it a daily cross in this life...

We must not conceal from ourselves that true Christianity brings with it a daily cross in this life, while it offers us a crown of glory in the life to come. The flesh must be daily crucified. The devil must be daily resisted. The world must be daily overcome. There is a warfare to be waged, and a battle to be fought. All this is the inseparable accompaniment of true religion. Heaven is not to be won without it. Never was there a truer word than the old saying, “No cross, no crown!” If we never found this out by experience, our souls are in a poor condition.  -J.C. Ryle

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News and Views: March 26, 2025

Education Then and Now 
Just how desperate the establishment is to preserve this failing education system can be seen in a bill under consideration by the Illinois legislature. If passed, it would severely harm the growing home-school movement. The bill would require home-school families to submit forms each year to their local public school that include names, birth dates, grade levels and home addresses of their children. Families who fail to submit the forms would be subject to criminal truancy penalties. Never mind that fewer than one in three Chicago public school students can read at grade level.

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Trump Admin Ends Taxpayer-Funded Housing Programs for Illegals A 2023 study from the Center for Immigration Studies revealed that nearly 60% of households headed by illegal aliens are on at least one major form of taxpayer-funded welfare, compared to 39 percent of households headed by native-born Americans.
   In particular, nearly half of the households headed by illegal aliens in the United States are on food stamps, while 39 percent of such households are on Medicaid.

Trump issues executive order enforcing citizenship requirement in federal elections The executive order includes the requirement that only U.S. citizens vote in federal elections, offers assistance to states on maintaining voter rolls, and makes improvements in the Election Assistance Commission. Trump also ordered the attorney general to prosecute election crimes, take action against states that accept absentee ballots for federal elections after Election Day, and ensure that foreign nationals do not donate to federal elections or that organizations that receive federal funds do not engage in lobbying.

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The disturbing things that happen when you abandon Biblical principles  Today’s news revealed a single theme, namely, the breakdown that occurs when a Western culture abandons God entirely.
   The humanist Christianity that arose in the 18th century and lasted through the mid-20th century had a lot going for it regarding societal success and stability. When leftists convinced the West to overthrow Christianity entirely, a whole lot of baby went out with that bathwater. Here are the four recent stories illustrative of the harm done because we’ve allowed leftists to erase those humanist Biblical norms from our culture...

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Barrett told our viewers: “Martyrdom is a continuing phenomenon, affecting roughly one in every two hundred Christians. Some time or other in their lives, that number of people will be murdered for their faith or they will lose their lives. And it’s been the same, right from the beginning. People tend to think that martyrdom belongs to the early church, the first three centuries; but it went on after that, and it is going on exactly the same rate today—0.5% per annum.”


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Big Legal Victories for Trump Administration on USAID, Refugee Admissions  Left-wing activist judges are doing everything they can to sideline the Trump administration's efforts to make America safer and more efficient. This includes judges issuing injunctions that try to stop the administration from sending profligate amounts of money to progressive causes overseas and stop the unencumbered flow of illegal immigration.

A Third Of All DC District Judges Were Not Born In United States While country of origin doesn’t come up in most jobs, it is worth asking if judges with ties to foreign nations and cultures are the right ones to make decisions affecting the U.S. military or immigration.

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Illegal Aliens Charged With Sexual Assault of Children in MA Are Being Released With Low Bail  For years now, we’ve listened to Democrats sanctimoniously proclaiming that ‘no one is above the law.’ The liberals who run Massachusetts might want to try proving that when it comes to protecting innocent children from assaults by people who aren’t even here legally.

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The Atlantic tried to drive a wedge into Trump’s inner circle. They aimed and missed again. This story died in less than 24 hours, disintegrating so fast that all the theatrics and talking points the Democrats had prepared looked out of date and unhinged. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) got all twisted up, bellowing about things that Ratcliffe never said at today’s hearing.

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Seattle Ended Gifted Classes for Equity But Accomplished Nothing   Top students in public schools have been leaving as they (or their parents) move their kids to private schools which still offer advanced math for advanced students.

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