WITHOUT HISTORICAL PRECEDENT 

Tuesday, March 17, 2020 -- COLUMN 230
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In a move that is without historical precedent, Cardinal Angelo de Donatis, the Pope’s vicar for the diocese of Rome, announced today that all the Catholic churches in Rome will be closed until April 3, 2020.  -- From an article at Lifesitenews entitled "BREAKING:  Diocese of Rome shuts down all churches amid coronavirus fears"

WITHOUT HISTORICAL PRECEDENT

For the rest of March, and the first three days of April, Catholics in Rome will not have access to their churches.  They are closed.  As I write this column I am wondering what grim news Friday will bring to Americans.  Yesterday the Dow dropped over 2500 points.  It feels like a lot of things "without historical precedent" are about to happen.  Uncertainty is rapidly spreading along with the Corona Virus.

The truth is that none of us know the future.  On the four desktop computer screens in my office I have displayed this quote by St. Francis De Sales, "Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin.  God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry."  Jesus Christ said, "Do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? … Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

In 1576 Milan, Italy struggled through a plague.  St. Charles Borromeo was the community leader for Christians.  Dorothy Cummings McLean of Lifesitenews writes, "When the magistrates who governed Milan objected to the (Christian) public ceremonies, arguing that they would spread contagion, Borromeo convinced them that spiritual remedies, like those prescribed by St. Gregory the Great in 590, had stopped plagues in the past."

McLean continues "Borromeo led three general processions that October 'to placate the wrath of God' and afterwards preached about how sins provoke God’s punishment. When survivors became too afraid to leave their homes, their archbishop had Masses and public prayers said at outdoor altars all over the city so that people could participate from the windows of their homes."

Imagine with me an America where Franklin Graham has power equal to, or greater than, that of CNN and FoxNews.  Imagine a nation that really believed her motto -- In God We Trust.  Imagine a people bound together by knowledge of the fact that God is The Judge of mankind.  What would our response to this uncertainty and plague be if we knew that our sexually permissive choices and incessant pining after "our best life now" were toxic, illegal and hateful?

We might then have a remedy in sackcloth and ashes -- repentance.  Like Nineveh we would exist in a culture capable of turning all our attention to the heavens for days begging forgiveness from God.  And we would do so not knowing whether he would respond in kindness.  We would know deep down in our hearts that we deserve much worse than a 2500 drop in the Dow, and the visitation of a plague.

We don't live in that nation.  We live in a time and place that may choose to offer greater powers to the deep state to save us.  This could end making the intrusions of 9-11's Homeland Security look like child's play in comparison to the top down controls we will demand from government to keep us safe.  We are crossing a line that Benjamin Franklin warned against when he wrote, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."  And because of the new powers of the internet and technology this grave threat to our souls is global.  It isn't contained within national borders.

A pastor preached a sermon recently in which he described what we are living through as similar to an episode from the old television drama "Twilight Zone."  He declared that world has lost it's mind and the Church her soul.  Indeed.

Selah.

Jared and I made it back from Florida this weekend.  I still feel emotionally and spiritually drained from the Friday funeral of my father.  Your prayers are appreciated as I struggle back from that loss.  Thank you.

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WITHOUT HISTORICAL PRECEDENT 

Tuesday, March 17, 2020 -- COLUMN 230
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In a move that is without historical precedent, Cardinal Angelo de Donatis, the Pope’s vicar for the diocese of Rome, announced today that all the Catholic churches in Rome will be closed until April 3, 2020.  -- From an article at Lifesitenews entitled "BREAKING:  Diocese of Rome shuts down all churches amid coronavirus fears"

WITHOUT HISTORICAL PRECEDENT

For the rest of March, and the first three days of April, Catholics in Rome will not have access to their churches.  They are closed.  As I write this column I am wondering what grim news Friday will bring to Americans.  Yesterday the Dow dropped over 2500 points.  It feels like a lot of things "without historical precedent" are about to happen.  Uncertainty is rapidly spreading along with the Corona Virus.

The truth is that none of us know the future.  On the four desktop computer screens in my office I have displayed this quote by St. Francis De Sales, "Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin.  God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry."  Jesus Christ said, "Do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? … Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

In 1576 Milan, Italy struggled through a plague.  St. Charles Borromeo was the community leader for Christians.  Dorothy Cummings McLean of Lifesitenews writes, "When the magistrates who governed Milan objected to the (Christian) public ceremonies, arguing that they would spread contagion, Borromeo convinced them that spiritual remedies, like those prescribed by St. Gregory the Great in 590, had stopped plagues in the past."

McLean continues "Borromeo led three general processions that October 'to placate the wrath of God' and afterwards preached about how sins provoke God’s punishment. When survivors became too afraid to leave their homes, their archbishop had Masses and public prayers said at outdoor altars all over the city so that people could participate from the windows of their homes."

Imagine with me an America where Franklin Graham has power equal to, or greater than, that of CNN and FoxNews.  Imagine a nation that really believed her motto -- In God We Trust.  Imagine a people bound together by knowledge of the fact that God is The Judge of mankind.  What would our response to this uncertainty and plague be if we knew that our sexually permissive choices and incessant pining after "our best life now" were toxic, illegal and hateful?

We might then have a remedy in sackcloth and ashes -- repentance.  Like Nineveh we would exist in a culture capable of turning all our attention to the heavens for days begging forgiveness from God.  And we would do so not knowing whether he would respond in kindness.  We would know deep down in our hearts that we deserve much worse than a 2500 drop in the Dow, and the visitation of a plague.

We don't live in that nation.  We live in a time and place that may choose to offer greater powers to the deep state to save us.  This could end making the intrusions of 9-11's Homeland Security look like child's play in comparison to the top down controls we will demand from government to keep us safe.  We are crossing a line that Benjamin Franklin warned against when he wrote, "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."  And because of the new powers of the internet and technology this grave threat to our souls is global.  It isn't contained within national borders.

A pastor preached a sermon recently in which he described what we are living through as similar to an episode from the old television drama "Twilight Zone."  He declared that world has lost it's mind and Church her soul.  Indeed.

Selah.

Jared and I made it back from Florida this weekend.  I still feel emotionally and spiritually drained from the Friday funeral of my father.  Your prayers are appreciated as I struggle back from that loss.  Thank you.

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Thursday, March 12, 2020 -- COLUMN 229

Arguably the biggest lie in both its scope and the fact that it has contributed so greatly to the indoctrination of the masses is the notion that 97% of scientists (sometimes specified as “climate scientists”) acknowledge that climate change is man-made, dangerous, and reversible if we act dramatically and immediately. But is this oft-quoted statistic true? Not remotely. -- From an article entitled "The video to send to everyone citing the ‘97% scientist consensus’ on climate change."

"Entire Ecosystems are Collapsing"

If we're to believe Greta and the Pope then the world will end in a little over a decade.  It won't be sexual immorality that does us in like what happened to Sodom.  It will be a different kind of warming.  It will be global this time.  And it'll be man made instead of God sent ... if you believe the globalists.

Greta Thunberg famously declared to the world, "People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing.  We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth."  Trump quipped on Twitter, "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.  So nice to see!"

Without their tongue firmly planted in their cheek -- unlike President Trump -- the Church of Sweden tweeted, "Jesus of Nazareth has now appointed one of his successors, Greta Thunberg." 

Sweden has a penchant for turning climate change into a sacred cause, according to Dr. E. Michael Jones who also pointed out in his article entitled, "Greta Thunberg:  Climate Change and Mental Illness," "Henrik Palmgren, founder and editor of Red Ice, documented Greta’s connection to Swedish political circles, calling her 'a manufactured asset constructed by the very elites she claims to be fighting.'”  Jones then presents evidence of the manipulation of the Swedish public by globalist climate change political and religious groups.

I'm sick of the activist propagandists of the Left.  Their lies are wearing thin and becoming tiresome.  But more online word vomit is laced with their ideas than any others.  The choice boomers made to clock out of reality after WWII really boosted the demon infused ideologies that brilliant minds pushed as Christianity lost her hold on the imagination and thinking of Westerners.  The ugliness and chaos which is taking over every aspect of our lives is the result of the de-Christianizing of the West.  We are returning to paganism.

I concur with Patrick Buchanan who wrote in his important book "The Death of the West,"  "We are two countries, two peoples. An older America is passing away, and a new America is coming into its own. The new Americans who grew up in the 1960s and the years since did not like the old America. They thought it a bigoted, reactionary, repressive, stodgy country. So they kicked the dust from their heels and set out to build a new America, and they have succeeded. To its acolytes the cultural revolution has been a glorious revolution. But to millions, they have replaced the good country we grew up in with a cultural wasteland and a moral sewer that are not worth living in and not worth fighting for—their country, not ours." 

In another place Buchanan wrote, "The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body."  We've grown lazy about both kinds of food.  The obesity that plagues our bodies is equaled by the insanity that passes for thinking and learning.  All of this is illustrative of our acedia, "a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world."  Wikipedia continues, "It can lead to a state of being unable to perform one's duties in life.  It is related to depression."

Into this sad state of affairs come comic book superheroes like pagan gods distracting us from the verities that built Western Civilization.  We're no longer interested in mining the philosophical depths of profound historic ideas like the sentence penned by John when he published his tract to the Greeks 2000 years ago, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."  Nothing as reasonable as that even begins to interest us.  We'd rather binge watch the latest Netflix drama than come together in community with people dedicated to loving their neighbor, and living a righteous life.

The real Wonder Woman is the one impregnated by God and faithful to His Son forever.  Mary could never even conceive of being thrown by a man into the sky to pulverize the steeple of a church and emerge proud and dominant in the dust as it drifts downwind.  But this is precisely what passes as entertainment in the paganizing twilight of American "civilization."  I've just described a scene from the recent blockbuster movie "Wonder Woman."

The way forward is through repentance and appealing to heaven.  Now is the time.

Amen.

 

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NO MORE COMMON SENSE 

Wednesday, March 11, 2020 -- COLUMN 228

While Russia is protecting the family by enshrining traditional heterosexual marriage in its constitution, other nations — such as Switzerland — are making it against the law even to express traditional views in public. -- From a webpage entitled, "New Law Criminalized 'Homophobic' Views in Switzerland"

No More Common Sense

A friend asked me to help a local candidate stand for election last week.  The man, a Christian, wanted to serve on the school board.  He lost.  He took issue with the idea that boys should be allowed to compete in girl's sports.  The state of North Carolina under the wicked current Governor Roy Cooper is pushing the idea.  When I talked with the candidate on the phone to volunteer my support I used the forbidden word "sodomite."  He gently distanced himself from me, and then contacted me a couple days later saying he wouldn't need my help.  When I showed up to the polls to vote for him I met his wife.  I was equally direct with her in voicing my support for her husband's position.  Obviously uncomfortable she also distanced herself from my declaration and tone. 

So be it.  I've got better things to do than encourage these creatures in any way, shape or manner.  If we can't speak plainly about sodomy and sex outside of marriage ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO CHILDREN IN SCHOOL what good are these "leaders."

I always stay way short of speaking the way I really feel about sodomy, sodomites and all things "gay" in our time.  I am out-of-my-mind-furious about what they are doing to the nation and culture that I cannot help but love.  I am a patriot.  Patriotism is a virtue.  I love my nation.  I am not, however, going to fit all things sodomy into my patriotism. 

I am NOT going to mix adoration of sexual wickedness into my support for Donald Trump's leadership of our nation -- as much as he wants all of us to support his ideas about the crime against nature.  Trump has lots of problems.  Sexual evil and infidelity is one of them.  It is hard, however. to single him out for opprobrium when even the Church can't cuddle into a comfortable enough position with the "gays" to make everyone happy.  I just heard the Southern Baptists are working overtime to find a way to influence their people to vote social justice demoncrat this fall.

When I resigned as spokesman for Evangelical Christianity in Maine in 2009 I did so because I grew sick to death of hearing from pastors.  They told me they agreed with my position on sodomy.  They always ... AND I MEAN ALWAYS ... qualified their support with the admonition to speak with a better "tone and style."  It got to the point where I realized that the gospel writers needn't have wasted all that time and ink writing those gospels.  They could have just penned two words to describe the Good News of Jesus Christ -- tone and style. 

By the time I realized this nobody was interested.  And had they been interested they wouldn't have had access to my ideas because the media, politicians and pastors had teamed up to silence me.  The last time I spoke in a church in Maine I wept over abortion.  The elders of the church gathered a couple days after my sermon.  They penned an apology to the congregation and read it out loud the following Sunday.  When their pastor returned from his vacation he was man enough to deliver the written two page apology to me in person.  That was a meeting you never want to remember, I can tell you.  He was a friend and Marine.  This "church" is very well known among cornservatives in the Pine Tree State.

If you're fed up with your church I get it ... believe me.  I learned this morning that even the old Assemblies of God is softening toward the sodomites.  I saw that coming many years ago.  I attended one of their Bible Colleges in my early twenties.  I am so thankful that God protected me from the idolatry of denominationalism after I earned my college degree in Religion and Philosophy.  God in His mercy kept me on the front line of the sodomy battle my entire adult life.  I am so thankful for that.  Very thankful.  I spent more of my adult life thinking about politics than religion.  That ended up being a grace for me.  It protected me.

Politics is supposed to be nasty.  But so is religion if you are evil.  Christianity, in fact, should make politics look like a Sunday School picnic, truth be told.  Christianity is for grown ups who are man enough to do their duty and accept responsibility not only for themselves, but for their wives, families and neighborhoods.  And if they are called to state or national leadership they get to be responsible for all that as well. 

There will indeed be a judgment day.  I don't look for any of the current crop of politicians or clergy I'm used to hearing from make out very well on that day.  How in the world can our politicians justify spending over a hundred thousand dollars of taxpayer money to "care for" each and every Muslim they choose to visit upon U.S.?  How can the subject of killing babies AFTER THEY ARE BORN even be a thing?

I'll tell you why.

It's our fault.  You expected someone else to fix it.  You sent your ten, twenty or fifty dollars and that was about it.  Occasionally you'd sign a petition.  You never went to a public hearing.  You never confronted even family members or fellow workers as the whole diabolical sexual revolution unfolded.  Research shows that you found a way to go along to get along.  Well .... we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

The only question I have for us today is, "What are we going to do about it now?"

Selah.

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NO MORE FACES 

Tuesday, March 10, 2020 -- COLUMN 227

It is just a shame that we are becoming a society run by fear, not rational and cool-headed thought. Even worse, this fear continues to be marshalled by the power-hungry to restrict our freedom and prevent us from living our lives sensibily, as we wish. Instead, we must be under the thumb of someone else who likes smashing his boot into our face.  -- From a blog article entitled Coronavirus and the madness of crowds by Robert Zimmerman

No More Faces

George Orwell wrote, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever."  Yesterday I criticized the partially animated film "Call of the Wild" for using computerized special effects to put human expressions on a dog's face.  The God-hating anti-Christian philosophies of recent centuries have created for us a world where pets are more loveable than human babies.  All the boundaries are blurred.  God is not the most beautiful and sublime expression anymore.  And humanity is not His unique creation -- made in His image.  If you believe the media humanity, in fact, is little more than a virus infecting an earth dying from a multi-billion person carbon pollution-induced fever.

While jogging in preparation for an upcoming half marathon this weekend I listened to a podcast interview with the leader of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation.  At sixteen years of age Hugh Owen lost his father to a heart attack.  Raised a Baptist his father abandoned his Christian faith and became a dedicated secular humanist working for the United Nations.  He rose during his career to the position of first General Secretary of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.  He died not long after beginning this work.  His son, Hugh, was converted to Christianity at Princeton not long after.  Hugh now leads the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation.

You can listen to the podcast interview entitled Creation V. Evolution:  Science and Catholicism agree on the winner" by clicking here.

I was reminded of the great intellectual achievement Christianity represents listening to this interview as I jogged.  The conversation helped deepen my appreciation for the miraculous God-created sun-drenched natural beauty I jogged within alongside the Ararat River in Mt. Airy, North Carolina that day.  More important than serving as the source of profound global intellectual advancement Christianity infused religious faith and living into the exercise of thinking.  Throughout my lobbying years and adult life I have marvelled at the practicality of the ancient faith.  The propagandizing I was subjected to in American government-run schools and media was forced deep into my thinking. Christianity proved equal to the task of saving me from their definition of progress.  I am beyond thankful.  I marvel at Christianity's power.  It is truth.  Jesus Christ is love itself.

Jesus prayed, "I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world."  He continued, "My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one."  The Church is not being true to herself if her adherents are comfortable in the world.  Christianity doesn't fit with homosexuality, pornography, divorce, evolution or any other sin soaked idea.  If we live each day comfortable with the world we must ask ourselves if we are really Christians.  Narrow is the path to life.  Few there are who find it.

As the Church in the West has relaxed her standards in recent centuries her power in the culture has diminished.  It is instructive to observe what is happening in the Eastern nations of the West.  The blood thirsty athiesm of the old Soviet Union has been replaced with a love for the Church.  While America continues to disintegrate sexually nations like Russia and Poland are doubling down on their support for babies and Christian marriage.  For political reasons Donald Trump shows respect for zionist-friendly morally conservative religious expressions in the United States.  Understandably he has concluded that boldly resisting abortion is a winner for him.  His willingness to be pictured with Christians who are laying hands on him and praying is more than politically aware Americans are used to seeing in a politician.  Hopefully this signals a shift for our nation away from the religious syncretism that took hold in the twentieth century.  We shall see.

Our culture is more hostile toward Christian sexual rules than ever before.  We will not survive much longer if we don't address this problem.  The freedom to sin sexually is not freedom.  It is bondage ... to evil.  Jesus prayed that we would be protected from the "evil one."  Satan and his death cult are the only beneficiaries of this wickedness.  Love for the human face has been ground out of us by this satanic and ugly system.  In our debt, drug and sex induced spiritual coma we seek solace from pets.

Should God help us?

Selah.

I know that I risk offending people by criticizing cats and dogs -- pets.  I'm not a pet lover myself.  I don't hate animals.  I know that we must love and respect them if we choose to make them into a pet.  We should also view them as occupying a special place in God's creation.  We must be good stewards over God's creation.  Animals should be treated properly, even when we are using them for food.  They must be treated with dignity.  But I don't see that sort of attitude toward animals in our society.  Pets especially have been elevated in our esteem beyond where they belong.  This is dangerous.  At the same time our love for babies seems to have disappeared.

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Monday, March 9, 2020 -- COLUMN 226

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.” ― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

Aglow and Rampant

A friend who loves dogs recommended I see the new movie "The Call of the Wild."  It is based on a book published in 1903 by Jack London.  The film featured Harrison Ford.  Without knowing much more than that I struck out for the theatre last weekend hoping for a gripping adventure story set in the dramatic wilds of the North.

At one point in the movie I thought about leaving.  I was bored.  I did manage to stay to the end.  The narrative was written for youngsters.  I was expecting something more gritty and real.  I haven't read London in awhile.  That's what I remember about his stories.  They struck me as brilliantly real, supremely human.  I probably read a half dozen or more of his stories a number of years ago.  The movie didn't grab my imagination like London's narratives did when I read them.

I seized on the quote from the book that I included above because it struck me as deeper and more meaningful than the film's version of Buck.  Using just words on a page London brought Buck's noble animal spirit to life.  The film version of Buck was animated.  There was no real animal version of Buck in the movie, even though the film was not animated.  The animators gave Buck facial expressions that were obviously human.  This weakened his character development.  From a special effects perspective I suppose the film was interesting.  It was difficult to see where the animation stopped and the real world started.  But that doesn't interest me.  I wanted to enjoy a great story well told on the big screen.  The computer graphics were a distraction.  And the human expressions on Buck's face were weird.

I hope that our obsession with what technology can deliver is challenged by this movie.  We choose computer animation over what real actors, both human and animal, can deliver as entertainment.  Instead of using our technology to enhance what's real we inject human and real world characteristics into what computer graphics or special effects can now deliver.  The movie felt to me like the opposite of an animated cartoon.  Animated cartoons mimic the real world without trying too hard.  "Call of the Wild" worked overtime to infuse animation with what's natural and real.  It doesn't work for a dog to appear real in all aspects but for it's facial expressions ... which are human.  It was distracting at best and destructive of what good storytelling requires at worst.

To the film's credit there were scenes that made me feel the "sheer surging of life."  Buck earns a place as leader of a dog sled team and the film's illustration of his leadership after taking the bridle was "aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars."  I also think the story will make younger folks interested in London's work.  It would be a delight to find that the movie causes more people to read London.  He was one of America's best fiction writers.

London described Buck's rise to power in the Northern wilderness as "everything that was not death."  Machines are not alive.  They are bereft of spirit.  Machines have no soul.  Animation, just like robots, can never fully portray the soul and spirit of either man or animal.  This movie suffered from the same technology-inspired utopianism that infects so much of what modernism -- and especially post-modernism -- has delivered.  I pray many people will see this, and that it will inspire new appreciation for God's creation unfiltered by technology.  Prayer can deliver this awareness ... this love.

We must be especially diligent in this age of ubiquitous screens not to become tethered to the virtual at the expense of what's real.  Speaking of our addiction to technology empowered social networking Dave Eggers observed, "Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen! Searching for strangers in... Dubai!”

Selah

 

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“So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company’s first tablet was just hitting the shelves. “They haven’t used it,” he told me. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.”

 

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DAMN GOOD CRITIQUE 

Friday, March 6, 2020 -- COLUMN 225

Well we can confirm that Liam had his Facebook account deleted for the crime of posting a damn good critique of mainstream media “journalism”. -- Tommy Robinson email from March 4, 2020 entitled, "Pro-Paedophile News Cycle and Evil Tommy Robinson"

Damn Good Critique

I discovered yesterday that Tommy Robinson's eight year old daughter was groped by a man in a pool at a family resort a few days ago.  Robinson is well known in Britain.  He published a book about Islam after confronting rape gangs in his hometown of Luton.  The establishment of his native England decided to go to war with him.  He responded making war on them using social media and the internet.  While he can still be found on the internet he has been depersoned by all the english speaking corporate media instititutions in much the same way they decided to erase Alex Jones.  This depersoning by Google, Facebook and Apple just serves to deepen my interest in the man.  While I still haven't taken time to obtain and read his book I have followed him online as much as time permits.

I was impressed with the work he and his team did exposing Britain's version of 60 Minutes.  If you haven't seen that documentary that was produced last year I highly recommend you take time to watch it.  You can google it up using the keyword "Panodrama."  It's less than an hour in length.

This morning while preparing for my LIVEstream, and to host Coach Dave LIVE, I watched a short eight minute video by a friend of Tommy's named Liam Tuffs.  I was struck by Liam's clear diction and thoughtful defense of Tommy's work occasioned by the unexpected groping of Tommy's daughter.  He was careful in his defense choosing not to use the words "Tommy Robinson" to avoid censorship.  He used the letters "TR" instead.  You can see from the opening quote that it didn't work.  Facebook still depersoned him.

I sensed this censorship from the Left was coming back when I was forced by economic realities to choose to trust Google.  I was leader of a small and poor ministry in Maine at the time.  I'd been struggling along building the efficiency and effectiveness of the ministry by installing personal computers.  The software licensing fees were a killer.  When Google introduced Gmail FOR FREE, and included a gigabyte of storage, I realized I had to choose who I was going to trust -- Microsoft or Google.  Mostly for economic reasons I chose Google.  But I knew what that meant.  I'd been using Google for search.  I knew that the impressive power of their search engine would be included with Gmail.  Since I knew the emails would be stored on Google's servers I knew that their staff would have access to all of my ministry's emails, and that they would be searchable in a way that personal and professional correspondence had never been searchable before.  I probably went beyond my authority as an Executive Director to shift our office over to the use of Gmail.  The lure of FREE made me do it!

Now, of course, Google has access to much more than just emails.  They are the productivity alternative to Microsoft's Office.  Google's services are available globally, and the personal version of their productivity suite is still FREE.  Can anybody say NSA?  I don't doubt for a minute that Google's power is directly related to the American government's immense financial support from the beginning.  And Facebook gives them access to an even deeper trove of data that reveals things about us emotionally, socially and spiritually that inspire the utopian wet dreams of totalitarian megalomaniacs like the current crop of Chinese communist rulers and socialist Demoncrats like Bernie Sanders.

Humanity has a lot of work to do -- given the new reality of the internet -- to create a world of meaningful privacy, human respect and freedom of conscience.  We will not be able to do that work without men like Tommy Robinson.  Men who know what it means to take personal responsibility for the communities that protect us, and the families who nurture us.  Donald Trump is showing us the way with his single minded dedication to his idea of America.  While far from being either Christian or perfect it is at least manly.

It is time for Christian men to stand among the Last Men Standing.  Western Christianity must grow a pair.  God will not cease being what He is by nature.  God's justice is eternal and it never changes.  He will not stand by and watch while evil consumes every last bit of goodness, truth and beauty.  God is rising.  Choose to be on the side of Jesus Christ.  Repent and serve the Lord and Savior of mankind.  You'll spend eternity being thankful.

Amen.

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BOLDNESS 

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 -- COLUMN 223

There is simply too much at stake to retreat to the sidelines now. Together we can beat this president and build the era that must come next. -- Pete Buttigieg Website

Boldness

Prominent on the webpage of his website entitled "Rules for the Road" is Mayor Pete's pledge of "Boldness."  He writes, "We will not hesitate to take bold stances and to accept risk in the defense of our values. Our respect is reserved for people, not for conventions. We accept no truisms without questioning. The spirit of originality will create the pressure and permission for us to do things not done before, to stand out from the crowd not by waving our arms for attention but by the fact of being different."  The website features a full screen image of Pete and his husband from behind waving to a pretty unimpressive group of white people.  Pete dropped out of the Presidential contest this past weekend.  Insiders expect him to endorse Sleepy Joe Biden.

The thirty eight year old Mayor of South Bend had only one thing going for him.  As a wife he is special ... very special indeed.  He amplified his "gay"ness by preaching his version of Christianity to the rest of us.  Enough of America listened to him in recent months for him to earn a decent showing in Iowa and New Hampshire.  He started to falter after that and quickly backed out so he could live to fight another day.  The good Mayor has many election cycles ahead of him.  Given the seemingly increasing popularity of sex outside of marriage Mrs. Pete may have a bright future ahead of him.  Time will tell.

As he prominently promised on page one of his website he is going to build the era that must come next.  That would be an era of standing out from the crowd by being different.  Hmmmm.  He will boldly go where no man has gone before.  Forget the Holy Spirit.  Pete will deliver the "spirit of originality."  This "spirit" will "create the pressure and permission for us to do things not done before."  Uh huh.  Pete isn't going to accept any truisms without questioning.  What does any of this even mean?  What a load of nonsense.  This is meaningless queerspeak.

Under the heading "Truth" Pete assures us, "Honesty is in our nature, and it is one of our greatest means of restoring faith in our democracy among everyday Americans and building a national movement rooted in trust and faith in our country and our beliefs. Internally and externally, our effort will be characterized by fidelity to the truth."  I find it a little hard to believe that a man who calls himself a wife can even begin to think about truth, especially when he chooses to lecture the rest of us about Christianity and the Bible.  The only way I'll ever listen to a man who's proudly declared himself to be a sodomite is if he prefaces his remarks with "I was wrong, I was soooo wrong."  Sincere repentance and sorrow begins every statement worth pondering from a man like Pete.  Otherwise he ain't gettin the time of day from me.

The fact that millions of American Christians choose to excuse this PUBLIC behavior, believing that they are demonstrating Christ-like love and tolerance, is maddening.  And to do so with increasing depth of conviction over years, now decades, is beyond belief.  We've reached the point where literally nobody with any real power is standing between them and our children.  We are inviting them to dress up in their most grotesque costumes for the purpose of teaching our very young children to read.  For years we've been turning our taxpayer funded schools into breeding grounds for this idiocy.  And now our colleges are nothing more than expensive whore houses.  Even Donald Trump doubles down on his support for homosexual deviancy every chance he gets.

The ministry I led in Maine was eventually forced to bend over for them.  To this day they remain absolutely silent on the issue.  They do just enough to make their donors think they are remaining faithful.  This was a ministry that won more times than it lost.  It was defeated from within.  The Pastors and large donors abandoned the fight.  Lose the sodomy fight lose the nation.  It's that simple.  It's that important.

I'll never stop fighting, even if I'm the last man standing.  Sometimes it feels that bad, but that's alright.  We serve a God who hung alone on a cross.  Our tradition is full of examples of unbending souls full of God's love and dedicated to His truth.  We'll just keep doing the next right thing.

Pete needs to repent of his sins.  He needs Jesus Christ.  He needs a Church that isn't weak, womanish and confused. 

Sodomy is a sin.  Simple.

Amen.

You know what I love?  I love time with my grandchildren.  God opened a door for me to spend hours today with two of my youngest.  I love their eyes -- full of innocence and the desire to know more ... to learn.  Jesus loves children.  He loves them so much that he promises to destroy people who hate them and their innocence.  I'm on the side of the cross against the inhuman God-haters who are making a play to control the world through America right now.  God destroy them!!!  Especially those who have lied their way into Church leadership.  Destroy them!

THEY HATE AMERICANS -- THEY HATE CHRISTIANS 

Tuesday, March 3, 2020 -- COLUMN 222

You must understand, the leading Bolsheviks who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse. It cannot be overstated. Bolshevism committed the greatest human slaughter of all time. The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

They Hate Americans.  They Hate Christians.

For the second time a hard Left socialist is among the most powerful Democratic candidates for President.  The Obama establishment wing of the party is coalescing behind the doddering old fool Joe Biden to freeze Bernie Sanders out.  The same thing happened with Hillary Clinton last time.  While the names jiggle around at the top of the Left's cabal two facts remain.  The Left wing of our politics hates God.  They also hate America.

They pretend they don't hate Christian America but there's no denying it now.  They led the way into the chaotic, ugly and hateful discourse that now characterizes the fight over the common good.  It isn't Trump's fault.  His tweeting is the most potent aspect of his presidency -- especially the personal insults against his enemies.  The chattering class thinks people pay attention to everything they think and write.  Most people just live their lives ignoring politics and the news.  It took an entertainer reality star billionaire insulting his way into their consciousness with epithets aimed at the establishment they have come to loathe to get their attention.  Nobody knows who to trust anymore.

The great Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn could be describing American media today when he wrote, "The fact that most of the world is ignorant and uncaring about this enormous crime is proof that the global media is in the hands of the perpetrators."  The ruling class of America is in the hands of those who want Christianity to disappear from the world.  They are replacing it with a "moral" code for fools that rewards bad behavior at the expense of good.  Decency is easy to define.  The Ten Commandments are a proven and workable foundation for a civilization.  Why have they been removed from our schools?  Why are they thought to be hate filled by most of our youth -- even our children and grandchildren who go to church youth groups?

America's Christianity is quarantined.  It has been that way my entire lifetime.  I've never known a time when the public square wasn't awash in religious syncretism.  Christianity was brought low in America long before I was born.  First it was made equal to all other philosophies, ideologies and religions.  Then it was forced into stained glass fortresses.  Now it is presented to us as if it were a banal second class rock concert followed by a motivational speech.  The Christian vitality that once enlivened American homes was drained away by the instruments of electronic media.  The radio, then television, displaced the precious moments families spent praying and playing together.  Mothers were taught to enjoy themselves sexually while they killed their offspring.  Fathers were enabled to absolutely sever their connection to their own children. Aided by unlimited access to porn they replaced their God-given sense of fatherly responsibility with instant satisfaction of sexual urges.

Distracted continuously, and constantly rewarded for conformity, Americans are losing their humanity.  We are witnessing the beginnings of a callousness that could fuel a slaughter of Soviet proportions.  It will start with Christians.  But it won't stop there.  The blood letting of totalitarians never stops there.  Solzhenitsyn observed, "Driven by ethnic hatred they tortured and slaughtered millions of Russians without a shred of human remorse."  We can all see this ethnic hatred rising against "whites."  The real target is Christianity.  The father of lies -- satan -- will use whatever he can to bring chaos, division and death.  Jesus Christ is all about nurturing goodness, truth and beauty.  And everyone knows it.  They ignore the truth to excuse their own sins ... to give themselves permission to go on sinning.

Solzhenitsyn again, "The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market economy nor even general abundance constitutes the crowning achievement of human life. If a nation's spiritual energies have been exhausted, it will not be saved from collapse by the most perfect government structure or by any industrial development. A tree with a rotten core cannot stand."

The businessman Donald Trump isn't going to save us.  Only one thing can save us now.  Men must repent.  They must turn from their wicked ways and beliefs.  They must turn their hearts toward home and hearth.  Christianity offers universe-powering resources to aid us on our path forward.  The Holy Family of Joseph, Mary and Jesus Christ are on the side of all those who pursue righteousness and holiness with a contrite heart.  All the saints are cheering us on.  The writer of Hebrews proclaimed, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.  For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.  Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin."

Let's stop striving against one another and start striving against sin.  Let's do the next right thing today.

Amen.