Heresy, Hypocrisy, Persecution, and Lunacy Incorporated

 By Rich Kozlovich Tags: The World's Nine Orders  

Let's start with heresy and hypocrisy.  

Recently Andrea Widburg published this piece over at American Thinker, The continued decline of the morally bankrupt Church of England saying "over the years, the Church of England has":

1. Ordained women as priests (which is unbiblical).
2. Ended all limitations on women serving in the church hierarchy. The current Archbishop of Canterbury (the head of the Church of England) is Sarah Mullally, who sort of supports same-sex relationships (unbiblical), is sort of pro-choice (un-traditional-Christian), and is very pro-refugee (anti-British). (Amazingly, she is opposed to assisted suicide.)
3. Approved of homosexuality as an acceptable behavior among the faithful.
4. Authorized the church to bless homosexual unions.
5. Allowed openly gay priests into the clergy.
6. Became very supportive of so-called transgenderism.
7. Went (and still goes) the extra mile for ecumenical relationships with Islam.

Given that the Church has allowed itself to be led by popular culture, rather than standing as a bulwark of firmly held Christian beliefs, it’s probably no surprise that only 10% of British people identify as members of the Church of England, with only 1% attending church every week. Once it became the Church of the BBC, it ceased to have spiritual value.

Well, it's not just the Anglican Church, Heretics Leave a Moral Foundation of Quicksand. The mainstream religions claiming to be Christian are twisting themselves into knots in an effort to appease people who don’t believe, and who rarely attend or don’t attend at all. There is no vile heresy they’re not embracing. Clearly they’re heretics, and if people are what they do, then secretly they must be atheists. Can there be any other conclusion? 

At this point we may be seeing a modern schism developing in the Catholic Church, There are a great many who claim Pope Leo's views on immigration are those of a leftist politician and have nothing to do with the gospel.  The Vatican  rejects that claim saying his views "are official ‘proclamations of the gospel."  There was at time when the Pope understood there was no harmony between Christianity and communism, and "excommunicated all communist Catholics in 1949."  There was a time when it was understood there could be no harmony between Christianity and Islam.  

Right now there appears to be a schism in the making as Cardinal Victor Fernandez excommunicated those who belong to the Society of Saint Pius X for appointing bishops without the approval of the Vatican, calling them schismatic.  Now, prelates and Catholic clergy who are not members of  the SSPX are saying that action is null because:

"Fernandez and those working with him are schismatics themselves. It is no secret that 80 percent of Vatican clergy are homosexuals and that both Fernandez and Leo are responsible for the rampant spread of LGBTQ in Rome and beyond..............  “In the Vatican, however, key positions are increasingly being occupied by people who have been completely corrupted by the world and who have been placed there [by Francis and Leo] in order to destroy the Catholic Church down to its very roots. They are the ones who should be excommunicated, because they no longer have anything at all in common with the Church of Christ.”

So, we've covered heresy, hypocrisy, now let's cover persecution.  

In China, which is one of the world's worst human rights violators as Communist China is a pariah, it’s time to treat it like one.  Xi is seeing a growing Christian movement in China so he arrested a prominent pastor hoping to halt this movement.  It's not working and Xi is going full blast to be a modern Mao arresting Christians who refuse to bend the knee the cult of Xi.  The pastor has since been released but that's not changing Xi's persecution of Christians.

Nigeria is now, and has been for some time, a nightmare of genocide for Christians.  Muslims are killing 35 Christians a day and it's estimated between 5,000 and 10,000 Christians are murdered by Muslims each year, and their corrupt government is doing little about it.  And not one word from the wokesters about genocide.  In this case it's provable genocide versus of the propaganda touted by Democrats, Islamophiles and their media cats paws about Gaza.    

We've covered heresy, hypocrisy, persecution, so now let's cover lunacy.  

Did you know that God doesn't like America?  That blacks are God's chosen people?  That race baiters are the new apostles?   Yessir, and we know this is so because Senator Warnock told us so claiming: 

.............. in a sermon on Sunday that God sent a thunderstorm to the National Mall in Washington, DC on July 4 to force people who were “telling themselves a bunch of lies” about the greatness of the United States into the African-American History Museum.

But when it comes to lunacy, even Warnock can't begin to outdo James Talarico who now claims Christians are ‘Christofascists’ and Islam is a “path to truth”.  Yessir, he's really got a handle on faith, and how to win Texans over.  

Update:

•  The Most Dangerous Pride Event Wasn't the Parade - It Was the Catholic Mass

Public Trust in Churches Has Fallen. Is There Hope for Change in 2025?

What's a Critical Thinking analysis? 

John Droz, Jr., May 12, 2025

I recently read a thought-provoking piece. It starts off by observing that people have lost confidence in the Government and the Media. Then it wraps up by discussing that US citizens are also losing faith in Churches — an even more serious matter.

Considering that the Catholic Church has a new leader (Pope Leo XIV), maybe this is a good time to give this some critical thought.

[Note: following the quoted part, I’ll share my own experience on this topic.]

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The following is an excerpt of the good article:

“There’s one more notable area where people seem to be losing trust, Jody Hice observed. “I hate to even bring this up, but there’s also seemingly … an increasing distrust for churches, a lack of trust. What do you think this next year holds for the church? Is there anything that they can do to become a greater influence in our culture?”

“It’s interesting,” Dr. George Barna replied, “because when you look at what’s going on with churches, in some ways it’s very similar to what’s happening with government, where people have less and less trust in the leadership of their churches.”

Additionally, he explained how many Christians “feel like they’re not getting real value from their churches. And as we’ve been evaluating that, one of the things that’s become clear is that, often, that’s because they feel they’re not being given practical advice, practical guidance — real, tangible value for their life. … This comes from preaching God’s word on a consistent basis and breaking it down for people so that they know how to apply God’s truth principles in their personal life.”

But if churchgoers feel that church is not serving them, the question becomes why is that the case?

Barna contended that a lot of it boils down to how churches “evaluate their success in ministry … which is based on how many people show up, how many programs they offer, how many … people they’ve hired, how much money they’re raising, and how much square footage they’ve built out.” This is problematic, Barna argued, because “if you think about those five objectives that most churches in America consistently measure to evaluate their ministry effectiveness, one conclusion we can come to is … that they’re bound to fail as a set of measures.”*

“Why?” he asked. “Because Jesus didn’t die for any of those. That’s not what His life, His ministry, or His teaching is all about.”

At the heart of the matter, Barna contended, is that “we’ve gotten away from the Bible not only in what we’re teaching, but even in how we’re measuring success and impact in ministry. … In the last five years … half of all adults in America attending a church at least once a month on average has gone down to roughly one third of Americans. That’s a huge drop in a short period of time. And … the reason is they’re not getting biblical value from churches.”

“Wow,” Hice sighed. “This is an extremely important issue because the well-being of our whole culture ultimately comes down to the spiritual health of the culture, which ultimately obviously rests upon the health of the church. What does the church need to do to get people to come back to church? What kind of changes need to be taking place within a church body to fulfill the mission that God has given them to do?”

According to Barna, “it comes back to the whole issue of worldview. Why is it that young people in particular would say that they often are struggling with fear, depression, anxiety, and suicidal thoughts? …

It comes back to their perspectives about how life works. When you’ve got a young adult who doesn’t believe that there’s a God who’s all knowing, all powerful … merciful … just … involved and engaged in their lives, and when you’ve got generations of people who say that they don’t believe that there’s anything that happens after they die, it’s imperative that if … churches or families want to be uplifting and … a source of strength and hope and optimism, particularly for younger adults, well, then they’ve got to get back to God’s word.”

“Our entire culture is moving in the wrong direction,” Barna warned, “and it’s up to churches and parents to raise their children up, to understand the truths of Scripture … to trust the Bible, to know God, to trust Jesus personally, and to understand that we’re sinners.”

People must understand that “success in life isn’t by your material goods. … It’s not by your fame. It’s not by your popularity. It’s not even by feeling good. It’s about consistent obedience to God.” Another part of this issue is due to a lack of discipleship, he argued, and disciples who aren’t properly equipping themselves.

For anyone grappling with fear, anxiety, or depression, Barna concluded that “Jesus is the antidote. … The Bible shows us an alternative way of living,” and “the more that we can address worldview issues, the more that we can not only rebuild the church, but we can bring back a sense of life and hope and optimism to all Americans.

*I relate to this as it is what we experienced in our NC Catholic Church.

FYI, I went to Catholic grammar school, high school, and college (Boston College), and had a good relationship with nuns, brothers, and priests. Subsequently, as an active, practicing parishioner, I’ve dealt with something like a hundred parish priests, with no significant problems.

A few years ago, we were assigned a new pastor — not a big deal. Right out of the gate, he made some major (and problematic) changes. For example, he terminated the sixth grade of our K-6 Catholic School. (I had been on the school board for years, and knew the whole situation intimately.) The new pastor never even bothered to attend any of the monthly school board meetings. When the School Board politely questioned some of his changes to our successful school, he fired all 12± Board members!

There were so many other issues (most outside of the school) that several parishioners decided to give the pastor a petition of concerns. It listed thirty (30!) items. He refused to meet with this group to discuss anything.  I was nominated to speak to the Diocesan person who oversees parishes. I called this priest and outlined our thirty problematic concerns.  Without addressing a single one of the parishioners’ concerns, he asked me: 

“Have the collections decreased?” 

I was stunned that this clergy person’s primary interest was financial, not spiritual. We immediately changed parishes and stopped all contributions to the Diocese (and told them why).

Observations From the Back Row With News and Views For March 23, 2025.

By Rich Kozlovich 

 

The problem for so many is a lack of focus.  Now that I've been retired for a few years I find that to be more and more true.  As we start out our lives reality forces us to to focus on our careers.  Then as we marry we focus on our marriage.  Then the children come along and we focus on the needs of the nuclear family.  If you're a business owner, we focus on building the business with a focus on retirement.  Then....  all of a sudden.....  you hit that age when the children are gone and on their own, you're retired and you don't have to get up to go to work, you don't have a schedule to lend focus to your day, and the biggest decisions you make are when to go to bed, when to get up, whether to take a nap or not, and this is the big one.   Will I have breakfast at home or out?

 

At that point you're forced to ask, what should I be doing in my life now?  If you're used to doing things, then that requires some personal reflection.  If that's not to your taste, you can just sit and watch TV until you die.  That's the conundrum for Democrats now.  Reflection!

 

One Democrat talking head is just stunned Trump supporters are not turning on him like the Democrats turned on little Chuckie Schumer.  In fact, they just can't grasp how or why Trump supporters love what he's doing.  Why?   The answer is simple.  It's a failure to reflect on reality, which causes an inability to focus on reality.  Instead of worrying about why Trump supporters aren't turning on Trump, their focus should be on asking why their approval ratings are in the toilet, and why America isn't buying the horsepucky from the left and why their media lackeys no longer matter. 

 

But they won't, and in point of fact, they can't.   At least if they wish to remain leftists and Democrats, because everything they promote is being rejected, so if they change by recognizing and accepting reality, then they can't be leftists, or Democrats any longer.    It's like asking a Muslim to reject jihad, which is central to Islam.  If they do that, then they're not Muslims.   Democrats and Muslims get those distinctions.  Conservatives need to get them also. 

 

Let's not delude ourselves, the nation is in the midst of a third revolution. Radical leftists are physically attacking people and destroying property, and the Democrat party thinks that all just fine and dandy.  They're deeply entrenched in policies that are destroying America culturally and economically.  The federal judiciary - for decades - has been attempting to destroy the Constitutional separation of powers and impose a kritocracy (rule by judges) on the nation, and now they're in open rebellion, and finally, America gets that.  

 

What I'm finding to be a bit shocking is the race in Wisconsin for a seat on their Supreme Court on April 1.  It has been considered a shoo in for a far left radical, who has made it clear she would like to control redistricting in order to make sure more Democrats are elected to Congress.  But now, all of a sudden, it seems the conservative candidate actually has a chance, and he's been endorsed by Trump.  If that happens it will be a shock to the left, but I wouldn't bet the house on it. 

Greenpeace in North Dakota and lost to the tune of  "more than $660 million dollars", and Elon Musk is suing Democrat Jamaal Bowman for calling him a ‘Nazi’ on CNN.  There's nothing like a good civil penalty to get peoples head on straight.   

 

Is George Soros behind all this?  Well, it's being reported his money is behind:

 

"Indivisible, a nationwide activist network that has taken over $7.6 million from Soros’ Open Society Foundation since 2017, is helping to lead efforts to push Schumer out of his seat".  

 

If that's true, and I'm sure it is, then how many other groups has he funded, and how many are being funded surreptitiously though the Tides Foundation.   

 

The Tides Center was launched in 1996 as an offshoot of the Tides Foundation. It has incubated numerous social justice, environmental, gun-control, and abortion-rights groups. George Soros's Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation have all pushed funding through the network.

 

One thing we do know is his money is being used to destroy America, and that's been known for many years.  So, if that's true, and it is, when does someone start a massive RICO investigation about regarding the Dark Money funding all this destructive behavior?  These vile characters are described by Daniel Greenfield as "the absentee owners of the Democrat Party."  Here's more on the funding behind so much destructive activity. 

 

Below are links to articles that have appeared over the last two days dealing with: ActBlue, Autopen, Culture, Democrats, DOGE, Economics, Immigration, Judiciary, Lawfare, Mexico, Middle East, and Religion.

 

Take some time and make your picks.  Enjoy!

 ActBlue

 

Federal Judges Are on the Payroll of China, CCP, Mexican Drug Cartels - I've argued for years that the open border was an intentional plan to destroy America by welcoming in millions of foreign invaders. The goal was to create a welfare state and get them all to vote Democrat, so eventually no Republican could ever be elected again.  I've also argued for years that the Democrat politicians who supported this plan were on the payroll of China, the Chinese Communist Party and the Mexican drug cartels..........And now, word is out the FBI and Congress are about to indict top players at ActBlue........Now we come to Democrat-appointed federal judges. These are the "enforcers" for this dirty Democrat/deep state conspiracy to destroy America with open borders..............

Autopen

 

The Autopen, The Presidency And The Constitution: What To Know - The “autopen” is in vogue. On March 17, President Donald Trump announced in a late-night social media post that he would ignore several pardons issued by his predecessor, President Joe Biden, because they were allegedly signed by autopen............

 

Autopen on autopilot - That a president of the United States was unfit for four years is the biggest scandal in American history. Where is the accountability and reckoning?..........

 

How much did Joe know? - The autopen story and all of the talk about Biden’s cognitive decline raises a question.  How much did President Biden know?  Did he understand just how far to the left he was being pushed?  I am not trying to make excuses for Mr. Biden, but this leftist tilt was not what I thought would happen.  Maybe I’m alone, but I actually did think that President Biden would be more centrist and stay away from extremes.....

 

My Take - While it seems clear to me Biden was clueless about a lot of these signatures, but I  really don't see this going where conservatives wish for it to go.  All Joe has to say is I ordered them to use autopen, and I have no doubt he will do that.  He has to, because if he doesn't he's admitting he really wasn't aware of what was going on, and he really wasn't President,  and that's not who Joe Biden is, and that will pretty much end it.  RK

 

Culture

 

Righteous Attacks Bringing the Left to Heel - Democrat leaders like Senator Chuck Schumer message thinly veiled threats of violence to their (increasingly small) numbers of followers. They are responding in counterproductive ways like torching and defacing Tesla cars and trucks, vehicles most likely owned by Democrats who believe in the climate change fairy tale and want to reduce CO2 emissions. The logical response of Democrat owners is to blame and leave the party that provokes this nonsensical criminal behavior. .......

 

Democrats

 

Not Radical Enough: The Left Devours Its Own as Pro-Palestinian Mob Ambushes Democrat at Town Hall - A growing wave of unhinged, pro-Palestinian activism is turning violent and cannibalistic, as radical leftists now target even their own Democrat allies for failing to embrace enough Jew-hatred, with town halls erupting into chaos, assaults, and outright domestic terrorism.  This is what happens to progressives when they aren’t radical or anti-Semitic enough for the fringe Left. Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) is certainly not conservative. He hates Republicans, and he despises Elon Musk, but he evidently doesn’t hate Israel enough to appease the pro-Palestinian faction of his base at a town hall last week........

 

My Take - When you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind, and when your base is the far left, this should have been expected.  The Democrat party has been inciting violence and civil disorder for years, even funding it through the Deep State, and yet, now they're shocked.  Imagine that.  The Democrat party is in a state of collapse. Schadenfreude!

 

A Democratic congressman gets a taste of the Left’s unhinged hate - On Wednesday, he got a taste of the unhinged Jew-hatred on the Left, and it was just one of a number of disturbances that happened at congressional events during the week. At least one of them turned violent.

 

President Trump and unitary power - No, not President Trump’s unitary power.  I’m referring to the left’s belief in its unitary power.  “Our democracy” is not about democracy in the same vein that “our truth” is not about truth.  The left’s interest is about not democracy, but power.  If voting works to their advantage, they support the vote.  When the people denounce their legislative and executive candidates, they fall back on their “activists” in the Judicial Branch.......

 

When silence is permission - In the last two weeks, we have seen numerous acts of violence and vandalism across the country. First came the coordinated attacks on Teslas, Tesla dealerships, and charging stations. The second is the rash of swatting, targeting conservative voices......What we saw from the Democrats was pathetic yet entirely expected. Rather than condemn acts of violence, they actually encouraged them. .....

 

Democrats’ ambivalence about healthy authority in America - One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons shows a psychiatrist hitting his patient on the couch over the head with his shoe, exclaiming, “It may have been right even if your mother said so!”  Democrats, in addition to a massive loss of a sense of humor and common sense, have recently lost sight of the importance of a healthy presence of authority to maintain the fabric of any society...........Mere blind destructive resistance at any cost and to anything Trump tries without offering constructive alternatives is political suicide and homicide — and is getting beyond the symbolic..........

 

America's Toughest Governor, Maine's Janet Mills, Just Folded Like A Cheap Lawn Chair- You remember the story, right? All of the nation's governors were at the White House for a meeting with Donald Trump on February 22nd, and Maine's Janet Mills stole the show, as it were.  Trump, a couple weeks earlier, had signed an executive order to ban biological males from competing in women's sports, and threatened to pull education funding to districts, states, and colleges/universities that did not comply. Enter Governor Mills.............

Politico: The Midterm Elections Ain't Looking Good for Democrats - As if the Democrats’ ignominious defeat in 2024 wasn’t bad enough, they could be headed for even worse in the upcoming midterm elections. A Politico report detailed the level of dissatisfaction Democratic voters are feeling toward their party at the moment. After the election and Senate Democrats capitulating to Republicans during the spending bill battle, it is not too surprising that the proverbial thrill is gone.............

Why domestic terrorism from the left?  Throughout America, we are seeing concentrated, escalating acts of domestic terrorism, from “swatting” of conservative media personalities to the firebombing of Tesla dealerships and street thuggery by activist miscreants (and crazy people) accosting Tesla owners across the country.  I would also add the astroturfing of Republican town halls, and what we’re seeing in the form of judicial activism as forms of terrorism.  But why are we seeing this? We are seeing this because the left have nothing else.  Truly.  What is their current platform?............

Far-Left Radicals Threaten and Shut Down AMAC Event in Oregon - A radical far-left group threatened and shut down a conservative event in King City, Oregon organized by AMAC, with OR State Rep. Ed Diehl, and speakers from United Sovereign Americans, Heritage Action and Turning Point USA. An Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) event was supposed to take place today, Saturday, March 22, 2025.......... These peaceful, God, and America-loving groups were supposed to share in an open setting thoughts and ideas to support sensible legislation, fiscal responsibility, and accountability at all levels of government.............This was too much for the radical left in Oregon. They had to shut this down. To hell with free speech, do what the Nazis did and prevent those not supporting your ideas from ever gathering together and scare them into submission, then label them Nazis...........

GOP Rep. Lawler: Schumer Admitted Dems Sending Protesters to Republican Districts - Representative Mike Lawler (R-NY) said Thursday on CNN’s “Newsnight” that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had said multiple times that the Democratic Party is sending protesters to Republican town halls to be disruptive.  Lawler said, “Let me just make a point as a member that is in a swing district, okay. I have and continue to do in person events, including today, where i was protested by climate activists. okay. they showed up, barged into a private luncheon with the Rockland Business association and screamed and yelled for five minutes and then finally left.”..........

Ezra Klein: CA Learned Nothing from High-Speed Rail Failure, Dems Ignore Failed Governance -  California hasn’t learned anything from its failure on high-speed rail and Democrats are treating their problems with effective governance as “not a real problem.” .... “are driving people out, working-class families out of the states that they govern because the cost of living is too high and the cost of living is too high, in part for regulatory reasons, in part for taxes...... not enough homes, not enough energy, not a government capable of delivering. And they’ve been treating that as not a real problem......

Deep State/FBI/The Purge

 

The FBI flees the FBI - I’ve been writing about the amazingly corrupt and illegal practices of the FBI for years, including recently in The FBI hides evidence of being the FBI, a cautionary tale about FBI agents destroying incriminating evidence of their misdeeds:.......... 

The Department of Education: A perspective from 1979 - Recently, I found something in a box of memorabilia — an Aug. 3, 1979 Michigan Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Michigan. Why do we save old newspapers or magazines?  Why did I save this one?  Maybe it’s because, in 1979, I was back on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, working on a new minor, after graduating in 1973 with a major in English and a minor in psychology in the School of Education..............

 

DOGE

 

Marlow on Alan Jackson Now: DOGE Is Actually Accomplishing What Dems Said They Wanted To Do -  On Friday’s “Alan Jackson Now,” “Alex Marlow Show” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow stated that DOGE is just doing things some on the left acknowledge they should have done and others have given lip service to doing.  Marlow said that some on the left acknowledge “they blew it, they should have done a DOGE when Biden was in and when Obama was in” but that this view hasn’t broken into the mainstream.....

The Sky Will Not Fall and America Won’t Grind to a Halt Because Some Federal Employees Are Losing Their Jobs Due to DOGE - Fear is a strong motivator—especially when it’s given a political megaphone. And Democrat officials, public employee unions, and their minions in the media have no qualms about trying to terrify the public with ridiculous claims in an attempt to counter President Donald Trump’s swamp-cleansing initiatives through the work of the Department of Government Efficiency. Just look at the recent hysteria from Capitol Hill. Last month, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., likened the dismissal of federal employees to “a bank robber trying to fire the cops and turn off the alarm just before he strolls into the lobby.”............

Economics

Understanding Tariffs -Eventually, President Trump’s tariffs may help the (re)establishment of a domestic industry production and the creation of jobs unless it involves the type of jobs typically done robotically..

 

19 Reasons Why the Federal Reserve Is at the Heart of Our Economic Problems - Most Americans have absolutely no idea how we got into the mess that we are in today.  The reason why the U.S. government is 36 trillion dollars in debt and our society as a whole is 102 trillion dollars in debt is because the system is performing exactly as it was designed.  We have a system that was literally designed to create colossal amounts of debt.  But if you ask most Americans about this, they cannot tell you what the Federal Reserve is or why it is at the heart of our economic problems...............The truth is that the Federal Reserve is a privately-owned banking cartel that has been given a perpetual monopoly over our monetary system by the U.S. Congress.  This privately-owned central bank has been destroying the value of the U.S. dollar for decades, it has run our economy into the ground, and it has driven the U.S. government to the brink of bankruptcy.  The Federal Reserve operates in great secrecy  and it acts as if it is not accountable to the American people.  Yet the decisions that the Federal Reserve makes have a dramatic impact on the lives of every single American citizen.............

Immigration

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Mahmoud Khalil: The Lawfare Circus Delayed, but the Show Must Go On -  Charlton Allen Memo to law enforcement: Do your job, and let the activist lawyers rage on MSNBC while you enforce the law............

Gang Violence in Sweden Is a Crisis Decades in the Making, Experts Say - Magnus Lindgren, a former police chief general secretary of the Safer Sweden Foundation, said there were 15,000 ’very dangerous criminals’ in Sweden.  On March 12, sanctions were imposed on Rawa Majid, a Swedish gangster known as The Kurdish Fox, by the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).  Majid, 38, who was born in Iran, is the leader of the so-called Foxtrot Network, one of the most powerful organized crime gangs in Sweden...........Why have criminals like The Kurdish Fox thrived in Sweden, and why has violent crime, including bombings and shootings, gone up so much in recent years?............“Criminal policy has long been characterized by ideals of humanism, which originate from the 1970s, with the view that it is society’s fault if crime is committed, not the individual’s,” it stated.  “As a consequence, treatment has come before punishment and non-custodial sanctions before imprisonment.”..........

Trump Administration Revoking Legal Status of over 500K Biden-Era Migrants - The Trump administration is revoking the legal status of more than 500,000 migrants who entered the United States through a Biden administration parole program. CBS News reported that 532,000 migrants from countries such as Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, who entered the country through a program called CHNV, will have their “work permits and deportation protections” terminated in April. Per CBS News:.....

Martha’s Vineyard invasion forgotten - Recently, U.S. District judge James Boasberg banged his gavel and directed the Trump administration to stop deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members without a hearing. Boasberg wanted those planes turned around in mid-flight and returned to the United States. This reaction of this federal judge surprised me, because the invasion of Martha’s Vineyard in 2022 was resolved quickly, quietly, and then relegated to the dustbin of history. Entitled, affluent, residents of Martha’s Vineyard narrowly avoided a disaster of epic proportions in 2022. Apparently, 50 (that’s f-i-f-t-y) illegal aliens were FedExed by Governor Ron DeSantis to the enclave of the rich and famous. These immigrants wanted a better life in America, learned that Martha’s Vineyard was a sanctuary city, and believed their proud signage:..............

Why have permanent foreigners? - Among the left’s outrage about the arrest for possible deportation of Mahmoud Khalil — the Columbia University rabble-rouser who distributed propaganda on behalf of a foreign terrorist organization, Hamas — is that the former student is a legal permanent resident.  “He has a green card!” they exclaim whenever legal permanent residents are deported.  Take for example the “Milwaukee mom,” here since practically birth who was sent back to Laos...after being released from prison for interstate trafficking of marijuana.......... And once one crosses that border, neither a visa nor a green card immunizes him from account for things like spreading propaganda for foreign terrorist organizations like Hamas.  Or supporting foreign terrorist organizations like Hezb’allah by “just happening” to have attended a terrorist’s funeral while back in the old country. .........

Judiciary

Hegseth CRUSHES Crazed Biden Judge in Response to Her Order Forcing Pentagon to Allow Transgender Troops - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth absolutely crushed a federal judge in response to her order forcing the Pentagon to allow transgender troops. In January President Trump signed the “Restoring America’s Fighting Force” executive order and the “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” executive orders, which direct every element of the U.S. military to “operate free from any preference based on race or sex” and root out gender insanity and made up pronoun usage, respectively. Earlier this week, Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee from Uruguay, issued a temporary nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s transgender military ban................. 

My Take - Another foreign born federal judge?  Right along with term limits, and a failure to define jurisdictional authority of the federal judiciary, that's another Constitutional error Founding Fathers that needs to be fixed. RK

Obama-Appointed Judge’s Anti-DOGE Ruling Is So “Weirdly Written” That It Could Lead to the Shutdown of Social Security - A federal judge on Thursday barred DOGE from accessing social security systems.  US District Judge Ellen Hollander, an Obama appointee, said DOGE’s workers are on a “fishing expedition.” “The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion. It has launched a search for the proverbial needle in the haystack, without any concrete knowledge that the needle is actually in the haystack,” Judge Hollander wrote. Far-left organizations like AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Teachers and other plaintiffs sued the Social Security Administration, Elon Musk, DOGE and other Trump advisors...............

DOJ Wants Judge Removed From Case Challenging Trump’s Executive Order - The Department of Justice filed a motion on March 21 requesting District of Columbia District Judge Beryl Howell disqualify herself from Perkins Coie LLP’s case challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order against it due to her publicly declared disdain for the president and her connection with essential aspects of the case...

The center of infection - Not much is remarked yet on the federal judges trying to legislate from the bench in denying Donald Trump’s executive orders and immigration policies is how a number of them all live within walking (or at least biking) distance of each other. James Boasberg, who tried to order the Trump administration to bring back planes of violent illegal alien gang members being flown to El Salvador’s prisons, lives in “Chevy Chase, D.C.,” the posh D.C. neighborhood bordering the town of Chevy Chase, Maryland, where Boasberg’s Yale Law classmate Justice Brett Kavanaugh resides.............

Welcome to the Krytocracy - We may think we live in a democracy, which comes from the Greek words “demos” (people) and “kratos” (rule). But with one federal district judge after another attempting to stop President Donald Trump from carrying out his policies, it’s starting to look more like a “krytocracy,” or rule by judges. Look at the litigation tracker from the organization Lawfare and you’d think it was from Trump’s first 100 months, not first 100 days. Here’s a small sample of what his administration is being challenged on: deporting criminal or terrorist-supporting aliens; freezing federal funding to avoid fraud and waste; giving federal employees a voluntary early severance package; DOGE (too many times to go into); making senior civil servants more accountable to the president; and dismantling federal agencies that no longer serve the national interest.........

Lawfare

Alarming Situation: Elon Musk Says He’s Suing Democrat Jamaal Bowman for Calling Him a ‘Nazi’ on CNN - Elon Musk has had enough. He announced on X Friday that he was suing Jamaal Bowman for calling him a ‘Nazi’ and a ‘thief’ on CNN. Bowman is the former Democrat congressman who infamously pulled a fire alarm to delay a vote......Democrats have turned up their violent rhetoric and lying about Musk. It’s created a political atmosphere so toxic that domestic terrorists are now targeting Tesla dealerships, vehicles, and charging stations by vandalizing and torching them. Commenters make the connection.......

 Mexico

 

Bone Dry Border Dispute Leaves Farmers High And Dry - The Trump administration has lambasted Mexico for its failure to adhere to a water treaty established in 1944, according to Republican Senator Ted Cruz from Texas. Cruz has been insisting that Mexico fulfill its water supply obligations, but it was the Trump administration that finally took action to protect the rights of farmers near the Rio Grande. Frankly, it’s about time. Mexico has consistently reneged on its water responsibilities for decades. The 1944 Water Treaty, officially known as the Treaty Regarding the Use of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and the Rio Grande, was signed between the United States and Mexico on February 3, 1944. The treaty aimed to allocate the waters of these rivers between the two countries, ensuring that both nations had reliable access to essential water resources needed for agriculture, industry, and urban development........

 

Middle East

 

Iranian Regime’s Nuclear Crisis and Diplomatic Tensions: Negotiation or Confrontation? -The Iranian regime’s nuclear program has once again become the focal point of international tensions. According to a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran has produced 275 kilograms of uranium enriched to 60%. This level of enrichment brings Iran dangerously close to the 90% threshold necessary for developing a nuclear weapon.............

 

Iraq’s Debt to America: It’s Time to Collect - It’s time for President Trump to stop playing nice. Iraq, a country we’ve invested trillions in over the past two decades, owes us. The reconstruction, the security operations, and the countless lives lost—all funded by American taxpayers. Yet, while we’ve spent this immense sum on their recovery, Iraq continues to sit on one of the world’s largest oil reserves. It’s time to call in the debt. 

 

Religion 

 

About Those 100 'Faith Leaders' Who Support Reckless Government Spending - We’re seeing a society become unhinged…again. Trump has quite a way with the radical Left. They absolutely hate him and DOGE, and they hourly lose it. Now they’re burning Teslas (so much for climate care), raging in hotel lobbies and on college campuses to defend Hamas supporters, and cursing up a storm at rallies.   It's not just paid activists and politicians jumping into the resistance ring; it’s leftist “faith leaders” too. Recently, nearly 100 “progressive” religious folks signed a letter demanding an unbiblical “Return to Jesus.” The Lenten letter demanded that hundreds of millions of wasted taxpayer dollars continue to flow to (leftist) NGOs. ..........100 “faith leaders” are the religious collaborators who are manipulating the public as they demand that we all bow to the State. .............Nearly every one of the signers is radically pro-abortion: Jim Wallis (Sojourners), Shane Claiborne (Red Letter Christians), Bishop Claude Alexander (Evangelicals for Harris), Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson (Children’s Defense Fund), Dr. Jacquelyn Dupont-Walker (AME Church) and so many more...........

The Bible in Schools? Research Says it Matters - We have removed the Bible from schools, and we are witnessing a generation fall apart. 

 

My Take - While the article is praise worthy, I think using Martin Luther King as an example of having “the Word of God in his heart”, is a mistake. That certainly isn’t reflective of his personal life, and they need to open all of King's FBI files, in spite of the wishes of his family, or the FBI. RK

 

Getting Back to Serving Humanity - When the Brahmins of Boston and Concord declared Christianity unfit for human consumption, well over a century ago in New England, they remade mankind into creatures of innate goodness and light, believing that — as Ben Franklin had put it — people could live anywhere there is freedom...........The progress of myopic globalists to “make the world better” is revealed in today’s pathologic mess the world is in.....The core of faithful Christians is not small, it is true, but they have yet to face down liberals, progressives, and pastors who seek enlightenment in their crania instead of in the One who gave them their brains and faculties. Such astounding waste of human energy and show of arrogance has led too many to forget that Judeo-Christianity made possible a civilization with no equal in benefit to humanity...............

 

 

Who Really Are the Destroyers of Western Civilization

Muslims, Rape, Crime, and Western Civilization

By Rich Kozlovich, Tags:

 

I've been reading The March of Folly by Barbara W. Tuchman published in 1984, and it's just as relevant today as it was then.  Why?  Because she asks why do leaders make decisions that are so obviously destructive to their own societies, both secular and religious, and the history she outlines gives you the answer.  Truth be told, as you read the things that went on in Europe's religious communities over the centuries you have to wonder how Europe remained Christian as long as it did.

• In the UK And The US, Racial Subgroups Refuse To Address The Criminals Among Them Vince Coyner Their silence would seem to give both communities a pass, but eventually, they’ll discover that providing cover for rapists and killers backfires on them...........
• Rotherham Grooming Gang Inquiry Told Not to Investigate ‘Senior Officers’ - A whistleblower has claimed that an inquiry into the Rotherham child rape grooming gang scandal intentionally avoided implicating senior police officers in a report on local failures to protect young girls in the English town. The left-wing Labour government of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has claimed that previous local investigations into Muslim grooming gangs have been sufficient and that a fresh national inquiry into the widespread child abuse and the politically correct failures to safeguard primarily young white girls is not needed............
• Sex and Islam...and the decline of the West January 5, 2025 by Andrea Widburg The grooming/rape gang scandal enveloping the British government is a microcosm of Islam’s obsession and the West’s decline.........

Islam isn't a religion, it's a political criminal movement masquerading as a religion, and it isn't just about sex, it's about every criminal activity known to man that's not only excused by Islam, it's encouraged.

When Sultan Mehmed II was trying to conquer Constantinople things weren't going so well, and he turned that around by offering his troops everything in the city, all the wealth they could find, and everyone in the city, including nuns who were raped, enslaved, and dragged naked through the city. The only thing he would keep for himself was the city itself.

That turned the tables. No matter what's written, the foundational principles of Islam are greed, envy, hate, lust, and violence. That's why they get along with socialists, shared values.

After Musk Comments on Grooming Gangs, UK PM Warns Against 'Debate Based on Lies'. Elon Musk has criticised the UK government’s handling of child grooming gangs in a series of messages on his social media site X. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to protect victims of child sexual abuse and warned it won’t tolerate discussions on the issue that are based on lies. His remarks follow an ongoing exchange between UK politicians and tech billionaire Elon Musk, who is set to act as an adviser to the upcoming Trump presidency. Musk has claimed that Starmer had failed to bring “rape gangs” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions. He also suggested that safeguarding minister Jess Phillips “deserves to be in prison” after she denied requests for a public inquiry in Oldham......

Elon Musk Calls for Long-Overdue National Inquiry in UK on Rape Gang Scandal - In a series of posts on X, Elon Musk has been calling attention to a years-long scandal in Britain that was hushed up for years and is still receiving insufficient attention from British authorities: the phenomenon of rape gangs. These gangs have victimized tens of thousands of British girls, and quite likely many more than that. Yet for decades, authorities have been slow to altogether inactive in moving against them, and have occasionally even punished their victims and rewarded the perpetrators. The reason for this lies in the perpetrators’ identity and motivating ideology, which few dare to face.

This is the suicide of cultures that are mired in leftism, and who's fault is it these immigrant monsters are murdering innocent people in America?    According to the CEO at AllState tells us it's Americans who are at fault, because we're addicted to decisiveness.  And his solution is what? He pontificates:

 

We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an addiction to divisiveness and negativity. Join Allstate working in local communities all across America to amplify the positive, increase trust and accept people’s imperfections and differences. Together we win.

Wow, does that sound great?  There's a problem with that though.  It's stupid.  The positive that needs to be amplified are the traditional Judaic/Christian values that made America great, and the left has been fighting that for almost 150 years in America, tooth and nail, and violently.  This divisiveness isn't an addiction, it's self defense against a philosophy of national suicide.  

A recent article by Patricia McCarthy she partially quoted Cicero, but here's the full quote:

 "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -  Marcus Tullius Cicero 

Only Cicero never said that.  While I've used this quote in some of my articles, there's no evidence Cicero ever said that.  It originates from a  1965 novel A Pillar of Iron by Taylor Caldwell, but so what?   Does it really matter who said it?  The thoughts are valid nonetheless, and most certainly apply to what we've been seeing going on in America since the late 19th century, and when Stalin started sending his spies to America in 1920 ultimately filling the FDR administration with so many agents it became known as the most infiltrated government in the history of the world.  

It's a good quote that needs to be used more often, with a caveat, because it defines who's destroying Western Civilization.  It's leaders, both religious and secular.  I'll have more on this soon.

Cotton Candy or Salt?

By Rob Pue @ Wisconsin Christian News

It’s really too bad that I need to take time out of my very busy schedule to address today’s topic.  I’ve been publishing Wisconsin Christian News for 25 years now, so I know that what I’m about to share with you is par for the course and to be expected, but it still bothers me a lot.  Even though I know this is just another attempt of Satan to get under my skin and weigh me down with discouragement, I can’t seem to just let it go.  So, let me tell you what happened yesterday.
 
I was busy working in my office, trying to cross as many things off my “to do” list as possible when the phone rang.  It was a man who had found Wisconsin Christian News for the first time at one of our public news racks.  He told me he was impressed by the cover and glad to find a Christian newspaper out in public, but then, how he was immediately disgusted by, as he put it, “all the political crap” we published.  “What’s with all the political crap in here?” he asked.  

But he didn’t really want to listen to anything I had to say.  In fact, I couldn’t get a word in edgewise.  “I thought we weren’t supposed to mix politics and religion,” he said.  And then, as critics like this always love to do, he attempted to “scare” me by saying, “I was going to subscribe to this paper but there’s no way I’ll do that now!”  These guys always say this as if losing the $2 “profit margin” we receive per year on an annual subscription is going to strike tremendous fear into my heart. 
 
It would have been nice if I were able to have a discussion with him, but then again, over the years, I’ve come across so many others just like him, that I know it’s futile.  Just as well that he hung up on me after yelling at me for publishing what he considered to be “political” material.
 
But this situation gnawed at me all day, and it’s still gnawing at me today.  So much so that I went back in my files to see what articles could have set him off enough to bother making the call.  People will rarely contact me with positive, encouraging messages, but seem to be very eager to call and tell me how I’m doing everything wrong.
 
There were a couple articles on how God was mocked during the opening ceremonies for the Olympics in Paris.  An article on Repentance, God’s Law and the Republican National Convention; one on the new LGBTQP+ curriculum elementary school kids will be subjected to in public schools this fall.  We ran a commentary on how the mainstream media is stumping for Kamala Harris; one about how our government is supposed to have a system of checks and balances with three separate branches; an investigation into the Trump assassination attempt; and one on the sanctity of life for preborn babies.
 
But the rest of the paper was all Bible teaching, letters to the editor, health-related articles, parenting articles, and several on building strong marriages and families.  If I’d had the chance, I would have explained that we are a NEWSpaper, and therefore, we include news in each issue.  Our articles are all from a Christian perspective and worldview, but yes, we do and will continue to cover things like the upcoming elections, tyrannical government, the New World Order, plans of the Globalists, the LGBTQP+ grooming and exploitation of our children and more.
 
We’ll continue to publish real information on the invasion of our nation by foreign enemies.  We’ll speak up when Christ-followers are unjustly hunted and persecuted by our Justice Department, jailed for standing in the gap for the preborn or for praying in public.  We’ll let you know when injustice claims yet more victims.
 
I don’t see these things as being political.  In fact, everything this man would have claimed is “political” are actually moral and spiritual issues, but he’ll never come to understand that.  Something he said made it all clear to me. He said, “I thought we weren’t supposed to mix politics and religion.”  Clearly, he’s been well trained by a cowardly, weakling “pastor” somewhere, in a “stained glass fortress” steeped in “churchianity.”
 
Again, moral and spiritual matters should not be confused with political ones.  But even in the realm of politics, I believe Christians should not only be present, but front and center and in charge.  I won’t apologize for that.  How different would our society and our modern American culture be right now if our government leaders were true Christ-followers?  
 
Do you think we’d have this unbridled lawlessness in our streets?  Would we have abortion up to — and beyond — the moment of birth?  Would we have feminine hygiene products stocked in our male restrooms in public schools and other public places?  Would our public schools have litter boxes in the restrooms for those students who identify as cats?  Would we have pornography being read to our tiny children by so-called “teachers?”  Would 25% of our children be confused about their gender?  Would 47% of our children “identify” as some type of LGBTQP+?
 
If Christians were involved in politics — and pastors properly spoke the truth from their pulpits — would God be mocked and ridiculed at every public event — the Olympics being just one example of many?  Would the media be allowed to lie to us constantly with impunity?  Would school boards be able to push through whatever horrific agenda they wanted — causing serious mental and physical abuse of our children, regardless of what parents wanted?  For that matter, would our children, right now, be being groomed by sodomites in public schools, masquerading as “teachers,” without parents even knowing about it?
 
And if Christians were properly taught — by courageous pastors — to push back and stand as a restraining force against evil in our nation, do you think we’d have all the homelessness, drug abuse, poverty, hunger, prostitution, and insanity in our streets?  I doubt it.
 
I’m sick of it.  The reason our nation and world is in chaos today, teetering on the edge of total destruction is because so-called “Christians” have failed in their primary duty.  Matthew 5:13, “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost his savor, how shall its savor be restored?  It’s no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under the feet of men.”  
 
This is what we’ve allowed to happen... and America is now a post-Christian nation.  “Christianity” has become irrelevant.  Good for nothing.  The very Word of God has been thrown out and trampled under the feet of men, and we have allowed this to happen.  Yes, Pastor, I’m talking to you — and all those lost souls you’ve spent your entire career serving up lies of omission to.  You’ve taught them well.  It’s because of you that they don’t think God Almighty has any place in the affairs of men and civil government.  And so we no longer have civility and our government is treacherous tyranny.
 
It’s doubtful that the man who called me to complain will ever read this message or hear it on the radio.  From what I could gather, he only listens to the modern “praise choruses” on the “Christian Rock” stations.  It’s very sad.  So many are so deluded because of our silent pulpits.  But if you don’t want to get near anything that could possibly be considered “political,” you certainly have your choice of 99.9% of places that call themselves “churches” to attend and get a heaping helping of feel-good motivational speeches on any given Sunday.
 
Because we publish articles of real substance, covering the most vital matters facing our families, our nation and our world, Wisconsin Christian News is quite regularly condemned as being “too radical.”  I guess most people are expecting the typical milquetoast, wimpy, poetry and recipes, “feel good” motivational materials served up by the vast majority of our pastors and churches today.  I can tell you that fewer than one in a hundred pastors will even allow Wisconsin Christian News in their buildings, because they fear someone may be offended when we say sodomy and baby-murder is wrong.
 
When people open up our newspaper, they’re often shocked to see in-depth articles on what’s really going on in this world.  Serious matters.  Don’t get me wrong; we’re not all doom and gloom — we offer the real hope of salvation in Christ — but we’re not “cotton candy” vendors either.  No sugar-coating here.  We provide the truth.  We offer substance and relevant information I believe all Christ-followers need to be aware of as they carry forward the Great Commission in this world.  “Religious” people can’t handle it.  Pastors hate it.  Even most businesses and ministries are too afraid to advertise in our newspaper, for fear of offending someone.
 
I’d like to contrast what we offer in Wisconsin Christian News with another so-called “Christian” newspaper from another state.  While we struggle to meet the budget every month, this one is literally packed with expensive paid advertising.  In their current issue, just in the first 15 pages there are nine full pages of nothing but ads.  They offer plenty of positive, motivational teachings, some questionable new age psychology-based articles, and this month, a Christian College Guide, which appears to be another great opportunity for them to sell even more ads, which they did.
 
And in what I can only describe as a way for them to “stroke” the egos of the area pastors, they print full color pictures of pastors each month and publish their response to one absurd question a month.  Examples of questions they’ve asked are: “What’s the best concert you’ve ever been to?” “What is your favorite meal of all time?”  “How old were you when you got your first car and what kind was it?”  This month, they’re asking, “Are you an early bird or a night owl, and why?”
 
I’m sorry to sound critical, but this is just such a waste, and clearly, I see no other reason for this particular feature except to, as I said, “stroke” the egos of the pastors who respond to the questions and get their pictures published.  This is probably a great “door opener” too, to hopefully sell more ads to churches.  Then they publish calendar listings for concerts and special events, along with classified ads.
 
They sell a lot of ads.  Their paper is in full color throughout — something we’ve never been able to afford to do with Wisconsin Christian News.  But for the life of me, I can’t imagine why anyone would bother to read even a single page of it.  It contains nothing of significance or substance.
 
Now, if I simply wanted to make money, I guess this would be a way to do that — but honestly, this is not “Christian news.”  This is nonsense.  It offers nothing of substance at all.  If I were only about making money, I’d much rather publish a Shopper’s Guide or “Auto Seller.”  At least it would have some value and wouldn’t be, in my opinion, mocking God.
 
I used to joke about how pastors and church-goers really only seem to want “poetry and recipes.”  Some time ago, I came across a small paper that was exactly that.  It was put out for a while by a secular newspaper in one Wisconsin city, and I believe it was quarterly.  And it truly was just poetry and recipes...and just about every single church in that city had an ad in it.  It was definitely a money-maker, but I doubt anyone ever picked up more than one copy and it lasted less than a year.  
 
I tell you all this to let you know that what we do here at Wisconsin Christian News is not easy.  We get a lot of criticism and a lot of cruel and hateful phone calls, emails and letters.  You might be shocked to know that most of the nasty comments come from those who consider themselves to be good, church-going Christians.  On the other hand, we get amazing testimonies from people who find the Lord for the first time, or return to Him after many years away, after finding Wisconsin Christian News in a newspaper rack in a public place somewhere.  Because we’re relevant.  We take on the tough issues.  We don’t mince words. We work hard to publish truth and have some of the best writers in the nation.  Many have told us it’s the only newspaper they read and the only media they feel they can trust.  If you haven’t seen it and would like a complimentary copy, just call and request one.  I’ll be happy to send it you.

C.S. Lewis: When science becomes magic, Parts One and Two

C.S. Lewis: When science becomes magic, Part 1 

 "The new oligarchy must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists until in the end the politicians become merely the scientists' puppets." – C. S. Lewis, "Willing Slaves of the Welfare State" (1958)

By Ellis Washington, Published August 23, 2013

 Legendary scholar, writer and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) more than a half century ago, warned about how science (a good thing) could be systematically perverted to attack religion, deconstruct law and destroy human freedom (a bad thing). In this essential documentary, "The Magician's Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism," noted scholars analyze Lewis' prophetic warnings about the political corruption of science (scientism) or the efforts to use the scientific method to explain, control, enslave every part of human life and how Lewis' predictions are essential for us today.

 Historically, the first half of the 20th century was defined by almost incessant wars and the rise of fascist dictators who in less than 50 years caused more genocide than the history of mankind up to 1900. Nevertheless, we were warned by three prophetic writers about the evil side of unbridled scientific and utopian technological progress: 1) G.K. Chesterton, "Eugenics and other evils"; 2) George Orwell, "1984"; and 3) C.S. Lewis' "Abolition of Man." C.S. Lewis possessed a passionate interest in the emergent power of scientism – the fascist technique of perverting the methods of science to define, manipulate and dominate every aspect of human existence...............

C.S. Lewis: When science becomes magic, Part 2.

"I dread government in the name of science; that is how tyrannies come in." C.S. Lewis:

Conventional thinking by the progressive left treats science as something innovative, original and modern. For C.S. Lewis, however, science was more closely related to ancient magic. Lewis characterized science and magic as analogous, emphasizing three different ways science and magic are similar: 1) Science/magic as the ability to function as religion demanding absolute obedience, devotion and worship; 2) Science/magic as credulity commands groupthink and ironically promotes a lack of skepticism; and 3) Science/magic as power over the world in order to dominate society and triumph over nature and the universe.

Science as religion

Science has the capacity to induce worship to the same degree as any religion; her prophets are scientists and professors, their decrees infallible! Indeed, doesn’t a magical view of the world beguile one with a sense of awe that surely life is more than our humdrum daily lives? This grandeur of the universe gives us a sense of meaning and purpose that transcends the physical world, entering the realm of the metaphysical world. Even for those people who aren’t religious, this magical view of the world can in fact be more compelling, because science-as-religion substitutes God (religion) for scientism (magic, politics). Therefore, in reality, since Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” (1859), modern science has indeed devolved into a pseudo-religion; a racist, diabolical cult and a servile slave to socialist politics and government funding..............

My Take - As further evidence of the validity of the view of this author, this appeared on March 7, 2023 by Steven Hayward as the Thought for the Day, quoting Political philosopher Joseph Cropsey (d. 2012), writing in 1964, with prescient thoughts for our Age of COVID Authoritarianism (among other “scientisms”) saying:

A dogmatic belief in science is contrary to the principle of science itself; yet philosophy, not science, has appealed to the rational prohibition against closing of investigation, in the precise issue of the authoritativeness of science. Affected as we are by the tremendous prestige of science, we are well reminded that the power of science is a metaphorical expression for the power of man and that knowledge about man thus in a most important sense overrides the truth possessed by man about non-human things. For the power of man is a power to procure human good or ill; and as freedom undirected by reason is called license, so power undirected by human reasoning about human good or ill is tyranny or folly, or, most probably, both.

 

Lighting A Candle

By Rob Pue @ Wisconsin Christian News 

I believe America is at a tipping point. Most Americans realize there is something deeply wrong with the nation we live in. Even non-Christians have had all they can take of the Leftists’ “woke” agenda, and especially of the vilification of common sense when it comes to our children.

In recent years, we’ve seen parents who object to pornographic books, drag queens and the LGBTQP+ movement indoctrinating their children labeled as “the most dangerous threats to our democracy,” and also called “domestic terrorists.” In reality, the opposite is true. Those who push for the normalization of sexual deviancy, homosexuality, pedophilia and the mutilation of the minds and bodies of our children are the real predators, and they have many allies, now baked in to the curricula of our public schools and celebrated wholesale in cities and small towns all across the USA.

In 1963, “45 Communist goals to take down America” were read into the Congressional record. Among them: “break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in the media;” “present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as ‘normal, natural and healthy;’” “infiltrate the churches;” “discredit the family as an institution;” “Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce;” “emphasize the need to raise children away from the ‘negative’ influence of parents.” And here we are today, with all of those Communist goals to take down America achieved.

June is coming quickly. In the year 2000, Bill Clinton declared the month of June as “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.” Since then, “Pride Month” has spread around the globe, but it doesn’t end when July 1st rolls around. Today, the LGBTQP+ monster — and now the “transgender” abomination — continues all year long. Through organizations like the “Human Rights Campaign,” their agenda is forced down the throats of companies and corporations, so that they must either endorse and financially support this sexual deviancy and the myriad of mental disorders associated with it all, or be publicly shamed, boycotted and labeled as “homophobic” and now, “transphobic.”

But those pulling the strings behind the scenes are pushing even harder and never stop their assault on all that is normal, natural and God-ordained. Today we have the “Transgender Day of Vengeance.” We have a new multi-billion dollar industry within the medical industrial complex, to forever mutilate and sterilize young children with hormone-blocking drugs and so-called “gender affirming surgeries” that destroy young children and maim them for life. Josef Mengele would be proud.

For many years, I’ve joined my Christian friends on the streets during “Pride parades,” to stand as a witness for Christ and God’s natural design for marriage and family. I’ve attended some of the largest “pride” festivals in the country, where it’s been 100 Christians trying to reach a half-million sodomites and their allies. I’ve witnessed thousands of young children exposed to sexual deviancy in the streets of American cities. Young children participating with their homosexual parents in these parades. Young children viewing simulated sodomite sex acts involving completely- or mostly-naked men and women in broad daylight. Young children, whose parents give them dollar bills to stuff in the “g-strings” of nearly-nude drag queens, dancing provocatively in front of adoring crowds of hedonists.

With the exception of a handful of times, attempting to reason with or even have a meaningful conversation with the sodomites and transgenders has been futile. The police see the Christians as the enemies, and they protect the perverts. The sodomites blow bullhorns directly into our ears as we try to speak. They beat drums, blow trumpets, yell and scream like demons, to keep our words from going forth. When we use signs with messages of common sense, hordes of deranged sodomites descend upon us, covering our signs with rainbow flags at a minimum... destroying our signs, and attacking us physically most of the time. And Christians being attacked at these events has been — every time — the greatest form of amusement for those charged with the duty to “protect and serve.”

Sadly, the vast majority of American pastors and churches have remained mute, and have allowed all of this to grow to enormous proportions, so that today, you can go nowhere without being assaulted by homosexual or transgender propaganda and vile displays of debauchery. The rainbow flag is a symbol of conquest. No one can argue that the devil and his minions have won this culture war, because the pastors and churches have been too cowardly to do ANYTHING. Correction: I shouldn’t say the churches haven’t done anything... the last “pride” parade I attended included no less than forty churches participating IN the parade, with banners on their floats expressing sentiments like “God thinks you’re fabulous.”

But people are fed up with all this. Most of us have had enough of these mental illnesses being pridefully celebrated and we’re now forced to celebrate this perversion under penalty of law. Some have suggested there be a “Straight Pride” parade. But heterosexual people do not celebrate the fact that they’re heterosexual, nor do they flaunt their sexuality in public, in front of children. And what would a “Straight Pride” parade even look like? A bunch of normal people walking down the street? And further, if anyone even tried to arrange something like this, they’d be viciously attacked and vilified in the mainstream media and compared to “Nazis.” You know that would happen.

Several years ago, my friend, JR Harrison, who leads the Natural Family Foundation, came up with the idea of celebrating “Natural Family Month” — from Mother’s Day to Father’s Day. The first week would be a celebration of Mother’s Day. The second week would be a celebration of children. The third week would be a celebration of grandparents. The next week would be a celebration of extended family, and it would all culminate in a celebration of Dads on Father’s Day.

JR has created a website, NaturalFamilyStrong.com, where he lays out the plan, and offers a pledge people can sign to affirm their support of God’s ordained design for the NATURAL family: one biological man married to one biological woman united in a monogamous marriage for life, bearing and raising Godly children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. There’s overwhelming scientific evidence showing that children thrive within the Natural Family. There’s much less poverty, mental illness, drug use, rage and rebellion, and children grow up to be much happier and well-adjusted adults when raised within the Natural Family.

Last June, I came up with an idea, but it was too late to put into action then. This year, thanks to other ministry friends, the idea is coming to fruition — and God has greatly blessed this plan, which focuses on “lighting a candle” instead of cursing the darkness. Mind you, in prior years as we went to witness for Christ at these sodomite events, we weren’t “cursing” anyone. We were there to shine the light of Christ and have meaningful, thoughtful and loving conversations with those so lost and deceived by Satan. Unfortunately, in this sort of environment, our little band of Christian brothers and sisters were no match for the demonic spirits inhabiting a half million people — including city government leaders, police officers, pastors and churches.

So this year, we’re preparing something totally different, for June 29th. That’s the day the “drag queens” will be performing in a downtown family park. Once again, men will be dressed as outrageous prostitutes and will be dancing and gyrating in sexually suggestive ways in front of little children. They’ll also be dressing little children in “drag” and teaching them how to “strut their stuff” in front of the adults there.

But on this same day, a few blocks away, at another city park, we will be hosting a Natural Family Festival. This is our attempt to “light a candle” in this community and as I wrote in my article last year, to “show them what a natural family is.”

The mayor of the city has agreed to open our festival with a speech on the value of families...natural families. We will have other excellent speakers to encourage people to cherish the institution of the family...the Godly foundation for a Godly nation. And then we’ll have activities, for children and adults. But not just any sort of activities. This is not some sort of “carnival” with silly stuff and meaningless games. All of the activities we have planned are designed to bring families together and to honor God’s design for the natural family...again, one real man and one real woman, united in marriage and bearing and raising children for the glory of God.

One activity will involve children and their parents learning to plant and grow things. We’ll provide small flower and vegetable plants, soil and pots, so children can work together with their parents to grow something. Once planted, we’ll have a little sign that reads “I love my family” that they can decorate their pot with.

Another activity will include boys working with their dads to build a simple birdhouse or bird feeder. Again, this activity is meant to connect fathers together with their sons and build something — achieve something — together.

At another station, we’ll be doing a bigger project, to involve the older children. Under the supervision of expert builders, young teens will be building an actual house — a playhouse — throughout the day. This will provide an opportunity for dads to work with their teenagers and actually learn to build a HOUSE! When it’s completed, we’ll draw one name from among those who worked on the project and the winner will win the playhouse... here again, we’re connecting dads with teens, and teens will learn they can build and achieve something of great significance, with their own two hands, alongside their dads.

We’ll also set up a lemonade stand... but not just any lemonade stand. Next to our stand, we’ll have a “Help Wanted” sign, and children ages 5-13 can sign up for half-hour segments to work at the stand. We’ll supply the lemonade, cups and ice. Kids just need to sign up and show up for “work.” At the end of their shift, they get to keep what they’ve earned. This teaches kids how to “get a job,” and the satisfaction of learning to work, and how to earn money.

And we all know the “drag queens” offer “story time.” We’ll have story time too. But OUR stories will come from the old McGuffey Readers, which are filled with uplifting, positive stories of families...with the gospel message woven throughout. And here’s the best part: the stories will be read by GRANDPARENTS. So, we’ll be connecting the oldest generation with the youngest generation, and these grandparents will also share the wisdom of their own life’s experiences with the young kids who listen. I strongly believe we need to return honor and VALUE to our elders, who are so easily forgotten and minimalized in today’s culture.

We’ll also have a petting zoo, pony and cart rides, other craft opportunities for kids and their parents to create and build things together, and we will have acappella music sung by families from our local Mennonite community. So instead of silly songs, comedy and frivolous “entertainment,” we’ll be offering beautiful music — hymns sung together by FAMILIES. There will also be a mobile Creation Museum, showing how God created the world in six days, and how the first family began.

This will be an opportunity to turn the hearts of the fathers back toward their children. To re-connect the grandparents with their grandchildren, for moms and daughters to connect in substantial ways, to hear meaningful stories of how God designed the family to really be. To HONOR our parents, our elders, and get our young people out of the clutches of pop culture and turn THEIR hearts back to respecting themselves, each other and their mothers, fathers and families.

Friends, as goes the church, so goes the family. Sadly, our churches have failed to build solid God-honoring families. But also, as goes the family, so goes the nation. And we can all easily see how desperately our nation needs strong families again — free of the shackles of mindless TikTok videos and gaming and soul-sucking electronic “entertainment” and social media.

We’re offering a clear and stark alternative. This community will have the opportunity to see two completely different worldviews on the same day just a few blocks apart: the celebration of sodomite “pride,” “drag queen” perversion and sexual grooming of children versus the wholesome, NATURAL FAMILY the way it used to be; the way God designed it to be and the way it should be. In the end, I believe the people of this small town will be deeply impacted and I pray that hearts are deeply touched and transformed as we will show them and demonstrate to them what a natural family is. We’re lighting a candle, rather than cursing the darkness and it’s my hope that other people, in communities all across this nation, will grab ahold of this vision and put together Natural Family Festivals for their own towns. If you’d like to learn how you can easily do this in your town, please contact me (robatwcn@icloud.com).