Bending genders; we’re transitioning to the Twilight Zone

Denying reality leads to chaos, and thus serves only the purposes of Satan. And yet the mass psychosis continues.
 
What are we to make of these recent headlines?
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The transgender man who identifies as a dog ~ Genetically female “Tony” now thinks she’s a dog ~

Tony McGinn, known as ‘Tony Bark’ to (his) friends, says (he) has been into animal role-play (his) entire life, and refers to (himself) as a ‘human pup’.
 
The 30-year-old, who was born female and is transgender, is supported by his husband and ‘handler’ Andrew who accompanies him to regular play dates with other role-players in their hometown of Los Angeles.

[Interesting that the reporter refers to her as a man – but not as a dog. Both assertions (sex and species) are false and neither should be validated.]
 
Biological Male Wins World Championship In Women’s Cycling ~ If males are allowed to enter female competitions we may as well eliminate women’s sports entirely ~

Allowing biological males who identify as transgender women to compete in women’s athletic events has been a controversial subject, as critics have argued that it puts the female competitors at an inherent disadvantage.

Gee, ya think?
 
Male Rapist Who Identifies as “Female” Transfers to Women’s Jail ~ Society will be made to adapt to the surreality of the trans person ~

(West Yorkshire, England) Because Stephen claimed to identify as a woman he was sent to New Hall Prison, a jail for women. Stephen is biologically 100% male and has had no chemical or surgical modifications.
Now the insanity of sending a convicted rapist who is biologically male to a women’s prison could only lead to one outcome. You guessed it—Stephen used this as an opportunity to sexually assault four women in the prison. After the sexual assaults, Stephen was transferred to an all-male prison in Leeds.

 
Pedophile Charged With Abusing 3 Girls Says He’s A 9-Year-Old Trapped In Man’s Body ~ Oh, well OK then ~

(Jan. 2018) Thirty-eight-year-old Joseph Roman is charged with repeated predatory criminal sexual assault. The numerous attacks began in 2015 and continued until earlier this month […]
 
The “trans-age” male was charged with a Class X felony…

 
reptileman‘Transexual’ mutilates himself to look reptilian, with horns ~ What physician in their right mind would go along with this insanity? “First do no harm…??” ~

Diagnosed with HIV (in 1997), Hernandez changed his name to Eva Tiamat Medusa. He left the corporate world and became determined “not to die a human” but to transform himself into a reptilian.

 
 
This is truly the stuff of nightmares. Consider the troubling consequences of trans-whateverism.

 
Writing at The Stream last year, Nancy Flory shared the story of an ELCA pastor and his wife who have allowed their son to identify as girl since he was two years-old (they’re prepping him for puberty blockers). Flory included excerpts from an article by Michelle Cretella, President of the American College of Pediatricians (ACP) who asserts that transition for gender-dysphoric children is dangerous and unnecessary

Hormone blockers expose children to greater risk of:
 
• bone fractures
• obesity and
• testicular cancer in boys.
 
Cross-sex hormones put children at risk of:
 
• cardiac disease
• high blood pressure
• blood clots
• strokes
• diabetes and
• cancers.
 

There’s also a risk for sterility.
 
Further, some 75 to 95 percent of gender-dysphoric children “ended up happy with their biological sex after simply passing through puberty.”

 

Which agrees with Dr. Paul McHugh’s (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), experience – sex reassignment simply doesn’t work ~

Transgendered men do not become women, nor do transgendered women become men. All (including Bruce Jenner) become feminized men or masculinized women, counterfeits or impersonators of the sex with which they ‘identify.’ In that lies their problematic future.
 
When ‘the tumult and shouting dies,’ it proves not easy nor wise to live in a counterfeit sexual garb. The most thorough follow-up of sex-reassigned people—extending over 30 years and conducted in Sweden, where the culture is strongly supportive of the transgendered—documents their lifelong mental unrest. Ten to 15 years after surgical reassignment, the suicide rate of those who had undergone sex-reassignment surgery rose to 20 times that of comparable peers.

 

Then there was the recent study which confirms what many have noticed – that the disorder appears to be contagious ~ Peer Pressure and Prior Psychiatric Illness Linked to Gender Issues in Teens ~

A new study that has drawn criticism from transgender activists finds most teens “come out” as transgender after belonging to a peer group in which multiple friends identify as trans.
 
Additionally, the study shows most young people announcing they are transgendered have already been identified with at least one mental health disorder[…]
 
The researcher said she had observed teens without a history of gender dysphoria – a clinical term describing psychological discomfort caused by a sense one’s gender is incompatible with one’s biological sex – were “coming out” as transgender “after a period of immersing themselves in niche websites after similar announcements from friends.”
 
Littman refers to this phenomenon as “rapid-onset gender dysphoria (ROGD):”

The onset of gender dysphoria seemed to occur in the context of belonging to a peer group where one, multiple, or even all of the friends have become gender dysphoric and transgender-identified during the same timeframe. Parents also report that their children exhibited an increase in social media/internet use prior to disclosure of a transgender identity.

 
Attempting to alter reality is not the answer. Walt Heyer, who himself has re-transitioned back to a male, discussed the significant regrets many experience ~

As a society we, too, fail transgender people by withholding the truth from them in the belief that telling the truth is somehow offensive and hateful. No — following the evidence is not hate speech, it is the foundation of the scientific research.[…]
 
For the last 50 years, the transgender ideology has grown progressively more deadly and destructive as it takes lives via suicide, destroys marriages, rips family relationships apart (including my own), and now expects the whole of society to reject the physical truth about sex and gender in public places and in social interactions, under the threat of ostracization and legal prosecution.[…]
 
Doctors should focus on uncovering the parallel disorders that often lie at the root of the trans-person’s distorted self-identity. These often include alcohol abuse, drug usage, chronic depression, and personality disorders.
 
Uncovering these disorders results from engaging in effective psychotherapy, not surgery.

 

Ryan T. Anderson, author of “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,” says we must face the fact that sex reassignment is physically impossible ~

Our minds and senses function properly when they reveal reality to us and lead us to knowledge of truth. And we flourish as human beings when we embrace the truth and live in accordance with it. A person might find some emotional relief in embracing a falsehood, but doing so would not make him or her objectively better off. Living by a falsehood keeps us from flourishing fully, whether or not it also causes distress.
 

One of the chief functions of the brain is to perceive physical reality. Thoughts that are in accordance with physical reality are normal. Thoughts that deviate from physical reality are abnormal—as well as potentially harmful to the individual or to others. This is true whether or not the individual who possesses the abnormal thoughts feels distress.
 
Our brains and senses are designed to bring us into contact with reality, connecting us with the outside world and with the reality of ourselves. Thoughts that disguise or distort reality are misguided—and can cause harm.

 

Considering all the disturbing aspects of this recent phenomenon, doesn’t it make you wonder if progressives really care about the mental and physical well-being of trans-people at all? Instead they keep forcing the rest of society to parade behind the naked emperor.

 
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Just say “No!”
 
The answer is not to encourage these poor souls in their various delusions, but to help them understand and deal with the truth.

 
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Related:
Sex change is physically impossible
TransINsanity ~ Dr. Michael Brown with a few moments of compassionate reality for the gender-confused
More TransINsanity
Sex Change Regret
This Man Received 167 Sex-Change Surgeries. He Lives in a World of Regret.
Trans activists demand everyone be pro-LGBT – at the expense of reality ~ From Jonathon Van Maren at Life Site News ~

Many people have decided to ignore the transgender movement because they have assumed that it will not impact their lives in any way. As I’ve noted before, the transgender movement is genuinely dangerous, and if they have their way, they will transform the way our society – and every institution within our society, medical facilities included – sees gender. And they have already proven that they are perfectly willing to do this even if others must pay the cost.

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Despite progressives’ pretense, women aren’t always innocent victims

Not to denigrate legitimate victims, but historically speaking, false accusations of sexual assault are nothing new. The first known case – going all the way back to biblical times – may be the one recorded in Genesis, chapter 39. It’s part of the account of Joseph (he of the rainbow-colored coat).
 
Potipharswife-JosephAfter his jealous brothers had sold him into slavery, Joseph found favor with his wealthy Egyptian master Potiphar, and was appointed to be overseer of the entire household. Potiphar’s wife became infatuated with the handsome young man and repeatedly attempted to seduce him. Joseph repeatedly declined.
 
Angered over his rejections Mrs. Potiphar contrived to be alone with him, and when he fled yet again, she tore off his garment. She then used that garment to frame him, telling her husband Joseph had tried to assault her. Potiphar fell for the lie, and had poor Joe tossed into prison.
 
And ever since, wicked women the world over have been pulling the same cruel stunt out of guilt, revenge, spite – or simply to get attention. The circumstances may vary widely, but the heartless deceit doesn’t. And the real victims are men ~
 

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Mainstreams: “Angry mobs aren’t angry mobs”

This video is an addendum to my post on Mad Maxine. The mainstream media is engaging in a feeble attempt at gaslighting. Their scam is easily exposed by juxtaposing their words with the actions of violent protestors – as in this clever exposé ~

 

 
Make sure you watch it to the end 🙂

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Saturday Shorts – 10-13-18

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Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Antifa Attacks GOP Headquarters in NYC, Warns ‘Merely the Beginning’ ~ Yes, it was merely the beginning. Here’s more ~ Multiple Republican Offices Across the Country Vandalized by Unhinged Leftists ~

Amid calls for “in your face” incivility from leading Democrats, multiple Republican offices have been vandalized across the country ahead of the midterm elections.

 
China’s Freaky Treatment Of Megastar Fan Bingbing Proves Communism Is Still Viciously Kicking ~ A cautionary tale: this is what life would be like here in the U.S. under the increasingly intolerant Left. (Keep in mind, the pope just capitulated to these totalitarians.) ~

Anyone who admires China and thinks today’s China is an open and free society, unlike the Communist China under Chairman Mao, should read Fan’s letter word for word. It’s a sad, pathetic and painful read […]
 
Why should we care what happened to a Chinese actress? Whether you are a Chinese or an American, tax evasion is bad and illegal. But what’s troubling in how the Fan Bingbing case was handled by Chinese authorities — the lack of due process, lack of transparency, and the authorities’ demand of thought-control.
 
The last couple weeks, we have witnessed similarities in how the Democrats handled Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s sexual assault accusation: the lack of due process, lack of transparency, the complete abandonment of the presumption of innocence until proven guilty, and the left’s demand of thought-control. The saga of Kavanaugh’s confirmation is a chilling reminder that we are not that far off from totalitarianism.

 
Sounds like the U.K. isn’t far behind ~ British Army Investigating Soldiers Who Posed for Photo with Tommy Robinson ~ Wow. Somewhere in hell Stalin is smiling at this iron-fisted government ~

The British Army released a statement on the incident shortly after implying the military’s view is that Tommy Robinson himself has a “Far-right ideology [which is] completely at odds with the values and ethos of the armed forces”.
 
Mr Robinson himself issued a statement Wednesday morning denying that allegation, stating: “Islam is not a race and it is more than a religion, it is a political ideology… I have fairly central views, have not mentioned race in any form in over 10 years of activism.”

[Some background on Robinson]

 
Shock report: US paying more for illegal immigrant births than Trump’s wall ~

The new report reveals that women in the United States illegally had 297,000 children in 2014 at a cost of $2.4 billion. That is $800 million more than the Senate has approved for Trump’s border wall this year and enough to pay for the wall over 10 years.

 
Three Lies Taylor Swift Told About Marsha Blackburn ~ Because the truth never works for the Left ~

On Sunday night, pop singer Taylor Swift announced her opposition to Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), citing mostly LGBT issues. In these attacks, she misrepresented Blackburn’s positions, painting the Republican candidate for Senate as a bigot and a “hater.” […]
 
Taylor Swift’s false attacks on Blackburn will get headlines and set the chattering classes a-chatter. But they won’t likely move the needle in the Tennessee governor’s race. Even so, it is disappointing for Taylor Swift — long known for her silence on political issues — to jump headlong into a political battle with false attacks.

So far it seems folks aren’t swayed ~ Marsha Blackburn Up In Latest Tennessee Senate Poll ~

The latest political polling in Tennessee shows GOP Senate candidate Marsha Blackburn with a solid 14-point lead over her Democratic challenger, former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen […]
Although anything can happen in politics, it seems like Bredesen is engaging in an uphill battle. While the self-described conservative Democrat was the only Democratic Senate candidate to publicly endorse the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, an undercover Project Veritas video released Wednesday night appears to show Bredesen staffers admitting that the endorsement was essentially a ruse to attract moderate Republicans.

At the risk of repeating myself 😀 the truth never works for the Left!

 
Sen. Collins describes illegal bribes and threats of liberal groups that tried to buy her and it’s jolting ~ Extortion – all part of the left’s unethical tactics ~

“This is a classic quid pro quo as defined in our bribery laws,” (Collins) said.
 
“They are asking me to perform an official act and if I do not do what they want, $2 million plus is going to go to my opponent,” she added. “I think that if our politics has come to the point where people are trying to buy votes and buy positions, then we are in a very sad place.”

 
Ignored History: Columbus Sought to End Islamic Tyranny ~ Every time Columbus Day rolls around, progressives try to denigrate the man and his motives – with falsehoods

As we celebrate Columbus Day — for those of us still inoculated enough against cultural relativist depravity to do so — it is also worth recapturing concretely the specific late 15th century religious motivations for Columbus’ voyage. Simply put, Columbus sought “eastern (even far eastern) alliances” to end a millennium of Islam’s jihad-imposed tyranny against Christendom. Louis Bertrand’s scholarly 1934 tome, The History of Spain, elegantly — and unapologetically — characterized the now well-nigh forgotten, or ignored, historical context.

 
Democratic fundraiser says America is racist and sexist, ‘F–k the bible voters’ ~ A couple “centrist” Dems hoping to win in their respective conservative districts must be desperate for fundraising sponsors. Laura Gassner Otting is a real charmer 🙄 – and about as far to the left as they come.

 
Fusion GPS Founder Will Plead The Fifth To Avoid Testifying To Congress ~ The Russian Collusion story has certainly faded from the news cycle… Maybe because the whole narrative is proving to be the scam it always was?

Glenn Simpson’s firm, Fusion GPS, was hired during the 2016 presidential campaign by the law firm that represented the DNC and Clinton campaign. Fusion GPS hired former British spy Christopher Steele to conduct an investigation into Donald Trump’s possible links to Russia. The result of the probe was a 35-page report alleging collusion between the Trump campaign and Kremlin.

 
Trans activists demand everyone be pro-LGBT – at the expense of reality ~ Jonathon van Maren At Life Site discusses the extreme self-centeredness of the movement and the troubling implications that has for society at large.
 
The Radical Democrats of the Senate Judiciary Committee ~ Trevor Loudon provides background on these leftists; (Lots of communist connections here!) Feinstein, Leahy, Durbin, Coons, Blumenthal, Booker, and of course the new progressive darling from Hawaii, Mazie Hirono. Which explains precisely why the hearing for Judge Kavanaugh was such a circus ~

These Democratic senators would struggle to pass any form of basic background check to get even the lowest form of security clearance.
 
They are partisans who demonstrably don’t hesitate to put their own political agendas ahead of their duties to the Constitution and the American public.

 

Trump’s list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months, ‘relentless’ promise-keeping Impressive. This should convince all but the angry mobsters to #WalkAway ~

As Trump nears the two-year mark of his historic election and conducts political rallies around the country, during which he talks up his wins in hopes it will energize Republican voters, the administration has counted up 289 accomplishments in 18 categories, capped by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

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Praise God for Pastor Brunson’s safe return!

(And thank the Trump Administration!)
 
(Oct. 12, 2018) American Pastor Andrew Brunson Has Just Been Released! From the ACLJ (American Center for Law & Justice), which has been representing Pastor Brunson throughout his two year ordeal ~

(The ACLJ has) been working in this country and abroad to secure his freedom. Pastor Andrew was on trial for the crime of “Christianization” and after extensive negotiations, the Turkish government released Pastor Andrew from prison on July 25th but placed him under “house arrest” – confined to his home in Turkey.
 
President Trump and his team have been tenacious in seeking the release of Pastor Andrew. We’re grateful to the President, Members of Congress, and diplomatic leaders who continued to put pressure on Turkey to secure the freedom of Pastor Brunson. The fact that he is preparing to return to the United States can only be viewed as a significant victory for Pastor Brunson and his family.
 
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“We are grateful for the President’s commitment and efforts in securing my release,” said Pastor Andrew Brunson, shortly before leaving Turkey en route to the U.S. “My entire family thanks the President, the Administration, and Congress for their unwavering support. This is the day our family has been praying for – I am delighted to be on my way home to the United States. It’s been an extremely difficult time for our family and we want to express our appreciation to the millions of people around the world who have faithfully prayed for this day. I am thankful for the representation of the American Center for Law & Justice – especially ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow and ACLJ Senior Counsel CeCe Heil – as well as the many others who worked so hard to obtain my freedom. I look forward to returning home and being reunited with my family.”

 
 

Because he has set his love upon Me,
therefore I will deliver him;
I will set him on high because he has known My name.
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble;
I will deliver him and honor him.
With long life I will satisfy him,
And show him My salvation.

 
~ Psalm 91:14-16

 
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Up-dated: 10-13-18
Added: Pastor Brunson Prays Over President Trump In Oval Office — ‘Fill Him With Your Wisdom And Strength And Perseverance’

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Maxine’s dangerous, devious double-talk

Back on June 23rd, Maxine Waters(D-CA) was busy inciting the Democrat base toward insurrection. Who could forget her clarion call for confrontation? ~

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Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) openly called for people to form a mob and physically confront members of Donald Trump’s administration if they see them out in public after controversy over separated migrant families erupted two weeks ago […]
 
Largely ignored was the fact that Trump is merely enforcing laws created under Bill Clinton and strengthened under Bush II – while Obama separated migrant families all the time and is being sued for keeping children in brutal conditions. Making matters worse was a fake news picture of a crying “separated migrant child” who was never actually separated from her parents.

 

Three days after Waters issued her marching orders, Sen. Mitch McConnell and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, were verbally ambushed by Soros-funded mobsters while they were leaving an event at Georgetown University.
 

Since then, individual occurrences of mob intimidation have only become more commonplace, including these ~
 

Decapitated Animal Left On Front Porch Of DHS Official’s Home
 
Portland Food Cart That Helps The Homeless Shut Down After Alleged Harassment From Occupy ICE Protesters
 
Feds Arrest Man Who Threatened FCC Chairman Ajit Pai
 
Two of Turning Point USA’s leaders were accosted by protesters they say were Antifa in Philadelphia Monday morning
 
New York Man Arrested for Threats Against Scalise, McMorris Rodgers
 
Anti-Kavanaugh protestors chase Sen. Ted Cruz and his wife from a D.C. restaurant
 
Antifa Protesters Disrupt Cornwall Alliance Speaker at Eagle Council Meeting

 

And of course there were the mobs of shrieking harpies at the Kavanaugh hearing and confirmation, not to mention this outrage ➡ U.S. Marshals Probe Threats Against Kavanaugh Family: ‘F*** YOU AND YOUR RAPIST HUSBAND.’
 

We need to call this thuggish behavior, these intimidation tactics, what they truly are: a form of domestic terrorism. All Americans, even public figures, have a right to go about their daily lives without fear of assault – verbal or otherwise. This country is not some third world hellhole where mob violence is a regular occurrence. But maybe that’s what the Left is hoping we’ll become.

 

Originally, back in June, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer – even Obama’s old pal David Axelrod – tried to rein Mad Max in a bit. But over the summer the entire party has become more radicalized and open to violence. More and more of them are endorsing this irresponsible behavior.
 
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Rep. Waters was in the news again this week, claiming that the manic, shrieking crowd at the Kavanaugh confirmation last week wasn’t a “mob” ~

“As a matter of fact, this country was built on peaceful protest. And those of us who were part of the civil rights movement, who understood the power of protest taught by Dr. Martin Luther King and others know that we cannot allow Donald Trump and anybody else to take protest away from us and to deem it to be violent and to try and make us look like a mob.”

 
This time, Democrats and their media puppets are backing Max, pushing the same phony characterization. As Laura Ingraham put it on her Fox News show Tuesday ~

“They’re hitting the anarchy accelerator. These people truly believe they can protest their way back into power.” […]
 
“Democrats are invoking a “thuggish, win-at-all-costs approach,” describing them as the “agents of mayhem.”

 

maxWatersWhat’s really ironic is the way the Left, eight years ago, was accusing the Tea Party of all sorts of nefarious motives and activities. Now that was a real mob, right? Except that it never was. There isn’t one recorded episode of violence or intimidation during those 3-4 years. Just thousands of civil demonstrations across the country – some with hundreds of thousands in attendance – all attempting to peacefully restore our Constitutional Republic. Remember Maxine Waters’ opinion of those protests?
 
In 2012, Waters actually called John Boehner and Eric Cantor (neither of them conservatives BTW) demons ~

These are legislators who are destroying this country rather than bringing us together, creating jobs, making sure we have a good tax policy, bringing our jobs from back offshore, incentivizing those who keep the jobs here. They are bringing down this country, destroying this country because again they’d rather do whatever they can to destroy this president rather than for the good of this country.

 
Wow. Could Maxine’s heated rhetoric be any less sincere? Either now – or six years ago? Which duplicitous diatribe are we supposed to swallow?

Under Donald Trump, job growth is phenomenal, unemployment is at an all-time low (especially among blacks), taxes have been cut (to the benefit of all Americans) and tariff reform is bringing jobs back to our shores. And here’s Madam Maxine, who claimed to want all those things when Obama was president, doing everything she “can to destroy this president rather than for the good of this country.”

 
The woman is seriously unhinged. And unfortunately for the civil society, more and more of her fellow Democrats are following her down the road to crazy.
 
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Related:
Grassley Lays Blame On Waters And Booker For Protesters Ambushing Senators
Kavanaugh confirmed: evil thwarted for another day
The Democrats Are Now the Party of Rage, and Maxine Waters Is Their Only Honest Face
A Party of Stalkers ~ Remember James Hodgkinson, the Left-wing activist who tried to assassinate Rep. Steve Scalise and a dozen other Republicans? ~

An angry crowd at a town hall is protest, even when it is vulgar or unruly. Protest is part of democracy. But stalking and assault are not protest. Arson is not protest. The destruction of property is not protest.
 
This is terrorism — the attempt to instill in people the fear of physical harm or death in the service of a political agenda. This terrorism has been undertaken with the encouragement of Democratic elected officials and party grandees ranging from Senator Cory Booker to former attorney general Eric Holder. It has been justified and minimized by left-leaning media figures such as Don Lemon.
 
The Left is in the grip of mass hysteria. Unable to get their way through the ordinary democratic process, the Democrats have resorted to extraordinary tactics… [Read the rest HERE]

 
Newly released RNC campaign ad; The Left: – An Unhinged Mob ~
 

The second clip has gone viral, but in case you missed it, it’s a deranged
pro-abort kicking a pro-life (female!) demonstrator, totally without warning.

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Pope Francis throws Chinese Catholics under the bus

Communist China is reverting to its Maoist roots and becoming increasingly hostile to any religion other than the state-sanctioned variety. Last week World Watch Monitor reported on the country’s latest totalitarian move against Christians ~

More than 300 Christian children in two high schools in Zhejiang province, which has been referred to as the “Jerusalem of the East” for its strong Christian presence, have been asked to fill out a form stating that they did not follow a religion, World Watch Monitor has been told by a trusted local source […]
 
In the first school, which has around 200 Christian students, the teacher demanded they rewrite the questionnaire, stating that they had “No religion”. But when filling out the next questionnaire, half of the children maintained that they were Christians. According to our source, following further warnings, in the end all but one child complied.
 
In the other school, which has around 100 children, it was the class prefect who forced the Christians to resubmit their papers, stating that they had “no religion”.

 

Unfortunately, we can expect to see much more of the same sort of persecution now that the Vatican – unbelievably – has recklessly agreed to cooperate with the communist government. Three weeks ago, in a story that didn’t get much coverage, outside of the faith-based corner of the web, the Holy See signed an historic and consequential agreement with the People’s Republic of China.

 
This “provisional agreement,” while it promises the pope symbolic recognition as the titular head of all Catholics in China, deals primarily with the appointment of bishops, the Catholic Church abdicating much of its authority in this area to the Chinese Communists(!). The key concessions are ~

• Communist authorities alone will nominate a potential candidate for bishop. The pope must then approve or reject that candidate. If he vetoes the first candidate, Beijing will nominate another.
 
• Pope Francis will formally consecrate as bishops seven men who were made “bishops” by the communist authorities over the past decade. All of these men have been previously rejected by the Vatican as bishop candidates for various reasons having to do with personal morality, public actions, or both.

 

This one-sided deal is actually reminiscent of the capitulation of Germany’s Christians (Protestants and Catholics) to Hitler’s National Socialist Party, prior to WWII, as Maureen Mullarkey writing at the Federalist pointed out ~

The accord bears certain resemblance to the 1933 Reichskonkordat between the Vatican and the Third Reich. At the time, the church hoped to safeguard its own interests; the Reich sought to foreclose church influence on German politics by restricting clergy to strictly religious acts. Today’s Sino-Vatican agreement, judged by the nature and extent of President Xi Jinping’s program of Sinofication, does the same. As the Reichskonkordat was criticized for lending legitimacy to the Nazi regime, the same complaint can be directed at this bow to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party).

 

cardinalZenCardinal Joseph Zen has been condemning what he considers to be a betrayal of the faithful, since this outrageous agreement was first announced last year ~

“They’re giving the flock into the mouths of the wolves. It’s an incredible betrayal,” the 86-year-old retired bishop of Hong Kong told Reuters in an interview published Thursday. […]
 
“The consequences will be tragic and long lasting, not only for the church in China, but for the whole church because it damages the credibility,” Zen told Reuters.
 
Zen told Reuters that (Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin), the Vatican’s highest diplomat, doesn’t seem to have high regard for the Catholic faith.
 
“I don’t think he has faith. He is just a good diplomat in a very secular, mundane meaning,” Zen said.
 
“He should resign,” he added. “It’s a complete surrender … I have no other words.”

 

Tragically, this capitulation will only result in further acts of religious intolerance. It’s already happening ~

One recent innovation is the establishment of loyalty records on each citizen. This entails monitoring their choice of reading and their social media communications. *
 
(R)eligious proselytizing joins pornography, gambling, rumor-mongering, and other purveyors of “improper values” as an illegal online activity. As of the signing, the regime had terminated more than 4,000 websites and online accounts during a three-month campaign against “harmful” online information, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

 

Jason Morgan, writing at the Catholic website “The Remnant,” is thoroughly – and correctly – disgusted with the church’s agreement ~

Here’s what the Vatican is not mentioning. China—which is still the world capital of forced late-term abortions and of abortion overall, perhaps due to which Vatican bishop Marcel Sánchez Sorondo recently called China “the best implementer of Catholic social doctrine”—is officially atheistic and permits no religion to operate outside of the complete control of the CCP. The Chinese government, not the Vatican and not the Holy Spirit, appointed or caused to be appointed, under pain of imprisonment and/or death, the fake “bishops” largely rejected by the real Chinese faithful and even by Cardinal Zen, the Hero of Hong Kong.
 
That is to say, the current Chinese government, which was founded by an act of sheer violence and terror and lying by Mao Zedong and his henchmen in 1949, has now arrogated to itself the authority to say who is and who isn’t a bishop in the Catholic Church. And Francis & Co. approve. (Perhaps Bergoglio can use the hammer-and-sickle crucifix that Bolivian dictator Evo Morales gave him as the official papal seal of approval for the China deal?)

 

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As Cardinal Zen told Raymond Arroyo last March ~

“We have to pray, because what is coming is a tragedy,” he said, “and will weaken the faith, and we are going back to the times of the catacombs.”

 
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* Seems our totalitarian friends at Google are only too happy to assist the Chi-Coms in oppressing these dissidents ~ Google employees quit over controversial China search engine project, report says

 
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Related:
China Forbids Children From Churches as Religious Rights Diminish ~

Across the country, churches are reportedly facing increasing pressure to align with the Communist Party; including, in some areas, replacing crosses with the national flag and displaying pictures of Xi Jinping.

Cardinal Zen torches the Vatican and his critics over China deal
Vatican to Allow Beijing to Name Bishops
Christians aren’t the only religious group being targeted by the Chinese government ~ 300,000 (Muslims) detained in Xinjiang concentration camps were transferred to other provinces ~ More echoes of Nazi Germany? ~

As more and more minorities have been detained, the concentration camps in Xinjiang have become full. In order to avoid an investigation and exposure by the international community, authorities transferred Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other minorities from south Xinjiang to north Xinjiang and Kazaks from north Xinjiang to Gansu via trains.
 
In addition, six prisons have been built or remodeled in Qinghe County, Altay in order to detain people.
 
Xinjiang natives verified that those detained in re-education camps were transferred to north Xinjiang and Gansu, 1,000 km away. He said, “It is said that over 300,000 [people] have been transferred to Gansu.”

China Goes Digital In Crackdown On Religion, Online Religious Instructors Forced To Register And Qualify As ‘Politically Reliable’ ~

The restrictions are the latest in a long line of measures imposed against religious expression in China as part of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s crusade to “sinicize” religion in the country and bring it in line with the teachings and regulations of the ruling Communist Party, which forbids religious belief or belief in any power higher than the state for its members.

Pope sides with the Chi-coms


 
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Updated: 10-14-18
Added: Expert Explains Vatican Compromise With Communist China ~

An exclusive interview with Chinese cultural expert (Steven Mosher) sheds some light on why Vatican prelates are compromising with China’s Communist government at the expense of the Church.

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The movie Planned Parenthood doesn’t want you to see

It’s been a long time in production – an uphill battle all the way considering the unhinged opposition from the pro-aborts – but the Gosnell Movie is finally here! Maybe it’s appropriate that it’s being released during October, when it seems a disproportionate number of horror films make their debut, because this is one ghastly tale. Unfortunately, it’s not fiction ~

The film is the shocking true story of the investigation and trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell – his 30 year killing spree and the political and media establishment that tried to cover it up. Originally investigated for illegal prescription drug sales, a raid by DEA, FBI & local law enforcement revealed crimes they could not have expected within the clinic.

 

The mainstreams ignored this appalling story while it was happening, but now you can learn the truth for yourself. The film opens this weekend at a theater near you ~
 

 
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Ex-Gosnell Worker Tells Nightmare Story of Exiting Abortion Industry ~ Video, and article, from MRCTV ~

In Washington, D.C. for the March for Life, former abortion worker Adrienne Moton spoke with MRC Culture during a Jan. 18 press conference with And Then There Were None (ATTWN) […]
 
For her part, Moton served two-and-a-half years in prison and three years probation after working under Gosnell. According to a local NBC affiliate, Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore “told the court Moton understood what she was doing at the clinic was wrong, unlike other clinic employees.”

Reporter Catches CNN Attempting to Lie About Kermit Gosnell and Abortion

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Google – no longer concerned with being Evil?

For 18 years, “Don’t be evil” was Google’s signature corporate motto, embedded in their culture, and their code of conduct ~
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“‘Don’t be evil.’ Googlers generally apply those words to how we serve our users. But ‘Don’t be evil’ is much more than that. Yes, it’s about providing our users unbiased access to information, focusing on their needs and giving them the best products and services that we can. But it’s also about doing the right thing more generally – following the law, acting honourably, and treating co-workers with courtesy and respect.”

 
Last May they quietly deleted that signature line from the company creed ~ Google drops ‘don’t be evil’ motto ~

(R)eferences to the slogan in the document were removed except for one brief mention […]
 
The Google Code of Conduct is one of the ways we put Google’s values into practice. It’s built around the recognition that everything we do in connection with our work at Google will be, and should be, measured against the highest possible standards of ethical business conduct. We set the bar that high for practical as well as aspirational reasons: Our commitment to the highest standards helps us hire great people, build great products, and attract loyal users. Respect for our users, for the opportunity, and for each other are foundational to our success, and are something we need to support every day.

[Hmmm.. Looks like they also removed “following the law, acting honourably.”]
 
So now it seems, no longer restrained by the old corporate guideline, one Googler simply couldn’t control himself in the wake of the Kavanaugh confirmation last Saturday ~ Google exec slams GOP over Kavanaugh ~

“You are finished, @GOP. You polished the final nail for your own coffins. F–K. YOU. ALL. TO. HELL,” wrote Dave Hogue Saturday, in the now-deleted tweet.
 
“I hope the last images burned into your slimy, evil, treasonous retinas are millions of women laughing and clapping and celebrating as your souls descend into the flames,” he added.

 

While the tech giant does feel they should respect their users – and each other – that courtesy is apparently not extended to fellow citizens with differing political views. Too bad the Golden Rule isn’t part of the Google Code of Conduct ~
 

“Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them,
for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
~ Matthew 7:12

 
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Related:
Kavanaugh confirmed: evil thwarted for another day

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Trilobites; compelling evidence of a Creator

Old-earth evolutionists are convinced that universe began billions of years ago. They believe that all the organisms on the planet somehow began with a spontaneous life spark from somewhere – and then evolved into the almost inconceivable variety of species we find today. For the most part, they reject the Biblical account of creation – and a worldwide flood. Hmmm…
 
How exactly do trilobites fit into their scenario?
 
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Long extinct, everything we know about these unique marine creatures has been gleaned from studying their fossils ~

They are mostly between 10 and 50 mm long (3/8 to two inches) although a few species attained a length of 750 mm (2 1/2 feet). Trilobites are characterized by a ridged carapace, or shell, made of chitin, divided into three lobes which give the class its name.

 

Some 20,000 different species have been identified. Sometimes portrayed as primitive organisms, trilobites were anything but. Consider just their compound eyes.
 
Human eyes – amazingly complex themselves – have just one lens. Some trilobites had more than 15,000 hexagon-shaped lenses in each eye. In several varieties, the eyes consisted of two different minerals precisely arranged to facilitate underwater vision.
 

Trilobites are one of the most common fossils found in the Cambrian strata. According to old-earthers they’ve been there 500 million years. But if they’re that old how did they possibly have time to evolve such complexity? As Creation-Evolution-Headlines points out
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Trilobites had bilateral symmetry, specialized body segments, articulated limbs for mobility, and some of the most complex eyes known in marine invertebrates. No precursors to trilobites in earlier strata have been identified. The first trilobites were already fully formed with all their complex organs and structures. […]

 
Darwin predicted that life would become more diverse over time, like the branches on a tree. The pattern of trilobites in the fossil record is just the opposite: more diversity appears in the lower layers, and less diversity in the upper layers.

 

Once so ubiquitous that their fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica, yet how is it that none of these thousands of species evolved enough to prevent extinction? Might they have been wiped out in a worldwide flood? That’s what creation scientists believe – because that’s exactly what the evidence seems to show.
 
Trilobite fossils are producing some of the strongest evidence of catastrophic burial

A recent study found that many of these creatures were inundated rapidly while they were still alive!3 Numerous specimens are found in a rolled-up position—like giant roly-polies—to protect themselves from danger. However, a few varieties lacked the design to “lock their shells” and hold the ball-shaped position; these arthropods had to rely on their internal muscles to hold themselves in a rounded shape.

 

Everything we’ve discovered from trilobite fossils points to 1.) an intelligent designer, who equipped these unique creatures with the features they needed to thrive in their marine environment; 2.) organisms that appeared in the geologic record fully-formed; 3.) an ability to adapt to various conditions via natural selection; and 4.) to a worldwide, catastrophic flood.

 
Sorry Charlie (Darwin), trilobites confirm the existence of a Creator – not evolution.
 
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Related:
The Cambrian Explosion
Trilobites: Sudden Appearance and Rapid Burial
Trilobites Can’t Stomach Darwinism ~

Recently, paleontological research unearthed more trilobite complexity: a unique digestive anatomy found in some 270 specimens in the Wulongqing Formation (Guanshan Biota) in China. Some of these fossils “contradict previous assumptions about trilobite digestive systems.”

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Saturday Shorts (Sunday edition) – 10-6-18

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Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
VICTORY: HHS Cancels FDA’s Contract with Organization Referred for Criminal Investigation to Supply Aborted Baby Parts to Create Humanized Mice ~ Great news on the pro-life front. Call it the Trump Effect ~

This victory is an incredible step forward in the pro-life fight, and one and shows just how important it is that we let our government know that we are not okay with our tax dollars being used in such appalling and shameful ways.
 
Further, not only is HHS canceling the contract with ABR, but it also has initiated an “audit of all acquisitions involving human fetal tissue,” a “comprehensive review of all research involving fetal tissue,” and “alternatives . . . to the use of human fetal tissue.” Each of these are major victories. Finally, in addition to legal and regulatory considerations, it is important to note that HHS is mandating that “moral and ethical considerations” be included in each of these reviews – a significant change in the valuing of unborn human life.

 
Jane Fonda: ‘Get in the Streets’ and ‘Shut Down the Country’ If Trump Fires Mueller ~ Because Hanoi Jane apparently didn’t subvert America enough during the Vietnam era ~

“People always say, ‘Was it worse in the ’60s and ’70s?’ It was not! This is the worst! This is an existential crisis. And if we don’t do what needs to be done–in terms of making our voices heard, and our votes heard–that’s it! We don’t have time,” said Fonda, who been doing a ton of press promoting the premiere of her HBO documentary film Jane Fonda In Five Acts.

In a way she’s correct. It very well could be “an existential crisis” – for the progressive Left. Brace for anarchy.
 
A Prophet Warned Us 50 Years Ago Of the Issues Facing the Church Today ~

Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984) was a Christian theologian, philosopher and prophetic voice. While others were trying to decipher the handwriting on the wall, he was reading it clearly, often decades before his time.

I highly recommend any/all of Schaeffer’s books especially “How Shall We Then Live” and “A Christian Manifesto.”

 
Liberal lunacy now interfering with MEDICINE: Children’s hospital removes gender designations from wristbands to appease delusional Leftists who don’t believe in biological reality ~ Shouldn’t a discipline that is forced to deal with the real world – cause and effect, disease and cure, injury and healing – refuse to play make-believe?

The transgender community is singing a chorus of praise to the god of LGBT after Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colorado, announced that it will no longer be assigning gender wristbands to its child patients.
 
Young boys and girls will now be genderless in the eyes of hospital staff, who claim that the move fosters “equality” and the recognition of children’s “unique gender identity.”

 
Things like this are what happens in the brave new reality-free world that LGBTQers want to push us into ~ Male Rapist Who Identifies as “Female” Transfers to Women’s Jail ~

(West Yorkshire, England) Because Stephen claimed to identify as a woman he was sent to New Hall Prison, a jail for women. Stephen is biologically 100% male and has had no chemical or surgical modifications. Now the insanity of sending a convicted rapist who is biologically male to a women’s prison could only lead to one outcome. You guessed it—Stephen used this as an opportunity to sexually assault four women in the prison. After the sexual assaults, Stephen was transferred to an all-male prison in Leeds.
 
A Prison Service spokesman then issued a statement: “We apologise sincerely for the mistakes which were made in this case. While we work to manage all prisoners, including those who are transgender, sensitively and in line with the law, we are clear that the safety of all prisoners must be our absolute priority.”

 

Scientist Suspended, Put Under Investigation For Arguing Physics Isn’t Sexist ~ Alessandro Strumia’s presentation at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) last month was a bit too factually-based for the gathering ~

A physics professor who blamed “cultural Marxism” for punishing scientists if they challenge the idea that “microaggressions,” “gaslighting,” and “mansplaining” are preventing women from succeeding in STEM has been suspended and is under an ethics investigation.
 
“Physics is not sexist against women,” his presentation concluded. “However truth does not matter, because it’s part of a political battle coming from outside.”

 
Physics isn’t sexist. But what about climatists? ~ Climate Change’s #MeToo Movement: The Dark Secrets of Climate Saviors ~ Apparently the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have some sexual misconduct issues to deal with ~

The disturbing news about sexual harassment within the climate fraternity came to light during last year’s climate conference at Bonn. A reasonable number of women have testified of abuse they’ve suffered at UN climate change conferences.

 

 
Antifa Protesters Disrupt Cornwall Alliance Speaker at Eagle Council Meeting ~ Because they’ll lose in a fair debate of the facts, Antifa must resort to fascist tactics; shout down the opposition.

 
The Leftist Contempt for Middle-Class Values ~ Excellent observations from Dennis Prager ~

(Leftists) have thoroughly rejected middle-class, bourgeois and Judeo-Christian religious values. Leftists are the only source of their values. Leftists not only believe they know what is right — conservatives, too, believe they are right — but they also believe they are morally superior to all others. Leftists are Übermenschen — people on such a high moral plane that they do not consider themselves bound by the normal conventions of civics and decency. Leftists don’t need such guidelines; only the non-left — the “deplorables” — need them.

 
Americans Have Almost Entirely Forgotten Their History ~ Stunning how mis-educated Americans are, especially Gen Xers and Millennials ~

“Unfortunately, this study found the average American to be woefully uninformed regarding America’s history and incapable of passing the U.S. citizenship test. It would be an error to view these findings as merely an embarrassment. Knowledge of the history of our country is fundamental to maintaining a democratic society, which is imperiled today.”
 

• Only 24 percent knew the correct answer as to why the colonists fought the British;
• Twelve percent incorrectly thought WWII General Dwight Eisenhower led troops in the Civil War, while 6 percent thought he was a Vietnam War general;
• While most knew the cause of the Cold War, 2 percent said it was climate change.

 
Summary of Judiciary Committee Investigation of Allegations ~ This final document released by Sen. Chuck Grassley provides a detailed timeline of the committee’s actions regarding the allegations made and disputed during the Judge Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing. Incidentally proving Sen. Feinstein’s deliberate subversion of the confirmation process by withholding Dr. Ford’s allegation of sexual assault for 6 weeks.

 
Claim: Judge Kavanaugh’s Adherence to Rule of Law Will Impede Climate Action ~ Who knew? The Kavanaugh confirmation is apparently second only to the Trump election as a portent of the apocalypse ~

“Judge Kavanaugh isn’t anti-environmental, but he tends to be anti-agency,” said Michael Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University. “He’s often struck down regulation that he didn’t think Congress had authorized explicitly enough. He reads statutory authority very narrowly and that is a major concern for things like the Clean Power Plan,” President Barack Obama’s signature climate initiative.
 
What a disaster for the green movement. How will activists regulators ever achieve anything, if they have to keep asking Congress to sanction their efforts?

 
Cow playing fetch ~ Smile!
 

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Kavanaugh confirmed: evil thwarted for another day

Whoa. If you happened to catch the Senate confirmation vote this afternoon, you heard the screaming banshees in the gallery all but losing their minds. J. Christian Adams (attorney, formerly with DOJ) was an eyewitness to the insanity ~

I was in the Senate gallery this afternoon when Justice Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed. You would have thought I was at an exorcism in an insane asylum.
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Perhaps you were watching on television and heard the disruptions, though you certainly didn’t see them. The attenuated audio probably didn’t catch the frightening, incoherent shrieking – including the lingering screaming and howling as they were being dragged down the hallways outside the gallery […]
 
“Mob rule is necessary,” one shrieking woman shouted before security personnel could settle her down.
 
At least she was honest. It did not appear that Capitol Police removed her for her crime, unfortunately. That would soon change.
 
Another crazed woman later screamed, “I will not consent, I will not consent, I will not consent, I will not consent.” She was like a feminist automaton: “I will not consent, I will not consent.” Capitol Police were less forgiving and dragged her out the doors and down the hallway.
 
I have visited hospitals for the seriously mentally ill, and the shrieks from this woman were as odd and unearthly as anything I ever heard inside a mental hospital. They echoed off the halls and ceilings outside the gallery in decreasing but astonishing amplitude.
 
Then the roll was called, and it sounded like the gates of hell opened up.
 
Nearly a dozen women erupted in unison, shouting, howling, screaming, in an unrecognizable venomous wail. They wouldn’t stop. There was fury, rage, hate, poison in the noise.

 

Earlier this week, I was listening to a guest on Dr. Michael Brown’s radio show. She had been in the gallery last week when Christine Ford and Brett Kavanaugh spoke, and said she felt the atmosphere itself was oppressive. She could sense a palpable evil in the Senate chamber attempting to undermine the judge’s confirmation.
 

One of the last requests Dr. Brown had for the woman (who preferred to remain anonymous, but is apparently someone influential in the Christian community as a prayer warrior) was that she share some effective prayer techniques with the audience. Suddenly, before she had a chance to reply, the line was filled with the squawking, squealing sounds of radio interference for several seconds – and then the call was lost [it’s right around the 22 min. mark]. Up until that point in the conversation there had been no audio issues at all…
 
Coincidence? I think not.
Folks, this is not just an earthly battle between the right and the left ~

 

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against
principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in heavenly places.

~ Ephesians 6:12 ~
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Oct. 6, 2018 ~ Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanugh sworn into the United States Supreme Court. Praise God! ~

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This battle has been won, but the war against the prince of this world goes on. Pray for Justice Kavanaugh and his family.

 
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Related:
The Sovereignty of God and the Brett Kavanaugh Hearings

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