Probably the most cringe-worthy thing you'll see today in a world absolutely teeming with cringe-worthy.
New Testament scholar NT Wrong laughably believes in the unfolding Kingdom of God through the church, so it is entirely consistent for him to believe humans evolved from the cosmic kiss of heaven and earth 14 billion years ago.
Genesis means DNA, double helix in the Milky Way, dontchaknow.
Francis Collins, with Anthony Fauci, suppressed from the very beginning of the pandemic the belief by some of their own trusted scientists that COVID-19 escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, a charge doggedly demonstrated with evidence over the years by none other than Richard H. Ebright, Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers.
Rachel Crandall-Crocker says several times in a 2020 interview, if you can manage to get through the whole thing, that the goal of organizing their day in the first place was to obtain power.
Just turn the sound off and turn on the closed captions and you'll see for yourself.
Comments to the YouTube video, by the way, have been turned off overnight, which is exactly what you would expect from people who want power, which to them means they have a say and you don't.
The success of this gay man's effort, originally organized on Facebook in 2009, elicited the Oy vey! he exclaimed about four minutes in. This attention-seeking larper must be even more thrilled now.
This was April 21, 2020, not quite a year before Joe Biden became the first American president to recognize the day officially, which in retrospect seems indicative not so much of Joe Biden's thinking on the matter but of the unseen activists in his administration who drive his policies behind the scenes because Joe is too feeble of body and mind to exercise executive function.
Americans didn't notice at the time in March 2021 for good reasons.
Their attention was consumed by the COVID-19 hysteria, by the Trump defeat, by the roll-out of the new vaccines, uptake of which peaked in April because of sudden deaths for some Johnson and Johnson vaccine recipients which in turn launched the seemingly interminable vaccine controversy, and in the summer by the Afghanistan debacle.
But now that the day happened to coincide with Easter three years later, Americans have noticed, which has had the unintended effect of making their day more visible and powerful than it might have been. We have taken the bait and given them the attention which they wanted, which is the basis of their power. Their success may be measured by how the conversation of the country was dominated by their day, not by ours.
Note that when confronted with what he had done, Joe Biden denied that he had declared Easter Sunday the Transgender Day of Visibility. But of course he did. He brought the Trojan Horse of Transgenderism into the government and now we awaken from a long sleep and find that Troy has already fallen.
Since their goal is power, we may imagine that it won't be long now before America has its own attention-seeking Emperor Nero, who played the bride to a man he had married, consummating it on a couch in full public view. Or before we have a transgender woman Elagabalus, the Roman Emperor who said "I am a lady".
Speaking as part of his newly released memoirs, in a series of interviews conducted by journalist Fabio Marchese Ragona, Pope Francis highlighted his thoughts and responses to the COVID-19 era, including theabortion-tainted COVID jabsand his warm welcome of them.
The Pontiff rebuked those who did not receive an injection, or who voiced opposition to them publicly, saying:
Deciding whether to get vaccinated is always an ethical choice, but I know that many people signed up to movements opposed to the administration of the medication. This distressed me because in my view, being against the antidote is an almost suicidal act of denial.
Through Feb 24, 2024, hardly 12% of the adult American population is up-to-date with the latest COVID-19 vaccination introduced in Sep 2023 according to the CDC. Fewer than 32 million adults have received the new jab since then, meaning 236 million have not.
But hardly anyone is dying from, or with, COVID-19.
There have been 3.46 million new cases of COVID-19 in the last 6.5 months, but only about 26,000 have died nationally, which is comparable to an average influenza season. Many, many tens of millions of Americans didn't get the new jabs, didn't get sick, and didn't die.
It remains an article of faith among the elites that the jabs prevent death.
From
2019-2022, there was a 21 percent drop in membership, a cataclysmic
rate of decline. … Disciples have firmly moved in a theologically
revisionist direction on matters of human sexuality, gender expression,
and radical individual moral autonomy. …
The Concordia University system must brace for yet another closure.
Concordia College New York, a small, Lutheran liberal arts college in
Bronxville, N.Y., will close this summer, it announced Thursday. ...
Concordia’s closure announcement leaves only six institutions in the
Concordia University system. It began to shrink eight years ago, when
Concordia University Ann Arbor was annexed by Concordia University
Wisconsin in 2013. Five years later, Concordia College in Alabama, a
historically Black college, closed due to falling enrollments and mounting debt. Concordia University in Portland, Ore., announced in February that it would close, citing a challenging and changing higher education landscape.
The Canaria Pride festival, held in the town of Maspalomas between May 5 and 15, has become a hotspot for the monkeypox outbreak, reportsEl País. ... Many known patients are gay men who were tested after going to STI clinics, the WHO said. Health chiefs warned gay and bisexual men to be on the lookout for new unexplained rashes.
The US CDC never used the word "gay" about the gay Provincetown outbreak in its report, except to say "Most cases occurred in males (85%)", lol. The outbreak was important at the time because it exploded the idea that coronavirus vaccination protected one from infection, but you probably never heard about that either, lol. "Approximately three quarters (346; 74%) of cases occurred in fully
vaccinated persons (those who had completed a 2-dose course of mRNA
vaccine [Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna] or had received a single dose of
Janssen [Johnson & Johnson] vaccine ≥14 days before exposure)."
An idle person only lives to spend his time, and eat the fruits of the earth, like a vermin or a wolf.
Last week, when the United Methodist Church postponed — for the third time in as many years — a vote on an orderly plan to split the mainline Protestant denomination long riven by disagreement over the full inclusion of its LGBTQ members, some conservative United Methodists announced they were finally done: They would launch a new denomination in May, orderly plan or no. ... For decades, debate over ordaining and marrying LGBTQ United Methodists has roiled the United Methodist Church, one of the largest Protestant denominations in the United States.
The doomsaying narrative is the oldest narrative of the Christian West, expressing as it does the core message of Jesus of Nazareth.
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
-- Mark 1:15
From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished
between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be
required of this generation.
-- Luke 11:51
It has routinely erupted century upon century ever since in explicitly religious predictions of the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus Christ.
Yet here we are.
In our times it has taken on secularized elements, like WWI as "the war to end all wars", or warnings of global communist tyranny, a coming ice age, devastation by global thermonuclear war, the ozone hole, pandemic disease, the population bomb, man-made environmental and climate catastrophe, "the end of history", global warming, starvation, and now mass anxiety and depression!
Don't just sit there! Do something!
Preferably with your hands, outdoors.
That way you might catch a better glimpse of The Mother of All Asteroids before it blows us all to smithereens.
It appears that the Amish response to coronavirus, which was to resume life as normal after lockdowns in 2020 and among other things share the common cup at Holy Communion at church, may have contributed to higher death rates from COVID-19 in their communities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Indiana.
Death rates per 100k of population currently exceed overall state rates in 17 Amish counties out of 30 top Amish counties which together form the 10 largest Amish communities in the nation.
The data is from The New York Times at us-covid-tracker.com, pandemic to date as of Oct 11, 2021.
Ohio (197 deaths/100k):
Holmes, putatively the most Amish county in the nation, 273 deaths/100k, which is 38.6% higher than the current overall Ohio rate of 197/100k.
Wayne 224
Coshocton 216
Tuscarawas 316
Stark 279
Trumbull 273
Ashtabula 200
Mercer 224.
Indiana (239 deaths/100k):
Elkhart 251
Jay 240
Wells 311
Marshall 296
Daviess 342.
Illinois (221 deaths/100k):
Moultrie 283
Coles 241.
Pennsylvania (235 deaths/100k):
Mifflin 403
Huntingdon 332.
For 5 Amish counties in Pennsylvania, the current average death rate exceeds the state rate to date by 14%. For 10 Amish counties in Ohio the average death rate exceeds the state rate by 18%. For 3 Amish counties in Illinois the average death rate exceeds the state rate by 12%. And for 12 Amish counties in Indiana the average death rate exceeds the state rate, to date, by just over 1%. Two multi-county Amish communities within Indiana exceed the state death rate to date by an average of 9.2%. One of those Indiana Amish communities abuts Ohio's Mercer County whose death rate exceeds the Ohio death rate to date by 13.7% (included in the Ohio total above).
Since the data used here is cumulative, it was not possible to reconstruct the rates at previous points in the past. It is likely that the current rates represent the state of affairs long after the height of the damage was done by the pandemic.
More granular data showing specifically Amish deaths would be needed to verify that the deaths were contained within the Amish community. The Amish typically do not participate in government in general, or public education or public health care in particular.
After a short shutdown last year, the Amish chose a unique path that led
to Covid-19 tearing through at warp speed. It began with an important
religious holiday in May.
Lapp: When they take communion, they dump their wine into a cup and they
take turns to drink out of that cup. So, you go the whole way down the
line, and everybody drinks out of that cup, if one person has
coronavirus, the rest of church is going to get coronavirus. The first
time they went back to church, everybody got coronavirus.
Lapp says they weren’t denying coronavirus, they were facing it head on.
Maybe because they go to Mass HARDLY AT ALL, Latin or otherwise, lol?
A survey from a year ago put weekly pre-pandemic Mass attendance as low as 13%. Gallup in 2018 put the figure much higher, at 39%, vs. 45% weekly church attendance for Protestants.
PEW has the story, "Two-thirds of U.S. Catholics unaware of pope’s new restrictions on traditional Latin Mass", here:
Catholics who attend Mass weekly are both more likely to be aware of
the new restrictions and more inclined to oppose them than Catholics who
attend less frequently, the survey finds.
In fact, I find that those without any religious affiliation were the least likely to have received at least one dose of any COVID-19 vaccine. ... By May, 70% of non-evangelical Protestants had gotten at least one dose. Sixty-two percent of both evangelical Protestants and Catholics reported the same. However, it was the “nones” (no religious affiliation) who were lagging farther behind. By May 11, only 47% of nones had reported receiving at least one dose.
One can observe the hesitancy phenomenon among the young (who are the majority of the nones) without screening for religion from the CDC data by comparing the percent 18-49 who get flu vaccination on average with the percent getting full COVID-19 vaccination. On average over the last ten years 32.25% of those aged 18-49 get flu vaccines every year compared to just 25.48% getting full COVID-19 vaccination through May 22 (10.047 million aged 18-29 + 25.177 million aged 30-49 = 35.224 million out of 138.216 million).
People aged 50-64 get full COVID-19 vaccination at almost the same rate they get flu vaccine on average, and those aged 65+ get full COVID-19 vaccination at a much higher rate than flu vax, which one would expect given that it kills that population in the highest numbers, and that the media whips up the hysteria about it 24/7 despite the fact that in the first year of the outbreak barely 3% of confirmed cases across all age groups were ever hospitalized and only 1.8% of confirmed cases died.
We shouldn't blame young people for not getting vaccinated, however, given that myocarditis among the young is a known side-effect of COVID-19 vaccination. Word gets around.
It's one of the few instances where the young may be wiser than their elders.
I'm not even going to link to the stories, they are that stupid, especially the ones about the religious representatives' cowering response to the ridiculous claims being made by the Injuns.
Canada is a stupid place anyway.
I watched a guy on YouTube this week try to go camping on the longest daylight day of the year, June 20th, in The Northwest Territories but was blocked from entry because COVID-19 rules in Canada have closed the border.
Cases per million in the US (where it's Katy, Bar The Door against July 4th holiday makers) are running at a rate 2.7 timeshigher than in Canada, but in Canada you can't travel from province to province because of the "pandemic", not even to one with a population of . . . wait for it . . . 44,736.
Where do people think most burials occurred before North America became a godless hellscape? People were buried on church properties everywhere. Visit an old one sometime and you will find lots of unmarked graves because no one is left to tend them. Close a church or school and the thing runs down quite quickly.
Nowadays when the number of children not surviving beyond the age of five is 7 out of 1,000, it might be useful to remember that in 1900 in the US 238 didn't.
238.
Up in The Great White North, I'm sure things were much worse given the climate.
Countless men, women, and children succumbed to all manner of things in the past who don't today, but "Indigenous" peoples want you to believe they were all murdered by the evil White Man and his evil religion.
In a recent survey of 2,000 U.S. residents, 81 percent say they
believe that humankind is inherently good. Three in four believe they
themselves are fundamentally a good person. When researchers asked
respondents how they would compare themselves to others in their lives,
46 percent went a step further, admitting (in their eyes) they’re
“better” than everyone else they know.
64 percent of Americans say 2020 has made them more selfless than ever before. ... Researchers find 74 percent believe 2020 has made them more aware of the needs of others.
Seventy-two percent of those surveyed found themselves caring about the health and wellbeing of others significantly more than ever before. Despite the economic crash, a staggering 87 percent of Americans have donated a portion of their paycheck during COVID-19.
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
-- Luke 18:11f.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
-- Jeremiah 17:9
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Even before the pandemic hit, about 100 Catholic schools were closing each year, according to the NCEA. In 1970, some 4.4 million students attended Catholic elementary and secondary schools, according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, a Catholic social-science research institute based at Georgetown University. At the time, almost all students were Catholics, and classes were often taught by priests, nuns or members of male religious orders, who earned salaries far lower than their public-school counterparts.
Today, about 1.6 million students attend Catholic schools, according to the NCEA. About 80% of students are Catholic, and lay teachers have almost completely replaced priests and nuns, which has driven up the cost. Though religious instruction remains a core piece of Catholic education, mass is no longer a daily part of most schools. ...
Other factors have contributed to the decline as well: Enrollment fell sharply in the early 2000s, during the church’s sex-abuse scandal, and fell again after the financial crash in 2008. Some secular families are turned off by the church’s opposition to abortion or same-sex marriage, said Carol Ann MacGregor, vice provost of Loyola University New Orleans. Meanwhile, more the most devout Catholics are home-schooling their children, in some cases because they don’t believe Catholic schools are focused enough on the faith.
"Virus restrictions reduced our school by about a thousand students", said Chris Vallotton in a video attached to the story, here, about Beni Johnson calling face masks "freaking stupid".
Yeah, it was the restrictions, not the virus.
That's the ticket.
"Since early September, 274 coronavirus cases have been confirmed at the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry."
Gee, no supernatural healers were available with enough skills at Ground Zero for Christian supernaturalism to stop the virus dead in its tracks.
"It was among the tens of thousands of religious organizations that received a total of $7.3 billion in pandemic aid from the Small Business Administration.
"The list of religious organizations approved for about 88,400 small business loans also included Joyce Meyer Ministries Inc, a Missouri church which in 2007-2011 was investigated by the Senate over its finances. That church was approved for $5 million to $10 million - the largest sum an individual entity could apply for. ...
"Oklahoma-based Life.Church Operations LLC ...
"the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino, California ...
"Willow Creek Community Church Inc. in Illinois ..."
Of course, there's gotta be a verse for that, right?
And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal habitations.
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