News and views of Constance Cumbey concerning "Radical Middle", New Age Movement, Communitarianism, "planetary humanism," "global governance," European Union, Javier Solana, Jeremy Rifkin, "New Age Politics," law in the USA, combined with life in general -- sometimes humorous, sometimes not!
Mark was brutally honest about that in his book UP FROM SOCIALISM. He is seeking the Lord and he and his ladyfriend now read the New Testament and pray. I pray for them nightly. Mark has gone blind from diabetes. His New Age book NEW AGE POLITICS was a major source of information for me writing HIDDEN DANGERS. You keep him and his lady friend Sandra in your prayers as I do nightly.
Watching this guy makes me wonder why somebody like him can be so much more honest about his own failings at listening and empathy and serving the best interests of other people. Than a lot of people are, including those who believe themselves to be the Frozen Chosen of God.
As a reminder Jesus said all will be judged by their works. Nobody comes to the Father except through the Son, but that is because He does their life review, or judgement, after they die.
They need to be able to come closer to the light, even when it exposes that their deeds had been dark. If they never learn to get used to honest remorse or honest self-reflection in this life, how will they quite suddenly be able to do it when they die? The gospel of John explains it quite clearly.
Mark Satin actually told his editor that he honestly wanted readers to see him as a jerk in his stories about his past, because he was a jerk. It doesn't get much more honest than that.
Meanwhile Elon Musk is making "suicidal empathy" into a thought crime on X.
There is a bigger picture regarding the problem of Muslim immigrants in Europe. Putin's interventions in Syria led to the displacement of millions of Syrians, who flooded into Europe. As this was happening, Putin's oligarchs funded anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant alt-right social media and politicians in Europe. It is in Putin's interest to weaken NATO.
“We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country – So that we don’t end up like Europe!”
So what is Pres. Trump talking about here? This?
Obama's long relationship with Saudi Arabian (2013) https://youtu.be/zeTAalXpy9I?si=cfkBg0W6Akbbx0UB
The Limeys absolutely adored Barrack Obama when he was president but despise Pres. Trump, (and one only has to take a trip to London to understand why.)
The British are like the Americans, not monolithic. They experienced the end of their empire already. Americans are headed there. Trump is accelerating the decline American empire, while Putin watches and smiles and nods in approval.
Christians owe allegiance first to the kingdom of God and second to America. Christianity is about following Jesus to be led closer to God. Sometimes that means following Jesus right out of a church. Sometimes it means following Him right out of an ideology or movement.
Allegiance to Trump is not the be all and end all of whatever is good and true in this world. Trump's enemies are not good. But neither is Trump. Neither is Putin.
There are no good sides! The sooner Christians get this through their heads the faster they can be freed of the chains that they are blinded to!
The angel told Joshua he was fighting for God! God! Not men. Not even Israelite men versus Canaanite men. God!
This is the prayer of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran minister who stood against the Nazis and was martyred while still a young man. He wrote a book called, The Cost of Discipleship, which is not a very popular topic in American churches. Billy Graham's crusades to save souls are the opposite of The Cost of Discipleship, which is what Jesus actually spoke of. Billy Graham was brought into the public square after WW II to help fight the Cold War because Commies are uniformly atheists. Is it bad, no, but it's a matter of perspective and a matter of reverence to God and God first and God above everything else.
A Prayer from Deitrich Bonhoeffer: I Cannot Do This Alone
O God, early in the morning I cry to you. Help me to pray and to concentrate my thoughts on you; I cannot do this alone. In me there is darkness, but with you there is light; I am lonely, but you do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help; I am restless, but with you there is peace. In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience; I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me…. Restore me to liberty, and enable me to live now hat I may answer before you and before men. Lord whatever this day may bring, Your name be praised. Amen.
With all of the amazing things that are happening in the world today, I personally fail to see the relevance of what Mark Satin has to say. Surely there are far more important and relevant topics to discuss than this.
How did you miss that American leadership in the world depends on trust-based relationships with a network of allies that includes Canada and Denmark?
But really, we deserve for American leadership in the world to decline; and indeed, if we are against the NWO, it must happen. Although I realize that, my heart doesn't cheer it. My heart is heavy, because I know where this is heading.
It is heading for this:
China and Russia are to be elevated to peers of the USA in terms of global leadership, in return for their assisting Trump in his internal battles with his internal enemies, but not to put Trump's base first. To put Trump and his billionaire allies first.
Trump's base contains famers that will be hurt by tariffs, disabled veterans who will be hurt by the backlash against DEIA (A for ability includes disabled veterans!), elderly people on social security and Medicaid and Medicare, able bodied middle aged and young people on Medicaid.
In the state of Lousiana, 60% of babies born, are paid for by Medicaid! That is Mike Johnson's state. 60%. Let that sink in!
You think we should continue to contribute to the war being fought by two Diabolical Narcissists? Both Russian Jews, by the way, who probably murdered more people in the 20th Century then had even ever been born in the previous millennium.
Giving that clown money is like giving money to a heroin junkie.
So 60% of those babies born in Louisiana are paid for by Medicaid because those dirtbag white trash scabs are all on government aid. While the other 40% represented by honest, law-abiding black folk, are having to pay out of pocket? This crap has been going on for far far too long!
the weird thing about Portland is all the new condo-towers that have sprung up in the past 20 years.
It used to be a working city with a deep-water port, warehouses, manufacturing and shipyards but now all the waterfront and warehouse districts are nothing but condo-towers, and with every new condo-tower another 1,000 homeless (as if by design)
We may not be out of the woods yet in America, either. Even though RFK, Jr is the HHS secretary, Trump nominated Jim O'Neill to be the deputy secretary of HHS.
Thiel-Linked HHS Nominee Threatens MAHA Ambitions with Biotech Stance
Biotech investor and Peter Thiel associate Jim O’Neill is poised to usher in a deregulatory paradigm that would allow a proliferation of dubious products on the US market under the guise of “innovation” and “efficiency.”
I have tried to warn COVID skeptical, MAGA and Christian family about this. One of them immediately thought this article was from the liberal media as soon as she saw it wasn't 100% cheer leading for Trump and MAGA. So I responded by saying I was disappointed she hadn't noticed all the articles that are critical of the Clintons on this same Unlimited Hangout web site. But it was to no avail.
I feel like it is almost impossible sometimes to warn anybody about danger from within, as opposed to danger from without. Because of this deeply ingrained problem, we are quite likely to become sitting ducks right here in America, too.
Trump has floated putting the homeless in work camps - also known sometimes as concentration camps and sometimes as private prisons - where they will be out of sight, out of mind.
RFK, Jr has floated putting the mentally ill and the drug addicted into rural organic farm work camps dotted all over America.
What would you think if Biden or Clinton or Obama or Nancy Pelosi or Gavin Newsome proposed either of these ideas? Do you trust Trump completely? Do you trust RFK, Jr completely?
What does the title of this article—not to mention each unusual word in it — even mean? This is not a rhetorical question. We urgently need to understand each term. A precise political philosophy underpins each. A combination of these interrelated philosophies has been embraced — either in part or in their entirety — by some of the most powerful people on the planet. If we misapprehend how these controllers and influencers think, we risk blindly accepting whatever world order they wish to impose — and end up wondering how and why we find ourselves subjected to it.
Very brief and sketchy outline from the article about what Dark MAGA means. Elon Musk has called himself "Dark MAGA," and don't kid yourself. He knows exactly what it means. This is only a hint of one of several interlocking ideologies that form the worldview of many powerful technocrats, including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
"Dark" refers to "Dark Enlightenment." It is an ideology that is popular among technocrats of Silicon Valley. Because it is a worldview shared by extremely powerful men, it is important to understand what it means.
I. Dark MAGA 1. Dark Enlightenment a. Corporate monarchy led by C.E.O. King b. Deconstruction and redistribution of power 1. Administrative, legislative, judicial, media, and academic privileges become converted into shares 2. These shares are owned and traded by sovereign corporations 3. These sovereign corporations form a patchwork of neostates 4. These neostates are supposed to be run more efficiently as gov-corps c. Accelerate the destruction of capitalism 1. The self-destruction of capitalism is regarded as inevitable 2. The planned demolition of capitalism can be controlled by a technocracy to make it more efficient. > Every crisis should be accelerated. > To be reborn it is necessary to die. > The harder the reboot, the better > The West should stop everything it has been doing except for: * business * science * technology 3. Consumers/citizens don't want freedom because they are materialistic 4. Capitalism is supposed to run headlong into Malthusian limits to population growth, anyway a. Conjecture: maybe this is one more reason for wanting to colonize Mars, as both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos want to do, but colonizing Mars is not necessarily a part of Dark Enlightenment ideology per se
I think you better be careful or you'll end up at the poor farm. It's a knotty problem and has been for quite awhile.
1st Epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonian Chapter 5
11 For which cause comfort one another; and edify one another, as you also do. 12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you: 13 That you esteem them more abundantly in charity, for their work's sake. Have peace with them. 14 And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men. 15 See that none render evil for evil to any man; but ever follow that which is good towards each other, and towards all men.
PS: Margaret Sanger was in favor of Poor Farms/Houses
So how does "Dark MAGA" see the approaching World War 3? It's pretty obvious that it is about to break out in Europe in a big way (much larger scale than the current Russia-Ukraine war).
Check out this recent discussion with Jeff Nyquist and Lee at KLW World News. Video time stamp starts at where they start looking at Russia's preparations to invade the Baltics.
https://youtu.be/xPy65jT6eag?t=4485
And please don't tell me that this is part of their (the technocrats) plan. Putin is not a technocrat, and never has been. The two "visions" of how the world should be are completely opposed to each other. Will they clash at some point? Yes. What will that clash look like? I don't know.
The State Department will henceforth decide what aid projects will continue. We pray that, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio decides to send food aid to the hungry or provide shelter to the homeless, that the aid does not come with condoms and contraceptives attached.
The big thing that closed the Poor Farm was the Social Security Act, but now, at the first of the month, when the 'crazy checks' arrives, the drug dealer does also.
I'm thankful for Robert Kennedy Jr. and Tom Holman
Where was Lawyer Cumbey and her fawning faithful during Obama's 3 terms. Obama, and his ilk worked fervently to normalize LGBTQ+, and the mutilation of children, and sick demonic perversions of every stripe, and color? Also, open borders, global regime change to suit the Deep State, lawlessness, and endless wars?
Now that Trump, under massive resistance, is trying to bring this nation back from the cesspool it has been cast into.
Now of course, Trump could be the AC! Which would mean God has chosen this time for him to come to power. If that is the case, God, who is smarter than Lawyer Cumbey and her fawning faithful, will use Trump to fulfill prophecy, and bring a great shaking to this sick ass world. If great fear falls on the demonic leftist subversives, that to me is their just deserts!
What we, as professing Christians need to do, is ask the good Lord to give us the courage, if some demonic authorities come knocking on the door, to go lay our head on the chopping block. There is no other choice. NONE!
I got alot of respect for Lee Wheelbarger for fearlessly taking charge at the Pentagon on September 11th 2001 while the simpering DC fire department hid out under an overpass scared of another attack.
Kind of amazing though, that in all of Northern Virginia Wheelbarger had the only working ATV.
Lee Wheelbarger was head of logistics at the Pentagon on 9-11-01. YouTube
https://youtu.be/JgApPqsKxzQ?si=anPFDgKCf6RnDWJL
Anyway, Mr. Wheelbarger is a pro at figuring out possible scenarios but sometimes I don't think he gets enough to sleep
I don't know of anything saying Putin seeks for Russia to become a "Network State." I do know of Russian hackers getting into all kinds of American infrastructure, from nuclear power plants to utilities.
I do know that some American military analysts think pragmatically that a "Network State" is absolutely necessary to be the most efficient and nimble at fighting 5GW (fifth generation warfare). These type military analysts simply think the government as we know it moves too slowly to respond to 5GW.
Part of 5GW is cyberwarfare. Russia is well positioned for cyberwarfare against the U.S.
What I do know about Ukraine is that it is already a testing grounds for the Network State version of the Great Reset, with an everything app already rolled out for citizens' smart phones. Moreover Ukraine's rare earth minerals are important for data centers and chips that are a requirement for whatever the technocracy is up to and whatever they succeed at accomplishing.
My knowledge is admittedly scattered and spotty, but there are certainly some very large and significant clues littering the landscape.
Russian hackers are world class and are embedded with the Russian Mafia state, so in spite of them not being ideological regarding aspirations for a grandiose network state, they are certainly providing incentives for their enemies to develop network states.
Obviously it's in the open that the US and China are in an "AI arms race" now. Then you probably already know to factor in that Taiwan makes most chips. And you probably know most rare earth minerals for chips and data centers come from China right now.
Trade wars historically preceded wars.
It's not hard to take a look around and see the moving pieces have an easy time colliding and a hard time harmonizing.
Finally, a sign of intelligent life forms in the MAGA movement. It's almost like they don't think their only job is to be a cheer leader or a publicist for absolutely everything that Elon Musk or Donald Trump ever do or say. It's almost like they think they should be represented and should be active in giving feedback to their representatives. It's almost...constitutional! It's almost...American!
An oldie but goodie from 2020. Seems like a lifetime ago! But don't worry, he's seen the light now! He's come to Jesus, er, come to Trump! Or should I say he's seen the dark now? He has called himself Dark MAGA, after all.
Elon Musk shares details about Tesla’s mRNA microfactories for CureVac
Did you catch that? In 2020 Elon Musk referred to diseases as a "software problem." Not a Technocrat at all! He's totally on your side. In fact he wants you to some day get a chip so that you can compete with AI. That's how much he cares about you. Of course he does. He wouldn't be loyal to Trump if he didn't care about you, right?
From the article linked above: At the time, Musk referred to diseases as a “software problem.” With that perspective, Tesla seems more than capable of developing technology to manufacture mRNA vaccines at scale.
Donald Trump is literally profiting from puppy mills. But you won't care. Empathy is bad for making America great again. Don't do it! Don't feel empathy!
Trump Hosts Puppy Auction At Mar-a-Lago …Again! Puppies continue to be auctioned off to the highest bidder at Trump’s home
8:37 AM Is worried about Trump's puppy auctions, but where was the Cumbey Cult faithful during the 12 years of the Soetoro MEGA promotion of satanic sexual perversion?
Do they think Trump's puppy auction deserves condemnation, while mutilating children's genitalia receives nary a peep from Pharisee Cumbeys gang of creeps. ?
Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett has revealed that following a threat, she had to wear a bulletproof vest, on the advice of law enforcement.
Although she didn't specify the threat, a January 6 defendant was jailed last month after calling for someone to slit Coney Barrett's throat "from ear to ear." That was after Coney Barrett dissented in a Supreme Court case that favored hundreds of January 6 defendants.
Joni Lamb is at the pinnacle of Daystar. She covered up the sexual abuse of her own granddaughter within the church, and she told her own adult son, father of the abused girl, that he had to submit to her and not follow his own conscience according to Jesus' commands, within her church hierarchy.
So it was not big surprise to me that she prayed a voodoo prayer, that Paul White goes on Daystar TV, or that the Daystar Jet flew to Trump's victory party in November.
In fact, I think it's par for the course for Trump supporting Evangelicals to fundamentally misunderstand the very nature of spiritual warfare, just as much as Jon Lamb and Paula White so clearly do.
And what is it about all the sexual abusers, and sexual abuse cover-up enablers, flocking together?
He could have said, "But what about Joe Biden?" or, "But what about the Catholic church?" But instead he did this. Because that's how good Christians actually behave.
Ray Comfort Becomes 18th Programmer to Leave Embattled Daystar TV
So the current thing is all "colonialism" was wrong, (except for Israel), and the time of The Great Commission, (which "colonized" the world in the name of Jeaus Christ), is over.
How could it have ever come to this?
Gospel According to St Matthew Chapter 28
The resurrection of Christ. His commission to his disciples.
1 And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre. 2 And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and coming, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it. 3 And his countenance was as lightning, and his raiment as snow. 4 And for fear of him, the guards were struck with terror, and became as dead men. 5 And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you; for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.
6 He is not here, for he is risen, as he said. Come, and see the place where the Lord was laid. 7 And going quickly, tell ye his disciples that he is risen: and behold he will go before you into Galilee; there you shall see him. Lo, I have foretold it to you. 8 And they went out quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy, running to tell his disciples. 9 And behold Jesus met them, saying: All hail. But they came up and took hold of his feet, and adored him. 10 Then Jesus said to them: Fear not. Go, tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, there they shall see me.
11 Who when they were departed, behold some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all things that had been done. 12 And they being assembled together with the ancients, taking counsel, gave a great sum of money to the soldiers, 13 Saying: Say you, His disciples came by night, and stole him away when we were asleep. 14 And if the governor shall hear this, we will persuade him, and secure you. 15 So they taking the money, did as they were taught: and this word was spread abroad among the Jews even unto this day.
16 And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17 And seeing him they adored: but some doubted. 18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. 19 Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.
[18] "All power": See here the warrant and commission of the apostles and their successors, the bishops and pastors of Christ's church. He received from his Father all power in heaven and in earth: and in virtue of this power, he sends them (even as his Father sent him, St. John 20. 21) to teach and disciple, not one, but all nations; and instruct them in all truths: and that he may assist them effectually in the execution of this commission, he promises to be with them, not for three or four hundred years only, but all days, even to the consummation of the world. How then could the Catholic Church ever go astray; having always with her pastors, as is here promised, Christ himself, who is the way, the truth, and the life. St. John 14"
Let Bacchus' sons be not dismayed but join with me each jovial blade booze and sing and lend your aid to help me with the chorus
CHORUS Instead of spa we'll drink down ale and pay the reckoning on the nail no man for debt shall go to jail from Garryowen in glory
We are the boys that take delight smashing the Limerick light when lighting through all the streets like sporters fighting and tearing all before us CHORUS
We'll break the windows we'll break the doors The watch knock down by three's and four's then let the doctors work their cures and tinker up our bruises CHORUS
We'll beat the bailiffs out of fun we'll make the mayors and sheriffs run we are the boys no man dares dun if he regards a whole skin CHORUS
Our hearts so stout have got us fame for soon 'tis known from whence we came where're we go they dread the name of Garryowen in glory
Just prior to the 2008 presidential election, 52% of American adults attended worship. As the 2024 election approached, only 31% of the white American population was regularly in church, a decline of 21 percentage points.
In 2008, 68% of 18- to 29-year-olds claimed to be Christian. By 2024 it was only 45%, a slide of 23 points.
The Religious Landscape Study released last week by Pew Research Center suggests America’s secular shift may be slowing, but the dramatic decline in religious interest among young adults over the past quarter century leaves little room for confidence.
However, some segments of American Christianity are experiencing robust growth. According to Ryan Burge, rapidly growing congregations tend to be located in booming parts of the American Bible Belt and are strategically situated at the intersection of major thoroughfares.
Unapologetic support for MAGA politics and impressive church growth stats are closely associated phenomena. In particular, the Christian nationalist congregations described in Elizabeth Newman’s Kingdom of Rage, Matthew Taylor’s The Violent Take it by Force, and Katherine Stewart’s Money, Lies, and God have experienced explosive growth in recent years. A similar link between conservative religion, big money, authoritarian politics and church growth is apparent within the American Catholic community.
Stewart’s Money, Lies, and God charts the tangled web of influence connecting the upper echelons of the business community to conservative politicians, right-wing think tanks, religious movements and the Republican base. Stewart follows the money. Free market capitalism, opposition to government regulation, conspiracy theorizing, disdain for “woke” inclusivism and an allergic reaction to pluralistic democracy hold this ideological marriage of convenience together.
The rise of Donald Trump has energized, and laid bare, this reactionary nexus.
“It’s the synchronization with Trump that is most alarming,” Matthew Taylor recently told The Atlantic’s Stephanie McCrummen. “The agenda now is Trump. And that’s how populist authoritarianism works. It starts out as a coalition, as a shotgun marriage, and eventually the populism and authoritarianism takes over.”
The authoritarian network exposed by investigative reporters and historians like Stewart and Taylor are part of an international movement. Donald Trump and JD Vance have much more in common with autocrats like Vladimir Putin and Turkey strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan than with their Democratic opponents. Like all good authoritarians, the religious, plutocratic, ideological and political segments of the MAGA revolution are determined to crush dissent.
They aren’t looking for a seat at the table; they want to be the table.
Us vs. them church Those committed to inclusive and pluralistic forms of civil society are alarmed by this rapid explosion of organized, and extraordinarily well-funded, authoritarian fervor. Progressive Christians, especially in the United States, wonder if we might have targets on our backs. If MAGA religion speaks for Jesus, where does that leave the rest of us.
Do we even want to be associated with a faith that has been hijacked by us-them fanaticism?
In a recent Substack post titled “Confessions of an Irreligious Christian,” David Bentley Hart shared his lack of enthusiasm for Christian hymnody, most Christian sermonizing and even, he reluctantly admits, the eucharist. His devotional life brings him little joy, and although his more devout brothers encourage him to observe a “rigorous schedule of prayers and readings, observing the daily offices and keeping to the lectionary,” he confesses that, “the habit will not take in me, and the attempt to cultivate it has invariably resulted in agonized boredom.”
Nor is Hart enamored of the leading doctrines of traditional Christian theology, particularly “the ideas of inherited guilt or penal substitutionary atonement or predestination” and the “vague but seemingly binding notions of God’s limited will to save or of an ultimate division between the blessed and the damned (which to me makes the blessed seem peculiarly damnable and the damned boundlessly pitiable).”
When the age-old “problem of evil” is added to this mix, Hart’s affection for traditional Christianity becomes particularly shaky. He never has found a satisfactory reason why a good and loving God would allow innocent children to suffer horribly, and he doubts he ever will.
Not surprisingly, Hart claims to have “a deeper affection for Voltaire and Thomas Paine than for just about any of their religiously cultured despisers” and sees in them “a more genuinely Christian spirit than I do in most of their more voluble Christian contemporaries.”
Conservative Christians might wonder why, given all these reservations, Hart continues to call himself a Christian at all. He has considered this question carefully and says it comes down to “two singular facts: the continued and unwavering faith of Christ’s followers after his Crucifixion and the startlingly unprecedented radicalism of early Christian teachings.”
Hart realizes the resurrection narratives found in the Gospels have been shaped and stylized by decades of retelling and by the theological thrust of the various authors. But from the earliest days of the Christian movement, he says, men and women (most notably the Apostle Paul) testified boldly to personal encounters with the risen Christ even though, in a world dominated by imperial Rome, this message was fraught with peril.
The second anomaly Hart references is the teaching of Jesus: “I know Graeco-Roman late antiquity extremely well; it has been a subject of personal fascination and scholarly labor on my part for most of my life; and I simply cannot place the teachings of Christ as they are credibly recounted in the Gospels within the normal continuum of the religious and moral expectations of their age.”
Hart realizes the moral vision Jesus proclaimed was firmly anchored in the Hebrew Scriptures and, in some respects, resemble certain aspects of first-century Greek thought. “But even so” he says, “it constitutes so profound an inversion of all the reigning perspectives of Christ’s time that I find it almost impossible not to believe that Christ’s kerygma truly is the word of God breaking in upon a world only half ready to hear it.”
It is the synergy between resurrection faith and the radicality of this moral vision that speaks to Hart. The fact that Jesus survived death in some fashion would mean little apart from his moral vision; and kingdom ethics cannot be associated with the heart of God apart from the resurrection.
He explains: “If any person has ever truly been ‘God with us,’ Emmanuel, it should surely be this man. If the claim of anyone’s resurrection by the power of the Spirit should seem not so much outlandish as simply fitting, it is that of this first century Jewish prophet — this one who loved the excluded, the forgotten, the oppressed, the poor, and the despised with a love the world could not give.
We can’t all be mystics Both the negative and positive elements of Hart’s confession drew a hearty “amen” from me. Like Hart, I often envy people who live in the holy embrace of God. But there is room in the kingdom of God for people of all spiritual temperaments. We can’t all be mystics, and that is probably a good thing.
I was particularly drawn to the two “anomalies” Hart identifies. When I arrived at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., in 1975, I was exposed to precisely the kind of spiritual synergy between resurrection faith and revolutionary moral vision Hart describes. Frank Tupper recently had returned from Germany as a disciple of Wolfhart Pannenberg, an erstwhile religious skeptic who concluded the proclamation of the risen Christ must be rooted in historical fact. Meanwhile, professors like Frank Stagg, E. Glenn Hinson and Glen Stassen were laying out the table-flipping radicality of Jesus’ teaching.
For the first time in my experience, the core message of Jesus was front-and-center: “Love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”
The species of Christianity presently commanding center stage in America is defiantly opposed to this kind of faith. And for a very good reason. If Jesus provides a window into the heart of God, us-them thinking collapses. The enemy who is loved can’t be relegated to a “them” basket. Conversely, our continual failure to love and forgive our enemies makes it impossible to construct a credible “us” basket.
Let’s face it, we are drawn to forms of religion that divide the world into us-them categories. We are the godly; they are ungodly. We are angelic; they are demonic. We are the chosen; they are the damned. The kingdom of God will burst on the scene the minute the ungodly, the demonic and the damned are either silenced or, better still, swept off the face of the earth.
If you don’t believe this is the import of MAGA religion, check out Money, Lies, and, God or any of the other volumes I referenced earlier. This is scary stuff.
Back to the question So why, if the various flavors of MAGA religion have so thoroughly betrayed the essence of Christian faith, is the movement generating so much heat and light? Why are the Christian nationalists growing while the rest of Christendom retreats in disarray?
It’s simple, really. The “spirit warriors” (as Stewart calls them) are burning down the church. They have generated beau coups of heat and light by torching the Christian gospel.
When resurrection faith embraces the moral vision of Jesus’ touch, there is fire. Like the burning bush Moses encountered on Sinai, these smoldering embers burn without being consumed.
This isn’t the first time Christians have put a torch to their own tradition, of course. The church ostensibly aligned with Jesus has been self-immolating for two millennia. We yearn for a Christendom without Christ. When we get what we desire, it isn’t long before the steeple is engulfed in flame and a ragtag assembly of potentates, plutocrats and politicians is drawn to the exciting spectacle.
Progressive Christians are just as susceptible to us-them thinking as our more conservative brothers and sisters. We pride ourselves on being inclusive, we celebrate diversity, we elevate the oppressed and pour contempt on the powerful. Then we bask in the warm glow of our moral superiority.
The “enemies” Jesus talked about are those who reject his way. And that’s all of us.
It isn’t just hard to follow Jesus; it’s hard to want to follow Jesus. Before it feels good, it feels really bad. Our us-them addiction runs deep. Spiritual detox isn’t for the faint of heart and never should be attempted alone. That’s what the church is for.
Building a church is an unnatural act that cuts against the grain of human nature. Jesus knew he was asking a lot. The Jesus-gate may be narrow and the Jesus-road may be hard, but they lead to life.
A burning church brings people flocking from miles around. It’s a great show. People will pay dearly for a pair of tickets. But a burning church is hours away from an ash heap.
A faithful church, embarrassed by its own failure, huddles around two glowing anomalies: resurrection faith and the moral vision of Jesus. The fire burns low. The gate is narrow and the road is hard. But the gospel fire that draws us can never be extinguished. It’s God’s fire. And that is good news indeed.
'Very poor allies', who have lost far too many men fighting America's damned and conjured up wars for it - often by so-called friendly fire from useless, trigger-happy Yanks. You should know, were you to attack Canada, you'll find yourselves in asymmetric guerilla warfare across your United Snakes of America quicker than you can sing, 'Oh, say can you see'!
The southern border of the USA gets most of the attention but our northern border is very porous as well. Drugs, illegals, and terrorists have been coming through the northern border freely, and that has to stop too.
Ray Dalio seems to think that trade wars, including even trade wars with Canada, are due to the U.S. debt crisis. He says the U.S. needs to sell more debt than the world wants to buy. Don't worry, there is still a Melania meme coin to sell.
Ray Dalio warns that mounting U.S. debt problems could lead to ‘shocking developments’
Oh dear, Canada's got it's elbows up. Maybe we (U.S.) will settle for the Colombia River drainage (rightfully ours) the entire Great Lake system (boundaries don't belong in lakes) and throw in Newfoundland just because it goes with Greenland.
If nothing more were to come of Trump's second term than that he made the demonic Dems + RINOS(Constance's heroes) fearful and miserable, I'm thrilled!
I was explaining today about a quirk of a reserved podcaster who always says "ok then" in a dismissive way to his less reserved counterpart and then when the less reserved counterpart loses his connection and disappears the man acts totally adrift which I thought was a little bit funny. I then haughty said that there is to much self importance on the Internet. Later I brought up Canada, China and the Panama canal and carried on for awhile. Then I indured what seemed 5 minutes of Trump bashing until finalt I said ok then. Her glance said it all and then I quibbled that I had been watching to many podcasts and that I was starting to sound like them. Then when she looked away I felt adrift.
"we are global citizens and we need to see ourselves as such"
ReplyDelete"I've always worked with lefties"
Watching this guy makes me wonder just how heavily he was into drugs with his lefty pals?
Mark was brutally honest about that in his book UP FROM SOCIALISM. He is seeking the Lord and he and his ladyfriend now read the New Testament and pray. I pray for them nightly. Mark has gone blind from diabetes. His New Age book NEW AGE POLITICS was a major source of information for me writing HIDDEN DANGERS. You keep him and his lady friend Sandra in your prayers as I do nightly.
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Watching this guy makes me wonder why somebody like him can be so much more honest about his own failings at listening and empathy and serving the best interests of other people. Than a lot of people are, including those who believe themselves to be the Frozen Chosen of God.
ReplyDeleteAs a reminder Jesus said all will be judged by their works. Nobody comes to the Father except through the Son, but that is because He does their life review, or judgement, after they die.
They need to be able to come closer to the light, even when it exposes that their deeds had been dark. If they never learn to get used to honest remorse or honest self-reflection in this life, how will they quite suddenly be able to do it when they die? The gospel of John explains it quite clearly.
Mark Satin actually told his editor that he honestly wanted readers to see him as a jerk in his stories about his past, because he was a jerk. It doesn't get much more honest than that.
Meanwhile Elon Musk is making "suicidal empathy" into a thought crime on X.
Save yourselves.
There is a bigger picture regarding the problem of Muslim immigrants in Europe. Putin's interventions in Syria led to the displacement of millions of Syrians, who flooded into Europe. As this was happening, Putin's oligarchs funded anti-Islamic and anti-immigrant alt-right social media and politicians in Europe. It is in Putin's interest to weaken NATO.
ReplyDeleteBe wise as serpents.
I didn't finish the vid last night because I fell asleep but will listen to it today while out with the steers.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.commondreams.org/opinion/jimmy-carter-pardon-draft-dodgers
Magnanimity.
Keir Starmer's coalition of the whimpering
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SHAME ON YOU. Trump has declared war on all our allies and made allies of our enemies Russia and North Korea.
DeleteMark Satin has quite few good stories.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad he dodged the war though.
“We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country – So that we don’t end up like Europe!”
ReplyDeleteSo what is Pres. Trump talking about here? This?
Obama's long relationship with Saudi Arabian (2013)
https://youtu.be/zeTAalXpy9I?si=cfkBg0W6Akbbx0UB
The Limeys absolutely adored Barrack Obama when he was president but despise Pres. Trump, (and one only has to take a trip to London to understand why.)
Very poor allies
The British are like the Americans, not monolithic. They experienced the end of their empire already. Americans are headed there. Trump is accelerating the decline American empire, while Putin watches and smiles and nods in approval.
ReplyDeleteChristians owe allegiance first to the kingdom of God and second to America. Christianity is about following Jesus to be led closer to God. Sometimes that means following Jesus right out of a church. Sometimes it means following Him right out of an ideology or movement.
Allegiance to Trump is not the be all and end all of whatever is good and true in this world. Trump's enemies are not good. But neither is Trump. Neither is Putin.
There are no good sides! The sooner Christians get this through their heads the faster they can be freed of the chains that they are blinded to!
The angel told Joshua he was fighting for God! God! Not men. Not even Israelite men versus Canaanite men. God!
In the four years of the Biden Administration, did you ever speak in the same manner as your post of Biden, or are you just obsessed over Trump?
DeleteYes. No.
DeleteThis is the prayer of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran minister who stood against the Nazis and was martyred while still a young man. He wrote a book called, The Cost of Discipleship, which is not a very popular topic in American churches. Billy Graham's crusades to save souls are the opposite of The Cost of Discipleship, which is what Jesus actually spoke of. Billy Graham was brought into the public square after WW II to help fight the Cold War because Commies are uniformly atheists. Is it bad, no, but it's a matter of perspective and a matter of reverence to God and God first and God above everything else.
ReplyDeleteA Prayer from Deitrich Bonhoeffer: I Cannot Do This Alone
O God, early in the morning I cry to you.
Help me to pray and to concentrate my thoughts on you;
I cannot do this alone.
In me there is darkness, but with you there is light;
I am lonely, but you do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with you there is help;
I am restless, but with you there is peace. In me there is bitterness, but with you there is patience;
I do not understand your ways, but you know the way for me….
Restore me to liberty, and enable me to live now hat I may answer before you and before men.
Lord whatever this day may bring, Your name be praised.
Amen.
With all of the amazing things that are happening in the world today, I personally fail to see the relevance of what Mark Satin has to say. Surely there are far more important and relevant topics to discuss than this.
ReplyDelete"Trump has declared war on all of our allies" ??? Really? How did I miss this blockbuster story?
ReplyDeleteHow did you miss that American leadership in the world depends on trust-based relationships with a network of allies that includes Canada and Denmark?
ReplyDeleteBut really, we deserve for American leadership in the world to decline; and indeed, if we are against the NWO, it must happen. Although I realize that, my heart doesn't cheer it. My heart is heavy, because I know where this is heading.
It is heading for this:
China and Russia are to be elevated to peers of the USA in terms of global leadership, in return for their assisting Trump in his internal battles with his internal enemies, but not to put Trump's base first. To put Trump and his billionaire allies first.
Trump's base contains famers that will be hurt by tariffs, disabled veterans who will be hurt by the backlash against DEIA (A for ability includes disabled veterans!), elderly people on social security and Medicaid and Medicare, able bodied middle aged and young people on Medicaid.
In the state of Lousiana, 60% of babies born, are paid for by Medicaid! That is Mike Johnson's state. 60%. Let that sink in!
You think we should continue to contribute to the war being fought by two Diabolical Narcissists? Both Russian Jews, by the way, who probably murdered more people in the 20th Century then had even ever been born in the previous millennium.
DeleteGiving that clown money is like giving money to a heroin junkie.
So 60% of those babies born in Louisiana are paid for by Medicaid because those dirtbag white trash scabs are all on government aid. While the other 40% represented by honest, law-abiding black folk, are having to pay out of pocket? This crap has been going on for far far too long!
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Feces And Refugees Trigger Dysentery Outbreak In Leftist Run Portland
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11:09 AM
ReplyDeleteNot to de-rail but . . .
the weird thing about Portland is all the new condo-towers that have sprung up in the past 20 years.
It used to be a working city with a deep-water port, warehouses, manufacturing and shipyards but now all the waterfront and warehouse districts are nothing but condo-towers, and with every new condo-tower another 1,000 homeless (as if by design)
Barry's role in the system
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Europeans Beware: You will be Augmented Whether You Want It Or Not
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10:45 PM
ReplyDeleteWe may not be out of the woods yet in America, either. Even though RFK, Jr is the HHS secretary, Trump nominated Jim O'Neill to be the deputy secretary of HHS.
Thiel-Linked HHS Nominee Threatens MAHA Ambitions with Biotech Stance
Biotech investor and Peter Thiel associate Jim O’Neill is poised to usher in a deregulatory paradigm that would allow a proliferation of dubious products on the US market under the guise of “innovation” and “efficiency.”
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/01/investigative-reports/thiel-linked-hhs-nominee-threatens-maha-ambitions-with-biotech-stance/
I have tried to warn COVID skeptical, MAGA and Christian family about this. One of them immediately thought this article was from the liberal media as soon as she saw it wasn't 100% cheer leading for Trump and MAGA. So I responded by saying I was disappointed she hadn't noticed all the articles that are critical of the Clintons on this same Unlimited Hangout web site. But it was to no avail.
I feel like it is almost impossible sometimes to warn anybody about danger from within, as opposed to danger from without. Because of this deeply ingrained problem, we are quite likely to become sitting ducks right here in America, too.
12:47 PM
ReplyDeleteTrump has floated putting the homeless in work camps - also known sometimes as concentration camps and sometimes as private prisons - where they will be out of sight, out of mind.
RFK, Jr has floated putting the mentally ill and the drug addicted into rural organic farm work camps dotted all over America.
What would you think if Biden or Clinton or Obama or Nancy Pelosi or Gavin Newsome proposed either of these ideas? Do you trust Trump completely? Do you trust RFK, Jr completely?
What could go wrong?
The Dark MAGA Gov-Corp Technate — Part 1
ReplyDeleteWhat does the title of this article—not to mention each unusual word in it — even mean? This is not a rhetorical question. We urgently need to understand each term. A precise political philosophy underpins each. A combination of these interrelated philosophies has been embraced — either in part or in their entirety — by some of the most powerful people on the planet. If we misapprehend how these controllers and influencers think, we risk blindly accepting whatever world order they wish to impose — and end up wondering how and why we find ourselves subjected to it.
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/03/investigative-series/the-dark-maga-gov-corp-technate-part-1/
Very brief and sketchy outline from the article about what Dark MAGA means. Elon Musk has called himself "Dark MAGA," and don't kid yourself. He knows exactly what it means. This is only a hint of one of several interlocking ideologies that form the worldview of many powerful technocrats, including Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
ReplyDelete"Dark" refers to "Dark Enlightenment." It is an ideology that is popular among technocrats of Silicon Valley. Because it is a worldview shared by extremely powerful men, it is important to understand what it means.
I. Dark MAGA
1. Dark Enlightenment
a. Corporate monarchy led by C.E.O. King
b. Deconstruction and redistribution of power
1. Administrative, legislative, judicial, media, and academic privileges become converted into shares
2. These shares are owned and traded by sovereign corporations
3. These sovereign corporations form a patchwork of neostates
4. These neostates are supposed to be run more efficiently as gov-corps
c. Accelerate the destruction of capitalism
1. The self-destruction of capitalism is regarded as inevitable
2. The planned demolition of capitalism can be controlled by a technocracy to make it more efficient.
> Every crisis should be accelerated.
> To be reborn it is necessary to die.
> The harder the reboot, the better
> The West should stop everything it has been doing except for:
* business
* science
* technology
3. Consumers/citizens don't want freedom because they are materialistic
4. Capitalism is supposed to run headlong into Malthusian limits to population growth, anyway
a. Conjecture: maybe this is one more reason for wanting to colonize Mars, as both Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos want to do, but colonizing Mars is not necessarily a part of Dark Enlightenment ideology per se
https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/1897295065585983602
ReplyDeleteThe Deep State is a family business.
Check this out and and see how this rings true.
I think you better be careful or you'll end up at the poor farm. It's a knotty problem and has been for quite awhile.
ReplyDelete1st Epistle of St Paul to the Thessalonian Chapter 5
11 For which cause comfort one another; and edify one another, as you also do. 12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them who labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you: 13 That you esteem them more abundantly in charity, for their work's sake. Have peace with them. 14 And we beseech you, brethren, rebuke the unquiet, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men. 15 See that none render evil for evil to any man; but ever follow that which is good towards each other, and towards all men.
PS: Margaret Sanger was in favor of Poor Farms/Houses
@ 8:14 AM ^
ReplyDeleteSo how does "Dark MAGA" see the approaching World War 3? It's pretty obvious that it is about to break out in Europe in a big way (much larger scale than the current Russia-Ukraine war).
ReplyDeleteCheck out this recent discussion with Jeff Nyquist and Lee at KLW World News. Video time stamp starts at where they start looking at Russia's preparations to invade the Baltics.
https://youtu.be/xPy65jT6eag?t=4485
And please don't tell me that this is part of their (the technocrats) plan. Putin is not a technocrat, and never has been. The two "visions" of how the world should be are completely opposed to each other. Will they clash at some point? Yes. What will that clash look like? I don't know.
https://youtu.be/xPy65jT6eag?t=4485
The State Department will henceforth decide what aid projects will continue. We pray that, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio decides to send food aid to the hungry or provide shelter to the homeless, that the aid does not come with condoms and contraceptives attached.
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The big thing that closed the Poor Farm was the Social Security Act, but now, at the first of the month, when the 'crazy checks' arrives, the drug dealer does also.
I'm thankful for Robert Kennedy Jr. and Tom Holman
Where was Lawyer Cumbey and her fawning faithful during Obama's 3 terms. Obama, and his ilk worked fervently to normalize LGBTQ+, and the mutilation of children, and sick demonic perversions of every stripe, and color? Also, open borders, global regime change to suit the Deep State, lawlessness, and endless wars?
ReplyDeleteNow that Trump, under massive resistance, is trying to bring this nation back from the cesspool it has been cast into.
Now of course, Trump could be the AC! Which would mean God has chosen this time for him to come to power. If that is the case, God, who is smarter than Lawyer Cumbey and her fawning faithful, will use Trump to fulfill prophecy, and bring a great shaking to this sick ass world. If great fear falls on the demonic leftist subversives, that to me is their just deserts!
What we, as professing Christians need to do, is ask the good Lord to give us the courage, if some demonic authorities come knocking on the door, to go lay our head on the chopping block. There is no other choice. NONE!
But really folks. Those MAGAs are the real danger. The radical left will never harm anyone!
ReplyDeleteRadical Leftist Streamer Calls for Senator Rick Scott to be “Killed,” Banned from Twitch for Less Than 24 Hours (Video)
Repeatedly calls for Sen. Rick Scott be be "killed."
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/radical-leftist-streamer-calls-senator-rick-scott-be/
Yes, the leftists are all about peace, and love. Rainbows and unicorns and flowers in gun barrels.
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ReplyDeleteI got alot of respect for Lee Wheelbarger for fearlessly taking charge at the Pentagon on September 11th 2001 while the simpering DC fire department hid out under an overpass scared of another attack.
Kind of amazing though, that in all of Northern Virginia Wheelbarger had the only working ATV.
Lee Wheelbarger was head of logistics at the Pentagon on 9-11-01. YouTube
https://youtu.be/JgApPqsKxzQ?si=anPFDgKCf6RnDWJL
Anyway, Mr. Wheelbarger is a pro at figuring out possible scenarios but sometimes I don't think he gets enough to sleep
8:14 AM
ReplyDeleteIt just wouldn't be 'My Perspective' without at least one clever allusion to Donald Trump et al being Nazis.
12:50 PM
ReplyDeleteI don't know of anything saying Putin seeks for Russia to become a "Network State." I do know of Russian hackers getting into all kinds of American infrastructure, from nuclear power plants to utilities.
I do know that some American military analysts think pragmatically that a "Network State" is absolutely necessary to be the most efficient and nimble at fighting 5GW (fifth generation warfare). These type military analysts simply think the government as we know it moves too slowly to respond to 5GW.
Part of 5GW is cyberwarfare. Russia is well positioned for cyberwarfare against the U.S.
What I do know about Ukraine is that it is already a testing grounds for the Network State version of the Great Reset, with an everything app already rolled out for citizens' smart phones. Moreover Ukraine's rare earth minerals are important for data centers and chips that are a requirement for whatever the technocracy is up to and whatever they succeed at accomplishing.
My knowledge is admittedly scattered and spotty, but there are certainly some very large and significant clues littering the landscape.
Russian hackers are world class and are embedded with the Russian Mafia state, so in spite of them not being ideological regarding aspirations for a grandiose network state, they are certainly providing incentives for their enemies to develop network states.
Obviously it's in the open that the US and China are in an "AI arms race" now. Then you probably already know to factor in that Taiwan makes most chips. And you probably know most rare earth minerals for chips and data centers come from China right now.
Trade wars historically preceded wars.
It's not hard to take a look around and see the moving pieces have an easy time colliding and a hard time harmonizing.
I always did like this gentleman years ago. It's good to see he's still around even though I didn't understand a word he said.
ReplyDeleteTHE ARK of the COVENANT & DANIEL'S 70 WEEKS: The Prophecy the CHURCH IGNORES
https://youtu.be/TjqOUeimM74?si=K-bSNOyAKXMibKTs
Finally, a sign of intelligent life forms in the MAGA movement. It's almost like they don't think their only job is to be a cheer leader or a publicist for absolutely everything that Elon Musk or Donald Trump ever do or say. It's almost like they think they should be represented and should be active in giving feedback to their representatives. It's almost...constitutional! It's almost...American!
ReplyDeleteStates push fight against mRNA vaccines
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/states-push-fight-against-mrna-vaccines
An oldie but goodie from 2020. Seems like a lifetime ago! But don't worry, he's seen the light now! He's come to Jesus, er, come to Trump! Or should I say he's seen the dark now? He has called himself Dark MAGA, after all.
ReplyDeleteElon Musk shares details about Tesla’s mRNA microfactories for CureVac
https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-shares-tesla-mrna-microfactories-details/
Did you catch that? In 2020 Elon Musk referred to diseases as a "software problem." Not a Technocrat at all! He's totally on your side. In fact he wants you to some day get a chip so that you can compete with AI. That's how much he cares about you. Of course he does. He wouldn't be loyal to Trump if he didn't care about you, right?
ReplyDeleteFrom the article linked above:
At the time, Musk referred to diseases as a “software problem.” With that perspective, Tesla seems more than capable of developing technology to manufacture mRNA vaccines at scale.
Donald Trump is literally profiting from puppy mills. But you won't care. Empathy is bad for making America great again. Don't do it! Don't feel empathy!
ReplyDeleteTrump Hosts Puppy Auction At Mar-a-Lago …Again!
Puppies continue to be auctioned off to the highest bidder at Trump’s home
https://meidasnews.com/news/trump-hosts-puppy-auction-at-mar-a-lago-again
Elon Musk and Peter Thiel like "cultural Christianity." But does Jesus agree with them?
ReplyDeletePaul Kingsnorth: "Against Christian Civilization" | 2024 Erasmus Lecture
https://www.youtube.com/live/Y3hMSZqatHI
DARK GOTHIC MAGA: How Tech Billionaires Plan to Destroy America
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no
How America is Reaping What It Sowed
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8:37 AM Is worried about Trump's puppy auctions, but where was the Cumbey Cult faithful during the 12 years of the Soetoro MEGA promotion of satanic sexual perversion?
ReplyDeleteDo they think Trump's puppy auction deserves condemnation, while mutilating children's genitalia receives nary a peep from Pharisee Cumbeys gang of creeps. ?
The Epstein Binder Debacle Exposes the Narrative Network
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10:51 AM
ReplyDeleteDo you have a hard time being kind to both your pets and your children?
Meloni is the brave beautiful woman who warmongering fraud Cumbey said: "keeps her awake at night".
ReplyDeleteMeloni destroys the warlike dreams of the European left!
Italy says 'No' to sending troops to Ukraine and leaves France and the UK on the ropes.
gatewayhispanic.com/2025/03/meloni-destroys-the-warlike-dreams/
Who helped Musk acquire Twitter? There’s a Russian connection
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Court Exposes Russian Funding for Musk
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The Collapse That Will Change A Generation - Ray Dalio's Warning For 2025 & World War 3 Odds
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlLnwkzmPz0
11:08 AM
ReplyDeleteHyperbole!
ReplyDelete"Making fact out of fiction" . . .
Bill Murray's Realization About Bob Woodward and Richard Nixon (Joe Rogan Podcast) 2:50 minute clip
https://youtu.be/3Q4Apy-WAb4?si=hHk58kLgjaQwZuiT
The smart guys have been making a mess of it since '73, one cock-up after another and people are up in arms, (rightly so in my humble opinion).
'God has to be in this great country'
ReplyDeletePatrick Norton's journey, guided by God
Follow the links for a great story about immigrants in America
https://motheofgod.com/threads/seeking-sister-annella-will-this-nun-be-minnesotas-first-saint.18156/
Amy Coney Barrett Sparks MAGA Fury Over Trump Supreme Court Decision
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Amy Coney Barrett Recalls Having To Wear Bulletproof Vest At Supreme Court
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Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett has revealed that following a threat, she had to wear a bulletproof vest, on the advice of law enforcement.
Although she didn't specify the threat, a January 6 defendant was jailed last month after calling for someone to slit Coney Barrett's throat "from ear to ear." That was after Coney Barrett dissented in a Supreme Court case that favored hundreds of January 6 defendants.
Joni Lamb is at the pinnacle of Daystar. She covered up the sexual abuse of her own granddaughter within the church, and she told her own adult son, father of the abused girl, that he had to submit to her and not follow his own conscience according to Jesus' commands, within her church hierarchy.
ReplyDeleteSo it was not big surprise to me that she prayed a voodoo prayer, that Paul White goes on Daystar TV, or that the Daystar Jet flew to Trump's victory party in November.
In fact, I think it's par for the course for Trump supporting Evangelicals to fundamentally misunderstand the very nature of spiritual warfare, just as much as Jon Lamb and Paula White so clearly do.
And what is it about all the sexual abusers, and sexual abuse cover-up enablers, flocking together?
Unpacking Joni Lamb’s Voodoo Prayer
https://julieroys.com/podcast/unpacking-joni-lambs-voodoo-prayer/
He could have said, "But what about Joe Biden?" or, "But what about the Catholic church?" But instead he did this. Because that's how good Christians actually behave.
ReplyDeleteRay Comfort Becomes 18th Programmer to Leave Embattled Daystar TV
https://julieroys.com/ray-comfort-removes-way-of-the-master-program-daystar-tv-18th-programmer-to-leave-embattled-network/
ATTN: Constance Cumbey
ReplyDeleteMark Satin - Part Two
https://youtu.be/1sFITq5LSGs?si=PexJrCopgQpXuHj_
First poor maligned Mark flirts with Bolshevism and now Neoconservatism. Repent!
PS: it's a good thing he dodged the war, probably saved lives.
140 race-based laws in South Africa, all anti-white
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Disobey and Die!
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Men are not allowed to be silly (sermon starts at 7:45)
So the current thing is all "colonialism" was wrong, (except for Israel), and the time of The Great Commission, (which "colonized" the world in the name of Jeaus Christ), is over.
ReplyDeleteHow could it have ever come to this?
Gospel According to St Matthew Chapter 28
The resurrection of Christ. His commission to his disciples.
1 And in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalen and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre. 2 And behold there was a great earthquake. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and coming, rolled back the stone, and sat upon it. 3 And his countenance was as lightning, and his raiment as snow. 4 And for fear of him, the guards were struck with terror, and became as dead men. 5 And the angel answering, said to the women: Fear not you; for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.
6 He is not here, for he is risen, as he said. Come, and see the place where the Lord was laid. 7 And going quickly, tell ye his disciples that he is risen: and behold he will go before you into Galilee; there you shall see him. Lo, I have foretold it to you. 8 And they went out quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy, running to tell his disciples. 9 And behold Jesus met them, saying: All hail. But they came up and took hold of his feet, and adored him. 10 Then Jesus said to them: Fear not. Go, tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, there they shall see me.
11 Who when they were departed, behold some of the guards came into the city, and told the chief priests all things that had been done. 12 And they being assembled together with the ancients, taking counsel, gave a great sum of money to the soldiers, 13 Saying: Say you, His disciples came by night, and stole him away when we were asleep. 14 And if the governor shall hear this, we will persuade him, and secure you. 15 So they taking the money, did as they were taught: and this word was spread abroad among the Jews even unto this day.
16 And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them. 17 And seeing him they adored: but some doubted. 18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. 19 Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.
[18] "All power": See here the warrant and commission of the apostles and their successors, the bishops and pastors of Christ's church. He received from his Father all power in heaven and in earth: and in virtue of this power, he sends them (even as his Father sent him, St. John 20. 21) to teach and disciple, not one, but all nations; and instruct them in all truths: and that he may assist them effectually in the execution of this commission, he promises to be with them, not for three or four hundred years only, but all days, even to the consummation of the world. How then could the Catholic Church ever go astray; having always with her pastors, as is here promised, Christ himself, who is the way, the truth, and the life. St. John 14"
https://www.drbo.org/chapter/47028.htm
https://youtu.be/QtLBWCAU7vc?si=V_7GQNhEUoniMfSS
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For you wishing the lyrics so you can sing along:
Let Bacchus' sons be not dismayed
but join with me each jovial blade
booze and sing and lend your aid
to help me with the chorus
CHORUS
Instead of spa we'll drink down ale
and pay the reckoning on the nail
no man for debt shall go to jail
from Garryowen in glory
We are the boys that take delight
smashing the Limerick light when lighting
through all the streets like sporters fighting
and tearing all before us CHORUS
We'll break the windows we'll break the doors
The watch knock down by three's and four's
then let the doctors work their cures
and tinker up our bruises CHORUS
We'll beat the bailiffs out of fun
we'll make the mayors and sheriffs run
we are the boys no man dares dun
if he regards a whole skin CHORUS
Our hearts so stout have got us fame
for soon 'tis known from whence we came
where're we go they dread the name
of Garryowen in glory
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Devil Cumbey voted for 4 more years of that!
They're talking about Trump running for a third term in 2028, Methinks Barack Obama will run for a third term in 2028.
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Just prior to the 2008 presidential election, 52% of American adults attended worship. As the 2024 election approached, only 31% of the white American population was regularly in church, a decline of 21 percentage points.
In 2008, 68% of 18- to 29-year-olds claimed to be Christian. By 2024 it was only 45%, a slide of 23 points.
The Religious Landscape Study released last week by Pew Research Center suggests America’s secular shift may be slowing, but the dramatic decline in religious interest among young adults over the past quarter century leaves little room for confidence.
However, some segments of American Christianity are experiencing robust growth. According to Ryan Burge, rapidly growing congregations tend to be located in booming parts of the American Bible Belt and are strategically situated at the intersection of major thoroughfares.
But there’s more to it.
Does MAGA grow churches?
ReplyDeleteUnapologetic support for MAGA politics and impressive church growth stats are closely associated phenomena. In particular, the Christian nationalist congregations described in Elizabeth Newman’s Kingdom of Rage, Matthew Taylor’s The Violent Take it by Force, and Katherine Stewart’s Money, Lies, and God have experienced explosive growth in recent years. A similar link between conservative religion, big money, authoritarian politics and church growth is apparent within the American Catholic community.
Stewart’s Money, Lies, and God charts the tangled web of influence connecting the upper echelons of the business community to conservative politicians, right-wing think tanks, religious movements and the Republican base. Stewart follows the money. Free market capitalism, opposition to government regulation, conspiracy theorizing, disdain for “woke” inclusivism and an allergic reaction to pluralistic democracy hold this ideological marriage of convenience together.
The rise of Donald Trump has energized, and laid bare, this reactionary nexus.
“It’s the synchronization with Trump that is most alarming,” Matthew Taylor recently told The Atlantic’s Stephanie McCrummen. “The agenda now is Trump. And that’s how populist authoritarianism works. It starts out as a coalition, as a shotgun marriage, and eventually the populism and authoritarianism takes over.”
ReplyDeleteThe authoritarian network exposed by investigative reporters and historians like Stewart and Taylor are part of an international movement. Donald Trump and JD Vance have much more in common with autocrats like Vladimir Putin and Turkey strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan than with their Democratic opponents. Like all good authoritarians, the religious, plutocratic, ideological and political segments of the MAGA revolution are determined to crush dissent.
They aren’t looking for a seat at the table; they want to be the table.
Us vs. them church
ReplyDeleteThose committed to inclusive and pluralistic forms of civil society are alarmed by this rapid explosion of organized, and extraordinarily well-funded, authoritarian fervor. Progressive Christians, especially in the United States, wonder if we might have targets on our backs. If MAGA religion speaks for Jesus, where does that leave the rest of us.
Do we even want to be associated with a faith that has been hijacked by us-them fanaticism?
In a recent Substack post titled “Confessions of an Irreligious Christian,” David Bentley Hart shared his lack of enthusiasm for Christian hymnody, most Christian sermonizing and even, he reluctantly admits, the eucharist. His devotional life brings him little joy, and although his more devout brothers encourage him to observe a “rigorous schedule of prayers and readings, observing the daily offices and keeping to the lectionary,” he confesses that, “the habit will not take in me, and the attempt to cultivate it has invariably resulted in agonized boredom.”
Nor is Hart enamored of the leading doctrines of traditional Christian theology, particularly “the ideas of inherited guilt or penal substitutionary atonement or predestination” and the “vague but seemingly binding notions of God’s limited will to save or of an ultimate division between the blessed and the damned (which to me makes the blessed seem peculiarly damnable and the damned boundlessly pitiable).”
When the age-old “problem of evil” is added to this mix, Hart’s affection for traditional Christianity becomes particularly shaky. He never has found a satisfactory reason why a good and loving God would allow innocent children to suffer horribly, and he doubts he ever will.
Not surprisingly, Hart claims to have “a deeper affection for Voltaire and Thomas Paine than for just about any of their religiously cultured despisers” and sees in them “a more genuinely Christian spirit than I do in most of their more voluble Christian contemporaries.”
Conservative Christians might wonder why, given all these reservations, Hart continues to call himself a Christian at all. He has considered this question carefully and says it comes down to “two singular facts: the continued and unwavering faith of Christ’s followers after his Crucifixion and the startlingly unprecedented radicalism of early Christian teachings.”
ReplyDeleteHart realizes the resurrection narratives found in the Gospels have been shaped and stylized by decades of retelling and by the theological thrust of the various authors. But from the earliest days of the Christian movement, he says, men and women (most notably the Apostle Paul) testified boldly to personal encounters with the risen Christ even though, in a world dominated by imperial Rome, this message was fraught with peril.
The second anomaly Hart references is the teaching of Jesus: “I know Graeco-Roman late antiquity extremely well; it has been a subject of personal fascination and scholarly labor on my part for most of my life; and I simply cannot place the teachings of Christ as they are credibly recounted in the Gospels within the normal continuum of the religious and moral expectations of their age.”
Hart realizes the moral vision Jesus proclaimed was firmly anchored in the Hebrew Scriptures and, in some respects, resemble certain aspects of first-century Greek thought. “But even so” he says, “it constitutes so profound an inversion of all the reigning perspectives of Christ’s time that I find it almost impossible not to believe that Christ’s kerygma truly is the word of God breaking in upon a world only half ready to hear it.”
It is the synergy between resurrection faith and the radicality of this moral vision that speaks to Hart. The fact that Jesus survived death in some fashion would mean little apart from his moral vision; and kingdom ethics cannot be associated with the heart of God apart from the resurrection.
ReplyDeleteHe explains: “If any person has ever truly been ‘God with us,’ Emmanuel, it should surely be this man. If the claim of anyone’s resurrection by the power of the Spirit should seem not so much outlandish as simply fitting, it is that of this first century Jewish prophet — this one who loved the excluded, the forgotten, the oppressed, the poor, and the despised with a love the world could not give.
We can’t all be mystics
Both the negative and positive elements of Hart’s confession drew a hearty “amen” from me. Like Hart, I often envy people who live in the holy embrace of God. But there is room in the kingdom of God for people of all spiritual temperaments. We can’t all be mystics, and that is probably a good thing.
I was particularly drawn to the two “anomalies” Hart identifies. When I arrived at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., in 1975, I was exposed to precisely the kind of spiritual synergy between resurrection faith and revolutionary moral vision Hart describes. Frank Tupper recently had returned from Germany as a disciple of Wolfhart Pannenberg, an erstwhile religious skeptic who concluded the proclamation of the risen Christ must be rooted in historical fact. Meanwhile, professors like Frank Stagg, E. Glenn Hinson and Glen Stassen were laying out the table-flipping radicality of Jesus’ teaching.
For the first time in my experience, the core message of Jesus was front-and-center: “Love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.”
ReplyDeleteThe species of Christianity presently commanding center stage in America is defiantly opposed to this kind of faith. And for a very good reason. If Jesus provides a window into the heart of God, us-them thinking collapses. The enemy who is loved can’t be relegated to a “them” basket. Conversely, our continual failure to love and forgive our enemies makes it impossible to construct a credible “us” basket.
Let’s face it, we are drawn to forms of religion that divide the world into us-them categories. We are the godly; they are ungodly. We are angelic; they are demonic. We are the chosen; they are the damned. The kingdom of God will burst on the scene the minute the ungodly, the demonic and the damned are either silenced or, better still, swept off the face of the earth.
If you don’t believe this is the import of MAGA religion, check out Money, Lies, and, God or any of the other volumes I referenced earlier. This is scary stuff.
Back to the question
ReplyDeleteSo why, if the various flavors of MAGA religion have so thoroughly betrayed the essence of Christian faith, is the movement generating so much heat and light? Why are the Christian nationalists growing while the rest of Christendom retreats in disarray?
It’s simple, really. The “spirit warriors” (as Stewart calls them) are burning down the church. They have generated beau coups of heat and light by torching the Christian gospel.
When resurrection faith embraces the moral vision of Jesus’ touch, there is fire. Like the burning bush Moses encountered on Sinai, these smoldering embers burn without being consumed.
This isn’t the first time Christians have put a torch to their own tradition, of course. The church ostensibly aligned with Jesus has been self-immolating for two millennia. We yearn for a Christendom without Christ. When we get what we desire, it isn’t long before the steeple is engulfed in flame and a ragtag assembly of potentates, plutocrats and politicians is drawn to the exciting spectacle.
Progressive Christians are just as susceptible to us-them thinking as our more conservative brothers and sisters. We pride ourselves on being inclusive, we celebrate diversity, we elevate the oppressed and pour contempt on the powerful. Then we bask in the warm glow of our moral superiority.
The “enemies” Jesus talked about are those who reject his way. And that’s all of us.
It isn’t just hard to follow Jesus; it’s hard to want to follow Jesus. Before it feels good, it feels really bad. Our us-them addiction runs deep. Spiritual detox isn’t for the faint of heart and never should be attempted alone. That’s what the church is for.
Building a church is an unnatural act that cuts against the grain of human nature. Jesus knew he was asking a lot. The Jesus-gate may be narrow and the Jesus-road may be hard, but they lead to life.
A burning church brings people flocking from miles around. It’s a great show. People will pay dearly for a pair of tickets. But a burning church is hours away from an ash heap.
A faithful church, embarrassed by its own failure, huddles around two glowing anomalies: resurrection faith and the moral vision of Jesus. The fire burns low. The gate is narrow and the road is hard. But the gospel fire that draws us can never be extinguished. It’s God’s fire. And that is good news indeed.
“We yearn for a Christendom without Christ.”
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Had my first Donald Trump dream last
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'Very poor allies', who have lost far too many men fighting America's damned and conjured up wars for it - often by so-called friendly fire from useless, trigger-happy Yanks. You should know, were you to attack Canada, you'll find yourselves in asymmetric guerilla warfare across your United Snakes of America quicker than you can sing, 'Oh, say can you see'!
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ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, and I'm embarrassed.
I honestly don't know what Trump is thinking. I suspect maybe kayfabe has met dementia.
But I keep reading Hannah Arendt quotes sprinkled around, such that disorienting the citizens is standard operating procedure for authoritarians.
Either way I don't blame you for venting your spleen. You've been amply provoked.
I have no idea at all what there is to fight with Canada about. It should be a joke, but it's not funny anymore.
The southern border of the USA gets most of the attention but our northern border is very porous as well. Drugs, illegals, and terrorists have been coming through the northern border freely, and that has to stop too.
DeleteRay Dalio seems to think that trade wars, including even trade wars with Canada, are due to the U.S. debt crisis. He says the U.S. needs to sell more debt than the world wants to buy. Don't worry, there is still a Melania meme coin to sell.
ReplyDeleteRay Dalio warns that mounting U.S. debt problems could lead to ‘shocking developments’
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kuVfB7g_0dk
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ReplyDeleteOh dear, Canada's got it's elbows up. Maybe we (U.S.) will settle for the Colombia River drainage (rightfully ours) the entire Great Lake system (boundaries don't belong in lakes) and throw in Newfoundland just because it goes with Greenland.
PS: invade America and you'll get chowdered
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ReplyDeleteWhere were you quasi intellectual religionists when O'Biden was destroying the last little things that were virtuous, or decent in this world?
ReplyDeleteIf nothing more were to come of Trump's second term than that he made the demonic Dems + RINOS(Constance's heroes) fearful and miserable, I'm thrilled!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JOk_ImVYn8 An interesting discussion Christianity in Crisis: Trump, Politics, and the Future of Faith
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I never listen to corporate mystic music anymore. It's all rot.
I've been hoisted with my own petard.
ReplyDeleteI was explaining today about a quirk of a reserved podcaster who always says "ok then" in a dismissive way to his less reserved counterpart and then when the less reserved counterpart loses his connection and disappears the man acts totally adrift which I thought was a little bit funny. I then haughty said that there is to much self importance on the Internet. Later I brought up Canada, China and the Panama canal and carried on for awhile. Then I indured what seemed 5 minutes of Trump bashing until finalt I said ok then. Her glance said it all and then I quibbled that I had been watching to many podcasts and that I was starting to sound like them. Then when she looked away I felt adrift.