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Sunday, 14 August 2022

Why Pagan Nationalism is So Dangerous

 

Unbelief is Destructive. That’s Why Pagan Nationalism is So Dangerous

by Chris Hume


This article was originally published on August 4, 2022 at The Lancaster Patriot


The hullabaloo about the bugaboo of “Christian nationalism” is a diversion from what its opponents are of necessity promoting—namely, pagan nationalism.

Noah Webster defined pagan as “pertaining to the worship of false gods.” A pagan worldview, therefore, is one based on a “god” or “authority” other than the one true God revealed in the Old and New Testaments.

Pagan nationalism, then, is the belief that America should be defined by a pagan (non-Christian) worldview, and that the government should take active steps to keep it that way. Pagan nationalism seeks to merge pagan and American identities, enthroning a non-Christian worldview as the standard by which all things are judged.

For example, pagan nationalists want their worldview regarding death to reign supreme: any woman who wants to murder her child in the womb ought to be able to. Pagan nationalists also want their worldview regarding sexuality to be the law of the land. Homosexual “marriage,” drag shows for kids, and transgender “surgeries” (read: mutilation) are part and parcel with pagan nationalism.

It is worthwhile to note that abortion, infanticide, and sexual perversion are not new—they have been the offspring of paganism for millennia—but now we have pagan nationalists in America promoting these things as the basis of our society.


Biblical Testimony

While never using the term “pagan nationalism,” the Bible does address the concept.

The word of the Lord that came to the prophet Micah included an indictment that Israel and Judah had “kept the statutes of Omri, and all the works of the house of Ahab; and…[had] walked in their counsels” (Micah 6:16).

Omri and Ahab may have (at times) claimed to follow the one true God, but the pagan worldview influenced their governance of Israel. Omri followed the example of Jeroboam and worshipped idols (1 Kings 16:26) and Ahab built an altar for the false god Baal (1 Kings 16:32). These were wicked kings who worshipped false gods and implemented a pagan worldview in society; they were pagan nationalists because they believed paganism (the worship of false gods) should undergird and define society.

Thus, Micah indicts the people for following the statutes (or laws) of Omri and Ahab. These laws were not biblical laws, based on the biblical worldview. They were pagan laws, based on the pagan worldview.

Building on Micah’s theme, the prophet Jeremiah notes that the civil rulers’ acceptance of paganism led them to fill the land “with the blood of innocents” (cf. Jeremiah 19:4-5; 32:35).

Idolatry and paganism are consistently viewed as destructive in Scripture because only the biblical worldview provides the basis for righteousness in society. Abandon biblical law for society, and the only alternative is pagan nationalism.


More Examples

The honest student of history will note that pagan nationalism has left a trail of destruction and devastation in its wake. The pagan cultures surrounding Israel were devoted to false gods and all sorts of debaucheries, including incest, adultery, infanticide, and bestiality (cf. Leviticus 18). It was for this paganism that the land vomited out its inhabitants (Leviticus 18:28).

The Aztecs and the Mayans practiced pagan nationalism when they butchered both children and adults to appease their pagan deities.  

Greco-Roman civilization became known for its sexual immorality, perversion, and infanticide. Pagan nationalism led to the practice of “exposing” unwanted babies, leaving them for dead outside the city gates.

Ancient Carthage was no better. They sacrificed their children to pagan gods for centuries.

Notably, it was the spread of the Christian worldview which led to the demise of paganism. Author Alvin J. Schmidt writes that it was “the early church’s opposition to abortion, along with its condemnation of infanticide and child abandonment” which became a “major factor in institutionalizing the sanctity of human life in the Western world.” Historian W. E. H. Lecky notes that “the value and sanctity of infant life…broadly distinguishe[d] Christian from pagan societies.”

The advance of Christianity led to the rise of private institutions to care for the poor, the immigrant, the sick, and the downtrodden. This compassionate care stands in stark contrast to the pagan nationalism that prevailed prior to Christianity’s influence on the nations.

Unfortunately, pagan nationalism has not yet died out completely. Whenever a nation seeks to base their laws and ordinances on anything other than the revealed Law-Word of God, they are practicing a form of pagan nationalism.

Hitler promoted pagan nationalism in Nazi Germany, carrying off Jewish children to be shot or killed in a gas chamber.

Stalin’s regime in the Soviet Union was one of the clearest examples of pagan nationalism. The false god in Stalin’s mind was not a deity from the Roman pantheon—it was man, exalted to the position of the divine. Atheism is simply clandestine paganism. And Stalin’s pagan nationalism led to the unjust deaths of over 20 million people.

Paganism is wrong wherever it takes root. Claiming “atheism” or “no religious belief” is no excuse. Every culture that embraces pagan nationalism will be held accountable (cf. Jeremiah 25:29). 


The Elephant in the Room

As American pagans decry Christianity, their pagan nationalism is the elephant in the room. The alternative to a society based on biblical law is a society based on paganism. And that is a dangerous thing. Unbelief and idolatry are so destructive because they replace the just standard of God’s Law-Word with a manmade, pagan standard. We’ve seen how that works out in history. And we’re seeing how it works out now.

When it comes to our culture’s embrace of pagan nationalism, including local groups like Lancaster Stands Up, they are simply parroting the narrative of the pagans who have died out before them. But the current climate has allowed the movement to grow, as narcissistic leaders disingenuously use language such as “equality” and “love.” Aided by the Internet, social media, and liberal news outlets, pagan nationalism has spread, most notably in the government school system. The prevalence of pagan nationalism as an ideology makes it one of the greatest threats to liberty and justice in America today.

The example of the biblical prophets is instructive. They clearly articulated the dangers of pagan nationalism and decried the political and religious leaders who abandoned God’s Law-Word in favor of pagan laws. We must do the same today.

Pagan nationalism has built a base that is ready and willing to plunge America into the same flood of debauchery that has characterized pagan societies in the past. The Christian faith tells us that followers of Christ must stand against the shedding of innocent blood and the rise of false ideologies. The biblical worldview must be boldly proclaimed to all people.

Otherwise, it’s clear pagan nationalists will impose their ungodly worldview on all Americans. We are already seeing it happen. But there is only one type of nationalism that will be victorious. And it isn’t pagan nationalism. It’s the nationalism that is demonstrated when the kings of the earth “serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling” (Psalm 2:11).

A growing number of Americans realize the con of these supposedly “neutral” pagans. They are not about “equality” or “love.” They are committed to forcing their pagan nationalism on all of us. And though I understand the dangers of pagan nationalism, I also know it is a movement of death with a diminishing powerbase.  The Apostle Paul told Timothy that wicked men “will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all” (2 Timothy 3:9).

Pagans, your track record is horrendous, and your worldview is defunct. Stop promoting pagan nationalism. Repent of your folly and believe in Christ.


Chris Hume is the managing editor of The Lancaster Patriot. Follow @ChrisHume1689 on Twitterand @hume227 on Gab

Saturday, 13 August 2022

A Graze of Glory: Why Good Pasture Matters ,

 

A Graze of Glory: Why Good Pasture Matters

by David Treebeard

IF YOU’RE READING THIS, you’re probably an American that eats meat. If that’s the case, your meat is probably too simple. Or rather, the system that produced your meat is too simple. And this oversimplification causes serious problems for your health and our country’s soils.

Want to enjoy truly healthy meat? Embrace the simple complexity of pasture husbandry.

This may sound counterintuitive. Scripture tells us to live simply. The Righteous Job was a “simple” God-fearing, upright man, the type that the book of Proverbs exhorts us to be. So simplicity is good. Indeed, in all of Steadfast Provisions’ pemmican products, we aim for simplicity. Simple ingredients, processed in simple, traditional ways. But here’s the paradox: to live simply, we must embrace the complexity of God’s creation. Otherwise, things get very complicated, very fast.


Not as simple as it looks…

This article might be feeling a little complicated, already – but stay with us, and you’ll be rewarded with a new understanding of food, and of how you relate to the natural world around you. All you have to do is understand the story of pasture.


Complex Pastures…

Imagine you’re in a broad grassy field, on a sunny summer day. Before you lies a cow. She’s barely visible amidst the thigh-high grass – only her ears give her away, the ears and the rhythmic sound of her chewing the cud. She’s working quiet magic.

Nearby, a hog nibbles a tuft of clover, and then turns his nose down to the sod, rooting and tooting away.

Seedheads sway gently in the breeze. Songbirds twitter and swoop. A kestrel watches from a fencepost. Time begins to slow down, approaching stillness. If you watch quietly enough, you can almost hear the grass grow. Life abounds.

Simple, right? Wrong.

Natural, yes. Beautiful, yes. Simple? No.

The simplicity is just a surface appearance. Beneath the surface, many complex things are happening, to keep the peaceful growth in balance.

Inside the cow, a community of millions of microscopic creatures works tirelessly to digest fibrous grass. The cow chews once, swallows, and lets these microbes do their work, exuding precise concoctions of acids and enzymes to unlock the precious sugars stored in the grass. Then the cow regurgitates the microbe-worked grass as a wad of cud, chews it again, and swallows it yet again. All in all, it takes about 12 days for a blade of grass to pass through a cow to become either beef or manure.

This complexity continues outside the cow: with every pull of her prehensile tongue, the cow anoints the grass with special enzymes and hormones from her saliva. These chemicals then stimulate rapid regrowth in the grass.

Step 1 in Steadfast Pemmican production.

Meanwhile, the grass roots match the length of the above-ground stalks. This means that the root-ends die off with every graze, providing food for thousands of species of tiny bacteria, fungus, and protozoa, teeming invisible beneath the surface of the soil.

All of this activity is affected by the rhythms of the sun, the clouds, and the rain; by irrigation; by the rotational grazing and resting of the pastures; by migratory birds that eat bugs and drop nitrogen-rich manure; by coyotes that eat gophers and other rodents; by vultures that clean up decaying animals; and by pollinator insects that rely on wildflower blossoms.

All of this is, in the words of the Psalmist “Fearfully and wonderfully made.” The miracle of nature is that every part is designed to support and rely on every other part. The complexity of nature results in peace and balance, and its harmony surpasses the bounds of human understanding.

This should inspire nothing but reverence. We should remember God’s words in Job 38: “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?… Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood… to satisfy the waste and desolate ground, and to cause the tender grass to spring forth?”

None other than the Lord Himself.


…Versus Simple Feedlots

But over the last several hundred years, modern human cultures have forgotten to celebrate this complexity, and have forgotten how to work with this harmony. Instead, modernity has sought total control, maximum “efficiency,” and peak “yield,” at the expense of traditional, natural systems of balance. This was essentially a project of simplification:

Take the cows off of the pasture, put them in a feedlot, feed them full of grain, watch them grow faster, and sell more beef. Optimize your system for this one quantitative, profit-obsessed metric.

Engineer the genetics of the corn, breed the cattle for rapid weight gain, and process all the beef in one of a few enormous plants, owned by just three companies. It all seemed so simple… So free from the constraints of God’s creation, with all its mysterious complexities. Here is a system that is homogeneous, able to be duplicated anywhere and scaled up over vast lands and multifarious climates.

But then it all started to go wrong.

Cattle, crowded together in feedlots and eating unnatural amounts of grain, began to get sick with new diseases. So, they began to receive regular antibiotics. Antibiotics contaminate both the meat and the groundwater, causing the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and human obesity.

Manure, which is naturally a miraculous fertilizer for healthy soil, becomes overly-concentrated and turns into a toxic mess that poisons rivers and aquifers.

Cattle and other animals suffer in torturous conditions. They are treated like mere machines, rather than part of the creation that we were created to steward.

In fact, the whole living food system began to be treated as a mechanism, devoid of soul, devoid of spirit, devoid of natural variety. Farms became factories, animals became commodities. As the machine grew and more problems arose, everything became so complicated.

This saga teaches us something profound: complexity is not the same as complication.

The harmony of nature is complex. When we attempt to simplify the complexity, we break the balance, and then we try to fix the imbalance with complicated solutions, which themselves create more complications. It’s like if we drink coffee all day, and then we need alcohol to go to sleep, and then we need more coffee the next day to get up, and so on, ever-dependent on more and more complications to compensate for our imbalances.

This cycle is a race to the bottom: lower and lower animal welfare, ecological integrity, deliciousness, and nutritional quality.


The Nutritional Difference

How has this simplification, this industrialization, affected our bodies? In so many ways – mostly by affecting the composition of our favorite ingredient: animal fat. The main differences are in Omega-3s, antioxidants, and Vitamins C, E, and D.

Omega-3 fats are important because they help to regulate inflammation, a process that is healing, in balance, but can cause chronic health problems when there is too much of it. Essentially, if you eat too much Omega-6 and too little Omega-3 fats, your body can be chronically inflamed, which can result in cancer, heart disease, and reduced cognitive capacity.

Grains contain Omega-6 fats, while pasture grasses are rich in Omega-3 fats. So if livestock eats lots of pasture grasses, they’ll get more Omega-3s, and therefore pasture-raised meat causes less chronic inflammation. Omega-3 fat is a highly unstable molecule, which is very susceptible to oxidation and rancidity. This makes fish oil a dicey proposition and increases the value of Omega-3 fats in pasture animal fat, which are protected by the presence of saturated fats.

But even more important than omega-3s are the vitamins in the animal fat. Yes, fat contains vitamins, and many vitamins are actually only absorbable in the presence of fat, rather than water. Pasture-raised fat contains much higher levels of Vitamin E and beta carotene, both important antioxidants.

Now, Vitamin D is an interesting case. You probably know that Vitamin D is generally produced due to sunlight exposure. But many of us live in northern climes, where we cannot obtain sun-sourced Vitamin D for about half of the year. This is where pasture pork surely shines (like the sun. Get it?).

Pasture-raised pigs spend lots of time in the sun and absorb the rays through their thin coat of fur. This means they produce lots of Vitamin D, which is stored — you guessed it — in the fat! According to research conducted by the Weston A. Price Foundation, pasture pork lard has 10,500 iu of Vitamin D per tablespoon. That’s an excellent daily dose of D, especially because the Vitamin D in pasture lard comes in the form of calcidiol, the same type as is found naturally in our bloodstreams.

In comparison, factory-farmed lard from sun-starved, pasty pigs only contains about 1/10 the Vitamin D of pasture lard. That won’t get you through the winter!

Source: Nourishing Fats, by Sally Fallon Morrell / Weston A. Price Foundation. Page 114.

So modern, simplified, feedlot factory farm meat lacks lots of good nutrients. Even worse, they contain lots of compounds that are bad for you. We already mentioned antibiotics. We should also consider chemical residues of glyphosate and atrazine herbicides, which disrupt your hormones and weaken your intestinal walls, potentially causing food sensitivities and overactive immune systems. You don’t want that in your fat!

It’s pretty clear: nutritionally, environmentally, and morally, modern feedlot animal agriculture is, simply, disastrous. So, what’s the solution?


The Simple Complex Solution

Well, the solution sounds simple: Return to pasture farming. Eat pasture-raised meat.

This is a traditional path in the best sense: returning to pasture isn’t the same as returning to the past. We’ve learned a lot about the true complexity of pasture ecosystems, in the past century, and we have new technologies such as electric fences, soil tests, and targeted mineral supplements. The way we revitalize tradition is to take something older, something more connected to the earth, something that can only work in intimate connection to a specific piece of land, and make it new again.

We’re blowing on a hearth fire that almost went out, adding kindling, resurrecting life in the smoldering coals of ancient wisdom. We are remembering what our wiser ancestors knew: God has made the earth to provide what we need, when we live in a prayerful, humble way, working diligently for what we eat.

We can embrace old ways, with new, appropriate technologies: This is the heart of Steadfast Provisions. We’re part of a movement to rekindle traditional pasture husbandry and food preservation. We take the bounty of natural pasture and concentrate it into a form that can carry you to the top of high mountains. 

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David Treebeard is an Orthodox Christian, organic writer, and creative farmer. His company, Steadfast Provisions, crafts traditional nutrient-dense, nonperishable foods based on pure pastured animal fat.

Neil Oliver: 'It's hard to tell yourself you've been taken for a fool but open your eyes'

It is hard to think the unthinkable – but there comes a time when there’s nothing else for it. People raised to trust the powers that be – who have assumed, like I once did, that the State, regardless of its political flavour at any given moment, is essentially benevolent and well-meaning – will naturally try and keep that assumption of benevolence in mind when trying to make sense of what is going on around them.

People like us, you and me, raised in the understanding that we are free, that we have inalienable rights, and that the institutions of this country have our best interests at heart, will tend to tie ourselves in knots rather than contemplate the idea those authorities might actually be working against us now. I took that thought of benevolent, well-meaning authority for granted for most of my life, God help me. Not to put too fine a point on it, I was as gullible as the next chump.

A couple of years ago, however, I began to think the unthinkable and with every passing day it becomes more and more obvious to me that we are no longer being treated as individuals entitled to try and make the most of our lives – but as a barn full of battery hens, just another product to be bought and sold – sold down the river.

Neil Oliver
Neil Oliver
 

Let me put it another way: if you have been driving yourself almost demented in an effort to think the best of those in charge – those in senior positions in government, those in charge of the great institutions of State, those running the big corporations – but finding it increasingly impossible to do so … then the solution to the problem might be to turn your point of view through 180 degrees and accept, however unwillingly, that we are … how best to put this … being taken for a ride.

When you find a stranger’s hand on your wallet, in the inside pocket of your jacket … rather than trying to persuade yourself he’s only making sure it doesn’t fall out … it might be more straightforward to draw the conclusion you’re in the process of being robbed.

Once the scales fall from a person’s eyes, the resultant clarity of sight is briefly overwhelming. Or it is like being handed a skeleton key that opens every locked door, or access to a Rosetta Stone that translates every word into a language instantly understood.

Take the energy crisis: If you’ve felt the blood drain from your face at the prospect of bills rising from hundreds to several thousands of pounds while reading about energy companies doubling their profits overnight while being commanded to subsidise so-called renewables that are anything but Green while listening to this politician or that renew their vows to the ruinous fantasies of Net Zero and Agenda 2030 while knowing that the electricity for electric cars comes, in the main and most reliably, from fossil fuels if you can’t make sense of it all and just know that it adds up to a future in which you might have to choose between eating and heating then treat yourself to the gift of understanding that the powers that be fully intend that we should have less heat and less fuel and that in the planned future only the rich will have cars anyway. The plan is not to fix it.

The plan is to break it, and leave it broken. If you struggle to think the best of the world’s richest – vacuous, self-obsessed A-list celebrities among them – endlessly circling the planet on private jets and super yachts, so as to attend get-togethers where they might pontificate to us lowly proles about how we must give up our cars and occasional holiday flights – even meat on the dinner table … if you wonder how they have the unmitigated gall … then isn’t it easier simply to accept that their honestly declared and advertised intention is that their luxurious and pampered lives will continue as before while we are left hungry, cold and mostly unwashed in our unheated homes.

Here’s the thing: if any leader or celeb honestly meant a word of their sermons about CO2 and the rest, then they would obviously lead by example. They would be first of all of us willingly to give up international travel altogether … they would downsize to modest homes warmed by heat pumps. They would eschew all energy but that from the sun and the wind. They would eat, with relish, bugs and plants. They would resort to walking, bicycles and public transport. If Net Zero and the rest was about the good of the planet – and not about clearing the skies and the beaches of scum like us – don’t you think those sainted politicians and A-listers would be lighting the way for us by their own example? If the way of life they preach to us was worth living, wouldn’t they be living it already? Perhaps you heard Bill Gates say private jets are his guilty pleasure.

And how about food – and more particularly the predicted shortage of it: the suits and CEOs blame it all on Vladimir Putin. But if the countries of the world are truly running out of food, why is our government offering farmers hundreds of thousands of pounds to get out of the industry and sell their land to transnational corporations for use, or disuse unknown? Why aren’t we, as a society, doing what our parents and grandparents did during WWII and digging for victory? Why is the government intent on turning a third of our fertile soil over to re-wilding schemes that make life better only for the beavers? Why aren’t we looking across the North Sea towards the Netherlands where a WEF-infected administration is bullying farmers off their land altogether, forcing them to cull half the national herd.

Those Dutch farmers are among the most productive and knowledgeable in the world, holding in their heads and hands the answers to all manner of questions about how best to produce food, and yet their government is so intent on scaring them out of the business that a teenage boy in a tractor, taking part in a protest to defend ancient rights and traditions, was fired on by police.

Why do you think it matters so much, to the government of the second most productive population of farmers in the world, to gut and fillet that industry? Why? Why have similar protests, in countries all across Europe and the wider world, been largely ignored by the mainstream media – a media that would have crawled on its hands and knees over broken glass just to report on a BLM protester opening a bag of non-binary crisps. Why the silence on the attack on farming?

And while we’re on the subject of farmland ownership, why is computer salesman Bill Gates buying so much farmland in the US – more than a quarter of a million acres in 19 states at the last count, while simultaneously promoting the production and sale of fake meat? And why have so many small planes crashed into massive food processing plants in the US, sparking fires and thereby hobbling the production and distribution of yet more of the very stuff of life? Why is this happening to farmers and farming … all across the hitherto developed world …?

Isn’t the simple obvious answer … the answer that makes most sense and that is staring us in our trusting faces … that power for the power-hungry has always rested most effectively upon control of food and its supply? Why are the powers that be attributing this to a cost of living crisis when everyone with two brain cells to rub together can see it’s a cost of lockdown crisis – the inevitable consequence of shutting down the whole country – indeed the whole world – for the best part of two years. Soaring inflation, rising interest rates, disrupted supply chains.

Might they be calling it a cost of living crisis as part of their bare-faced attempt to distract us from the fact that while ordinary individuals face a life and death struggle in the coming months, the corporations have celebrated their share of the greatest transfer of wealth in history? Doesn’t that seem more likely? However unthinkable, might it not be more compelling to ask why our government, and governments around the world, have effectively stood by and held the coats of huge corporations while those money magnets pulled almost all of the world’s wealth into their already creaking coffers?

Are our governments more interested in enabling, in aiding and abetting the rich, than in lifting so much as a finger to protect our livelihoods, our ways of life? I’m only asking. What about the money in our pockets? Why is it getting harder and harder to use good old cash, notes and coins? Why are we being nudged further and further away from spending-power we can see and hold, and towards a digital alternative that exists only on the hard drives of the banks that run the world? Why is that do you think?

Rather than dismiss as yet another conspiracy theory the idea of cash being ultimately replaced with transactions based on the exchange of what amount to glorified food stamps that will only be accepted if our social credit score demonstrates that we’ve been obedient girls or boys … how about taking the leap and focussing on the blatantly obvious … that if we are not free to buy whatever and whenever we please, free of the surveillance and snooping of governments and the banks that run them, then we have absolutely no freedom at all. And while we’re on the subject of money and banks, why not pause to notice something else that is glaringly obvious – which is to say that the currencies of the West are teetering on the abyss, and that one bank after another is revealed, to those who are bothering to watch, as being as close to bankruptcy as its possible to be without actually falling over the edge.

Then there’s the so-called vaccines for Covid – I deliberately say “so-called” because by now it should be clear to all but the wilfully blind that those injections do not work as advertised. You can still contract the virus, still transmit the virus, still get sick and still die. Denmark has dropped their use on under-18s. All across the world, every day, more evidence emerges – however grudgingly, however much the various complicit authorities and Big-Pharma companies might hate to admit it – of countless deaths and injuries caused by those medical procedures.

And yet here in Britain and just about everywhere else, governments continue to try and get those needles into as many arms as possible, even the arms of the smallest and youngest. The ripe stink of corruption is everywhere. I trusted authority for most of my life.

Now I ask myself on a daily basis how I ignored the stench for so long. Across the Atlantic, the Biden Whitehouse sent the FBI to raid the home of former president Donald Trump. Meanwhile Joe Biden and his son Hunter – he of the laptop full of the most appalling and incriminating content – fly together on Airforce 1. No raids planned on the Obamas, nor on the Clintons. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi flew to Taiwan and onwards to China. Her son Paul, an investor in a Chinese tech firm and with seats on the board of companies dealing in lithium, was along for the ride, into that part of the world where three quarters of the world’s lithium batteries are made. Taiwan leads in that technology.

It is hard to think the unthinkable. It’s hard to think that all of it, all the misery, all the suffering of the past and to come might just be about money, greed and power. It is hard to tell yourself you’ve been taken for a fool and taken for a ride. It’s hard, but the view from the other side is worth the effort and the pain. Open your eyes and see.Download the GB News App to watch live wherever you are, catch up with all our shows and get the latest news from the GBN family. https://www.gbnews.uk/freegbapp Don't forget to follow us on social media too! Twitter: https://twitter.com/GBNEWS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GBNewsOnline Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gbnewsonline/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gb-n... TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gbnews

Dear Archbishop... - Irreverend Episode 88

This podcast is free and will not go behind a paywall. If you enjoy this episode, please make a one-off donation at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/irreverend or become a regular supporter at https://www.patreon.com/irreverendand receive new episodes early! You can find these details and more at our website https://www.irreverendpod.com. We appreciate your support and it will help us to expand this enterprise. This week Church of England reverends Thomas Pelham and Jamie Franklin were together in-person to talk more about women's football and its political connotations, Sandi Toksvig's open letter to Justin Welby on his ostensible obsession with homosexuality, the tragic case of Archie Battersbee, your questions answered and much much more! Notices: Find links to our episodes, social media accounts and ways to support us at https://www.irreverendpod.com! Thursday Circles: http://thursdaycircle.com Jamie's Good Things Substack Blog/Newsletter: https://jamiefranklin.substack.com Irreverend Sermon Audio: https://irreverendsermonaudio.buzzspr... Links: Sandi Toksvig to the Archbishop of Canterbury - https://mobile.twitter.com/sanditoksv... Gareth Roberts, Who is Sandi Toksvig to Lecture Justin Welby about Sin? - https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/w...

Neil Oliver – ‘…big pharma, corporations, the state they’re fostering a ...

they’re trying to make us feel we’re helpless & can’t do anything without them….’ To see this episode in full and get exclusive access to new vodcasts every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Podcasts, Neil Oliver's Love Letter To The World &, Neil Oliver's Love Letter To The British Isles Both series available on all the usual providers https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Check out the series Instagram account called, ‘Neil Oliver Love Letter’ https://www.instagram.com/neiloliverl... #neiloliver #covid19 #bigpharma #bigtech #dependencyculture #health #testosterone #allotments #neiloliverGBNews #culture #travel #explore #history

Sunday, 7 August 2022

Manly Sea Eagles teach country lesson on 'poisonous' woke culture: Bolt


Today, the Manly rugby league club taught the whole country a lesson about this poisonous woke culture, Sky News host Andrew Bolt says. Seven Manly Sea Eagles rugby players will sit out of Thursday night's clash with the Sydney Roosters over the club's decision to wear a special inclusive jersey. The jersey features a rainbow trim and will be worn "to celebrate inclusiveness" during this weekend's Women in League Round. The players expected to miss the match are citing religious and cultural reasons. Mr Bolt said the Manly club management "forcing" players to wear this particular jersey without prior consultation was emblematic of a broader hypocrisy and bullying attitude among the cultural elite. "See, it's arrogant organisations – sports codes particularly – (that) have been forcing their members to bend their knee, literally, to woke movements to prove their alleged tolerance on race and gender. "But players who refuse to submit tend to get excluded until they give in, like South African cricketer Quinton de Kock, or even sacked from their competition, like rugby superstar Israel Folau when he refused to stop preaching a bible passage about gays." Mr Bolt made it clear he does not support the seven Manly footy players' take on Christianity but that does not mean they should be denied the same tolerance that is asked of them. "You don't have to agree with their take on Christianity – I don't – Christians love," he said. "But that is what these guys believe, and sincerely ... and the abuse they are getting on Twitter is sick. "The question is – if this whole exercise is about tolerance, where is the tolerance to them? The answer of course is there's none."

Saturday, 6 August 2022

Neil Oliver – '...first among equals, rights, freedom & truth….’ Magna Carta


…governments and the would be powerful want us to think Magna Carta and the truths it contains do not matter anymore…’ To see this episode in full and get exclusive access to new vodcasts every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Podcasts, Neil Oliver's Love Letter To The World &, Neil Oliver's Love Letter To The British Isles Both available on all the usual providers https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Check out the series Instagram account called, ‘Neil Oliver Love Letter’ https://www.instagram.com/neiloliverl... #neiloliver #freedom #rights #magnacarta #kingjohn #liberty #firstamongequals #neiloliverGBNews #culture #travel #explore #history