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CV19 Vax is a Murder Campaign - Dr. Sherri Tenpenny

 By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com (Saturday Night Post)

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny was one of the first doctors to sound the alarm on the CV19 “vaccine” and the death and disability that would come from its widespread use during the so-called Covid pandemic.  Increasing numbers of mass death and disability have proven her right.  Dr. Tenpenny has long been against the use of all vaccines because data shows they do much harm and little good.  Dr. Tenpenny says, “When talking about the shots, it was just a natural extension for me to look at the Covid vaccine, and I really should not call it a vaccine because it is a bioweapon. . ..  I found 40 mechanisms of injury in July of 2021 and how the Covid shots could make you sick or kill you. . .. Early on I tried to warn people . . .. The reason they are letting off the accelerator is enough people have been injected that are going to die.  That was the intention.  It is population control or depopulation. . .. This was never meant to do good for people. . .. There were no long-term studies, and we pushed it on every age group all the way down to the fetus. . .. . I mean this is a murder campaign.”

How bad is this going to get with the official number of CV19 bioweapon/vax injections at well over 600 million in the USA alone?  Dr. Tenpenny predicts, “The data is clear, and the published studies show that even if you have had only one injection, you have some level of myocarditis.  It is present six months after the injection, and that means your heart muscle is not healing.  We also know that there are all these cancers popping up, even in kids. . ..  I don’t know if you can say 70% of the population is going to be gone, but I believe 70% of the population is going to be chronically sick, and of those, they will die eventually (from the bioweapon/vax) even if you have only had one injection.”

Dr. Tenpenny says as the numbers grow with death and disabilities coming from the CV19 kill shot, less and less people are in denial about the reality of what is happening.  Dr. Tenpenny says, “They are really going to try to stay in denial, but there will come a tipping point when they can’t deny it anymore.  I think the powers that be know that.  That’s the part of the narrative that they are losing control over.  There will be a tipping point in the world, and people will realize that this was a murderous campaign to depopulate the world. . . . Who is going to get to the gate first?  Are they going to get there first and lock us into being permanent slaves for the rest of our lives?  Or are “We the People” the large mass of people, going to get to the gate first, and push it forward and say NO way?  We should round up these people that did this to us and lock them up.  They should not be allowed to be walking free on this planet.”

Dr. Tenpenny has some good news too and offers some ways the vaxed and unvaxed being shed on can detox from this evil CV19 bioweapon/vax.

There is much more in the 39-minute interview.

Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, one of the first medical doctors to tell everyone NOT to get this CV19 bioweapon injection.

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The Most Abused Verse In The Bible

 By Pastor Andrew Isker

There is currently no verse in the evangelical world more abused than Galatians 3:28. Only recently did this newcomer knock off the decades-long world champion, Matthew 7:1 “judge not, lest ye be judged.” But today, in the context of intense propaganda that seeks to demonize those of European descent and a ruling class that intentionally seeks to demographically replace them in their native lands, the Apostle Paul’s admonition to the church of Galatia is used as a battering ram to manipulate well-meaning Christians.

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. -Galatians 3:28 (NKJV)

Woke Christian wolves (as well as deceived sheep) rip this verse from its context and apply it to mean that Christians are forbidden from making ethnic or racial distinctions, class distinctions, and increasingly, distinctions between men and women. This verse is used to universalize humanity and flatten out any differences that God made in mankind.

The tortured logic goes something like this: if in Christ there is no male or female, there can be no distinction between men and women, despite the realities of biology, physiology, and psychology. According to this view, this means that all the various waves of feminism are biblically justified! Despite the obvious distinctions between men and women that a small child can recognize, and despite the manifold testimony of the rest of the Bible that there are very real distinctions between men and women in what God has called them to do and be, all of that is ripped away by the way this verse is used.

And not only is feminism justified by “neither male nor female,” but now transgenderism is as well. If there is no male or female, then gender is a social construct and it is fluid. There is nothing but generic human beings who have different sets of genitalia that with the miracle of modern medicine, we can change! You might laugh, but there are many people who believe this with deathly sincerity.

The same goes for class distinctions. American society has long been formally democratic and egalitarian. We do not have formal social classes like European nations of old, but even bearing this in mind informal social classes clearly exist. Drive around for a few hours in any large city in the country and you will instantly see the strata of American society. You will eventually come across houses valued in the millions of dollars with signs in the yard declaring “in this house we believe” as if were the blood of the Passover lamb spread on the doorpost. Elsewhere you will see slums filled with the homeless and drug addicted, houses with bars on the windows, and housing projects and Section 8 homes. And you will also see working-class suburbs on their way to becoming indistinguishable from these slums.

Hierarchy is a part of how God built the world. Vagrants and drug dealers are not the same as factory workers who are not the same as doctors and lawyers who are not the same as hedge fund managers. The Bible also shows us kings and princes, merchants, farmers, laborers, slaves, and thieves. God’s Word exists within the reality that God made. The leftist, who is in full revolt against God’s created order despises this, and in their rage against God sets himself to undo this all, and reduce all mankind to abject poverty and suffering. And many foolish Christians will take up the anti-Christ leftist cause by seeing “neither slave nor free” and taking it as a positive command to produce an egalitarian utopian society (and all the unfathomable misery such a project requires).

The phrase “there is neither Jew nor Greek” is used, not just by woke Christian wolves but also by conservative evangelical leaders to mean that ethnic and racial distinctions between people are non-existent. Conservatives will follow the exact same logic with “neither Jew nor Greek” that the feminists and transgenderists do with “neither male nor female.” If you believe that there are indeed meaningful distinctions by those in different people groups, you are not just a sinner, but guilty of the very worst of sins. If you think there is a real difference between Haitians, Swedes, and Koreans (and the societies that these respective people groups built) beyond melanin content or physical features, you will be treated worse than a blaspheming heretic. Nevermind that all human beings until the modern era well understood that different ethnicities had their own unique national character, including every Christian theologian—including the very same Apostle Paul who penned Galatians 3:28, who spoke of the unique national character of the Cretans in Titus 1:17.

But if Galatians 3:28 is not about racial, social, or sexual egalitarianism, what is it about? The context of the Book of Galatians makes this very clear. The Old Covenant world was broken down between the Seed People from whom the Messiah promised in Genesis 3 would come (Israel), and the rest of humanity (the Gentiles). The distinction between Israel and the Gentiles was certainly genetic but was also more than that. God had given that nation particular privileges, He had spoken to them and instructed them how to live, He had come down to dwell among them in the tabernacle and temple, and He had set them apart as a priestly nation to minister to all the other nations.

But after the Messiah had come, the purpose of Israel and the Law which set them apart had been fulfilled. Now, all humanity was brought into the inheritance of the Second Adam, and made “sons” (Galatians 3:28)—not “sons and daughters” but “sons.” This is not a biblical defense of transgenderism, but rather an important ancient legal distinction. In the ancient world, sons inherited, not sons and daughters, so Jews, Greeks, slaves, free, men, and women being made “sons” means they all are heirs of the promises God made to Abraham with Jesus.

Paul’s point is that the Law which separated Jew from Gentile is no longer in operation with the coming of Messiah, so to force Gentiles to be circumcised and to not eat pork is a very serious, damnable error that undoes the work of Christ. That is what Galatians is about, not a permission slip for leftist egalitarianism with regard to ethnicity, class, and sex.

This will continue to be an issue as Christian nationalism as a movement continues to grow. Just as decades of leftwing egalitarian sexual propaganda leads to a society that is unable to answer the question “What is a woman?” Decades of leftwing egalitarian ethnic propaganda lead to a society that is unable to answer the question “What is a nation?” The classical definition of “nation” always included, at least in part, “common ancestry.” The leftist egalitarians want the definition of a nation to be “an economic zone filled with a random assortment of human beings.”

They wish to adopt a globalist, multicultural definition that destroys the unique heritage, history, and character of nations. Nations being composed largely of a majority ethnic group is seen as an abomination in their worldview, but is it? Look at what makes the nations unique, their language, their history, their culture, their art and literature, and even their food. The great irony of leftist multicultural egalitarianism is that for how much they claim to champion diversity, they want all 8 billion inhabitants of planet Earth to all perfectly conform to the way of life of upper-middle-class liberal white women. They want to destroy actual diversity and all the things that make the nations glorious and wonderful.

This is a common temptation for many Christians, as well. They will treat America, not as a distinct nation in the classical sense but rather adopt the leftist frame, and then say things like “mass migration is great if they profess Christ because these are our brothers and it is also great if they do not because the nations are coming here for us to preach the gospel to them!” Such a statement is incredibly foolhardy and naive. It demeans baptism, not as the sacrament of entrance into Christ’s kingdom, but as a free ticket to plunder a wealthy First-World country. Simply assenting to a political or a religious doctrine is not a sufficient foundation for a nation, any more than assenting to political or religious doctrine is a sufficient basis to form a family.

Western and Christian tradition understood, until the mid-20th Century, that a nation was a family writ large. Nations had a father at the very top, the king, who ruled over his people like a father who rules his household. Nations, of course, were never thought to be these unchangeable, stainless steel entities. There were always clear means to graft foreign people into your nation, most often through intermarriage. Ancient Israel has many examples of this in the Old Testament. But this did not mean that an influx of tens or hundreds of thousands of Assyrians would be considered anything other than an invasion.

For Christian nationalism to continue to grow, we much reject as strongly as possible the manipulative proof-texting of passages like Galatians 3:28 to serve leftist ends. If we do not, we will be defenseless against Christian leaders who would cheer on the destruction of our nation by the most evil people on earth. The church must become much more aggressive in our declaration of the realities that all Christians understood until 50 or 60 years ago. America is a nation, not a continent-wide open-air shopping mall. Either we summon the courage to preserve this nation as a nation, or we will look on as it is erased from existence.

 By Pastor Andrew Isker

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Elon Musk’s Compliance with Turkish Censorship Demands A Dangerous Precedent for Free Speech

Elon Musk’s Compliance with Turkish Censorship Demands

A Dangerous Precedent for Free Speech

Recent events involving Twitter and Elon Musk complying with the Turkish government’s request to censor political content during their elections have raised concerns about the potential consequences for free speech.

Late Friday evening Twitter released a statement noting “In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today.” On Saturday some journalists picked up on this statement and noted that “free speech” Twitter was complying with foreign government demands for censorship.

In response to this, Elon Musk tweeted “The choice is have Twitter throttled in its entirety or limit access to some tweets. Which one do you want?” as well as “This is par for the course for all Internet companies – we are just going to be clear that it’s happening, unlike the others.” In other words, “everyone else is doing it so that makes it okay!”

This statement is wrong for two reasons. First of all, even if everyone was complying with foreign government demands for political censorship it would not make it a correct decision. Secondly, not all internet companies are doing this. I would know. Dealing with demands from foreign governments to censor political speech on an American-owned American-run social media platform is something Gab.com deals with on a week-to-week basis.

For example in December of last year the UK government demanded that Gab ban a user and censor “offensive” content. Upon review we found no violation of our Terms of Service and that no US laws were being broken. Accordingly, our response to the UK government was to get lost.

Prior to that the German government demanded that we comply with their censorship guidelines for users in Germany, to which we declined. We now have $30,000+ fine–which we will not pay–and now I likely can never safely make a trip into Germany until they change their draconian speech laws.

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These are just two of countless examples of foreign governments demanding that Gab engage in political censorship. Each time our answer remains the same: if the content is legal in the United States it’s legal on Gab and it’s not being removed. There is absolutely nothing that foreign governments can to do force an American company to comply with foreign speech laws.

Twitter’s decision sets a dangerous precedent that other countries may use to demand similar censorship, undermining the principles of open dialogue and discourse. In contrast, platforms like Gab have demonstrated a commitment to upholding free speech, even in the face of government pressure. The ramifications of Twitter’s compliance with these demands highlights the importance of resisting censorship demands to protect the fundamental right to free speech.

The Precedent for Global Censorship

By acceding to the Turkish government’s request to censor political content, Twitter and Elon Musk have opened the door for other nations to demand similar actions. This creates a concerning precedent that weakens the platform’s commitment to free speech. Other governments could now point to this compliance and exert pressure on Twitter to censor content that challenges their own political agendas, effectively stifling dissent and suppressing valuable discourse.

False Justifications

Twitter’s excuse that “every internet platform does this” is not only disingenuous but also the wrong choice when it comes to protecting freedom of expression. Rather than using this argument as a justification for compliance, Twitter should have taken a principled stand in defense of free speech. The company’s decision to comply with the Turkish government’s demands tarnishes its reputation as a platform that values open dialogue and encourages diverse perspectives.

The Power of Resisting Censorship

Had Twitter refused to comply with the Turkish government’s censorship requests, even at the risk of being banned from the country, it would have sent a powerful message about its commitment to upholding free speech. This principled stance would have demonstrated to the world that Twitter does not bow down to the demands of foreign governments seeking political censorship. By yielding to these demands, Twitter has inadvertently compromised its integrity as a platform that champions the right to express differing opinions.

The Example of Gab

In contrast to Twitter, platforms like Gab have shown that taking a firm stance against government censorship is a winning strategy for preserving free speech. Gab has consistently refused to comply with demands from governments, such as the UK and Germany, to censor political content. By prioritizing the fundamental right to free expression, Gab has garnered respect and support from individuals who value open discourse, and it has become a symbol of resistance against censorship.

Twitter and Elon Musk’s compliance with the Turkish government’s censorship requests sets a dangerous precedent for the future of free speech on the platform. By acquiescing to these demands, they have undermined the principles of open dialogue and free speech values that the platform claims to uphold. Twitter should have taken a principled stand, even if it meant facing a ban from the country.

Platforms like Gab.com have shown that refusing to comply with government censorship requests is not only possible but also crucial for maintaining the integrity of free speech. It is imperative that social media platforms recommit to the principles of open dialogue and resist the pressures of censorship to ensure that the freedom of speech remains protected in the digital realm, which is exactly what Gab plans to continue doing.

Andrew Torba
CEO, Gab.com
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Succumbing to Anarcho-Tyranny

From the Catholic Insight

By  Paula Adamick

 

 “Sheep do not need to fight for themselves; they have shepherds who do it for them, until the day comes when the shepherds lead their sheep to slaughter.”— Samuel Francis

In recent weeks, the term ‘anarcho-tyranny’ has moved from obscurity to prominence.

“Anarcho-tyranny is the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis of the ability or the will to use that same power to carry out basic public duties such as protection or public safety,” wrote columnist Samuel Francis of the term he coined in the 1990s to describe the connection between civil disorder and oppressive government.

As former editor of the Washington Times and disciple of James Burnham, Francis believed the “managerial revolution” of the post-war West was establishing the sociological, economic and cultural conditions for the onslaught of a phenomenon that seemed oxymoronic. Yet it was central to advancing the malignant liberalism Burnham diagnosed so astutely in his classic 1965 critique Suicide of the West. Like Burnham, Francis believed the West’s growing modern bureaucracy was producing an unnatural dependence on bureaucrats and experts. He described this as “managed pacification” which created the potential to engineer ‘fake problems’ and perform ‘fictitious functions’, fostering the illusion the State was doing its job. When what it was really doing was developing methods of ‘anarcho-tyranny’ to be used for imposing the political will of the government on that of the voting public by employing gross levels of manipulation and abuse, all under the banner of ‘democracy’.

So, as the Long March of communists and cultural Marxists continued largely unopposed through the postwar years, the anarcho-tyranny identified by Francis was morphing into an ever more sinister force, gaming the system with ever more sophisticated methods, including voter fraud, and producing results desired by political elites while pretending to be ‘democratic’.

Decades earlier, George Orwell had anticipated the same duplicitous game. Political language, said Orwell in 1946, “is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

Nearly eighty years later, the great Orwellian irony has been realized: What was once forbidden in free nations has now become compulsory – achieved in part by the paradox of anarcho-tyranny. Which, over time, has been turning God-created Nature as it was once studied and understood, on its head. As the late Pope Benedict illustrates in his 2010 book Western Culture.

Benedict’s Western Culture

In this masterful volume, the late pontiff charts the rise of the modern state to its current level of anti-Christian lawlessness as beginning when Holy Roman Empire was falling apart at the end of the medieval period. “History was no longer gauged on the basis of an idea of a pre-existent God who shaped it: the State was henceforth considered in purely secular terms, founded on reason and on the will of the citizens. For the first time in history, a purely secular state arose, which abandoned and set aside the divine guarantee and the divine ordering of the political sector, and it declared God himself to be a private affair, that did not play a role in public life or the formation of the popular will. The latter was seen now solely as a matter of reason, by which God did not appear to be clearly knowable; religion and faith in God belonged to the realm of feelings and not to that of reason. God and his will ceased to be relevant in public life.”

Thus Christ the King became Christ the private citizen. And the stones of Christendom began to be taken down, in revolutionary stages, first with the Reformation. Next with the French Revolution which was even bloodier. The God of creation, history and Christendom was officially removed from Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris and replaced by a statue of the goddess of Reason, yet another very public step in the long, diabolical plan to remove the Lord God from the Public Square permanently. And to replace His governance of the world He created with the State. Thus also began the cancellation of Christendom’s ‘social contract’ which, for more than a millennia, governed the social order of the West according to the Ten Commandments – each a precept of Western law, each written onto every human heart through Baptism. Thus God was supplanted by Reason and by materialism which can never satisfy. As intended by the diabolical ruler of this Earth who moved inexorably to ensure that in his world, all manner of crime, once called ‘sin’, should become a right, turning Man against his Creator.

From Sin to a ‘Right’

For example, abortion, once a punishable crime for both mother and abortionist, became a ‘right’ protected by law and producing annual holocausts of pre-born infants. So much so that abortion is now the leading cause of death around the world. In 2022, more human beings died in abortions than any other cause of death. According to Worldometer.com, a website of global statistics, over 44 million abortions occurred worldwide last year alone. And by early April of this year, another 12.4 million abortions had followed.

This is a staggering statistic for a once-criminal practise. Yet abortion is claimed to be a ‘right’ on which post-modern governments rise and fall, and for which individuals who protest this ‘right’ are routinely prosecuted and persecuted by governments, political agitators, incalculable numbers of NGOs and their minions, and even police forces.

Thus the term ‘anarcho-tyranny’ accurately describes the phenomenon wherein a society is defined by its deterioration into politically engineered decadence, corruption and chaos which, in turn, requires repression to control the resulting disorder. As a result, government power swells, becoming ever more corrupt and unaccountable; lawlessness increases exponentially; and law-abiding citizens are repressed ruthlessly by the State in the name of ‘safety’ as cities fall into squalor, disorder and violent crime and their centres fill with the homeless, most drug-addicted and mentally ill, leaving local governments pretending to ‘care’ to release them back into the streets if they are arrested for crimes, even capital crimes.

This is what anarcho-tyranny looks like.

Anarcho-Tyranny

Its most blatant manifestation is in criminality and law enforcement which have been subjected everywhere to political campaigns of defunding the police and parallel campaigns of legalizing hard drugs.

But rather than returning a city or broader society to sanity by restoring the just application of the law by police and municipal leaders, anarcho-tyrants resist all common sense, insisting on such policies as releasing accused murderers without bail, further endangering the public and frightening large populations of voting taxpayers. All in the name of ‘compassion’.

But directly debauching the law hasn’t been its only source. Legalizing abortion and the ferocious protection of this so-called ‘right’ is another. Earlier this month, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law a repeal of the state’s near-total abortion ban, guaranteeing that abortion-on-demand will remain legal for the foreseeable future. Calling ongoing efforts to ban abortion in other states “un-American, anti-free and, frankly, sickening”, Whitmer’s new law repeals a statute dating back to 1931 that made abortion a felony punishable by up to four years in prison.

Would the radically left Whitmer agree with B.C.’s new law supporting children to decide, without parental intervention or consent, their ‘right’ to transition into the opposite sex?

On March 28, the NDP provincial government of British Columbia passed into law a bill that allows children facing gender confusion as young as 12 to ‘self’ identify their gender without the need for a doctor or mental health professional’s approval. Besides allowing kids to legally change their sex and self-identify their gender, the law will also allow any resident of the province to be given a birth certificate without marker showing that one is male or female.

How does one account for such unholy zeal?

Revolution on Steroids

All of this has been generated by the so-called Sexual Revolution which became a major social force in the 1960s, devastating the Christian West in its path. This multi-pronged revolution has campaigned (and mostly succeeded) on turning all manner of what was always regarded as sexual sin into ‘rights’ while simultaneously attacking God’s natural and moral order and its fundamental unit, the family, in the pursuit of legalizing once prohibited sexual practices which in turn produce sexual confusion and the very misery the prohibitions were intended to prevent.

These same deceitful methods are also being used to promote euthanasia, pushed as ‘dying on one’s own terms’ and reflecting like nothing else can the general falling away from — and the outright rejection of — God. All rabidly defended by the media and the death-dealing culture it promotes and protects, while persecuting those who call it for what euthanasia actually is: a stairway to Hell.

From Marxism to Wokeness

Anarcho-tyranny also occurs – and ever more frequently — when a primarily Leftist State stops solving real problems while carrying out its real but undeclared Marxist agenda, thereby inflicting its intended damage under a parade of names and identities, the latest of which is ‘wokeness’.

Yet their signature methods remain the same as mass shootings rise across the West destabilizing everything in their path while governments militate for gun control and for mass surveillance of the online communications of citizens they’re failing to protect. Take the catastrophic shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which saw police literally standing around checking their phones and rubbing down with hand sanitizer while children were screaming inside as their classmates were blown to pieces. Message for the public? More gun control.

The scene was much the same last month at Covenant School, a Christian academy in Nashville Tennessee, where three children and three senior staff were shot dead by a transgender shooter who, in turn, was shot dead by police. Message for the public? Protect members of the Transgender community. And more gun control.

Which brings us to another instrument of anarcho-tyranny – the use of the legal system to prosecute and persecute citizens deemed to be enemies of the State. Called ‘Lawfare’, it’s a practise that may involve the law of a nation being turned against its own officials. Its latest target is Donald Trump, former president of the United States, whose recent indictment prompted columnist Jeffrey A.Tucker to publicly declare that anarcho-tyranny has been unleashed in the U.S.

“The phrase came to mind as I watched the news unfold of the indictment of former President Donald Trump on utterly ridiculous charges that a conventional payment made in the usual legal extortion racket was really a campaign-finance expenditure and therefore criminal. The terms anarchy and tyranny seem like they are contradictory,” notes Tucker, who cites Francis for defining the state of lawless oppression currently being conducted by the Biden government.

It was also Francis who warned that if a power-seeking cabal ever got its way in the U.S. government, the United States and much of the Western world would descend not to classically understood ‘socialism’ but to anarcho-tyranny where no one can count on any rules in public life. “Whatever happens, it will be compulsory,” predicts Tucker. “That is, backed by the threat of violence.”

From the Jacobins to Marcuse

Usually mob violence. Which has been a proxy for power for more than two centuries, as demonstrated by the Jacobins of the French Revolution and by the Red Guard under Mao, and more recently by Antifa and Black Lives Matter burning American cities as a political message.

Such has been the arc of revolution, marked by a deeply nihilistic loathing of the rule of law as a universal principle, along with its hatred of free speech, freedom of association, and other values commonly associated with the Enlightenment and the Western idea of freedom. All reflecting in recent years the ongoing powerful influence of Herbert Marcuse whose countercultural ideas generated by his Frankfurt School in the 1960s have long since become mainstream. And whose view was that the only way to achieve authentic freedom was to undertake a complete dismantling of the rule of law, first by intellectual efforts, then grassroots efforts, and finally government efforts to dismantle Western codes of law, with the ultimate goal of destroying the entire West to create a platform for building the Brave New World of Leftist dreams.

The Tyranny of Secularism

Here again secularizing the State has played a major role in the deterioration of western governments. Eliminate God in the name of personal freedom and usher in misery, slavery and bondage to a persecuting power. Which is what the elimination of God’s natural and moral order invariably produces and which history continues to document.

Central to this elimination is the very Truth of Jesus Christ whose gospel and salvific crucifixion intersects Time and Eternity. The Son of God, who declared himself the Way, the Truth and the Life. He who all of history confirms and who continues to live in the minds and hearts of countless human beings for whose sins He died and without whom all of humanity can find no rest and no true happiness.

This Truth is also the answer to all of Life itself. Yet for two millennia, the world has been tearing itself apart through indulging the temptations of God’s scriptural opponent, Satan, whose mission remains unchanged: Attack the Lord God by attacking His creatures He died on the Cross to save. And for two thousand years, Satan has been doing this exactly as the Lord Jesus predicted: By lying and by murdering: “ He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. He’s been a liar and a murderer from the beginning.” (John 8:44)

Could anything be more literally true than that divine statement? Has the entire world not been witness to Satan’s persecution of Man through the practise of lying and of murdering? Criminally and legally? Across human history?

And is all of Mankind not still struggling to stay alive and sane in a fallen world described by St. John Paul II as ‘The Culture of Death’?

Choosing the Way, the Truth, and the Life

Yet how often do Christians stop to ponder life in 2023 and its culture? Its culture of self-obsession, pleasure-seeking and rejection of any and all suffering, enslaved to the dictum of the English occultist, Aleistair Crowley: “Do whatever thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” As it awaits the coming of the so-called New World Order which, it appears, requires the world as we’ve known it to be destroyed to make way for a Utopian future.

Where does God fit in all this? As His creatures and disciples are persecuted unless they consent to a media-driven world, preaching an ego-driven life where morality allows individuals to be unaccountable to any power higher than itself and unaccountable for any of the ‘sins’ the new culture permits and promotes. Nevertheless, sin is still sin — an eternal reality no act of human denial can erase. A sin breaks God’s law, causing incalculable damage to the soul that commits it, and its relationship with God. It also has consequences that reverberate through the culture which is still accountable to God, all denials notwithstanding. Even if that accounting doesn’t occur until the next life.

Providing answers to all this is Holy Mother Church which was divinely created by Jesus Christ. And despite her scandals and the apparent focus of some of her clergy on the more material aspects of life, she will always contain the whole Truth. And the Gates of Hell will never prevail against Her.

“God’s Church exists even today, and this very day she is the instrument by which God saves us,” writes Benedict. “It is very important to contrast the lies and half-truths of the devil with the whole truth: Yes, there is sin in the Church and there is evil. But even today there also is Holy Mother Church, which is indestructible. Even today there are many people who humbly believe, suffer, and love, in whom the real God, the loving God, manifests himself to us. Even today God has his witnesses (martyres) in the world. We have only to be attentive in order to see and hear them.”

And so life continues and history records its passing and its momentous events. The most momentous of which remains the birth, death and resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ two thousand years ago, still the most remembered of all human and divine figures and events. And confirming the adage that Time tests All Truth, including Truth itself, Jesus Christ, the most central and remembered figure in history. “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12).

This too is an immutable Truth, against Whom the latest tactic – anarcho-tyranny – is doomed to fail.

A love greater , A Poem for Fathers

A love greater than for me

You love another more than I,

And yet I do not mind.

You hold this other more than I,

And yet still I do not mind.

You have kissed this other more than I,

And even more I still do not mind.

And though you love and hold and also kiss,

Another more than I.

I celebrate in your love

For this other.

For what kind of father could be

Jealous of his child? 

Ivan A Cooper,