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“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too.
Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action:
you liberate a city by destroying it.
Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will
solemnly vote against their own interests.”
Gore Vidal

“Political correctness is going to kill American liberalism if it
is not fought to the death by people like me for the dangers
it represents to free speech, to the exchange of ideas,
to openheartedness, or to the spirit of art itself.
Political correctness has a stranglehold on academia,
on feminism, and on the media.
It is a form of both madness and maggotry.”
Pat Conroy, My Reading Life

Not too long ago nor too far away…there was once a high school teacher.

Now for the purpose of this story, we should note that this teacher was
actually older…that being toward the end of her career…

Disclaimer: Denominationally, I am a Southern Baptist. I do not define my views based on Baptist theology (which does not really exist since each local church is completely autonomous from the denomination). I see myself as a follower of Jesus and study the word of God to form my thoughts. I do follow what is going on in the Southern Baptist church. Things seem pretty rocky right now.

Here is some great insight from Mark DeVine. Mark serves as associate professor of divinity at the Beeson Divinity School of Samford University in Birmingham, where he directs the Center for Faith, Work, and Economics. DeVine served as a missionary to Bangkok, Thailand, and has pastored churches in five states.

Mark makes a great point that the elite leaders are out of sync with the average member. This seems true of many denominations these days. Jesus encountered the same issues with the…

Joe Biden announced this week he has commissioned “surge response teams” from the federal government to enter communities and neighborhoods with “low vaccination rates,” to …

Source: What should you do when federal agents arrive at your door with questions about your personal health decisions?

Here is some great news. Progress is being made in keeping families together with both parents. Praise Jesus!

The percentage of high school seniors who were raised by both biological parents throughout childhood saw a major increase during the last decade, according to a new study that says the tide is turning on the supposed demise of the nuclear family.

The report by Nicholas Zill of the Institute for Family Studies found that 53.1 percent of high school seniors in 2019 were living with both biological parents, an increase from 51.3 percent in 2016 and 49.7 percent in 2012. That section of the report is based on data from the National Household Education Survey.

Just as significant, the report said, the uptick involved multiple racial groups, including whites, blacks and Hispanics. The “tide is turning,” Zill said.

“It is too early to say for certain but growing numbers…

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Maybe this is why most powers- that-be have yet to aggressively go after those refusing the vaccine. Not taking the vaccine won’t necessarily prevent your being made ill by the vaccine someone else recoeved who is in close proximity to you.  Truly evil!–STL
Evidence Based medicine gives Covid vaccines Yellow Card designation

One of the strengths of America for more than two centuries was the consistency of people’s faith commitments. Not only did more than nine out of 10 Americans associate with the same faith (Christianity), but that alignment brought with it common views about morality, purpose, family, lifestyle, citizenship, and values.

But the dramatic erosion of shared Christian belief over the past 30 years is ushering in a number of rapid and radical changes in the relatively stable major religious alignments of America, according to new research from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University.

The latest findings from the American Worldview Inventory 2021identify a number of major shifts in the U.S. religious landscape, including:

• dramatic changes in the faith of American Hispanics, with a decrease in the number of Hispanic Catholics, accompanied by a sharp increase in Hispanic “Don’ts”—those who don’t believe, don’t know, or don’t care…

Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World traces Sowell’s journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of this era’s greatest economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors.

Hosted by Jason Riley, a member of “The Wall Street Journal” editorial board, this one-hour program features insights from Sowell and interviews with his close friends and associates, revealing why the intensely private Thomas Sowell is considered by many to be “one of the greatest minds of the past half-century” and “the smartest person in the room.” © 2020 / 1 episode @ 1 hr.