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JB,

At the risk of wildly understating your situation, I'll state the obvious: it can't be easy. I have four children who are, chronologically, grown, so they missed the worst of this evil, I think. If they hadn't, I might be where you are now.

I'm praying for you, your children and for anyone else swimming against the tidal wave. We may not have the power to do so unassisted, but we do with the help of the Divine.

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"...if they do have an inclination toward trans or gender dysphoria, or being gay, it is really easy to alienate them! I have been sitting in church when our pastor briefly spoke against these things, and it was so hard with my son there. It is very easy to sound not loving....And here we are, my husband and I, hanging on by our fingernails and just barely getting him to church."

Did you communicate this to your pastor to improve the homilies? My opinion is that the "old way" was to speak the truth, the "new way" is to speak lies (or at least be silent in the face of lies) out of misplaced love, and the "right way" is to speak the truth with true love. The right way is not easy, but it must be done if Christianity is to mean anything, and perhaps that is the real positive to come out of our times.

Did you communicate this so your pastor can befriend your children? Your pastor really should, perhaps everyone will learn something.

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Well, if you do, get him up to speed on EVERYTHING, and see how he handles it. He might be gold, he might be lead, but you won't know unless you try. And if he's lead it won't be your fault for trying. God bless.

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Jesus is safe to confide it.

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If you get into the box, bless yourself, say your piece, and hear the priest say, "The Church is changing," walk out. Prayers for you here.

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Through my wife, I talked to a young woman, college age, who felt certain she was meant to be male. She took testosterone and told my wife that she couldn't concentrate in college because the testosterone made her think about sex all the time. The fact that she hadn't foreseen that, that the prospect hadn't even crossed her mind, made it clear she had no idea in her teens what it felt like to "feel like a boy."

Have you asked them what makes them specifically feel like they must be something other than what they are? I know you're trying to undo this evil through Christian belief, but is there possibly a way to discuss with them what it really feels like to be male or female and show them that they're dangerously misinterpreting their youthful hormones? These young people don't seem very good at justifying their own feelings when someone pushes back a little.

I'm sorry if it seems like I'm putting you on the spot. I don't mean to do so. I really feel for you, and I'm wishing you the best, because I'm seeing three couples I know dealing with similar issues with their teens.

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Thanks for telling us your story, JB. Some parents I know simply repeat the party line and act like they've been newly "educated" into a realer world they knew nothing about. You're right to be resisting, even if all you can do is vent here online. You'll be proven right in the long run.

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Have you tried the Chloe Cole detransitioning video by Jordan Peterson?

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Re: She took testosterone and told my wife that she couldn't concentrate in college because the testosterone made her think about sex all the time.

Oh, so that's what's wrong with us men!

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Now she knows what its like to be male: tormented by constant sexual interference. She should go back to being a female and enjoy life.

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It actually looks like a bannana slug.

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I feel like it's impossible to start a family in Canada, given the state of public schools.

13% of my Ottawa high school now isn't sure what gender they are! 13%! This should be a national emegency. Can't risk sending your kid into that

I am so demoralized. I guess demoralization is probably the point

Despair is a sin, but it is hard to feel any hope for the country of Canada...

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There is no hope in the country of Canada. There is every hope in the Kingdom of God. Seek it, as urgently as if your life depended on it, because it does. It triumphed over the evil of the Roman empire and triumphs over the evil of the Laurentian empire.

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Canada is gone. It is a tool of satanic fealty.

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In my hallway is a photo of Sgt. Eddie Thomas, a Canadian serving in the RAF. He was from a small town in southern Saskatchewan and he was my great-Uncle. He died in a life-raft on the North Sea in 1942 after his Hampden bomber's engine broke down and the pilot ditched the plane in the sea. His Canada is gone, gone, gone. But modern Canada has the opiate of hockey.

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Derek, where was your great uncle from? i was raised in Swift Current, Sask. I live in the U.S. now and it's been so sad to watch the demise of my home and native land that was once the True North, Strong and Free. There is nothing true, strong or free about the land north of the 49th.

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Que'Appelle.

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Home of Colter Wall...what a talent!

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Colter is my cousin Brad’s son!

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Small world!

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God bless the heroic memory of Sgt. Eddie Thomas. He took that hit for all of us and his honor shall never tarnish.

And God bless and strengthen all God-fearing Canuks laboring in a great land whose leadership blows dogs and devils for nickles. O Canada…we hardly knew ye.

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Hampden bombers had four man crews. Pilot, co-pilot, and two gunners. Nineteen at the time, Eddie was a gunner. The crew were on a routine mission off the Friesan Islands when the engine went. They ditched and the co-pilot went down with the plane. The pilot and two gunners reached a life raft with very little water or food. The life raft leaked and the three bailed much of the time. The other gunner, a Scot, began to drink sea water on the sixth day and died. Eddie did the same on the day twelve and died. The pilot, an American volunteer in the RAF, was picked up on the 14th day. He had gangrene in both legs and they were amputated. He died in 1946 from pneumonia.

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Good God. War is hell.

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Since war is hell and Christians want to save people from hell, I believe Christians should never start, declare, fight, or support wars. Any necessary self-defense (or defense of others) should be nonviolent, legal, and moral. IMO, Christians should never use deadly force against others.

I consider myself a pacifist. I refuse to serve in combat (of course, I am a 56-year-old woman in mediocre health, so it is extremely unlikely any government would draft me) and refuse to support any war (even with taxes — but I am on SSI and the only taxes I pay are sale taxes). Some people may consider me a freeloader full of cheap grace, for which may God forgive me if that is true.

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Thank you for your kind thoughts. Sgt. Eddie Thomas sacrificed the last sixty years of his life for Canada, the Allies, his family and posterity. That makes me even angrier when that brat Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, declared a few years back that he didn't want Canada to have an inner ethnic or cultural core. Men like Eddie Thomas, who were part of that core, have been consigned to the memory hole by the Trudeaus of the West.

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Trudeau is another anti christ. Like gavin newsome.

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https://hslda.org/post/canada

Legal information on home education in Canada.

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As the old saying goes, "The future belongs to those who show up." Having a family is, especially today, a defiant and brave act.

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We left Ottawa for exurban Alberta eleven years ago. In spite of the the best efforts of the (hopefully) one-time NDP socialist government, there is still(for now) some sanity in exurban schools here.

The Catholic school our three kids attend does the bare minimum required by the NDP law in providing GSA clubs in school, without forcing the full agenda on everybody.

Apparently when the school staff talk too much about LGBT, the kids start giving each other the bombastic side eye. Doesn't seem to be hatred toward gays, just the kids recognizing the agenda I guess.

This very possibly will change for the worse in years ahead, but for now it's good to see the kids being independent.

As my daughter told me, in mock elections at school even the furries and emos support conservatives.

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I think above a certain age kids recognize goody two shoes propaganda and learn it just well enough to parrot it back when required. That was how we treated all the anti-drug stuff we got at that age.

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My heart goes out to all parents. The system is waiting to turn them against you.

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“ Remember that the original sin of Lucifer, the light-bearer, was Pride. ” A bon mot! As for that thing— neither can it be vulgar or obscene. It’s either pitiable or comical.

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I look at it and I see the skin of a young woman’s forearm, sliced and peeled and sewn together in a pitiable patchwork that only resembles a phallus...because it’s only the flesh of an arm that is now barely there, misshapen, diminished, permanently scarred.

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FrankenPenis

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Thank you for not letting us live by lies!

A few reactions:

1. Every cell of that “thing” is female. Isn’t that amazing?

2. Regarding the reality vs public image of pride parades, did you know that, decades after that famous Philadelphia movie with Tom Hanks was released, a major gay journal did a retrospective on it and admitted it was fundamentally dishonest, the activists praising it at the time it was released knew it was dishonest, but they lied and praised it anyway just to trick us all?

More here:

https://gaty.substack.com/p/saturday-night-at-the-movies-driven

3. Regarding the need for brave priests, ugh, tell me about it! Y’all might like these reflections on Peter at Pentecost. He didn’t try to be winsome, to put it mildly…

https://gaty.substack.com/p/pentecost-in-negative-world

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In a way it's comforting, because since such evil exists, the corresponding Good certainly does also. And the Good will triumph in the end.

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We are living through some combination of Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Color Revolutions exported (and beta tested) by the US State Dept, and the Gender cult is a demented Red Guard who have been unleashed on all of us, most especially children. The goal is to lock in a managed and surveilled postnational post-democracy overseen by a Church/State ruling coalition between the global corporate state and the Church of Social Justice.

The saddest part of all is how easily every institution was captured and how in every sphere of our societies—from science to religion to journalism to culture and academia etc—the leadership class rolled over and kissed the feet of our new rulers, denounced themselves, their histories and specialties, their entire countries. Anything to maintain their social status, careers, and finances.

I know there are multiple factors over multiple decades but for me the beginning of the end for Western Civ began when we rolled the Trojan Horse called Critical Studies inside the gates of our universities—50 years of endless barrages of guilt and shame later, 50 years of state-subsidized propaganda to paint all our cultures and traditions as bigoted hate crimes, 50 years of acid nihilism poured onto every Western person, place or thing, and at last the Long March has ended in victory and we have been conquered.

Marcuse (creator of the "coalition of the marginalized" assembled to destroy Western liberal democracy) cackles in joy from the depths of Hades.

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I think as well the devil plays a long game. The foundations have been hollowed out, bit by bit, over decades. The woke warriors of today are the offspring of our materialistic, empty culture. It’s only now that you can see how we have pulled away at our roots. The elites at the top of all our institutions - government, law, culture, the academy, owe everything to those who came before them and hand on what?

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Yes, it goes much further back. Back to when atheists like first Marx and then Nietzsche were given respectability, and taught to generations of students.

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And don't forget Foucault, who preyed on young boys in Tunisia and cruised the bathhouses in Paris and New York.

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Thanks for the warnings, Rod--I didn't scroll down. I don't think I ever will. What I've already seen has been hideous enough. Perhaps some will be shocked enough to wake up when they see it; I'm already shocked enough.

It is an evil age, to be certain. This month has become my least favorite month of the year, and drives home to me that the America in which I was born and raised and loved is dying or dead. Yes, there are millions of Americans with whom I share many views (maybe even the majority)--but we have little or no cultural power. Those who lead us hate us and think they are far superior to us. They think of themselves as edgy and in control; but in fact, they are mere pawns in Shaytan's grip. And when you align yourself with the enemy of humankind and reject your Creator, what can the end result be but madness and regret?

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We have a President who is such a dolt in every way that he has repeatedly, and always passionately, declared transgender rights the defining civil rights movement of our time.

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June is a beautiful month. Midsummer's Day, alongside St. John's Day and the summer bonfires, is a transcendent reminder of the heavens and a reality greater than ourselves. The foul carnival is here to make us despair. Don't deprive yourself of the glory of June - seek it all the more!

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“Who is in charge of the clattering train?

The axles creak and the couplings strain;

And the pace is hot, and the points are near,

And Sleep has deadened the driver’s ear;

And the signals flash through the night in vain,

For Death is in charge of the clattering train.”

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Yep

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“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night

once more.”

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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So, the transgals like their Frankenpeckers circumcised. Interesting aesthetic choice. Learn something new everyday.

Sorry, but all you can do when faced with this madness is laugh or cry. Those of you who are better Christians then I am can pity these poor creatures and mourn for the lives they'll never have. I'm going to point and laugh at the charade, cruelly if necessary.

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>>So, the transgals like their Frankenpeckers circumcised. Interesting aesthetic choice. Learn something new everyday.

Ha, ha, ha. That's not keepin' it real.

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Pretty tough to laugh when your family is caught up in the lies. But I understand your reaction. And it may be a necessary reaction to make the point to “not live by lies.”

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Jun 6, 2023·edited Jun 6, 2023

A fair point. But I do think it's necessary at this point to confront transgenders with the truth that 90%+ of them will never really be able to pass as their desired sex, no matter how much money they spend on plastic surgeries and hormone treatments.

The woman in the linked photo is not a man. She's an intentionally disfigured woman and her "penis" looks like a tofu hot dog with a thimble stuffed under the casing. And now one of her arms is permanently scarred.

Girl, you're a damn mess.

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Have you seen the cover of this week's New Yorker?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine

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Jun 6, 2023·edited Jun 6, 2023

How stunning and brave. 🙄

So the New Yorker's Look of Pride is a caricature of a late 70's punk rock groupie picking xher teeth with xher press- on nails? Or maybe a Boy George cosplayer? Is that what shocks the squares these days?

That's just.... dumb. It's even kind of boring. "Fake and Gay," as the kids used to say back when kids were cool and not the neurotic little weiners that they are these days.

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Bring back Eustace (Eustachia?) Tilley.

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Yeah, that person (who turns out to be a dude who's a drag queen and an "expert" on drag) wouldn't have been out of place in the London punk scene. How very half-a-century ago. I'm supposed to be shocked by this?

If anything does bother me about this, it's the attempt to make out the current trans/drag/genderfluid movement as nothing more than the equivalent of a few brazen people in the '70s and '80s in outlandish get-up letting their freak-flags fly. To me that adds a sinister edge to an otherwise played-out, retro image.

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This comment gave me a much needed laugh after that image upset my stomach a bit. Thank you for your observation.

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Napalm

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I used to wonder why trans people would insist on identifying as the opposite sex when they still have the genitals of their birth sex. All that BS about women can have a penis & birthing people & other delusional ideas. Well, that awful picture made me think, maybe they’re not so sure they want to go under the knife & end up with a useless & gross appendage like that. Or a fake vagina which has to constantly be opened because it’s a wound & wants to heal. Because once the surgery is done there’s no going back. You can stop hormones & have breast reconstruction & go back to your real gender. And you can hedge your bets by just dressing as the opposite sex & insist that people pretend along with you. Dylan for example, I think it’s an act. He will probably return to living as a gay man at some point. Sweden & Finland have banned or restricted transitioning for minors. Hopefully this will become more widespread.

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Simple. No actual man will ever cut off his pecker. Why? Because anyone not normal who even imagines this evil nonsense, are cowards and they won’t do it. They just wish to rape women in prison. They all should all be lynched on sight. And finish the stupid immediately.

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Well, one such "actual man" has been a columnist for the New York Times, currently writes for the Washington Post and is the--wait for it--Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College. He is on the record as dubbing his fake vulva a "gushy miracle". Now, is this guy "not normal"? Can't say. But doesn't the above rap sheet beat writing YA books and having to spend all year at a third-rate liberal arts college in Maine, where the snow doesn't melt until April, rather than a gig on the upper West Side and a summer place down east? You do the math.

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Eventually, this insanity will pass, when the human wreckage becomes impossible to ignore, but Dylan Mulvaney and other prominent people in politics, education, entertainment, and the media should never be allowed to say they didn't know what was really happening or that they didn't support it. Save every photo, every screenshot, every video. It may not happen soon, but there will be a reckoning.

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Forget Dylan Mulvaney. What about Andrew Sullivan and Bruce Bawer? SSM was a "civil rights" issue, see? Now both have shown pretty commendable courage in slamming this garbage, but it is a little too late when having been sold on lightening up because it's only going to Cam and Mitch moving next door, this is what we get. Look at the cover of this week's New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine

Pride. See? Sullivan is like Prufrock at this point. That is not what he meant, at all.

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I was listening to Jordan Peterson talk with Matt Walsh for a bit today and Peterson made the comment that ultimate freedom results in chaos, like having 1000 types of shampoo to buy at the store. In the end, one is unhappy because you know that something better is out there. However, if you have some limitations (shelf space, in this case), a person is probably going to be happier because one can think that they made the best choice of the options available. Then one of them switched the terms to dating apps... Ooooh boy! But one wonders how so many people "back then" were happy with a pretty limited number of available options, shall we say, and this actually gives one a pretty decent answer.

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I doubt that danger is the issue. The much bigger issue is that there aren't that many kids these days so the nearest possible playmates may too far for younger kids. And even with older kids we've adopted a lamentable helicopter parenting model which requires parents to haunt their children whenever they have free time And don't get me started on the use of the internet as babysitter. No wonder childhood obesity has become so common.

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That's what the forum Kiwi Farms is all about: it's an archive of all the lies and evil surrounding the trans movement and what is "really happening" within it. Lies like: "Trans people are gentle and sane". And "Surgery is safe & effective and saves lives". (That fake phallus Rod showed is a remarkably good one. The average phalloplasty does not look like that. At all.) Granted, KF's membership is a messy melting pot and vicious mockery prevails. But they are performing a public service. Or were. Trans rights activists and their friends in high places have been attacking KF relentlessly, and they have managed to exile it on Tor for the time being. They do not want the lies (and the indisputable evil) revealed or archived.

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Rod doesn't cover this aspect of the trans nonsense enough: There is an incredible amount of self-loathing involved for the people who do go down this route, and this self-loathing is amplified by both online grooming communities and by the vipers in the medical and political communities. In order for someone to reach the point where self-mutilation is even remotely considered, they have to first be brought, or bring themselves to a point much akin to being suicidal, for "going trans" is very much a type of suicide.

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June is Humility Month. I have officially declared it so. She is the mother of all virtues, but so very slippery. So everytime we see any of the Regime's flags, we should pause and contemplate Humility, and remind ourselves of our lowliness, and the greatness of our Creator. June is a time for embracing Humility - the whole "pride" thing is a Luciferian ruse.

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I have heard people refer to it as "Narcissism Day" and that seems to describe it accurately

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I think you spelled "Selfish Asshole Day" wrong...

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Nope. Humility is not welcomed today. Your sarcasm is noted and appreciated.

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I didn't think this was sarcastic. I think it's an excellent idea. Humility is the only thing that defeats evil, for evil cannot comprehend

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True. I was not being sarcastic. June is Embrace Humility Month as far as I’m concerned. I hope many others will join me. Much more difficult than pride. Goat to the Regime, sheep to the Kingdom.

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No quarter. I rebuke the satanic agenda permeating the land.

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Power defeats evil.

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Maybe fly black and gray flags to represent sackcloth and ashes...there's a countercultural move right there.

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I can appreciate the spirit of what you are trying to say. But there comes a time when we need to face the fact that we can have become so heavenly-minded that we are of no earthly good.

As for me, June will forever be D-Day remembrance month. We remember a time when young men sacrificed their lives in order to put in check the genocidal, hegemonic lust of a fascistic power on earth, a warped ideology.

They didn’t exchange flowers and make mud pies. No. They turned the tides red with their own blood. They cut the germans out of their holes with cold steel and made them accountable for what they had done. They rained fire from heaven and turned cities into heaps of twisted metal and burning dung.

If you want humility, pray for the proud ones who are blaspheming our Lord and butchering our children to be suitable f**k meat for their satanic desires. Pray that they dispense with their proud hearts before they get into the hands of a holy God who will hold them and all of their co-conspirators accountable. Pray for the lives and families ripped apart by this goddamned scourge from the pit of hell. I have nothing but contempt for the powers of hell and earth.

Thy Kingdom come.

Thy will be done. On Earth

As it is in Heaven.

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Satanists may not believe in Satan, but I assure you Satan believes in them. He is working through them even if unwittingly, and as scripture says, they are taken captive by him to do his will. If they don't repent they will wake up in hell to find he's very much real and it was very much a mistake to align themselves with him.

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Rod, I am glad that you were able to slow down and detox from America for a few days. Just stay there a bit longer.

Is the earth in danger of evil? Of course. Is it different now? No. Go back to Genesis, right before Noah. It was far more evil with angelic beings in their actions towards human beings. What did Yahweh do? He gave us a flood. And then a rainbow to tell us that He would never do that again. What is the rainbow 🌈 symbol now in 2023? Not the same thing. It is a symbol of pure evil for Satanic minions. So, what to do?

Continue weekly Christian services. Communion. Council. Confession, forgiveness, and love of the Saints. I am a solid Reformed person. Anyone in dwelled by Yahweh the Holy Spirit is a Saint. We don’t need special recommendations. Jesus choose us before the foundations of the universe. Why? We don’t know.,but He did that. What did mere human beings add to our salvation? Absolutely nothing at all. The Council of Dort settled that point in the West. Do any of us actually know? No. We will find out in glory, the real truth. Until then……

Praise God from whom all blessings flow.

You said it perfectly yourself Rod…..

“Live not by lies”.

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Meh. As you well know not everyone in the West accepted Dort even among the Protestants of the time. In no sense whatsover is the point "settled."

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Of course. This is the view of some Reformed churches. Not all.

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From Robbie George of Princeton (God bless him): "By the authority vested in me by absolutely no one, I've declared June to be 'Fidelity Month'—a month dedicated to renewing fidelity to God, spouses and families, our country, and our communities. If you share these values, please join us, use our logo, and spread the word."

By small and simple things are great things brought to pass.

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Frankenstein was a warning. That’s what I see on these images.

And yes, Satan wants to demoralize us. Seek Jesus and the Holy Spirit to guide us through these days. There is no other answer. Rod, thank you for your consistent clarion call of truth. I am almost thankful for this hideous peak behind the curtain so that we are drawn to our knees in prayer.

God told the Israelites to thrive where they were planted in Babylon. It’s a tough assignment but raise children anyway. Teach them at home. Don’t let the schools get ahold of them. Parents know what is best for the children they love. It’s not easy, but it is simple. There are many of us and we must all resist.

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So what next? Worship God Almighty and His Son Jesus. And then love your Christian brothers and sisters and hold them close.

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