When clowns run the circus
So get this: An Arizona elementary school should not hire teachers with Christian values because it doesn't feel "safe"... so says the self-proclaimed "queer" schoolboard member wearing cat ears . ( See here .)
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Why Is It So Hard For Calvinists To Get Free From Calvinism?
This was originally on the end of my post "If Calvinism is true, then God is a liar." But I think it deserves its own post (I recently updated it a little bit, March 2021): I read something once about how very few people end up freeing themselves from the clutches of Calvinism because of the strong hold it has on people. I think this is partly because ... 1. We (I am talking as if I were a Calvinist here) would have to admit that we were misunderstanding Scripture this whole time, and no one wants to admit they could be wrong. 2. Calvinism appeals to us prideful intellectuals. (And prideful intellectuals have the greatest aversion to admitting we could be wrong.) It makes us feel special, like we alone understand the "deeper, hidden meanings of Scripture," while the simple-minded Christians can't understand it. Calvinism (with all of its contradictions, word play, round-about reasoning, and multiple layers of meaning for verses) gives u...
A Coronavirus "Plandemic"? A 26-minute video you need to see
Everyone should watch this 26-minute video: Plandemic Part 1 by Dr. Mikovits . (FYI: I watched this video yesterday on a different YouTube link. It had something like a million views. And it's already been removed today. Big surprise! This is why I watched it right away and wrote up a short summary of my thoughts on it. Because I figured it would be silenced! So watch it soon, before this is removed too.) A friend found it yesterday and shared it with me. While it’s scary stuff, it didn’t shock me because it coincides with what I’ve already thought about this whole virus situation, among other things: ... That there’s something fishy about it and it’s not natural … ... That there are unhealthy and dangerous connections between Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci and government health agencies (CDC, FDA, WHO, etc.), among others … ... That there are shady coronavirus reporting practices in the hospitals, such as financial incentives for doctors ...
Pause, breathe, smile
(Happy New Year!) Please, allow me to vent and to listen to myself rant. And come along, if you want, on a trip through m y mind (I apologize in advance for how the messy it is😉) : Are you exhausted? I am. I am sick and tired of all the craziness out there, all the chaos, fighting, hate, lies, fear-mongering, violence, increasing prices (for less product or services), natural disasters, wars, rumors of wars, AI this-and-that, Big Pharma, social deviance/immorality, efforts to force people to tolerate social deviance/immorality, political posturing and mudslinging and nonsense, etc. I'm done with it. I'm just so done with it all. "You can stop the world now, God. We wanna get off." I am sick of both social media and the news - because everyone just wants to fight, scream their opinions, demand their way, calls names, make accusations, and force everyone else to agree with them and do things their way. E veryt...
9 Marks of a Calvinist Cult #5 (isolation, control)
[This series is "The 9 Marks of a Calvinist Cult" split up into smaller, individual posts.] Cults use isolation, control, fear, coercion, mind-control, and thought-reform to enslave the members to the cult. The members' "inner voices" are suppressed. 5. Information Isolation and Control Of course, Calvinists don't physically isolate members in a commune or anything like that, as more extreme cults have. But Calvinist pastors do practice various forms of "mental" isolation by controlling the information and resources. From the very beginning, Calvinist pastors set out to carefully control the information we get, the resources we have access to, the verses we hear, who's in charge, etc. Verses: Calvinists will ignore verses that contradict or disprove Calvinism , but highly favor those that can be twisted/interpreted to support it. For example: Calvinist pastors fill their sermons with verses that appear to fit...
White horses and a cup of tea (part 3)
[I'm working my way through this slowly. Click here for part 1 and part 2 of this series.] First, here's The White Horse Parable again (my version): A man and his son owned a field that they farmed for a living. And one day, they found a white horse in the field. "Oh, what a blessing," said the farmer. "A free horse." But then the horse started tearing up their plants. "Oh, this is terrible. What a curse!" cried the farmer. But then they caught the horse and tamed it and were able to use it to farm the field. "Oh, what a blessing," said the farmer. But then the son was thrown off the horse, broke both arms, and couldn't farm for months, reducing their sales and income. "Oh, what a curse," said the farmer. "I wish this horse never came to us. Why, God? Why!?!" But then a war started, and the army issued a draft. But because the son had broken arms, he was excused from the draft and didn't have to f...
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Where I'm Coming From ...
(Repost of "How I Broke" from my other blog. FYI - this is a long post! A really long post. Did I mention it will be a long post?) I had the pleasure of talking briefly with a friend the other day about her journey through depression/anxiety and about mine. It was so refreshing to be able to talk a bit about my struggles, to not feel like I had to answer “I’m fine. How are you?” She actually brought up her struggles first, and it gave me permission to talk about mine. For the past year and more, I have only been able to be honest with and share my struggles with one friend. (Thank God for her! What a blessing!). And with everyone else, it’s always been “I’m fine. How are you?” ...
Link to "In 'Honor' of Halloween: My Story of Demonic Harassment"
Since Halloween is coming up, I am going to post links to some of my previous "Halloween" posts, standard ones that I would like to share every year, starting with: "In 'Honor' of Halloween: My Story of Demonic Harassment."
A Defining Moment
(This was written months ago and reposted from one of my other blogs. It's the point that I came to after all the pain of 2016. And if this is where all that pain led me to, then I don't regret it. You'll see what I mean.) Have you ever been smacked upside the head by the heaviest questions you could ever ask yourself, knowing that the answers would define your future and determine the direction of your faith thereafter? ... During the worst summer I ever had - the summer of 2016, the year that broke me (written about here ) - I was in such despair that I could barely get out of bed. I was afraid of everything - afraid of having another panic attack, afraid that moving around would make me throw up, afraid that I would lose my mind and end up in the hospital, afraid that I wouldn't get help from the hospital and that I would succumb to crippling anxiety, afraid of talking to others, afraid of not talking it out, afraid my mother would kill he...