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Societal Erosion

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We live in a world that is intent on tearing itself apart, with the best intentions. We are putting so much value on the individual person that we fail to see the long term implications that our decisions and actions will have on society as a whole. When we, as a society, see a person or a group of persons suffering, or as seems to be the case more often than not, appearing to be suffering, society wants to defend them. That's a wonderful sentiment! But we seem to have forgotten that actions and decisions should have consequences. The removal of consequences for bad decision making not only does, but already has created an environment wherein there is little thought given to the outcome of ones actions, at the personal, corporate and even the governmental levels of society. Without consequences and the related pains that come with them, we don't pay a price for jumping before we think things through, and there is no incentive to do better, to think things through and to consi...
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You Don't Hate The Media Enough

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   There is a BIG story in Canada right now about a school shooter in northern British Columbia (B.C.). There are not a lot of mass shootings in Canada, so when one happens, and it happens at a school, it is big news. But the coverage of this has been anything but honest.   I was first hearing about this shooting last night, as my wife fed me tidbits as she found them. What my wife was telling me, in the approximate order that I heard it, was that there was a shooting in B.C., it was at a school, the suspected shooter was a "female in a dress with brown hair", 10 dead, 25 injured, the shooter killed themselves. As soon as I heard that phrase, "female in a dress with brown hair", I said to my wife that women don't do mass shootings; that shooter is a transgender. This morning, I decided to do a media dive to see what the world is being told about this incident. I have a strong disdain for the media, for very good reason, so I was not holding out much hope that t...
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Removing the Masculinity of God

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  I recently wrote an article in which I tried to give some clarity on the different Bible versions and how one might go about choosing the right version for themselves. One of the versions that I included in those to be absolutely avoided was a gender neutral bible, and I got to thinking about why it would seem important to those who published it to create that type of a version of the Holy Scriptures. I can easily understand why there is a gay bible; they are trying to legitimize abominable sexual practices and the only way they can do that or claim a clear conscience while claiming to worship God, is to remove all negative references to their sexual deviancies. But what is gained by removing references to God as a male figure? I have come up with four ideas for the possible reasoning for this, but as I start writing this article, I still do not know what they really hope to gain from this. Maybe it will be made clear to me as I continue writing. The first reason that I can thin...
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The Battle Against Fear - A Call to Arms

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 We have all seen what fear can do when a person or a population is gripped by it. We don't even have to look far into our past to see it's effects. Just look back to 2020 and onward, to the thing that shall not be named, and see how the fear of a flu bug shut down entire countries around the world, growing the poverty levels across the developed world and indicating to governments how easy it is to manipulate the population if fear is the motivating factor. Fast forward to today and we see that the grip of fear has not released its grip on the world. In fact, fear is the basis of virtually every crisis that we are seeing right now. The big story coming out of America right now is the backlash that the ICE agents are facing in Minnesota, and interviews with the protesters on the ground indicate that they are acting in fear of a "tyrannical government" or that American citizens are being deported illegally. I believe that there are political forces pulling the strings...
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