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๐—˜๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—ฅ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด: โ€œ๐˜ž๐˜ฆโ€™๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‰๐˜ช๐˜ฃ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ.โ€ But the moment baptism came upโ€ฆ they didnโ€™t follow the Bible. They ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ. Peterโ€™s Barque exposed it perfectly: When the Reformers cut themselves off from the Church Christ founded, they didnโ€™t just...

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Rev Christine Coleman

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๐ŸŽถ๐Ÿ‘‰NEW SONG!๐Ÿ‘ˆ๐ŸŽถ โ€œNo, Catholics Donโ€™t Worship Statuesโ€ โ€” The Song That Ends the Idolatry Myth for Good Every few weeks, like liturgical clockwork, someone confidently declares: โ€œCatholics worship statues!โ€ โ€œImages are idols!โ€ โ€œGod hates religious art!โ€ And every time, the internet nods along as if this werenโ€™t contradicted by the Bible the Church and two thousand years of Christian practice. Hereโ€™s what the meme-culture theologians never mention: God Himself commanded sacred images. Moses didnโ€™t invent the bronze serpent โ€” God did. Solomon didnโ€™t freestyle cherubim, pomegranates, and carved angels โ€” God ordered it. Beauty wasnโ€™t banned. Idolatry was. And Deuteronomy ? The verse everyone misquotes? God literally says Israel couldnโ€™t make an image of Him because โ€œyou saw no form.โ€ No form = no image. Then the impossible happened: God took on a form. Jesus โ€” the image of the invisible God. The Incarnation didnโ€™t just redeem humanity โ€” it redeemed art. Thatโ€™s why the early Church filled catacombs with frescoes, raised mosaics that preached the Gospel, and carved the saints into stone: the โ€œcatechism of the illiterate,โ€ truth for the eyes when the tongue couldnโ€™t teach it yet. Meanwhileโ€ฆ You can build a forty-foot Lincoln, carve presidents into a mountain, or fly a giant Garfield balloon down Manhattan โ€” no one screams โ€œIDOLATRY!โ€ But carry Mary in a procession? Suddenly everyoneโ€™s a part-time biblical scholar with a minor in โ€œGraven Images 101.โ€ Images arenโ€™t idols. Theyโ€™re reminders. Theyโ€™re witnesses. Theyโ€™re windows into heaven โ€” the family photos of the Kingdom. This track exists for one reason: to put the โ€œstatue worshipโ€ myth in its grave once and for all. ๐ŸŽถ โ€œNo, Catholics Donโ€™t Worship Statuesโ€ โ€” out now. A track for Scripture nerds, history lovers, and anyone exhausted by the internet confusing art with apostasy. Support the mission: ๐Ÿ‘‰ Follow Peterโ€™s Barque & listen everywhere: Apple Music: X:

Peter's Barque

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Why I Stopped Going to Church And No, It's Not Because I Hate God. โ†’ Church stopped feeling like a place of worship... it started feeling like a business center. Every Sunday: "Sow this... give that... seed for breakthrough... seed for protection... seed for long life!" Oga pastor, is it God I'm praying to or POS terminal? โ†’ The competition inside church was louder than the sermon. If you don't wear new cloth, new wig, or carry latest bag, they look at you like you need deliverance. Even ushers will scan your whole body before saying "you're welcome. โ†’ People now worship "Daddy and Mummy in the Lord" more than God. Their pastors' words carry more weight than the Bible. It's spiritual celebrity culture. โ†’ Too many pastors preaching what they don't practice. They shout "stop fornication!" But they're privately doing counseling sessions at 11pm. โ†’ The church turned into gossip headquarters. Before you even finish giving testimony,somebody at the back has already said: "Na lie she dey talk." or "I know her ex oh." โ†’ The judgment is too much. You can't dress a certain way You can't ask questions You can't disagree. The moment you speak your mind, they tag you "rebellious" "worldly," or "possessed." โ†’ Their prophecies revolve around four things: death, madness, your partner is not the right one for you and enemies. Nothing uplifting... always fear. โ†’ Their message of "submission" feels more like bondage that's why so many Christian women are suffering in silence. โ†’ They shout about holiness, but when it comes to helping the needy or giving job opportunities, they suddenly go mute. โ†’ Church became a celebrity show.Everyone wants to be seen. Nobody wants to be changed. Ring light inside church. Photoshoot after service. Is this worship or content creation? โ†’ Some churches love drama more than Nollywood. Fake prophecies everywhere Actress fainting up and down. People shouting "Holy Ghost fire!" like it's a national anthem. โ†’ They made Christianity harder than God made it. Rules upon rules. Fear upon fear. Do this or God will punish you. Don't do that or God will reject you. Meanwhile, the Bible they shout is the same Bible they don't follow. โ†’ I didn't leave God. I left the noise. Because I realized I can still pray, love God, read my Bible, grow spiritually, and have peace without the confusion, manipulation, and competition inside some churches. Where is the lie? Which of this can you relate to?

Marjid Cryptonite

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In the July 29, 2026 Q&A, Bp. Donald Sanborn explicitly taught an error on the source of jurisdiction for confession which all pre-V2 theologians held to be "false and intolerable." This is the error of "jurisdictio ligata," or the theory that every priest receives in ordination itself all jurisdiction over every penitent so that nothing moreโ€”in the way of ecclesiastical jurisdiction received from a superior in the Churchโ€”is necessary for validity, and that the Church merely binds or restrict this power so that it cannot ordinarily be used. This theory holds that the only reason a priest "normally" needs "faculties" or "permission" from the Church to absolve is because she "binds" or "restricts" this divinely given power so that it can only be exercised in a specific location. Bp. Sanborn takes this even further in a gratuitous leap in stating that, whenever the bishop of a diocese is absent, this restriction is not present, because there is no authority to "restrict" this power of the priest, so any priest can freely absolve any penitent in that case. It is unfortunate that any educated member of the clergy would attempt to defend such an error today when it has for centuries been universally rejected and was only revived in recent times by certain heretics such as the Jansenists. Galtier, an author who wrote much on the sacrament of penance and was very familiar with the history of the opinions of theologians on this matter, has an excellent passage discussing this error in his 1956 treatise, De paenitentia, published by the Pontifical Gregorian University. Galtier comments as follows: โ€œAs if the Church binds the jurisdiction given by Christ Himself by virtue of ordination itself, by prohibiting penitents from subjecting themselves to priests besides those whom she herself wills, by assigning subjects. โ€” But this is false and intolerable: for the Church cannot so bind the power granted by Christ Himself that its act would be invalid" (Galtier, De paenitentia, #536). It is an unfortunate fact that Thesis clergy at times simply make up theology as they go and as needed for the Thesis, without squaring it with the actual teaching of theologians. The ultimate norm seems to be defending the Thesis at all cost. Nothing else can explain how opinions like this could be expressed by these priests when we all know from our seminary studies that they are universally rejected. Those from the Novus Ordo, SSPX, or other R&R who have been looking at the Thesis as a possible theological solution that checks all the boxes should understand that it will in no way solve their theological anxieties. It will not satisfy an intellect looking for an explanation of how they have jurisdiction for confession, or how they can reject the Novus Ordo "hierarchy," or how apostolicity or visibility continue. The true, and only, Catholic teaching is that a priest must receive jurisdiction from an authority in the Church in order to validly hear confessions. There is no way to explain this away as if it is ever unnecessary. It is a divinely established requirement. This is why SSPX also completely lost the battle to Sisco and Salza over the matter of jurisdiction. As long as they say Prevost and his predecessors are true Popes, they have absolutely no way to explain how they can validly absolve penitents. When a true Pope explicitly denies you jurisdiction, you have none. Zero! On the other hand, it is the standard teaching of theologians, notably Lainez, SJ, that the Church (i.e the will of the Popes) supplies jurisdiction when necessary "for the building up of the Church" and "lest souls perish." It was on this grounds that theologians commonly taught supplied jurisdiction in cases of common error and doubt, even before it was inserted in the Canon Law of the Church. This will to grant jurisdiction when necessary lest souls be lost is the true explanation for how priests today, in times of apostasy and a long vacancy in the papacy, have jurisdiction for confession as well as other instances where it is needed for the same purposes. Yet, the Thesis priests are determined to reject this as the source of jurisdiction for their absolution of penitents, because the idea of supplied jurisdiction in this way, or any way, would lead to the dismantling of the Thesis. They are insistent that we are simply garbage men and sacrament machines with no jurisdiction, because this would mean we must look to the Novus Ordo as the one with authority to solve this situation. What a depressing Thesis so inconsistent with the very nature and purpose of the Church!

Fr. Gabriel Lavery

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Dumbing Down II "By Faith, this is the last rent I am paying as a single lady. If you support me to pay this rent, by the grace of God, this time next year, I will be in my husband's house." is back begging for support to pay another rent. Not because God didn't bring eligible suitors her way, but because her PASTOR has replaced the Holy Spirit in her life. Pastors ruin a lot of destinies when they insist on playing God instead of their primary role as destiny guides. Many members have submitted their free will to their pastors, giving their pastors the power that God himself didn't take from us from the dawn of creation. When you take the ability of the individual to act as a free agent in the name of religion, you reduce him or her to a puppet and yourself to a puppeteer. You want to pull the strings of the lives of thousands of born-again Christians at the same time while rendering them useless to follow their paths in Christ and grow into mature sons. I was at a Church in Anthony village about three years ago to minister, and I met this young man who was schooled at a very prestigious university in the USA. He was the in-house IT consultant of the church, and the pastor placed him on a monthly stipend while he was working for God. It was the Pastor who introduced the young man to me while boasting that God had given him the most capable hands to help him in ministry. I asked him if he had any Python, Java, cloud engineering, data management, digital marketing, coding, or similar tasks available for the young man in the church. He said no. I said, "You are giving this young man the job that any young school leaver who is proficient in computer appreciation can do, and you don't see it as limiting his capabilities and rendering his skills obsolete?" You would rather boast that you are ruining a destiny to build up your own profile rather than set this young man on the path of excellence? Did God call him into ministry as a preacher? Is he understudying you in preparation for his own ministry? The pastor said, "No, I plan that as the church expands, he will head our digital infrastructure and position us for the future." I said, "He can do that as a consultant or even as a member, he shouldn't be doing that while you are paying him 100,000 Naira a month. He should be out there, flying with his peers and earning in dollars! The only exception is if the Lord has called him to be a preacher and he is understudying you as your personal assistant, as led by the Lord as part of his season of preparation. Anything other than that is injurious to his destiny!" The pastor had never seen it that way When I was done ministering in the church, the young man hugged me and thanked me profusely. He said his mother sent him to the pastor when he returned from the USA and the pastor immediately told him that God had need of him in the ministry or he would die without fulfilling his purpose. Why do pastors do this? I have another case from the Northern part of Nigeria. A young lady reached out to me seeking clarity regarding her future She said her Apostle told her she has been raised by God to sing in his church choir, but she is a medical doctor by training and desires to further her studies abroad Every time she raised the issue with the Apostle, he shut her down and told her she was struggling with the will of God "Why can't you just submit to God and serve in the choir and watch as God will take your voice all over the world as this ministry grows?" The young lady said she knows she has a good voice and sings very well as one who is full of the Holy Spirit, but she does not want to be "Sinach", she wants to fulfil her dream of practising as a Pediatrician. She was wary of incurring the wrath and curse of the Apostle, however, and did not know how to extricate herself from the situation. The apostle did not see anything wrong with his actions because he was a user of people who believed that in order to fulfill his own desire to become a big ministry, others could not thrive and grow in their visions and ministries as ordained by God. This is witchcraft. It is not of God. Jesus didn't lead his disciples this way. Insecurity is the undoing of many African so-called Pastors and Spiritual leaders, and they hide behind the illusion of divinity to put others in bondage. I experienced this firsthand as a young graduate, so I understand how a pastor trying to build his ministry could see the potential in a young man or woman and try very hard to turn such a person into servants and house helps in the name of discipling them or training them for kingdom relevance You graduate from the University and join the labour force, you apply for many jobs, and at a point, you tell yourself it is important to seek supernatural guidance in your quest to fulfil destiny Somebody somewhere tells you about a church or a ministry, you join, and you are convinced the church is good. You also tell your friends, and they join. But you are all fresh graduates who are heading into the future one way or the other, but this pastor wants you to be his flock. To him, his church of ten members had suddenly become a church of 30 members because of you guys, and he wants to keep the numbers growing, so he begins to give you prophesies that were not of God but with the aim of keeping you in the fold for as long as possible. He told young graduates who ought to go for NYSC that God is telling him they should give it up for service to God in the vineyard. The mother of two of the ladies in the fellowship, whose daughters told that the pastor told them not to go for NYSC, quickly removed them from the fellowship before the seed of corruption being planted by this pastor would bear fruit The others also left as soon as they could gather their wit People who you ought to guide on their path in sincerity ran as far as they could from you based on how you chose to manipulate rather than nurture them. A married woman whose husband worked abroad was a trained secretary, and while her husband was abroad, catering to the needs of the family, he begged her to stop working so that she could focus on raising the children. She was raising five children all by herself, and combining this with a job seemed a bit too much at the time. One of the vital institutions for raising godly children was the church This woman attended church regularly with her children and even volunteered to spend any free time she had typing the pastor's sermons, Sunday School pamphlets, handouts, books, journals, and other church reports and documents She was not officially employed to do the work; she just saw that she could take some of the secretarial duties on during her downtime, and she did so with all sincerity. The church enjoyed her free services for five years until the pastor forgot completely that she was doing the church a favour One day, the woman came to church to tell the pastor that her husband would be returning home to visit the family, and she would not be available for a few days because she had to pick her husband up from the airport and ensure that he settled in properly. Unfortunately, that weekend was the weekend of the church's anniversary, and the pastor had a lot of secretarial work to do. He told the woman God said she should pick one. Heaven or marriage. He said if she goes to pick her husband from the airport, she has chosen the world and forsaken the Lord. The woman wept all the way home, It was not the thank you, thou faithful servant report she had worked day and night for many years to get that she received. She went to pick her husband from the airport and distanced herself from any church founded by any individual after that experience. She said the ambition of church founders requires that they use people to build, even though they lacked the resources to pay or compensate such people, so they resort to blackmail, coercion, lies, fake prophesies, promises, and manipulations to get things done while keeping their followers on a leash. Followers are also enablers as they refuse to read the Bible for themselves and walk in the light of the word of God. No one should be able to take you captive in the name of God, Jesus, all the angels, or any form of miracle if you know the word of God. The word of God is profitable to make one wise, and therefore, anyone who knows the word of God cannot fall victim to any false doctrine, teaching, spiritual manipulations, or lies. All the false teachings of someone being a covering for someone else came from these manipulative narratives, and believers should be wise to them. I have seen a pastor declare that his church is the only church in Africa that is licensed by God to take people to heaven, and some members believed him. The day he said that, all his members ought to laugh, pick up their Bibles, and leave without looking back. Self-aggrandisement has become the order of the day in some churches, the pastor sells himself as the be-all and end-all of the member's spiritual enlightenment, and the members sheepishly surrender their eyes of their understanding to him or her. He or she must determine where they work, whom they marry, who they associate with, whose music they must listen to, and whose sermons they must hear. If they want to travel, he must see if the road is clear on their behalf, if they want to build a house, he must approve, if he does not dedicate their baby, the baby is illegitimate. This is not the faith Christ or the Apostles died for. Jesus died that you might be free of religion. Christianity is not a religion, it is the opposite. It is individualistic and determined by the faith and belief system of the one rather than the many. Salvation, therefore, is a personal affair, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit is also a personal affair Religion is the opium of the masses, and Christianity is the salvation of the individual and his or her walk with God. When we fellowship together, we do so not so we can get brainwashed by one "super Christian" but so that we can minister to the Lord and minister to one another in the presence of God. Every believer must hold this truth to be self-evident. PS: Someone sent me the video of a pastor condemning a song recently released by a fellow believer, which is making a global impact The Pastor represents an old school of Christians who are unfit to be custodians of the gospel due to their rigidity and limited understanding of the finished work of Christ. Disciples of the gospel of Works and Performance lack creativity and discernment but are good stewards of rigidity and religious doctrines. In other words, a Pharisee must act like one, and Jesus must act like Jesus. We are all just being true to our nature. "I can never go back o No...No It's already too late o No...No Where Am I going to... No...No" If you read to this point, when I was in Spain, I asked a very important question about a meal. If you know the answer, I'm inside the comment section. -GSW-

Gbenga Samuel-Wemimo

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Followers have asked me to comment on this video about Christian Nationalism from the perspective of a Catholic-Christian sympathetic to Orthodox Christianity. This X Post is exclusively & only about the pastors interviewed below, no one else. We should avoid the ideology of both Christian Nationalism interpreted by the far-right & radical feminism on the far-left. Men of the book (Christians, Muslims & the Jewish People) should walk together shoulder to shoulder in the name of synodality. We should support & promote traditional Christianity that is practiced voluntarily, patriarchy in the household, a true respect for women, and a respect for American culture. 1) Women must have and maintain the right to vote. We men should respect and defend this right, and we must protect the 19th Amendment. 2) Wives should voluntarily choose to submit to their husbands, and husbands should lead their wives and family. 3) We must have patriarchal households to maintain basic societal order, but not an exclusively patriarchal society. Two parties in a household who are partners will more likely than not constantly argue and eventually divorce. 4) Women who first serve their families as traditional homemakers absolutely deserve to be societal leaders, just as Our Lady reigns queen of heaven (Revelation 12:1-2). Christ turned to his disciple and said, "Woman, behold your son... Behold, your mother." (John 19:26-27). The Catholic and Orthodox Churches are both approximately 2,000 years old, tracing their origins back to the apostles. They tragically separated formally in 1054 CE. Catholics and Orthodox follow a tradition that includes not only Scripture but also Sacred Tradition and the authority of the Church. This tradition is seen as an essential guide for interpreting the Bible. Our 3rd wave feminist friends who attempt to claim the title of Christian while also practicing mysticism, Neo-Paganism, astrology, and worshipping the divine feminine often cite the doctrine of sola scriptura (Scripture alone). Separately, Reformed Protestant Christians also follow the doctrine of sola scriptura. Sola scriptura means they view the Bible as the sole infallible source of Christian teaching, which often leads to varied interpretations.(Anglicans and Episcopalians are slightly different in their view of tradition.) People interpret the Bible through their own lens, and some do so wrongly. This is why church authority, a Patriarch devoted to God alone, and his subordinate Patriarchs, are essential to guide us on our spiritual journey. The issue with Christian Nationalism is that its followers are typically Protestants who hold a co-equal authority with other Protestants: Sola Scriptura. For example, both Orthodox Christians and Catholics understand that wives must submit to their husbands because church tradition and its patriarchal leadership reinforce the Bible's teachings on the matter. The consequence is that Catholic nations often remain Catholic, and Orthodox nations remain Orthodox. Sola Scriptura gives radical feminism fertile ground for growth. When feminism takes root in Non-Denominational Protestantism, as seen in nations like Sweden, the UK, and Norway, men may feel they have no other choice but to turn to masculine, patriarchal religions such as Catholicism (Christianity) or Islam, just so they can find a wifeable bride that isn't subject to extremist feminism. For example, in Protestant Christianity, when a Protestant reads Ephesians 5:21, "Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ," progressive feminists might use this verse to argue that husbands should submit to wives. They often ignore the fact that Eve was made for and from Adam as a helpmate. Since Catholics and Orthodox have church authority to enforce the correct interpretation of Scripture, Protestant Christian Nationalists, who lack that church authority, are vulnerable to such misinterpretations. Catholics and Orthodox are not. Catholics and Orthodox have Patriarchs; our Protestant friends do not. We should promote Christian patriarchy exclusively in households, embrace classical liberalism, reject political extremism, say no to populism, and respect American exceptionalism. These are my opinions alone and are only directed towards the pastors in the below video, no one else and no other organization. The last thing a Protestant Calvinist pastor wants is a "New Crusade." His Holiness, the Bishop Of Rome, Patriarch of the West, is American. May we all walk together in the name of friendship & brotherhood. Have mercy on me, a sinner. See link below, for full video:

Theron Bassett

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This video was recorded during my time as an English service pastor in a charismatic church. What you are seeing is not speculation or secondhand stories. This is something I witnessed with my own eyes, lived through, and carried the weight of for years. My senior pastor (the old guy in the suit) had just returned from a Kenneth Copeland conference. He came back convinced that he had encountered a โ€œnew move of the Spiritโ€ and he was determined to bring it into our church. What followed still grieves me when I think about it. To make this so called move believable, he arranged for a couple to act drunk in the Spirit. They staggered, laughed uncontrollably, and collapsed on the floor as if overtaken by some supernatural force. This was not spontaneous. It was planned. They were the demonstration. They were meant to convince the congregation that something powerful was happening. Then the pressure began. As the pastor began pointing at people across the hall, one by one they fell. Not because the Spirit overwhelmed them, but because fear did. No one wanted to be the person left standing. No one wanted to be accused of resisting the Spirit or lacking faith. So people gave in. They fell. They laughed. They played the part that was expected of them. It was emotional manipulation dressed up in spiritual language. It was peer pressure baptized and sold as power. The Spirit of God does not rob a man of self control. He does not create confusion. He does not produce chaos. Scripture is clear that God is not the author of disorder, but of peace. Yet we were being trained to celebrate disorder and call it divine. These manifestations were not holiness. They were not repentance. They were not transformation. They were performances created to keep people compliant and silent. When I began to question these practices, I was made to feel ashamed for even daring to speak. The senior pastor staged a dramatic scene, claiming that my questioning had cut his connection with the Holy Spirit and that he would die without it, insisting he could not survive if I remained in his presence. That moment ended with me being physically thrown out by his bodyguards. My voice was silenced through his political influence, and everything I had recorded the evidence of manipulation, planning, and what went on behind closed doors was erased by church staff. They made sure no trace was left behind. But by the providence of God, this one clip survived. It remains as a witness to what many are still trapped in today. Not revival. Not power. But deception that preys on sincere people who truly want God and are instead given a counterfeit. This is why I speak. This is why I warn. And this is why I will not stay silent.

Jeremiah Knight

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There was a parent who lost a child to the needle. Not lost to death, which at least lets you grieve and one day stop. Lost to the street. To the years of disappearing, the phone that stops being answered, the front door left unlocked every single night for a decade on the chance the child might finally come through it. And the parent never stopped. Did not move on. Did not decide the child was too far gone. Drove to the worst parts of town to scan the faces under the overpass. Searched for years, going gray with it, burying the hope a hundred times and digging it back up every morning, because a parent does not get to stop loving a child just because the child is lost. And then came the day it finally happened. The child, hollowed out, certain they were beyond all loving, looked up, and there was the parent's face. And neither of them could speak. They just held on, and they wept, the kind of weeping that has years of grief and years of longing pouring out of it at once, the child sobbing the only word they could find, sorry, sorry, and the parent saying the only word that mattered, which was not "where have you been" and not "do you know what you did to me," but only, over and over into their hair, you're home, you're home, you're home. Now understand. That is not just a real story about a parent and a child. That is God, and that is humanity. No one is forgotten by the Father. He did not fold His arms and wait at home for you to crawl back and prove you were worth it. The moment you were lost, He came after you. And the cost He paid to reach the very bottom of your pit was not patience, and it was not effort. It was His Son, sent down below all of it, so there would be no depth where His face was not already waiting for you to find it. So hear this, wherever it finds you. You were never forgotten, not for one second, not in the worst of it. The door has been unlocked every night since the day you left. He is still driving the worst parts of town. He is still scanning the faces under the overpass. He is still weeping over the ones who are certain they have fallen too far to ever come back. And the moment you turn around, you will not hear "where have you been." You will only hear, said over and over into your hair, the one thing that has been true since before the foundation of the world: you're home, you're home, you're home. Stop running. Come home.

Kirk Rollins

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THE RAILROAD MEN, THE BROKEN RAILS, AND THE NEW MONEY TRACKS OF THE WORLD Let me tell you a story - the kind your granddad mightโ€™ve told sitting by a wood stove, the kind that cuts through the fog, the lies, the banker-speak, and hits your soul with the simplicity of: โ€œOf course thatโ€™s how it works.โ€ Once upon a time, every nation ran its money on rotten tracks. Not by accident. By design. The tracks were crooked. The switches jammed. The fees were hidden. The travel times were unpredictable. And the men who owned the trackโ€ฆ werenโ€™t elected. They liked things confusing. Confusion keeps pockets open and oversight closed. Your money - my money - every paycheck, every wire, every mortgage, every loan - moved through a rickety, blind, 50-year-old rail system nobody could inspect. Governments complained. Businesses complained. People complained. But the track owners just smiled and said: โ€œTrust us.โ€ And everyone didโ€ฆ because what choice did they have? Then one day a new track appeared - smooth, straight, and honest. A track made of math instead of politics. Transparency instead of secrecy. Finality instead of guesswork. It didnโ€™t wiggle. It didnโ€™t reroute. It didnโ€™t stall. It didnโ€™t shake down passengers for lunch money. It settled every transaction in 3โ€“5 seconds. Every time. No exceptions. It didnโ€™t care whether you were a farmer, a banker, or a prime minister. The rules were the rules for everyone. They named this new track: The XRP Ledger. And instead of one manโ€™s company store, it came with: โ€ข a built-in currency exchange (no middlemen) โ€ข a global bridge asset (XRP) โ€ข a native payment router (ILP) โ€ข a regulator-friendly design โ€ข no downtime in 12 years โ€ข no pay-to-play gas wars โ€ข no bribed block builders โ€ข no โ€œmaybe finalizedโ€ nonsense โ€ข no outages โ€ข no drama It worked the same way every day. Like a railroad should. โ€œBut why would the big banks switch?โ€ people asked. Hereโ€™s the part Paul Harvey would call โ€œthe rest of the story.โ€ The bankers didnโ€™t switch because they suddenly found integrity. They switched because they had no choice. The old tracks were collapsing. โ€ข Liquidity dried up โ€ข Reserve buffers vanished โ€ข Regulations tightened โ€ข Fraud got illuminated โ€ข ISO 20022 turned the lights on โ€ข The Treasury demanded transparency โ€ข The world demanded atomic settlement And when the Trump Administration began pushing for a new monetary architecture back in 2017, they werenโ€™t doing it for show. They saw the collapse coming. They planned for the rebuild. They positioned the rails. The only rail that met the criteria โ€” ALL the criteria - wasnโ€™t theoretical. It was already running. The common-sense part: If a man needs to get from St. Louis to Chicago fast, safe, and cheapโ€ฆ and only one railroad line actually runs thereโ€ฆ you donโ€™t need a PhD or a bankerโ€™s certificate to figure out which train heโ€™ll take. You donโ€™t pick the train that: โ€ข breaks down โ€ข reroutes randomly โ€ข charges you a mystery price โ€ข doesnโ€™t run on time โ€ข or has โ€œgreat plans coming soonโ€ You pick the one that works today. Thatโ€™s XRPL. Not โ€œmaybe someday.โ€ Not โ€œonce upgrades finish.โ€ Not โ€œif the devs agree.โ€ Not โ€œafter an L2 patch.โ€ NOW. Right now. Today. Christmas 2025. Why the other tracks failed: Because they were built for casinos, not countries. โ€ข Ethereum: Great for gambling, awful for governance. Probabilistic finality + MEV = instant disqualification. โ€ข Solana: Fast until it isnโ€™t. Outages arenโ€™t acceptable for global money. โ€ข Stellar: Good tech, but not enough muscle. โ€ข HBAR/ALGO: Clean systems, tiny liquidity. โ€ข Private chains: Interoperability graveyard. Itโ€™s like asking a go-kart to pull a freight train. Not gonna happen. And hereโ€™s the Trump-style truth bomb: When building a new global money system, you pick the best tool. And the best tool is XRPL. Itโ€™s not close. This isnโ€™t hype. This isnโ€™t tribalism. This isnโ€™t crypto Twitter cheering. (2/2, below) Treasury Department Ripple Interledger Foundation

Rob Cunningham

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America is hostile to Christianity. Democracy slowly but surely corrupts the faith from within. Reading Tocqueville & the Founding Fathers between the lines convinced me of this. Look at the sorry state of Christianity at 250 compared to Americaโ€™s Puritan founding. That is the result of two centuries of democratic corrosion and this weakening will only continue. What people are calling a โ€œChristian revivalโ€ is a mere blip on this macro downward trajectory, a knee-jerk reaction to the excesses of progressivism of the last 20 years. Reading Tocqueville convinced me that America will never be truly Christian, unless it gives up being a liberal democracy (e.g. Integralism). Look at American Christianity today, it is already more American than it is Christian: Jesus preaches against wealth and yet Iโ€™ve rarely heard an american pastor do so. I hear the prosperity gospel quite often, but never sincere urges to poverty, asceticism, or monasticism as can be loudly heard in every Christian society prior. Christianity teaches love and humility; the American right co-opts it for hate and superiority. The Bible prescribes universal gender norms, sexual codes, ethical standards; the American left appropriates it for the latest political fads of the day. But the most hostile democratic force against all religions, not just Christianity, is toleration. The Bible is clear about Jesusโ€™ singular status: โ€œNo one comes to the Father except through me.โ€ Itโ€™s clear about the demonic or, at the very least, inferior status of the other faiths. And yet most American christians show not just tolerance but a puzzling affirmation of other religions. Tocqueville saw the terrible cost of this toleration, in a private letter in 1831, he wrote: โ€this so-called tolerance โ€ฆ is nothing but a huge indifference.โ€ Christianity could flourish for a 1000 years under persecution. Christianity did flourish for a 1000 years persecuting others. But just 250 years under liberal toleration and what Christians left have already stopped caring about ultimate questions, masking their indifference under the banner of toleration. Perhaps this was the Foundersโ€™ plan all along, Jefferson writes: โ€œthe way to silence religious disputes, is to take no notice of them.โ€ To see how strange and corrupting American religious toleration is, one need only look at how other cultures practice toleration. Look at how the ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel treat their Christian minority: they look down upon them as fools deceived by a false Messiah. They donโ€™t hide their contempt either: they openly mock the Christians, but they stop at organized, legal persecution. This was the original meaning of toleration. Toleration came from the Latin root tolerare which meant โ€œto bear, to suffer, to endure.โ€ The ultra-orthodox merely โ€œput up withโ€ their Christian minority. American Christians, even (maybe especially) the hyper-religious ones, do not behave like that towards their jewish minority. If you behave like that in America, you will be called โ€œintolerant.โ€ Because American toleration requires not just the lack of legal discrimination but a positive affirmation of the other. This concession doesnโ€™t seem like much (in fact, it has infinite benefits) but it completely subverts the original concept. Tolerare originally meant that the thing Iโ€™m tolerant of is bad, but I endure it for a greater good. American toleration demands you to affirm the thing you are tolerant of as good to begin with. This is a radical subversion because tolerare preserves a precious freedom of the mind to come up with oneโ€™s own judgements: as long as you do not compel the othersโ€™ body you are free to think as you wish in your soul. American toleration does not compel the body but strikes directly at the soul: you are not allowed to discriminate in thought and must affirm the other as good. This is why you hear so often โ€œall religions teach the same lessonโ€ (which, it always turns out, is some mushy platitude around love). American toleration is the most radical and thorough form of intolerance and the death of serious religious thinking. The ultra-orthodox Jews in their hostility secure the freedom that American Christians lose in their compassion. Tocqueville came to similar conclusions, on the deadly effects of religious toleration, in that private letter from 1831. And yet, in Democracy in America he defended the separation of Church and State and advocated for the liberal order. In this lecture, I am going to attempt to reconcile this seeming contradiction. What we are going to find is terrifying: democracy unleashes not just one, but four separate forces hostile Christianity. And the separation of Church and state is to protect the Church from these forces as much as it is to preserve the state, for democracies can not function without religion. That is to say, as much as America is hostile to christianity, it needs it even more. This is the tragedy of Democracy: it endlessly attacks the very religious pillar that sustains its existence.

Johnathan Bi

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๐Ÿšจ Ezra Levant ๐Ÿ๐Ÿš› went to that Regina mosque that blasts the Muslim call to prayer Itโ€™s nuts. But itโ€™s absolutely the kind of story that Rebel News was built to cover. A mosque in Regina wants to blast the Muslim call to prayer on loudspeakers pointed in all directions โ€” loud enough to be heard a kilometre away. They did it last week for the first time and they want to do it every week. And Regina police have warned the public that if you arenโ€™t careful with your criticism, you just might be prosecuted under Mark Carneyโ€™s new hate speech laws. Itโ€™s crazy. But the craziest part is whoโ€™s supporting this. Itโ€™s not just the mosque. Itโ€™s a left-wing church across the street. And itโ€™s mainstream media journalists โ€” who heckled me when I tried to ask legitimate questions of the imam. Canada was founded as a Christian country. It used to be standard practice for children to start the school day with the Lordโ€™s Prayer. But in the 1990s a judge ordered Saskatchewan schools to stop, after activists complained it violated their freedom of religion. So Christianity was driven out of the public square. And now a Muslim imam has come to fill the void โ€” with loudspeakers that can be heard across the downtown. Whatโ€™s so crazy about the replacement of Christianity with Islam, is that one of the loudest boosters of it in Regina is a priest from the Anglican church right across the street from the mosque. I spoke with him, and he seems thrilled that the mosque will broadcast a message in Arabic, saying that Allah is the greatest and that there are no other gods but him. The only people more excited about all this were the journalists โ€” including the Global News reporter who was wearing a hijab. Itโ€™s nuts. But itโ€™s absolutely the kind of story that Rebel News was built to cover. If you care about this story, please consider doing two things: 1. Please sign our petition below or at Thatโ€™s exactly what this is โ€” even if the local Christian clergy are giddy about it. 2. And while youโ€™re at that same website, please chip in to help us continue to cover the story. It cost more than $1,000 each for my videographer, Lincoln, and me to fly out to Regina on short notice, and weโ€™ll keep covering this story as long as we need to. This is the new front-line in the battle over the Islamification of Canada. The CBC, Global News and the Anglican Church are on one side. And Rebel News is on the other side, with the people. The Muslim imam said he had received threats about the loudspeakers. But did he really? I asked him for details โ€” youโ€™d laugh at his answer. Unlike Global News and the CBC, Rebel News takes no government money, and it shows. If you can help us cover the cost of covering this story, please do, by chipping in below.

Rebel News

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**๐Ÿ“œโœจ NEW SONG: โ€œChristmas Isnโ€™t Paganโ€ โ€” A Musical Exorcism of the Dumbest Internet Mythโ€ Every December, like clockwork, the same meme crawls out of the digital swamp: โ€œChristmas is pagan!โ€ โ€œChristians stole the winter solstice!โ€ โ€œThe tree is pagan! The date is pagan! Everything is pagan!โ€ It spreads like glitter โ€” loud, annoying, and impossible to clean up. But hereโ€™s the thing most people shouting this have never actually checked: There is zero ancient source saying Christians borrowed Christmas from pagans. None. Not a shred. Not a sentence. Not a footnote. The early Christians werenโ€™t browsing Pinterest trying to reinvent Saturnalia. They were busy surviving persecutions, burying martyrs, and preaching the Gospel in a world hostile to their existence. Meanwhile, the December 25th date didnโ€™t come from pagans โ€” it came from a very old Christian belief: that Jesus was conceived on the same calendar day He would later die. Ancient Jews often linked the great works of God with the same yearly date. Early Christians inherited the idea. So: March 25 โ†’ Annunciation Nine months later โ†’ December 25 โ†’ Nativity Not pagan. Not borrowed. Not syncretized. Just straight-up Christian theology about the Incarnation. Even the tree isnโ€™t pagan. Thereโ€™s no ancient pagan cult of the evergreen Christmas tree. There are medieval Christians using evergreens to symbolize eternal life and the Paradise Tree from Genesis, but nothing resembling โ€œThorโ€™s Winter Shrub of Human Sacrificeโ€ like TikTok claims. This song is a little gift-wrapped correction for the internet: No, Christmas is not Saturnalia. No, Christians didnโ€™t steal it. No, your edgy coworker didnโ€™t uncover a conspiracy. And yes โ€” it is completely okay to celebrate the birth of the God-Man without checking with ancient druids first. ๐ŸŽถ โ€œChristmas Isnโ€™t Paganโ€ โ€” a track for the history nerds, the theology lovers, the tired Catholics correcting Facebook relatives, the converts defending the faith, and everyone whoโ€™s sick of Wikipedia-level misinformation passing as scholarship. #Catholic #Christmas #Incarnation #NotPagan #ChristianHistory #CatholicTruth #PetersBarque #BibleStudy #Theology #MerryChristmas ๐Ÿ”— FOLLOW PETERโ€™S BARQUE X: Instagram: TikTok: Facebook:

Peter's Barque

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When it comes to the Pakistani Rape Gangs, the government is terrified of what will be exposed in Oldham. Thatโ€™s why they want us excluded. _________ Six years. Six years we campaigned in Oldham. They called us racist. They branded us far right. They tried to destroy us. But we didnโ€™t stop. To get this far, we removed three Labour Party leaders in the process and broke their grip on the council. Six times they blocked us before we had the numbers and forced them to write to the government demanding a public inquiry. And when the government said no, we shamed Jess Phillips' response and exposed this onto the world stage. We made it so big they couldnโ€™t ignore it. We then made every single councillor in our council chamber vote for a national inquiry. Without what we did in Oldham, there would be no national inquiry. Full stop. And now? Now the government wants to exclude Oldham from the inquiry we helped secure. Why? Because the evidence in Oldham leads to the top. Because some of the most powerful politicians in this country are neck-deep in the cover-up. Because the truth of what they did can no longer be hidden here. Thatโ€™s why. So what is the government doing? Theyโ€™re trying to shove us into a โ€œTruth Project.โ€ A parallel process with no legal powers. No compulsion. No accountability. Instead, just line up and tell your story, and let us โ€œinvestigateโ€ everywhere else. We did the work. We paid the price. We made this happen. And now they want to lock us out of the very inquiry we forced into existence. Theyโ€™re terrified of what Oldham knows. Thatโ€™s what this is about. Should what happened in Oldham come out, some of the most powerful politicians in this land will face prosecution and this nation will never remain the same. Of course, we can stop their so called Truth Project and without a doubt, we will shame Jess Phillips some more. There will be an article dropping in people's inboxes today where I lay out exactly what is really taking place. It is so much more than being reported. _________ Please Help Me Finish This. If you are coming to me new, my name is Raja Miah MBE. I am responsible for leading a six year campaign that blew the lid off how Labour Party politicians were involved in protecting Pakistani Rape Gangs. You wonโ€™t find me on any news channel in the UK nor featured in the legacy press. I take this scandal to a place from where there is no coming back. My work is free for all. No paywalls. No restrictions. No exclusions of any kind. We are up against a powerful machine: legacy media, politicians, police and public officials working together to bury the scale of this cover-up. To fight back, we need to grow. Unfortunately, our numbers arenโ€™t where they need to be. Please consider subscribing to my newsletter. I share all of my analysis and research here in a way that just is not possible on social media. ๐Ÿ‘‰ A one-off contribution also makes a massive difference. Every penny goes towards keeping my work alive and securing a National Inquiry. ๐Ÿ‘‰ ๐Ÿ‘‰ Without your support, powerful politicians will continue to bury this. Without your support, there will be no justice. Please stand with me. Raja ๐Ÿ™

Raja Miah

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