Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Monday, March 27, 2023

Is CBN Propagating Unfounded Claims Of Revival?

The Christian Broadcasting Network is propagating a story that a preteen girl suffering from serious gastrointestinal maladies allegedly experienced a miracle at the Asbury Revival.

What proof do we have that she is cured?

Sometimes these digestive issues can come and go.

Does she intend to chow down on some tasty gluten in a clinical, experimental setting and wait for a potential colorectal incident?

Virtually no evidential proof is provided in this article.

This account is so slickly written that you don’t find a single concrete word testifying if this young girl is actually feeling better in reference to the affliction from which she is reported to suffer.

In fact, regarding the tingling in her hands and body, it sounds like all she underwent at the religious spectacle was some kind of neurological reaction to manipulative stimuli.

by Frederick Meekins

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Animation Screenwriter Michael Reeves Passes

Will Extraterrestrial & Artificial Intelligence Partnership Commence Hell On Earth?

Why Globalism?

Pentagon Insinuates Extraterrestrial Mothership Gathering Intelligence For Possible Invasion

The Anglican Way: Catholic & Reformed

Witch Queen Of Michigan Prostitute State To Chinese Communist Party

Red China & The Pending World Order

 Click On The Headline

Did McClean Bible Doctor The Books To Conceal Congregation’s Takeover By Southern Baptists?

Upcoming Trek Series To Probe Aftermath Of The Dominion War

Barabara Walters Recalled By Colleagues

Whoremongering Heretic Weds Massage Parlor Proprietress

Extraterrestrials & The Christian Faith

Robert Novak Addresses The Jesse Helms Center

Discerning The Discerners

The Future Of The Anglican Church

Paleoconservatives & Theoconservatives

Bill Gothard's Surprising Connections to Prosperity Teachings

Thoughts After Visiting An Anglican Church

Who Is Gene Veith?: Life & Journey

Ethics & Space Exploration: From Geoethics To Astrobioethics

Redemption Incomplete Without Resurrection

George Marsden On Fundamentalism & American Culture

Friday, March 24, 2023

Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Will Those Outraged Over Scott Adams React To DiAngelo's Racialist Escalation?

 Liberals underwent a collective conniption when cartoonist Scott Adams suggested that Whites for their own well being disengage from hostile radicalized Black activists that view being White as a pathology to be eliminated. 

Will there be similar outrage over anti-Caucasian ideologue Robin DiAngelo not only suggesting that minorities need their own places apart from Whites but that those that do not embrace the sorts of minority supremacist policies she has accumulated a fortune advocating are not worthy of continued employment? 

In other words, those that disagree with her as a high priestess of the woketiopian religion should be starved to death. 

No such deliberative animus characterized Adams’ remarks. 

Left unanswered DiAngelo’s remarks symbolize that an additional step has been taken towards cattle cars, gas ovens, and maligned populations once again being turned into lampshades and bars of soap. 

by Frederick Meekins


If Tucker Won't Risk Church, Why Should Athletes Risk Jobs?

Philadelphia Flyer Ivan Provorov refused to adorn himself with a jersey yielding to Pride Night propaganda.

The athlete confided such would violate his Russian Orthodox faith.

On “Tucker Carlson Tonight”, commentator Jason Whitlock and the eponymous host reflected how only a non-American was courageous enough to take such a principled stand.

But if so, isn't Tucker Carlson even more cowardly?

Carlson is on the record of remaining in the Episcopal Church despite acknowledging the assorted apostasies espoused by that denomination's highest leaders and prominent voices.

Is not like there are not other ecclesiastical alternatives that Carlson could select from if he was actually serious about his Christian faith.

For unlike the hockey players that have their livelihoods to consider when confronted with the Goliath of corporate woketopianism, Tucker would face no financial consequences if he was to switch membership to a non-Episcopalian Anglican, Lutheran or even Roman Catholic congregation that shared his supposed love of liturgy and professed sexual ethics.

 By Frederick Meekins

Monday, March 20, 2023

Apostate Categorizes The Holy Spirit As Divine Man Goo

Barbecue Sauce Bottle

p>

Photo by Frederick Meekins

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Pretzel Can

Photo by Frederick Meekins

State Celebrating Recreational Reefer Considers Banning Skittles & Canned Soup

Angel Clock

Photo by Frederick Meekins

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Nurse Shark Hot Sauce




 Photo by Frederick Meekins

Patriot Chip Tin

Photo by Frederick Meekins

Does Song Of Solomon Graphic Novel Constitute Smut?

Accused Deviant Demands Christian University Finance Depraved Lifestyle

Is Dark Matter Cosmogenic Indigestion?

Diversitymongers Launch Assault To Prevent Articulation Of Differing Viewpoints

Space Cadet Senator Threatens To Censor Social Media

Shining Light On Dark Matter

Will Extraterrestrial Tourism Revitalize Rural Japanese Economy?

Woketopians Come For R.L. Stine

Friday, March 17, 2023

Finding Purpose in Life After Retirement: What To Do?

Congressional Whoremonger WIth Penchant For Chinese Floozies Attempts To Ban Fox News

Is Sleep Paralysis Perceived As Encounters With Non-Human Intelligences?

Plague Cult Laments Lackluster Culling

Modern Monasticism

Jessica Stern’s Career Studying Terrorism

Search For The Grays & Their Alien Agenda

The Cosmic Moment: Preparing Humanity For Contact

Is It Important For A Church To Be Part Of A Denomination?

A Christian Primer On Magic In Fantasy & Entertainment

How To Manage The Psychological Effects Of Retirement

Zines, Zinesters and DIY Small Publishing

Nephilim: Fallen Angels, UFO’s, Giants, Mermaids & Vampires

How To Make 1K + Per Months With Comics

How To Become An Ordained Minister

What Is Transhumanism & Posthumanism?

The 8 Step Comic Writing Process

Doing Church In The Digital Age

How To Become An Apologist

The History Of Conservatism & The Conservative Movement

Refusing To Accept The Truth

The Acts29 Church Planting Network Exposed

How Does Someone Become An Apologist?

Professional Zines In The 21st Century

What Is The Role Of Christian Apologetics?

Thoughts On Getting A Doctor Of Ministry Degree

Should You Get a PhD or DMin Degree?

Why Apologetics?

How To Become A Competent Apologist

Anglicans, Lutherans, Moravians & Reformed: What’s The Difference?

Sunday, March 12, 2023

The Study Of The History Of The End Of The World, Part 9

 Concerns regarding the End Times have become such a pervasive aspect of contemporary culture that, Richard Kyle writes, “Thus in the late twentieth century the apocalyptic mindset is no longer the fringe phenomena of a few marginalized people which we can ignore (166).” No longer are the most devout or religiously pious the only ones realizing that the world as we know it will likely one day meet with some sort of demise. Interestingly, some of those now the most obsessed with looming doom are not even religious in the traditional sense. In fact, a significant number are even hostile or dismissive of the notion of a personal deity guiding history through the sorts of horrors of which they forewarn to a blissful or beatific conclusion. And unlike the eschatological speculation or reflection of their theistic counterparts, the visions proposed by the secularists offer little in terms of hope for a better tomorrow.

The most prominent sort of secular apocalypse could be categorized as imaginary in nature. Kyle writes, “Most of the ideas of how the world will end have come from the Bible, science, or the occult. But eschatology --- particularly secular eschatology --- has also been conveyed through fiction, especially novels and film (169).” This is not to say that the scenarios in such works could not happen or bear no connection to plausible reality. Rather, what these narratives present is a reflection upon the concerns and anxieties of a given day and projecting the implications of these into an hypothesized potential future.

Through consideration of these stories, the student of history and religion can actually track how these concerns change over time, occasionally even in the mind of a single author. For example, prior to the calamity of the Great War in 1914, in most literary instances the end came about as a result of a natural force beyond the control of mankind. However, after World War I the disasters and tragedies described were usually the result of human actions of some kind such as a technology that spiraled out of control or even the outcome of a deliberate act.

This conceptual alteration could be detected in the works of H.G. Wells. For example, in The War Of The Worlds, the threat posed by the forces of nature is symbolized by Marian invaders. However, in Shape Of Things To Come, it is not an amorphous threat from out there or beyond that Wells feared threatened the species but rather a powerful planetary elite. Likewise, one can almost detect a similar shift in more contemporary examples such as Battlestar Galatica. In the original version, the Cylons were a threat that originated external to mankind. However, in the updated reimagining, the Cylons were actually created by humanity, it eventually being revealed, by a grieving father who wanted nothing more than to create a virtual reality version of his daughter killed in a terrorist attack.

As outlandish as the plotlines of many movies, television series, and novels might sound, these narratives are not beyond the basis of possibility. A number also bear a startling similarity to the ways prophetic portions of Scripture have been interpreted by exegetes applying their understanding of twentieth and twenty-first science and technology.v Foremost among potential secular apocalypses no doubt ranks nuclear annihilation. This possibility has gripped the minds of devout and reprobate alike since the mid 1940's when atomic devices were dropped on Japan in the hopes of bringing a swift conclusion to the Second World War. In the attack on Hiroshima, it has been estimated that over 70,000 individuals lost their lives (Kagan, 1053). Following that, these weapons not only increased in their destructive potential but proliferated in terms of ending up in the hands of regimes and some contend even groups at odds with the United States in terms of geopolitical vision. But at least at the height of the Cold War, the desire of the powers on either side of the ideological divide to see the world governed in their respective images either along the lines of modified free market capitalism or even repressive totalitarian Communism prevented these parties from destroying it. Such an attack would have resulted in devastating retaliation or a global ecological catastrophe where the fortunate might have actually been those losing their lives in the opening round of such a conflict.

It was hoped that the diminution in direct tensions between the United States and Russia following the demise of the Soviet Union that the likelihood of a mass casualty nuclear incident would be similarly decreased. However, such a hope did not necessarily transpire. If anything, the threat merely transformed and actually became less predictable. As a failed state, it was feared that the Soviet bureaucrats that became underworld oligarchs could sell these devices to assorted rogue states and terrorist groups. In turn, many of these potential customers were of a radical Islamist persuasion --- unlike Communists with no conception of a life beyond this one --- who were just as alright with blowing up the world or converting it since the true reward sought by those of this perspective was a blissful Heaven-like paradise.

Other secularists concerned about the end of the world as we know it are not so concerned that the world is going to end in a giant explosion but it will nevertheless be the result of man's irresponsible behavior in the form of environmental desolation. Foremost among these ranks global warming or climate change. Those buying into the reality of this threat believe that the conspicuous consumption of fossil fuels results in an excess amount of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere. This in turn, it is hypothesized, traps heat that is prevented from radiating off into the vacuum of space, creating what is referred to as the greenhouse effect. This rise in temperature could theoretically melt ice at the poles, resulting in the rise of sea levels flooding coastal areas as well as shifting weather patterns that could catastrophically impact global agriculture.

If the threat of nuclear annihilation and environmental devastation were not enough to keep the anxious awake at night, other analysts suggest it will most likely be global pandemics that will plunge the human species into an interminable death spiral. Civilization besieged by plague at an apocalyptic-level is not without historic precedent. During the Middle Ages, it has been estimated that up to a third of the population of Europe perished as a result of the Black Death believed to be bubonic plague (Abanes, 179).

Some experts believe the contemporary world with nations separated from one another by no more than a few days air travel is similarly vulnerable to the outbreak of killer disease. Such a possibility gained more widespread consideration in light of the AIDS outbreak of the 1980's. As terrible as that was, most felt protected from that pestilence to a degree since in most cases it was transmitted through promiscuous sexual activity or intravenous drug drug use. A number such as famed science fiction author Issac Asimov did contract the virus innocently as a result of a blood transfusion.

Even more frightening is the possibility of an illness such as ebola spreading unchecked around the globe. Unlike AIDS which can take years to fester in the systems of those infected by the virus, usually requires a deliberate behavioral action to contract and can now in many instances be kept in check through rigorous adherence to a strict pharmaceutical regimen, the victims of E.bola are often dead within a matter of days after exposure even while wearing what is thought to be a sealed protective biohazard suit. Kyle assures that E.bola is so overwhelmingly deadly that a natural outbreak under most circumstances would be self-limiting (181). The real danger, he assures, would no doubt be rogue states or terrorist organizations weaponing these microorganisms. With the proper technical background, such would not be too difficult and is no doubt why such bacteriological devices are even referred to as the poor man's nuclear bomb.

If nuclear, environmental, or biological holocaust are still not enough to frighten you, there are those terrified that life here as we know it will be wiped out by an object from beyond this world crashing into the Earth. Given its vastness, it would be understandable to assume that the chance of one object of minuscule size in comparison to the comprehensive totality of the universe crashing into another nearly as small would be negligible. However, such is believed to have occurred with such regularity that the potential for just such a catastrophe to be a legitimate cause of concern.

Many paleontologists believe just such a body crashing into the Earth 65 million years ago led to the eventual extinction of the dinosaurs. Creationists squeamish about referencing an event that old need not feel left out. For other incidents of interplanetary billiards have occurred more within a time frame acceptable to ardent defenders of a literalist interpretation of the Genesis account. In 1908, something exploded over the Tunguska region of Siberia that leveled 80 million trees in an area nearly twenty-five miles in diameter. And if that is not enough, a number of astronomers are able to earn respectable livings tracking the numerous asteroids, meteors, and comets that have come as close as 500,000 miles of Earth that would have impacted with the planet had the objects had been as little as six hours sooner.

Each of these scenarios described from a secular perspective are so overwhelming in terms of their destructive scope that the mind cannot help but attempt to categorize their likelihoods as remote or near impossible. The thing of it is that every last one of them can find a parallel in the prophetic apocalyptic portions of Scripture. For example, when Babylon is described as burning in Revelation 18, one can imagine this happening in the form of a nuclear attack on a metropolis of economic and cultural significance such as New York.

And even though conservatives are correct to articulate skeptical opposition in regards to environmentalist shenanigans intended to impede or decay Western standards of living in favor of the sort of squalor endemic to the Third World, one cannot help but notice descriptions of what sounds similar to climate change in regards to prophecies of mass marine die offs and waters being turned as to blood as detailed in Revelation 16:3-4. Elsewhere in the Apocalypse, fires are described as decimating much of the planet's plant life and throughout the text millions of human beings end up dead. Of the period of Tribulation, Matthew 24:22 says that for the sake of the Elect, if Christ did not intervene during this future time, things would get so bad that otherwise all flesh would be destroyed. It is this one essential promise that differentiates the hope provided in Christ from the despair of the secularist that realizes from the standpoint of man alone all is utterly lost.

By Frederick Meekins

Bibibliography

Abanes, Richard. End-Times Visions: The Doomsday Obsession. Nashville, Tennessee: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 1988.

Kirsch, Jonathan. A History Of The End Of The World: How The Most Controversial Book In The Bible Changed The Course Of Western Civilization. San Francisco, California: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006.

Kagan, Donald, Ozment, Steven and Turner, Frank. The Western Heritage Since 1789 (Fourth Edition). New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991.

Kyle, Richard. The Last Days Are Here Again: A History Of The End Times. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1988.

Ladd, George. The Blessed Hope: A Biblical Study of The Second Advent and The Rapture. Grand Rapids, Michigan: WM. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1956.

Thompson, Damian. The End Of Time: Faith and Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1996.

Woketopian Legislators Bent Of Increasing Murder Rate

Carlson Condemned For Contradicting Regime Narrative

Will Chinese Geoforming Tip The Strategic Balance?

Why Shouldn’t Organized Looters Be Categorized As Terrorists?

Weather Worlock Hired To Provide Legislator Security

Church Of England Congregation To Hold Drag Queen Performance

Whites Apparently Too Satanic To Properly Translate Bible

Dissatisfied Baptist Finds Happiness Among Conservative Anglicans

Is Jack Crusher Picard’s Bastard Son?

Odo Alluded To In Final Season Of Picard In Reference To Dominion Conflict

Apparently Exclaiminating Name Of Deity During Orgasm Constitutes Evangelism