The advertisement was produced by Trump’s Save America political action committee and reportedly “ran briefly” on cable TV.
As US President Joe Biden faces criticism at home for his handling of the evacuation effort in Afghanistan, it appears that his presidential predecessor Donald Trump is also using this opportunity to criticise the POTUS.
According to Fox News, a new ad titled “Failure”, produced by Trump’s Save America PAC and released earlier this week, “ran briefly on cable TV”.
The ad criticises Biden over events that transpired last month in Afghanistan when the Taliban* terrorist organisation ended up seizing control of the country and capturing vast amounts of military hardware abandoned because of the hasty withdrawal of US troops from the country.
Noting that Trump’s PAC is now fundraising off the ad, the media outlet points out that the 45th US president has “repeatedly teased” a possible presidential run in 2024.
And if he actually follows through, “the spot could be seen as the first ad of the next presidential campaign”, Fox News adds.
Meanwhile, Trump has reportedly announced his upcoming trip to Iowa, with the media outlet noting that the Iowa caucuses “for half a century have kicked off the presidential nominating calendar”.
Last month, Taliban forces seized control of most of Afghanistan as the United States and its allies pulled their military out of the country, with Taliban insurgents entering Kabul well before the US troop withdrawal was complete.
More than 122,000 people were taken out of the country during the evacuation conducted by the United States and its allies; the last of the US forces left the country in the early hours of 31 August.
CNN Anchor Jim Acosta called Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson a “human manure spreader” and said Republican leaders are like the “American Taliban” in a Saturday evening segment.
Acosta criticized members of the Republican Party and Carlson for their stances on welcoming Afghan refugees into the U.S. following the Taliban’s takeover. The show showed a segment of a Tuesday episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” showing Carlson warning Americans of the consequences of allowing Afghan refugees into the country.
“Over on Fox, human manure spreader Tucker Carlson has floated yet another race-baiting conspiracy theory that tens of thousands of Afghan refugees are being welcomed into this country in order to change the outcome of future elections,” Acosta said. “Did he say ‘Operation Change America Forever?’ Change is already in the air.”
At least 100 Afghan refugees have been flagged for terrorist ties as of Sept. 3.
President Joe Biden said at least 5,000-65,000 Afghan refugees need to be evacuated. The Pentagon’s percentage of .5% of refugees with questionable connections means that 250-325 of the evacuees could potentially be flagged.
Acosta blamed conservatives for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and the Supreme Court’s refusal to block Texas’ pro-life legislation that bans abortion at six weeks of gestation and allows for people to sue medical providers for performing an abortion. Acosta referred to the legislation as a “Handmaid’s Tale vibe.”
“If you’re getting a Handmaid’s Tale vibe from all of this, you’re not alone,” he said. “What will we tell the Afghan refugees who just fled those schools for girls back in their home country? I guess the girls here will have to fill them in.”
“And they could sweep in power faster than the experts thought possible. Sound familiar? Sort of like an American Taliban. It is starting to look like a combination of theocracy and thugocracy. The leaders of this ‘Magaban’ movement, people like Marjorie [Taylor Greene], Madison [Cawthorn], and Tucker, they’re not counting on an intelligence failure or a lack of planning on your part, they’re counting on a lack of courage to stand up for your rights in this country.”
“The anti-immigration, anti-democratic, anti-women’s rights forces have all sought these kinds of changes for years. Even decades in this country. Their operation to change America forever is well underway. It’s just changing in a way that they don’t want you to see,” he said.
Author Frank Schaeffer used the phrase “American Taliban” to compare Texas’ law, (S.B. 8), to the Taliban on MSNBC’s “Reid Out” Wednesday. BotSentinel Founder Christopher Bouzy referred to those that passed the law as “The North American Taliban” via Twitter.
“I am calling on Joe Biden and the UN to lead a humanitarian effort to airlift women out of Texas. The North American Taliban has seized control of Texas,” Bouzy tweeted Wednesday.
It is hard to believe now, but Joe Biden was once a critic of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of abortion rights. “I don’t like the Supreme Court decision on abortion,” he said in 1974. “I think it went too far. I don’t think that a woman has the sole right to say what should happen to her body.”
Now Biden frames the issue of abortion entirely in those terms. After a male reporter from the Catholic news network EWTN asked Jen Psaki, Biden’s press secretary, how Biden can support abortion “when his own Catholic faith teaches abortion is morally wrong,” she replied, “He believes that it is a woman’s right, it’s a woman’s body and it’s her choice.” Psaki then insulted the reporter: “I know you’ve never faced those choices, nor you have never been pregnant, but for women out there who have faced those choices this is an incredibly difficult thing and the president believes their rights should be respected.”
Biden’s frenzied response to the recent Texas law prohibiting abortion after six weeks shows the extent to which he has sold his soul to Planned Parenthood. He is acting as if the Texas law represents a national crisis. He blasted the Supreme Court for not blocking the law, saying that it “unleashes unconstitutional chaos.” He is calling for a “whole-of-government effort” to undermine the law. Biden huffed: “Complete strangers will now be empowered to inject themselves in the most private and personal health decisions faced by women.”
This is the same president, of course, who urges complete strangers to imposes vaccine mandates on their customers. And even as Biden presents himself as a champion of “health” and “science,” he refuses to look at sonograms of unborn children. For all of his blather about “following the science,” he ignores it on abortion.
The liberal media’s coverage of the Texas law has been equally unscientific. Reporters are desperately trying to obfuscate the issue of “fetal heartbeats.” One headline said: “Why ‘heartbeat bill’ is a misleading name for Texas’ near-total abortion ban.” But what is misleading about it? Even within that piece, a doctor acknowledges that cardiac activity is present within the unborn child after six weeks. “I think that gets into a little bit of semantics,” Dr. John Thoppil, president of the Texas Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, is quoted as saying. “Everybody knows embryos don’t possess a fully developed heart, but that is what we’re generally calling it, a ‘detectable fetal heartbeat.’”
Semantics, not science, has driven the pro-abortion position all along. The Associated Press, showing its usual bias, ran a piece last week titled, “’Fetal heartbeat’ in abortion laws taps emotion, not science.” The truth is the exact reverse: for emotional reasons, opponents of the law resist precise scientific observations of the unborn child. They don’t want to admit the child’s humanity, even though scientific technology abundantly proves it.
The science is all on the pro-life side, which explains why Kamala Harris has to resort to such tired and crude emotional appeals as this one: “we will not stand by and allow our nation to go back to the days of back-alley abortions.” That the Biden administration has to rely on such stale rhetoric and lash out at male reporters indicates the weakness of its position on abortion.
“I’ve made life difficult for myself by putting intellectual consistency and personal principle above expediency,” Biden has said. How ludicrous. It was pure political expediency that led him into the arms of Planned Parenthood.
For reasons of raw politics, he became the group’s puppet, even flip-flopping on the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer financing of abortion. He told Planned Parenthood in 2020: “For many years as a U.S. senator, I have supported the Hyde Amendment . . . But circumstances have changed. I can’t justify leaving millions of women without access to the care they need and their ability to exercise their constitutionally protected right.”
The shamelessness of Biden is seen in the arc of his political career, from questioning Roe v. Wade to enshrining it as the centerpiece of his agenda. Neither science nor religion supports his view. But he doesn’t care. He has chosen his legacy: to be the most pro-abortion president in American history.
Mark Takano introduced a bill that would reduce the standard workweek to 32 hours
The long weekend of Labor Day could become standard if the four-day workweek catches on.
Many U.S. companies are experimenting with a shortened workweek amid pandemic-related concerns about workplace norms while legislation calling for a 32-hour workweek has been introduced in Congress.
“As we consider what work should look like beyond this pandemic, we need to find new ways to achieve harmony across our professions, our passions, and our personal lives,” Aziz Hasan, CEO of the crowdfunding firm Kickstarter, wrote in a blog post in July.
Beginning next year, Kickstarter’s 90 full-time employees will work four, eight-hour days as part of a pilot program.
Meanwhile, the software and data firm Elephant Ventures, which has offices in New York and San Francisco, shifted to a four-day, 40-hour workweek in November after completing a 90-day pilot last year.
Elephant Ventures sales director Jonathan Cook said having Fridays off allows him to catch up on personal commitments that he had struggled to meet in the new pandemic normal.
“Previously, [I] felt like I was always working or watching kids, including weekends, and now Friday is a nice break,” Mr. Cook said. “I think longer workdays has, for many folks, myself included, improved productivity by improving meeting culture.”
Job postings mentioning four-day workweeks in August climbed about 75% compared to the same month in 2016, according to data from the employment website Indeed.
Last month, there were 1,162 four-day workweek jobs per 1 million compared to 657 per 1 million five years ago. Compared to August 2020, four-day workweek jobs from last month were 16% higher, up from 1,003 jobs per 1 million.
And one lawmaker is pushing for shorter workweeks. Rep. Mark Takano, California Democrat, introduced in late July legislation that would reduce the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours and allow non-exempt employees to clock in overtime for any hours worked beyond that limit.
Boston College sociology professor Juliet B. Schor told CNBC she thinks the four-day workweek will grow more popular due to the cultural shift brought on by the pandemic, which highlighted overwork and burnout as challenges to mental health.
Middle-class workers, many of whom had to balance work with caring for their children or parents, will be the first to experience the shift before it gains traction, Ms. Schor said.
Uncharted, which assists social impact startups, reported no decreases in performance and less stress among employees when the Denver company shifted to a four-day, 32-hour workweek last September, after having experimented with the shorter schedule from June through August 2020.
Benefits of a shorter workweek could include an increase in productivity, an equal workplace and an increase in engagement, according to SpriggHR, a performance management platform.
But downsides could include poor management and benefits to competitors due to skipped workdays, the platform noted, adding truncated schedules cater to certain industries but not all.
Others have expressed concerns about condensed workweeks.
Allard Dembe, a public health professor at Ohio State University who has studied the health effects of working long hours, says he is not convinced that a four-day workweek benefits workers or businesses.
“The primary problem with the idea is that whatever work needs to be done, needs to get done in the same amount of total time,” Mr. Dembe wrote in a 2019 OSU blog post.
“The math is simple: working five eight-hour shifts is equivalent to working four 10-hour shifts. That’s true. But the implications of these schedules are different,” he said. “The danger is in disregarding the health effects that can occur as a result of fatigue and stress that accumulate over a longer-than-normal working day.”
Marc Effron, president of the Talent Strategy Group, argues that shorter workweeks aren’t more productive.
“The companies lauded for shorter weeks all self-reported happier, less stressed employees and the same amount of productivity,” Mr. Effron wrote in a TalentQ blog post last year. “But that means the employees didn’t accomplish anything more; they just did the exact same thing in less time. Their shorter work improved nothing for their customers, suppliers, or shareholders.”
Other countries are testing the four-day workweek.
Spain agreed to finance companies who choose to try out a 32-hour workweek for its workers but without lowering their pay, The Guardian reported in March.
In New Zealand, Unilever said in November that it would test a four-day workweek for its 81 employees until December 2021, but still pay them for five days, according to Reuters.
Microsoft Japan made headlines in 2019 when it experimented with a four-day workweek and reported a 40% increase in productivity.
The five-day, 40-hour workweek has been the standard for less than 100 years. In the late 19th century, labor unions and organized trades began demanding eight-hour workdays as they rallied for better work conditions.
The idea gained traction in 1926, when the Ford Motor Co. became one of the first U.S. companies to adopt a five-day, 40-hour workweek. About a decade later, the federal government passed the Fair Labors Standards Act in 1938.
The Brazilian health regulator suspended the use of over 12 million doses of Chinese-made vaccines on Sept. 4 over being produced in an unauthorized plant, according to an official statement.
Authorities said the ban was “a precautionary measure” to prevent “possible imminent risk.”
“The manufacturing unit … was not inspected and was not approved by Anvisa in the authorization of emergency use of the mentioned vaccine,” the country’s federal health regulator Anvisa said on Saturday.
A day previously, Sao Paulo’s Butantan Institute, a local biomedical center founded by the state government, sent an alert to Anvisa. The institution was to fill and finalize 25 batches of 12.1 million doses upon their arrival in Brazil, under a partnership with China’s Sinovac.
Another 17 batches, totaling 9 million doses produced in the same plant, were on their way to Brazil, Butantan told the regulator.
The regulator has now issued a 90-day ban and is investigating the plant and the manufacturing process.
Brazil launched its vaccine rollout earlier this year with the vast majority of administered vaccines from Sinovac. More shots from other manufacturers have since come online.
Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga said on Aug. 25 that people aged 70 or older or who have a weak immune system will be eligible for a third dose, starting Sept. 15—preferably with the Pfizer vaccine.
A health worker prepares a Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 18, 2021. (Rodrigo Paiva/Getty Images)
Diana dos Santos, 71, received two shots of the Sinovac vaccine but now refuses to leave home until she gets her booster.
“I can’t go out like before and I’m still afraid of all of this,” Santos told The Associated Press. “I will feel safer [with a booster].”
Chinese officials have maintained the vaccine protects against the Delta variant, particularly preventing hospitalizations and severe cases.
Brazil has reported over 580,000 deaths from the virus, but the country has seen a fall in both death rate and active cases in the past two months.
State Department official said funds will be used to help resettle Afghans in the US over the next few months
Evacuees may also be given access to federal benefits such as Medicaid
Former Delaware Governor Jack Markell is leading the resettlement process
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said the US will take in around 50,000 Afghan evacuees
Many people still in Afghanistan are living in fear for their lives under the Taliban rule as militants are said to be hunting for Western allies
The US will take in around 50,000 Afghan refugees and spend up to $2,275 on each for housing, food and sending children to school.
A State Department official told Bloomberg the Biden administration has set aside the funds to help tens of thousands of Afghans fleeing from the Taliban resettle in America over the next few months.
The department is also exploring with Congress the possibility that evacuees will be given access to federal benefits such as Medicaid, the official said.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a press briefing Friday that at least 50,000 Afghan evacuees are expected to be resettled in the US following the Taliban takeover.
This number includes US citizens, lawful permanent residents, visa holders, people who have applied for special immigrant visas (SIVs) and other Afghans who are most at risk under Taliban rule such as journalists and aid workers.
Former Delaware Governor Jack Markell has been tasked with leading the resettlement process of those evacuated to the US.
Dubbed ‘Operation Allies Welcome’, the program will work alongside the National Security Council, Domestic Policy Council, DHS, and other federal agencies.
Around 200 private agencies have also been brought on board to help get eligible Afghans resettled as quickly as possible.
Thousands of evacuees are being granted entry to the US under humanitarian parole, which admits them on an emergency basis.
Once on US soil, evacuees on this program have one year to apply for a permanent visa to stay.
A resettlement director told Bloomberg that plans are in place to give these evacuees federally funded health insurance until the end of September.
Mayorkas said Friday the relocation efforts are part of the US’s ‘enduring commitment’ to the people who worked with or helped the US during its 20 years of war in Afghanistan.
‘Our commitment is an enduring one. This is not just a matter of the next several weeks,’ he said.
‘We will not rest until we have accomplished the ultimate goal.’
The US has ‘a moral imperative to protect them, to support those who have supported this nation,’ he added.
Mayorkas said the 50,000 figure was an estimate which could become greater and is not to a particular deadline.
Around 40,000 evacuees have already made it through security vetting and arrived in the US, including US citizens or permanent residents.
Federal data obtained by CBS News shows around 25,600 were being housed at US military sites as of Friday.
Eight military sites across five states of Virginia, Wisconsin, New Mexico, New Jersey and Indiana are being used as temporary housing for the evacuees.
As of Friday, there were: 8,800 at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin; 6,200 at Fort Bliss, Texas; 1,700 at Fort Lee, Virginia; 3,700 at Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst; 650 at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico; 800a at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia; 3,650 at Fort Pickett, Virginia; and 65 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.
The sites are expected to be able to collectively take in 50,000 people by September 15.
An unknown number of people who helped the American government in its two-decade war in Afghanistan didn’t make it out before the US’s last evacuation flight on August 31.
Many are now living in fear for their lives under the Taliban rule.
The Taliban has claimed it will not retaliate against people who worked with Western allies and has said it will not be returning to the hardline restrictions seen two decades ago including a lack of women’s rights.
However, last month, RHIPTO Norwegian Center for Global Analyses reported that militants were already going door-to-door to hunt for ‘collaborators’ of the US or Nato.
The UN also said it had received credible reports of ‘summary executions’ of civilians and Afghan security forces who had surrendered to the Taliban.
Several reports have also surfaced that the Taliban is trying to access and official files left behind during the US’s withdrawal to identify and track down Western allies.
An employee of the former government told Reuters the Taliban asked him in late August to preserve the data held on the servers of the government ministry he used to work for.
‘If I do so, then they will get access to the data and official communications of the previous ministry leadership,’ the employee said.
The employee said he did not comply and has since gone into hiding with Reuters not identifying the man or his former ministry out of concern for his safety.
Thirty-six Nigerian Christians have been killed in attacks reportedly carried about by Islamic Fulani herdsmen in the month of August.
The recent killings, which build on this year’s previously reported death toll of several thousand, have prompted an outcry from locals who accuse the government of inaction and even of supporting the attacks.
“It rained at the time the herdsmen invaded our village,” Judith David, a resident of Machun village in the state of Kaduna, texted Morning Star News. “We all had already gone to houses to sleep when the herdsmen attacked the village, forcing us to flee into the bush in the rain.”
The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs for Kaduna, Samuel Aruwan, put out a statement on the attack. “Police personnel responded to a distress call from Machun village and mobilized there,” he said. “On arrival, they were also alerted by gunshots from neighboring Manuka. As the assailants fled the area, the operatives found the corpses of three victims.”
Rev. Jacob Kwashi, a pastor from the area, has accused the government of being in favor of the attacks.
“We have never seen an evil government in this country like the one of today. The government is fully in support of the bloodshed in Nigeria. We are being killed just because we are not Muslims,” he said.
Kwashi, speaking at a funeral for 17 slain Christians, continued. “These evil Fulani jihadists are enjoying the backing of the government to go about killing people, destroying their houses and farmlands, yet when we try to defend ourselves, the government will go about arresting our people. What kind of justice is this?”
Aruwan, the state official, claimed that the government had actually helped save lives during other attacks on Christians in other villages. “The troops of Operation Safe Haven also rescued 12 persons who were fleeing from the attackers,” he said.
A May report from the U.S. Department of State highlighted the many violations of religious liberty throughout Nigeria and mentioned the high level of violence present in the country.
“The government undertook 20 targeted military operations whose aim it stated was to root out bandits and armed gangs in the region and to arrest perpetrators of communal and criminal violence, but multiple sources stated that the government measures were largely reactive and insufficient to address the violence,” the report stated.
It also noted that in December 2020, “the Secretary of State designated Nigeria a ‘Country of Particular Concern’ for having engaged in or tolerated particularly severe violations of religious freedom.”
Attacks are frequently pinned on the Fulani Herdsmen, a group which CBN news reports as frequently being, “radical Muslims who target Christians in their relentless attacks on villages across the West African country.”
As the Daily Wire reported in July, the killings of Christians in Nigeria this year have nearly matched the number killed last year. Nigeria is also ranked in the top ten of Christian relief organization Open Door’s list for the worst countries for Christian persecution, coming in at number nine. Nigeria ranked highly in all categories, coming in especially strong for the amount of violence.
These attacks come at the same time as many have voiced concerns about the future of Christians in Afghanistan as the Taliban has come to power following the U.S. hasty withdrawal. As The Daily Wire previously reported, the Taliban were allegedly combing through phones to identify Christians.
“We’re hearing from reliable sources that the Taliban demand people’s phones, and if they find a downloaded Bible on your device, they will kill you immediately,” said Dr. Rex Rogers, president of the Christian nonprofit organization SAT-7 North America, according to Religion News Service.
Christians in the region continue to be targeted for religious persecution, often from radical Islamic terrorism.
(News.com.au) Donald Trump is reportedly planning an imminent announcement about his next move.
Former US president Donald Trump is reportedly planning an imminent announcement that he’ll run for the White House again in 2024.
There’s nothing stopping him from running again. Indeed Mr Trump has been hinting at his intention to do so for months now.
During an interview with Newsmax in mid-August, for example, the former president was asked directly about 2024.
“Look, I love this country. I hate what’s happening to it. I hate it,” Mr Trump said.
“We’re not going to have a country anymore if it keeps going like this. We’re a laughing stock all over the world, and I think a lot of people are going to be very happy.”
He’d used that phrasing several times before.
“I think people are going to be very, very happy when I make a certain announcement,” he told conservative commentator Candace Owens in May, adding that he looked forward to “doing an announcement at the right time”.
Donald and Melania Trump. Picture: Brendan Smialowski/AFP
Lauren Windsor, creator of a progressive political web show called The Undercurrent, attended a local Republican Party event in Iowa on Thursday night. Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, a close ally of Mr Trump, was also there.
According to Windsor, Mr Jordan said Mr Trump could announce his 2024 candidacy within days.
“Jim Jordan told me tonight in Iowa that Trump will announce he’s running ‘any day now’,” Windsor reported.
“A big Republican operative in the state later announced to the crowd that Trump will travel here imminently.”
Mr Jordan’s office pushed back on her account.
“Not true. Mr Jordan did not say this,” a spokesperson said.
“Apparently Jim Jordan’s spokesperson has claimed he did not tell me tonight that Trump is imminently announcing his run for 2024,” Windsor replied on Twitter.
“We can’t both be right. See for yourself, video coming tomorrow.”
Trump could always not pull the trigger but this is what he’s now told several people – sooner rather than later. https://t.co/3hF2iM21Ko
This morning, she published the promised video footage.
“President Trump, he’s going to run again,” Mr Jordan said in the footage.
“You think so?” he was asked.
“I know so. Yeah, I talked to him yesterday. He’s about ready to announce after all of this craziness in Afghanistan,” the Congressman replied.
The clip did not show Mr Jordan using the words “any day now”.
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Jim Jordan: President Trump, he's gonna run again. Pete: You think so? Jordan: I know so. Yeah, I talked to him yesterday. He's about ready to announce after all of this craziness in Afghanistan… pic.twitter.com/Ndogdm7Ipl
Meanwhile ABC News reporter Will Steakin, referring to the Republican official’s quote about Mr Trump travelling to Iowa soon, said he’d heard the trip was being planned around one of the former president’s normal rallies, not a 2024 announcement.
If Mr Trump were to announce a run now, it would be an unusual move, as most candidates wait until at least after the midterm elections. Those elections aren’t due until November of next year.
But you can see why the idea might be attractive to him. It would, at the very least, dissuade other potential candidates for the 2024 Republican nomination from entering the field.
A bunch of prominent Republicans have been positioning themselves for a presidential run, including but far from limited to: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, former vice president Mike Pence, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, and a handful of ambitious US senators.
All the polls for the 2024 nomination (yes, those polls are already happening) show Mr Trump dominating the field, should he enter the race.
Mr Trump might also see this as an opportune moment because of Mr Biden’s plummeting approval rating. Just yesterday an NPR/PBS poll showed the President’s approval at 43 per cent, the lowest it has been since he took office, and down 6 per cent since July.
No matter where one looks, Americans can’t trust what is being told to them is the truth. All of Western civilization is in decline because the Christian church is in decline.
The American people are growing rightly skeptical of what they are told. For the past two years, they’ve faced an onslaught of lies and misinformation that has left them with little faith in our institutions — from Congress to the White House and even within the Christian church. A sermon I heard years ago should have opened my eyes to what would eventually become clear — we have seen the death of truth in America.
Several decades ago and with fewer gray hairs, my wife and I visited a church on Easter Sunday while on vacation. The sermon stunned me, but not for its incredible insights and biblical perspectives. The pastor, shortly after describing the miraculous and incredible resurrection of Jesus, concluded it didn’t matter if it was actually true — only that we believed it was true.
I thought that would be the one and only time I heard a pastor claim that believing in the death and resurrection of our Lord was not a fundamental principle of being a Christian, but I was wrong.
Many years later, Sen. Raphael Warnock from Georgia, also a pastor, tweeted, “The meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Whether you are Christian or not, through a commitment to helping others we are able to save ourselves.”
There it was again. The same trope that could not be more antithetical to Christianity. As Jesus’ disciple Paul, writing in 1 Corinthians 15: 17-19, said, “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.”
The question: How could we have gotten so far from the fundamental truth of Christianity, that Jesus Christ died for our sins and was resurrected to join the Father in eternal life?
The answer: We’ve deluded ourselves into believing that truth is relative. That same delusion I should have seen cropping up in the Christian church has now made its way into the mainstream, leading to the death of truth in America. Today, we see it manifesting itself in our norms, education system, media, and politics.
Men identify as women and we accept that as truth. Does it matter that if we examined their chromosomes they would be biologically male? Not in today’s world. What has been true since the dawn of time is suddenly out the window.
It should come as no surprise that the very same people who would refuse to acknowledge the incontrovertible genetic evidence that said woman is a biological male will listen to whatever armchair experts believe about COVID-19 and deem it “science.” But if you so much as question the efficacy of mask mandates, lockdowns, non-Food and Drug Administration-approved vaccines, or — heaven forbid — the origins of the COVID-19 virus, you are dubbed “anti-science.”
Politicians misrepresent election integrity legislation and big corporations genuflect with boycotts of those states — justifying their actions with deliberate lies. No matter where one looks, Americans can’t trust what is being told to them is the truth. If you question the new leftist orthodoxy of “it’s all relative,” you face the wrath of “cancel culture.”
Truth is the core principle of Judeo-Christian values, which are the foundation of Western civilization. Judeo-Christian values are derived from the Bible. If you want to know the reason for the death of truth in America, look no further than the decline of Americans who choose to live their lives based on the values laid out in the Bible.
It is not simply America. All of Western civilization is in decline because the Christian church is in decline. The fall of the church is due to the fact that it has become unmoored from truth — following the culture instead of leading it.
While politicians and the courts have stripped America of its foundations, mainstream Christian denominations have been largely silent. The Bible is not even allowed in our schools, we’ve replaced the biblical creation story, Christians are arrested for trying to practice their faith, and biblical morality is considered hate speech.
Winston Churchill once said that America will do the right thing after it had tried everything else. We’ve tried everything else. The Christian church in America must muster up some courage — and repentance — and lead.
