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Australia
“As for Saul, he made havock of the church” Acts 8:3. What Saul did before he was saved is what Hillsong and others like it are doing today.
‘Hillsong Dallas has closed and other locations in the megachurch network are reeling from accusations of sexual and financial misconduct. But Hillsong Atlanta—the first in the denomination to be led by an African-American pastor—celebrated its grand opening this past Sunday.
Its services feature rap music and took place in a former nightclub, Christianity Today reported. Sam Collier, the senior pastor, took the stage in the dimly lit space to cheers from a diverse crowd.
Collier came to Hillsong from Andy Stanley’s North Point Ministries but has deep roots in Atlanta’s Black community, having previously ministered at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a well-known Black congregation in the metro area. Collier also served at Martin Luther King Jr.’s home church, Ebenezer Baptist Church.
In introducing Hillsong global senior pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston, Collier acknowledged the denomination’s recent controversies. “It’s been a difficult year, but you’re the greatest leaders I’ve ever met,” Collier told them. “We pray against demonic forces” and for “victory in Jesus’ name” for the Houstons, he added.
Similarly, Hillsong Atlanta posted on Instagram, “We have no words for what God did this past weekend other than, ‘Great Days Ahead. Thank you Jesus . . .”’https://julieroys.com/hillsong-atlanta-launch-turmoil/?mc_cid=6914ede852&mc_eid=b13d34ad49
These worldly mega organizations are not New Testament Bible teaching, Bible preaching, Bible believing local New Testament churches. Note in Acts 16:5 And so were the churches established in the faith NOT in hyper emotion and feelings.
‘I witnessed a man being violently arrested for not wearing a mask while holding his exemption in his hands.
Police moments later release him without charge.
Then, a stranger walks up to me while reporting to try to enforce the mask rule even though reporters are exempt while working.
Today the mandatory mask mandate has been extended, so expect to see a lot more of this.’https://www.rebelnews.com/violent_arrest_of_man_with_mask_exemption_in_hand_caught_on_camera?utm_campaign=rb_6_10_21&utm_medium=email&utm_source=therebel
‘Fans of Outsiders – Sky’s best current affairs program – will recall Ross Cameron and his love of the great Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Indeed, during Cameron’s tenure it was a running gag on the show that some insight of Aurelius’s would each week be worked into the show. You see, Marcus Aurelius was not only one of the great Roman Emperors, reigning in the late second century A.D. (anno domini for those of us who hate all things PC such as the now demanded C.E.), and after whose reign that Empire began on its slow path of decline and fall. Aurelius was also a famous Stoic philosopher best known for his Meditations (written in Greek). So this was a successful soldier, statesman and bilingual stoic philosopher.
Now given all that, you might think it absurd to find yourself, as I did, comparing our Prime Minister Scott Morrison to Marcus Aurelius. And, of course, it is laughable, on just about every level going. But let me explain.
Yesterday I was flipping through some of the better-known quotes from Aurelius, as the man is a treasure trove of maxims. And it hit me what a hollow, principle-free man our supposedly liberal Prime Minister is, a truth this government’s response to the pandemic has lain bare.
Take just these three adages or aphorisms from the great Stoic Aurelius’s Meditations. ‘If you have been placed in a position above others, are you automatically going to behave like a despot? Remember who you are and whom you govern.’ Or ‘Take a good hard look at people’s ruling principle … what they run away from and what they seek.’ Or again, ‘The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.’
Reading those insights, I couldn’t help thinking, yet again, that this Coalition government’s response to the Covid virus has been awful and that Morrison’s lack of ruling principles has been both telling as well as very, very costly to the rest of us, especially the young.
Basically, Australia’s response has stunk and the costs of our political class’s decisions will become ever more evident and keep piling up for decades and decades to come. I know, I know, I know. Outside the pages of this wonderful publication mine is a distinctly minority view amongst the media classes; amongst much of the medical-industrial complex; amongst the bureaucratic, university and lawyerly classes; and amongst pusillanimous Coalition politicians across Australia. ‘https://spectator.com.au/2021/06/scomo-is-no-marcus-aurelius/
‘Yet another Australian activist judge, usurping the role of parliament in a democratic society, has given Lawfare’s economic saboteurs a new lease of life. If you thought that environmentalists’ abuse of the legal system in their mission to destroy fossil fuels, whatever the economic costs, was already excessive, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Federal Justice Mordecai Bromberg’s incredible 27 May determination that the Morrison government has a duty of care to protect Australian children from climate change devastation and death, requires that duty to be met before approving any further fossil fuel developments that add to CO2 emissions. It ushers in an unlimited round of legal battles aimed at destroying Australia’s biggest export earner (fossil fuels – coal, oil, LNG – together exceed iron ore) that are a key element in our post-Covid economic recovery. From now on, every governmental approval can be actionable under the common law for negligence on the basis that the ‘catastrophic climate change’ interests of children (unspecified as to age!) ‘have not been adequately taken into account’.’https://spectator.com.au/2021/06/business-robbery-etc-70/
This is an email from the Australian Spectator for the Queen’s Birthday long week-end. Friday 11 June ‘…is the start of the Queen’s Birthday long weekend for much of Australia. Double Shot is taking Monday morning off to scan the honours list and wonder why, yet again, his knighthood isn’t in it.
So today is a bumper long weekend Double Shot, with a feast of additional articles recommended for your enjoyment. Have a great long weekend!
- The PM arrives in Britain for the weekend’s G7 summit in Cornwall. Besides getting an agreement on a 15 per cent minimum level of company tax (but why they can’t also agree on a low maximum is beyond us), it’s clear G7 leaders and hangers-on will focus a lot of attention on the panda in the room – Xi Jinping’s China.
- All eyes will be on how US president Joe Biden performs. Will he be an effective leader of the free world, or will he be auditioning for the title role in a remake of Weekend at Bernie’s?
- Defence minister Peter Dutton is saying Australia’s Collins Class submarines will have $10 billion spent on them to keep them at sea until the French boats start arriving in the mid-2030s. That makes a $50 billion project at least $60 billion. As we commented on Monday, Mr Dutton should take a long hard look at why the French manned submarines are needed at all.
- Melbourne is sort of being let out of lockdown today, with figurative ankle bracelets keeping Melburnians within 25 kilometres from their homes until further notice. But Wednesday’s gracious permission to not wear masks outside was rescinded by the Andrews government after just 24 hours, with no substantial reason given. They want to maintain the false air of crisis and panic that makes meek compliance with the dictates of unelected officials more likely.’ https://spectator.com.au/
“Friday was the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, when Chinese tanks, under the direct command of the Communist dictatorship, attacked thousands of pro-democracy students who had gathered in at the square in the heart of Beijing. But after some huffing and puffing, well, the world moved on. Turns out, not much has changed.”
The Victorian Police are acting like the Nazi Brown Shirts during Hitler’s time. It is terrifying what is going on in Melbourne, Victoria. Is this all a prelude to more CCP type take over of your freedoms?
‘It’s June, and you know what that means- Gay Pride Month! I call it degeneracy pride month, but I suppose that’s just me; I’m not one of those corporations changing their logos to rainbows, so I have a bit more wiggle room. To be clear, it shouldn’t need to be said, but, just in case, it seems like a bad idea to openly celebrate sin by using a biblical symbol…
In any case, around this time of year, corporations tend to change their logos.
Is it because new marketers were hired? Because they wanted to purge non-woke symbols, such as a black woman or Native American, from their corporate image? Perhaps as a way to show a new merger? No, maybe, and no. The Big Business woketards are changing their corporate logos to rainbows as a way to appease the woke.
Yes, it’s idiotic. Yes, it’s pandering. But, worst of all, it shows how few men of internal fortitude there are in corporate America.
Can anyone honestly say, however much change there might have been in the fifties, that a titan of industry from back then, if transplanted into our modern world, would have his company fly a rainbow flag or put one in its Twitter bio? Would Churchill or JFK order their embassies to signify degeneracy by flying a rainbow flag abroad? Of course not!
But such men were made of sterner stuff. Churchill stood up to the Nazi menace and won. JFK never blinked in his confrontations with Khrushchev. Corporate leaders focused on building great products, not on appeasing idiotic, radical employees and customers. They wanted to present an image of American greatness and did so. It was a marvelous time, a time of grandeur, majesty, and American exceptionalism.
Nowadays we’re not so lucky. CEOs and other public figures, excepting an exceptional few, aren’t focused on doing the right thing anymore. They’re globalists that care about the “world community” as much (or more) than they care about America, leeches that suck off what their forefathers built, and degerates that openly showcase their sin. But, most of all, they want to rake in cash. Whatever that takes doing, from developing subtly addictive products to appeasing the sick tastes of their fellow degenerates, they’ll do. So, our companies go along with all of it in the chase of the almighty dollar.
That’s why corporations are changing their logos to rainbows. It’s not because they really care about gay rights or want to stand up for a persecuted minority. They don’t and gays aren’t persecuted in the West, thanks to its slide into degeneracy and moral relativism. Nope, it’s all in service to the dollar. They care about it more than their values or homeland.’https://genzconservative.com/corporations-changing-their-logos-to-rainbows/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=occupied-america-racist-anti-racism-and-the-contradictions-of-american-life_199
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