The following link will take you to my podcast reading of Chapter Five of Dr. Howard Guinness’ book titled Sacrifice. Dr. Guinness lived the message of this book in that he trained as a medical doctor but spent his life as a Christian evangelist to students around the world. If you know the Lord as your personal Saviour I trust this reading will encourage you in your walk with the Lord but if you do not know Him that this reading will prod you to turn from your sins to Him. https://anchor.fm/david-bennett48/episodes/A-Reading-of-Chapter-5-of-Dr–Howard-Guinness-book-Sacrifice-e1442d8
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‘Ultimately the debate on climate change will be settled not by rhetorical excess or quantity of funding. It will be settled by evidence. As so often in public policy, confusion and abuse seemed to get out of the gate with frightening speed. But ultimately it will be the tendency of the planet to become uninhabitably hot and stormy, or not to do so, that will decide the matter. Just as the Berlin Wall fell because freedom is stronger than tyranny, and when it fell it was shown beyond rational doubt to have been a prison gate, as the West claimed, and not a defensive fortification as Soviet Communism and its apologists maintained. Which brings us to California. Not because it has been taken over by communists or their postmodern cousins, although there are some worrying signs. But because one of those worrying signs is that blackouts loom as electricity prices go nuts. So one thing plodding awkwardly across the finish line in the climate debate is that renewables don’t work. And another is that energy is necessary.
You’ve heard the cliché about a frog placed in a slowly heating pot. Probably from a climate alarmist. It’s not actually true though, like the fable that King Canute actually thought he could stop the tide, it still seems to be in the lead over the prosaic facts. But if it were true we would cite it here to note that people now find it unremarkable that California and Texas would have energy shortages. It is nothing of the kind.
In the case of Texas it is surely obvious why. Despite the best efforts of the state’s promoters, when the Lone Star State is mentioned the vast majority still think “oil, that is… Texas tea” or something to that effect. But California, whatever else it produces, also accounts for over 8% of total American crude oil extraction and over 10% of its refining. And it is fifth among American states in per capita GDP, eight places ahead of Texas (not counting Washington, DC, whose per capita GDP is more than twice that of any state, a curious achievement by big government). So how can it be short of energy?
You could ask New York, whose per capita GDP is second only to that of Massachusetts. Plans to decarbonize the grid there are not going well, Francis Merton reports, and indeed seem clownishly amateur. But it’s not funny to contemplate what a winter there might be if they somehow pull it off, or apart, and get into blackouts through some California dreaming. To say nothing of President Biden’s vacuous but vigorous determination to do it nationwide.
As Michael Shellenberger bluntly put it, noting that energy shortages kill people during heat waves, as we add they do more generally, “The Real Reason They Blame Heat Deaths, Blackouts, and Forest Fires on Climate Change Is Because They’re Causing Them”, adding “Journalists, experts, and elected officials are today blaming heat wave deaths, forest fires, and electricity shortages in New York, California, and Texas on climate change, but the underlying cause of those events is lack of air conditioning, lack of electricity, and the failure to properly manage forests, not marginal changes to temperatures.”
Of course a blackout in the formerly Golden State, or even the collapse of the grid, doesn’t prove that climate change isn’t real. Indeed alarmists could say told you so, it’s the exploding demand for air conditioning as summers become intolerable. And NBC predictably did. But however that may be, you will not persuade someone suffering under such conditions in one of the wealthiest societies the world has ever seen that the power system is working, or that it doesn’t matter that it’s not.
Thus one leathery foot at a time the truth thuds on. (Including the truth that a turtle’s appendages are indeed technically feet not paws, in case you were wondering.)’https://climatediscussionnexus.com/2021/07/07/this-eventually-in-tortoise-beats-hare/
‘Neurosurgeon and former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson took on critical race theory in a recent interview, calling it “a bunch of garbage.”
In an interview Sunday on NewsMax, Carson was asked to define critical race theory.
“It’s an attempt to use race as a mechanism for redefining our society,” Carson said. “It wants our people to believe that your race is the most critical determinant of who you are and what happens to you in our society. In other words, it’s a bunch of garbage.”’https://www.thecollegefix.com/neurosurgeon-ben-carson-on-critical-race-theory-its-a-bunch-of-garbage/
‘A group of sexual abuse victims and family members went public with their concerns about former Kanakuk counsellor Peter Newman in an interview that aired on the CBS affiliate in Dallas. The story aired last Thursday, and is now on the station’s website.’ https://ministrywatch.com/kanakuk-victims-speak-to-dallas-tv-station/
When a “Christian” school needs to hire someone for “diversity and inclusion” perhaps there’s a BIGGER problem!
‘A former NFL player who served as a diversity officer at Liberty University has sued the Christian school for $8 million, claiming his firing violated the Civil Rights Act and the Virginia Human Rights Act.
In a complaint filed Friday in federal court for the Western District of Virginia, Kelvin Edwards, a former executive vice president of management efficiencies and diversity, alleges that he was fired because Liberty’s acting president Jerry Prevo does not value diversity.
Edward was hired in the summer of 2020, according to the complaint, to take a leadership role in the Office of Equity and Inclusion, which seeks to keep the school “free from unbiblical and unlawful discrimination.”
The job offer included a $275,000 salary, a $1,500 a month car allowance, scholarships for Edwards and his family, and a new home, according to the complaint. To take the job, Edwards states that his wife left a teaching job and he left a job at a car dealership in Texas, where the family formerly lived.
The complaint alleges that the school committed to Edwards for 10 years during the recruiting process.
A former Liberty University football star who went on to play in for the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints, Edwards cited his close ties to the Falwell family in a press release announcing his return to the school.
The hiring of Edwards and football coach Turner Gill at Liberty was touted as part of the school’s “ongoing efforts in diversity,” according to the press release, dated August 4, 2020.
“I warmly refer to Liberty’s founder, the late Dr. Jerry Falwell, Sr., as my ‘father’ not only because of the intimate relationship and mentorship between us, but also because current President Jerry Falwell and I formed a fast and easy brotherhood as college dorm mates,” Edwards said. “My wife, Tiawna, and I are excited to continue our relationship with Liberty University and to uphold the charge of building Champions for Christ.”
Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned as president of Liberty three weeks after Edwards was hired.
Not long afterward, the complaint alleges, Liberty’s acting president, Jerry Prevo, told Edwards there was “confusion” about his role.
“It became clear that Prevo did not believe in diversity efforts based at Liberty,” the complaint alleges. “In fact, during that same time frame, Mr. Edwards heard Prevo comment there were ‘too many people’ in diversity and inclusion.”
The complaint also claims that only two of 28 executives and senior leaders at Liberty are African American.
In a July 5 statement to a local television station, the school said that “Liberty University rejects the claims of Kelvin Edwards and will prove them false through the legal process.” The statement also said that Prevo had determined that hiring Edwards was “among his predecessor’s mistakes” but claimed the school had tried to find him another job with the institution.
The school said that it is committed to diversity and that Prevo has increased the budget for diversity efforts. “The University and its president are fully committed to racial and ethnic inclusion and diversity throughout Liberty, including on its faculty, in its student body and staff, and on its executive team,” the statement read.
According to the complaint, Edwards was terminated from his role in October 2020.’https://julieroys.com/liberty-university-lawsuit-nfl-kelvin-edwards/?mc_cid=575aed3b8b&mc_eid=b13d34ad49
Many, including professing Christians, are into yoga type meditation which is the wrong meditation for a Bible believing Christian. The following is by George Swinnock, 1657-1673.
‘SOLEMN meditation is a serious applying [of] the mind to some sacred subject, until the affections be warmed and quickened, and the resolution heightened and strengthened thereby, against what is evil and for that which is good.
There are five things in this description:
- It is an application of the mind. The understanding must be awake about this duty; it is not a work to be done sleeping. If the mind be not stirring, the affections will be nodding. The understand- ing in this is, as it were, the master workman—if that be out of the way or missing, the servants of the affections will be idle and stand still. It is by this sun that heat is conveyed to the lower world. Darkness, like the night, is accompanied with damps and cold. The chariot of light is attended with warming and quickening beams.
- It is a serious applying [of] the mind. Too quick digestion breeds crudities in the mind as well as in the body and doth often more distemper than nourish. There must be a retentive faculty to hold fast that which nature receiveth until a thorough concoction be wrought, or little strength will be gotten by it. Hereby it differeth from occasional meditation, which is sudden and soon vanisheth: this calls at the door, salutes us, and takes its leave; [solemn meditation] comes in and stays some time with us. Occasional meditation is tran- sient, like the dogs of Nilus that lap and are gone; set meditation is permanent—it, as the spouse begged of Christ, lodgeth all night be- tween the breasts. This duty cannot be done unless the mind be kept close to it; the person that is negligent cannot do this work of the Lord. Things of importance are not to be huddled up in haste; loose thoughts, as loose garments, hinder us in our business. We need our hearts united to think of God as much as to fear God. Short glances do little good…it is not once dipping the stuff into the dye vat, but frequently doing it that giveth the pure scarlet color…It is much blowing that makes the green wood to flame.
- It is about some sacred subject. As good meat and drink breed good blood, so good subjects will breed good thoughts. There is abundant matter for our meditation: the nature or attributes of God, the states and offices of Christ, the threefold state of man, the four last things—the vanity of the creature, the sinfulness of sin, and the love and fulness of the blessed Savior, the divine Word and works. Out of these we may choose sometimes one thing, sometimes another, to be the particular subject of our thoughts (Exo 15:11; Psa 1:1; 119:148; Pro 6:22; 1Ti 4:13). To undertake more than one at a time will deprive us of the benefit of all…Whilst the dog runs after two hares—now after one and presently after the other—he loseth both… When thou hast fixed upon the subject, meditate, if it may be, on its causes, properties, effects, titles, comparisons, testimonies, contraries —all will help to illustrate the subject and to quicken and advantage thee. They do all, as so many several windows, let in those beams that both enlighten the mind and warm the affections, but they must be considered in their places and methodically. The parts of a watch jumbled together serve for no use, but each in its order make a rare and useful piece.
- It is that the affections may be warmed and quickened. Our hearts and affections should answer our thoughts, as the echo the voice and the wax the character in the seal. If our meditations do not better our hearts, they do nothing. Whilst they swim in the mind, as light things floating on the waters, they are unprofitable; but when they sink down into the affections, as heavy and weighty things mak- ing suitable and real impressions there, then they attain their end. Our design in meditation must be rather to cleanse our hearts than to clear our heads. “While I was musing the fire burned” (Psa 39:3). We strike fire by meditation to kindle our affections. This application of the thoughts to the heart is like the natural heat, which digesteth the food and turneth it into good nourishment.
When we are meditating on the sinfulness of sin—in its nature: its contrariety to God, His being, His Law, His honor; its opposition to our own souls: their present purity and peace, their future glory and bliss—in its causes: Satan, the wicked one, its father, the corrupt heart of man its mother—in its properties: how defiling it is, filthiness itself; how infectious it is, overspreading the whole man, polluting all his natural, civil, spiritual actions, and making his praying, hearing, singing, an abomination; how deceiving it is, pretending meat and intending murder—in its effects: the curse of God on all the creatures, evident by the vanity in them, the vexation they bring with them; in the anger of God on sinners, apparent in those temporal punish- ments, spiritual judgments, and eternal torments that He inflicteth on them—I say, when we meditate on these, we should endeavor to get our hearts broken for sin, ashamed of sin, and fired with indigna- tion against sin!
“Oh, what a wretch am I,” should the soul think, “to harbor such a traitor against my sovereign! What a fool am I to hug such a serpent in my bosom! What sorrow for it can be sufficient! What hatred of it is enough! What watchfulness against it, what self-abhorrence be- cause I have loved it and lived in it, can equal [what it deserves]! Oh, that I could weep bitterly for the commission of it, watch narrowly for the prevention of it, and pray fervently for pardon of it and power against it! How much am I bound to God for His patience towards so great a sinner! How infinitely am I engaged to Christ for taking upon Him my sins! It was infinite condescension in Him to take upon Him my nature; but oh, what humiliation was it to take upon Him my sins! What life can answer such love! What thankfulness should I render for such grace, such goodness!”
The close applying of our meditations to our hearts is like the applying and rubbing in oil on a benumbed joint, which recovers it to its due sense…David proceeds from meditation of God’s works to application of his thoughts: “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers…What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?” (Psa 8:3-4).
5. It is a serious applying of some sacred subject that his resolu- tions may be strengthened against evil and for good. The Christian must not only pray his good thoughts but practice them. He must not lock them up in his mind but lay them out in his life. A council of war or of state is wholly useless if there be none to execute what they determine. That kingdom flourisheth best where faithful execution followeth sound advisements: therefore, the heathen pronounced a city safe that had the heads of old men for consideration and the hands of young men for execution. Action without consideration is usually lame and defective; consideration without action is lost and abortive. Though meditation, like Rachel, be more fair, execution, like Leah, is most fruitful. The beasts under the Law were unclean, which did not both chew the cud and divide the hoof. “Chewing the cud signifieth meditation, dividing the hoof a holy conversation, without which the former will be unprofitable,” saith Augustine.
Reader, hast thou thought of the beauty and excellency of holiness in its nature, its conformity to the pure nature and holy commands of the blessed God—in its causes: the Spirit of God [is] its principal effi- cient, the holy Scriptures its instrumental—in its names: it is the im- age of God, the divine nature, light, life, the travail of Christ’s soul, grace, glory, the kingdom of heaven—in its effects or fruits: [see] how it renders thee amiable in God’s eye, hath the promise of His ear, is entitled to pardon, peace, joy, adoption, growth in grace, persever- ance to the end, and the exceeding and eternal weight of glory, and [it] hast applied this so close to thy heart that thou hast been really affected with its worth and wished thyself enriched with that jewel, though thou wert a beggar all thy life. [Thus, it is] resolved with thy- self: “Well, I will watch, weep, hear, and pray, both fervently and frequently, for holiness. I will follow God up and down and never leave Him until He sanctifieth my soul?”
Now, I say to thee as Nathan to David, when he told him of his thoughts and resolution of building a temple: “Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee” (1Ch 17:2). Or as God to Moses, concern- ing the Jews: “They have well said all that they have spoken. O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments!” (Deu 5:28-29). It is well thou art brought to any good purposes; but it will be ill if they be not followed with per- formances. Good intentions without suitable actions is but a false conception; or like a piece charged without a bullet, which may make a noise, but doth no good, no execution. Indeed, there is no way better to evidence the sincerity of thy intentions than by answerable actions.
David was good at this: “I thought on my ways”—there was his seri- ous consideration—“and turned my feet to thy testimonies” (Psa 119:59)—there is his holy conversation. So again, “I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways” (Psa 119:15). It is in vain to pretend that, like Moses, we go into the mount of contempla- tion and converse with God, unless we come down as he did, with our faces shining, our conversations more splendent16 with holiness. This, saith the chief of the philosophers, will [bring] a man to perfect hap- piness if to his contemplation he joins a constant imitation of God in wisdom, justice, and holiness.
Thus, I have dispatched those five in meditations. The first three are but one—though for method’s sake, to help the reader, I spake to them severally—and are usually called cogitation, the other two ap- plication and resolution. Cogitation provides food, application eats it, resolution digests it and gets strength from it. Cogitation cuts out the suit, application makes it up, resolution puts it on and wears it. Cogi tation betters the judgment, application the affections, and resolution the life. It is confessed [that] this duty of set meditation is as hard as rare and as uneasy as extraordinary; but experience teacheth that the profit makes abundant recompense for our pains in the performance of it. Besides, as millstones grind hard at first, but, being used to it, they grind easily and make good flour; so the Christian, wholly dis- used to this duty, at first may find it somewhat difficult, but after- wards both facile and fruitful.
Does anything surprise you anymore? Paul the Apostle wrote to Pastor Timothy in 1Timothy 6: 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
‘Pastors at the scandal-ridden Hillsong Church lived lavishly on congregants’ tithe money, according to former Hillsong members and staff who spoke recently with the New York Post.
The church provided pastors and staff with pre-paid expense cards that they used to buy whatever they wanted—from designer purses to Manhattan hotel stays to huge quantities of food, the sources said.
Former Hillsong LA service pastor Nicole Herman told the Post that she personally loaded the funds onto expense cards for Hillsong pastors, including former Hillsong NYC Pastor Carl Lentz, who recently was fired from the church for an adulterous affair. Herman said the cards were also given to volunteers to make purchases for the church and its pastors.
According to Herman, all the money loaded onto the cards came from church donations and was refilled through her former husband who was the CFO of Hillsong LA.
Another former Hillsong congregant who spoke with the Post was 27-year-old Jenna Babbitt, who started attending Hillsong NYC in August 2011. Babbitt said she worked as a nanny for several Hillsong pastors, including Reed and Jess Bogard who unexpectedly resigned from Hillsong Dallas earlier this month.
Babbitt said she was given access to a pre-paid card to buy food for the children she babysat. She added that she and other volunteers also used the cards to buy spreads of food for the pastors before every service. The cards were also used to buy luxury presents and meals from upscale restaurants for visiting pastors, she said.
According to Babbitt, the church never required her to reconcile the purchases she made with the card, nor was there an expectation that the pastors would reimburse the church for personal purchases made with the card.
During the six years she attended the church, Babbitt said she donated thousands of dollars to Hillsong and worked without pay, even though she was poor at the time.
“The exploitation of free labor while these pastors are making bank is just crazy to me,” Babbitt told the Post. (In a podcast released earlier this month, former Hillsong member Janis Lagata recounted a similar experience.)
Another Hillsong NYC member who worked as a nanny for Hillsong pastors is former member Megan Phalon. Phalon told the Post that she began attending, volunteering and tithing to the church in 2011 and began baby-sitting for Pastors Kane and Karla Keatinge about a year later.
Phalon said she also was given a pre-paid card with the instructions to explicitly use it for the Keatinge’s kids, not herself.
Phalon said Keatinge was required to report his expenditures to Reed Bogard each month, but could never remember what the receipts were for. According to Phalon, the receipts included “hundreds” of purchases from restaurants, $700 for a new iPhone, and four-wheeler ATVs the pastors would drive around Williamsburg, a pricey neighborhood in Brooklyn where all the Hillsong NYC pastors lived.
Similarly, Brandon Walker, a 28-year-old who helped the Bogards start a Hillsong branch in Dallas, spoke of the lavish lifestyle Hillsong pastors lived.
Walker told the Post he remembered “a lot of eating out” and renting “very nice Airbnbs,” including one that cost $1,100/night. Walker added that Hillsong kept the finances secret because the expenditures were so excessive.
Walker said Reed Bogard once gave him $600 when he needed money. “That’s a tactic a lot of these pastors use to keep their secrets,” Walker told the Post. “Buying us expensive gifts, giving us money, like, ‘I got your back, so when I need you to have my back, this is something to remember.’”
I reached out to Reed Bogard for comment, but he did not respond by time of publishing. The Post said it also reached out to the Bogards, but the couple responded by blocking the Post reporter on Instagram.
Hillsong is reportedly investigating its East Coast branch, following the scandal involving Lentz.
Phalon said she shared details of her experience with investigation lawyers who “were shocked” by what she shared. Lawyers also reportedly contacted Babbitt, asking about the church’s use of expense cards.’https://julieroys.com/hillsong-members-tithes-funded-pastors-lavish-lifestyles/?mc_cid=616742f2a5&mc_eid=b13d34ad49
As a Baptist preacher the following is just another reason to be independent of conventions.
‘Southern Baptist Convention officials admitted it would have been better if they’d contacted Black leaders of their denomination before issuing a statement decrying critical race theory, which led to the departure of several Black pastors.
In response to weeks of reaction to the statement and a request for a meeting from the SBC’s National African American Fellowship, the denomination’s seminary presidents and fellowship leaders met on Wednesday (Jan. 6).
In late November, the leaders of the six SBC seminaries—all of them white men—declared critical race theory, a set of ideas about systemic racism with roots in Marxism, was not compatible with the statement of faith of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination.
After the presidents issued their statement, several Black church leaders announced they were leaving the mostly white denomination.
The only Black person to serve as the denomination’s president, New Orleans pastor Fred Luter, signed a statement on justice and repentance on Dec. 18. That document, initially issued by 20 Black and white SBC leaders, noted SBC progress on becoming more inclusive but added “some recent events have left many brothers and sisters of color feeling betrayed and wondering if the SBC is committed to racial reconciliation.”
Later in December, the seminary presidents told The Washington Post they regretted the statement “inadvertently caused significant hurt among some black brothers and sisters.” That was not their intention, they said, “even as we expressed our genuine concern about what we see as dangerous ideologies.”
Following Wednesday’s meeting, in a joint statement on Friday, leaders of the SBC’s National African American Fellowship and Council of Seminary Presidents said they had an “honest and open conversation” during the virtual meeting. They discussed “our various perspectives on all these issues” and vowed to continue talking.
“All of us acknowledge that conversations of this nature should have happened ahead of time,” they said in the statement. “The Council of Seminary Presidents regrets the pain and confusion that resulted from a lack of prior dialogue. Together, all of us are committed to condemn and fight racism in every form, personal and structural, in consistency with the 1995 SBC Resolution on Racial Reconciliation and the Baptist Faith and Message.”
The discussion included joint plans to sustain and increase Black student enrollment at the seminaries.
“The seminary presidents shared the conviction that CRT will not be taught at their seminaries,” the Rev. Marshal L. Ausberry Sr., president of the African American fellowship, told Baptist Press. “That’s their role to make those decisions and we can respect that.”
Danny Akin, chairman of the seminary council, told the denomination’s news service, the meeting demonstrated the “love and respect each has for one another.”
SBC Executive Committee President Ronnie Floyd and SBC President J.D. Greear also joined the meeting, which Baptist Press reported lasted for about three hours.
Greear had affirmed the seminary presidents’ original statement but also urged Southern Baptists to consider the later “Justice, Repentance, and the SBC” statement, which argued “(s)ome in the SBC appear to be more concerned with political maneuvering” than racial diversity.
He told Baptist Press these discussions “need nuance, grace and better efforts at mutual understanding” and expressed regret for the timing of the conversations.
“Our brothers and sisters of color absolutely should have been at the table—from the beginning—as we consider questions about what a Gospel-based response to racism in our country looks like,” Greear said. “I apologize for how this whole situation has made many of our brothers and sisters feel. Your voices are important in shaping our shared future.”
During the meeting, the leaders learned of the riots that had broken out when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol. The Baptist leaders paused and prayed for the country.’https://ministrywatch.com/southern-baptist-leaders-meet-after-critical-race-theory-document-caused-controversy/
The United Nations is an Islamic/Communist institution and as such is a DIVIDER of Nations rather than UNITER! In 2007 the United Nations adopted the ‘Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)‘. What does the Declaration emphasize? ‘The document emphasizes the rights of indigenous peoples to live in dignity, to maintain and strengthen their own institutions, cultures and traditions and to pursue their self-determined development, in keeping with their own needs and aspirations.’https://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/faq_drips_en.pdf
Here in Australia Islam has sought to make itself look like a friend of indigenous people even having on one Muslim web site the following logo of the Islamic Crescent and an Aboriginal boomerang.
A quick study of Islam will show that other cultures are always subordinate to Islam.
Now, staying with Australia and the UN’s promotion of Indigenous Peoples there is each year here in Australia what is called NAIDOC week. ‘NAIDOC stands for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee’ and this year’s theme is: “Always Was, Always Will Be”. This statement recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years and were the first explorers, navigators, engineers, farmers, botanists, scientists, diplomats, astronomers and artists.
NAIDOC has grown from one day to a full week of celebrations (from the 8-15 of November) and is not just for our Indigenous communities but a celebration for all Australians.
This year’s theme celebrates Indigenous tradition and spiritual connection to the land whilst facing catastrophic droughts and rising sea levels by the enduring threat of climate change, demonstrating that knowledge of Country, is more important than ever before.’https://www.amust.com.au/2020/11/always-was-always-will-be-2020-naidoc-week-celebrations/
Note the highlighted eight words above. The first is 65,00 years. That is an evolutionary thesis but not a factual known number. That number of 65,000 is based on assumption and guess work! The second two words are Indigenous tradition. Traditions are good depending on the tradition but does one really believe most indigenous people wish to go back to how they once lived!?
The third is spiritual connection. Now, that is a drawback to paganism and animism. This is clearly not good in that the Creator Himself said I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. It is brutal to tell a people anything else. Thirdly note the ever present promotion of climate change. These six words are used to promote a bias against Europeans, the Christian faith and true science.
The United Nations’ UNDRIP is de-visive, deceiving, destructive and devilish.
The following article is just one of the many reasons why we are seeing Antifa, BLM and the 2020 USA election being so corrupt. The universities are not teaching facts but teaching their version! This Leftist/Marxist/Communist teaching is occurring throughout the Western world. The sad thing is that it is only President Trump that sees it and has sought to stop it!
‘An assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania recently talked to students about how to “decolonize” their Thanksgiving, arguing that the traditional pilgrims and Indians story is a false narrative that perpetuates harm and racism.
Professor Abigail Adams argued that “unlearning some of the myths that we’ve learned about Thanksgiving” is important because “they continue to perpetuate harm and misinformation about native people and continue to keep native people of the past… [so that they’re] not seen as real, contemporary people.”
She told students attending the online workshop that while the “Thanksgiving myth” has elements of truth, “we have to be honest about how America has treated indigenous people and we have to acknowledge that indigenous people continue to suffer in internal colonies or reservation systems as we call them in the United States.”
“And,” she added, “we have to acknowledge during Thanksgiving that we have inherited a land that is not rightfully ours because it was never ceded. It was essentially stolen from indigenous people.”’https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-instructs-students-on-decolonizing-your-thanksgiving/
You just might enjoy reading something from one who was there on that first Thanksgiving.
‘Almost everything we know about the first Thanksgiving in 1621 is based on a few lines from a letter.
“Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruits of our labors; they four in one day killed as much fowl, as with a little help beside, served the Company almost a week, at which time amongst other Recreations, we exercised our Arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five Deer, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Governor, and upon the Captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.”
–Edward Winslow, December, 1621‘https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-edward-winslow-plymouth-hero-thanksgiving-180961174/
