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  1. Merrill

    NHS having problems treating patients because "gender" has replaced "sex"

    New frontiers in clown-world https://www.yahoo.com/news/nhs-police-obsession-gender-captured-190000985.html one would think that the western world should probably start embracing real science again, and should figure out the difference between male and female
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    Churches partnering with NGO which receives money from USAID

    I attend an EFCA (Evangelical Free Church) and noticed that it was affiliated with, or partnered with an organization called "World Relief" https://worldrelief.org/refugee-and-immigration-work/ I didn't think much of it, until I looked into them a little deeper. Aside from the refugee work...
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    Election postmortem

    Setting aside my personal views on the candidates, and approaching this at an objective level, I fund the results of this election shocking and unexpected. We have to ask seriously, "how could a candidate with twice the money (record amounts), the entire MSM behind her--to the point where it...
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    Members of "The View" say Harris would have won if the government could control social media

    Echoing a statement by Harris a few weeks ago, when she said the government cannot allow Americans to express themselves freely and without regulation on the Internet, "The View" says she would have won if such regulation were implemented. https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1854245935565377663
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    Problems with voting machines in PA

    In rural, Republican counties, there are widespread reports of election officials unable to scan ballots, crashing machines, and communication failures. https://www.pennlive.com/elections/2024/11/voting-machine-issues-reported-in-some-pa-counties.html...
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    The faith at a crossroads

    Not sure the best place to put this post, so I will put it here ... I have noticed that in the past 10 years or so, many reformed denominations have suffered declines in membership, controversy, and scandal. The "New Calvinists" seemed to be a big thing 15 years ago, and it was exciting. But...
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    Feeling alienated from the church

    Tough post for me to make on a Christian forum, but I have been feeling alienated from the church for some time now. My perceptions may not be correct, fair, or even real, but they are mine. I grew up Catholic, and it was a rough road. I was a difficult kid in some ways (not a "bad" or criminal...
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    Ukrainian army marching further into Russia

    I certainly did not see this coming. The situation is so dire for Russia right now that Putin is moving troops from Kaliningrad to Kursk to help support the forces there https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-keeps-pounding-kursk-incursion-biden-calls-real-dilemma-putin-2024-08-14/
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    Tim Walz falsely claims misinformation and hate speech are not protected by the First Amendment

    Tim Walz has made the claim more than once that "misinformation" and "hate speech" are not protected by the First Amendment, and that laws can be passed limiting such speech--essentially prosecuting people for expression "There's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and...
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    Wife of Trump critic who pushed the Russian collusion narrative charged with being a foreign agent

    Max Boot’s wife and occasional co-author, the former CIA analyst and longtime Asia policy expert Sue Mi Terry, has herself now been charged with two felony counts of serving as an unregistered agent for a foreign power...
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    Book recommendations for deep study

    I am starting a certificate in divinity program in the Fall at a local college. This is something I am doing for personal/spiritual enrichment I currently belong to the EFCA Church, and the program is in-line with heir theology/doctrine but I wanted to ask: what are some good books or study...
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    Kamala Harris supported defunding the police in 2020

    Before this gets memory-holed, and Democrats start engaging in revisionist history. And this is from CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/26/politics/kfile-kamala-harris-praised-defund-the-police-movement-in-june-2020/index.html
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    Biden tests positive for COVID --rushed back to Delaware from Nevada

    I am. not sure a sitting president has ever had a worse 1-2 months than Biden at this point and Schiff just declared that Biden should discontinue the campaign I expect Biden to step do exactly that within a few days at this point --ot the 25th might get invoked...
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    LGBTQ activists work to block child sex trafficking bill in California

    https://ktxs.com/news/nation-world/california-activists-oppose-bill-making-child-sex-trafficking-a-felony-lgbt-activists-in-california-are-opposing-a-bill-which-would-increase-the-penalties-for-soliciting-sex-with-minors-the-bipartisan-measure-sb1414-would-make-it-a-felony-offense-for and DEI...
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    Biden lifts ban on Nazi militia in Ukraine from US weapons and funding

    Leave it to the Biden administration to find and support literal, "real Nazis" https://www.newsweek.com/biden-lifts-ban-ukraine-azov-unit-american-weapons-human-rights-probe-1911086 but don't worry, I'm sure these guys will use the weapons in a fair and equitable manner and not commit any war...
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    Female Pastor kicks the Bible like a football

    This is just crazy --what was she thinking?
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    Modern Calvinism and predestination

    I am not that familiar with the current state of Calvinism, and I was wondering what the concept of "predestination" means for those practicing Calvinists these days? Baptists and Reformed Church members are largely Calvinist correct? What do they believe about predestination?
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    New national security threat? What is going on here?

    https://www.axios.com/2024/02/14/congress-national-security-threat-classified-biden Do we have confirmation Iran has nuclear weapons? Did China develop a new virus?
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    He Gets Us campaign

    I assume many of you saw that "He Gets Us" Super Bowl commercial or maybe some of you have experience with the organization seem like it was very controversial--I am curious to hear your thoughts on it
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    Shots fired at Osteen's Lakewood Church. Active shooter ...

    https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/crime/2024/02/11/477140/lakewood-church-houston-shooting-reported-sunday-joel-osteen-pastor/
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