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MikeinFL's avatar

Here's some good news!

Dutch Farmers Topple Agriculture Minister Leading Radical Climate Agenda

"The Netherlands’ agricultural minister Henk Staghouwer has been forced to resign following widespread protests from Dutch farmers over his radical climate agenda that seeks to destroy their livelihoods.

Staghouwer was leading the Dutch agriculture ministry’s climate policy that involved confiscating farms in a forced government buy-out scheme."

https://slaynews.com/news/dutch-farmers-topple-agriculture-minister-climate-agenda/

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Steghorn21's avatar

There is indeed hope. There are plenty of good things happening too. Also, it's important that we keep a sense of balance. Sure, the Transgender thing is pure evil, but it's being resisted in a lot of places. And where it is being imposed, are the usual whacky leftist strongholds like Chicago.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

It's far more insidious than you imagine. It's in the government schools and libraries across the country--including in the deepest red states. It's in universities and colleges across the country, including many formerly religious institutions. It's in the professional schools across the country and acts as gatekeepers to the professions--medicine and law and related professions. It's in the professional associations as well. It increasingly controls the "hard" sciences. Resistance is growing, but is still just beginning.

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Steghorn21's avatar

I accept your deeper knowledge of this awful phenomenon, Mark. Let's hope the resistance continues to grow.

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Sandy Daze's avatar

Just so.

Consider, if you will, the situation at Notre Dame:

this:

https://irishrover.net/2022/09/sexuality-ed/

discusses this:

https://studentaffairs.nd.edu/division-directory/other-student-services/building-community-the-notre-dame-way-bcnd/

I was listening to Fr Robert McTeigue, SJ on Podcast yesterday (The Catholic Current), he called for the removal of the imprimatur "Catholic" from ND. That would be a good start.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Yep. Villanova, Providence, and lots more, as well.

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NFO's avatar

Georgetown is probably the worst of the bunch, I'm sad to say. Even back in the '80s, Domers used to make fun of us, saying "ND is the best Catholic school in the country because Georgetown isn't even 'Catholic'." Stopped giving around 10 years ago, even the donations for good basketball seats.

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Lawrence L.'s avatar

People used to say, "If you don't vote then you can't complain." We are WAY past that point. If you are willfully ignorant about what is going on--then you should not be pulled on board the life raft. Your hand should be slapped away. No resources can be diverted to you until the war is over and security is assured.

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dissonant1's avatar

Incredibly important content in this post. Thank you! I had not explicitly (in my mind) made the connection between the methods being employed by the Biden admin and those of the USSR in Eastern Europe.

"...people gathering to strengthen the bonds of shared moral and metaphysical beliefs does. And that is always disapproved by the totalitarian state." Yes! For that reason they will come for the churches, just as the Nazis, the USSR, the CCP, and every other totalitarian government has done.

Christians believe the source of all power against evil is found in God. The enemies of God know this too. A community of believers can be a powerful force against evil - as is supported by Ephesians 6: "Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes." On the road ahead we will need lots of waking up to the threat, lots of prayer, lots of faith, and lots of following the instructions in this chapter.

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Steghorn21's avatar

Respectfully disagree, Dis. I don't see ANY Christians fighting back, with some exceptions such as the remarkable Peggy Hall in CA. Also, prayer and community with other Christians might fortify us in our struggle, but it doesn't actually get rid of evil.

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dissonant1's avatar

Steghorn, if you read Ephesians 6, it is spiritual warfare that is being talked about and it is spiritual weapons being prescribed. Evil will always be extant in this world but the final victory in the spiritual realm is God's (and ours), through Christ.

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P.S. - sorry for my delayed response. Blessings to you!

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chuck99z28's avatar

What do you consider fighting back?

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Steghorn21's avatar

We are weak individuals, but we can only do what we can and start from where we are: pray, do what good you can, have kids, build networks with like minds, refuse to keep quiet when you see evil. Anything short of violence.

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dissonant1's avatar

Yes, but it is not "a long defeat." It is an ongoing battle but the victory has already been won through Christ! (John 16:33 + many other verses). It will be a test but one that God has provided us with His salvation, His grace, and His strength to pass.

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dissonant1's avatar

Thanks very much for the clarification, mistcr. Blessings to you.

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Steghorn21's avatar

Not sure why a good God would make evil as part of his plan. If it is, then a heck of a lot of innocent people have died because of it.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I suppose that the choice is binary: to create or not create. A perfectly good God cannot create a perfect world--to do so would be to create himself. So, an imperfect world or no world at all. The mystery of evil.

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dissonant1's avatar

No he did create a perfect world. That is the ONLY kind of world he could create (being Holy). For reasons we do not understand he allowed the potential of disobedience and sin. Perhaps he foresaw that would occur and require a redemption and reconciliation? And perhaps that would ensure a more perfect union of the creator and the created in eternity?

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dissonant1's avatar

Great description. Thank you.

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chuck99z28's avatar

Sounds like we're there. What comes next?

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Dave's avatar

Re: Chileans almost total rejection of Socialism... was this defacto also a resounding loss by Soros, Davos and Zhous US Deep State (CIA)?

Hmmm...

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Chuck's avatar

Hope so!

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perle's avatar

"Just remember, they know how the human mind works." Do they? They certainly don't know how the human heart works.

"The solution is to break down the family." How do you do that? For many of us the family is possibly the most important factor in our lives, and we will forgo an attractive career offer if it is too disruptive of the family.

I would further argue that religious or not, we may have standards of morality that will not allow us to engage in evil acts or follow an evil regime's dictates.

I do not deny that people can be manipulated. I have faith that the American DNA does not allow this to be widespread, and the regime has already alienated the American people by their actions over the last year and a half. The Redstate article you link to expresses this idea perfectly.

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Joseph Kaplan's avatar

They are trying to create the Borg. And we thought star wars was science fiction.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/chaplain-claims-church-england-deemed-him-risk-children-questioning-lgbt-ideology

A Christian chaplain who was forced out of his job and reported to a terrorist watchdog for giving a sermon defending the right to question LGBT ideology claims he was also then blacklisted as a safeguarding risk to children by the Church of England (CofE).

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Steghorn21's avatar

The CofE was dead years ago.

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ML's avatar

Absolutely chilling. I was raised in the American Episcopal church when it was affectionately called “smells and bells!” The CoE, or Anglican Church has, over the past 20 years, morphed into another woke bastion of propaganda and intolerance…and I have to say that women in the ministry are often leading this utterly wretched campaign to weed out and cancel differing views, as this case shows. As my husband (Roman Catholic) has always said, somewhat mockingly, the Anglican (Anglo Catholic) is the government church, the “église des fonctionnaires!” - or the church run by bureaucrats! Well now, at least in the UK, it has become just another coercive arm of the woke state. I’m through with it. But I still love the Ephesians in the King James, “put thee on the armour of light…” as we’re all called now to do…

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Unfortunately, the Conciliar Church, having renounced the concept of state church via concordats, under Bergoglio simply aspires to be recognized by the cultural elites.

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ML's avatar

I guess the Church of England has the very same “aspiration.”

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ML's avatar

Romans 13:12 (KJV):

“The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light.”

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Steghorn21's avatar

It's only a blunder if voting still matters. If they can cheat the way they did in 2020, then Biden can continue to insult 70% of the nation. I'm not American, so I have no idea what is going on to safeguard voting integrity. I'm hoping there are some people over there who are working on this, because the GOP certainly isn't.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

Biden is just an angry old man.

He has been playing the fear, lying, and exaggeration method from Bork, Romney (chains), Charlottesville, Jan 6, to Philadelphia. It is who he is. He tries to play the awh shucks Regular Joe persona. And with his dementia, his anger impulses are getting worse.

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