Called By Christ To Be ONE: 2021

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Why the Left Doesn’t Like Christmas

Many on the Left (as opposed to liberals) have been warring on Christmas for more than a generation. Leftists always deny there is a war on Christmas and mock those who claim there is.

There is a mind-blowing chutzpah or lack of self-awareness when people do something and yet deny that they are actually doing it. But the evidence is overwhelming.

The Left has stopped schools from calling Christmas vacations by that name—the name schools called them throughout American history until the last couple of decades. Almost every non-Christian school in America now calls Christmas vacation “winter break.”

Fewer and fewer Americans, stores, companies or media wish people “Merry Christmas,” preferring the neutered “happy holidays” (despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans celebrate Christmas). And in but one generation, virtually every American business has gone from having a “Christmas party” to having a “holiday party.”

Having written in the past about the falsehood of “merry Christmas,” “Christmas vacation” and “Christmas party” not being “inclusive,” I will not reiterate the point here. Suffice it to say that it takes a breathtaking level of narcissism for a non-Christian to be offended by mentions of Christmas and a breathtaking level of meanness to seek to deprive the vast majority of fellow Americans of the public mention of their holiday.

Rather, I want to try to explain why this has happened.

The “inclusive” argument is so absurd—I am a religious Jew and cannot even fathom being offended or feeling “not included” by an invitation to a Christmas party—that there have to be other, or at least additional, reasons for the Left’s neutering of Christmas.

There are.

One is that the Left sees in Christianity its primary ideological and political enemy. And it is right to do so. The only large-scale organized opposition to the Left comes from the traditional Christian community—evangelical Protestants, traditional Catholics, and faithful Mormons—and Orthodox Jews. Leftism is a secular religion, and it deems all other religions immoral and false.

From Karl Marx to Vladimir Lenin to George Soros, the Left has regarded religion in general and Christianity in particular as the “opiate of the masses”—a drug that dulls the masses into accepting their oppressed condition and, thereby, keeps them from engaging in revolution.

The Left understands that the more people believe in Christianity (and Judaism), the less chance the Left has to gain power. The Left doesn’t concern itself with Islam, because it perceives Islam as an ally in its war against Western civilization, and because leftists do not have the courage to confront Islam. They know that confronting religious Muslims can be fatal, whereas confronting religious Christians entails no risks.

Second, the Left regards Christianity in America as an intrinsic part of American national identity—an identity it wishes to erode in favor of a “world citizen” identity.

The Left has not only warred against Christmas; it has sought to undermine other national identity holidays. For any number of reasons, not only including the Left, Americans no longer celebrate George Washington’s birthday (it has de facto been replaced by the utterly meaningless “Presidents Day”) or Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, as they did when I was a child, my father was a child and his father was a child. The only American celebrated in a national holiday is Martin Luther King Jr., which is acceptable to the left since he is not white.

One proof of the Left’s desire to undermine specifically American national holidays is its war on the two remaining specifically American holidays: July Fourth and Thanksgiving.

The Left deems Thanksgiving a historical fraud and an immoral celebration of “genocide” of the American Indians—which is what American children are now taught in many American public schools. And “happy Thanksgiving” has been replaced by “happy holidays.” As for July Fourth, The New York Times is leading the undermining of the celebration of America’s birthday by declaring that the real founding of America was 1619, the year, the Times asserts, African slaves first arrived on the American continent.

Of course, there is still Veterans Day and Memorial Day, but they are not specifically American national holidays; just about every country has such holidays.

But Christmas is a problem for the Left. It celebrates religion, and it does so in quintessentially American ways (take American Christmas music, for example).

The third and final reason is that the Left is joyless. Whatever and whomever the Left influences has less joy in life. I have met happy and unhappy liberals, and happy and unhappy conservatives, but I’ve never encountered a happy leftist. And the further left you go, the more angry and unhappy the people you will encounter. Happy women and happy blacks, for example, are far more likely to be conservative than on the Left.

Christmas is just too happy for the Left. “Holly, jolly” is not a left-wing term.

https://amgreatness.com/2021/12/24/why-the-left-doesnt-like-christmas-2/

150 studies show masks ineffective, harmful

'Body of evidence' has been 'stable and clear'

By Art Moore
Published December 24, 2021 at 4:11pm

Washington Navy Yard families participate in Cookies with Santa, an event hosted by Naval Support Activity Washington's Morale, Welfare and Recreation office, Dec. 4, 2021. (U.S. Navy photo by Elizabeth Kearns)

A former adviser to the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has compiled a list of more than 150 studies and articles presenting data and evidence that universal masking is ineffective in stopping the spread of SARS-CoV-2 and causes harm.

Paul Alexander, in an article for the Brownstone Institute listing the studies, says his focus is on "the prevailing science that we have had for nearly 20 months."

"To date, the evidence has been stable and clear that masks do not work to control the virus and they can be harmful and especially to children," he writes.

Alexander points to the work of the creators of the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for "a focused type of protection that was based on an age-risk stratified approach."

Children will bear the consequences for decades to come, he says, for the school closure policies and the masking.

"Many are still pressured to wear masks and punished for not doing so," he writes.

Alexander has compiled other pandemic-related lists of studies for the Brownstone Institute, which organized the Great Barrington Declaration.

A list of more than 400 studies shows that COVID-19 lockdowns, shelter-in-place policies, school closures, masks and mask mandates have failed to curb virus transmission or reduce deaths.

https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/150-studies-show-masks-ineffective-harmful/

New study finds vaccines make omicron infection MORE likely

Scientists fear too many shots might cause immune system fatigue

By Art Moore
Published December 28, 2021 at 7:06pm

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A study by Danish researchers finds that after 90 days, the COVID-19 vaccines will make you more likely to get infected from omicron, not less.

They may offer a short-term benefit from the delta variant, "but at the expense of a degradation of your overall immunity to everything else," reports Steve Kirsch. a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Covid-19 Early Treatment Fund.

The study shows that after three months, the effectiveness of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines against omicron is actually negative.

The Pfizer vaccine makes recipients 76.5% more likely and the Moderna recipients 39.3% more likely to be infected than unvaccinated people.

Last week, the New York Times reported scientists were warning that a plan by the Israeli government to recommend a fourth vaccine dose to address signs of waning immunity a few months after the third shot could backfire.

The scientists said, in the Times words, that "too many shots might cause a sort of immune system fatigue, compromising the body’s ability to fight the coronavirus."

A few members of the Israeli government's advisory panel raised that concern with respect to the elderly, said the Times, which cited a written summary of the discussion obtained by the paper.

In fact, in a March 2020 interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci warned of possible harm from people who get infected with a virus after having been vaccinated.

Do COVID vaccines make you MORE likely to get infected from omicron?

He appeared to be describing Antibody Dependent Enhancement, a mechanism in which antibodies are unable to neutralize a virus but instead increase its ability to infect cells, making the disease worse.

Long before the release of the COVID vaccines, Fauci was emphasizing the importance of safety trials to screen for possible unintended consequences such as ADE, which he said in March 2020 could take a year to a year and a half.

"If you vaccinate someone and they make an antibody response, and then they get exposed and infected, does the response that you induce actually enhance the infection and make it worse?"

The only way you can find out, he said, is "if you do an extended study, not in a normal volunteer who has no risk of infection, but in people who are out there in a risk situation."

If it were to happen, he said, it "would not be the first time that a vaccine that looked good in initial safety (trials), actually made people worse."

https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/new-study-finds-vaccines-make-omicron-infection-likely/

Unvaccinated workers who were fired now suddenly being begged to return

'They fired hundreds out of spite and rage and vengeance, but forgot they actually need them'

By WND Staff
Published December 29, 2021 at 1:46pm

Corporations' mass firings of unvaccinated workers have been documented as becoming "more common" as Joe Biden repeatedly has mandated that they force their employees to accept the experimental COVID shots.

But now those companies are discovering that perhaps Biden's leadership isn't really what they should follow.

It's because they are in such staffing emergencies that they are now asking their dismissed workers, the unvaccinated, to return to rescue them.

On social media, there are multiple reports:

https://www.wnd.com/2021/12/unvaccinated-workers-fired-now-suddenly-begged-return/

Biden Administration 'Crushes' Marines Who Won't Take the Jab

President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate is leaving U.S. Marines "crushed," as 169 have been discharged for refusing the jab and thousands more face the same fate, Fox News reports. This has all taken place since the Department of Defense's mandate on all active-duty service members took affect for the Marine Corps Nov. 28

Charisma News previously reported about the sharp increase in military deaths by suicide since the onset of COVID-19, noting that the number would likely increase with these new restrictions. Although Marines have the option to apply for religious exemption from the vaccine, the Marine Corps has not yet granted even one—for the COVID vaccine or any other, a spokesman told Fox News.

Data released just before Christmas revealed that as many as 8,000 Marines could be "administratively separated" from the Corps for refusing the shot, Newsweek reports, stating, "A separation from the Marines is akin to a relief of duty or dismissal. It is not punitive like a court-martial; it is solely an administrative maneuver."

Several Marines spoke with Fox News with the promise of anonymity. A lieutenant colonel with more than 19 years of active service told Fox it appears that the military in general, specifically the Marine Corps, is discharging service members "as fast as they can and as brutally as they can, damaging every Marine as much as they can on the way out."

"The one message I got from the colonel above me was: 'Tread very carefully, this is political, you will be crushed like an ant.' And he told me that because he cares about me," the lieutenant colonel said. "Do I want to continue serving in an institution that crushes people for bringing up reasonable points in defending their faith?"

"The louder I speak, the tighter the screws are turned against me," one master sergeant told Fox. "When you're expected to behave a certain way and to obey certain rules and follow certain processes, and then to see on the other end that that's not a two-way street, that's a violation of my morals that I can't stand by and not speak out about."

And a major with 17 years of service called the mandate a "political purge" that is "taking out some of the best and brightest soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardians from the Space Force."

"There's something fundamentally wrong at this point with our nation's leadership," the major said.

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IF WE SEEK GOD WE WILL FIND HIM

Follow the King, Part 22
Rick Joyner

The greatest promises in Scripture are:

“If we seek God, we will find Him,” and “If we draw near to Him, He will draw near to us.”

What could possibly be more valuable in life than the nearness of God?

Or, as one of my friends used to say, “One moment of the favor of God is worth a lifetime of effort.”

We are called to both do and become.

What we become is more important than what we do because the Lord set a law in creation that all living things “produce after their own kind” (see Genesis 1:12). We can only produce what we are.

If drawing closer to Him is in our nature, we will produce this in those we influence.

Jesus called this “the best part” when Mary chose Him rather than helping Martha do things for Him.

Doing things for Him is great, but it is not the highest thing.

If we keep the main thing being with Him, we will end up accomplishing much more for Him.

To the Lord, labor is cheap. He can get things done with the most insignificant, weak, foolish people, as Paul explained in I Corinthians 1:26-29.

In fact, He prefers using such people, so no one may glory in His presence.

However, what is most valuable to Him is a great heart.

In other words, labor for Him, not for the rewards but because you love Him and because He deserves it.

As is repeatedly declared in Scripture, we can do many great things for the Lord without Him knowing us (see Matthew 7:22-23).

So, people can do great things for Him even while practicing lawlessness, but they will be driven from His presence.

Of course, we should want to do great things for Him, but far more important than what we do is what we become, so that what we do comes from a right heart.

Our basic calling is to become like the Lord and do the works He did.

We are called His body because He wants to do through us today what He did when He walked the earth.

When God does something through us, it is among the most fulfilling and exciting experiences we can have.

It is understandable that many get addicted to His work, but His work must become secondary to getting closer to Him, which is “the best part.”

One of the biggest traps we can fall into is to esteem to become like Him so much that we try to have perfect motives for everything we do.

Don’t seek to be perfected, so you can be used by Him.

Instead, know that by being used by Him, you will be perfected.

How perfect were His disciples when He sent them to preach His gospel, heal the sick, and cast out demons in Luke 10?

They were so immature they did not even know how to pray.

We know this because in Luke 11, they asked Him to teach them how to pray.

We don’t have to be perfect to be in His presence.

Instead, we become perfected by being in His presence.

Likewise, we don’t have to be perfect to be used by Him, or to draw close to Him.

The delusion that we must reach a certain level of maturity or holiness to be used by Him or to get close to Him is one of the biggest hindrances to being used by Him or getting close to Him.

Perfectionism is the deadly trap of an evil, religious spirit that wants us to base our relationship with God on religious performance rather than His atoning work and a Father-son or Father-daughter relationship.

Peter was the disciple that made the most mistakes, was rebuked the most, but was also used the most.

Jesus even gave Peter the keys to the kingdom, which he used to open the doors of the gospel to both Jews and Gentiles.

His faith and initiative to get out of the boat and walk on water during a storm was remarkable, but perhaps even more remarkable was how he did not let his failures stop him.

Peter received one of the worst rebukes in Scripture, being called “Satan” by the Son of God, but he did not quit.

He denied the Lord three times in one night and still did not quit.

That is real faith based on who Jesus is and not on who we are.

So, let’s use our faith to draw near to the One who wants to be close to us—so much so that He made a way for us to be close to Him.

In 2022, let’s make it our first and foremost resolution to get closer to Him and to keep “the best part,” sitting with Him, as the main thing we are called to do.

THE PEOPLE OF GOD HAVE A NEW JOB IN AMERICA

by Mario Murillo | Dec 28, 2021 | Fear

Biden warns of a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated.

He was ordered to say that by whomever is actually in charge.

Let me expand on that, before I get to the heart of this blog.

I do not believe Biden is in charge.

Anyone who is watching sees how he reads aloud even the punctuation marks on the teleprompter. He has been caught asking someone if he has, ‘said the right thing.’

And he has apologized, saying, “I better not say anymore.”

The gaffes are too real and too common to be ignored.

This is such a sensitive point to leftists that they will smother any hint from anyone that Biden is cognitively challenged.

This was glaringly demonstrated by the firestorm that erupted from the Left over his latest and most epic gaffe.

A man named Jared called in to the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s (NORAD) annual holiday Santa tracking program on Friday. Jared wished President Biden and first lady Jill Biden a Merry Christmas.

Then came the exchange that, as I said before, ignited a social media firestorm.

Jared said, “Yeah, I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well.

Merry Christmas and, let’s go Brandon.”

You know, the sanitized version of a vulgar insult.

Shockingly, Biden responded by saying, “Let’s go Brandon, I agree.”

Now Jared is being excoriated by the Left.

They say that he desecrated Christmas, which is odd, since leftists don’t believe in Christmas.

Then they say he insulted the president. Well, yes, he did, and that was wrong.

But wait! Robert De Niro got a standing ovation at the Tony awards for shouting, “F**k Trump.”

So, what is really going on here? Shakespeare would say of the offended Left, “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

The Left and Biden’s handlers were rightly outraged.

Something horrendous did happen.

Even though the fix is in and everyone is supposed to go along with the charade, Biden put his true condition on full display.

The puppet show was exposed.

By rudeness yes, but exposed, nonetheless.

Not since Iron Man found out that the Mandarin was just a broken-down actor, has there been something like this.

They want to bury it, burn it, and hope you ignore it.

Okay, here is the point: Here is the leader of the free world and he says, “Let’s go Brandon, I agree.”

There is no way out of the massive mental lapse here.

Either Biden has been so sequestered that he has never heard the phrase.

Or he doesn’t understand what it really means.

Or he simply did not know what he was saying. (Does he think Brandon is a college team?)

Neither option is comforting.

But it explains why I believe that Joe Biden was not legally elected, nor is he actually in charge of the White House.

So, what do I mean by the title of this blog, “The people of God have a new job in America”?

I am saying that we are now called to tell Americans not to fear this administration or its tentacles!

Fear is the weapon of a bureaucratic rogue government that is trying to hold on to power and expand their control over us.

They ordered Biden to scare us.

“Tell them they are in for a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated.”

He delivered a threat that is impossible to confirm.

Now they are telling us that the symptoms of the Omicron variant are similar to the common cold. How convenient.

Now everyone with a cold believes they have the virus. . .

Fear means endless booster shots, masks, and snitches.

Oh yes, the regime behind Biden wants you to tell on your neighbors.

They want you to look the other way as those who have been arrested for January 6th are never charged, but are beaten while in their custody.

Look the other way as those in our military who won’t take the jab are pushed out, leaving only those soldiers who will follow orders without question.

They need you to be afraid.

A cartoon I saw illustrated it perfectly.

It showed someone on the phone and the caption said, “Hello, I’d like to report some people not living in fear.”

Will the church wake up after the Biden administration reinstates the Johnson Amendment?

That would stifle pastors from disseminating any political information from the pulpit.

Will pastors decide to get political when Biden takes away the tax-exempt status from churches and religious organizations?

Because, so far, millions of Christians are sleeping through the biggest power grab in American history.

Churches that should be opposing the fear mongering, are shivering in their religious boots.

Thankfully, this is not true of everyone.

Many voices are rising up as never before, as people realize that we must reject the fear.

This is the greatest moment I have ever known in which to preach the Gospel!

Fear not! That is our battle cry.

Telling America why they do not have to fear is the highest duty of the church in this hour.

Shouting from the rooftops that fear is the enemy. Fear is the weapon of choice for this current tyrannical government.

Yes, our message is not just a bubblegum pep talk.

Our cry for our nation, “Fear not!” is also a warning.

The government is offering you safety in exchange for your freedom.

Benjamin Franklin once said something that is truer today than ever,

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”

We have a new job—and that is, to expose fear.

We must begin by loving freedom more that we fear the virus.

We must be willing to swallow the harsh reality that our freedom has been derailed by conniving politicians and media.

After we have lost our fear of facing reality, we will work together to expose the fraud election of 2020.

After we have conquered our denial that says, “this can’t be happening,” we will muster the fire of God necessary to undo the corruption and perversion, and win back our liberty.