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Tom Ascol is a Profoundly Stupid Man

If you’re looking for a leader in the War on Social Justice Terror, keep looking. As I have pointed out before, Tom Ascol might be a well-meaning fellow, but his inborn stupidity as a human being is fleshed out into a level of naivety that makes him poorly suited for any big-boy type ideological battle against subversive agents of the evangelical left.

Suffering a debilitating case of Tom Buck Syndrome (a deep moral malady that insists upon calling the rankest heretics “brother in Christ” no matter how clearly they raise up lofty arguments against God), Ascol has shown himself again and again to be incapable of handling ideological subversive agents.

The latest exhibit in the museum of “reasons why Tom Ascol shouldn’t be leading anything more than a men’s choir” comes from a recent tweet in which this titan of naivety claimed that a phone call with Paul Chitwood “cleared up” whatever “misconceptions” might have existed that Chitwood is a woke lefty progressive window-licker.

Essentially, what happened is that an International Mission Board (IMB) – which Chitwood leads – email was released that showed textbook examples of Critical Theory and woke ideology. Essentially, a fox got smoked out of his hole.

According to Jacob Brunton…

  • The email talks about the “current events in June” (i.e. rioting after the killing of George Floyd) as if the killing was racially motivated (racial injustice is the context of the email). But only those who have bought into the Woke narrative — that American police are systemically targeting black people, and that racism is the motive behind any instance of a black man dying at the hand of police officers — would think that.
  • It recommends this deplorable article on what it means to “belong.” Here’s an excerpt:
  • It promotes the idea, throughout, of actively “diversifying” the IMB at all levels of leadership. This means utilizing functional racial quotas which artificially give preference to people based on their race.
  • It promotes the idea that white people need to “listen” and “learn” — as if most white Christians are ignorant about racism (which is only true if it’s the Woke / Critical Theory type of “racism”).
  • It talks about new training programs on “Cultural Sensitivity” and “Unconscious Bias Sensitivity.” Chitwood may be telling the truth when he says they don’t use that language anymore, but are they still the same programs? What is being taught by the IMB to their leaders and their missionaries? Are we just supposed to take Tom Ascol’s word that Paul Chitwood has given him his word that there’s nothing to be concerned about?
  • There’s a new “TEAMS channel” devoted exclusively to people of certain races (racial segregation). Is this still going?
  • This all came about through certain “conversations” conducted over the course of months. If it really is “problematic,” what about the damage already done? Chitwood says the language is “problematic in our environment.” Why? And if the language is problematic, aren’t all these other things much more problematic? Tom Ascol needs to stop helping these guys hide behind private phone calls.

But then predictably (because Ascol’s mind-numbing stupidity is 100% predictable), a simple “conversation” with Chitwood was able to clear everything up. Within minutes, Ascol was standing as the mentally-retarded hall monitor throwing sawdust on the vomit pile, telling the other kids to move along because there’s nothing to see.

Of course, this type of thing is called the Mohler Mind-Meld. That term exists because it’s a common strategy of evangelicalism’s left – and has been since well before the Conservative Resurgence. The Mohler Mind-Meld is when a mountain of incontrovertible and undeniable evidence of progressiveness run amok is exposed and some gullible half-wit like Tom Ascol receives a phone call from an uppity-up in Big Eva. After a few minutes on the phone and all concerns are dissipated and dispelled, despite that mountain of incontrovertible and undeniable evidence being exactly where it was before.

The best example I can find of the Mohler Mind Meld is when Tom Buck, ever the faithful sidekick to Tom Ascol and James White (none of these men can discern their way out of a wet paper bag and if it weren’t for Michael O’Fallon loaning them his discernment, they would have none at all), spent months helping Pulpit & Pen expose Karen Swallow Prior for her liberalism. Then, he had a single phone call with Prior who – through what I assume is some kind of bizarre feat of mentalism that overthrows ones hopefully better biblical judgement – changed his mind. All it took was one phone call with the most self deceived liberal icons of evangelicalism and Buck became Prior’s strongest defender.

Thankfully, there’s a shelf-life for how long witches’ spells can last and Buck eventually came to his senses and did another 180, eventually calling for Prior’s dismissal from the ERLC. But had it not been for defenses of Prior launched by Buck, it’s doubtful that the White Witch of Lynchburg would have relocated to the haunts at Wake Forest. And while Buck has apologized for being bewitched, his gullibility had real-world consequences that hurt the cause of “La Resistance.”

Meanwhile, this isn’t the first time that Ascol has “played nice” to rank heretics and slapped “Ascol Approved” across their lapel like some kind of prize at a church camp for slow children.

Ascol also performed the task of Useful Idiocy when he defended Arch Critical Theorist, Matthew Hall, the provost at Southern Seminary. When it became clear from an absolute mountain of video evidence that Hall was teaching and advocating for the most radical forms of Critical Theory, Tom Ascol fielded a phone call from the Comintern and immediately stood up on Russell Moore’s step stool, waved his arms in the air, and declared it all to be one big misunderstanding.

This is a common behavior among the Toms, who bequeath the title of “brother” even upon such wicked men as Ron Burns (Thabiti Anyabwile) and Dwight McKissic.

Jesus puked.

I addressed this disqualification from discernment ministry last year, earning the ire of James White.

My comment was simple; “I speak for a lot of people when I say that we appreciate your efforts against Social Justice. But, you have no idea what you’re doing and you’re intellectually unprepared for this. Please stop trying to help. You’re making it worse. Let the experts handle it.”

Frankly, Tom Ascol was telling the world that Pulpit & Pen was crazy when we were raising these same concerns about Social Justice five years ago. In fact, Ascol played a pivotal role in discounting and dismissing every discernment ministry except his own, when his own discernment ministry was still considering Albert Mohler to be one of “the good guys.”

Ascol has kowtowed to Mohler and deleted essential footage from his now-bombed documentary out of deference to our social justice enemies (or as the Toms would refer to them, “our fine brothers”). Ascol kowtowed to that professional eternal victim (and her victimology pimp husband) , Rachael (and Jacob) Denhollander.

I can’t think of a single case of ideological controversy – not one – which Tom Ascol hasn’t declared to be one big misunderstanding once he gets a personal phone call or direct message from the Comintern in question. All it takes to dissuade Tom Ascol from carrying forth the task of smoking out the devil’s foxes is to engage in heavy-petting his ego.

At this point, I don’t know that Tom Ascol is a bad man, albeit I can say without reservation that Tom Ascol is a profoundly stupid man. He may very well mean the best, but he is inept at grasping the very basic rules of discernment.

Here they are:

1. Liars lie.

2. Double-minded men are liars.

My assertion that Ascol is “stupid” is due to his habitual unwillingness to do discernment with these two basic concepts in mind. The only other option from stupid is evil, meaning that he’s whitewashing the enemy on purpose. I’m not prepared to go there yet.

Matthew 7:15 tell us that wolves come in sheep’s clothing. In other words, they live in disguise. This is why trying to nail down where Big Eva stands on important Christian issues is like trying to nail Jello to the wall. Tim Keller and Mark Dever didn’t suddenly disclose they were Democrats, for example, we had to do the research and expose them.

2 Peter 2:1 tells us that those who cause divisions by bad teaching are busy “secretly introducing destructive heresies.” In other words, those uploading destructive heresies into the church’s data systems (like Critical Theory) do so secretly. Tom Ascol seems convinced that these “fine brothers” are only guilty of using sloppy language and accidentally sounding like they’re promoting Critical Theory. But that’s because Ascol is a profoundly stupid man.

Allowing false teachers to privately “clarify” their very public words is the oldest discernment mistake in the book, and Tom Ascol seems to believe this mistake is some kind of virtue.

It’s not.

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Beth Moore Preaches About As well As A Dog Can Walk On Its Hind Legs

That is to say, not very well. You want to hear some bad preaching? We have some bad preaching for you.

In a newly unearthed clip, Beth Moore – both the doting perfect princess of Lifeway/SBC proper and the red-headed stepchild of the faithful remnant within, preached a sermon in March 2020 at Progressive Baptist Church in Chicago.

She was introduced by Senior Pastor Charlie Dates in glowing terms as “Auntie Beth,” who commended her to his congregation “I hope you will receive with me with all the honor in the world, the esteemed privilege we have to hear from one of God’s leading women in the world, Beth Moore.”

If the name Charlie Dates sounds familiar, you likely know him from an article we wrote where we relayed that, being an SBC Executive Committee Panel Member, he said the SBC “Don’t Need Black Faces with White Theology/Voices/Ideas Leading the Convention.”

But in the clip below, Moore makes this fascinatingly bizarre and eisegetical connection between Noah getting drunk at some point after becoming a farmer and…Christians getting drunk off their own fruity giftedness? And something about getting lit and being alone? Who are the sons covering Noah’s nakedness? Is that metaphorical too? What in world is going on here?

The historical-grammatical method is far, far away from this one.

She says:

Noah, as a man of the soil, began by planting a vineyard and he drank some of the wine and became drunk.

What a weird thing to find in scripture! Because we know he was a righteous man, and it seems like he literally got off the boat and got lit.

And you know what? I mean who could blame him. Who could blame him? And no wonder he became a man of the soil. Nothing would make you a man or woman of the soil like being tossed around on a boat in nothing but water for weeks on end. Of course, he became a man of the soil.

But the first thing we see is he planted a vineyard, he drinks of the wine, and he gets drunk on it, and here’s this metaphor that I want to suggest to you. This is what happens when people, and I want you to think in spiritual terms, drink alone. On their own fruits. They just get drunk on it.

We got people all over this nation that are boasting in their giftedness, drunk on their own fruit. Nobody else is drinking of it the way they are. They’re not drinking of anybody else, because all they want is the wine coming from their own fruit.

This is not the picture that Scripture gives us. There is a community that works together. There is a community that comes together that can know gladness instead of drunkenness. Let me tell you something, this Christian world and this nation is drinking something. The only way I know to explain some of what we’re seeing is somebody’s slipping something in the water somewhere, and we’re drunk on our own fruit.

The full video can be seen here, but we don’t know why you would punish your ears like that. Don’t be a sadist. But if you ever have friends and family ask you what’s wrong with Beth Moore and her preaching, you’ll always have this.

For a few more of her recent greatest hits:

Beth Moore Doesn’t Want You To Preach or Share The Gospel at The Protests

Beth Moore Openly Affirms Woman Pastrix

Beth Moore Falsely Claims ‘White Supremacy’ is Running Rampant in ‘Much of the Church’

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Pope Francis IG Account Likes Bikini Model’s Racy Photo

Pope Francis arrives to lead his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican on October 21, 2020. (Photo by VINCENZO PINTO / AFP)

Someone at the Vatican apparently needs to go to confession, after it was discovered that the Pope gave the thumbs up to a Bikini model’s naked Instagram picture.

While it is unclear if Francis runs his own social media accounts, or to what degree he oversees them (whether it was a slip of his thumb or someone else at the helm) the verified Instagram account, which has over 7 million followers, gave the like to Natalia Garibotto’s photograph, which is so salacious that we had to crop half the photograph because even the blurred image was too immodest to post in full.

It is just one more strike against the aging pontiff, who has been under fire for being willing to give pro-abortion Joe Biden communion, endorsing civil unions for gay couples, and having interfaith prayer meetings and ceremonies with Muslims.

The Brazilian model, who routinely posts half-nudes of herself, is happy as a kite and high as a clam that the Pope liked her photograph, joking with Barstool Sports, who also saw and captured the like before it was deleted:

“My mum may hate my a** pics but the Pope be double-tapping,” she said, referring to the pope giving his seal of approval before the “like” was “unliked” and “Brb on my way to the Vatican.”

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Tom Ascol Helps Woke Ministry Leaders Save Face

(Christian Intellectual) Tom Ascol has once again helped ministry leaders who push ideas inspired by Critical Race Theory to save face through a proclamation about a private phone call.

Before, it was Matt Hall (Provost of Southern Seminary). Now, it is Paul Chitwood (President of the Internation Mission Board).

In both cases, after concerns about the men’s ministries went viral on social media, Tom Ascol came to their rescue by announcing that he had had a private phone conversation with them, and that there was nothing to be concerned about.

In this most recent case, with Chitwood, Conservative Resurgence Voices recently released an article containing the text of an email which Chitwood had sent out on behalf of the IMB. (Published in full below) The email included a number of alarming indicators that the IMB has been cultivating the Woke ideology of the world within the organization (see below for details).

Of course, this raised quite a few alarms among conservative Southern Baptists––including Tom Ascol. But then Ascol was graced with a private phone call from Chitwood, and afterward announced that there was nothing to be concerned about.

Specifically, Ascol’s tweet focused on the language of the email, saying “The IMB no longer uses the language in the email, recognizing it as problematic in our environment.”

Okay… But what about the ideas communicated through the language? The concerns being raised were not about semantics. They were about the radical ideas and assumptions laced throughout the entire email.

Here are just a few:

  • The email talks about the “current events in June” (i.e. rioting after the killing of George Floyd) as if the killing was racially motivated (racial injustice is the context of the email). But only those who have bought into the Woke narrative — that American police are systemically targeting black people, and that racism is the motive behind any instance of a black man dying at the hand of police officers — would think that.
  • It recommends this deplorable article on what it means to “belong.” Here’s an excerpt:
  • It promotes the idea, throughout, of actively “diversifying” the IMB at all levels of leadership. This means utilizing functional racial quotas which artificially give preference to people based on their race.
  • It promotes the idea that white people need to “listen” and “learn” — as if most white Christians are ignorant about racism (which is only true if it’s the Woke / Critical Theory type of “racism”).
  • It talks about new training programs on “Cultural Sensitivity” and “Unconscious Bias Sensitivity.” Chitwood may be telling the truth when he says they don’t use that language anymore, but are they still the same programs? What is being taught by the IMB to their leaders and their missionaries? Are we just supposed to take Tom Ascol’s word that Paul Chitwood has given him his word that there’s nothing to be concerned about?
  • There’s a new “TEAMS channel” devoted exclusively to people of certain races (racial segregation). Is this still going?
  • This all came about through certain “conversations” conducted over the course of months. If it really is “problematic,” what about the damage already done? Chitwood says the language is “problematic in our environment.” Why? And if the language is problematic, aren’t all these other things much more problematic? Tom Ascol needs to stop helping these guys hide behind private phone calls.

Based merely on the email alone, there appears to be a MASSIVE influence of CRT-style thinking invading all levels of leadership at the IMB. Until and unless, Chitwood does the following to fix it, the IMB should be defunded and condemned:

  • Explicitly retract all language of “unconscious bias” and the promotion of the other problematic things listed above.
  • Explicitly denounce the idea that America is presently systemically racist & the idea that George Floyd’s death was an instance of systemic racism.
  • Explicitly denounce the idea of racial partiality which favors “people of color” as an inherently racist and evil idea.
  • Explicitly define racism exclusively as race-based partiality, and denounce every contemporary attempt to redefine it as something less.

These are bare minimum steps the IMB needs to take in order to demonstrate that it is not, and will not be, influenced by the evil ideology of Critical Race Theory. The only reason a Christian organization would not do the above is if it was attempting to tickle the ears of both sides.

Until Chitwood does the above, he is just being a politician.

And Tom Ascol is helping him to save face.

Email in Full

From: Chitwood, Paul <redacted>
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 1:01 PM
To: Chitwood, Paul
Subject: Belonging

Hello Brothers and Sisters,

In Philippians 2:3, the Apostle Paul instructs us: “In humility, count others more significant than yourselves.” In Galatians 6:2, we read, “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

As a father of an Asian daughter and a foster parent to a biracial son, I’ve seen up close the pain that racism and racially insensitive comments and behaviors bring. I don’t want to contribute to that pain, nor do I want our organization to do so. Knowing your love and passion for the beautiful mosaic of those from every nation, tribe, people, and language who will stand before the throne of God and before the Lamb, I know you agree.

Racism a direct consequence of the Fall and has infected every culture but the history of the US and, frankly, the SBC, is a tragic example of how God’s image bearers whose skin is black have endured unspeakable injustice, exploitation, and pain. In June, our company hosted a call for our employees who identify as Black, African American or Biracial to discuss current events, provide support for one another, and to introduce themselves to one another for the sake of creating new relationships. It was a beautiful time of fellowship and some have expressed a strong sense of belonging. What does “belonging” mean in this context? Here is a link to AN ARTICLE that explains the importance.

From this call, new friendships were formed, mentors were identified, and I am prayerful that some healing began. I want to share with everyone in our company family some insights from the participants so that all of us may better understand the feelings that were expressed and what we can do in response.

We asked the participants in August, “How are you feeling now?” and heard:

• I am encouraged, but I’m still waiting to see viable action to diversify our organization both on the field, staff, and leadership.
• I am encouraged that many in our organization, including our leadership, are willing to listen and look at what changes need to be made.
• I’m feeling focused. The lament was necessary, and the time together was healing. Now my attention has turned towards how we can move forward together.
• While there are more public conversations going on about the issue of racism, I can’t see in my personal world that there has been much change in terms of dialogue and personal conversations with others. The “silence” is still there, which makes me sad.
• Time has helped me process many things about what I was feeling and really come to terms with the sins that pervade life. Listening to others, reading articles, talking with others, and most importantly seeking what the Lord says in Scripture has helped tremendously.
• I think it would be great for our organization to continue the dialogue of how we can do better and be better leaders in this area.
• I’m excited to get on board with the ways that the IMB plans to move forward. Whatever that plan is, I plan to get behind and see how I can help to achieve the vision and goals.

We also asked, “How can your coworkers who are not Black, African American, or Biracial best support you now and in the future?” Some participants said:

• Several ways: Listen well. Educate themselves on how to understand and promote diversity. Learn to empathize with people as they walk through a crisis. There are Scriptural reminders, love others, treat people like you want to be treated, and bear each other’s burdens. Advocate for people when you recognize they are being treated unjustly.
• I have found “silence” to be a bit hurtful in the past. While I understand that race is an uncomfortable topic for many, it doesn’t feel like an “optional” topic of conversation for me, especially when tragedies occur.
• As intentional as each Affinity is in preparing their missionaries to engage their host cultures, I would like to see the same amount of intentionality in each cluster to receive cultural sensitivity training. It would be beneficial to have more intentional conversations and training on racial issues.
• Our coworkers can assist with this by seeking to learn from the People of Color around them and not just when something happens. It’s important to seek the perspectives of People of Color on your team to know what changes need to be made for a more effective and fruitful future.
• I want to be able to commend this company to People of Color knowing that the company at every level is committed to growing and welcoming and better supporting People of Color.
• Don’t assume that everyone with the company has the same perspective on the issue of racism. Let’s seek what the Lord want us to do to move forward. As a faithful organization of like-minded followers of Christ, we must continue to improve in our efforts, and I am personally committed to do so.

We are already taking some actions based on what we have learned:

• Our mobilization team is focused on improving our engagement and relationships with churches throughout the nation that are predominately attended by People of Color. We hope this will also yield more People of Color as missionaries in the future.
• We are in the beginning stages of rolling out two new training programs within GE and MOBI and plan to begin expanding to all in the near future:
◦ Cultural Sensitivity
◦ Unconscious Bias and Sensitivity
• We created a TEAMS channel for our employees who identify as Black, African American or Biracial to have personal conversations and support each other in the future. New employees are also given the opportunity to join this as they are hired.
• We are working to develop an Hispanic Employee Network
• We will continue our efforts to become more diverse in our representation of our denominational family, in our thinking and across our teams.
• In the spirit of celebrating diversity, we will begin to formally recognize two days on the calendar in 2021: Juneteenth and Hispanic Day.We will celebrate these days both internally and externally with communications via all online channels.
◦ Juneteenth, observed on June 19, is also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, and celebrates the emancipation millions of people who were enslaved in the United States.
◦ October 12 is Hispanic Day. For almost 75 years, the descendants of nations emerging from the Spanish empire have embraced the word “Hispanic” to give a name to the family of nations, comprised of almost 400 million people who are united by the common bonds of culture, history, and language. Many of our home office staff, and a growing number of our overseas personnel and the fellowships we serve in the US are Hispanic.

Pray. Pray with me that hatred or injustice towards anyone because of racial differences will cease. Pray that the horrific acts of violence unfolding daily across the US will end. And pray that we will see healing and reconciliation across our land and around the world. No one is better positioned to model what that can look like than us. Our mission to serve the most diverse religious body in the US as approximately 20% of SB fellowships are African American or ethnic. Moreover, our vision and work included every nation, people, language and tribe! I want to express my sincere thanks to the Human Resources team for moving us forward and I am excited to see what God has planned for us in the future.

Blessings, Paul


Editor’s Note. This article was written by Jacob Brunton and published at the Christian Intellectual. Republished in full with permission.

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Young Christian Congressman-Elect Under Fire for Trying to Convert Jews

Rising GOP Star Madison Cawthorn, who is set to become one of the youngest members of Congress in history after winning his seat in North Carolina against Moe Davis, is under fire from leftists for the great and evil sin of trying to proselytize other people to his Christian faith.

Cawthorn, the 25-year-old politician who was paralyzed from the waist down 6 years ago after an automobile accident, has been open about his Christian beliefs and has spent a lot of time preaching at churches and sharing his testimony all through North Carolina.

In an interview with the Jewish Insider, when questions of his faith came up, Cathown was ebullient. “I would say I have a very, very, very strong faith and [am] very grounded in the actual word” he said, and described how he has read the holy books of other religions in order to understand them better and convert them more successfully. “If all you are is friends with other Christians, then how are you ever going to lead somebody to Christ? If you’re not wanting to lead somebody to Christ, then you’re probably not really a Christian.”

The Insider reports:

Had he ever tried to convert any Jews to the Christian faith?

“I have,” he said with a laugh. “I have, unsuccessfully. I have switched a lot of, uh, you know, I guess, culturally Jewish people. But being a practicing Jew, like, people who are religious about it, they are very difficult. I’ve had a hard time connecting with them in that way.”

Cawthorn expressed a similar sentiment during a July 2019 sermon at a church in Highlands, North Carolina. “If you have Jewish blood running through your veins today,” he told the crowd, mulling on a chapter from the Gospel of Mark, “this might not mean as much to you, but for someone like me, who’s a gentile, this means a lot.”

It’s these comments that have caused the ire to rise in many of his critics, accusing the young man of being culturally incentive, judgmental, and downright evil for these endeavors. This negative attention from the media has led Cawthorn to comment

While there are many individuals and organizations aghast at the very act of proselytization itself, there are others who are upset and outraged over what they see as perceived hypocrisy from Cawthorn, who does not have a very good reputation in some circles, with some extremely serious charges being leveled against him.

You can read more here and here but the gist of it is that while Cawthorn was still running for office, 10 students who attended the Patrick Henry College with him, a Christian post-secondary institution in Virginia, wrote and signed a statement accusing him of wide-scaled sexually predatory behavior and a pattern of lying, using filthy language, and being an all-around hypocritical scumbag. This letter was later co-signed by another 150 students and alumni.

It is this inconsistency they say is what makes his statement so gross to his critics, and not the act of converting itself.

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LA County Clears John MacArthur’s Church in Outbreak Probe, But Master’s Seminary is Running Hot

Grace Community Church (GCC) has had their recent outbreak restrictions lifted by the LA County after three part-time associates and two staff members became ill with COVID, according to a press release on the Church website, but the County is saying, “Not so fast,” when it comes to whether or not the Sun Valley megachurch is complying.

The LA Times released a story a few weeks ago mired in hysterics, to which they claimed that an “outbreak” had occured at GCC. It was later revealed to have been three part-time associates, and then later two more staff.

Jenna Ellis, special counsel for the Church, said this at the time:

Three very mild positive tests among more than 7,000 people is hardly news. 0.0004 or 0.043% is not an ‘outbreak.’ The L.A. Times and others’ grossly misleading and fear-mongering headlines aim to mischaracterize Grace Community Church as irresponsible and a superspreader.

Now that several weeks have passed, GCC released a statement on their website, informing that the outbreak restrictions have been lifted:

Outbreak Restrictions Lifted

We are glad to announce that we received a notice from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health on Thursday, November 12, saying that we have been cleared of COVID-19 outbreak. After a thorough investigation, Public Health officials have decided to rescind all outbreak related requirements and restrictions on Grace Community Church.

We don’t exactly know what particular and specific precautions were being applied, but we do know that the Church is not complying with most previous restrictions, as they are still holding church services indoors, filled to capacity, and are not social distancing or wearing masks.

Warren Throckmorton reached out to LA County to get a comment on GCC’s news, and they sent this statement:

Public Health’s investigation into the Grace Community Church worksite COVID-19 outbreak was recently concluded.  The Church is still required to follow all current Health Officer Order requirements for places of worship, which include outdoor services, as well as all applicable infection control protocols for all activities that occur on the Grace Community Church campus.  Public Health has found that Sun Valley has among the higher rates of COVID-19 transmission in the County of Los Angeles.  Compliance with the required infection control protocols by Grace Community Church will lessen the risk of COVID-19 transmission to its employees and visitors.

So even as the “outbreak” at Grace Church winds down, things are beginning to heat up at The Master’s University and Seminary- which is overseen by GCC. While not particularly as public as the Church itself, they have 14 cases between 130 staff and some 2100 students.

At this time there have been no reports of hospitalizations or deaths.

To see a good commentary and more information, check out the video below:

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Iowa Pastors Order Governor to Stop Violating Their Religious Liberty

America’s clergy have traditionally played an important role in balancing the power of the civil magistrate, who is not always easily dissuaded from usurping authority not belonging to them. However, a softer, kinder, gentler sort of clergy have in recent decades abdicated their prophetic responsibility to speak truth to power.

But this isn’t the case in Iowa, where five pastors have issued their own edict to Governor Reynolds, who has constantly infringed upon the constitutional rights to religion and free assembly. And they aren’t having it any more.

These five pastors, including Cary Gordon (above, right), Sam Jones (above, left), Keeton Wainscott, Michael Demastus, and Christian Shields.

Issuing their order “by the power and authority vested in us by God Almighty” ordered and directed that…

“unconstitutional and oppressive mandates that require the citizens of Iowa to cover the image of God by covering their personal identity with a mask and the mandates that abridge the citizens of Iowa from exercising their God given right to peaceably assemble…We recognize and uphold the Governor’s right to strongly recommend actions be taken in the interest of public safety as the extent of her constitutional authority.

Their statement acknowledges that they resolve…

“To defy the Governor’s unlawful decrees and to direct our churchmen to ignore her unauthoritative mandates by teaching that rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”

Read more here…

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Facebook Openly Admits Election Interference

At Protestia, we are intimately familiar with Facebook’s censorship of conservative content. Now they are brazenly admitting their disdain for free speech, brought to bear during the run-up to the 2020 election.

In his remote testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to using the censorship power of the Facebook “platform” to control speech before, during, and after the 2020 election – although shadow banning and algorithmic censorship has been happening at Facebook for years.

Zuck reading his statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Facebook, according to Zuckerberg, added what he calls “additional context” to posts trying to “delegitimize the results” of the election, which as of November 17th does not have a clear result. Apparently forgetting that Facebook allows anyone to rebut political claims, he bragged about “locking down” political posts in the week leading up to the election because (in his words) these “misleading claims couldn’t be rebutted.”

Absent any evidence, he claimed that Facebook censored “militia and conspiracy groups” like QAnon because they were organizing violence and civil unrest.

Using his best Newspeak, Zuckerberg characterized this admitted election interference as an “election integrity effort,” and that “people” (apparently big government and media) expect Facebook and other online platforms to engage in the kind of heavy-handed censorship that has been the hallmark of 2020.

Zuckerberg also bragged about steering Facebook users to his “election information center” and helping them vote. He also noted that he and his wife donated 400 million dollars to the same voting infrastructure that is proving to be largely corrupt and ripe for fraud. Big tech has become another enforcement arm of the unholy trinity of entrenched government, corporate media, and academia. Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit found that Facebook has eliminated 93% of traffic to top conservative sites since the 2016 election. We pray that justice comes to these companies in the form of them losing their section 230 legal protections.

Zuckerberg’s prepared statement starts at 24:58:

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Antifa Voting Systems?

When Donald Trump accused the Obama administration of spying on his campaign, it was dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Then it turned out to be entirely true. Now Trump is accusing bad actors of using Dominion Voting Systems to switch votes from Trump to Biden, and the same media is calling him crazy again and Big Tech is ramping up censorship. Yet the Denver-based Dominion employed an Antifa-connected, Trump-hating radical as their Director of Security and Strategy since 2010.

His internet presence has already been scrubbed from most social media sites.

Social media accounts of those who have been exposing this have been censored, but the internet is forever and screenshots of this guy’s awfulness have been captured. His name is Eric Coomer, who reportedly has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics, and here is a direct quote from his now-removed Facebook page:

Facebook friend land- open call-

If you are planning to vote for the autocratic, narcissistic, fascists, as–hat blowhard and his Christian jihadist VP pic, UNFRIEND ME NOW! No, I’m not joking. I’m all for reasoned political discourse and healthy debate- I’m looking at you ( 3 names of friends). I disagree with you three on many philosophical grounds but respect your opinions. Only and absolute F—ING IDIOT could ever vote for that wind-bag f–k-tard FASCIST RACIST F–K! No bulls–t, I don’t give a damn if you’re friend, family, or random acquaintance, pull the lever, mark an oval, touch a screen for that carnival barker—UNFRIEND ME NOW. I have no desire whatsoever to ever interact with you. You are beyond hope, beyond reason. you are controlled by fear, reaction, and bulls–t. Get your s–t together.

Oh, it that doesn’t persuade you, F–K YOU! Seriously, this f–king as–clown stands against everything that makes this country awesome! You want in on that? You deserve nothing but contempt.

Eric Coomer’s unhinged screed.
Eric Coomer.
Coomer echoing Antifa.
Coomer’s info on zoominfo.com

Joe Oltmann, founder of FEC (Faith Education Commerce) United, covertly participating in an Antifa conference call in late September, when the conversation turned to what would be done if Trump wins, heard “Eric the Dominion Guy” say (paraphrased): “Don’t worry about the election, Trump’s not gonna win. I made f–king sure of that!”

Coomer admitted back in 2016 that Dominion software was not recertified for election use each time hardware or software changed, and that with proper access a person can bypass the software and access the raw data tables themselves. 30 states, including every state currently facing dozens of legal challenges to their 2020 election results, used Dominion voting systems. He explains this to Illinois election officials here:

The fact that this information is being censored by Big Tech lend credibility to the information’s importance in untangling the horrific and corrupt 2020 election. More evidence of fraud – mathematical and eyewitness – continues to pour in.

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Video: Antifa Openly Harrases and Assaults Families at Weekend Pro-Trump Rallies

In news that has been blacked out from mainstream media sources and is not being covered, (unlike last year, when the media cried bloody murder for two weeks straight when a teenager in a red hat smiled at a counter-protester who came up to him) the psychopathic rabble known as Antifa, who have been emboldened in the likely defeat of President Trump, took to the streets over the weekend to counter-protest pro-Trump rallies, cracking skulls, setting off explosives, throwing garbage and attacking and harassing families with children.

Warning: Language.

The impending presidency of Joe Biden will not satiate those who have developed the taste for blood through months of violence and from their perspective “Nazi-hunting.”

Christians: prepare yourselves.