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PayPal Blocks Christian Crowdfunding Platform GiveSendGo

PayPal has dumped and cut ties with the Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo after it was revealed there were some campaigns running for protesters who had been arrested at the rally at the Capitol, including Ali Alexander of Stop the Steal movement.

The move to excise the company comes as the mass purge of anything to do with Trump continues across the digital world, recently with Shopify banning thousands of accounts and businesses selling MAGA wares.

The fundraising alternative to Gofundme, perhaps best known for its high-profile fundraiser for Kyle Rittenhouse, said it is in the process of trying to find a new payment solution, explaining:

We have/are changing/moved away from our previous payment solutions (examples. WePay, Stripe, PayPal, etc.) and are implementing/working with our own solutions to continue providing efficient service to our users.”

It is of note that GiveSendGo is still hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS), who recently dumped Parler, forcing the Social Media site to go offline in search of other servers. AWS currently hosts about 40 percent of the internet alone.

PayPal, for their part, are unmoved by protestations from the website, saying in a statement on Monday:

We regularly assess activity against our acceptable-use policy and carefully review actions reported to us, and will discontinue our relationship with account holders who are found to violate our policies.

PayPal has a longstanding, well-defined, and consistently enforced acceptable use policy. Regardless of the individual or organization in question, we work to ensure that our services are not used to accept payments for activities that promote hate speech, violence, or other forms of intolerance.

Editor’s Note. During our research we found that this self-described Christian crowdfunding site allows campaigns for some very sinful and wicked things such as seemingly allowing pages that help fund the murder of babies via campaigns for abortion services. We don’t know what else that could refer to. We have reached out to GiveSendGo but at the time of publication have not heard back from them yet, and we will update accordingly.

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Matt Chandler: ‘You are Complicit in the Unrest and Destruction of our Nation’

Matt Chandler, the woke charismatic Pastor of the Village Church, head of Acts 29 network, and prolific conference speaker who never met an invitation to speak he could turn down, no matter what scoundrels and theological riffraff he was speaking alongside with, joined forces with the rest of mainstream Christian leaders and blamed the storming of Capitol Hill and the nation’s political unrest, in part, on you.

Engaging in some Capitol Hill Theory (CHT), he offered up a prayer during his recent church service, declaring:

Let me pray these prayers of trust over us. Father, even as we see the devolution and destruction going on in our nation, the division, the things that we have in certain ways been complicit with, we ask the spirit of the living God that you would move in power, that you would – you say if we return to you, humbling ourself, owning where we have participated and asking for a fresh outpouring of your spirit.

and then earlier:

Have you over the last few years misplaced your hope? If you have, you’ve participated in the unrest. Have you with your online persona participated in the unrest? Have you with your prayerlessness participated in the Unrest? Has a lack of seriousness around real discipleship of really following after Jesus helped you to participate in the unrest?

If we don’t know how to take that stuff to [God], then it oozes out of us onto our online platform, into our kind of picking a team rather than going, ‘I’m on the Lord’s side.’

And we’ll need to repent of that, personally own our stuff. I don’t want to be a subject matter expert in everyone else’s send. I do want to be pretty dialed into my own. It’ll keep me in a place where the Lord can bless me, where I can get a sense of His presence more richly, and…walk in the power that He’s promised me.

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One Down? Missouri Becomes First Abortion-Free* State

An annual report by pro-life group Operation Rescue has confirmed that Missouri has become the first abortion-free State, at least for now, with the State’s last standing surgical abortion having ceased to book appointments for several months now, and no plans to re-open for the immediate future.

The Status of American Abortion Facilities in 2020: report, prepared by Operation Rescue, gives a ground-level analysis of abortion in America. It includes such information as:

– A total of 45 abortion facilities closed or halted abortions nationwide in 2020.There are currently 706 active abortion facilities in the U.S.

– Since Operation Rescue began tracking the number of abortion facilities in 2009, surgical abortion facilities have decreased in number by 255. 

– Since 1991, there has been an incredible 79 percent drop in the number of surgical abortion facilities nationwide.

– There was a net loss of four U.S. abortion clinics overall in 2020.

– The number of Planned Parenthood abortion facilities decreased in 2020. 

– 2020 was the first year that Operation Rescue tracked the number of facilities that distributed abortion drugs via telemedicine.  The survey found that 69 locations, representing 9.78 percent of all abortion facilities, now operate telemedicine abortion programs.

The last point is key, as even though surgical abortions may be off the table, people still have easy access to abortifacient birth control, as well as so-called morning-after pills like Mifepristone, which when combined with Misoprostol have a nearly 98% chance of causing an abortion within the first 8 weeks of pregnancy.

In that sense it is not “abortion-free,” but in terms of the slicey and dicey abortions, where baby fingers get cut off in a desperate, uncomprehending act of self-defense, right before they take off the whole hand, arm, and body, then for those, those are done for now.

The release explains:

Missouri has become the first Abortion-Free State – at least in practice for now.  The embattled Reproductive Health Services Planned Parenthood in St. Louis was the last abortion facility in Missouri. It remains open, but Operation Rescue has confirmed that no abortion appointments have been available there for months, and none are available anytime in the foreseeable future.  All abortion appointments are now being referred to the Fairview Heights Planned Parenthood facility across the Mississippi River in Illinois.”

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman elaborates :

While the RHS Planned Parenthood remains open and licensed for abortions, we confirmed that none are being done there.  That means this facility is currently acting only as an abortion referral center.  There is no operational abortion facility in the State of Missouri, making it the first Abortion-Free State at this time…

With the Democrats holding control of the House and Senate, expect a flurry of pro-choice legislation to come down the pike, and pray those in the trenches will continue to hold the line.

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Greg Locke ‘Mitch McConnell Controlled by Illuminati Hand Signals’

Pastor Greg Locke, the foul-mouthed, spouse-abusing, small-time Tennessee pastor who notoriously divorced his wife of two decades and quickly married his secretary while retaining his position as pastor of Global Vision Bible Church despite his adultery, has made some accusations against Swamp King Cocaine Mitch.

During a recent sermon, he launched a bizarre attack on the Kentucky Senator and House Majority leader, alleging that there were Illuminati members behind McConnell, directing his words using a series of hand signals during talks of election certification.

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“I’m here to tell you there’s a group of elites that run this nation, a bunch of globalists that run the world, and their money runs it. It is nothing more than a satanic death cult.

And the clearest thing I’ve ever seen in my life was when Mitch McConnell gets off track, he turns around and the guy behind him gives him the Illuminati hand signal of authoritarianism to make sure he stays on track, just to remind that sucker, ‘We’re still in control, we’re still paying your bills, and you do anything against what we say and we’ll make sure nobody finds your body, Jimmy Hoffa.

It is happening. Satanism has infiltrated the highest positions in the land. Child sex-trafficking has infiltrated the highest positions in the land. Pedophilia, child-sacrifice—not just abortion, I mean the whole deal—it is everywhere, and we are not paying attention. … We watched plain as day those people give the hand signal to make sure he stays on track.”

We’d suggest Locke spends less time running conspiracies, less time challenging internet trolls to fisticuffs, and more time begging God for forgiveness for his messed up personal life, so that he may reconcile and repent.

H/T to the obstreperous ne’er’ do well’s at Right Wing Watch for the story and transcript

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Shawn Bolz Apologizes For False Trump Prophecy, Barely

Charismatic preachers are less accurate in their prophetic predictions than drunken meteorologists. In fact, coronavirus has proven that charismatics are far less accurate than that. Not a single charismatic leader prophesied the costliest health-related panic in history. Multitudes of charismatic leaders prophesied coronavirus would never come to America. Many more prophesied Christians would be immune. Hundreds upon hundreds prophesied it would be gone by Easter of 2020. They were all wrong…every last one.

In fact, Shawn Bolz himself falsely prophecied about the end of COVID-19 back on February 28, 2020, before there were any deaths in the United States, and only 2800 worldwide, saying:

The Lord showed me the end of the coronavirus. The tide is turning now!

He is answering the prayers and cries of the nations and is putting an end in sight. The exaggerated fear-based tactics of the enemy and several media outlets for political reasons are coming to an end. The enemy has been trying to distract and steal from several equally important purposes and issues by dominating airwaves with conspiracy and fear.

Even now, several vaccines are coming out, as well as a natural dying out of the virus itself. The Lord is saying, ‘I am removing the threat of this.’

Within a short amount of time, the extreme threat will feel as though it is in the distant past.

Lest you think he apologized and repented of that one – not even close.

But in a recent Facebook post from earlier today, Shawn acknowledged that he gave a false prophecy about Trump winning a second term, writing:

This is the second Charismatic false prophet to apologize in as many days, with Jeremiah Johnson issuing his own yesterday.

While Bolz admits that he got it wrong, he also doubles down on his prophetic prowess, saying that he is still growing in his gift, and despite the miss, during the same time he has had “some of the most marvelous fulfillment of prophecies in my entire career.”

In short, he got it wrong, but it’s a journey, and when it comes to saying God said things he never said, you win some and you lose some.

Given that charismatics have such a childish, fleshly, biblically illiterate understanding of what biblical prophecy is, it’s no wonder he takes such a casual approach to it.

This led Chris Rosebrough to comment on his post, writing:

This is in contrast to the biblical prophets, who understood that any false prophecy, even one, was blasphemy. It was a forfeit of their very lives and worthy of a bone-crushing, skull-splitting, head-crunching, brain-exposing stoning.

But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’  And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the Lord has not spoken?’—when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him (Deuteronomy 18:20-22).

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Canadian Church Faces up to $10,000,000 Fine for Violating Shutdown Restrictions

Police have laid a fresh round of charges to members of Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo, Ontario, in relation to their January 3rd in-person service.

The new round of tyrannical impositions come after Police charged all 6 elders last week under Section 10.1 of the Reopening Ontario Act (ROA) for holding church services on Sunday, December 27, where if convicted the minimum fine is $10,000 and the maximum $100,000 fine. In Ontario, the province prohibits gatherings of more than 10 people, and churches are not exempt in any way.

Now, law enforcement officers have laid nine more new charges. The first six are believed to be against the entire elder board again, two against congregants for attending a church service of more than other 10 people, and in a surprising move, the last against the church itself.

If convicted, these men will be fined anywhere from $10,000 to $100,000, and the church itself faces a fine of up to $10 million for hosting large gatherings, given that it is considered a corporation.

In a press release sent out about last week’s incident, the church expressed their dismay and righteous anger at this news:

Our government is destroying our society to prevent the spread of a virus with a fraction of a fractional death rate.  This is evil. Nowhere does the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantee freedom from risk or virus, but it does protect the freedom of conscience, religion, belief, and assembly.  These are unlawful laws, a violation of God-given rights, a contravention of Section 176 of the Criminal Code, and an infringement of the Charter.

In another press release, The Justice Centre announced that it will be defending numerous Ontario pastors and church elders charged for holding church services in contravention of the Reopening Ontario Act including Trinity Chapel. “The Justice Centre will contest the charges on the basis that the Act violates the Charter rights of Ontario citizens to peacefully assemble for worship, among other grounds for challenge.”

Despite the very real threat of charging every congregant who attends service a minimum of $10,000, Pastor Jacob Jacob Reaume says the doors will be open this coming Sunday.

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Social Media Site ‘Parler’ Banned From Google Play Store, Apple Store Next

Google has pulled social media site Parler from it’s App store, declaring that the recent home for free-speech activists and right-wing conservatives that have fled Facebook and Twitter failed to take strong enough action to remove posts that seek “to incite ongoing violence” in the U.S and declaring that “Parler is responsible for all user-generated content present on your service,” a ridiculous standard that not even they themsves uphold.

The move to strike against Parler comes as social media sites crack down on conservative figures, notably with Donald Trump being permanently banned from Twitter, along with General Flynn and Lawyer Sidney Powell, and being kicked off Facebook, Twitch, Instagram, Discord and anywhere where he may be visible.

According to Axios, a Google spokesperson has confirmed:

In order to protect user safety on Google Play, our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.

All developers agree to these terms and we have reminded Parler of this clear policy in recent months.

We recognize that there can be reasonable debate about content policies and that it can be difficult for apps to immediately remove all violative content, but for us to distribute an app through Google Play, we do require that apps implement robust moderation for egregious content.

In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app’s listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.

In a similar vein, Apple has threatened to pull the app from their store, sending a letter to Parler executives, demanding that the app submit to them a “moderation improvement plan” within 24 hours or face removal and termination from the app store.

With Parler being the largest alternative social media site that people are actually using, with over 4,000,000 active users, it is a crushing blow, with Google and Apple able to wield enormous power. Though the website can still be accessed via a browser (For now. perhaps not much longer) it can also be sideloaded via an APK (Instructions here.)

Parler’s owner has responded in defiance to the block from the social media giants, writing:

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Christianity Today Lays Responsibility For Violence at Feet of ‘White American Church’

Christianity Today, the progressive rag known for giving a platform to every weird and liberally insidious bent, has come out swinging against the violence at Capitol Hill yesterday, laying the responsibility for the mayhem at the feet of the “white American church” and any leaders who voted for and supported the President.

This is not new ground for the magazine, who released editorials calling Trump voters “jobless” and “uneducated,” with that same Editor-in-Chief writing that he didn’t even know any Trump Supporters (yes, he was the same guy who was a Roman Catholic for the last two years and no one there even cared).

These guys brought us such wonderful articles recently like the new Editor-in-Chief likening any churches being open during Covid to engaging in “snake handling.” Last year, they ran an article saying that polyamory provided an “attractive alternative” and that churches should be affirming. A few months ago they accused white Christians of being inherent racists who were committing acts of spiritual violence against black people by voting GOP.

That’s who we’re dealing with.

But in a new article We Worship with the Magi, Not MAGA, author Tish Harrison Warren contrasts epiphany with the dark deeds done by Trump supporters – categorically anti-epiphany.

She explains that Trump has engaged in an unrestrained defilement of any standard for decency over the last 4 years, with a single-minded goal of shoring up power. Then she takes her first shot, somewhat tentative at first:

Though it saddens me deeply, it must be clearly admitted: Yesterday’s atrocity was in large part brought to us by the white, evangelical church in America.

And then lest there be any doubt, she lays the blame again squarely on white evangelicals and those who voted for and supported Trump, even if they did so not out love for the man, but to stop the even worse monster of a Democrat government with majorities in the House and Senate.

I have at times tried to dismiss these leaders and events as fringe, as the crazy cranks and bizarre displays we ought to ignore. I have instead focused on how, day in and day out, pastors and Christian laypeople are seeking to faithfully follow Jesus, to love their neighbor, and to serve the poor, to embody the truth we proclaim this season. But I cannot overlook the reality that millions of evangelicals are swayed by those who proclaim untruth and ugliness in the name of Jesus.

The responsibility of yesterday’s violence must be in part laid at the feet of those evangelical leaders who ushered in and applauded Trump’s presidency. It can also sadly be laid at the feet of the white American church more broadly.

Naturally, this post was co-signed by a host of fellow progressives, with Beth Moore being no exception.

That’s what it has come down to.

There was chaos at the rally, undoubtedly so. There was violence and terror, and for some unrestrained destruction. Four people died. One woman was shot in the head by police and three other attendees were killed, with at least one woman believed to be trampled to death.

What Christianity Today, Beth Moore, and all the Christian leaders co-signing this screed are saying is this: if you were more or less pleased with Trump’s presidency, if you voted for him and wanted him to win a second term, and if your skin is white, you go to church and you love Jesus while doing all of those things, then “thou art the man.”

You might as well have been there smashing glass, breaking chairs, stealing podiums, pulling the trigger that sent bits of bone and blood splattered across the wall and stepping on spines that crushed the innocent underfoot, the head smashing repeatedly against the marble floor with every unintentional kick and step of the crushing mob.

You are guilty. You are culpable. You are responsible.

And they will not let you forget it.

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Mohler Doubles Down on Trump Blame ‘He Encouraged Insurrection’

Dr. Al Mohler doubled down on his criticism and blame on Donald Trump for the raucous events at the Capitol building yesterday, with the Southern Baptist President-elect accusing Trump of inciting rioters to attempt insurrection.

Mohler took to the Briefing to address his role in light of voting for him in November, saying that he did not regret voting for the President at the time, and yet had no idea how bad he would be in his waning days.


“What we saw yesterday was the fact that President Trump had incited demonstrators to come to Washington DC for what was advertised as a Save America March, which we are told was organized in order to support President Trump’s assertions that he had actually won the election, and thus that the Congress meeting in joint session presided over by the vice president, as president of the Senate, should declare that he, rather than Joe Biden, had actually won the election.”

and

I’ll speak bluntly. I voted for Donald Trump for president of the United States. I encouraged others to vote for him too.

Based upon the binary choice we faced on November the third, I believe then that that was the right action to take, and going back to November the third, I would do the same thing again.

And that’s because I do not follow a cult of personality. I am committed as a Christian to certain moral principles, to certain political principles that I believe are derived from biblical Christianity, and faced with the same decision, and knowing what I knew, then I would have to take the same actions in support of those policies, principles, indeed, even the platform of the respective parties. In this case support for the Republican platform rather than the Democratic platform.

But what we saw in Washington, what we heard from the president, the United States, not just yesterday, but in recent days is an attempt to subvert the very constitutional order that he took an oath of office to defend. 

In an interview with Robert Downen of the Houston Chronicles, Mohler was pressed on some of the particulars of his points, saying that if he could do it differently, he would. When asked what sort of role he and other #BigEva leaders (our word) had in endorsing Trump, Mohler was contemplative but defensive.

I fully expect the question, but I’ve tried to be extremely clear from the beginning of the Trump phenomenon in terms of my judgment.

And I stand by the comments that I’ve made at every point. If I could rewind history, and know then what I know now, we’d be talking about a different kind of judgment.

But we have to live life in a temporal line and seek to be faithful in those moments. And for most evangelical Christians, voting for Donald Trump was seen as a necessity in a binary system.

Now, there have been some who have just openly celebrated Trump. But I think there will be a great deal of embarrassment for that now.

and

But what we have seen is the is the true character of Donald Trump come out in a way that I do find not — that I don’t accept was merely inevitable.

He bears full responsibility for his actions and his words. And he bears full responsibility for encouraging what amounted to an attempted insurrection against the United States government.

Mohler finishes off with words of regret, it seems. You can picture him looking past the interviewer, with an unresponsive and unfocused gaze and a far off look of horror in his eyes, seeing what only he can, as he hoarsely whispers:

I don’t believe that there is any inevitability to Donald Trump’s actions, for which he is responsible, over the last several weeks. I did not believe that he was going to go quietly into any potential defeat. But what we have seen is something beyond what, frankly, I would have imagined in an American nightmare.

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Two More High-Profile Hillsong ‘Pastors’ Resign Amidst Scandals

As Hillsong continues their investigation into the dysfunctional culture at their New York City branch where disgraced pastor Carl Lentz once held sway, a pair of high profile pastors have resigned their post, citing concerns for the need to stay mentally healthy and remain healthy amid fluctuating public sentiment and international turmoil.

Pastor Reed Bogard, who also helped found Hillsong NYC and Hillsong LA and was up until this point the senior “pastor” at Hillsong Dallas, released a short, curt, prerecorded message during the January 3 service announcing that he and his “pastrix” wife Jess were resigning, explaining:

Hey church. Hope you’re doing well. Just wanted to take a second on behalf of Jess and I to share some news with you.

As many of you know, Jess and I have been part of our church for 15 years. We met at college, went to Hillsong college, worked on staff in different roles there, and then transitioned back to America where over the last 10 years we’ve been able to be a part of three church plants and have the opportunity specifically here to be the lead pastors. And it has been an incredible ride thus far, we’ve had some crazy days, great days, seeing God do many, many miracles, and we’re so grateful for that.

With that said, the last 10 years of being in church planting mode has really taken a bit of a toll on Jess and I and our family. We just really feel like it’s time to transition off of our staff and take some time to remain healthy, get healthy, and really see what this next season holds for us.

Bogard takes a few more seconds to heap effusive praise on Global Senior Pastors Brian and Bobbie Houston and then signs off, effectively ending his tenure at Hillsong.

Brian Houston continued with the video, explaining that though the announcement might surprise some members, they would care for the congregation and would take their time finding them a new pastor. (With their Church model, a senior pastor is “assigned” to the congregation by upper Hillsong management.)

Reed’s announcement to you right now, not sure if that comes as a shock. Reed and Jess have given their heart and soul to the pioneering of Hillsong Dallas Love the last couple of years, and we’re grateful for that, and the great work they’ve done.

Reed and I have been talking now over a period of time and we both agreed it would be a perfect time for them to come to a new season in their life, which means a new season also for Hillsong Dallas.

I do believe in the future of Hillsong Dallas. In the meantime, we will make sure week by week that the church is being cared for. We have a great team over in America and around the world. Even though we are restricted in what we can and can’t do right now in terms of travel, you are not going to be forsaken.

The video can be seen here.