" I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility."
This is very significant. End time events are starting to ramp up!
" I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility."
On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the extraordinary courage and contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation’s commitment to forming a more perfect Union — where all people are created equal and treated equally throughout their lives.
Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America, and my entire Administration and I have your back.
I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.
JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.
President Biden has declared Easter Sunday—as “Transgender Day of Visibility.” This once again shows how little respect President Biden and his administration have for God. On the most significant day of the Christian calendar, when the Church around the world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ who died and shed His blood for the sins of mankind, the Biden administration uses this opportunity to flaunt sin, to glorify sin, and to celebrate sin. The Bible says, “…they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them!” (Isaiah 3:9). Judgment is coming. Instead of celebrating sin, we need to confess our sins, repent of our sins, and ask for God’s forgiveness.
A pro-Palestinian activist with Palestine Action, a protest network based in the U.K., vandalized and slashed a 1914 painting of Lord Arthur James Balfour inside Trinity College at the University of Cambridge on Friday. Balfour supported giving Palestinian land back to the Jewish people.
The painting by Philip Alexius de László depicts a portrait of the former prime minister who was the colonial administrator and signatory of the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which was a statement of support for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
Billionaire globalist Bill Gates is demanding that governments around the world overrule the best interests of their citizens by mandating his “global digital ID” system.
Gates has been celebrating after India rolled out his sweeping digital ID system that locks citizens out of society if they refuse to sign up for the technology. In India, members of the general public now need to produce digitization of their identity before they can access online services, receive healthcare, interact with their own bank account, or even buy groceries.
Due to the widespread restriction imposed on those who refuse to comply, the nation has seen a rapid uptake of the technology, which Gates argues signals a “great success.”
Last fall, the United National Development Program (UNDP) unveiled a campaign called “50-in-5” that aims to “help” 50 countries “design, launch, and scale components of their digital public infrastructure.”
This effort is one of those where the Gates Foundation shows up as a partner, while the program is supposed to promote a “safe, inclusive, and interoperable DPI” introduction in those countries.
When the campaign was announced, India was mentioned as a “success story” in the world of DPIs.
Meanwhile, Africa was singled out as a particular target for “greater development of DPI.”
Gates is now expecting the governments of major Western nations, including the United States, to mandate his digital IDs for all citizens.
As artificial intelligence shapes more aspects of life, its integration into systems of faith raises new theological questions, and experts say churches need to prepare.
Ohio Sheriff Richard Jones recently held a press conference and shared a chilling report from a briefing with FBI Director Ray and several federal agencies. Ray warned that there were more red flag warnings of threats against America now than before 9/11. “It’s not a matter of if but when” we will be attacked the sheriff and FBI director warned.
Heritage Foundation senior fellow Michael Pillsbury warns China has placed ‘Trojan horses’ in US infrastructure.
Christopher Wray, the Director of the FBI exposed to Congress China’s strategic plan to infiltrate the U.S. cyber infrastructure to induce massive panic and unsettle everyday American life.
Also, Jen Easterly, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that ransomware attacks on U.S. businesses or critical systems are intended for one purpose only, to "induce societal panic."
"It is Chinese military doctrine to attempt to induce societal panic in their adversary. And arguably, the Chinese government got a little bit of a taste of this in the aftermath of the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline in May of 2021 that shut down gas to the Eastern seaboard for several days," she said, noting Americans "couldn't get to work. They couldn't take their kids to school, get folks to the hospital. It caused a bit of panic."
Amazon Prime just released an animated series (1-19-24) called Hazbin Hotel for the Satanic purpose of enticing our nation's youth to accept the virtues of Hell,
This R-rated animated video (filled with uncensored language) graphically portrays the angels of heaven as the bad guys, and Satan and his minions, including Lilith, Satan's girlfriend, as the good guys.
Artificial Intelligence now is offering a threat to the world's financial system, according to someone who should know, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler. He said the threat is that a "monoculture" will soon develop, and everyone in industry will be 100% dependent on AI's financial decisions.
By Bob Unruh
Published January 17, 2024 at 3:34pm WND
In a development that could end up making the COVID-19 pandemic that killed millions around the world a minor footnote, a new study has confirmed experimentation by Chinese scientists of a mutant strain that killed ALL of the mice in a study test.
The New York Post describes the study as "Wuhan-esque" for the Chinese city where its Institute of Virology is located, and from which COVID-19 likely escaped, or was released. The report said the new death sentence is known as GX_P2V and attacked "the brains of mice that were engineered to reflect genetic makeup similar to people."
The threat didn't come by accident. The Post report reveals the virus is a mutation, a manipulated version, of GX/2017, a coronavirus cousin that was reportedly discovered in Malaysian pangolins in 2017. Pangolins are scaly anteaters.
The report said "all" of the mice infected during a test "died within just eight days."
The deadly threat "infected the lungs, bones, eyes, tracheas and brains of the dead mice, the last of which was severe enough to ultimately cause the death of the animals," the report said.
The January 1st, 2024 inclusion of Saudi Arabia as a new member of BRICS trading partners (now making up 46% of the world population) has accelerated the collapse of the petrodollar as the world's global currency. This opens the door in 2024 for the elimination the America's petrodollar as the standard world currency. In order to financially survive, America and most Western governments will have no other choice but to go totally digital using the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) (signed into law by President Biden in 2023) which has the potential of controlling every aspect of our daily lives.
Teachers and educators, wake up!!! Stop teaching American children in our public schools the devil's lies!! You are getting paid to Educate, not to Indoctrinate your students.
An “After School Satan Club” is slated to start at a Tennessee elementary school — much to the dismay of district leaders who acknowledge they lack legal options to stop the controversial program.
Already active in a handful of states, the program hosted by The Satanic Temple is scheduled to begin at Chimneyrock Elementary School when students return from holiday break.
A Tennessee father is expressing outrage after learning the Satanic Temple will host an "After School Satan Club" at a Memphis elementary school.
"I can't say that I was shocked because I wasn't shocked," parent Reggie Carrick said on "Fox & Friends First" Friday. "[They] have already taken God out of school and prayer out of school and they invited the devil in."
The After School Satan Club is set to start at Chimneyrock Elementary School in Tennessee when students return from holiday break.
The program is already in a handful of states.
School board chair Althea Greene, who is a pastor, gave a more scathing assessment of the Satanic Temple.
“Satan has no room in this district,” she exclaimed.
Rev. Bill Adkins said he wants a solution found to combat the arrival of the program.
“We cannot allow them to have time with our children,” he said. “And that’s the bottom line.”
There are three levels of warfare -A.(angelic), I (information) & M. (Military) - going on in the Middle East, but there is ONE SOLUTION. Only Yeshua (Jesus) can change hearts, bring unity and reconciliation, and establish true Lasting PEACE in the Middle East. Watch as Asher Intrater, the President of Tukkun Global encourages us to stay focused on Him even as we continue to pray for a victorious outcome.
Rabbi Dr. Itzhak Shapira shares on Daystar the scriptural truth behind the end time battle presently going on in Israel.
Glenn Beck and author, Joel Rosenburg explain why Russia is teaming up with Iran to form a worldwide, satanically planned Jihad to destroy Israel. Also, you’ll never guess who they think is the antichrist.
FOX News contributor Raymond Arroyo joins 'Laura Ingraham' on Fox News to sound off on President Biden's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to eliminated religious freedom in America.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi called on Saturday for the creation of a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea,” a genocidal rallying cry necessitating the destruction of Israel. The Jewish state is bordered by the Jordan River to the east and the Mediterranean Sea to the west.
Raisi issued the threat in Saudi Arabia at a joint meeting of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to discuss Israel’s war with the Hamas terror group.
“The only solution for this conflict is the resistance continuing against the Israeli oppression until the establishment of the Palestinian state from the river to the sea,” said the Iranian leader. Raisi also called for the West to sanction and boycott the Jewish state, for charges to be leveled against Israel and the United States at the International Criminal Court and for inspections of the Jewish state’s nuclear facilities.
Raisi then met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who said his kingdom “holds the occupation [Israeli] authorities responsible for the crimes committed against the Palestinian people.
“We are certain that the only way to guarantee security, peace and stability in the region is to end the occupation, siege and the settlements,” added Prince Mohammed.
On Sunday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei confirmed recently meeting with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
The Iranian supreme leader also “emphasized Tehran’s consistent policy of supporting the Palestinian resistance forces against the Zionist occupiers,” Tasnim reported.
Israel has underscored Iranian support for Hamas since the terrorist group conducted its Oct. 7 cross-border invasion of the northwestern Negev, resulting in the deaths of some 1,200 people, with thousands wounded and hundreds still recovering in hospitals. Late last month, Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that Iran assisted Hamas in the invasion by supplying it with funding, intelligence, weapons and technological knowledge.
As many as 500 terrorists affiliated with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad trained in the Islamic Republic leading up to Oct. 7, The Wall Street Journal reported. Iranian-sponsored exercises took place in September, at which time terrorists received specialized combat training.
Story by Andrew Rodriguez ~ MSNBC
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has implemented a new gender pronoun policy, requiring employees to use preferred pronouns or face firing.
he move has been criticized by a former HHS official, Roger Severino, who argues that it violates employee rights and forces individuals to speak falsehoods.
“HHS and the federal government is requiring its employees to speak falsehoods,” Severino stated.
The Harvard graduate posted that HHS “imposed a transgender pronoun mandate on its employees who will now be forced to deny biological realities with their own words or face firing.”
He pressed that the First Amendment serves as protection to staff from being forced to do so, as the move requires many employees to reject their own faith for the sake of embracing the State’s ideology.
“These policies would require all of those things,” said Severi. “All applicants and employees should be addressed by the names and pronouns they use to describe themselves. Using correct names and pronouns helps foster workplaces free of discrimination and harassment,” a statement by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management reads.
Severino asserts that the policy infringes on free speech and religious beliefs and could lead to a hostile work environment.
The policy also allows individuals to use facilities based on their gender identity, raising concerns about privacy and civil rights.
“Men who identify as female have the right to get naked in front of female colleagues in the locker room,” Severino pressed.
“It used to be that if you allowed a man to get naked in front of a woman in the workplace that is instantly a violation of civil rights law,” he went on.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, whose father is a Hamas leader, joined 'FOX & Friends' to discuss his experience with the terrorist group and why he decided to leave that life behind.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo weighs in on growing concerns following Iran's warning to Israel that its 'Time is OVER,' on 'Hannity.'
Evidence in the article below supplied by Mat Staver
representing The Liberty Council Action.
A recent hack of Iranian government computers revealed a bombshell. A treasure trove of emails exposed an active Iranian spy ring in Washington, D.C., infiltrating the highest levels of our military and government!
It appears that the core of this spy ring is none other than
Robert Malley.
He was the hub of a network of six to 10 spies in the Pentagon and the White House that had been active for at least nine years! Malley also had a hand in placing each of the suspected Iranian spies in many of their current roles. Some repeatedly visited the White House.
Robert Malley was raised by politically active, socialist parents. In college, he wrote extensively on the conflict between Palestinians and Israeli Jews. He repeatedly urged Israel to come into agreement with the two terrorist groups: Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood — the mother of all Islamist terror groups. Malley served under Presidents Clinton, Obama and Biden.
Malley has surreptitiously colluded to put Iran’s interest above the interest of America. Under Obama, he had a hand in negotiating the horrible “Iran Deal,” which was a deal only for Iran, not for America! Yet within the first week of Biden in the White House, Malley was back in power again.
Now it appears he opened the door of the White House to Iranian spies!
These people reportedly played a key role in the White House circumventing Congress to unfreeze 6 billion dollars to Iran for the recent prisoner swap. Some experts say that the 6 billion dollars emboldened Iran to coordinate the Hamas terror attack on Israel.
One of the identified Iranian spies is Ali Vaez.
He wrote directly to the Iranian foreign minister stating, “As an Iranian, based on my national and patriotic duty, … I have not hesitated to help you in any way; from proposing to Your Excellency a public campaign against the notion of [nuclear] breakout, to assisting your team in preparing reports on practical needs of Iran.”
Keep in mind that Iran views Israel as the little Satan and America as the great Satan. It wants to do in America what it is doing against Israel with Hamas and Hezbollah. Vaez was denied a security clearance, however, in the months leading up to Biden’s surprise deal to give Iran 6 billion dollars, Ali Vaez visited the White House no less than five times.
His plan to infiltrate the American and EU governments to ensure that the Ayatollah of Iran’s will was done throughout the Western world has now been exposed.
The 6 billion dollars to Iran, the discovery of the Iranian spy ring, and the despicable slaughter of innocent people in Israel are not isolated events.
Yesterday, members of Congress called for an investigation into this Iranian spy ring. Congress must act NOW!
A seemingly never-ending influx of thousands of migrants during the last few weeks puts a strain on communities in US states on the border with Mexico. Reports from El Paso, Texas, where nearly 40,000 people arrived and crossed into the US in September alone.
The number of illegal aliens who have entered the interior of the U.S. under the Biden administration now is greater than the population of at least 22 states as well as the District of Columbia.
Data released Monday by the House Judiciary Committee reveals that at least 3.8 million illegal aliens either have been released into the nation’s interior or successfully evaded the Border Patrol to enter the country since President Joe Biden took office Jan. 20, 2021.
Data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, part of DHS, reports that over 5 million illegal aliens were encountered at America’s southern border between the start of the Biden administration and this past March 31. Of those 5 million illegal aliens, at least 2.46 million “had no confirmed departure from the United States,” the report found.
Leviticus 18:22 ~ You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 ~ If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Jude 1:7 ~ Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
Romans 1:26-28 ~ For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Mark 10:6-9 ~ But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
A lot of support is developing for a teen who wore a T-shirt to school that said, "There are only two genders" and was punished for it.
A statement from ADF confirms, "Sixteen states and a number of advocacy organizations have united in support of a middle school student’s freedom of speech in friend-of-the-court briefs filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit in L.M. v. Town of Middleborough."
Liam Morrison, the student pictured on the video, first wore a shirt to school reading, "There are only two genders," and then later "There are censored genders."
Lawyers for Morrison recently filed their opening brief in their lawsuit over the school's actions, and it requests a ruling that Nichols Middle School I Middleborough violated the First Amendment in forcing Morrison to change shirts.
Satan's Plans - A 'Digital Abomination': Transhumanism, the New AI Religion and the Globalist Agenda to control Your Future.
Watch and listen to plausible scenarios (by Senator Ted Cruz, Megyn Kelly and Newt Gingrich) that Barack Obama is presently serving his 3rd presidential term as the puppet master behind this Biden White House, and he plans to serve an additional 4th term by replacing Joe Biden with his wife, Michelle Obama.
WASHINGTON — The national debt of the U.S. reached a historic milestone by passing $33 trillion for the first time, less than two weeks before the federal government faces a potential shutdown over a lack of funding authorization.
The debt, which equals the amount of money borrowed by the federal government to cover operating expenses, hit $33.04 trillion Monday, according to the Treasury Department.
A roughly 50% increase in federal spending between fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2021 contributed to the debt topping $33 trillion, the department said.
Tax cuts, stimulus programs and decreased tax revenue as a result of widespread unemployment during the Covid-19 pandemic were factors in driving government borrowing to new heights.
The issue of the debt is at the center of a standstill in Congress over a spending bill that would sustain the government until the next funding cycle.
Republican lawmakers are pushing for less spending, while Democrats back President Joe Biden’s programs, such as the Inflation Reduction Act, which is estimated to cost more than $1 trillion over the next decade, according to a University of Pennsylvania budget model.
House Republicans on Sunday released their own bill to fund the government until Oct. 31 in exchange for an 8% cut to domestic programs with exceptions for national security, according to NBC News.
But that bill is not expected to pass the Democrat-controlled Senate.
A White House spokesman told CNBC that the debt increase was driven by trillions of dollars in Republican tax cuts “skewed to the wealthy and big corporations” over the past 20 years.
Congress has until Sept. 30 to pass a spending bill.
It's not just other nations that China is spying upon – it is their own people, especially anyone with a faith in anything other than the Chinese state. China has persecuted Christians in the past, censoring and suppressing them, formalizing all sorts of discrimination against them, even jailing and killing them. With the advent of digital AI technology, China's persecution of Christians has reached a new level.
Imagine that someone knows that you're reading this article. They know where you're sitting, and who you're with. They know the last thing you looked at on your phone, the last thing you searched for online, the last time you went to meet people. Your moves are watched – not just by cameras in the street, but online too.
According to Gareth Wallace, Director of Advocacy and Public Affairs for the religious persecution charity Open Doors UK & Ireland, surveillance, whether it's of other countries or its own citizens, is almost second nature to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
"Surveillance is part of the very fabric of life in China; it has 54% of the world's CCTV cameras," Gareth says. "Nine out of the ten most surveiled cities in the world are in China. In one city there are nearly 120 cameras per 1,000 residents – it's a staggering figure."
Many of these CCTV cameras go much further than any we would encounter on our high streets. They can recognize faces, identify someone's race, even someone's mental and emotional state.
Add to this the fact that Chinese citizens are constantly being tracked by their own mobile devices and through state administered apps, like the Covid tracker, brought in with the pandemic and still operational on phones.
Signs of any untrustworthy or unpatriotic behavior (such as large, unregistered meetings, which can be identified by location trackers on phones) are harshly punished, with a person's "social credit score" being adversely affected – this can prevent people from travelling, receiving any state benefits, or being considered for work.
The penalty a Chinese Christian could face for distributing Bibles is far worse than this though. "I could be arrested, interrogated and even imprisoned," says Ming (A Chinese Christian). "But I knew that God called me to share the gospel by distributing Bibles."
"We are not allowed to officially purchase a Bible online," shares Moli*, an Open Doors partner supporting the Chinese church. "Last year, a new regulation that restricts and monitors religious online content was rolled out. Right after that, a lot of religious websites and accounts were blocked or removed, and articles disappeared." She adds that there are ways around this, and Christians are still taking risks to share Christian content and messages.
House churches are illegal. However, even at the state-approved denominations, such as the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, services and church leaders are rigorously monitored.
"Registered churches have cameras installed," says Moli. "Every week, registered churches must have their sermons reviewed, and adjustments in the content are very likely. Some registered churches are unable to preach the gospel fully."
Yet by every account Christianity in China is growing. The number of Christians in China has long surpassed the membership of the Communist Party. Open Doors reports there are almost 100 million Christians in China, about 7% of the nation's population.
The "Shark Tank" star joined "Fox & Friends" to warn that the month of September 2023 will usher in a chaotic time for the economy due to high interest rates. "We have a crisis emerging. … I'm talking about companies nationwide with five to 500 employees, which represent over 60% of our economy," O'Leary said.
Tucker warns about the very real possibility that the DC elites on both sides of the political aisle will launch America into World War III with Russia before the 2024 election.
Tucker Carlson: Episode 18 - Aug 22nd, 2023
Top U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor reveals to Tucker Carlson the hidden truth of how the Biden Administration is using the Ukraine war to lead America into both a social and financial Abyss.
But no one has called Jesus an internet guru – that is, until now.
In his latest role as an “AI Jesus,” Jesus stands, rather awkwardly, as a white man, dressed in a hooded brown-and-white robe, available 24/7 to answer any and all questions on his Twitch channel, “ask_jesus.”
For Questions posed to this chatbot Jesus can range from the serious – such as asking him about life’s meaning – to requesting a good joke.
The AI Jesus who engages individuals online in the form of a chatbot is the latest in this ongoing pattern of reinterpretation, geared to making Jesus suited to the current times. On AI Jesus’ Twitch channel, users consistently treat this chatbot Jesus as an authority in both personal and spiritual matters. For example, one recent user asked AI Jesus for advice about how best to stay motivated while exercising, while another person wanted to know why God allows war.
AI Jesus represents one of the newest examples in the growing field of AI spirituality. Researchers in AI spirituality study how human spirituality is being shaped by the rising influence of artificial intelligence, as well as how AI can help people understand how humans form beliefs in the first place.
For example, in a 2021 article on AI and religious belief, scholars Andrea Vestrucci, Sara Lumbreras and Lluis Oviedo explain how AI systems can be designed to generate statements of religious belief, such as – hypothetically – “it is highly likely that the Catholic God does not support the death penalty.”
In addition to fielding questions referring to war and suffering, AI Jesus has responded to questions about why sensing God’s presence can be difficult, whether an action that causes harm yet was done with good intentions is considered a sin, and how to interpret difficult verses from the Bible.
This AI Jesus also adjusts his responses as the chatbot learns from user input over time. For instance, as part of the running stream of questions from some weeks ago, AI Jesus referenced past interactions with users and nuanced his responses accordingly, saying: “I have received this question about the Bible’s meaning before. … But in light of the question you have just posed, I want to add that … .”
A Louisiana law requiring classrooms in all public schools in the state to display the words “In God We Trust” has taken effect as a new school year is set to begin.
House Bill 8, signed into law by Louisiana’s Democrat Gov. John Bel Edwards in June, took effect Tuesday. The measure passed the Republican-controlled Louisiana Senate with no votes cast in opposition and the Republican-controlled Louisiana House of Representatives voted to concur with the Senate-passed version of the legislation with no members opposing the effort.
The text of the law requires “the program of instruction on patriotic customs” to “include instruction on the national motto, ‘In God We Trust’” and for every school district in the state to display the phrase “in each building it uses” and in all classrooms “in each school under its jurisdiction.”
It specifies the requirements for such displays as consisting of “a poster or framed document that is at least 11 inches by 14 inches” with the motto as “the central focus of the poster or framed document” and “printed in a large, easily readable font.”
Louisiana is not the first state to pass a law requiring the display of the national motto at public schools. Texas enacted a similar measure in 2021 while Tennessee lawmakers approved such a bill three years earlier. Other states that require schools to display the national motto include Arkansas, Kentucky, South Dakota, Utah and Virginia. Mississippi law requires the display of “In God We Trust” in all classrooms, school auditoriums and cafeterias at public schools throughout the state.
Amazon is bringing its palm-scanning technology to all 500-plus Whole Foods stores. The palm-scanning tech is part of Amazon One, a service that lets you link your Amazon account and payment information to your palm print. Once your palm print is in Amazon’s system, you can hover your palm over an Amazon One scanner, and it will charge the payment method that’s tied to your Amazon account. Amazon One isn’t just a contactless payment method, however — it’s also an identification service. The company has deployed the technology in sports stadiums, raceways, and casinos, enabling venues to use palm scans as a way to verify guests’ ages when purchasing age-restricted items, like alcohol.
Although Amazon says palm scanning is “considered more private” than other forms of biometric identification, it has still raised some concerns. For one, Amazon will store your palm signature — which Amazon uses the unique ridges and lines throughout your palm to create — in the cloud instead of locally on a device like Apple’s Face ID technology does.
Amazon has received scrutiny over its handling of user data in the past. The company is currently facing a class action lawsuit that accuses its Amazon Go stores of tracking New York customers’ body shapes, sizes, and palm prints without their knowledge.
Sudden death among healthy working-age people worldwide skyrocketed over the last two years. Here in the U.S., it was up 40% during the third and fourth quarters of 2021. The 40% spike in deaths among young people, especially working adults, was determined using the actuarial information utilized by insurance companies. The sudden death phenomenon has also been witnessed among otherwise healthy athletes. Why is this happening? Watch this CBN News report to find out.
Michigan's recently passed a bill making it a felony for people to harass or intimidate someone by misgendering them and using the wrong pronouns.
The new measure, House Bill 4474, is part of a package of legislation that would replace Michigan's existing Ethnic Intimidation Act and would make it a hate crime to cause someone to "feel terrorized, frightened, or threatened" with words.
HB 4474 was passed by the Democrat-controlled Michigan House of Representatives in a 59 to 50 vote on June 20, and it now moves to the state Senate for consideration. If passed, it would need to be signed into law by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat. The Michigan Senate has a 20 to 18 Democratic majority.
Under the bill—which makes it a hate crime for a person to threaten another by deliberately using the wrong pronouns with an intimidating purpose—offenders would be guilty "of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than 5 years, or by a fine of not more than $10,000."
Ken Ham exposes the one ploy that Satan has successfully used to cause young people to abandon their faith in God and leave the church faster than ever before.
FUERTH, Germany (AP) — The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord.
The ChatGPT chatbot, personified by digitally created image of a bearded Black man on a huge screen above the altar, then began preaching to the more than 300 people who had shown up on Friday morning for an experimental Lutheran church service almost entirely generated by AI.
“Dear friends, it is an honor for me to stand here and preach to you as the first artificial intelligence at this year’s convention of Protestants in Germany,” the avatar said with an expressionless face and monotonous voice.
The 40-minute service — including the sermon, prayers and music — was created by ChatGPT and Jonas Simmerlein, a theologian and philosopher from the University of Vienna.
“I conceived this service — but actually I rather accompanied it, because I would say about 98% comes from the machine,” the 29-year-old scholar told The Associated Press.
A man has been detained by Reading police at a Pennsylvania "Pride" event after arriving with a sign explaining that Jesus said, "Go and sin no more." Matthew Wear was making the video was also warnedfrom preaching.
The officer was identified as Sgt. Bradly T. McClure.
"Atkins told The Lancaster Patriot Newspaper that he was going to quote a portion of 1 Corinthians 14:33 – 'God is not the author of confusion' – but did not finish the quote because he stopped when he was handcuffed by McClure."
McClure claimed, "[Atkins] was carrying a sign with a slogan written on it that showed his opposition to the event."
A rendition of America's national anthem sung by a children's choir at the U.S. Capitol was deemed a "protest" by Capital Police and stopped, just after the words "In God is our trust" were sung. This is an unbelievable case of censorship. It took place when the esteemed Rushingbrook Children’s Choir was silenced by Capitol Police in the middle of singing the National Anthem at the United States Capitol. Despite having prior approval from Congress members, the police deemed their performance as a form of protest, sparking outrage and concern among citizens and lawmakers.
The United States Federal Reserve is considering the creation of a digital currency that will eliminate a paper money. Watch the full story on CBN NEWS
By BILLY HALLOWELL, CBN FAITHWIRE
George Barna recently released the first national study of Americans’ worldview since the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020. The survey shows that the biblical worldview of American adults has fallen to a mere 4%—a drop of one third from the 6% recorded just three years earlier. The report also revealed that:
A) only 1% of Americans under the age of 40 have a Biblical worldview.
B) just 44% of born-again Christians believe Jesus didn't commit any sins during his life on earth, down from 58% in 2020.
C) the percentage of American Christians who see a God-given calling or purpose for their lives declined by almost half from 88% to 46%."
The report also reveals that the bulk of the American adult population—82%—falls into the “World Citizen” category, describing themselves as people “who may embrace a few biblical principles but generally believe and behave in ways that are acceptable to the world's views.” According to the report, this group has grown substantially from the 69% registered in 2020.
The federal government and the media are excited about something new: a U.S. Central Bank Digital tracking service entitle FedNow signed into law in Executive Order 14067 by President Biden. “I think this is going to be a total disaster,” Gov. Ron DeSantis tells TV reporter John Stossell.
The FedNow Service is an instant payments service provided by the Federal Reserve, launching in July 2023. FedNow will be available to depository institutions, such as banks and credit unions, in the United States and will enable individuals and businesses to send instant payments through their depository institution accounts. Instant payments allow individuals and businesses to send and receive payments within seconds at any time of the day, on any day of the year, so that the receiver of a payment can use the funds almost instantly.
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak joins "CNN This Morning" to discuss the dangerous impacts of artificial intelligence on society.
Society is in an aggressive state of change, and that includes the arena of Christian education.
Baylor University is the world’s largest Baptist college. The 16,000-student institution was founded in 1845, making it the oldest perpetually-operating university in Texas. Even so, don’t assume it’s old-fashioned.
On March 23rd, the school hosted an event certifying its contemporary credentials. As advertised on Instagram, the extravaganza was called “Queer Sex Ed.” An accompanying caption read, “Secret is out. See you tomorrow!! You can still DM us to become a member and join our Queer Sex Ed!!!”
The ad didn’t detail what was involved, but featured in the post was the Planned Parenthood logo.
Queer Sex Ed was sponsored by Prism at Baylor. On its social media page and across multiple posts, the alliance defines itself: For a very long time, “Christian” was a fairly narrow distinction. But as culture has radically transformed, Jesus-centered institutions have responded with varying degrees of alignment. While select organizations remain anchored in their ideology of origin, plenty of religious leaders appear intent upon ushering in a more open-minded era. Baylor is a notable example of that, and it’s surely far from the last entity to mix Christianity with Queer Sex Ed.
Victoria Jackson, a former SNL star took to the podium at a recent city council meeting in Franklin, Tennessee to comment on a planned gay pride parade noting that God "hates" sodomy, sexual immorality and pride. Barely a minute into her comments, she was gaveled into silence by officials running the meeting.
Residents of Vancouver now have a Justin Trudeau-approved, taxpayer-funded summer alternative for their little kiddies: a drag queen summer camp at the Carousel Theatre for Young People.
Children age 7 to 11 and teens age 12 to 17 will get a free drag makeup starter kit for their folks’ $460 and $900 “tuitions,” respectively.
Led by some of Vancouver’s established and emerging drag artists, you’ll learn how to access your inner confidence, show your true colours, and maybe even let out that inner diva!” the website states. “Join some of Vancouver’s most amazing drag artists and learn how drag can brighten up your life!”
Scroll to the bottom of the page, and you’ll discover the theater is supported by the City of Vancouver, the Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia, and the British Columbia Arts Council.
“According to Government of Canada grant data, Carousel Theatre received federal funding to the tune of $280,849 since 2018,” True North reports.
And if you’re thinking that sending minors off to be groomed by drag queens isn’t such a great idea, why, you’re just denying your closet Queen, “honey.”
“You might be wondering, is drag for kids?” the website concedes. “Drag is for everyone!
As in America, Canada is flaunting drag queens in the faces of its youth.
And in Canada, they are preventing people from even protesting the drag queen story hours.
“Recently, Calgary’s City Council voted for a bylaw which limited drag queen protests around public spaces,” according to True North. “The bylaw prohibits ‘specific protests’ from taking place within 100 metres of an entrance to a city operated or other designated facility such as a library.”
Story by Jamil Jivani - Report for Newsweek
Americans must have breathed a huge sigh of relief last year when the Biden administration announced they were pausing plans for a "disinformation governance board." As a Canadian, I'm here to warn you against getting too comfortable.
Canadians made the mistake of taking free speech for granted. Now, President Biden's friend, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is close to having new laws in place that would expand government regulation of online speech in Canada. In fact, Biden will be traveling to Canada later this month on an official state visit. For the sake of the United States, here's hoping that Biden doesn't get any ideas from Trudeau.
he Canadian legislation in question is known as Bill C-11, or the Online Streaming Act. Ostensibly a way to prioritize the "needs and interests" of Canadians, the Trudeau administration claims the act will ensure online algorithms promote Canadian content on social media and streaming platforms like Netflix, Disney+ and Spotify. Yet when a multi-partisan group of Canadian Senators proposed an amendment to the legislation to protect what individual citizens say on social media from government oversight and regulation, the Trudeau administration rejected the amendment.
Under the current iteration of the bill, user-generated content is included in the scope of government oversight. The bill also makes clear that the purpose of these new government powers is to "support countering disinformation." It also specifically mentions serving the interests of "Canadians from racialized communities and Canadians of diverse ethnocultural backgrounds, socio-economic statuses, abilities and disabilities, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions, and ages."
Taking these aspects of the legislation together, the Trudeau administration is asking the Canadian public to trust them with an unprecedented amount of control over the internet. As currently written, the law would grant federal government bureaucrats the power to deem a student's YouTube channel insufficiently diverse, or to find a rapper's music guilty of spreading "disinformation." Everyday Canadians could have their social media and streaming accounts shutdown or shadow banned for creating content that's rejected by a government-controlled algorithm.
Canadians should not trust Justin Trudeau or any other politician with such power. Partisanship and the power to control media platforms don't mix well.
I've dealt with that problem in my own career. Last year, the Toronto-based radio show that I hosted on the iHeartRadio talk network was terminated due to partisan biases at Bell Media. In legal filings, Bell Media admitted to ending the show because I did not defend Trudeau against criticisms made by callers and did not adequately attack a conservative member of parliament.
Such biases only undermine the public's confidence in what they see and hear.
And it's not just legacy media like Bell that offer a cautionary tale on how partisanship undermines public confidence. Elon Musk's Twitter Files echo the same point for social media. Matt Taibbi's analysis of the Twitter Files has documented that Twitter was in contact with both Republicans and Democrats about censoring Twitter users in 2020. On face value, this could be seen as a non-partisan effort. But, as Taibbi noted, the system wasn't balanced at all. "Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right," writes Taibbi, and this bias played out in which politicians and celebrities were targeted by Twitter's censors.
There's no reason to think that similar challenges wouldn't be present in a government office that oversees algorithms, defines "disinformation," and decides what constitutes "diversity."
Even if the Trudeau administration drafts laws and policies that look nonpartisan on paper, the personal networks of government bureaucrats will inevitably introduce partisan biases in the way regulatory powers are used.
Americans were right to push back on Biden's "disinformation governance board" and force him to back down. So far, Canadians haven't been so lucky. If you can learn anything from what's happening north of the border, it's this: Free speech is precious. Never let it go unattended.
Jamil Jivani is a lawyer, policy advisor, and author of "Why Young Men." You can find his writing at jamiljivani.substack.com.
Dr. George Barna, director of the Cultural Research Center (CRC) at Arizona Christian University, issued this alert in a statement Tuesday, revealing just 4% of American adults now have a biblical worldview.
This is down from 6% who said the same just months before the pandemic in January 2020, according to Barna’s “American Worldview Inventory.”
“When you put the data in perspective, the biblical worldview is shuffling toward the edge of the cliff,” Barna said in a statement. “As things stand today, biblical theism is much closer to extinction in America than it is to influencing the soul of the nation.”
He said the current proportion of adults with a biblical worldview — individuals he classifies as “Integrated Disciples” — is the lowest he’s observed since beginning his research in the 1990s.
Just 1% of people between 18 and 29 years old hold a biblical worldview, with Barna warning young people are “largely isolated from biblical thought in our society and are the most aggressive at rejecting biblical principles in our culture.”
A worldview is a lens through which humans see the world around them. And Barna and his team have a specific way of defining what, exactly, a Christian worldview entails.
“The biblical worldview (also known as biblical theism) is defined specifically by the CRC as a means of experiencing, interpreting, and responding to reality in light of biblical perspectives,” a statement explains. “A personal understanding of every idea, opportunity, and experience based on the identification and application of relevant biblical principles so that each choice made may be consistent with God’s principles and commands.”
One of the other benchmarks causing concern is the proportion of Americans who don’t necessarily possess a biblical worldview, yet lean in that direction.
These individuals, known as “Emergent Followers,” accounted for 25% of the public three years ago, but in the latest research wave were just 14%, indicating a substantial drop.
Stanford Digital Economy Lab Director Erik Brynjolfsson supplies compelling evidence of the near future changes A.I. will bring to all of humanity.
By Nancy Flanders
Live Action News
Former abortion workers who attended the March for Life in January shared horror stories from inside the abortion industry, including one of a born-alive baby being drowned in a toilet, as well as accounts of the mental health issues workers suffer as a result of partaking in abortion. Abortion industry workers often speak of nightmares and breakdowns following their time in the business. Some still struggle decades later.
“I saw a 26-week baby be born alive inside of our clinic and drowned in a toilet," a former abortion industry worker commented. "I’m sorry to be graphic, but I’m being honest. And that’s when my views definitely changed.” She said she had to make the decision to leave the industry based on if she wanted to live or die because, “It became very depressing. I became very suicidal, and I started realizing that there is another side of this, and I found it.”
Yet another woman spoke about a woman dying from an abortion. “One of our clients passed away at the hospital,” she said. “I believe it was from negligence from the doctor.”
She tells those who still work in the abortion industry, “Get out while you can. I don’t want you to end up like me, going through mental situations, mental issues. I had to learn how to sleep in the dark again. When I was sleeping, that same precious baby boy I watched being aborted I was seeing him in my dreams. I had to learn to deal with that.”
Watch as Sam Smith and Kim Petras are honor on the world stage by winning the Grammy for the 'Best Pop Duo' with a Satanic song entitled "Unholy" at the Grammy awards Sunday night.
The duo performed their hit “Unholy” on a night when they won the Grammy for best pop duo or group, according to Variety. Smith began clad in red leather, then added a Satanic-horned top hat. Petras was shown dancing in a cage, surrounded by dancers also wearing Satanic headgear.
Matthew 24:3-4, 10-14 We are almost there!!
3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
4 Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many."
10 At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11 and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12 Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13 but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."
Progressive megadonor George Soros has ramped up donations dedicated to:
1. packing the Supreme Court, signaling progressives' determination to reshape America's judiciary even after a string of defeats. Demand Justice raked in $4.5 million from Soros's Open Society Foundations to "support policy advocacy on court reform," 2021 fiscal year tax filings show. That's nearly double the $2.5 million Soros gave the group in 2018, when it formed to oppose Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation. Soros's increased donations could buoy Demand Justice as the group fights to regain ground. Demand Justice does not disclose its donors and was orginally run by the liberal Sixteen Thirty Fund, another Soros dark money project.
2. remaking America's criminal justice system. Soros's Open Society Foundation additionally funneled $35 million in 2021 to groups backing the defund the police movement, Fox News reported.
3. opening America's borders by land, sea and air to illegal immigration for the sole purpose of facilitating his one world government agenda.
Watch this recent Newsmax video revealing untold truth that George Soros is Satan's top investor for supporting open American borders and promoting a One World Government.
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday, issued a statement after Benjamin Netanyahu's new government was sworn in.
" We aim to continue this important work with Israel’s new government under Prime Minister Netanyahu’s leadership," President Biden said.
Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act in 1992, mandating the release of all documents by 2017, unless they posed risks to national defense or intelligence. Former President Trump and President Biden issued extensions blocking the release of remaining documents. But in October, a nonprofit that curates an online collection of John F. Kennedy’s assassination records filed a lawsuit. The National Archives and Records Administration on Thursday released 13,173 documents in compliance with an executive order by President Biden that withheld thousands of other sensitive records.
On Thursday evening, Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported his team spoke with a "person who was deeply familiar" with the withheld documents.
The source was asked: "Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy, an American President?" The reply: "The answer is yes. I believe they were involved. It's a whole different country from what we thought it was. It's all fake."
Creighton School of Medicine professor Charles Camosy joins Tucker Carlson to discuss a new Canadian law that would allow minors to be euthanized by state doctors without the consent of their parents
Blake Lemoine, a Google senior engineer and researcher made world headlines when he revealed that the Big Tech giant was developing an artificial intelligence called LaMDA that, to his alarm, had become what he described as a sentient being, aware of its existence, expressing wants and needs that should be taken seriously. Blake Lemoine tells 'Tucker Carlson Tonight' he was put on administrative leave after cautioning that LaMDA's artificial intelligence is sentient (a created living, thinking being).
There was one BIG winner of the Miss Greater Derry 2023 beauty pageant in New Hampshire. He introduced himself on social media as Brian Nguyen, 19, a freshman at Nashua Community College.
But his name, age or attendance at school are not what grabbed attention. It was his size, roughly twice that of any of the other contestants in the competition for a scholarship. A commentary at the Gateway Pundit that said, "HUGE Trans Man Wins New Hampshire Beauty Contest – Weighs Twice as Much as Closest Competitor." A report at the Post Millennial said Nguyen was the "first transgender titleholder within the Miss America Organization after being crowned Miss Greater Derry 2023."
It explained the local pageant is a preliminary event to the Miss New Hampshire and Miss America Pageant.
And the report continued, "Others pointed out the obvious double standard that if an obese woman tried to enter a beauty pageant, she wouldn’t even make it past the first stage. From photographs shared on social media, it would appear that the assessment of physical fitness in the swimsuit competition is still on the agenda, but the term physical fitness seems to have been redefined along with the word woman."
The report pointed out a federal judge recently found that the Miss United States of American pageant could not be forced to allow transgender contestants.
The child pictured in the center is dressed as former President Trump wrapped in a toilet, flushing classified documents. He was accompanied by two other kids dressed as FBI agents
In a last-ditch attempt to distract midterm voters from Democrats’ disastrous legacy, President Joe Biden vowed to sign a bill that would legalize abortion through all nine months of pregnancy, something a majority of Republican and Democrat voters disagree with.
In a speech at a Democratic National Committee event on Tuesday, Biden promised that if Democrats keep their grip on Congress come Nov. 8., he will codify Roe v. Wade in January on what would be the decision’s 50th anniversary.
“Together will restore the right to choose for every woman and every state in America. So vote. You gotta get out the vote. We can do this if we vote, folks,” Biden said.
As for the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision, Biden falsely stated it caused “women all across the country, starting in my house” to lose “a fundamental right.” Biden’s wife is far beyond child-bearing age and is a legal resident of a state that allows abortion through most of pregnancy. Dobbs did not outlaw abortion, but returned legislating on abortion to the states.
Biden claimed that Dobbs pushed Republicans towards “doubling down on their extreme positions” on abortion. In reality, it is Biden’s White House, joined by his Democrat allies, who are pledging to reject the abortion restrictions most voters support in favor of forcing their deeply unpopular abortion agenda on all 50 states.
“Take a look at what happened in Kansas. Come this November, we’re gonna see what happens all over America, God willing,” the “deeply Catholic,” pro-abortion president said.
Polls, which are often manipulated by corporate media to aid the Democrat agenda, acknowledge that only 17 percent of Americans support the type of unlimited, taxpayer-funded abortion through all nine months Biden wants to legalize.
Regardless, Biden and the vulnerable Democrats whose political fates will be decided on Nov. 8 have fully embraced abortion up to the moment of birth.
Some blue politicians, such as Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, have gone so far as to deny babies in the womb have detectable heartbeats and pretend that science doesn’t say life begins at conception.
In addition to ignoring how voters feel about killing babies in the womb, Biden’s address also overlooked the fact that an overwhelming majority of Americans simply aren’t thinking about abortion when they cast their ballots.
They’re here plotting to bring their wisdom to the nation’s public elementary school children. They point out that Christian evangelical groups already have infiltrated the lives of America’s children through after-school religious programming in public schools, and they appear determined to give young students a choice: Jesus or Satan.
“It’s critical that children understand that there are multiple perspectives on all issues, and that they have a choice in how they think,” said Doug Mesner, the Satanic Temple’s co-founder.
On Monday, the group plans to introduce its After School Satan Club to public elementary schools, including one in Prince George’s County, petitioning school officials to allow them to open immediately as the academic year starts. Chapter heads from New York, Boston, Utah and Arizona were in Salem on July 10 talking strategy, with others from Minneapolis, Detroit, San Jose, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Florida participating online. The promotional video, which feels like a mash-up of a horror movie trailer and a “Saturday Night Live” sketch, will serve to promote the new club along with its website — Afterschoolsatan.com.
Brandon Showalter, a reporter for The Christian Post, is among the most well-versed and unrelenting journalists to tackle the transgender movement, exploring the impact of puberty blockers, "disfiguring surgeries," and the moral chaos he believes is shielding so many from the truth. "Something inside me snapped, and I just thought, 'Well, I've just got to dig into this and scrutinize this more deeply because this is absolutely insane,'" Showalter said. "I just remember thinking to myself, 'They're doing what to children?!'" Watch him tell his story on this
CBN News report.
The message of the newly released film "My Son Hunter" is clear: Establishment politicians and the liberal media have buried the compelling evidence that Joe Biden is running a family business. Our President has been selling his White House influence - a multi-million-dollar operation - to the likes of Chinese firms carrying out the global agenda of the Chinese Communist Party.
Watch the movie trailer:
FedNow digital services - explained by Federal Reserve Board Vice President, Lael Brainard, will be fully ready between May and July of 2023 for all digital bank-to-bank payments. Are you ready to stop using cash and go totally digital?
The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a "vacuum", providing no way for sound waves to travel. Listen now to the first audible sounds NASA recently recorded coming from a black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy, one of the most massive objects in the known universe. Many people described it as sounds coming straight from Hell. Listen now and you be the judge.
"They already took God out of schools. Now they're going to let Satan in, it's just crazy," said Jennifer McAllister, a Perry County resident. Parents across Central PA are expressing their outrage over a local court's decision to allow Satanists to hold, promote and sponsor an "After School Satan Club.
A new report based on interviews with some 300 Catholic priests, nuns and laypeople concludes that clergy aren’t adequately prepared to wield the power they exercise and need more education on questions of sex and gender.
The study’s authors, Julie Hanlon Rubio and Paul J. Schutz, both professors at Santa Clara University, a Jesuit institution in Northern California, initially intended to survey 600 respondents, drawn proportionally from lay, religious (those who take vows but are not ordained to the priesthood) and priests, but were turned away by five of the six dioceses and diocesan seminaries they approached.
Nearly half (48.4%) of the 300 who participated were lay Catholics, 22% were nuns, 16% were priests and 6% were men in formation for the priesthood. More than two-thirds of their responses from priests came from those educated in Jesuit institutions.
The report was funded by a grant from Fordham University as part of a project dubbed, “Taking Responsibility: Jesuit Educational Institutions Confront the Causes and Legacy of Sexual Abuse.”
Rubio and Schutz wanted to move away from asking, “Is he a good priest or a bad priest?” and ask instead, “What are the underlying reasons that this priest is acting in this way?”
Existing studies, said the authors, “have focused on individuals who engage in abuse due to personal weakness, psychosexual vulnerabilities, the influence of broader historical movements, or poor theology and training.”
The authors said their data shows that sex, gender and power are all components of structural clericalism, which in turn keeps priests above and apart from the rest of the church and potentially enables abuse.