Stinkhorn Mushroom: Phallus impudicus looks like a penis and really does stink

A plate from James Sowerby’s Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms. 

The stinkhorn mushroom is not only known for its appearance, but its foul smell. The sticky brown slime at the top of the stalk smells like rotting flesh which attracts flies that then spread the spores. At full growth, it is 4-8 inches tall.

Stinkhorns grow throughout the world but prefer tropical climates.

An excerpt from Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan offers this little anecdote about Charles Darwin’s daughter and the stinkhorn mushroom:

Etty’s prim enthusiasm for stamping out anything sexual wasn’t limited to the written word. She waged a bizarre little war against the so-called stinkhorn mushroom (Phallus ravenelii) that still pops up in the woods around the Darwin estate. Apparently, the similarity of the mushroom to the human penis was a bit much for her. As Etty’s niece (Charles’s granddaughter) recalled years later, “Aunt Etty … armed with a basket and a pointed stick, and wearing a special hunting cloak and gloves,” would set out in search of the mushrooms. At the end of the day, Aunt Etty “burn[ed them] in the deepest secrecy on the drawing room fire with the door locked—because of the morals of the maids.”

Fun fact: A related fungus called the dog stinkhorn is also known as “the devil’s dipstick.”

Yeti Pubes, Mario Kart, Toad & Stormy Daniels: Twitter Funnies

 

Sacha Baron Cohen’s New Show Comes Complete with Conspiracy Website: Truthbrary

Image courtesy Showtime.

Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr. is an InfoWars-style character played by Sacha Baron Cohen in his new Showtime series Who is America?

The fictional Ruddick runs a handy little website (which actually exists) detailing popular conspiracy theories promoted by truthers over the past several decades—everything from the CIA fostering rock and roll music as social control to the moon landing hoax to the Satanic elite running Hollyweird.

In fact, the catalog of conspiracies is quite complete and has apparently been quietly building for some months now. Billy Wayne (apparently he has a PhD) also runs a clever Twitter account at @BillyWRuddick and has a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/Truthbrary/

The website, Truthbrary, appears to be maintained regularly, with new conspiracies still being added:

http://TRUTHBRARY.ORG was created by Dr. Billy Wayne Ruddick for the American people. We must take control of our facts and our truth. #StopFAKENews

Prank Me Not Website Generates Frighteningly Real-Looking Fake Messages

Prank Me Not: Build fake Facebook or Twitter posts and make funny Chats that have never existed.

Prank Me Not generates rather convincing Facebook statuses, Tweets, and Messages for free.

Sample Facebook private message:

Sample Twitter direct message:

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And another for generating Facebook statuses only:

http://simitator.com/generator/facebook/status

 

Naked Trump Troll Doll is a Reality

In February 2017, Chuck Williams, a former Senior Staff Sculptor for the Walt Disney Company and owner of Williams Studio 2 Inc., set up a Kickstarter campaign to produce the best ever Trump Troll Dolls. He set his goal at $38,000 and ended up collecting $438,737 pledged by 9,417 backers.

That goal became a reality and Williams now sells the dolls, along with t-shirts, mugs and posters, at theofficialworldsgreatesttroll.com. The resin figure is 4.75″ tall (without the hair) and is 4″ across from fingertip to fingertip.

And, Williams doesn’t plan to stop there. He recently released a sneak peek of his next troll:

Luciferian rulership system waging spiritual battle; Donald Trump at center

Paul McGuire, co-author of Trumpocalypse, a Bible prophecy expert, recently announced on the Jim Bakker Show that “we are in the greatest spiritual battle of mankind” and that President Donald Trump is at the center of this spiritual battle.

McGuire referred to the following Biblical quote attributed to Paul in Ephesians 6:10-6:12:

10 Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. 11 Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

McGuire elaborated on the statement he made on the Jim Bakker Show on the Paul McGuire Report posted to YouTube on May 22, 2018:

“The physical battles that we see in our world and nation right now are a direct manifestation of the spiritual battles going on in the invisible realm. There are people very high up in what is called the globalist occult or globalist Luciferian rulership system, and this rulership system consists of what used to be called the Pharaoh-God Kings, it’s what Aldous Huxley called ‘The Scientific Dictatorship,’ and these are advanced beings who know how to tap into supernatural multidimensional power and integrate it with science, technology, and economics.”

McGuire explains that Christians must spread this message far and wide and understand that behind these unprecedented attacks on Donald Trump a spiritual battle, rather than a political battle, is actually playing out in the physical world. The New World Order is being propped up by this unseen globalist Luciferian ruler system and these elite are trying to control the world through supernatural methods.

“They are people at the highest level of the pyramidic organizational structure in which the highest ranking officers, if you will, of the New World Order and Mystery Babylon are ruling the earth through an organizational structure that looks like the pyramid on the back of the U.S. dollar. And they control the world because they understand that the true control of the world is done through supernatural mechanisms.”

Paul McGuire Report

Published on May 22, 2018

https://youtu.be/i8Nb5_06vE4

McGuire’s most recent book Trumpocalypse: The End-Times President, a Battle Against the Globalist Elite, and the Countdown to Armageddon (Babylon Code) is co-authored by Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative journalist Troy Anderson. The two also co-authored The Babylon Code.

Trumpocalypse is “an explosive exposé of the chilling truth about the fierce opposition to the Trump presidency, and why the globalist elite and Deep State will stop at nothing–assassination, military coup, staged economic collapse, or worse-to overthrow him.” (Amazon)

More from Amazon:

“The authors fearlessly expose the globalist elite’s secret plan for humanity and campaign of mass deception. Using documentation gleaned from years of journalistic investigation and extensive interviews with over fifty of the world’s most respected geopolitical, economic and military affairs experts, faith leaders, and biblical scholars, McGuire and Anderson unmask these elites as members of secret societies with deep occult connections who have gained control of America’s dominant institutions-government, education, entertainment, international banking, and even the media.

Trumpocalypse explores the enigmatic prophecies and “biblical codes” involving Trump, and asks whether God raised up President Trump as a fearless leader to guide America and the free world through a series of major crises as the biblical end-time narrative unfolds, as many people with prophetic gifts are predicting, and shows why everyday Americans and evangelicals have rallied around Trump as their last hope of saving America and averting the horrors of the Apocalypse. It further reveals why Trump and millions of “deplorables” are fighting to stop the hidden agenda of the Establishment, and how the perplexing chaos enveloping the planet could paradoxically signal the beginning of the great end-times awakening that millions are praying for.”

About the Authors

PAUL MCGUIRE is an internationally recognized Bible prophecy expert and regular commentator on Fox News, CNN, and the History Channel. He is the host of the GOD TV international prophecy television show, Apocalypse and the End Times. He is an eschatology professor and each year speaks to tens of thousands of people at Bible prophecy conferences. He lives in the Los Angeles Area.

TROY ANDERSON is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated investigative journalist, bestselling co-author along with Paul McGuire of The Babylon Code, former executive editor of Charisma magazine and Charisma Media, and a regular guest on numerous television and radio shows. He lives in Irvine, California.

http://WWW.PAULMcGUIRE.US

Rapture Letter: Here’s what your letter should include

Sorry, It’s Probably Not a Werewolf: Canid Animal Shot Near Denton, Montana Draws Attention

Courtesy Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 4

Current speculation is that the animal is a dog/wolf hybrid.

A large wolf-like animal shot and killed May 16 by a rancher near Denton has wildlife officials and the public wondering what it was.

Here’s what is not in question: The animal came within several hundred yards of the rancher’s livestock. He shot it and reported it as required by law. The animal was a young, non-lactating female and a canid, a member of the dog family, which includes dogs, foxes, coyotes and wolves.

Those facts are not unusual in Montana’s farm and ranch county.

The animal originally was reported as a wolf, but several Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ wolf specialists looked at photos of the animal and collectively doubted it was a purebred wolf: the canine teeth were too short, the front paws too small and the claws on the front paw were too long.

Nevertheless, social media was quick to pronounce the animal as everything from a wolf to a wolf hybrid to something mythical.
Rather than guess, FWP sent the carcass to the Department’s lab in Bozeman where tissue samples will be collected, then shipped to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Laboratory in Ashland, Org.

In a laboratory, scientists extract DNA from cells, looking for markers specific to individual species. Those markers are then compared to samples of known species on hand.

While the process may take a week, just getting to that stage may take weeks or months, depending on the laboratory’s backlog of cases.

All of which means it may be awhile before the anyone really knows what the animal near Denton really was.

UPDATE

http://fwp.mt.gov/news/newsReleases/fishAndWildlife/nr_1108.html

Atheists Are the Reason We Can’t Have Nice Things

In the course of one day, I read three articles bashing atheism and accusing atheists of all manner of bad acts or bad non-acts (failing to do something that someone thinks they should do). I have synthesized them here. Enjoy!

The three articles I reference are the following:

The Anti-Christian Movement by E.M. Cadwaladr

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/04/the_antichristian_movement.html

Visiting the American Atheists National Convention By Daniel King, King Ministries

http://kingministries.blogspot.com/2018/04/visiting-american-atheists-national.html

Too Many Atheists Are Veering Dangerously Toward the Alt-Right: And atheists can’t afford to be quiet about it by Chris Stedman, VICE.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7jx8/too-many-atheists-are-veering-dangerously-toward-the-alt-right?utm_source=vicetwitterus

ATHEISTS ARE DANCING WITH THE DEVIL

Source: Public comments, American Thinker, The Anti-Christian Movement.

When the source of their hatred is diabolical–logic and goodness are merely weapons to abuse.

It is almost as if Satan and his entire Evil Army have been alerted that the end of his reign on earth is all but over and he has reasoned his Feast of Fire is about to be terminated. If your eyes can not picture this or you fail to see the pieces of his diabolical puzzle coming together you need to wake up before being swept away in the torrent of tyranny by those who despise the Truth and any of us who proclaim it with Christian holiness.

The damned are damned by themselves, not by God.

The many antichrists are simply followers of Satan, whether they realize it or not.

Atheists don’t believe in the reality of either God or Satan, a very dangerous place to be.

No one is going to take away your right to burn in hell for all eternity…in fact none of us can take that away from you. To accept or reject belief in Jesus is a choice given to all by God himself and none of us can take that away from any individual

Best to let Christ prove it himself when he comes again to separate the wheat from the chaff for all eternity…..

Anyone who denies that Jesus is the son of God is an antiChrist against Christ. Their are more antiChriss in the world than Christians. This is why God says only a remnant of His creations will be saved at the end time.

Lucifer in his evil is doing a terrific job of fooling Gods creations into believing “Surely you will not die” for doing what God has told you not to do.

Lucifer is not trying to get non-righteous people to rebel against God our Father. Lucifer already has them. Lucifer is spending his time trying to get we who believe in God our Father to rebel against God our Father and become non-righteous.

Lucifer is in a struggle against God trying to take all of Gods righteous creations from Him.

What you don’t know of the beginning you will come to regret in the end.

Well…we at least know that atheists do NOT believe that God (Christ) exists. Hence, they are both antichrist (1 John 2:18) and serve only to take his place “instead of” Christ.

Servants of Lucifer have no tolerance for the righteous. They are helping Lucifer in his war with God our Creator.

It is OBVIOUS from everything going on in this nuthouse of a world, that NOBODY believes in any kind of God except the goddamn Devil.

ATHEISTS LOVE ISLAM, PRAISE FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

Source: The Anti-Christian Movement by E.M. Cadwaladr

But without batting an eye, many of today’s atheists manage to believe that Islam, an objectively more intolerant, more misogynistic, and far more bloodthirsty system of beliefs than Christianity – is somehow forgivable, or even a net social boon.

Source: Public comments, American Thinker, The Anti-Christian Movement.

From their perspective Christianity is the very foundation of our civilization and has to be annihilated and Islam is a tool in the destruction process so it has to be protected.

It is that simple. They don’t care about contradictions, even ridiculous and pathetic ones, like feminists fighting the white patriarchy while tolerating and even praising Muslims that practice FGM. After all they are all victims.

If men and women are not worshiping Christ in the Atheists and leftists are not going to stop Islam, considering that for decades they considered Islam just some other religion and have continuously picked on the “so-called” weaker target of Christianity because Christianity has that clause called turn the other cheek. A clause, (I should remind the atheist readers), that Islam does not have. Just last week in Pakistan there were forced conversions of Hindus. Islam’s power is growing, in large part due to atheism in the West. It’s almost as if Western atheism and Islam are conjoined twins of the attempted destruction of Christianity.

Islam is tolerated or even encouraged by these so-called “atheists” because their true program is to use Islam as a weapon against the best aspects of western civilization among which is Christianity.

So very simply, either you are going to follow God’s Law as defined in the Christian Bible and worship Christ, or you will bend the knee to Mohammed and follow Sharia Law.

The modern atheist “scientific” movement is absolutely enthusiastic towards Islam, and condescending towards Judaism.

ATHEISTS HAVE AN ANTI-MUSLIM BIAS

Source: VICE

(Sam) Harris has in the past called for profiling “Muslims, or anyone who looks like he or she could conceivably be Muslim.” (When I challenged him on this, he suggested I “wear a t-shirt stating ‘There is no God and I am Gay’ in Islamic countries and report back on [my] experiences.”)

Outspoken atheist Bill Maher rightly came under fire last summer for using racist language on air. He has also argued that “most Muslim people in the world do condone violence,” told “transgendered” [ sic] people to be quiet, and gave alt-right darling Milo Yiannopoulos a sympathetic interview on his HBO show.

ATHEISTS DENY FACTS, PUSH FALSE NARRATIVE OF EVOLUTION

Source: Public comments, American Thinker, The Anti-Christian Movement.

The interpretation that evolution is the only possible explanation for such placement of fossils is a fallacy.

And, when correctly tested, radiological dating supports the Bible.

Talk, talk, talk. Polonium halos in granite show that the earth is not old.

False. You assume that they had a common ancestor. You did not evolve at all.

The idea that both apes and men had a common ancestor is an assumption made by those who refuse to accept God’s authority. It is NOT true. They have a common designer.

I’ll go into gravity now. If someone believes it doesn’t exist does that change the natural law of things? Is it not an invisible force? yet people believe it exists because they feel it all around them. Our creator is also an invisible force and if you have faith you will feel his presence all around you as well.

Atheists do not believe in God, especially in a creator God, but the majority of atheists do believe in evolution. One has withstood thousands of years of challenge, the other was invented by a man that noticed different size beaks. One is the belief in an intelligent creator, the other is the belief that rocks were hit by lightning. The belief in one is held by billions of people, the other is not allowed to be questioned by our government.

God would make the speed of light change, if He wanted to do so!

This God’s universe, He alone can and does make the rules. And, God cannot be deceitful. God always has a purpose for what He does. Do not forget, that there was never any big bang. That big bang is a mythological invention to increase the supposed age when the evos realized that there was no proof for their fairytale, and that no amount of time would allow it to work.

ATHEISTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA, AN ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT, MUSLIM, COMMIE, HOMO

Source: Public comments, American Thinker, The Anti-Christian Movement.

Is Obama a communist or just a muslim? He never attends Church but he likes to go to mosques. He hates Christians.

How did he ever get elected President?

in order to amass his unearned loot makes him a jack -commie while at the same time His proclivities with respect to his homosexuality would be a deal breaker in muzzie land . A true bastard, even to his own prescribed worldview, that one

Obama liked to visit the homo Chicago Bath Club.

Why did the manager kick him out of that disgusting club?

Obama was born in a nice British Mombasa Hospital. His Mombasa Birth Certificate looks authentic. It was signed by the two African doctors who attended his birth. Barry was not qualified to run for dog catcher.

ATHEISTS ARE CULTURAL MARXISTS AND HAVE BECOME A POLITICAL ENTITY

Source: The Anti-Christian Movement by E.M. Cadwaladr

What atheism has become can be more accurately described as “the anti-Christian movement.”  It is a movement that assumes that Christianity isn’t merely naïve and false, but a major cause of social ills, something worth the effort to actively ferret out and purge from our society.  This anti-Christian crusade has been both supported by, and a natural outgrowth of, the much larger program of cultural Marxism.

Uninterested in hard materialism, today’s atheists believe in an emotional narrative invented and reinvented at the whim of politically motivated human beings.  Today’s atheism is not a philosophical position, but a political one.

Christianity, like Western civilization, is squeezed into the usual Marxist mold as just another instrument of oppression.

The anti-Christian movement of today, like all other Marxist or neo-Marxist splinter groups, draws its strength from a simple, if unstated, promise: All the world’s aggrieved can acquire social acceptance and the unholy grail of victim status by denouncing someone else as an oppressor and working for his destruction.

In truth, the new atheism isn’t about helping the “oppressed” – any more than it is about the non-belief in God or the exclusive belief in the world we can grasp with our senses.  It is about being a vocal part of the identity group of avid Christian-haters.  A political entity.

ATHEISTS SEEK OUT VICTIMHOOD STATUS, ESPECIALLY THE WHITE MALES

Source: The Anti-Christian Movement by E.M. Cadwaladr

What Dawkins is saying, perhaps without even fully understanding the meme that he himself has swallowed, is that if you’ve been raised in a Christian household, you’re a victim.  By telling you this, Richard Dawkins makes himself a kind of revolutionary hero.  If gold medals were awarded for virtue-signaling, The God Delusion would have won the prize for 2006.

Renounce your faith and you’ll have instant standing as a victim; keep it, and you will be counted as one of the few groups liberals are encouraged to hate – and potentially persecute as well.

While I’m not an advocate of affirmative action, it is telling that practically all new atheists are white, and most of them are men.  This is probably no coincidence.  If you are black, Latino, female, or any foreigner with solid non-white credentials, you have ready-made victim status that will charm the neo-Marxist heart.  You don’t need atheism to get your ration of liberal street cred.  If you happen to be a white man, though, you have to make up something to earn your right to exist.  Not all white men looking for a victim group to hide in are willing to emasculate themselves as anything from beta males to “transwomen,” so anti-Christian militancy has been, for some, the painless alternative.

ATHEISTS ARE ALL LIBERAL DEMOCRATS AND LEFTIES AND TRUMP HATERS

Courtesy Daniel King, King Ministries

Most of the atheist crowd sounded like liberal Democrats. Many of them were gob smacked by Trump’s election and it seems they are still depressed over a year later.

Source: Public comments, American Thinker, The Anti-Christian Movement.

Why are so many Democrat atheists illiterate?

They take drugs and go to anti-trump riots.

They should stop being Democrats, fall on their knees this Easter. and pray to the LORD.

Maybe Darwin evolution bums were telling us that we came from Monkeys that look like Obama and Hillary.

Why do sooooooo many Obama/Moochie Democrats look like monkeys.

Why do soooooooooo many decent, honest women vote for Democrat monkeys or baboons?

ATHEISTS ARE MISOGYNISTS AND RACISTS

Source, VICE

But there’s a toxic side to internet atheism. For years, women and people of color have repeatedly voiced how atheist websites, organizations, and public figures ignore their concerns and tolerate—or even actively contribute to—an environment that makes them feel unsafe and unwelcome, particularly online.

Last year Sam Harris hosted Charles Murray—who has famously argued that black people are genetically predisposed to lower IQs than whites—on his immensely popular podcast, calling Murray a victim of “a politically correct moral panic.”

Lawrence Krauss, a popular skeptic who now faces numerous sexual harassment allegations, has criticized the #MeToo movement.

Richard Dawkins, perhaps the most famous atheist in the world, has mocked women for speaking out about experiences of sexual harassment, shared a video ridiculing feminists, and railed against “SJWs” (short for “social justice warriors,” a derisive term for social justice activists).

Twitter comment on article from Vice:

A distressing amount of old guard skeptics and atheists really need a boot out of the movement. The amount of sexism, racism, and general right wing terribleness is appalling. We can’t be relevant as a bunch of straight crotchety white guys

ATHEISTS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ALT-RIGHT

Courtesy VICE:

Richard Spencer, the white supremacist and movement figurehead who coined the term ” alt-right,” discussed his atheism last year in an interview with atheist blogger David McAfee.

When he posted the interview on his own website, Spencer retitled it “The Alt Right and Secular Humanism,” leaving no doubt that he sees atheism and humanism as linked to his cause.

Yet I don’t know of any prominent atheist, humanist, or secular organizations that took the opportunity to condemn Spencer.

One of the biggest reasons   for this (the author left online atheism)was my growing concern over its failure to adequately address some of its darker currents—such as overt sexism, racism, and anti-Muslim bias.

Like the alt-right, American atheists—a growing segment of the US—are more likely to be male, white, and younger than the general population.

By neglecting to address its darker currents, online atheism has perhaps unknowingly planted the seeds for the alt-right’s harvest.

While championing liberal views on some issues, many of atheism’s most prominent advocates—the majority of whom are, like me, cisgender white men—have expressed troubling sentiments that align with views held by the alt-right and faced little to no consequences.

As more and more nonreligious young white men seek out community, resources, and a sense of identity and purpose online, any overlap between online atheism and the alt-right should move atheists to speak out. Spencer’s views are not shared by the majority of atheists in America, but if we want to keep it that way, atheists cannot stay silent.

If there truly is no god that will fix humanity’s problems, atheist leaders and organizations that won’t take a strong stand against white supremacists don’t inspire much faith in our ability to do so ourselves.

Until atheists and humanists confront this Something head on, we will continue to struggle with people like Spencer who embody an atheism that got rid of the gods but put white men in their place.

ATHEISTS ARE OUT TO TAKE DOWN WESTERN VALUES AND CIVILIZATION

Source: Public comments, American Thinker, The Anti-Christian Movement.

Atheists may hate the Judeo Christian philosophy but they love the freedoms within, and cannot state one comparable replacement.

Many self-proclaimed atheists are theologically illiterate. They know little and care less about the actual history and teachings of Christianity in the West.

The attacks on America – the USA, avowedly Christian in its cultural foundations – are meant to weaken and eventually destroy the one nation that is strong enough to resist the horror desired by the one-worlders.

The “hate and eliminate” is the newest feature of atheism. And its violence is growing with the approval of many. The hate and eliminate is a propaganda war from forces outside the USA to take America down without firing a single bullet. Once the morals are completely removed from a society it withers from within.

Humanism is based on Judeo-Christian principles but there is no absolute moral authority to back it up, as God provides to those who believe in Him. We see the crumbling of society around us when the relationship between a man and a woman is reviled and the family is viewed as an archaic institution. Take away God and Family and Western Civilization is doomed.

ATHEISTS ARE ALL MIXED UP WITH ‘THE GAYS’

Source: Public comments, American Thinker, The Anti-Christian Movement.

Homosexuality is the real cause of all the rage against Christianity. They know inside they are going to burn in hell for all of eternity, and want to kill the Christians for reminding them of it.

Source: Daniel King, King Ministries

The atheists also celebrate homosexuality which is weird because if evolution is true as atheists believe then the gene for homosexuality should disappear within a few generations.

ATHEISM IS A RELIGION ATTEMPTING TO CONVERT OTHERS

Source: Daniel King, King Ministries

Atheists often claim they are not a religion, but after being with them for two days, I have to say that they look and act an awful lot like a church. They had preachers (speakers), an offering, and a class on how to convert other people to their way of thinking. Atheism is a belief system that has all the elements of any other religion: dogma, heresy, discrimination, bias, etc. Atheists don’t want an absence of religion in the public square, they want only their religion in the public square. They want to silence all of their competitors.

I met lots of internet atheists at the conference like AronRa (@Aron_Ra) who has 29 million views on his channel. YouTube and Podcasts are the probably the two biggest tools atheists are using right now to convert people to atheism. It would be wise for the church to develop better videos so that they can compete effectively in this space.

Anthony Magnabosco (@magnabosco) taught a class how to convert a Christian to atheism in 15 minutes. He calls his method Street Epistemology (@StEpistemology) which is a conversational tool that helps people reflect on the reliability of the methods used to arrive at their deeply held beliefs. He recommends that instead of arguing and mocking Christians (what Richard Dawkins recommends) the atheist should engage in conversations with people. I found this interesting because in my witnessing classes, I tell believers they should engage in conversations with people instead of yelling at them through a bullhorn. Magnabosco recommends getting past “what” someone believes, and “why” they believe it, to the “how” do they know it. He advocates for asking epistemological questions about “How do you know what you know?” He uses the Socratic method to get to how people believe what they believe. He showed several videos that demonstrated the effectiveness of this solution. He says, “Don’t give any evidence. Instead ask people what evidence they would accept to change their belief.” He keeps asking questions until he gets the person to honestly answer the question, “Is faith your epistemology or is reason and evidence your epistemology?” If their belief system is based on faith, he might go on to ask, “Is faith a reliable way of proving something is true if anyone can use it to prove anything? If anyone can use faith to prove anything is true, why would anyone want to use that method?” For Christians interested in exploring Christian epistemology, I would recommend reading Cornelius Van Til who wrote extensively on the subject.

When an atheist conference has a workshop on how to proselytize I think it stops being a community and starts being a religion.

Source, Public Comments, American Thinker, The Anti-Christian Movement

Atheism is a religion itself, so the government should not be able to establish it.

Actually, atheism as a religion requires that one go where the Devil takes him……

Anti-belief is itself a form of belief. Atheism is the mirror image of religious belief. It is a perfectly respectable position, but it should not be confused with actual knowledge.

ATHEISTS ENDORSE MURDER

Source: Daniel King, King Ministries

Jim Helton’s (@TSFJim) thirteen-year-old daughter gave a speech. She screamed through most of it. She is mad because Christians try to take away her right to get an abortion. The atheists at the conference believe that teaching children about hell is child abuse. But I think that teaching your daughter that it is OK to murder your granddaughter who is still in the womb is the worst kind of evil there is.

ATHEISTS DO SERVICE WORK TO LOOK AND FEEL SUPERIOR

Source: Daniel King, King Ministries

The atheist convention spent a lot of time patting themselves on the back for giving away 30,000 meals at a cost of $7,500. They did it because they are SO caring and generous. But their generosity is nothing compared to most churches. My small ministry gave away 270,000 meals in the past year so their generosity is not that impressive. They also sent six hundred bags of food to Puerto Rico, but that pales in comparison to what some churches sent down there after the hurricane. If atheists are going to compete with Christians in the area of giving, they are going to have to seriously step up their game.

The organizers were impressed with the fact that 850 people attended the conference. But I have attended a dozen church conferences in the past year that have more people than that. In some ways, I think the church has little to worry about from such a small, insignificant organization, but in other ways, I am very concerned because their goal is nothing short of transforming our entire nation from one with Christian foundations to a completely secular nation where the religious would be forced to keep their beliefs confined to the inside of their homes.

ATHEISTS WANT TO HAVE FREEDOM TO SIN AND ARE SEX MANIACS

Source: Daniel King, King Ministries

The reason most people are atheists is because they want to have the freedom to sin. At the atheist conference I saw people promoting abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, premarital sex, and polyamory. The most common theme at the conference was, “There is no god” but the second most common theme was, “I want to have sex unhindered by religious morality.”

ATHEISTS ARE UNSCIENTIFIC ABOUT GENDER

Source: Daniel King, King Ministries

Atheists pride themselves for being scientific, but they also celebrate Gavin Grimm, a girl who thinks she is a boy. It is an absolute, irrefutable scientific fact that a female with XX chromosomes cannot become a male with XY chromosomes, yet the great scientific minds at this atheist conference see no problem with allowing this girl with a beard to lie to herself and about herself.

ATHEISTS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

Source: Daniel King, King Ministries

American Atheists are mad about the recent school shootings, but their founder Madalyn Murray O’Hair is the one responsible for taking prayer out of schools. When an objective moral standard is removed from education and prayer to Almighty God is forbidden in the classroom, then lawless behavior is the inevitable result. Who is responsible for school shootings? I think the American Atheists are.

ATHEISTS HAVE POTTY MOUTHS

Source: Daniel King, King Ministries

Mary Johnson (@_MaryJohnson) is a former nun who worked closely with Mother Teresa. She left the church because having sex and romantic relationships was more important to her than her vows to God. She had a potty mouth and said “What the F*@!” several dozen times, mostly just because, as a non-believer, she can.

David Silverman (@MrAtheistPants) is a charismatic and abrasive non-believing Jew who is the current president of American Atheists.

Silverman …  shouted, “American Atheists is a 501c3 organization and we are not supposed to politic, but F**K Donald Trump.”

His goal is to turn the American Atheists into “a caring community that is pro-heart, pro-brain, and anti-a**hole.” In fact, his favorite word to refer to believers is the word “a**hole.”

We care and we show it by attacking religious a**holes. All religions are wrong. All gods are false. Astrology is bullshit. And for Christ’s sake, there is no such thing as ghosts. People who believe these things are victims of lies. It is clearly a good and ethical thing to help free these people from that which is clearly wrong. Religion deserves to die.  A**holes have bad intentions and I don’t care about them.”

Silverman finished his speech by telling everyone, “Enjoy the rest of this God-dammed convention.” To that, I say, “Yes, he’s right, it is a God-dammed convention.”

Atheism leads to Collapse into Immorality & Lawlessness: Letter to Editor, New Zealand

Know Your Deplorables Playing Cards are Pretty Funny

In spite of the ever-shifting staff under the Trump Administration, a clever deck of playing cards is memorializing this political era for posterity.

 

Product description per Amazon:

Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer—and of course, Donald Trump—are among the political figures featured in this deck, each with a card detailing the deplorable things they’ve said and done.

Get ready for the 2018 midterm elections! KNOW YOUR DEPLORABLES! is a politically-themed deck of playing cards designed to highlight the deplorable things Donald Trump and his supporters have said and done.

This isn’t “fake news.”

From the Ace of Spades on down, the information in KNOW YOUR DEPLORABLES! has been meticulously sourced and fact-checked.

Link to Amazon product page:

http://knowyourdeplorables.com

https://www.facebook.com/KnowYourDeplorables/

 

Qanon Conspiracy Theorists Bolstered by FBI Shake-up

So, just to refresh your memory, Qanon is a very frequent and mysterious hashtag on Twitter that started appearing last fall. The complete history of the hashtag is in the article below, but the basic idea is that “Q” is an insider within the Trump administration who is dropping cryptic clues that are recorded and deciphered by followers.

The clues are called “crumbs” and are dropped through 4chan or 8chan, and then are shared on Twitter and also archived on various websites and are also discussed on various YouTube channels.

“Q” is letting followers know that the “deep state” is being cleaned out and that (as best I can tell) the Trump administration is fighting a battle with the “deep state” which is corrupt and rogue. The FBI and CIA seem to be at the heart of the opposition.

Qanon: The Storm is Coming, The Great Awakening & Follow the White Rabbit

I happened to notice yesterday that some of the followers were losing confidence in “Q” and felt they were just being trolled. However, there are many enthusiasts still sharing notes. Here is today’s “drop”:

Interpretations made by followers:


More crumbs:

And here are some popularly shared memes from followers just to get a feel for some of the terminology:

So what does it all mean? I am not a conspiracy buff–I just find the phenomenon interesting to observe. Twitter never lets the hashtag trend, but if you check other sources, it is often a very popular hashtag, along with associated tags such as The Great Awakening, Follow the White Rabbit, Tick Tock, and many more.

I will say this–recently “Q” recommended a book and it temporarily sold out on Amazon:

Qanon Endorses Book “Beyond A Pale Horse”: Book Sells Out on Amazon