Is Christianity Harmful?
Earlier this month during the “Not Ashamed” conference, hosted in Adelaide by Australian Christian Lobby, Dr Stephen Chavura addressed one of the biggest issues facing Christians today. According to Dr Chavura, recent LGBTQ issues, such as same-sex marriage and transgenderism, signify a cultural shift that has taken place over the past 50 years. Attitudes towards Christianity have changed. The critique is no longer that Christianity is irrational, but that it is harmful to people’s mental health, and the LGBTQ “community”, in particular. “This is the shift that we’re seeing happening right now,” Dr Chavura said. “That is the argument that…
Islamic militants behead Christian pastor, Snopes downplays Christian persecution
Islamic militants have beheaded a pastor in Nigeria just days after releasing a ransom video of his pleas for help. Rev. Lawan Andimi, head of the Christian Association in Nigeria’s chapter in his home region, was abducted by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram last month during a raid in the Adamawa state of Nigeria. Days after he was kidnapped, his captors released a video in which Andimi asked his colleagues to call on Gov. Ahmandu Umaru Fintiri to secure his release. “I have never been discouraged because of all conditions that one finds himself in is in the hand…
Social media freak out after folder spontaneously changes colour mid-scene during news report
A Sky News report in the UK has left viewers scratching their heads and questioning their grip on reality after airing footage of a red folder that appears to inexplicably change colour mid-scene. The report featured footage of Chancellor Rishi Sunak exiting 10 Downing Street on Tuesday with a red folder containing the first budget under his arm. As Sunak walks towards a nearby vehicle, he briefly passes behind a parked car. When he reemerges, however, the red folder he was once clasping is now bright green. Social media lit up with countless theories attempting to explain the bizarre…
WATCH: Pro-abortion feminist accidentally throws firebomb at fellow protesters
A pro-abortion feminist has accidentally hurled a Molotov cocktail at fellow protesters during an International Women’s Day rally in Mexico City. The Sunday demonstration which reportedly attracted around 80,000 participants took a violent turn with protesters vandalizing public structures, private businesses and church buildings. Video uploaded to social media shows a group of female protesters rallying around police officers standing guard at the Mariana Door of the National Palace. A female protester is then seen attempting to throw a Molotov cocktail at the officers. Her efforts fell short, however, and the firebomb landed immediately in front of her and into…
Disney’s new gay character censored in Russia, banned in the Middle East, boycotted in the U.S.
Disney-Pixar’s latest animated release “Onward” has been censored in Russia, banned in some Middle Eastern countries, and boycotted in the U.S. after introducing the first openly gay character in an animated feature film. The character, voiced by actress Lena Waithe, appears in just one “vital” scene in the middle of the film. During the scene, the female character, named Specter, makes mention of her lesbian girlfriend. However, according to a report from the Russian film website Kinopoisk.ru, the Russian dubbed version changes the word “girlfriend” to “partner.” “Presumably, Disney’s Russian branch tried to avoid unnecessary problems with the anticipated project’s…
It matters what our leaders believe because bad ideas can have devastating consequences
Viktor Frankl was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist imprisoned in a number of Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. In 1995, just two years before his death, Viktor was interviewed by First Things, an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational organisation based in New York. During the exchange, Viktor said: “I am absolutely convinced that the chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.” Nazi Germany, along with various Communist regimes, have all vividly demonstrated,…
Arizona House passes bill banning transgender students from girls’ sports
The Arizona House of Representatives passed a bill on Tuesday that would ban transgender students from competing in girls’ sports. The bill, H.B. 2706, which applies to both public and private schools as well as community colleges and universities, requires teams in the state to be “expressly designated” for “males, men or boys;” “females, women or girls;” or “co-ed or mixed-sex.” Teams “designated for females, women or girls may not be open to students of the male sex,” under the proposal. The bill, which passed in a party-line vote of 31-29, will now move to the GOP-controlled Senate. Rep. Nancy…
WATCH: Divide $500 million with 327 million people and everyone’s a millionaire, says MSNBC’s Brian Williams and NYT’s Mara Gay
MSNBC host Brian Williams and New York Times Editorial Board Member Mara Gay aired a tweet during an exchange on the ‘Eleventh Hour’ which claimed Michael Bloomberg could have made every American a millionaire with the budget he spent on his short-lived presidential campaign. “When I read it tonight on social media, it kind of all became clear,” Williams said. The tweet read: “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have money left over. I feel like a $1 million check would be life-changing for…
Bill passes mandating sex education classes for kindergartners in public schools
A bill mandating sex education classes for all K-12 students in Washington public schools has passed the Washington State House of Representatives. The measure passed on Thursday with the House voting 56-40 after nearly six-hours of debate. Opponents of the bill said the curriculum reviewed by the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is too explicit, especially for children below the seventh grade. “I’m not sure why we’re rushing to remove the innocence from our youth,” Rep. Mike Steele said against the bill. “We put so much on them already.” Rep. Vicki Kraft, who also opposed the bill, cited a…
Senator exposes CSIRO after they omitted finding “no studies linking climate change to bushfires”
CSIRO has failed to include a previous finding that “there are no studies linking climate change to fire weather” in a ‘bushfire explainer document’. A CSIRO official, who was questioned by Senator Matt Canavan during Senate Estimates, failed to explain why the finding had been omitted from the document on the “climate change and science about bushfires.” For 10 awkward seconds, the official sat in silence when asked by Mr Canavan about the omission. Mr Canavan told Paul Murray of Sky News, “It’s like writing a report for a newspaper about a football match and not including the final score.…
School closes gender-neutral bathroom after a child is sexually assaulted by 18-year-old student
A school in Wisconsin has closed their gender-neutral bathroom after a child was allegedly sexually assaulted by an 18-year-old student. Austin Sauers, a student at Rhineland High School, was arrested by Oneida County Police last Thursday for child enticement, fourth-degree sexual assault and exposing genitals to a child, WSAW reported. A fourth-degree sexual assault involves non-penetrative sexual contact with a person without his or her consent, such as groping. This is a Class A misdemeanour, which can be punished by up to nine months in prison and a fine for up to $10,000. Captain Terri Hook said the incident took…
WATCH: Woke male hosts of The Project crack jokes about female guest’s “boobies”
The Project is copping it on social media today after filming a “cringeworthy” interview with Pussycat Dolls’ lead singer Nicole Scherzinger. During the awkward exchange, which was aired on Wednesday night, host Waleed Aly asked Scherzinger of she ever fights backstage with other female performers “over who wore the best crop tops and low rise jeans?” “No,” Scherzinger replied, before Waleed uncomfortably said, “I will move on.” The Pussycat Dolls are reuniting and @NicoleScherzy stopped by the desk to reveal what we can expect from the So Pop tour, the work that goes into perfecting those dance moves, and the…
Putin proposes constitutional amendments affirming God and traditional marriage
Russian President, Vladimir Putin proposed a series of constitutional amendments on Monday to affirm God and traditional marriage. The president, who last month vowed to defend traditional family values for as long as he’s in the Kremlin, first proposed amending the constitution in January during a state-of-the-nation speech, claiming it was necessary to bolster democracy. The amendments would see God enshrined in Russia’s constitution, as well as a definition of marriage as the union of man and woman. As it currently sits, the constitution makes no mention of God or marriage as an institution. However, Putin’s opponents have suggested the…
Avoid words that fuel coronavirus stigma, warns World Health Organization: ‘More dangerous than the virus itself’
In the midst of a “near-global pandemic,” the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned negative words which fuel stigmatization and perpetuate stereotypes are more dangerous than the Coronavirus itself. As the global death toll surges past 3,000, WHO on Tuesday published a series of tweets, lecturing their 5.6 million Twitter followers about the “do’s and don’ts” when speaking of the virus. “When talking about COVID19 (Coronavirus), certain words and language may have a negative meaning for people and fuel stigmatizing attitudes,” WHO tweeted. “These words and language can perpetuate negative stereotypes or assumptions, strengthen false association between COVID19 and other…
Tommy Robinson arrested after restraining a man who grabbed his eight-year-old daughter’s behind in a children’s swimming pool
Tommy Robinson has reportedly been arrested at a holiday park after an altercation with a man who grabbed his young daughters behind. According to TR News, Robinson’s eight-year-old daughter was playing in a children’s pool at Centre Parcs on Sunday when a middle-aged man approached, allegedly grabbing the young girl’s behind as he went by. The young girl then told her father that a strange man squeezed her bottom cheek. After she identified the man, Robinson confronted him. The man allegedly admitted to pinching the young girl’s behind, but said it was “by mistake.” According to Robinson, the man was…
“Woman of faith” AOC gets Sunday Schooled after accusing religious freedom advocates of “weaponizing” the Bible, like white supremacists
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she’s tired of religious liberty advocates “weaponizing” the Bible to “justify bigotry,” just like white supremacists, slave owners and segregationists did. The New York congresswoman, who described herself as a “woman of faith”, made the comments during a Thursday House Oversight Committee hearing about the Trump administration’s “religious liberty assault on LGBTQ rights.” Ms Ocasio-Cortez retweeted a video of her speech on Sunday, saying: “There’s a long history in the US of abusing scripture to advance the causes of bigotry & discrimination. Slaveholders did it. Segregationists did it. White supremacists do it. And it continues. Yet…
WATCH: Labor Leader Gives the Finger to Protesters
Australian Labor leader Anthony Albanese was filmed at Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras on Saturday flipping off a group of protesters. I mean, the event just brings out the best in everyone, right? The short clip, which began circulating on social media on Sunday, shows a group of demonstrators chanting, “One, Two, Three. F*ck the ALP.” The video appears to show Albanese walk by the protesters before turning to give them the middle finger. Although it’s unclear who the protesters were, socialist Greens’ supporters have been using the mantra for almost a decade. While mainstream media are uninterested in the…
Love is love: Bill to Decriminalize Polygamy Passes
A bill which would drastically reduce the penalty for polygamy overwhelmingly passed the state House of Representatives in Salt Lake City on Wednesday. The legislation reduces the criminal penalty for plural marriages from a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison, to an infraction, equivalent to a parking ticket. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the controversial bill cleared the House on a vote of 70-3, sending it back to the Utah Senate for another vote, where it will likely pass for a second time. The measure would then go to Governor Gary Herbert for his signature. Those…
Disturbing video of drag queen performing for child shows how far society has fallen
A disturbing TikTok video of a drag queen performing for a young child has gone viral on social media. The 30-second clip, originally posted to the video-sharing platform in early February, shows a room full of laughing adults watching-on as a drag queen suggestively crawls towards a young girl seated alone on a chair in the middle of the room before embracing her. The youngster looks visibly confused and disturbed by the situation. It’s unclear where the video was taken, but it certainly shows how far society has fallen in a relatively short time. How long will it be before…
ABC: “Women aren’t the only ones who menstruate”
ABC News suggests it’s time to disconnect menstruation from femininity and womanhood because men have periods too. In a piece published yesterday, the taxpayer-funded national broadcaster introduced readers to Lily Harrison, founder of Period Pack. According to the piece, Period Pack aims to “ease period inequality” by providing period products to “people of all genders” because “women are not the only people who menstruate.” Under the heading “The backlash to inclusivity was real”, Ms Harrison detailed how surprised she was to discover people in her own community “thought only women can menstruate and that if you don’t menstruate, you’re not a…