Michael Jackson’s Daughter to Play Jesus in Upcoming Film, Almost 300k Sign Petition to Stop It
At a time when actors are repenting of playing characters with a shade of skin colour darker than their own, Michael Jackson’s 22-year-old daughter has been cast as Jesus Christ in an upcoming film titled Habit. According to Entertainment Weekly, Paris Jackson will star opposite Bella Thorne, who plays a “street-smart girl with a Jesus fetish masquerading as a nun while trying to escape the consequences of a violent drug deal.” The announcement of the film has been met with outrage online, with close to 300,000 people signing a petition to prevent such “Christophobic garbage” from being distributed. The petition…
The Left Eat Their Own, Now They Want to Cancel Jesus
What do Germaine Greer and J. K. Rowling have in common? Until recently, an obvious answer was that they are strident feminists. But more recently, these two have another claim to fame: they’ve been ‘cancelled’ by mainstream culture for not being radical enough. In a 2015 interview, Germaine Greer refused to describe men who underwent sex-change surgery as ‘women’. For that, she was deplatformed, publicly shamed, and even accused of inciting violence against transgender people — an accusation she describes as ‘absolute nonsense’. In previous decades, Greer was rightly seen as radical for her feminist views. But now as she holds the line defending…
Tell Pornhub and Planned Parenthood That Black Lives Matter
Over the last month, global protests have been drawing attention to the unjust treatment of minority communities. As an organisation and as a slogan Black Lives Matter has captured the world’s attention. In America particularly, police departments are facing serious scrutiny in an effort to root out racial bias and corruption. The Minneapolis Police—whose officers were responsible for George Floyd’s unjust death—is even being disbanded. Many have suggested an unbroken link between systemic injustice today and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade to which most black Americans trace their roots. But for all the talk about a slavery that was outlawed 150 years ago,…
Leftist Hypocrisy and Cancel Culture’s Prescription for Cultural Suicide: “Life Unworthy of Life”
Eric Abetz (LNP) is proving to be no mediocre politician. His speech from July last year remains relevant, making it one of the best ever entered into the Australian senate’s Hansard.[i] This year the Senator for Tasmania provided us with a sequel. Speaking about ‘Political Discourse’ Abetz went head to head with cancel culture and the Left’s double standards. The speech highlighted Queensland University Law professor, James Allen’s piece for The Australian on the June, 16. He gave a long list of examples where people were being bullied into submission, and their livelihoods cancelled because of a small, boisterous percentage…
Race-Baiter Urges His 1-Million Followers to Destroy “Racist” Church Statues and Stained-Glass Windows Depicting Jesus as White
Race-baiter Shaun King has urged his more than 1 million followers to “tear down” church statues, murals, and stained-glass imagery that depicts Jesus as white. “Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down,” King tweeted on Monday. “They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been. In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide, and blend in, guess where they went? EGYPT! Not Denmark. “Tear them down,” he added. Yes. All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends…
It’s Easier to Denounce Churchill Than to Be Him. The Chronological Snobbery of Progressivism
IT is only a matter of time before someone pulls down a statue of Mother Teresa because she was silent on transgender rights. Admittedly, the Catholic saint did some good work amongst the poor of Calcutta, but did she ever use her international profile to campaign for gender-neutral bathrooms? No. And so her statue must go. And statues of Florence Nightingale will likely be demolished because she failed to speak out about the climate emergency. Little matter that the founder of modern nursing lived and died before the effects of the industrial revolution were known. Her silence was violence. How…
The West Is Burning Because We’ve Pandered to Paganism, Revolutionaries and Reactionaries
Carl F.H. Henry’s ‘Twilight of a Great Civilization: The Drift Toward Neo-Paganism’ (1988) is chillingly accurate. He admonishes complacency, retreat and inaction without slipping into an apocalyptic moralistic rant about a wayward world. The value here, at least for me anyway, is found in its prescience, and Henry’s focus on truth vs. falsehood, as opposed to Right vs. Left; sinner vs. sinless. Henry pivots his entire discourse on a Socratic question, asking readers to note, reflect, and deflect neo-paganism’s self-evident cultural contamination of the West through Secular Humanism. Centre-stage is the salvific importance of the revelation of God in Jesus…
The Cancer of Cancel Culture: Demands to Fire Southern Baptist Seminary President Albert Mohler
Dr Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Seminary in the U.S, is the latest victim of ‘cancel culture’. Religion News Service (RNS) is reporting that over 10,000 people have signed a petition to have Dr Mohler fired because of a supposed “racist” and “homophobic” podcast on June 3. (A full transcript of what was said can be found here) So, what precisely was Dr Mohler’s thought crime? It was that he failed to unequivocally affirm the violent riots around Black Lives Matter protest, and instead “…equated evangelical anger over the Episcopal Church’s embrace of LBTQ rights with the national outrage…
A Christian’s Guide to Cultural Marxism
If you Google the term “Cultural Marxism,” you will likely be told that it is a right-wing conspiracy theory. But pick a different search engine, or scroll for long enough, and you will find a more robust definition. Cultural Marxism—for those new to the concept—is a worldview gaining immense popularity throughout the West. It refers to a collection of ideas rather than a collection of people. Cultural Marxism is a secular philosophy that views all of life as a power struggle between the oppressed and the oppressor. The oppressor is usually an aspect of traditional western society such as the family, capitalism,…
New York Times Says, Pedophilia Is ‘Not a Crime’
Yes, I also had to make sure it wasn’t a fake headline. The New York Times really did publish an article titled, “Pedophilia: A Disorder, Not a Crime.” In the 2014 op-ed piece, it’s argued that 1 percent of the male population find themselves sexually attracted to prepubescent children. So, if there are 159,410,000 males in the United States, that would mean there are approximately 1,594,100 male pedophiles throughout the nation. The piece argues that there are harmful misconceptions when it comes to pedophilia. According to the author, a distinction should be made between child molestation as an act and pedophilia…
Disney+ Introduces First Homosexual Main Character for Kids
Disney Pixar released a short film for young viewers on Friday, featuring the company’s first homosexual main character. The story, titled “Out”, follows a homosexual adult male named Greg as he struggles to tell his parents that he’s in a relationship with another man. After his parents pay a surprise visit to his apartment, Greg frantically tries to hide the evidence of his homosexual relationship, only to realise that he shouldn’t have to hide who he truly is. According to NBC News, Walt Disney Studios, the parent of Pixar and a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company has been stepping…
If We’re Not Winning the War on Drugs, Should We Legalize Them?
I hate to admit it, but there seems little point trying to hide the obvious. We’re losing the war on death. Despite billions of dollars being spent on health care every year, people are still dying. The experts tell us that despite our best efforts, death is inevitable. In spite of this, I don’t hear people calling for a cut in health spending. Nor do I hear people calling for the closure of medical centres and hospitals. It is a curious situation because we are also losing the war on drugs, and that revelation always brings calls for radical changes…
People Are Flying Rainbow Flags in Support of the NHS, and the Inclusive LGBTQ Crowd Aren’t Happy
Just how ‘tolerant’ is the homosexual movement? That’s the question many are currently asking since the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) used rainbow flags during COVID-19 to rally people’s morale. Apparently, the furore all started because an older gentleman flew a rainbow flag outside his window in support of the NHS and refused to acknowledge that it meant he was supporting people who are LGBTIQ. All of which led to his homosexual grandson tweeting: My grandad who is a staunch "I've got nothing against them, but I don't want to know about it" has put this up out front and…
This Change Explains Everything That Is Troubling Our Culture
In 1982, renowned thinker, philosopher, theologian and author, Dr Francis Schaeffer delivered a speech on the television program, Old-Time Gospel Hour. During the speech, which was titled The Christian Manifesto, Dr Schaeffer pin-pointed a significant cultural change that brought about many, if not all, of the troubles our society is now faced with. That change was a broadly accepted shift in worldview, and it stands as evidence that bad worldviews birth bad ideas, and bad ideas result in bad consequences. So, what was this ideological shift that is responsible for “everything that is troubling our culture”? In the following short…
What Does the Bible Say About Equality?
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” – US Declaration of Independence I have been intending to write a series of serious articles on the topic of equality for some time now. A few things held me back. 1) I wanted to read some top scholars on the subject first. 2) I have shared many of my thoughts in various forums at different times with people, seeking to sharpen my thoughts on this subject. 3) I have read some other posts written by other people on this topic, and frankly, I considered their efforts…
A Transgender Woman Walked Into a Church…
JASON identified as a woman and was quick to point out how he would like to be addressed: “My name is Jason. But I’d prefer to be called Joanne. Or Jay.” I held out my hand. “Nice to meet you, Jay.” Jay looked relieved. I think Jay was expecting an argument about biology. Now we could have had that argument because I don’t for a second believe that Jay is a woman. Jay is a man in a dress. And I don’t believe surgery or prescribed hormones can turn Jay into a woman; though I’m sure treatment would help Jason…
Answering Cancel Culture with Unconquerable Joy
In a brief five minute video posted to Desiring God’s YouTube channel, John Piper rips apart the cultural control of ‘cancel culture’. The small segment was taken from a talk given in January called ‘Serious Joy, Cultural Conflict, & Christian Humility: Thoughts on Christian Education.’ Piper’s argument is one of the best I’ve heard so far from Christian leaders – Voddie Baucham’s lengthy, but poignant takedown of ‘Cultural Marxism’ being the only exception (as has been discussed by Caldron Pool’s Editor Ben Davis, here). Like Baucham, Piper turns the light on where few seem willing to do so. Leaning on…
The Safe Space Where Cultures Go to Die
When Catholic Archbishop of Hobart Julian Porteous wrote a booklet entitled “Don’t Mess with Marriage”, it never occurred to him that the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commissioner was about to mess with him. The Catholic bishop was merely doing what Catholic bishops do. He wrote a booklet outlining Catholic doctrine for Catholic parents interested in Catholic teaching. That’s when a transgendered activist and federal Greens candidate stepped in. The activist complained to the Commission that the booklet was insulting. As well as an apology, she demanded that Catholic Education implement a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex awareness program for all staff…
Even LGBTQ activists hate Marvel’s new non-binary superheroes ‘Snowflake’ and ‘Safespace’
Marvel Studios has been mocked and criticised since introducing their first non-binary superheroes to their franchise, but it’s not just conservatives and Christians who are taking issue. The new characters, named ‘Snowflake’ and ‘Safespace’ were introduced earlier this month and are part of a planned New Warriors reboot. Daniel Kibblesmith from Marvel said, “Snowflake and Safespace are the twins, and their names are very similar to Screentime [another new character]; it’s the idea that these are terms that get thrown around on the internet they don’t see as derogatory.” “[They] take those words and kind of wear them as badges of…
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…