A Brilliant Sting Exposed the Lies of a "Psychic Medium"
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A Brilliant Sting Exposed the Lies of a "Psychic Medium"
This is a master class in getting a professional liar to fall into a trap.
It’s plausible that if this music director of a “major East Coast university” did tell Alex McFarland these laughable lies about Critical Race Theory, it was because he knew McFarland would repeat them and look like an absolute nincompoop.
Monica Cole, the one mom at One Million Moms, wants you to boycott drug company Eli Lilly because of one line in their television ad that acknowledges transgender people exist.
… Medicine will not discriminate against the color of your skin.
Medicine pays no attention to the borders we draw to divide ourselves from each other.
Because the body you are randomly assigned at birth shouldn’t determine how well you are cared for.
In Cole’s statement against Eli Lilly, she expressed fear that kids will be lining up for double mastectomies after viewing the commercial.
This voice-over is heard while showing a woman with double mastectomy scars wearing an open robe and identifying as a man.
Can you imagine what goes through the mind of a child when he or she sees this ad?
Lilly chose to air this commercial knowing it would be controversial. We all know children imitate what they see and repeat what they hear. Lilly should be ashamed!
It’s far more likely that Eli Lilly is pandering to a progressive audience rather than feeling a moral urge to sacrifice customers by being vocally trans-inclusive— so again, Cole just walked right into the trap of giving good publicity to capitalism.
Christian blogger and professional mommy-shamer Lori Alexander uses her own miserable childhood to back up her advice that parents who are unhappy in their marriage should stay together for the kids. Instead of improving your life, she says, suck it up for your children and for preferential treatment by God.
Theodore McCarrick, the first Catholic cardinal to be defrocked for sexually abusing boys under his care, has been criminally charged on three counts of indecent assault and battery for “sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy during a wedding reception at Wellesley College in the 1970s.”
The man says McCarrick groped him when he was 16 in 1974 as they walked around the campus of Wellesley College, where his brother’s wedding reception was being held. The man also alleges that McCarrick led him into a room and fondled the boy before telling him to “say three Our Fathers and a Hail Mary or it was one Our Father and three Hail Marys, so God can redeem you of your sins,” according to the court documents.
McCarrick is 91. He likely won’t live long enough to give his victims the retributive justice they deserve.
After announcing the death of anti-vaxxer and California Hillsong Church member Stephen Harmon, from COVID, Hillsong’s global senior pastor Brian Houston refused to take the opportunity to urge congregants to get vaccinated— instead, calling vaccination a “personal decision.”
In June Harmon tweeted (botched) Jay-Z lyrics, flaunting his immortality.
But a little more than a month later he found himself in the hospital with a very real case of COVID, certain that God was going to save him.
Harmon’s tweets, which can be found here, became increasingly more desperate for prayers until his eventual death.
Evangelist Anne Graham Lotz once celebrated COVID because she thought it would bring people back to Jesus.
Could the silver lining in the black cloud of the coronavirus be this? That it causes America to look up and listen to what God has to say, and therefore becomes the trigger for a national spiritual revival? May it be so!
Now she shares that her son, Jonathan Lotz, is in the ICU with COVID and is struggling to survive. Lotz runs his own ministry and didn’t need to be brought “back to Jesus.” He’s just senselessly suffering because of the misinformation spread within the culture their family harbors. (While Franklin Graham has promoted the vaccine, it’s not clear if Lotz was vaccinated.)
“Psychic Medium” Thomas John recently did a reading for eight children (and their parents) for $400 apiece. What he didn’t realize was that two of the kids (and their mothers), seen below, were part of a sting by a skeptical group working to expose liars.
Presented without comment:
Texas pastor Danny Reeves also found himself eating his own words after being admitted to the ICU for COVID-related pneumonia, which was followed by a degradation of pride that played out in a series of desperate tweets.
Last night was hardest night of my life. Had to fight to breathe and live. Lungs have settled temporarily. Just signed on for monoclonal antibodies trial. Pray it works. Lungs not working, but I'm fighting!!!!!In the end, Reeves repented for not taking COVID seriously and urged others to get the vaccine… but included a wishy-washy “do what feels best for you.”
We mention these cases not to delight in schadenfreude, but because it’s important to amplify people who changed their mind about vaccines after being personally affected by COVID. We wish it didn’t take personal experiences for conservatives to accept facts, but let’s take what we can get for now.
This is quite possibly the only thing atheists and Mormons have in common:
Hobby Lobby owners the Green Family used their crafting business fortune to fill their Museum of the Bible with ancient artifacts… which are proving, one by one, to have been looted or forged. The latest piece in question, the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, has been seized by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and is being returned to its nation of origin, Iraq.
“Forfeiture of the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet demonstrates the Department’s continued commitment to eliminating smuggled cultural property from the U.S. art market,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Thwarting trade in smuggled goods by seizing and forfeiting an ancient artifact shows the department’s dedication to using all available tools, including forfeiture, to ensure justice.”
“This forfeiture represents an important milestone on the path to returning this rare and ancient masterpiece of world literature to its country of origin,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Jacquelyn M. Kasulis for the Eastern District of New York. “This office is committed to combating the black-market sale of cultural property and the smuggling of looted artifacts.”
The Greens paid $1.6 million for the tablet at auction and didn’t put up a fight when the law came to take it back—as if they’re aware they deal in unethical circles.
How do we know God exists? Well, the answer apparently involves money, chips, and a vending machine, and DON’T ASK ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY SOMEONE IS IN THE HOSPITAL.
The solution to the latest CRT controversy:
You probably got that catchy yet ambiguous 1-877-KARS4KIDS jingle out of your head 5 minutes ago — our apologies for re-implanting it — but you may want to know the deeply hidden truth behind what kids are doing with all these kars.
Philip Daniel Mills of Texas set his brother’s house on fire, killing his brother and critically injuring his elderly mom, because “he was upset with his brother and mother because they did not follow the Bible.” When Mills was told by officers that his mother survived, he laughed and called his act a “failed attempt.”
So weird how all of Heaven is ruled by Americans.
Pastor Greg Locke is going to do you a favor if you show up to his church wearing a mask.
Preacher Nik Walker attempted to prove miracles are real with evidence! But it’s clear that even he didn’t pay close enough attention to the X-rays that served as his proof…
Get a load of this. The ending is wild. On his show yesterday, Pastor Perry Stone invited a guest who could PROVE miracles were real (with documentation!)... Watch the clip. Pay attention to the last 30 seconds. 1/5Those X-rays are actually from a 2018 Scientific Reports article and are the scans of four different Chinese children's hands. Walker really should have consulted a reverse image search before going public with this one.
Of all the things a senator should be asking a Department of Justice nominee, I’m pretty sure “Do you believe in God?” is not on the list. If only the response had been “Which one?”
And finally, a Christian lawmaker was just arrested for trying to sneak a weapon onto a plane. Just wondering what the conservative response would be if this were a Muslim lawmaker instead…
