In my teens I had a friend who was convinced that you could cure warts by rubbing them with a hazel branch and burying the branch in the garden. On a full moon. He swore by the remedy, pointing to his wart free hands as evidence.
Superstitions used to be, if not entirely plausible, at least romantically entertaining. Even if medieval alchemists never managed to find the philosophers’ stone and turn mercury into gold, at least it was believable enough to start JK Rowling on the path to becoming a billionairess. In a way, it worked.
21st Century superstitions are much sillier and less believable. Some people think you can turn a man into a woman. Even scientists – some of them – promote this, making science much sillier and less believable. For example:
Last month, the Rev. Junia Joplin told her Baptist congregation in a sermon about the importance of telling the truth without fear of the consequences. And then she revealed a secret truth of her own: She is a transgender woman.
It cost her the job.
On Monday, 111 members of the Lorne Park Baptist Church in Mississauga, Ontario, voted 58 to 53 to fire Ms. Joplin, who has been their pastor for six years, she said on Twitter.
“I came out as transgender in June, and I got fired in July,” Ms. Joplin said in an interview on Thursday. “But there are a lot of good people in that congregation who made their allyship known, and in some cases stuck their neck out, and it is frustrating this is the way it came out.”
1% of population 20% surgery 80% don’t concerning transgender & 3% gay & the Bible
Born 1960 heard nothing about this but later a lot
Well, there’s the above but what about the rest of the person?
For trans the surgery & hormones and is this or is this not a shock to the system?
Also, what about the differences between the male & female?
The shocking fact is that 48% of a Baptist congregation voted to keep him/her.
It is indeed a shocking fact that 48% voted to keep her. However, considering how many within the so-called Christian community have decided to accept homosexuality it is not surprising. This shows how seriously the Christian community has fallen into apostasy with many within the Anglican communion in the front row. The time has long since past for true Christians to make a firm stand for the GOSPEL and rid itself of these apostates..
Yes, one untruth has led to another.
It is very sad to hear that 53 members (almost half) of the parish voted to retain a spiritual leader who calls good, what God calls an abomination in his inspired word, the Bible.
Since The Southern Baptist Convention’s June, 2017 ‘Nashville Statement’ denied that “adopting a homosexual or transgender self-conception* is consistent with GOD’s holy purpose in Creation and Redemption”, these various forays to enter The Sheepfold by climbing up + John ch. 10 “some other way” are multiplying.
Calvary Baptist, Oshawa, Ontario, was the last “hireling” in November, 2018 to declare her LGBTQ cause celebre;after a cautious process of deception, first by becoming a Member, then a youth leader.
“Go and Tell” now is “Ask and Tell”.
* Self-conception, moving the arc of history and Creation itself beyond biological fact, was the great Transgender Legacy of the Obama Abomination-Administration; to be continued if his former VP and VP-‘Planned Parenthood’ pick prevail in their ongoing hydra-headed iniquity.
On the global scene the very worst of neo-Babylonian/Globalist Cultural Marxist diktats now is attempting to be operative in Scotland under CM aegis of the Salmond/Sturgeon Regime. V. ‘The Scotsman’ etc. for mounting resistance by a once Sola Bible bred and fed People to this offensive and offending tyranny. What women’s rights had been secured now are being threatened (as J.K. Rowling, et al., is challenging), literally, in the change room and the washrooms of the Nation. The Church of Scotland – and its daughter Kirk here in Canada, PCC – also have become ambassadors for this
distinguishing mark of the spirit of antichrist as set down in End of Days Prophet + Daniel ch. 11, v. 37
“Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god:for he shall magnify himself above all”.
As of Thursday, October 22, 2020 (the same date as the USA third Presidential Debate – minus foreign policy, muted in wake of the FBI released Biden “laptop from Hell”), the mega neo-Bab-Globalist-Cultural Marxist Pontifex Maximus realigned (September 22, 2018) the RC faithful with CCP-China which continues brutally to persecute all religions;
this realignment worthy of The Third Reich took place on the very same day as pro-Life, pro-family, pro-religious liberty and pro-Constitution Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, RC, was to be Confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee – Confirmed; with all ‘Planned Parenthood’ Dems absent;
and said realignment taking place one day following his small-m Magisterial ‘opinion’ condoning same sex civil unions for all the not-so-faithful, quid-pro-Joe chief among them.
And Federal NDP Leader Mr. Singh still does not know which side his proletarian bread has margarine on?
Beats me that no-one in that Baptist congregation noted the obvious, that this is a man in drag with male facial features, arms and hands.
I’ve just received a prepub copy of this which I’ll get into quite shortly: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/1982132515/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 . It’s a shame that we need a scientist to confirm what we all know …
Quite the contortion, that, pretending to value truth-telling while continuing to live a lie.