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Saints and Sats
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V4V podcast lover learning Bitcoin, energy economics, healthy food 🥩, and ancient Christianity☦️. #nostronly
When I was Baptist I met an ABWE Baptist missionary to Ukraine who was back in the US fundraising. Something about him struck me as off. Then later I saw his YouTube channel where he was blatantly lying about Orthodox Christians in Ukraine and I thought aren’t missionaries supposed to be honest? Then after the Russian intervention in 2022 he was interviewed by ABWE, and literally every word he said was a slogan or official CIA talking point. So when Jay pointed out that tons of Protestant missionaries work directly with the CIA, I can say I’ve met one.
Love all the talk about #homeschooling here on #nostr. We take it for granted that homeschooling is legalized in the US. But it wasn’t always. I was raised as an evangelical Christian homeschooler in the 1990’s. The legality of homeschooling was always being challenged in many states during the 80s and 90s. One of the ways homeschoolers fought back was to go meet state lawmakers in person. Anytime a bill was introduced to curb homeschooling rights, the committee would find themselves overwhelmed with comments from articulate educated and civically minded high school students. It had a lasting impact on legislators of that era. Just a reminder to the current generation of homeschooling parents that you may need to do the same. The attacks will return. Be organized and prepared.
“Keep me from the snares they set for me, And from the stumbling blocks of those who work lawlessness. Sinners shall fall into their own net; I am alone, until I escape.” (Psalms 140:9-10, OSB)
"Pay attention carefully. After the sin comes the shame; courage follows repentance. Did you pay attention to what I said? Satan upsets the order; he gives the courage to sin and the shame to repentance. "So, do not be ashamed to enter again into the Church. Be ashamed when you sin. Do not be ashamed when you repent. Pay attention to what the devil did to you. These are two things: sin and repentance. Sin is a wound; repentance is a medicine. Just as there are for the body wounds and medicines, so for the soul are sins and repentance. However, sin has the shame and repentance possesses the courage." Based on Saint John Chrysostom