$2 Trillion Bill, and other links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill Presents A Reckoning For Libertarians -- Implicitly, the act says that when the chips are down, we as a nation turn to our national parent — the federal government.
• Biblical Manhood and Womanhood—Or Christlikeness? -- “It has become a common trope to argue that the Bible calls us to Christlikeness, not biblical manhood and womanhood. This is a category error.”
• Coronavirus Could Infect Privacy And Civil Liberties Forever -- “...governments in the UK and the US are very close to rolling out similar surveillance measures, all in the effort to ensure that policies of mass behaviour modification are successful.”
• Dr. Deborah Birx Shreds Media For Salacious Claims -- “So, when people start talking about 20% of a population getting infected, it’s very scary, but we don’t have data that matches that based on the experience.”
• Inaccurate Virus Models Are Panicking Officials Into Ill-Advised Lockdowns -- “How a handful of Democratic activists created alarming, but bogus data sets to scare local and state officials into making rash, economy-killing mandates.”
• Texas halts all abortions due to coronavirus crisis -- “While Ohio, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Maryland have issued orders for abortion facilities to comply with public health directives ... only Texas has enforced it.”
• Yes, Virginia's Governor Has Made It a Crime for More Than 10 People to Attend a Church Service -- “Places of worship that do conduct in-person services must limit gatherings to 10 people, to comply with the statewide 10-person ban...violations...shall be a Class 1 misdemeanor.”
• Why Complementarians Should Be “First Responders” Against Abuse -- “You cannot insist men are the head and then absolve them of primary responsibility when things go south.”

Four part series that explains why the author believes that Hebrew was the language of Jesus and the Jews of Palestine.

• Did the Messiah Speak Aramaic or Hebrew? (Part 1) by E. A. Knapp -- “Most or all of the New Testament authors cited also knew Aramaic, and they most certainly knew the difference between Hebrew and Aramaic.”
• Did the Messiah Speak Aramaic or Hebrew? (Part 2) by E. A. Knapp -- “As it turns out there are explicit citations of Hebrew and none of Aramaic. The New Testament authors said Hebrew was being used, so clearly it was.”
• Did the Messiah Speak Aramaic or Hebrew? (Part 3) by E. A. Knapp -- “Coupled with this we took a look at several passages in the New Testament where Aramaic is alleged to appear.”
• Did the Messiah Speak Aramaic or Hebrew? (Part 4) by E. A. Knapp -- “Now we will change gears a bit and survey some of the other witnesses from first century Palestine to see what they can tell us about the linguistic situation of that time.”