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• Americans spent more money on taxes last year than on food, healthcare, and clothing combined -- “American ‘consumer units,’ as BLS calls them, spent a net total of $17,211.12 on taxes last year while spending only $16,839.89 on food, clothing, healthcare and entertainment combined, according to Table R-1 of the BLS Consumer Expenditures Survey.”
• Disney World workers to march against company vaccine mandate -- “Caturano says Disney employees are resisting the forced vaccinations for a variety of reasons including health concerns, religious beliefs, natural immunity, and a principled commitment to maintaining control over their own health care.”
• FDA panel approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster shots only for people 65 and older or at high risk -- “After hours of discussion and a request to revise the question they were being asked, a key federal advisory committee on Friday agreed to a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine six months after full vaccination for people aged 65 and older and those at high risk of severe COVID-19.”
• Gospel Renewal in Corporate Worship -- “The goal of the gospel is to enable us to draw near to the presence of God, in his house, in his temple, where we are then able to fellowship with him. That’s the nature of what we’re doing when we gather as the church for corporate worship.”
• Inflation Has Turned $15 an Hour Wages Into a Setback -- “Wages have risen this year, but inflation has made that money worth less than before, preventing any meaningful improvement in living standards.”
• Is Culture the Same as Ethnicity -- “Very simply, culture is the shared behavior of a particular group of people. The question for Christians, then, should be this: what in Scripture best parallels this concept of ‘culture’?”
• John Rice, Lester Roloff Preached Repentance From Sin -- “In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Jack Hyles and Curtis Hutson changed the historic, biblical definition of repentance, and I am convinced this was for the purpose of justifying the Quick Prayerism methodology and the theology of Bigness.”
• Reality and Truth: Celebrity Conservatives Versus True Bible Believers -- “When I write, celebrity conservatives, I’m especially saying, Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, the late Rush Limbaugh, Dennis Prager, and Candace Owens.”
• San Francisco mayor dances maskless at nightclub in defiance of own health order -- “When photos of the mayor appeared on social media they sparked an outcry from critics of Ms Breed. There were accusations of hypocrisy, and that, with the recent failure to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom, Democrats in the state now think they are ‘untouchable’.”
• Tennessee Mayor Says County ‘Will Not Comply’ with Biden Vaccine Mandate -- “In a September 16 letter to Biden, Jacobs, a former WWE star, informed the president that Knox County ‘will not comply’ with the executive order mandate requiring private sector businesses with more than 100 employees to require coronavirus vaccines or implement weekly testing.”
• The World Is Catechizing Us Whether We Realize It or Not -- “What NBC presented as heroic and wonderful was considered wrong and troublesome by almost everyone in the Christian West for 2,000 years.”
• There’s Something Up With CNN’s Articles About Kids and COVID -- “During the Delta spike, there was another category of fear the elite media decided to exaggerate: cases regarding children.”
• Your Spouse Doesn’t Have to Be Your Best Friend -- “Perhaps you’ve noticed the popular recasting of marriage as primarily a very close friendship.”
• 9 huge government conspiracies that actually happened -- “As the years pass, however, secrets surface. Government documents become declassified. We now have evidence of certain elaborate government schemes right here in the US of A.”
• 7 ways men live without working in America -- “Almost one-third of all working-age men in America aren’t doing diddly-squat. They don’t have a job, and they aren’t looking for one either.”