A Scientific Investigation, and other links

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• A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament, by Robert Dick Wilson -- “...in the whole Old Testament...the use of the full and defective writing of the vowels...has no effect either on the sound or the sense of the word.”
• Are the Epistles of Ignatius Spurious? -- ““If we do not retain the Epistle to Polycarp, then we must allow that the external evidence on behalf of the Ignatian Epistles is exceedingly weak, and hence is highly favourable to the suspicion that they are spurious.”
• Ben Shapiro’s ‘Epic Thread’ On What Media, Democrats Are Finally ‘Willing To Admit’ About COVID-19 -- “So once it became clear that covid was not in fact a pagan god visiting vengeance on the unwashed Trump voters alone, the media and Democrats are now willing to admit the following:”
• Busted: Top Biden Official Asked Woke Org to Send Infamous ‘Parents Are Terrorists’ Letter to White House -- “Turns out, according to an email exchange obtained by a parents’ rights group, that the controversial letter, which caused the National School Board Association to hemorrhage state members, was written at the behest of the Biden administration’s secretary of education.”
• COVID 19 and the Deification of Government -- “What the United States has experienced since March of 2020 is but a microcosm of what will happen to this nation if an increasing percentage of the citizenry chooses to deify government and other man-made institutions.”
• Deaths in Indiana for ages 18-64 are up 40% -- “The number of hospitalizations in the state is now higher than before the COVID-19 vaccine was introduced a year ago, and in fact is higher than it’s been in the past five years, Dr. Lindsay Weaver, Indiana’s chief medical officer, said at a news conference...”
• Fauci: Hospitals Are ‘Overcounting’ COVID-19 Cases in Children -- “White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci said that hospitals are now overcounting COVID-19 cases in children because they are automatically tested when they are admitted, echoing a narrative that has been repeated by some skeptics for months.”
• Finally, A Promising Covid Vaccine (possibly acceptable) for Pro-Lifers -- “...it’s an actual vaccine that uses a weakened form of the virus, so it’s likely much safer than the genetic mutation serums from Moderna, Pfizer, and Astra-Zeneca.”
• Focused Protection: The Middle Ground between Lockdowns and “Let it Rip.” -- “Standard public health practice regularly seeks creative ways to protect vulnerable people from a host of diseases and conditions that threaten them, and COVID-19 should not be an exception.”
• Jerome’s Preface to the Canonical Epistles--Ancient Evidence for 1 John 5:7 -- “ If the preface is indeed by Jerome, it would provide evidence that there were Greek copies in his day that contained the Comma, and that Jerome thought that others who seem to have held to heretical doctrine had removed the verse from their manuscripts.”
• Kulldorff & Bhattacharya Respond: The Collins and Fauci Attack on Traditional Public Health -- “The Declaration received enormous support, ultimately attracting signatures from over 50,000 scientists and medical professionals and over 800,000 members of the public.”
• McConnell says Biden speech was ‘incoherent, incorrect and beneath his office’ -- “Look, I’ve known, liked and personally respected Joe Biden for many years. I did not recognize the man at the podium yesterday.”
• New Law Will Install Kill Switches In All New Cars -- “Being able to stop the pursuit early and almost instantaneously seems like a wonderful thing, a potential lifesaver any law-abiding citizen would enthusiastically embrace...what constitutes ‘law-abiding’ can change drastically overnight.”
• The Final Resting Places of 3 Famous Artists -- “Monet considered artist Eugène Boudin to be his mentor and later in life said that he owed everything to Boudin for his success.”
• Potter’s House of Denver shutters megachurch, goes fully remote as donations decline in pandemic -- “Ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic and declining donations, the Potter’s House of Denver has decided to sell its $12.2 million, 137,000-square-foot megachurch in Arapahoe County, Colorado and go completely virtual...”
• The 1619 False-History Project -- “The 1619 essays almost universally ignore or minimize four critical pieces of context that any unbiased school curriculum would include.”
• The Pericope Adulterae: Theories of Insertion and Omission -- “While the majority of the scholarly world seems to be settled in accepting the fact that the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) is a non-Johannine interpolation, numerous questions remain unanswered in regards to the pericope.”
• TikTok ‘transgender man’ with no ‘top’ surgery lets it all hang out -- “Up until now, the matter of transgender surgery, and whether someone who identifies as transgender has had it, was ‘a private matter.’”
• Torres: Latinx? If this is ‘woke’ then let me keep sleeping> -- “The results of a national poll released in late December found that only 2% of 800 Latin American voters described themselves as Latinx. In fact, many found the term offensive...it’s supposed to be inclusive but erases a crucial part of Latin American identity and language, and replaces it with an English word.’”
• Walensky Dodges on How Many U.S. Covid Deaths Are Actually Caused by Covid -- “How many of the 836,000 deaths in the U.S. linked to Covid are from Covid or how many are with Covid but they had other co-morbidities. Do you have that breakdown?”
• Why Grocery Store Shelves Are Bare. Again. -- “Grocers have struggled to get their hands on certain items due to similar staffing shortages up the various food supply chains they rely on, forcing them to seek out different brands or to simply leave the shelves empty.”