8 Telltale Signs, and other links

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• 8 Telltale Signs Your College Professor Is A Secret Conservative -- “College is hard enough without having your progressive values challenged. It’s important to make sure that your learning space is a safe and equitable environment.” (satire, with a purpose)
• Did Jesus Forbid Us from Taking Oaths? (Matthew 5) -- “...the very existence of conventions such as oaths shows that lying, deception, and careless speech are both common and destructive.”
• Florida Surgeon General Rips Fauci And Other ‘Data Deniers,’ Says Masks ‘Basically Dehumanized’ U.S. Population -- “...they sort of put them in this box where they are spreaders of viruses and they have to have their faces covered despite how unnatural that is, without really any high-quality data showing any benefit and lots of data and parental intuition suggesting harm, and tremendous harm. ”
• Funeral Museum offers grim guessing game in new exhibit -- “The skill with which early photographers were able to make dead subjects look alive is why the postmortem images are part of the grim guessing game.”
• Gulag -- “The Gulag was a system of forced labor camps established during Joseph Stalin’s long reign as dictator of the Soviet Union.”
• It’s Time to Admit Failure in the War Against COVID -- “...in retrospect it is clear that you have failed miserably in almost all your actions, and even the media is already having a hard time covering your shame.”
• Looking Behind the Veil: Primary Source Documents and the King James Translators (MS 98) -- “Talk by Bryan Ross, author of The King James Bible in America and Don’t Passover Easter.”
• Menno Simons on...the swearing of oaths -- “This we simply answer with the word of the Lord. To swear truly was allowed to the Jews under the law; but the gospel forbids this to christians.”
• On Having To Show My Papers -- “I could easily comply...But I am far from convinced that the benefits of compliance—just like the benefits of enforcement—will really outweigh the costs.”
• One Christian’s Plea: The Life, Ministry, and Controversies of Francis Johnson -- “Prominent among the reasons for devoting the time and attention to study Johnson is the fact that this man stood lin the midst of several developing Christian ideologies like a spoke in a wheel and exerted both positive and negative influences on them all.”
• Pine Grove Church Restoration -- “The old Pine Grove church house, not used by an active congregation in nearly 120 years, is the oldest church building in Rusk County. While inactive as a church for over a century the impact of this old church building can still be felt throughout the community.”
• Religious Titles And Oaths Used By Masons -- “It is hard to believe that grown men would involve themselves in such foolishness. Such sounds like the actions of little kids playing.”
• Scientists Believed Coronavirus Leaked From Wuhan Lab, But Top U.S. Official Warned Against Debate -- “An email from Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, on February 2, 2020 said that ‘a likely explanation’ was that Covid had rapidly evolved from a Sars-like virus inside human tissue in a low-security lab.”
• Test positive after quarantining? Here’s what the CDC says to do -- “If it’s on or near day 5 of your isolation and you’re still testing positive, the CDC recommends you continue staying home and away from others for an additional five days, bringing the total length of your quarantine to 10 days.”
• The Anabaptist Vision of Politics -- “The church, not the state, gives history its meaning.”
• The Baptist Confession on Lawful Oaths and Vows -- “The fourth paragraph addresses the need for absolute integrity in oath-taking...the Pharisees...were experts at twisting the meaning of words and phrases.”
• The Discontinuous Fossil Record Refutes Darwinian Gradualism -- “Even Darwin himself was quite aware of this problem for his theory and therefore tried to explain it away as a mere artifact of undersampling of a very incomplete fossil record.”
• The Schleitheim Confession, Article VII...concerning the oath -- “...you see it is for this reason that all swearing is forbidden: we cannot fulfill that which we promise when we swear...”
• Three Stunners Challenge Traditional Darwinism -- “Shared code, another Cambrian giant, and DNA communication all fit within intelligent design expectations, but challenge traditional Darwinism.”
• Ursinus Contra The Anabaptists On Oaths -- “...when Christ says, swear not at all, we are not to refer this language to the oath itself, but to the various forms of rash swearing which the Pharisees imagined lawful.”
• When Masking and Vaxxing Threaten a Friendship -- “It was she, member of the resistance against both masks and vaccines, who showed me, the vaccinated mask-wearer, how we bridge the rift.”
• Why have so many coronavirus patients died in Italy? -- “On re-evaluation by the National Institute of Health, only 12 per cent of death certificates have shown a direct causality from coronavirus, while 88 per cent of patients who have died have at least one pre-morbidity - many had two or three.”