Those 5 Verses

Galatians 1 [RV] 

1 Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but

through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead), 

2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia: 

3 Grace to you and peace from God the Father, and our Lord 

Jesus Christ, 

4 Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us out of this present evil world, according to the will of our God and 

Father; 

5 To Whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

"THE first five verses form a greeting such as, with the exception of the first verses of the book of Romans, is not to be found elsewhere in the Bible, and, consequently, nowhere else in the world. 

---It contains the whole Gospel.

*If there were no other portion of Scripture accessible, this contains sufficient to save the world." 

E.J. Waggoner

Creation Moment 11/28/2025 - Endosymbiotic Theory of Evolution

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools... 

Romans 1:22
"Endosymbiotic Theory as an explanation for the emergence of eukaryotic cells (cells with a nucleus) from prokaryotic cells (cells

without a nucleus), proposing that two different one-celled organisms came into a close, integrated, symbiotic relationship with one-another. ...believed that eukaryotic mitochondria were once free-living bacteria that were engulfed by other one-celled organisms.

Endosymbiosis, in the best of cases, can only explain a limited range of biological observations. It certainly does nothing to help explain the origin of animals and animal body plans in the Cambrian period." Stephen Meyer

Do we live Thanksgiving?

"In 1777, while America was still fighting for independence, the Continental Congress issued The First National Thanksgiving Proclamation, setting aside December 18, 1777, as a day of prayer

and thanksgiving. The proclamation urged Americans to gather in their churches to praise God for his blessings, confess their sins, and pray for his continued favor on the new nation. It clearly shows that Thanksgiving was never meant to be just a feast but a day of worship, recognizing that “it is the indispensable Duty of all Men to adore the superintending Providence of Almighty God.”

Then in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving a permanent national holiday, declaring the last Thursday of November to be a day to thank “our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”

Understanding this timeline helps us see that Thanksgiving was never about turkey or parades—it was about a nation humbling itself before God in gratitude and repentance.
“Give thanks in all circumstances” (1 Thessalonians 5:18), do we live those words?" 

AIG

Creation Moment 11/27/2025 -The Term "evolution"

For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20

"Recall that the term “evolution” can be used in at least three different ways.

Evolution #1: Change over time — small-scale changes in a

population of organisms (often called “microevolution”).

Evolution #2: Universal common descent — the view that all organisms are related and are descended from a single common ancestor.

Evolution #3: Natural selection and random mutation as the main cause or mechanism of change during the history of life — the idea that an unguided process of natural selection acting upon random mutations is sufficient to produce the new forms of life that appear during that history as well as the appearance of design that living forms manifest.

Neo-Darwinists affirm all three meanings of the term “evolution” and uniquely affirm the third meaning — the idea of the creative power of the mutation and natural selection mechanism. 

Sometimes, popularizers have conflated these definitions by treating evidence for small-scale change over time (evolution #1) as if it provided evidence for universal common descent (evolution #2) or the creative power of natural selection and random mutation (evolution #3)." 

Stephen Meyer

IN the NEWS - "death on demand"?

Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, He abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Romans 1:28 NLT

"In 2020, the Federal Constitutional Court, Germany’s highest judicial body, conjured a fundamental right to commit suicide, to assist, and be assisted therein. The ruling called suicide a “self-

determined death” — i.e., death on demand — regardless of the reason, and perhaps even, age of the person who wants to die, as the court ruled that the right to suicide “is guaranteed in all stages of a person’s existence.” Youth is a stage of a person’s existence. (Estonia’s highest court recently issued a similar ruling, while requiring competence.)

Now, famous German identical twins have committed joint assisted suicide — reported by the notorious assisted suicide pushers, People magazine — which oohed and aahed about the death of Brittany Maynard, publishing several cover stories on her doctor-prescribed death. From the story about the deceased twins:

"The Kessler twins — renowned German sisters who reached international stardom for their post-war entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s — ended their lives together.

On Monday, Nov. 17, Alice and Ellen Kessler died at age 89 in their home near Munich after choosing medical aid in dying, German newspaper Bild reports."

According to the outlet, the sisters “no longer wanted to live” and “they had chosen to end their lives together.” Police were reportedly notified after the process was completed.

Q: Did you get that? They just didn’t want to live — so they accessed death on demand.

For many among us, suicide is no longer considered a tragedy but is viewed as an empowering act. 

This is precisely the darkness into which the euthanasia movement is taking us, some jurisdictions faster, some slower. 

We should be debating whether becoming dead should be deemed a fundamental right, not the expedient nonsense we too often hear that it’s all about terminal illness (it isn’t) and that strict guidelines protect against abuse (they don’t)." 

MindMatters

IN the NEWS - History repeating itself with Decadence?

First it was aborting babies, then gay marriage, then legalizing theft up to certain amounts, then enshrining into law Trans-butchery of minors and now----as predicted---testing the waters on the path to softening towards pedophiles.

Truly these must be the times nearing the end as like before the last "end"  And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5

"Washington’s State Sentencing Guidelines Commission has voted 7–2 to recommend lighter penalties for adults caught in online child-sex sting operations, urging lawmakers to create alternatives to incarceration for cases they classify as having “no identifiable victim” , according to Seattle's 770AM.

The category includes “net nanny” investigations where adults take steps to meet people they believe are minors but are actually undercover detectives.

Rantz notes this isn’t an isolated shift. His show previously exposed legislation sponsored by Senator Lisa Wellman and several

Democratic colleagues that would have sharply reduced sex-offender registration requirements and community supervision for adults caught trying to exploit children online. When the bill drew backlash, Wellman pivoted to restructuring the Missing and Exploited Children Task Force.

The commission’s latest recommendation solidifies a trend: while state Democrats publicly champion accountability for sexual predators in high-profile national cases, their policymaking at home repeatedly favors leniency, treatment-first approaches, and reduced penalties for adults who attempt to meet minors for sex. Each new vote and proposal signals a political class more focused on protecting offenders than protecting children." 

ZeroHedge

Creation Moment 11/26/2025 - Lynn Margulis. Margulis said.....

Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it. Isaiah 45:8

"Eminent biologist Lynn Margulis. Margulis, who died in 2011, was

a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. 

She was also known for her outspoken skepticism about neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory — expressed succinctly in the quotation was this:

"Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn’t create … neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism… I believed it until I looked for evidence."

The quote is from an interview with Margulis in Discover Magazine published not long before her death." 

Stephen Meyer

Attacking the Image of God

"In the letter to the Ephesians, Paul wrote,
Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. (Ephesians 5:11–12)

Queer activists are in the public schools, on social media, and even increasingly, in many churches. 

We need to be able to communicate, especially with our youth, the goodness of God’s design for men and women and that people are created in the image of God and known by Him. 

We need to be aware that some people hate God but can’t attack Him directly, so they want to do the closest thing they can—attack the image of God in humans.

Any surgery has risks, and surgeries involving the genital area have certain risks of infection, as well as the risk of compromising a person’s ability to urinate or defecate properly. 

A woman who has her ovaries removed at a young age will

immediately commence menopause and have a much higher risk of heart disease as well as experience overall lower levels of health and a shortened life expectancy. 

A woman given masculinizing levels of testosterone is more susceptible to blood clots and heart issues. 

A man given feminizing levels of estrogen is more likely to get osteoporosis, depression, and have a heart attack. These are not trivial surgeries." 

AIG

The "Really" File - (These are "Dolls"?)

"Each year Glamour UK magazine hands out “Women of the Year” awards to, according to their website, “celebrate the extraordinary women who have defined the last 12 months (and beyond) – the trailblazers, activists, visionaries and status quo-shifters who have made the world a little bit better and brighter for women.” 

Well, among the winners this year was a group called “The Dolls” . . . all nine of whom are men.

Yes, nine men won “Women of the Year” awards! These men, who work to “Protect the Dolls,” were specifically chosen because “these trailblazers work tirelessly to empower, uplift and celebrate trans voices.”

From the "Really" File

In other words, these men, who dress like women and call themselves “dolls,” work hard to ensure that women have no private spaces and that men who say they are women are treated just like women—which means there’s really no such thing as a woman at all! That certainly doesn’t sound like they are making the world “a little bit better and brighter for women.”
Our society continues to deny the reality of Genesis 1:27: “Male and female He created them,” which observational science confirms (males have XY and females have XX sex chromosomes)." 

AIG

REALLY?

Creation Moment 11/25/2025 - God was waiting for us all along

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? 

James 3:13 

"New Atheism proclaimed that science had buried God. 

However, as new evidence about the surprising origins of the universe and its fine-tuning for life has emerged, perhaps God was waiting for us all along." 

Stephen Meyer

On the Streets of Babylon: Vampires spotted in the Pulpits

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,..

Come out of her, My people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4

There seems "Vampires" were spotted in the Pulpits on the Streets of Babylon....

"A Catholic priest in Germany is facing criticism for leading a

Halloween-themed prayer service on Halloween while dressed as Dracula, complete with a half-open coffin and a fog machine.
Father Michael Korell, the vicar of the parish, held the service for around 50 people inside the funeral chapel of St. George’s Cemetery. The event included prayers and hymns.
He told the French newspaper the Tribune Chrétienne that his goal was to “reach out to those who no longer have a connection with the Church” and that “I wanted to make it clear that we don’t have to be afraid of death.”
He later clarified that no Mass took place and that he wore his clerical clothing underneath the Dracula cape." 

Protestia

Savonarola: Attempt to Force the Chess Board in this Great Controversy?

Q: Was Girolamo Savonarola the "John the Baptist" of the 15th century OR a False Prophet?
A: Well we know he was a False Prophet because, if we test his claims against Scripture, we know he was either a liar or being misled by

the opponent of God.
For example, he claimed he had visions from God and visits from angels with messages. But we know when he claimed that in one vision from God he was shown the wicked lost burning in hell with their tongues torn out.
But Scripture tells us the dead are dead [For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing... Ecclesiastes 9:5] and the wicked dead will remain DEAD until the 2nd resurrection after the millennium [But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. The sea gave up its dead, and death and the grave gave up their dead. Revelation 20:5,13 NLT].
Another example of being a False Prophet would be his claim that he would no longer read the Bible for his theology but rather get his "light" through "Divine light" that would come to him. Sometimes from the virgin Mary [though Mary is DEAD in the grave and therefore can't communicate].

Q: Was Lucifer, who knew something like the Reformation was around the corner in the flow of history [And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days. Daniel 11:33] trying to get a leg up by creating a False Reformation based on truth and error?
Q: In other words, was he trying to force the chess board of this Great Controversy between him and God?
Q: Or was Savonarola just a mentally unstable man who sought personal political power?

"Girolamo Savonarola was born at Ferrara, the son of Niccolò Savonarola and Elena Bonaccorsi. He was educated by his paternal grandfather, Michele, a celebrated doctor and a man of rigid religious principles.
Savonarola arrived in Florence in 1490 already renowned for his

learning, yet it was his preaching that catapulted him into the center of Florentine reform and politics. Often from the cathedral in Florence, Savonarola would preach to thousands in the vernacular with powerful imagery and simple language.
His influential preaching, along with some remarkable events outside Savonarola’s control — the French king’s surprise invasion into Italy along with a devastating disease — suddenly elevated his influence in Florence. Equally important in his ascent as the city’s prophetic voice was the pervasive belief among ordinary people of an imminent, momentous upheaval related to the end times, especially as the year 1500 approached.
He began to claim that God was sending him visions of a kingly warrior who would cross the Alps and conquer Italy. In late summer of 1494, Charles VIII of France invaded Italy, seeking to conquer the kingdom of Naples. His arrival appeared to confirm the friar's prophecies.
It also placed Florence in peril. Piero de' Medici, the city's new leader, had refused to let Charles pass through Florence's territory. The king responded by threatening to sack the city. To preserve peace, Piero had to surrender important fortresses and towns within Florence and agree to pay Charles a large sum of money. The news of this bargain led to an uprising in Florence and forced the Medici family to flee the city. Charles entered Florence on November 17 and demanded that the Florentines restore the Medici to power. However, after an anti-French riot and a series of talks with Savonarola, Charles agreed to leave the city in exchange for a smaller payment than that promised him by Piero.
He predicted that Florence would join forces with the king of France

to lead the world into an age of universal Christianity and peace. Florence would be the center of a Christian empire, a New Jerusalem for the new age. In addition to his rousing sermons, Savonarola and his supporters staged processions and "bonfires of the vanities," in which citizens publicly burned books, paintings, clothing, playing cards, and other items the friar viewed as immoral.
In 1492 Girolamo Savonarola warned of "the Sword of the Lord over the earth quickly and soon" and envisioned terrible tribulations to Rome.
From 1494 to 1498, Savonarola fomented dramatic political and social change. His preaching became far more prophetic. Emphasizing Christ’s return, he called Florence to live as a new Jerusalem.
He closed the taverns and outlawed gambling, singing, and dancing.
He turned crimes like sodomy, previously merely punishable by fine, into capital offenses for which the sentence was death.
Public burnings on the Piazza della Signoria became common.
Savonarola was sending shock troops of children known as the "White Shirts" marauding across the city, the gangs forcing their way into people's homes at will and hauling off anything considered

unholy or corrupting—fancy clothes, jewels, and makeup, fine furnishings and other extravagances, musical instruments, works of ancient (i.e. pagan) writers and poets, any art that was not of a strictly religious nature, and any other display of distinctly un-pious ostentation and wealth—in short, "vanities."
They carted the lot of it to the center of town, heaped it all into a huge pile on Piazza della Signoria, and set a torch to the pile. They called this the "bonfire of the vanities."
Even the artist Botticelli—who, up until then, was most famous for his allegorical scenes out of pagan myth—got caught up in the religious fervor and is said to have tossed several of his paintings onto the fire to fuel the flames.
Girolamo Savonarola began to write poetry of an apocalyptic bent, notably "On the Ruin of the World" and "On the Ruin of the Church", in which he singled out the papal court at Rome.
He organized the youth of Florence to model and incite for reform, precipitating several “Bonfires of Vanities” in protest against the annual Mardi Gras Carnival. These youths led citizens in destroying instruments of temptation like carnival masks, playing cards, fine dresses, makeup, mirrors, and even musical instruments. The last of these occurred in the Piazza della Signoria at the center of Florence on February 7, 1497, just months before Pope Alexander VI excommunicated Savonarola.
In early 1498 one of Savonarola's chief followers accepted a challenge to test the truth of the friar's claims to divine favor. The test would be a trial by fire. If the flames did not kill Savonarola, it would prove that he was truly favored by God. On the day scheduled for the event, however, both sides argued so long about the details of the trial that rain eventually put out the flames. People took this as a sign of God's disapproval, and the city guard dispersed the angry crowd. The next day a mob attacked San Marco. The guard stepped in once again, arresting Savonarola and his two closest deputies.

They dragged Savonarola to the very same spot on the Piazza della Signoria where he had put the torch to the city's vanities, and sent him to his eternal reward atop a bonfire of their own.

On May 23, 1498, the three were hanged and their bodies burned.
The ashes were tossed into the Arno." 

Britannica/RI.com/wikidata

Creation Moment 11/24/2025 - Scientists have expressed skepticism.....

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. Job 42:3

"Scientists have expressed skepticism about the explanatory power of neo-Darwinism. 

For example, a 2008 conference, commonly named The Altenberg

16, convened sixteen scientists who discussed fundamental problems with the standard neo-Darwinian model, noting that the current model cannot explain the “arrival of the fittest.” 

A follow-up conference in 2016 at the Royal Society argued that 

--the modern synthesis focuses only on the variation and maintenance of biological features that already exist 

--but fails to explain how those novel characters, behaviors, and body plans originate.

All this makes it very hard to justify the position of theistic evolutionists, who claim God uses evolution to create life. 

In reality, the more we learn about the complexity and design of life, the less adequate neo-Darwinism is as an explanation." 

CaseyLuskin

IN the NEWS - Brazil's Plain of Dura

"The city of Crato, in northeastern Brazil, has just inaugurated the world’s largest statue dedicated to Mary. 

The astonishing monument towers 54 meters (177 feet) into the sky

—taller than Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro (98 feet). Standing at the height of a 15-story building, this colossal structure dominates the landscape and can be seen from miles away in every direction. This mega-monument is one of the tallest religious statues in the world. Its sheer size and towering presence are designed to inspire deep Marian devotion from the people and to establish this location as a major destination to venerate Mary.

What is happening in Brazil is precisely what King Nebuchadnezzar did on the plain of Dura. In Daniel 3, the Babylonian king erected an enormous golden image—90 feet tall—a tower designed to dominate the horizon and capture the loyalty, reverence, and obedience of the people. It was a monument to apostasy, demanding worship and allegiance under threat of death. By erecting this image that exalted human religious tradition above the authority of God, Nebuchadnezzar sought to define and unify the faith of the entire world under his command.

The Church upholds four major Marian doctrines: the Immaculate Conception, her bodily Assumption into heaven, her exaltation as the “Queen of Heaven,” and her intercessory role on behalf of sinners before God.

However, these doctrines stand in clear contradiction to the plain teachings of Scripture. The Bible affirms that Jesus Christ alone is the “one mediator between God and men” (1 Timothy 2:5). " AdventMessenger

The prophecies & the blissful MILLENNIUM

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Revelation 20:5

"The prophecies show that 

--the King should pass through the grave to His throne, 

--and that His kingdom also must itself rise from the ashes of this world, 

--and that His citizens also must arise from the dust, 

--to reach the inheritance of the exalted Son of God in His heavenly kingdom. 

--Under the ancient dispensation, every sacrifice on holy altars slain

pointed to His death, and, 

--under the present dispensation, every communion of His holy supper commemorates it, until He comes in the dispensation of the fullness of times, to receive the inheritance of the purchased possession, and to give it to the chosen seed, the saints in light, and to bruise Satan under their feet. 

Then is the blissful MILLENNIUM." 

H.D. Ward

Creation Moment 11/23/2025 - The Difference between Evolutionists & Creationists

He hath made every thing beautiful in His time.....

Ecclesiastes 3:11 

"Evolutionists find order in chaos, fire and destruction. 

Creationists find it in Mind: the omniscient, omnipotent mind of a good Creator who loves to make beauty and display His glory to creatures He made in His image." 

CEH

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Even so, come, Lord Jesus.
Revelation 22:10

Creation Moment 11/22/2025 - Epistemology

"Scripture calls Christians to practice discernment by taking steps to

discriminate between “the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error” (1 John 4:6).

“What is the basis of truth?”

When George Barna asked Americans this question in 2020, 15% said they didn’t know. Another 15% believed the answer lay in science, while others appealed to “inner certainty” (16%), tradition (5%), social consensus (4%), or God (42%). The remaining 5% claimed truth does not exist, although how they know this claim is true remains unclear.

By asking this question, Barna was probing Americans’

epistemology. Derived from the Greek term episteme (ἐπιστήμη), meaning knowledge, epistemology is a branch of philosophy that theorizes about knowledge and belief. The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology describes three key epistemological questions: “What is knowledge? What can we know? And how can we know what we know?” In other words, how can we justify our beliefs?

The divided responses to Barna’s survey question highlight our culture’s need for epistemic clarity. In response, this two-part article series introduces how a Biblical worldview (rather than human reasoning) yields the best basis for justified beliefs—the most intelligible epistemological framework.

Two types of knowledge include:Knowledge by acquaintance—having direct familiarity with a person, thing, or mental state.
Propositional knowledge—knowing about someone or something by means of a true proposition, or statement.
Anderson and Welty argue that the existence of logic requires the existence of God. To build this case, they first state that the laws of logic are necessary truths because “we cannot imagine a possible world” in which a law such as noncontradiction is false. In reply, one atheistic philosopher objects that perhaps we can imagine a possible world where at least one contradiction exists in an abstract (rather than concrete) realm. But can we in fact imagine this scenario coherently? 

The presence of a single contradiction in one possible world would contradict a strict law of noncontradiction. This outcome would render the strict law of noncontradiction false with reference to a certain possible world only by presupposing some version of the law’s truth (at least in its ability to judge itself) with reference to the same world. The argument against the necessity of noncontradiction thus serves to underscore the importance of noncontradiction as a generally applicable concept in every possible world.

Van Til elaborates by asking, “Anyhow why should one ‘rational being’ who had become rational by Chance, seek to lord it over another ‘rational being’ who also had become rational by Chance? In a world of Chance there can be no manner of self-identification and there can be no system of truth.”

A similar dilemma arises from considering that, for worldviews based on man’s word, humans inductively piece together beliefs based on information derived from sense perception. Using information from our senses to try discerning whether we can trust the information from our senses represents arbitrarily circular reasoning.

The trouble is that any argument based on naturalism must borrow concepts such as logic, knowledge, and morality to be intelligible. These arguments apply the laws of logic to contend that we can have warranted knowledge of the tenets of naturalism and that we ought to believe these arguments. But naturalism provides no philosophical foundation for the warranted use of these concepts. Theism, however, does." 

AIG

IN the NEWS - Well, well, well......

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Luke 21:25

Well so much for the "climate change" myth of rising oceans DUE to Melting Polar Caps......

"The Earth has lurched in a direction no one expected, tilting just enough to unsettle scientists who track the quiet movements beneath our feet.

Scientists discovered that billions of tons of groundwater removed for farming and cities pushed the axis of Earth more than thirty inches from its original course. According to Smithsonian Magazine, the water pumped from deep reservoirs eventually spilled into the oceans, shifting the balance of the entire planet in a measurable and troubling way. The Earth moved because we misplaced its weight.
Such a forceful global nudge from human activity was once unthinkable.
Researchers learned that the drift can no longer be explained by melting ice sheets or natural shifts alone. Human driven groundwater extraction has surpassed nature itself as the leading force behind this tilt, as stated by a study summarized in Nature.
The water drained from land surged into the oceans, making them heavier and unevenly distributed. That imbalance pulled on the axis, adding another twist to the planet’s tilt.
The oceans do not fill evenly. They swell in certain regions more than others and that swelling tugs at the planet like a shifting weight on a slowly turning wheel. The deeper the seas rise the more strain the Earth endures in its attempt to find balance again.
Axial shifts influence how sunlight strikes the world, distributing warmth unevenly across regions. Over time even small changes can alter weather patterns, storm behavior and seasonal timing." 

msn

IN the NEWS - Vance on UFO's

Q: IF we ever got "visited" by a SUPPOSED Alien, how could one tell if it's from Lucifer or God?
A:To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Isaiah 8:20
----Of course there are NO actual UFO's of "Aliens" that will visit us. ANYTHING that ever did would be posing as one from the OPPONENT of GOD.

"Vice President JD Vance floated the possibility in recent days that what some humans see as so-called extraterrestrials and UFOs could be supernatural and even demonic in nature.

During an interview last week with journalist Miranda Devine, Vance expressed interest in using his access to classified material while vice president to uncover the truth behind potential alien intelligence, which he claimed could be angelic in nature.

When Devine cut in to note Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard recently expressed her belief that aliens could be real, Vance was reluctant to completely agree. However, he suggested that there could be room for such a belief within the framework of his Roman Catholic worldview.

"I wouldn't say that I do or don't believe [in aliens]," he said. "I mean, I'm a big believer that there are things out there that we can't explain, and so if another person sees an alien, maybe I see an angel or a demon."

"So I'm a big believer that there are like spiritual forces working on the physical world that a lot of us don't see and a lot of us don't understand and a lot of us don't appreciate," he continued.

"But, you know, is it aliens or is it our guardian angel? Or is it aliens, or is it a not-so-guardian force that doesn't care about us; or, in fact, actively wishes us harm? I don't know the answer to that question." 

msn

Creation Moment 11/21/2025 - The yoyo universe nonsense

Yes, they knew God, 

but they wouldn’t worship Him as God 

or even give Him thanks. 

And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. 

As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 

Romans 1:21 NLT

"Oscillating (yoyo) universe ideas were popularized by atheists like the late Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov, solely to avoid the notion of a beginning, with its implications of a Creator. 

But the laws of thermodynamics undercut that argument, as each one of the hypothetical cycles would exhaust more and more usable energy. 

This means every cycle would be larger and longer than the previous one, so looking back in time there would be smaller and smaller cycles. 

So the multicycle model could have an infinite future, but can only have a finite past. 

Also, there is far too little mass to stop expansion and allow cycling in the first place, and no known mechanism would allow a bounce back after a hypothetical ‘big crunch’." 

CMI

BLOOD & SOIL: First Green Fascists - The Nazis

The Old Green Fascism---Same as the New Green Fascism

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. 

Ecclesiastes 1:9 NIV

"A strain of eco-fascism was also found in Nazi ideology. As one of the most explicit modern accounts of eco-fascism, Richard Walter Darre coined the Nazi slogan “blood and soil”, meaning to capture a

mystical link with their homeland, making it their duty to take care of the land.

Nazi leadership ardently championed renewable energy, and institutionalized organic farming and land use planning on a level unmatched by any nation past or present. These environmental policies was actually grounded in the same racist worldview that shaped the Holocaust.

In the latter half of the nineteenth century in Germany, the volkisch movement emerged—a vision of social change that united profoundly racist and, specifically, antisemitic thinking with nature mysticism. 

As historian Peter Staudenmaier writes in “Fascist Ecology: The ‘Green Wing’ of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecedents,” “in the face of the very real dislocations brought on by the triumph of industrial capitalism and national unification, volkisch thinkers preached a return to the land, to the simplicity and wholeness of a life attuned to nature’s purity.” He explains that this movement “refused to locate the sources of alienation, rootlessness, and environmental destruction in social structures, laying the blame instead to rationalism, cosmopolitanism, and urban civilization. The stand-in for all of these was the age-old object of peasant hatred and middle-class resentment: the Jews.”

In 1867, German zoologist Ernst Haeckel coined the term “ecology” and began to develop it as a scientific discipline—one “concerned

with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments.” 

He was also an avowed supporter of racial eugenics and was one of the primary proponents of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theories in the German-speaking world—theories used to legitimize the notion of nordic racial superiority as scientific fact rather than mere opinion. These ideals would have a significant impact on the thought and political aspirations of the leaders of the National Socialist German Workers Party, known in the English-speaking world as the Nazi Party. And, as Staudenmaier argues, the emergence of modern ecology was a key ingredient that helped to give the volkisch movement’s racism scientific credibility and, thus, scalability at the level of government.

Lebensraum—the plan for securing “living space” for the German people through conquest—became a primary justification for invading Poland and orchestrating mass violence against Jews and other groups of people. This horrifying program was bolstered by the Darwinian notion that species must compete for dominance in a world of finite natural resources such as food. In keeping with this emphasis on maximizing space and optimizing Germans’ access to nourishment, the Nazis would also establish the first nature preserves in Europe and an unprecedented level of government support for ecologically sound farming methods.

One of the most striking aspects of this history is the role that young, ecologically minded Germans played in the success of the Nazi

Blood & Soil

Party. As Staudenmaier writes, the German youth movement in this period was the key cultural force that popularized volkisch ideas amongst the general public. The youth culture rejected civic engagement outright and embraced a communal, back-to-the-land lifestyle instead. They perceived the social and ecological challenges of the day as too great to be resolved through the political process.

Two nineteenth century figures exemplify this ominous conjunction: Ernst Moritz Arndt and Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl.
Arndt was also dedicated to the cause of the peasantry, which lead

him to a concern for the welfare of the land itself. Historians of German environmentalism mention him as the earliest example of ‘ecological’ thinking in the modern sense. His remarkable 1815 article On the Care and Conservation of Forests, written at the dawn of industrialization in Central Europe, rails against shortsighted exploitation of woodlands and soil, condemning deforestation and its economic causes.

Arndt’s environmentalism, however, was inextricably bound up with virulently xenophobic nationalism. His eloquent and prescient appeals for ecological sensitivity were couched always in terms of the well-being of the German soil and the German people, and his repeated lunatic polemics against miscegenation, demands for teutonic racial purity, and epithets against the French, Slavs, and Jews marked every aspect of his thought.

Riehl, a student of Arndt, further developed this sinister tradition. In some respects his ‘green’ streak went significantly deeper than Arndt’s; presaging certain tendencies in recent environmental activism, his 1853 essay Field and Forest ended with a call to fight for “the rights of wilderness.” But even here nationalist pathos set the tone: “We must save the forest, not only so that our ovens do not become cold in winter, but also so that the pulse of life of the people continues to beat warm and joyfully, so that Germany remains German.”

These latter two fixations matured in the second half of the nineteenth century in the context of the völkisch movement, a powerful cultural disposition and social tendency which united ethnocentric populism with nature mysticism.

Haeckel was also the chief popularizer of Darwin and evolutionary theory for the German-speaking world, and developed a peculiar sort of social darwinist philosophy he called ‘monism.’ The German Monist League he founded combined scientifically based ecological holism with völkisch social views. Haeckel believed in nordic racial superiority, strenuously opposed race mixing and enthusiastically supported racial eugenics. His fervent nationalism became fanatical with the onset of World War I, and he fulminated in antisemitic tones against the post-war Council Republic in Bavaria.

Near the end of his life he joined the Thule Society, a secret, radical  organization which played a key role in the establishment of the Nazi movement.

Raoul Francé, founding member of the Monist League, elaborated so-called Lebensgesetze, ‘laws of life’ through which the natural order determines the social order. He opposed racial mixing, for example, as “unnatural.” Francé is acclaimed by contemporary ecofascists as a pioneer of the ecology movement.

Francé’s colleague Ludwig Woltmann, another student of Haeckel, insisted on a biological interpretation for all societal phenomena, from cultural attitudes to economic arrangements. He stressed the supposed connection between environmental purity and ‘racial’ purity:

The National Socialist “religion of nature,” as one historian has described it, was a volatile admixture of primeval teutonic nature mysticism, pseudo-scientific ecology, irrationalist anti-humanism, and a mythology of racial salvation through a return to the land. Its predominant themes were ‘natural order,’ organicist holism and denigration of humanity: “Throughout the writings, not only of Hitler, but of most Nazi ideologues, one can discern a fundamental deprecation of humans vis-à-vis nature, and, as a logical corollary to this, an attack upon human efforts to master nature.”

Echoing Haeckel and the Monists, Mein Kampf announces: “When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against nature must lead to their own downfall.”

Even in the midst of war, Nazi leaders maintained their commitment to ecological ideals which were, for them, an essential element of racial rejuvenation. In December 1942, Himmler released a decree “On the Treatment of the Land in the Eastern Territories,” referring to the newly annexed portions of Poland. It read in part:

"The peasant of our racial stock has always carefully endeavored to increase the natural powers of the soil, plants, and animals, and to preserve the balance of the whole of nature. For him, respect for divine creation is the measure of all culture. If, therefore, the new Lebensräume (living spaces) are to become a homeland for our settlers, the planned arrangement of the landscape to keep it close to nature is a decisive prerequisite. It is one of the bases for fortifying the German Volk."

This passage recapitulates almost all of the tropes comprised by classical ecofascist ideology:
“The unity of blood and soil must be restored,” proclaimed Richard Walther Darré in 1930. This infamous phrase denoted a quasi-mystical connection between ‘blood’ (the race or Volk) and ‘soil’ (the

land and the natural environment) specific to Germanic peoples and absent, for example, among Celts and Slavs. For the enthusiasts of Blut und Boden, the Jews especially were a rootless, wandering people, incapable of any true relationship with the land. German blood, in other words, engendered an exclusive claim to the sacred German soil. While the term “blood and soil” had been circulating in völkisch circles since at least the Wilhelmine era, it was Darré who first popularized it as a slogan and then enshrined it as a guiding principle of Nazi thought.

Darré worked to install environmentally sensitive principles as the very basis of the Third Reich’s agricultural policy. Darré’s most important innovation was the introduction on a large scale of organic farming methods, significantly labeled “lebensgesetzliche Landbauweise,” or farming according to the laws of life. The term points up yet again the natural order ideology which underlies so much ecological thought.

The campaign to institutionalize organic farming encompassed tens of thousands of smallholdings and estates across Germany. It met with considerable resistance from other members of the Nazi hierarchy, above all Backe and Göring. But Darré, with the help of Hess and others, was able to sustain the policy until his forced resignation in 1942 (an event which had little to do with his environmentalist leanings). And these efforts in no sense represented merely Darré’s personal predilections; as the standard history of German agricultural policy points out, Hitler and Himmler “were in complete sympathy with these ideas.”

Darré has sometimes been regarded as a forerunner of the contemporary Green movement. His biographer, in fact, once referred to him as the “father of the Greens.” Her book Blood and Soil, undoubtedly the best single source on Darré in either German or English, consistently downplays the virulently fascist elements in his thinking, portraying him instead as a misguided agrarian radical. 

This grave error in judgment indicates the powerfully disorienting pull of an ‘ecological’ aura. 

Darré’s published writings alone, dating back to the early twenties, are enough to indict him as a rabidly racist and jingoist ideologue particularly prone to a vulgar and hateful antisemitism (he spoke of Jews, revealingly, as “weeds”).

The “green wing” of the NSDAP was not a group of innocents, confused and manipulated idealists, or reformers from within; they were conscious promoters and executors of a vile program explicitly dedicated to inhuman racist violence, massive political repression and worldwide military domination. Their ‘ecological’ involvements, far from offsetting these fundamental commitments, deepened and radicalized them. In the end, their configuration of environmental politics was directly and substantially responsible for organized mass murder.

No aspect of the Nazi project can be properly understood without examining its implication in the holocaust. Here, too, ecological

arguments played a crucially malevolent role. Not only did the “green wing” refurbish the sanguine antisemitism of traditional reactionary ecology; it catalyzed a whole new outburst of lurid racist fantasies of organic inviolability and political revenge. The confluence of anti-humanist dogma with a fetishization of natural ‘purity’ provided not merely a rationale but an incentive for the Third Reich’s most heinous crimes. Its insidious appeal unleashed murderous energies previously untapped. Finally, the displacement of any social analysis of environmental destruction in favor of mystical ecology served as an integral component in the preparation of the final solution.

The record of fascist ecology shows that under the right conditions such an orientation can quickly lead to barbarism."

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