Doctor warns paracetamol causes Trump Derangement Syndrome

The day before yesterday, President Trump introduced a 1½ hour briefing by the heads of all his health agencies, in which they summarised their efforts to get to the bottom of the appalling increase in autism across America (and indeed the West), from a one-time incidence of 1:200,000 to around 1:50. According to Trump, in California that rises to 1:12 male children. It can no longer be explained by increased detection or overdiagnosis.

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Tommy the terrorist

Tommy Robinson (real name etc etc) last week pointed out that there hasn’t been a day in the last fifteen years when he hasn’t been preparing for a court case – even when he has been in gaol. Now is no exception, despite the massive success of Unite the Kingdom last Saturday week, and I’m writing this for readers in distant lands and those in the UK who haven’t kept up, essentially to ask you to pray (or whatever other action seems appropriate) for his court case in October.

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Surreality and Messianism

No, they are relevant, honestly!

I have downloaded, and am currently reading, The Great Secret of Islam by the French popular historian Odon Lafontaine (and you can too – searching on his name will take you to the free download site). The book is one attempt at an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence that the standard narrative of Islam is complete fiction, and that Islam actually began as a Messianic Jewish Christian sect linked to Arab imperialism beginning in the seventh century.

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More on Comrade Musk

It was, I suppose, predictable that, in the light of the gaslighting on MSM about the Unite the Kingdom rally on Saturday, Elon Musk’s dramatic interview with Tommy Robinson would be spun by Labour as a call to seditious violence. Once I would have marvelled at their crass incomprehension of what he actually said, but now I see it as quite deliberate misdirection of the majority of people who didn’t actually hear the interview.

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Keeping the revolution velvet

There were many different issues and moods amongst both crowds and speakers at the London Free Speech Festival yesterday. The most revolutionary voice was probably that of Elon Musk, whose message was that we probably don’t have another four years to replace this government (and the Uniparty structures around it) before too much damage has been done to personal freedoms and the economy. People in sleepy villages (like mine) need to wake up, he said, and act to bring about such change. It’s difficult to interpret that in any other way than as a call to revolution.

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If it quacks like a duck… it’s probably Pentecostal

I have in mind the Toronto Blessing and similar phenomena in my title. Thinking in some recent posts about the singing of Bethel songs in non-New-Apostolic-Reformation Evangelical churches, I’ve thrown around the names of a few of the “big players” that many conservative believers think should be avoided, such as Bethel, Elevation, and Hillsong. But it’s instructive to look at some of the most popular “worship songs” not emanating from those sources.

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Affections meet passions

I’m working through Jonathan Edwards’ Treatise Concerning Religious Affections of 1746, which I downloaded in 1999 when thinking and writing about the then current Toronto Blessing and Pensacola Revival for Prophecy Today, but which i never actually finished.

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Spiritual breakthrough rehabilitated

Back in June, I did a piece on the highly fashionable, but entirely unbiblical, doctrine of “spiritual breakthrough.” This teaching is all about how we might (but probably won’t!) break through all the barriers blocking our victorious life in Christ, over cancer, lack of a large house or car, miraculous spiritual gifts etc. I said there is actually no doctrine of breakthrough in the Bible. But I was wrong.

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Luxury beliefs

A change of subject from the last few posts. I rarely watch the BBC’s stuff, but occasionally Mrs G. and I sit down to see something on archaeology or history, and most recently it was Fake or Fortune, a series in which art dealer Philip Mould and BBC general factotum Fiona Bruce investigate disputed works of art. Given the conventions of documentary-making, my guess is that unsung researchers do the actual investigating, whilst “the talent” reads the script convincingly. After all, with Fiona on the news every night and on Question Time every week, and trekking round the country with Antiques Roadshow, there must be little real opportunity for lengthy research in foreign museums. Still, the investigations are fascinating and the results actual.

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Edification, edification, edification

Yesterday’s post was obviously, like all my “What the Bible should have said” pieces, intended to show how easily we who claim to base our belief and practice on the Bible blithely ignore it in practice. The pattern shown in the primary NT passage on Christian assembly, 1 Corinthians 12-14, says that it is a meeting based entirely on mutual edification rather than “the worship experience”: All of these [things] must be done for the strengthening of the church” (1 Corinthians 14:26). But this is also the pattern held up by Luke as paradigmatic of God’s new holy people in Acts 2. The ideal and the apostolically recommended practice agree.

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