Strange Priorities

Isn’t it strange that the people decrying the poisoning of a bit of golf course grass with anti mandate slogans aren’t half so indignant about the poisoning of people’s livelihoods and ability to take part in civil society? Straining a gnat but swallowing a camel we have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. We care more about grass than we do our suffering fellow human beings.

Prayer, the Church and the Christian

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In my time attending fairly typical evangelical churches, I have noticed a pattern in public prayer. Those who pray about national or international situations do so with a distinctly socialist / left wing approach. The solution is always centralist intervention and control. This is the standard approach to prayer that is acceptable in most evangelical churches. Woe-betide anyone who steps outside of this script. It will be deemed as the terrible sin of ‘being political’. This is typical of a culture where secularism is by default seen as neutral and anything that challenges it is seen as religious.

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Ignore the False Prophet

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Here at The Sojournal, we like to berate the mainstream media of New Zealand. It is bereft of critical thinking and investigative journalism. In our covid age as we have marched towards ever more authoritarian government, our mainstream media has cheered the Beast on like the false prophet of Revelation. Our mainstream media is a massive part of the problem. They have used fear to stoke readership. Rather than report the facts and ask hard questions, they have joined the government in its programme of control by fear. Take a look at this headline from The New Zealand Herald from Friday 4th March.

What will the naive nanas and state worshippers take from this? What is their god’s mouthpiece, the mainstream media prophesying today? The prophet is reminding the State’s people that the enemy is covid and it has taken another five lives. The lead goes on to say this.

There are 22,535 new Covid-19 cases today and a further five deaths have been reported. That brings to 67 the number of people who have died with Covid since the outbreak started in 2020. Three per cent of New Zealand’s population are currently active cases, of which there are 152,358.

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A great Tweet

Convoy 2022 – A view from on the Ground

There is definitely a lot of misinformation and outright deceit about what is going on down in Wellington. The AM show interview with Ardern a couple of days ago was absolutely shameful on that front. If you want to know what’s going on, go to primary sources. People who are actually on the ground in Wellington. Watch the live feeds, hear from the people there. Do yourself a favour, watch both videos.

Seymour? See Less

And so it begins. A press release from Mr Seymour on Friday indicated that change was in the air. More came on Sunday’s press release. Then came a live video chat with Seymour on Sunday evening. There are few things as amusing as a politician doing an about-turn and trying to pretend it is not an about-turn.

Seymour uses the press release to put the boot into Jacinda Ardern and Trevor Mallard, as you would expect.

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Caesar Is Lord?

One of the oddest things is how many evangelical Christians have refused to say the vaccination mandates are unjust. Even now as the narrative is collapsing, they refuse to show public support for those protesting the mandates. This seems to me to demonstrate that their functional Lord is Caesar and not Christ.