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Cocaine found in Russian Metropolitan's car in the Czech Republic
Russian Metropolitan Hilarion, who worked in the Czech Republic, was transporting cocaine in his car. This was confirmed by the Czech police after an expert examination of the seized substance.
Police stopped Hilarion's car on a highway near Prague after receiving an anonymous tip. The Metropolitan, along with a driver, was traveling from Karlovy Vary to Budapest, where he resides.
During the search, law enforcement officers found three bags of white powder in the car. The substance was sent for forensic examination, which confirmed it was cocaine.
After the detention, the clergyman spent two days in custody before being released. He is currently in Moscow. From there, Hilarion claims that the media is allegedly groundlessly linking him to the activities of Russian intelligence services.
According to Deník N, the Russian Orthodox Church has already decided to transfer the Metropolitan to another place of service.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Quote:Southern Baptist Convention weighs stricter ban on churches with women pastors
Southern Baptists are beginning their annual meeting Tuesday morning, where church representatives in the staunchly conservative evangelical denomination are expected to vote on a constitutional amendment that would formally ban churches with women pastors.
This will be the fourth year in a row that messengers, as the church delegates are known, are voting on an amendment regarding women pastors. The Southern Baptist Convention’s statement of belief, the Baptist Faith and Message, opposes women pastors. But its churches are independent and the denomination can’t tell them what to do.
But the denomination can exclude a church from its ranks, and it has already expelled some churches with women in senior pastoral positions. The currently proposed amendment would specifically ban churches where women have the office of pastor or are functioning as one, including “preaching to the assembled congregation.”
Southern Baptist leaders cite biblical passages they say clearly limit the role of pastor to men.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Renowned Christian foster agency barring LGBTQ couples from adopting chidren
One of the nation’s largest Christian foster care and adoption agencies will no longer allow LGBTQ couples to foster or adopt children through its programs, clarifying a years-old policy and citing a renewed commitment to its religious beliefs.
Bethany Christian Services announced the change in a Wednesday press release, saying future foster families must align with the organization’s Statement of Faith and Belief.
“Clarity around our Christian identity is essential to our Christian witness and critical to the long-term health, sustainability, and impact of our mission,” Keith Cureton, CEO of Bethany Christian Services, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
“We believe this clarity strengthens our ministry, honors those we serve, and reinforces alignment with partners who share our faith convictions,” Cureton added.
Bethany Christian Services, headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was founded in 1944, and is a faith-based non-for-profit that serves over 25 U.S. states and is “dedicated to helping children and families thrive.”
“This work is about reinforcing the Christian foundation that has guided our organization for more than 80 years,” a spokesperson for Bethany Christian Services told Fox News Digital in a statement Friday.
“These actions flow from our conviction that faithfulness to God’s Word must remain central to our mission of demonstrating the love and compassion of Jesus through quality social services.
Beginning June 2027, Bethany will only license and re-license foster families whose Christian faith and beliefs align with our Statement of Faith and Belief.
The “God’s design for marriage” section in the “Statement of faith and belief” dated June 2027 reads, “We believe God designed the family as the primary structure for love, care, and human flourishing. We work to strengthen families and preserve them whenever possible. We affirm the biblical design of marriage as a covenant between one man and one woman, established by God to reflect His love and faithfulness. This covenant reflects Christ’s love and provides a stable, nurturing environment for children.”
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
Christian school pays $10K to student suspended for coming out as gay
A Tennessee Christian school agreed to pay a former student $10,000 to settle a legal battle after she sued the school for barring her from graduation and suspending her after she came out as gay on social media.
A final judgment entered Monday resolved the lawsuit filed by Morgan Armstrong, a graduating senior at Tennessee Christian Preparatory School near Chattanooga.
In April 2025, then-18-year-old Armstrong announced her relationship in a post on Instagram, which featured photos of her kissing and holding hands with a woman with the caption, “cats outta the bag.”
Armstrong filed the suit in May 2025, claiming that less than a week later, the school’s top administrators suspended her and barred her from all school events, including her upcoming graduation ceremony. She argued the decision was motivated by her coming out as gay.
She also alleged the school threatened to withhold her diploma and make disparaging remarks about her to prospective colleges and universities if there was any “online slander” about the school.
Tennessee Christian Preparatory School denied the allegations and maintained that Armstrong violated its school policies for reasons other than being gay. The school claimed Armstrong had academic and attendance issues, excessive tardiness and that her parents failed to make required payments under its enrollment agreement.
So, if the school suspended her for other reasons than being gay, why did they decide to pay her $10,000 to settle a legal battle?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
This isn’t the first time Christians have tried to claim the United States as their own
In May 2026, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other prominent officials participated in a prayer service in Washington, D.C. Johnson proclaimed, “We hereby rededicate the United States of America as one nation under God.” Though planners invoked the nation’s “Judeo-Christian” heritage, most religious leaders at the event came from the evangelical Christian tradition. In a prerecorded video, President Donald Trump read from the New Testament book of 2 Corinthians.
At first glance, these expressions might seem triumphalist declarations that link the nation’s success over the past 250 years with Christian faith. As a historian of U.S. Christianity, however, I recognize expressions like these often arise when Christian Americans are feeling anything but triumphant.
As the U.S. plunged into Civil War in 1861, both the Union and Confederacy sought to link their side to God. The preamble of the Confederate constitution noted a desire for “the favor and guidance of Almighty God” for their new government.
In the North, the Pennsylvania clergyman M.R. Watkinson successfully lobbied for a reference to God to be added to coins. Watkinson believed the nation was guilty of “disowning God” and urged the treasury secretary to make declarations of religiosity. This would “place us openly under the divine protection,” he noted.
Three years later, as war dragged on, a group comprising members of the North’s major Protestant denominations urged a change to the preamble of the U.S. Constitution. Its members sought to declare that Americans recognized “Almighty God as the source of all authority and power in civil government” and desired “to constitute a Christian government.”
The amendment was not ratified during the Civil War, but the efforts in both the North and South revealed how an existential political crisis pushed language of God into government.
Soon after the Civil War, Protestant Christians in the U.S. perceived a new threat. Beginning in the 1870s, atheism and indifference to religion became popular, especially among younger intellectuals. Rising numbers of Catholic and Jewish immigrants brought greater religious diversity.
Fearing a loss of their significant clout and influence, devout Protestants revived the earlier campaign to write their faith commitments into the Constitution.
In addition to placing references to God and Jesus in the Constitution, their proposed amendment declared the Bible “the supreme rule for the conduct of nations.”
The Christian amendment ultimately failed, largely because not all Protestants supported it. But anxieties about growing diversity and rising indifference had convinced many Americans of the need to enshrine Christianity in the Constitution.
Anxieties in the aftermath of World War II and the dawn of the Cold War brought another rise of Christian rhetoric in U.S. civic life.
In 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower signed a bill adding the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. The president’s signing statement noted that the phrase represented a “reaffirming” of “the transcendence of religious faith in America’s heritage and future.”
More often than not, the insistence that the U.S. is “one nation under God” is not a triumphant statement of success.
This fear was evident in the response of an attendee at the “Rededicate 250” prayer service in May. When interviewed by PBS, this attendee declared, “American is built on the Christian faith,” and added, “if we lose this faith, the whole country will collapse.”
Throughout the nation’s history, that existential fear has inspired efforts to declare the U.S. a Christian nation.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
(June 3, 2026 at 11:46 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Cocaine found in Russian Metropolitan's car in the Czech Republic
Russian Metropolitan Hilarion, who worked in the Czech Republic, was transporting cocaine in his car. This was confirmed by the Czech police after an expert examination of the seized substance.
Police stopped Hilarion's car on a highway near Prague after receiving an anonymous tip. The Metropolitan, along with a driver, was traveling from Karlovy Vary to Budapest, where he resides.
During the search, law enforcement officers found three bags of white powder in the car. The substance was sent for forensic examination, which confirmed it was cocaine.
After the detention, the clergyman spent two days in custody before being released. He is currently in Moscow. From there, Hilarion claims that the media is allegedly groundlessly linking him to the activities of Russian intelligence services.
According to Deník N, the Russian Orthodox Church has already decided to transfer the Metropolitan to another place of service.
(June 3, 2026 at 11:46 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Cocaine found in Russian Metropolitan's car in the Czech Republic
Russian Metropolitan Hilarion, who worked in the Czech Republic, was transporting cocaine in his car. This was confirmed by the Czech police after an expert examination of the seized substance.
Police stopped Hilarion's car on a highway near Prague after receiving an anonymous tip. The Metropolitan, along with a driver, was traveling from Karlovy Vary to Budapest, where he resides.
During the search, law enforcement officers found three bags of white powder in the car. The substance was sent for forensic examination, which confirmed it was cocaine.
After the detention, the clergyman spent two days in custody before being released. He is currently in Moscow. From there, Hilarion claims that the media is allegedly groundlessly linking him to the activities of Russian intelligence services.
According to Deník N, the Russian Orthodox Church has already decided to transfer the Metropolitan to another place of service.
