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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 30, 2026 at 2:51 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(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.
How Christian Nationalists Took Control of the U.S. Military
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has some revealing tattoos. Across his right bicep is the phrase Deus Vult (“God wills it”), a rallying cry from the 11th century Crusades, and on his right pec is the Jerusalem Cross, which was carried by Christian crusaders on medieval campaigns to conquer the Muslim Ottoman Empire.
Back when Hegseth was a TV commentator, he laid out his vision for a new wave of American holy wars, both foreign and domestic, in American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free. “Surrounded by the Left, with the odds stacked against us,” he wrote, “only a crusade will do.” Since becoming defense secretary in 2025, Hegseth has attempted to implement a Christian crusade mentality within the U.S. military.
In the buildup to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in late February, Hegseth held a Christian worship service at the Pentagon. He prayed for God’s blessing on “overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy,” and said, “Let every round find its mark against the enemies of righteousness and our great nation.” While President Trump warned Iran to “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell,” Hegseth provided the religious apocalyptic validation for the violence—both positioning the U.S. war machine as being on the side of the angels: Deus vult.
Hegseth’s Christian crusade mentality eradicates the wall separating church and state. It gives a government endorsement to Christian nationalist soldiers who supposedly fight to protect God, country, and family. Trump’s war efforts, in this view, are not only removed from the legally mandated oversite by Congress, they are also sanctioned by God.
The rise of religious authority taking precedence over the military’s secular control was the result of what author Jeff Sharlet calls a “cultural transformation” of the American military. Sharlet’s 2009 article “Jesus Killed Muhammad” outlines the strategy for how a “small but powerful movement of Christian soldiers concentrated in the officer corps” helped build a “godly army.” Prayer meetings, call-and-response shouts for evangelical cadets, and other actions lent uniformed support to the cause of Christian nationalism. Now, with Hegseth at the helm, Christian nationalist control of the U.S. military—the conflation of God and country—appears to be complete.
Several Christian organizations operate on or near military bases globally, including the Officers’ Christian Fellowship, the Navigators, the Overseas Christian Servicemen’s Centers, Valor, and Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International.
Cru Military, an affiliate of Campus Crusade for Christ (which is now called Cru), is present at U.S. boot camps and bases in 56 U.S. locations and in 35 countries worldwide, according to its website. In a 2005 sermon, Bob Dees, executive director of what was then called Military Ministry, preached, “We must pursue our particular means for transforming the nation—through the military. And the military may well be the most influential way to affect that spiritual superstructure.”
A goal of the OCF, which claims more than 15,000 members and is active at 80% of the U.S. military bases worldwide, is to create “a spiritually transformed U.S. military, with Ambassadors for Christ in uniform, empowered by the Holy Spirit.” The OCF started a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps ministry for the “next generation of Christian officers”—60% of the nation’s active-duty officers get their commission through ROTC at more than 1,600 colleges and universities. An article on the group’s website presents U.S. wars as a spiritual battle “against the powers of this dark world,” citing Ephesians 6:12, where “our prayer orders become just as important as our operations orders.”
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"
The AF Academy in Colorado is literally surrounded by evangelical organizations.
"The U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs is located in a region often dubbed "Jesus Springs", hosting over 689 Christian nonprofits and ministries. These groups have historically exerted significant influence on the academy's campus culture, sparking prominent controversies regarding religious freedom." -AI
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The vice president of the United States claims that people would be much happier if the United States were a theocracy. You know, Hindus, Jews, and whites would be much happier if everyone were a Christian. He even accuses secular culture of being anti-Semitic and not welcoming to other minorities.
Quote:In a divided America, JD Vance sees Christianity as a unifying force. His new memoir, “Communion,” blames secularism for social strife and proposes faith as the solution. The book is not just a conversion narrative; it is an argument that a more Christian America would also be a more peaceful and tolerant one.
“I do think in a very foundational sense the country is a Christian nation,” Vance tells me in an interview. Religious decline hasn’t removed social divisions, he says, but instead has deepened them: “I see antisemitism spreading ... You’re seeing an elevation of anti-Christian bias. You’re seeing an elevation of anti-White bias. You’re, of course, seeing anti-Asian discrimination.” In short, “The United States is becoming more divided against itself. And I think, again, this is the fruit of secular liberalism.”
In place of secularism, Vance champions a nonsectarian Christianity. “If an ideology was advertised as promoting unity and openness and tolerance, and in fact it has created division and discord, maybe we should try something else,” he says. “And I think that something else is to return to the Christian foundation of the country.”
For Vance, affirming America’s Christian character has less to do with doctrinal agreement or clerical authority than with a shared cultural heritage. The title of his book is a reference not only to the sacrament Christians share at the altar, but also to a common history that binds together disparate people and different generations. There is, Vance writes, a “communion between our ancestors and our descendants” — one he believes is under attack.
Oh look, it turns out that it's Christians like Vance who are spreading antisemitism by forcing Christianity in schools, and not liberal secularists. Almost as if secularism is a real solution.
Quote:Jewish advocate: Texas bible story curriculum isn’t ‘Judeo-Christian,’ just ‘overtly’ Christian
Late last month, the State Board of Education approved a new social studies curriculum for Texas public schools. Controversially, the new standards include passages from English translations of Christian and Jewish religious texts.
Blake Ziegler, the Texas field organizer for the Religious Action Center (RAC) of Reform Judaism, said that the selection “gives overt coverage” to Protestant Christianity “at the expense of others.”
“If you want to teach students about religion, that’s good. That’s necessary for a robust democracy for us to have tolerance and understanding of the other,” he said. “But the way this reading list is trying to accomplish that…students are overtly learning Christian text at the expense of other faiths.”
The history of, and debates around, bible translations stretches back to translations of the Torah in the third century B.C.E.
Torah passages, part of the Christianity’s Old Testament, are part of the curriculum. Teachers will have to teach these from Christian translations. Ziegler said he opposes this, arguing that it “invokes a Christian interpretation.”
“Even where we share literature…it’s being framed through the understanding of one religion, especially when the translations being used are those that are the more evangelical faith-style translations, instead of scholarly translations you might encounter in a religious studies course,” he said.
“When we look at the way Judaism is represented, which is the only non-Christian religion presented on the list, it’s done so in a problematic way,” he said. “There is the implication that the Holocaust was also a divine punishment. That, among other issues, causes us to be concerned about risk of anti-Semitism, Jewish students being put at risk and overall religious freedom violations.”
Ziegler added that education about the Holocaust is essential to a “robust” education. The curriculum also has a unit for 7th graders on “The Diary of a Young Girl,” by Anne Frank. But that unit also includes a King James translation of a chapter of Psalms, a book in both the Torah and Christian Bible.
“Students [will be] taught to understand and process the death and suffering of a Jewish girl in the Holocaust through a Christian understanding,” Ziegler said. “The lack of a Jewish understanding of a Jewish girl’s death is problematic to us.”
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"
