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What’s wrong with you people? R.C. Sproul asked this stinging question with the kind of directness that our culture so desperately needs today. While Sproul’s question was rooted in a theological context, it has become an icon in Christian circles for wondering out loud: what in the world is going on? It is an apt expression for our broader society—a society that has lost its grip on reality, morality, and reason. So again, I ask: What’s wrong with you people? Look around you—take a glance at the news. We live in a time where left-wing radicals attempt to assassinate a...

When media outlets make biased decisions about what stories to cover or not cover, it activates the availability heuristic, a common logical fallacy. That’s why it’s important to rely on data, not anecdotes – especially when it comes to matters of health. The data tell us that maternal health in the United States is far worse than in economically similar nations. This is a serious problem that goes back decades, and it got even worse during COVID. Thankfully, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that we are seeing some improvement. American maternal deaths – defined to include deaths...

The first debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris took place Tuesday night on ABC News with the two candidates facing off on numerous pressing issues, including abortion. Multiple times, misinformation was shared regarding the current state of abortion laws in the United States — including abortion in cases of medical emergencies and cases of infanticide. Aside from the usual false rhetoric about “Trump’s abortion bans” (which are both figments of the imagination and propaganda), here are four lies told regarding abortion during the debate: LIE #1: Abortions don’t happen in the ninth month of pregnancy....

A pregnant woman’s Rh factor (an immunoglobulin protein) is important information to know. If a woman’s blood is Rh negative and her baby’s is Rh positive, this could cause problems for her future pregnancies if left untreated. As OBGYN Dr. Ingrid Skop explained (emphasis added), “Evaluation of Rh status and provision of Rhogam, if indicated, has long been the standard of care for early pregnancy loss, including elective induced abortion. This action will prevent a mother from mounting an immune response to her future unborn children. If Rhogam is not given and isoimmunization occurs, 14% of untreated infants will be...

Three individuals charged with targeted attacks on pregnancy help organizations in Florida were sentenced in federal court this week. Caleb Freestone was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to intimidate employees of pro-life pregnancy help centers. His co-defendants, Amber Smith-Stewart and Annarella Rivera, were sentenced to 30 days in prison and 60 days of home detention. Freestone, along with Smith-Stewart and Rivera, attacked pregnancy help centers in Florida that provide alternatives to abortion, vandalizing them with threatening messages including, “If abortions aren’t safe than niether [sic] are you,” “YOUR TIME IS UP!!,” “WE’RE COMING for...

Whether you like it or not, your government will now make you pay for women you’ve never met to kill their unborn babies! An unchallenged court ruling has officially made Nevada the 18th state to start spending Medicaid funds on “free” abortions for low-income women. This decision argues that denying coverage through the taxpayer funded program violates Nevada’s “Equal Rights Amendment” adopted in 2022. “With this victory, more Nevadans will be able to make the best personal medical decisions for themselves and their families,” cheered Erin Bilbray-Kohn, executive director of the Silver State Hope Fund, in a statement obtained by...

Jane's Addiction have now cancelled their entire tour following the onstage bust-up between guitarist Dave Navarro and lead singer Perry Farrell. The duo got into a fight last week in the middle of their Boston show, with eyewitnesses claiming Farrell, 65, began shouting at Navarro during 'Mountain Song.' On Monday, Navarro, 57, told fans the tour would no longer continue. 'Due to a continuing pattern of behavior and the mental health difficulties of our singer Perry Farrell, we have come to the conclusion that we have no choice but to discontinue the current US tour,' Navarro said in a statement....

Video of the moment Donald Trump's alleged would-be assassin Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested has been released by cops. Routh, 58, is seen struggling with officers with his shirt and arms over his head after he was surrounded by law enforcement on a road about 50 miles from West Palm Beach, Florida. He was stopped on Sunday morning just over an hour after he allegedly pointed a rifle through a fence to try and kill the former president while he was playing golf. Police were able to track him down after a witness saw him fleeing the scene in a...

Is Genesis a record of true history, given by God, or was it written by men trying to answer the questions that plague our world? An article I saw recently [from the Biblical Archaeology Society] makes the latter claim—that Genesis is just a compilation of etiological myths finally written down by the biblical authors. Now, what is an “etiological myth”? The article answers this way: “The creation stories in Genesis served to provide answers to why the world was the way it was, such as why people wear clothes and why women experience pain during childbirth.” So according to this...

Christopher Griggs is standing trial this week, accused of violently killing a beloved Atlanta pastor in May 2022. Rev. Marita Harrell was the senior pastor at Connections at Metropolitan United Methodist Church in Atlanta. Before the murder, she was mentoring the formerly incarcerated Griggs, attempting to help him get his life back on track. “God has placed these people in my life, I cannot turn away from them,” Harrell told her husband before her death. [Editor’s Note: This article includes details of the murder that some readers might find disturbing.] Christopher Griggs Stands Trial for Brutal Murder of Beloved Pastor...

It’s back-to-school time in America. In the past few weeks, more than 54 million kids went to school at the kindergarten through 12th grade level. Add preschool and college to that number, and 79.5 million Americans are students. That’s nearly a quarter of the entire population of the country. Most of these students go to public schools, but we have seen significant shifts in the past few years. The US Census Bureau says about seven million children, or about 13 percent of school aged students, go to private schools. This includes about 3.5 million homeschooled children. Both numbers represent significant...

A Christian therapist trying to reunite sons with their father, who’s accused of trying to drown their older brother and sexually abusing their sisters, has sparked a major controversy in Colorado. The mother of the children, Rachel Pickrel-Hawkins, is accusing the therapist—Christine “Chris” Bassett, a licensed marriage and family therapist with Lighthouse Christian Counseling—of abusing the sons in therapy. And Pickrel-Hawkins is refusing to cooperate with the court-ordered therapy, according to the Denver Gazette. For her opposition to the so-called “reunification therapy,” a judge initially sentenced Pickrel-Hawkins to seven weekends in jail for contempt. The mother served two weekends in...

The 10,000-member Bethel Church in Redding, California, is an assortment of false teaching and bizarre charismatic shenanigans. From ‘Little God theology,’ using prophetic Uno cards, going on satanic treasure hunts, teaching that Adam created the animals in Eden, that Michael the Archangel wears tights, and that angels sit around the throne of God having “farting contests,” it’s a hotbed of strange fire burning uncontrollably throughout Christendom. (see endnotes.) Yet what many people may not know about Bethel church is that along with their more notorious claims of gold dust falling from “glory clouds in the ceiling” and gold teeth being...

2|42 Community Church members were in shock after discovering that their much loved Worship Pastor Director, Will Johnson, was arrested and fired over the weekend for allegedly being a super perverted peeping tom and placing a hidden camera in the church bathroom. In a letter sent to members by the Michigan-area megachurch, which has seven locations across the state, they share that after discovering the hidden camera “inside a non-public unisex bathroom” in the backstage area of their Brighton campus, which people of all ages would have used, Johnson, who has a wife and a young daughter, confessed and was...

New questions are being raised over the Secret Service's protective capabilities after a gunman was spotted hiding in the bushes yesterday as former president Donald Trump played golf in Florida. Agents opened fire on would-be shooter named as 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh after eagle-eyed agents detected him pointing a rifle through a fence lining Trump's private golf club in West Palm Beach a few hundred yards away from the president. The FBI described it as an apparent attempted assassination on the GOP nominee. While the Secret Service has been praised for its swift action in foiling the attempted attack on...

Tito Jackson has died aged 70. The Jackson 5 founding member and Michael Jackson's older brother passed away on Sunday from a suspected heart attack while driving from New Mexico to Oklahoma - family friend and former Jackson family manager Steve Manning told ET. An official cause of death has not yet been determined. Tito was last pictured on September 9 in Munich, Germany six days before his death - ahead of a performance by The Jacksons' current line-up, also featuring brothers Jackie and Marlon Jackson. King of Pop Michael - who was known for hits including Smooth Criminal and...

The son of Ryan Wesley Routh, the man named as the suspect in a possible assassination attempt near Donald Trump's Florida golf club on Sunday, has said his father is not a violent person and did not even believe him to own a gun. Routh's son, Oran Routh, reached by DailyMail.com shortly after Sunday's shooting, said this was the first he'd heard of the alleged assassination attempt. 'This was the first I heard about it,' the 35-year-old exclusively told DailyMail.com. 'Was my father shot or injured?' He said his father hates Trump as 'every reasonable person does. ‘I don't like...

Ryan Wesley Routh, the man named as the suspect in a possible assassination attempt near Donald Trump's Florida golf club, was calm and emotionless when he was arrested Sunday. Routh, 58 is in custody after the terrifying incident at Trump International Club almost exactly two months after a separate assassination attempt against Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The suspect was found unarmed, as a backpack, GoPro camera and AK-47 style rifle that a gunman left behind when fleeing the scene have already been located. Martin County Sherriff William D. Snyder said Routh 'was not displaying a lot of...

Terrence is blowing his top over what happened today.

Customer comments on the situation and then the twins given their opinion.