Daily Verse | Proverbs 10:19
When words are many, sin is not absent,
but he who holds his tongue is wise.
Welcome to Wednesday and midpoint of the week. I’ve got a few hot takes for you this morning and end with some interesting biblical news.
The DNC junta now wants to censor your personal texts. According to Politico,
“Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages. The goal is to ensure that people who may have difficulty getting a vaccination because of issues like transportation see those barriers lessened or removed entirely.”
Censoring content on social media worked so well that now they want to add your personal text messages to fact-checking. Gee, once that’s implemented, what other kind of information should be fact-checked?
Joe Biden and his allies are returning us to our norms! Isn’t it great that we don’t have the authoritarian Donald J. Trump in office to be worried about?
Dennis Prager offers five things most Americans can do to make America better. I’m sometimes asked what we can “do” in response to the collapse of our country. From Prager’s column yesterday:
Throughout American history until the post-World War II era, had you asked almost any American what constitutes living a good life, he or she would have offered any or all of these five responses:
No. 1: Developing one’s moral character.
No. 2: Getting married and making a good family.
No. 3. Taking care of one’s family, especially one’s parents.
No. 4. Going to church (or synagogue).
No. 5. Taking care of the poor in one’s community, usually by joining a service organization such as a church charity, a Kiwanis, Lions or Rotary Club.
My suspicion is that if one were to ask young people today, and certainly anyone on the left, you would not receive any of those five responses.
He goes on to explain each in detail. Read the whole thing.
Texas Democrats flee the state to avoid voting on a number of changes to Texas’ voting system. According to The Texas Tribune,
More than 50 House Democrats left Monday for Washington, D.C., to deny the chamber a quorum — the minimum number of lawmakers needed to conduct business — as it takes up voting restrictions and other Republican priorities in a special session.
That agenda, set by Gov. Greg Abbott, includes House Bill 3 and Senate Bill 1, the election legislation at hand that would make a number of changes to Texas’ voting system, such as banning drive-thru and 24 hour voting options and further restricting the state’s voting-by-mail rules. Over the weekend, both House and Senate committees advanced the election bills.
These are the same hijinks the Democrats in Wisconsin pulled in 2011. But the most embarrassing moment of this entire escapade is this absolutely awful misuse of the song, “We Shall Overcome.” What a bunch of buffoons.
Clay jar from the time of biblical Gideon found in Israel. One of the reasons people who don’t believe the Christian scriptures is that they think they’re stories not grounded in actual history. That’s not really true, though. While the following story doesn’t prove that the account of Gideon is true, it does prove that his “nickname” was actually known and used in that day.
An inscription dating back some 3,100 years ago bearing the name of a biblical judge Jerubbaal was uncovered in the excavations at Khirbat er-Ra‘i, near Kiryat Gat in the Southern District of Israel, the Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced on Monday.
The researchers highlighted that while there cannot be any certainty on whether the inscription refers to the figure mentioned in the Book of Judges, this discovery offers important insights on the connection between the biblical text and historical reality.
Inscriptions from that period – the 12th-11th century BCE – are extremely rare. All the dating has been carried out through both pottery typology and radiocarbon of organic samples found in the same archaeological layer.
The writing, inked on a jug, marks the first time that the name Jerubbaal has been found outside the biblical text. It is believed that the owner penned his name on the jug.
Wow — to think it possible that we may have found an artifact with Gideon’s actual handwriting on it. There are a lot of archaeological finds that back up the history recorded in the Bible. Here’s a few more for you to read:
Handwriting Study Finds Clues on When Biblical Texts Written