Mrs Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, aged 45, was not doing anything except standing inside an area under what local officials call a “Public Spaces Protection Order.” [Birmingham, UK, News Link] Within these designated areas protest is not permitted. Prayer is considered an act of protesting.
Mrs. Vaughan-Spruce was standing alone, in silence. However, she was thinking prayerful thoughts without speaking. As a consequence, her cognitive state -thinking about prayer- was in violation of the protection order.
A police officer arrived and questioned Mrs. Vaughan-Spruce about her thoughts. Mrs. Vaughan-Spruce told the police officer the truth, she was thinking about prayers. The police officer arrested Mrs. Vaughan-Spruce for violating the Public Spaces Protection Order with her thoughts.
Mrs. Vaughan-Spruce appeared on the Tucker Carlson show to explain what happened. {Direct Rumble link} – WATCH:
A longer video of the entire event is also below.
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How, pray tell, did those bobbies read Vaughn-Spruce’s mind? Did Satan give them special powers?
Yes, he did. And they will suffer the consequences of their choices.
Only God knows the thoughts of man. Satan does not have those powers.
Lucifer hones in on fear, which separates us from God. Starting from a place of fear, Lucifer leads us into the darkness.
Isaiah 41:10
“Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
I think fear, in some ways, is a lack of faith…a reasonable human emotion given any set of unpleasant circumstances….
Jeremiah 29:11
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
He doesn’t have to “read minds”. He gives plenty of evil thoughts to humans. Just ask Adam and Eve. “Hath God said????….”
She looked suspicious just standing there every day. 😖
This is already being done in our own country – a father of seven being arrested in his own home in front of his family? Older ladies praying outside an abortion “clinic?”
At what point, do we stand up, and not just in small groups and tsk, tsk. We are having ProLife marches next month in our State. How much do they help and how much trouble is it to get your clergy to become engaged? This in NOT a fringe issue, but the very heart of life!
The jailing of Isabel Vaughan-Spruce for “praying in her head” is neither surprising nor particularly rare as a denial of free speech in Great Britain…
There has never been such a thing as “free speech” in much of Europe or in Great Britain, but the UK was once pretty free that way. Amazing how quickly “rights” can disappear in places that don’t actually accept that power proceeds up from the people and not down from the government.
Do they still allow soapboxers in Hyde Park?
The remaining non-socialist people of Britain should take note that this kind of thoughtcrime nonsense is what happens when you let the government take away your battle rifles in exchange for lies.
America: never let the globalists and neo-Marxists take away your battle rifles. And NEVER let them near your scoped, bolt-action rifles.
They’re the ones that will deliver change and justice, one 453m sh ot at a time.
True that.
Regards
Jelly
The Brits are hands down the most cucked society in all of the West. To walk the streets of London is far worse than anything you can encounter in any Western city (and yes that includes Paris). It has zero culture or identity. It is the living embodiment of diversity, equity and interracial relationships. Every single street sign is a carefully crafted piece of propaganda.
The citizenry of ‘educated’ England is entirely devoted to this idea of globalization. Body and soul devotion to being a good unquestioning global citizen.
They are very proudly godless people.
Any vestige of old word English gentry is merely an entirely fake creation to suck dollars from the American tourist. It doesn’t exist anymore, it’s purely put on to create a Disney World atmosphere that the tourist expects to find…but it isn’t genuine in the slightest.
The prime minister is an indian and the mayors of all major cities are Pakistanis. A country ENTIRELY run by foreigners.
And it may actually be for the better. At least they’ll have an identity again. Their soft leftist culture will be eaten away and cored out by Islam soon enough, perhaps they can thank God for that.
It’s a uniquely sad country. And it’s exactly where we are headed soon.
I used to travel there 3x a year in my previous job. Thankfully that ended now.
Merry Christmas “Ya’ll”
It is indeed a cesspool…once great city is now mostly foreigners, as was planned. Think Kalergi plan. And that goes for most of Europe and now the USA
How and how fast did things go from ‘The sun never sets on the British Empire‘ to now? I think that study of history would be telling.
How old is America? We’re practically a kid as civilizations go, much less empires, and we’re already on a downward arc. Sobering.
Of course, that’s the purpose of open borders: destroy the culture of the “host” country.
Precisely
I am so, so sorry to learn this. London was one of my favorite places, so much so, I wanted to find a way to live there. Haven’t been in decades and was thinking about going back but you’ve confirmed my suspicions. Just damn.
Very true. Thank you for articulating that so well.
Wasn’t religious persecution one of the causes for the pilgrimage to the New World back when; except now, Outer Space is not an option, so what choice is left.
TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE COPS
They’re your neighbors. Your family members. And they serve the state, not the public. They’ll arrest you because they were ordered to. They’ll shoot you because they can.
The day’s coming when instead of letting themselves be arrested for prayers or thoughts, free men and women will use whatever force is necessary to stop the Gestapo from arresting them; and let the chips fall as they will.
Cops will follow any order for a pension. Cops in large or mid-size cities should be assumed to be the armed enforcers of whoever the ruling politicians of your city are.
They represent the interests of the worst elements. Only sociopaths are recruited to make sure they are thugs only loyal to themselves and the oligarchs.
No doubt at the next outrage is when that will happen.
(or maybe the outrage after that?)
Just not today . . .
Sobering… what is our problem?
I think the Lord wants us to turn to him whole heartedly, as His is the only power able to completely destroy this Satanic WEF/NWO EU Horror taking over the world.
Just think what this evil has accomplished in the last few years. It is astonishing. We want to fight, and we do, in the ways that we can. However, with corruption everywhere; courts, law enforcement, military etc, and arrogant ‘leaders’ openly showing their true dictatorial selves, there is a limit to what we can do. The invasion of homes by the FBI we know was a tool they used to keep the people tightly controlled and fearful for their families. We really need the intervention of God. Pray.
In kinetic war ordinary citizens kill each other over the differences which fomented such war. Uniforms are merely a method of identifying who’s the enemy and who’s not, traditionally. In guerilla war, anyone can be an enemy. Sort them by their actions and allow for no mercy on their life, whoever they are. Never hesitate. They won’t.
You can’t become a Cop anymore unless they know you will show blind obedience.
“The police officer arrested Mrs. Vaughan-Spruce for violating the Public Spaces Protection Order with her thoughts.”
I’d say this sort of thing will happen more and more often now as governments — using some ignorant and paid activists — discourage and even actively force decent police and soldiers from their long-held positions as protectors of peace and replace them with WOKE ignoramuses who, lacking decency and commonsense, will automatically and gleefully do whatever their government masters tell them to.
It happened in Victoria Australia when people were protesting the Covid lockdowns.
Police pepper sprayed and fired rubber bullets at people marching, old women were pushed over by the cops, young men were assaulted all with the approval of Premier Daniel Andrews.
Andrews has been elected to serve another four years of socialist rule after two years of lockdown the longest in the world.
People love the Government telling them what to do, nothing like big daddy looking after you, and yes women love the big hand of Govt. rather than a husband to help and protect them.
One man with a rifle could have ended it
One brave man.
Courage.
Love of country.
So many missing ingredients.
Gutless, worthless police officers.
They’re nothing but Government-paid mercenaries no matter where they are.
So should we defund the police?
The money is already being funneled into ‘mental health officers’ aka official Thought Police.
We should defund both.
Hope the cop that arrested her sleeps well knowing that he removed this dangerous woman from terrorizing the streets of Birmingham.
In one short old fart lifetime, ‘cops’ in Britain went from respected Bobbies with whistles and no firearms to what is policing in the UK today. IMO it’s as much a reflection of their society as it is of their leaders.
It’s pretty much the same here in the U.S.. Shining examples of the downward arc of two formerly grand civilizations, one quite old and one barely wet behind the ears.
Oh they sleep well indeed. Look at the cops from the J6 Protest. They were hailed by Nancy Pelosi as saviors of democracy despite outright murdering two innocent unarmed citizens that day. One woman was shot point blank by a male person of color, Capitol cop Michael Byrd. Another white woman was bludgeoned to death by a female woman of color, DC Metro cop Lila Morris.
The UK was lost years ago. They have a negative birthrate and only the muslim immigrants have children. Native English are the minority in London and other cities. And the Native English, Welsh, etc. when polled are majority atheist.
They are dying and the US is not far behind them.
And now, we are at a negative birth rate and felons are going to “save” us!!! The irony.
Guess what it can and has happened here.
About 10 years ago, while subbing in Oregon, I let some kds stay in the claas rooom at lunch time since it was quite cold.
As I was walking out of the school the principal asked to talk to me. He asked if I had been praying in front of students. Thinking back to lunch I had bowed my head for maybe 30 seconds saying a silent prayer in my head over my lunch. All the students were in the other corner chatting away & I never once said anything to any of them. Apparently just bowing my head over my lunch was not allowed.
For the rest of my time in Oregon students were never allowed in the room during my free periods or lunch time regardless of how cold it was.
Sadly, the scourge of Communism and it’s godlessness has infiltrated most of Oregon’s cities of any size. However, there are still large swaths, the vast majority of the state geographically, where faith and worship and prayer are still strong facets of the fabric of the community, regardless of which religion that might attach to.
You outline an exigent threat though, and it starts in school, as is often opined here as to how the Communists take over, by indoctrinating our children.
Oregon is the Beta test that is to be implemented throughout the country. It seems obvious.
Yes, Prop 114, still tied up in the courts, is a great example. Gun control that would make even California blush, never mind the stuff in that federal Omnibus bill.
Irony? The true weapons of war, NFA weapons, are still legal. I lulz to imagine anyone owning one of Hitler’s zippers putting a 10 round belt in it 😀
Exciting times. Sad that it has to end up like this but that’s how life works sometimes.
Some people are of the opinion that Oregon was the beta test for communism starting decades ago.
There is a group that has is/has been investigating the 2020 msss in Oregon..
As I said before I started do some deep dives myself. I was inveited to a few video group chats To the side I mentioned to a friend that in my research I found it really weird how soon after Mail-In-Voting that Oregon went from Deep Red to Blue. My friend who I had IM’d privately told me to put it out to the group, so I did.
The people who were doing all the investiagtion said that they had foun irregularities all the way back to the first Oregon Mail-In-Votings that seemed to keep increasing
So Alli, YES many do believe that Oregon was the Beta test for communism…Not only did it go from Red to Blue in less then 2-3 voting cycles, but Portalnd is still pretty much run by ANTIFAers and HUGE tent cities.. There really wasn’t enough of an increase in the population for that many liberals to move in swinging it as far Blue as it went.
Video actually protrays Portland a bit better than it is today. First saw it on a James Woods Tweet.
Welcome to Portland – A Progressive Paradise
I would normally say “unbelievable” but these days anything is believable.
I was totally schocked as he said what he said to me, and so were a few teachers I felt I could trust.
Just one more example of what I’ve said all along. The very core of the Leftist / Communist agenda is anti-God. Every element of their agenda and actions points in the same direction if you examine it. We’re in TROUBLE !
Didn’t Kurt Vonnegut write about his?
Here’s one reference…
“Thus did a handful of rapacious citizens come to control all that was worth controlling in America.
Thus was the savage and stupid and entirely inappropriate and unnecessary and humorless American class system created. Honest, industrious, peaceful citizens were classed as bloodsuckers, if they asked to be paid a living wage.
And they saw that praise was reserved henceforth for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed.
Thus the American dream turned belly up, turned green, bobbed to the scummy surface of cupidity unlimited, filled with gas, went bang in the noonday sun.”
There will be no mercy shown for those who were “just following orders”. How could anyone blindly follow such orders without questioning their morality? Completely devoid of humanity
Well, nor anyone who, at this terminal point, voted D in y2020/y2022. Pull your states public voter roll if allowed so that when events become what they inevitably must, the D can be culled from your “friends and vetted associates” network of mutual aid. Fla publishes an extract monthly. I presume one could also submit a public records request. Be prepared. I certainly will not give so much as a bean to any D.
Christ spoke of this.
Matthew 10:22
“You will be hated by all because of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved.”
Thought crimes enforced with Newspeak law “Public Spaces Protection Order.”. The Brit cops should be ashamed of themselves for arresting this woman.
Thank God for the 1st Amendment. I have no doubt our Communist oriented government is thinking this Brit law is a good idea.
COTUS is a piece of paper. It’s up to us to enforce it, and our God-given rights, against the tyranny of other humans. Remember, they are humans; equals. Not superior, not inferior. We all go to God for judgment and we all are mortal and imperfect.
First Amendment must excllude the J6ers in prison….
They’re called ‘bias incidents.’ There’s already supposed to be a national index for them. Not crimes, mind you, just ‘incidents.’
The UK has jumped OFF THE CLIFF…the lemmings are running the country. This once proud nation is a JOKE and a SHELL of its former self. Indoctrination is COMPLETE and they have gone over to the dark side of TYRANNY. The UK is now like China, a nation of SLAVES!
Yeah, I think they can flush “Rule Brittania” down the crapper, especially the last line.
people wearing police uniforms have again demonstrated that they are just brainless thugs who will do anything they are told.The cops in this video would happily load people into railway cars to be sent to concentration camps. They are just following orders. Wasn’t that disallowed for nazi cops who were hung for following orders. These cops should be ridiculed without mercy. These same morons enforced lockdowns and masking. They are capable of anything . Support the blue, I don’t think so.
Don’t know how it was in Britain in the 60’s but back then here in the states common terms were ‘pig’ and ‘fuzz’ and some words that wouldn’t get by the profanity filter here. This is nothing new. However, IMHO, the monikers have become more pervasive across wide swaths of society. Is that a reflection on us? IDK. I daresay most of us go about our lives quietly and peacefully and are completely undeserving of the persecution folks who showed up in D.C. on January 6, 2021 have endured.
Same for the lady praying at the abortion clinic.
IDK, they seem to be poking the sleeping giant more and more, like they want it to awaken from its long slumber. We all better light the prayer candles if that happens.
Very little in life compares to the ferocity of a peaceful man who only wishes to be left alone. Death will come at the enemy in ways they’ve never envisioned once that sleeping giant awakes. Sad, but reality.
Things were pretty tough today, 78 years ago, in the snow and cold of a little burg in Luxembourg, where civilians and soldiers alike had been suffering for quite some time, surrounded by Nazis. Christmas brought them presents. God will provide.
There need to be 10 new people there today — should have been the day after her arrest — and 10 more for every additional person arrested until the courts are properly clogged. Otherwise, she’s just blowing provocative smoke.
The Thought Police are watching what goes on in your mind. Try not to think “wrongthink”!
Orwell was prophetic….
Thought police, hmmm. Wonder what Elon has in mind for those brain chip enhancements?
This is so absurd. Kafka would not believe it possible.
Who doubts that if she were contemplating marching through the streets chanting about killing others, there would be no problem?
Or standing in front of 10 Downing Street in a burkha praying to Allah.
Thousands of people should show up and pray out loud in front of the murder clinic. What are the freaking cops going to do about THAT?
That doesn’t happen because articles like this cultivate an atmosphere of fear. That’s exactly what they are meant to do.
Remember that if the ENEmedia *doesn’t* want us to know something, they censor it from view. When they WANT us to see reports like this one, they obviously have an agenda in mind, and that agenda is to intimidate dissenters.
First time I saw this video I was really hoping that the cop wearing the yellow vest would walk over a deliver a beat down to the cop making the arrest.
PM Sunak’s Secret Plan to Save Bankrupt UK Revealed:
SEND BILLIONS MORE $$$ TO UKRAINE!
As if arresting a woman in silent prayer wasn’t enough insanity!
The entire Western world has gone completely mad. Somebody somewhere was being beaten, raped, robbed, or murdered while those cops were wasting time and tax payer funds arresting that woman.
Who cares about murder, theft, rape and blowing up things? That’s better for the global demons. Citizens killing and victimizing means less work for them.
It’s freedom of the mind they are after.
British coppers at their best. 🙄 I hear you might get a truncheon to the back for “misgendering” a chap. As for grooming gangs? ERROR 404 not found.
This makes my heart heavy. Is there no sane country left on the face of the earth? Abortion aside, there was a provider in an enclave of professional townhouses not far from where I live. Often, there was a noisy crowd of protestors outside. I can understand why that needed to be broken up, what about the dentist next door, or the GP? But this is mind-numbing crazy.
They had a noisy crowd of pro-abortion protesters outside Justice Alito’s house for weeks and it wasn’t broken up!!!
That Orwell’s home country should actually see the reality of Thought Crimes!
These demons cannot tolerate a silent prayer.
Meanwhile:
Back in September, the UK government pledged to spend as much or even more than it did in 2022 on military aid to Ukraine next year. According to the press release, Britain was “the second largest military donor” to Kiev, having committed some £2.3 billion ($2.8 billion) by that time.
https://www.rt.com/news/568852-report-uk-defense-spending-hike/
Fake War coordinated by all parties involved to facilitate BBB.
Even on CTH people will deny the truth in front of their face and their implanted mind control shouting “bad words” will attempt to silence others who point it out.
Sad but true. It appears to really work like that. Doubly sad that we’re here contemplating such matters on such a joyous day. 🙁
Russians must be thinking “hey – we should have invaded the Ukraine earlier!” ; )
Russia’s budget surplus more than quadrupled in November, recording another month of significant growth in revenues from fossil fuels, according to the latest Finance Ministry report.
Meanwhile:
The rate of food inflation in the UK has reached its maximum since 1977, with consumers in poorer areas reporting they are buying less food
Concerns are mounting that unprecedented food inflation may affect the health of the population. The ONS reported that 23% of people surveyed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) said they skipped or reduced the size of a meal because they could not afford to buy food.
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Ukraine has already lost more soldiers killed in combat in 9 months than the total manpower strenth of the entire British Army!
lol, thats almost the total of lives lost during the “War on Covid”….
who do you think youre talking to? Insulting you spout this gibberish as if though its something that should be believed because something on the internet said so.
81 Million Votes!
Please Please think for yourself.
If we’re around $100B+ and UK is second with $2.8B are they just shuffling money around with NATO commitments?
Trying to make sense of a hoax. Its ALL A Scam. WE are the casualties of it.
Look at the grieving soldiers
Very powerful image.
In the future there will be no such thing as a thought crime as there will be no words to express. Orwell
I sense the jackboots were looking for any excuse to beat her up.
King Charles, the “defender of the faith”, one wonders: faith in which god exactly
The god of human sacrifice.
Charles has said in the past he prefers ‘Defender of faith,’ more politically correct he thought than ‘The faith’ which refers to Church of England Christianity.’
Soon it will be that even the innocuous title ‘defender of faith’ will offend some new officious controllers of improper speech/thought. Charles himself is a Globalist.
The USA, Britain and Ukraine – the three leaders of the free world !!!!
Your Home is the Alamo, Act Like It
That’ll teach Richard Grennell! There are gay Treepers but let’s not worry about what they think. If it’ll help you with your manhood issues, keep posting your stuff!
I see you failed to follow the advice on the door.
Seriously, way too sensitive. People like that are not only annoying but offensive to me as well.
Its a two way street.
Catholic’s need another John Paul the second.
This world has well and truly gone to the devil. Pure evil on display everywhere we turn.
When you get into the double sided nature of how this got where it is, this seems rather attention seeking and petty.
Both sides of this argument are nothing more than progressives fighting over the same mound of crap.
Let me guess
People think electing Trump will change all of this?
No, people, the right and the left are FULLY delusional
The right doesn’t believe the actions of the left, the left believes every Communist and Ouija board fueled fantasy they ever met
Society is “over” (or will be soon) and the end times are the only possibility
Whoever says she wasn’t arrested for silent prayer is WRONG
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/12/24/without-a-hope-or-a-prayer-why-the-arrest-of-a-british-woman-outside-of-an-abortion-clinic-is-a-wake-up-call-for-free-speech/
Excerpts
A recent order from September 7 made clear that praying near an abortion clinic is now a criminal act in the country. The Birmingham City Council order says that prohibited acts includes “but is not limited to graphic, verbal or written means, prayer or counselling.”
This is not the first thought crime prosecuted in the country.
Last year, Nicholas Brock, 52, was convicted of a thought crime in Maindhead, Berkshire. The neo-Nazi was given a four-year sentence for what the court called his “toxic ideology” based on the contents of the home he shared with his mother in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Even though Lodder agreed that the defendant was older, had limited mobility, and “there was no evidence of disseminating to others,” he still sent him to prison for holding extremist views.
After the sentencing Detective Chief Superintendent Kath Barnes, Head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), warned others that he was going to prison because he “showed a clear right-wing ideology with the evidence seized from his possessions during the investigation….We are committed to tackling all forms of toxic ideology which has the potential to threaten public safety and security.”
Now this is actually nothing really new – Around the time of the destruction of the 2nd Temple, a decree had been issued that forbade ANY teaching, speaking, dovening (prayer while rocking), reading or any display of worship – upon pain of death.
You see, it’s actually just the same “old” actors in new clothes – doing the same, and for the same purpose – That is to block at all costs, the light (truth) from illuminating the world.
1945: Britain helped defeat fascist counties.
2022: Britain is a fascist country.
This video could have been a skit on Monty Python’s Flying Circus back in the day.
The zaniness of the past is now realty.
These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen to run before his chariots; and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his courtiers. (1 Sam. 8:10-17) – Anything changed???
The Catholic church lost it’s authority on earth when it colluded with the French government to persecute, slaughter, and plunder the Knights Templer. Since that day they have quietly acquiesced to States in order to continue to enrich the Vatican and maintain their pseudo image.
This is not to say that the Catholics had not been part of horrendous actions before this time, and Emporer Constantine did start the State corruption and enrichment of the Vatican, nor does it take away from the many wondrous and faithful things many of it’s clergy and faithful have accomplished. It only reinforces that things governed by man will be corrupted by man.
The bloom is off the rose.
Sarcasm:
Warning,
It was rumored that soros, I x, b o, chuckee,
Na ncy ( I’m catholic )
bran don ( I’m catholic ) , mc etc
may have had a quiet thought… !
Maybe that’s just a rumor – without thought?
Sarcasm ended
Or, maybe
you have to read it,
to $ee what is in it ?
( already passed omnibu$ etc. )
ˈprōˌtest/
(It would seem to me that those two police officers violated the law they are so adamant about enforcing.)
Why don’t the cops go out and arrest some burglars or car thieves or thugs. As a retired Police officer I find this alarming, what sort of cops are they recruiting? Obviously creeps who are over officious with no brains.
I caught this article (St. Louis Dispatch) early today and have a feeling the woman whose car was stolen had her fill of lack of policing and went on a mission herself. If the article is right, she killed two and wounded one in her stolen car after tracking them down.
Harsh? Well, they hung horse thieves not so much to kill them, rather to save other potential thieves from the same fate. Humanitarian 🙂
They are Alan, the devils minions.
Burglars and car thieves and thugs might resist, which could result in an injury to one of those “brave” bobbies. Much safer for them to concentrate their efforts on keeping the proles in line than actually combatting the criminal element.
Well it is easier to arrest those that don’t put up a fight.
Hello,
I thought I’ll share the following for others to share.
Evidence suggesting an iatrogenic death spike in England in the spring of 2020 is mounting up
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/evidence-suggesting-an-iatrogenic-death-spike-in-england-in-the-spring-of-2020-is-mounting-up/
This is the problem our churches are not standing up for God
— In the area of Oregon where I lived, the people were VERY Christian sonservative.. However when it came to the churches closing, wearing of masks & distancing ONLY ONE went on as usual..
Sad that this nation that was technically founded on Freedom of Religion was willing to give religion up for a bunch of lies.
2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV) “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
I also believe that our churches closing “for the good of and to show love for the community” was shocking. I thought every church including mine closed in my area but as far as I know ONE did stay open with no masks or distancing and left their doors open. It is possible that when the churches closed and locked their doors, the rampant mental illness began that we see today. 🙁 🙁
I truly find it strange that no one mentions how sucides increased in 2020 & 2021, especially among teens.
Remember teens alos lost their community resources and beeing able to hang out with their peers.
Closing churches was a scheme to destroy the “faith community” and sow division. Those parishioners that criticized and opposed the closures were immediately labelled as “selfish” by congregants influenced (read: brainwashed) by the Fake News outlets, “dr(?) Fraudci, the “woke” medical community, pharma firms, and of course the Democratic cabal.
I have no use now for those faith leaders/faith institutions (parishes/Catholic dioceses) that surrendered, complied, and sold out their faithful but I celebrate those like Pastor Arthur Pawlowski in Calgary Canada, he sacrificed all spending weeks in jail for refusing to submit to the despotic lockdown decrees (he’s now been proven right in court).
I had to pressure a church that I am not a member of to have open prayer this year. For years their tradition was to open the church up one day a week from Thanksgiving to Christmas for open prayer, reflection, meditation.
They were not going to do it this year because participation has been down, pre-covid, and then w/Covid they had it, but requested masks be worn, and numbers were low. They couldn’t rationalize paying for heat, lighting, and a volunteer’s time to open up and close the church. To a certain point I agree, but w/each and every tradition curbed or stopped we lose. They ended up doing one day, instead of weeks. Open from 2-4. Three people showed along w/one volunteer. I was there for an hour, not sure if anyone showed later, but it made me sad. When I first started going there were lots of people participating coming and going through out the time allotted. Most years they had it from 5-7, then they tried 3-6, and now 2-4.
Same w/late Christmas Eve services this year, there seems to be a shortage of those. It was decided before the cold blast that numerous churches I follow were not going to have a late service. For me, those I like the best, after a busy day of getting ready for Christmas on Christmas Eve you go to church to welcome in Christmas at 11:00 w/communion as the last activity of the day. Then you go home w/the feeling of Christmas in your heart.
Interestingly enough w/Christmas falling on Sunday this year many churches in the area are not doing a Sunday service. I don’t get it.
Our church not only had/have a Christmas Eve and Day service but did a Christmas at the mansion for the last 3 weeks with last one on Monday. . !! Our church is where the old South Dakota governor’s mansion was moved. Think we own it, keep meeting to ask.
Sundance, how can “Fabian Socialism” not be one of the categories for your OP? As pointed by others, “Thoughtcrime” was a word coined by George Orwell in his 1984 book …, and the book was clearly written in response to the threat of Fabian Socialism. Fabian Socialism is behind much of what is going on not only in the UK but worldwide, as I’ve pointed out over and over.
Whole lot going on in this little scene! Yes, abortion evil cops bad law is ridiculous.
The bigger picture the war on God and human life on this planet. We are seeing the real war for planet earth and its beginnings and all scenes like this. The Falling away, the removal of the restrainer and then the Day of the Lord.
For, behold, the Lord (Jesus) will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. for by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh, and the slain of the Lord shall be many. Isaiah 66: 15/16. Predecessor to, 2 Thessalonians 2