It’s Thursday, February 20th, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
74% rise in hate speech in India targeting Christians and Muslims
While India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with President Donald Trump last Wednesday to discuss the threat of increased tariffs between the two countries, the Center for the Study of Organized Hate found a 74% rise in hate speech incidents last year in India compared to 2023.
About 10% of the 1,165 incidents targeted Christians — a population that makes up just 2.3% of the population — while more than 98% of cases targeted Muslims, either alone or together with Christians, reports International Christian Concern.
In John 15:18-19, Jesus said, “If the world hates you, be aware that it hated Me before it hated you. … Because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
Judge gives Dept. of Government Efficiency massive win
On Tuesday, a federal judge refused to immediately block Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data systems or participating in worker layoffs, reports The Guardian.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an Obama appointee, found that there were legitimate questions about the billionaire’s authority, but said there was not enough evidence of grave legal harm to justify a temporary restraining order.
The decision came in reaction to a February 13th lawsuit filed by 14 attorneys general in Democratic states challenging the Department of Government Efficiency’s authority to access sensitive government data.
But the Trump administration has maintained that layoffs are ordered by agency heads.
Biden’s EPA advisor admits $50 billion ‘insurance policy’ against Trump
In an undercover video that was released last December, Project Veritas revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency was frantically doling out billions of dollars before then President-elect Donald Trump took office on January 20th, 2025.
The video revealed that Brent Efron, Special Advisor for Implementation at the EPA, was having drinks with a undercover Project Veritas reporter, bragging about how much hard-earned taxpayer money he was doling out to liberal climate groups.
Listen.
EFRON: “We’ve given out, like, tens of billions of dollars.”
REPORTER: “The EPA has?”
EFRON: “Like last year, like $50 billion.”
REPORTER: “$50 million?”
EFRON: “No. billion dollars. Billion with a B.”
REPORTER: “$50 billion?”
EFRON: “Yes, for climate things.”
Shockingly, Efron described what they were doing at the EPA leading up to Trump’s January 20th, 2025 inauguration as throwing gold bars off the Titanic.
EFRON: “It truly feels like we’re on the Titanic, and we’re throwing, like, gold bars off the back end.”
REPORTER: “Does it really?”
EFRON: “Yeah.”
REPORTER: “It’s gotta feel weird.”
EFRON: “It’s weird. I mean, it’s it’s not good vibes. It’s not good. I mean, everyone’s very sad.”
REPORTER: “Where are the gold bars going to?”
EFRON: “Non-profits, states, tribes, cities.”
REPORTER: “Anything, like, in the news that I would know of?”
EFRON: “Not yet.”
The undercover Project Veritas reporter wanted to know what would happen if the Trump people discovered what the Biden appointees were doing with the money.
REPORTER: “What happens if they try to stop it? They can?”
EFRON: “When they come in, if we haven’t gotten out the door, then they can stop it.”
REPORTER: “You’ve got like two months. If they don’t get it out by a certain date. What’s that date?”
EFRON: “It’s the inauguration, the 20th. It’s noon on the 20th of January.”
REPORTER: “You can work right down to the minute?”
EFRON: “It’s probably like a little after noon. Yeah.”
REPORTER: “Hey, throw a couple billion here or there.”
EFRON: “It’s until the Trump people come in and tell us we can no longer give out money.”
REPORTER: “Wow!”
Efron also said, “We gave them [the nonprofits] the money because… it was an insurance policy against Trump winning. Because they aren’t [a government agency], they’re safer from Republicans taking the money away.”
Trump’s EPA Administrator found $20 billion siphoned away by Biden’s people
Lee Zeldin, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, was horrified by this revelation, reports The Western Journal.
ZELDIN: “An extremely disturbing video circulated two months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic, rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before Inauguration Day. The gold bars were tax dollars, and ‘tossing them off the Titanic’ meant the Biden administration knew they were wasting it.”
To his credit, Zeldin was able to recover $20 billion of our taxpayer money, according to his Monday video.
ZELDIN: “Fortunately, my awesome team at EPA has found the gold bars. Shockingly, roughly $20 billion of your tax dollars were parked at an outside financial institution by the Biden EPA. This scheme was the first of its kind in EPA history, and it was purposely designed to obligate all of the money in a rush job with reduced oversight.
“Even further, this pot of $20 billion was awarded to just eight entities that were then responsible for doling out your money to [Non Governmental Organizations] and others, at their discretion, with far less transparency. Just under $7 billion was sent to one entity called the Climate United Fund.”
Zeldin explained what he intends to do now.
ZELDIN: “Here’s my position as EPA Administrator. The financial agent agreement with the bank needs to be instantly terminated, and the bank must immediately return all of the ‘gold bars’ that the Biden administration tossed off the Titanic.
“EPA needs to reassume responsibility for all of these funds. We will review every penny that has gone out the door. I will be referring this matter to the Inspector General’s office, and we’ll work with the Justice Department as well.”
Presbyterian Church in America repents of helping illegals stay
And finally, The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) recently issued a statement repenting for guidance on one of its websites that advised illegal immigrants how to avoid detainment by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, reports The Christian Post.
After it went viral on X last week, the conservative Presbyterian denomination deleted a resource page titled “Refugee & Immigrant Ministry for Churches: Help Immigrants Facing 2025 Policy Changes.” It was published in January by Mission to North America, a subsidiary of the PCA.
Megan Basham, author of Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded Truth for A Leftist Agenda, tweeted, “The verbiage of this document from the [Presbyterian Church in America] is overall emotionally manipulative, showing no respect for U.S. immigration law. It assumes that the only way you can love your immigrant neighbor is by helping him continue to remain in the country illegally.”
After the guidance was deleted, Mission to North America Director Irwyn Ince issued an extensive statement of repentance.
He wrote, “We affirm that it is our Christian duty to obey the lawful commands of the civil magistrate and be subject to their authority (Romans 13:1-4; 1 Peter 2:13-14). To counsel otherwise is a sin. We confess that we fell short of our Biblical and Confessional standard. We repent and apologize.”
Indeed, 1 Peter 2:13-14 does say, “Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.”
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