It’s Wednesday, October 1st, A.D. 2025. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 140 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Jonathan Clark
Chinese Communists arrested 70 Christians
Chinese Communists arrested over 70 Christians recently in a major crackdown on churches.
The operation began two months ago and involved over 400 police officers. They targeted Christians involved in Bible study groups in east China.
One local Christian told Open Doors, “We have not seen such a massive force used to address church-related matters. This is something that warrants serious attention.”
China is ranked 15th on the Open Doors’ World Watch List of the most difficult countries to be a Christian.
Psalm 14:4 asks, “Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up My people as they eat bread, and do not call on the LORD?”
Trump’s 20-point plan to end Israeli-Gaza War
On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza.
The plan involves the ending of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, the Muslim terrorist group, returning of hostages held by Hamas, and providing humanitarian aid to Gaza. The plan calls for a temporary transitional government over Gaza and an economic development plan to rebuild Gaza.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to the plan. Hamas leaders are reportedly leaning toward accepting the plan.
War Secretary Pete Hegseth: Out with the woke, in with the warrior
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth addressed the military’s most senior leaders yesterday at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Virginia.
Hegseth announced 10 new directives, shifting the department from a “woke” to a “warrior” culture.
He described what makes a good military leader.
HEGSETH: “If I’ve learned one core lesson in my eight months in this job, it’s that personnel is policy. The best way to take care of troops is to give them good leaders committed to the war-fighting culture of the department. Not perfect leaders, good leaders. Competent, qualified, professional, agile, aggressive, innovative, risk-taking, apolitical, faithful to their oath and to the Constitution.”
Secretary Hegseth addressed the importance of rigorous physical standards for soldiers.
HEGSETH: “When it comes to any job that requires physical power to perform in combat, those physical standards must be high and gender neutral. If women can make it, excellent! If not, it is what it is. If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it. That is not the intent, but it could be the result. So be it.
“It will also mean that weak men won’t qualify because we’re not playing games. This is combat. This is life or death. As we all know, this is you versus an enemy hell-bent on killing you. To be an effective, lethal fighting force, you must trust that the warrior alongside you in battle is capable, truly, physically capable, of doing what is necessary under fire.”
He asked whether any of the military leaders would want one of their sons to become a soldier and serve alongside unqualified soldiers.
HEGSETH: “Would you want him serving with fat or unfit or under trained troops? Or alongside people who can’t meet basic standards in a unit where leaders were promoted for reasons other than merit, performance and war fighting? This means at the War Department, first and foremost, we must restore a ruthless, dispassionate and common sense application of standards.”
And Secretary Hegseth explained that the War Department will no longer tolerate the distracting woke nonsense.
HEGSETH: “This administration has done a great deal from day one to remove the social justice, politically correct, and toxic ideological garbage that had infected our department. To rip out the politics. No more identity months, DEI offices, dudes in dresses. No more climate change worship, no more division, distraction, or gender delusions. No more debris.
“As I’ve said before and will say again, we are done with that … I’ve made it my mission to uproot the obvious distractions that made us less capable and less lethal.”
YouTube reinstates conservative accounts banned over anti-COVID shot posts
Last Tuesday, Google announced that it will reinstate YouTube accounts it banned for political speech.
Google said it previously removed YouTube content related to the COVID-19 pandemic after being pressured by the Biden administration.
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, wrote in a letter, “YouTube values conservative voices on its platform and recognizes that these creators have extensive reach and play an important role in civic discourse.”
52% say sex outside heterosexual marriage is sin; 49% say abortion is sin
Here’s more data from the State of Theology study study by Lifeway Research and Ligonier Ministries.
Just under half of U.S. adults believe the Bible is 100% accurate in all that it teaches. Sixty percent say the Bible is the highest authority for what they believe. And 50% believe the Bible has the authority to tell us what we must do.
On moral issues, 52% of Americans say that sex outside of traditional marriage is a sin. Forty-nine percent agree that abortion is a sin. Fifty-four percent oppose transgenderism. And 46% oppose homosexual behavior.
Psalm 19:7-8 reminds us, “The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of the LORD are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.”
Average American’s FICO score is 715
FICO released its inaugural Score Credit Insights Report this month.
The report found the national average FICO credit score is 715. However, young consumers are struggling by comparison with an average FICO score of 676. Gen Z borrowers experienced the largest average score decrease of any age group, falling three points year-over-year.
A key driver for this is student loan debt. Over a third of young consumers have student loans, compared to 17% of the total population.
Planned Parenthood closed it’s 78,000 square foot abortion mill in Houston
And finally, Planned Parenthood officially closed what was the largest abortion mill in North America yesterday.
Back in July, the abortion giant announced it would close two locations in Houston, Texas. One of them was its 78,000-square-foot Prevention Park facility.
The Houston Coalition for Life hosted a vigil outside the building to honor the estimated 110,000+ unborn children killed by abortion there.
Shawn Carney, the CEO of 40 Days for Life, said the ministry has prayed outside the mega abortion mill since 2006. He commented to Fox News about the closure, saying, “This is massive news for the pro-life movement and shows the direction that Planned Parenthood is going, which is down.”
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