It’s Wednesday, July 31st, A.D. 2024. This is The World View in 5 Minutes written by Jonathan Clark and heard at www.TheWorldView.com. Filling in for Adam McManus I’m Ean Leppin.
U.K. Upholds Ban on Puberty Blockers
A High Court judge in the U.K. upheld the country’s emergency ban on puberty blockers for children on Monday.
Mrs. Justice Lang based her decision on the Cass Review. The study found so-called “gender-affirming care” could actually be harmful for gender-confused children.
Lang ruled, “In my view, it was rational for the first defendant to decide that it was essential to adopt the emergency procedure to avoid serious danger to the health of children and young people who would otherwise be prescribed puberty blockers during that five- to six-month period.”
Trump Calls out Harris for Hostility to Christians
In the U.S., former President Donald Trump called out Vice President Kamala Harris last Friday for targeting people of faith.
Trump spoke at the Turning Point USA event and criticized Democrat’s hostility toward Catholics in particular.
TRUMP: “As everyone here understands, the radical left ideology, Kamala supports is really militantly hostile toward Americans of faith. And you saw that during the pandemic, where people couldn’t get together. Even when they want to get together with big spaces outside, they were ravaged. As a senator, she viciously attacked highly qualified judicial nominees, simply because they were members of the Knights of Columbus, suggesting that their Catholic faith disqualified them from serving on the federal bench.”
Trump also promised to cut funding for schools that push “critical race theory, transgender insanity and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content onto the lives of our children.” Tech billionaire Elon Musk posted a clip of Trump’s statement, commenting, “Save our kids!”
1 out of 7 Americans Would Consider Moving if their Presidential Candidate Loses
A new survey from StorageUnits.com found 15% of Harris and Trump voters say they will move if their preferred candidate loses.
Among Harris voters, 19% said they would consider moving to a different state if Trump wins the presidential election. The top states they would consider moving to are New Jersey, California, and New York.
Among Trump voters, 12% said they would considering moving if Harris wins the election. Many would consider moving to states like Florida and Texas.
Fewer Protestants Inviting Others to Church
Lifeway Research reports 60% of protestant churchgoers have invited someone to church with them in the past six months.
That includes 20% who made three or more invitations.
The numbers are slightly down from 2017 when 62% of respondents had invited someone to church. And 25% had offered three or more invitations.
Lifeway found younger people, people who attend church more often, and evangelicals were among the most likely to invite others to church.
Most Americans still Credit God for Mankind
Gallup released their latest data on what Americans’ believe about the origin of human life.
A record 24% believe human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process. That’s up from 9% in 1982.
Meanwhile, 34% believe human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process. That’s slightly down from 38% in 1982.
And 37% believe God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so. That’s down from 44% in 1982.
Hebrews 11:3 says, “By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.”
Anniversary of “In God We Trust” Motto
And finally, this week is the anniversary of when the U.S. made “In God We Trust” its official motto.
Congress passed legislation to make the phrase the motto on July 30, 1956. President Dwight Eisenhower signed the legislation the same day. But that’s not all President Eisenhower did to acknowledge God during his presidency. As reported by PBS here is historian Kevin Kruse:
KRUSE: “It’s during Eisenhower’s presidency, for instance, that the prayer breakfast became an annual event – an event at which clerics and politicians of all political stripes come together to pray for the nation. We get the addition of ‘under God’ to the pledge of allegiance for the first time, which had previously been secular, had no mention of God. We get the adoption of a God we trust as the nation’s first official motto in 1956. It’s added to paper currency for the first time in 1957.”
The phrase “In God is our Trust” appeared in “Defence of Fort M’Henry,” a poem written by Francis Scott Key in 1814. The poem would become the lyrics of the U.S. national anthem, better known as “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
The poem’s fourth verse says:
“Praise the Power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto— ‘In God is our Trust’.”
And that’s The World View in 5 Minutes on this Wednesday, July 31st, in the year of our Lord 2024. Subscribe by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldView.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. Seize the day for Jesus Christ.