It’s Monday, May 22nd, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
Sudanese church attacked
On May 13, six gunmen attacked the Al-Masalma Coptic Church in Omdurman, Sudan, reports Christian Solidarity Worldwide.
They came to the church in a car and shot four men, including a priest named Arsenius, and his son. They also stabbed the church guard before looting the building for two hours.
Thankfully, all five victims, who received treatment at a private hospital, have since recovered.
However, they were unable to access the largest hospital in the area as it is currently under the control of the Rapid Support Forces. The Sudanese Armed Forces had cut off the electricity.
Matthew 5:10 says, “Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.”
FBI retaliated against three whistleblowers
Last Thursday, three FBI whistleblowers testified before Congress that the FBI unjustly investigated Americans and pressured staff to “reclassify cases as domestic violent extremism, and even manufactured such cases where they may not otherwise exist,” reports The Blaze.
The three on-the-record FBI whistleblowers accused the agency of “retaliatory conduct” after they spoke out about the bureau’s “abuse and misconduct” and “politicized rot.”
Suspended FBI Special Agent Garret O’Boyle along with former Special Agent Stephen Friend and suspended Supervisory Intelligence Analyst George Hill spoke before the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government hearing.
According to O’Boyle, after he came forward with the allegations, the FBI retaliated against him by relocating him to an office on the other side of the country. O’Boyle claimed that when he arrived for his first day of work at the new field office, he was informed by the FBI that he was being placed on unpaid suspension.
The whistleblower stated that the agency effectively left him and his family “homeless” and prevented him from accessing their belongings, which were still in FBI storage because of the recent relocation.
North Dakota Republican Rep. Kelly Armstrong asked O’Boyle what advice he would give to future government whistleblowers.
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ARMSTRONG: “With all of the hardships you’ve gone through, if one of your really good friends, your former colleague, came to you and said, ‘I have this thing that is being covered up and I think the American people need to know about it,’ what advice would you give them?”
O’BOYLE: “I would tell them first to pray about it, long and hard. I would tell them I could take it to Congress for them, or I could put them in touch with Congress. But I would advise them not to do it.”
ARMSTRONG: “You would legitimately try to protect one of your colleagues from doing what you have done?”
O’BOYLE: “Absolutely!”
ARMSTRONG: “And how do you think that solves being able to shine light on corruption, weaponization, any kind of misconduct that exists with the American people?”
O’BOYLE: “It doesn’t solve it. But the FBI will crush you. This government will crush you and your family if you try to expose the truth about things they are doing that are wrong. We are all examples of that.”
ARMSTRONG: “I can’t think of a more sobering way to end a hearing. I yield back.”
Pastor Tim Keller died of pancreatic cancer
Last Friday, Pastor Tim Keller died of pancreatic cancer, reports The Christian Post.
The founding pastor of the 5,000-member Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and the author of The Prodigal God and The Reason for God, he was 72 years old.
According to the New York Times, Keller was open to Christians aligning with various political parties — liberal or conservative. In his words, “thoughtful Christians, all trying to obey God’s call, could reasonably appear at different places on the political spectrum, with loyalties to different political strategies.”
Just prior to the reversal of Roe v. Wade last year, Keller wrote on the politics of abortion. He said, “I know abortion is a sin, but the Bible doesn’t tell me the best political policy to decrease or end abortion in this country, nor which political or legal policies are most effective to that end,” reports The Christian Post.
And on evolution, in his book The Reason for God on pages 97 and 98, Keller taught that “God guided some kind of process of natural selection.”
World watches in disbelief and horror as U.S. nears possible default
The finance ministers for the Group of 7 nations in Japan had one simple question for Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen: What is going on with the U.S. debt ceiling?
Around the world, experts have been watching in disbelief as the U.S. flirts with its first default, fearful of the potential international economic ramifications — and astonished by the global superpower’s brush with self-sabotage, reports the Washington Post.
Rich and poor nations alike fear a possible U.S. default, which would torpedo the financial markets and deal a massive blow to the dollar. Analysts say the impasse jeopardizes America’s standing abroad.
All the worry will dissipate — at least for a while — if Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) can come to an agreement before June 1.
More than half of the world’s foreign currency reserves are held in U.S. dollars. Many nations look to Treasury bonds to safeguard their own economies and guard against drowning in debt.
One White House reporter was understandably concerned.
REPORTER: “Right now, the nation’s debt exceeds 100% of its GDP. This has happened twice in US history — once during World War Two and once now over the last couple of years. How is it not a crisis when the country literally owes more than it’s worth?”
White House Press Secretary: The kids “belong to all of us”
And finally, in the course of defending the surgical and chemical “gender transitioning” of children, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declared that the children of America “belong to all of us,” reports LifeSiteNews.com.
Upset with the number of states that are outlawing puberty blockers and mutilating surgeries on minors, Jean-Pierre, a self-professed lesbian, spoke candidly to a far-left feminist website named Jezebel, no doubt in honor of the evil Queen Jezebel of the Old Testament.
JEAN-PIERRE: “I’ve met a lot of parents of trans kids in the past couple of months who have told me these devastating stories, whether they’re in Texas or Oklahoma or wherever they are, saying how they now have to seriously consider leaving their state to protect their child. That’s something that we have to call out and continue to be very clear about.
“These are kids. These are our kids! They belong to all of us!”
The remarks echo similar sentiments expressed recently by President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and various other Democrats. Together, they have disrespect for the parents’ right to have the primary and final say over their minor children.
1 Timothy 3:4 describes one of the key virtues of a man worthy of being an elder. “He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect.”
Biblically speaking, minors are under the proper guidance of their parents, not the state. And those parents should not sign off on puberty blockers or disfiguring surgeries.
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