It’s Monday, May 1st, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus.
By Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
Muslims in Congo killed 80 people, abducted hundreds
In the last two weeks, Muslims in the North Kivu province of Congo, Africa have killed 80 people and abducted hundreds. The guilty party? A terrorist group known as the Allied Democratic Forces, reports International Christian Concern.
For decades, the Islamic State-allied group, has killed, maimed, abducted, and displaced millions of people in North Kivu.
According to Open Doors, Congo is the 37th most dangerous country in the world for Christians.
House raised debt ceiling, tighten future spending increases
Last Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a bill to raise the debt ceiling while also putting a tight cap on future spending increases, reports CNSNews.com.
Listen to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
McCARTHY: “The House Republicans just passed the only bill in Washington that lifts the debt limit, ends wasteful Washington spending, and puts America back on the right economic path.
“We’re going to limit the growth in the future. We’re going to save by pulling back this unspent COVID money. We’re going to grow this economy by making us energy independent again, and getting more people back to work. The president can no longer ignore by not negotiating.”
Notorious late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart died at 81
Leroy Carhart, one of the few abortionists in America willing to conduct abortions once an unborn child can survive outside of the womb, has died at the age of 81, reports The Christian Post. On average, by his own admission, he killed 2,000 babies per year.
Carhart, who once called the unborn child a “parasite,” operated abortion mills in Maryland and Nebraska, both of which advertise abortions up to 35 weeks of pregnancy.
In a 2005 60 Minutes Australia interview, he acted as though he was on a noble mission.
CARHART: “I truly believe what I’m doing needs to be done. And I’m one that’s willing to do it, and there are a lot of people that are not.”
At least two women, 19-year-old Christin Gilbert and 29-year-old Jennifer Morbelli, died after Carhart performed late-term abortions on them.
Listen to his sad and blasphemous conclusion in that 2005 60 Minutes interview.
INTERVIEWER: “You are proud of the work you do?”
CARHART: “Yes. You know, I think I am here because it’s God’s choice.”
INTERVIEWER: “I was going to ask you, ‘Is your God happy with your work?”
CARHART: “My God is … Yes, She is.” (Carhart laughs)
According to Proverbs 6:16-19, our Heavenly Father hates seven things that are detestable to Him. Three of them include “hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, and feet that are quick to rush into evil.”
Abortionist Leroy Carhart was guilty on all three counts.
Jerry Springer, the trashy talk show host, died at 79
In other obituary news, notorious talk show host Jerry Springer died on April 27th at the age of 79, reports the Associated Press.
Born in London during World War II to Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust, Springer was raised in Queens, New York City. After becoming an attorney, he worked on the presidential campaign of Robert Kennedy in 1968. After getting elected as a City Councilman in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1971, he confessed to having solicited a prostitute in Kentucky, the state just south, and resigned.
SPRINGER: “I engaged in activities which at least, to me, are questionable these actions have weighed heavily on my conscience. This behavior, this particular incident certainly sets a bad example for anybody else to follow and one which I am obviously not very proud of.
“It is my fondest wish to re-enter public life. But I believe it in the best interest of this community, that I resign until such time that the air has been cleared.”
But in 1975, he ran for Cincinnati Mayor and won resoundingly.
Then, Springer worked for 10 years as a political reporter, commentator, and ultimately anchor of Cincinnati’s NBC affiliate.
When the TV show, Jerry Springer, debuted in 1991, it started as a political talk show. Guests on the show included Oliver North and Jesse Jackson, Topics included homelessness and gun control.
But, in early 1994, Springer and a new producer turned to tabloidish sensationalism.
SPRINGER: “When our show started, we were a serious show. But then, all of a sudden, it started going crazy. When Universal bought us, they said, ‘From now on, only crazy!’”
Guests were everyday people confronted on a television stage by a spouse or family member’s adultery, homosexuality, transsexuality, prostitution, and cross dressing.
For 27 years, Jerry Springer celebrated, instead of chastised, the deeds of the flesh enumerated in Galatians 5:19: “immorality, impurity, and sensuality.”
SPRINGER: “My show is stupid.”
INTERVIEWER: “Why do you think it’s stupid?”
SPRINGER: “Well, because it has no redeeming social value.”
He had created a new talk show genre called trash TV. By 1998, it was beating The Oprah Winfrey Show in many cities, and was reaching more than 6.7 million viewers.
David Plotz, a columnist for Slate, wrote, “During his slide into Hades, Springer’s liberalism degenerated into a kind of nihilism. If a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, a nihilist is a liberal who is paid $2 million a year to do something revolting.”
In a conversation with Larry King, Springer justified the moral decadence which he promoted because of the fame and fortune.
SPRINGER: “It’s a great job. Somebody comes to you and says, ‘Hey, Jerry, I got this job. You’re on television an hour a day. It will be the number one show in America. You’ll meet the most interesting, fascinating, crazy people you’ve ever met in your life. The stories are just wild. Plus, we’ll pay you handsomely.’ that you honestly say no, I’m not going to do that. I’m taking the job at the library.”
1 Timothy 6:10 warns, “For the love of money is the root of all of evil.”
In 1998, Senators Dan Coats, a Republican from Indiana, and Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut, demanded the feds stop funding Springer’s closed captioning.
SPRINGER: “I was hired to be a ringleader of a circus. I am hosting a show about outrageousness.”
Sadly, Jerry Springer’s exploitation of sin led to the further coarsening of American culture.
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