It’s Monday, August 26th, A.D. 2024. 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
China and North Korea work together to persecute Christians
According to a new report, China continues to aid North Korea in its relentless persecution of Christians.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom recently published its findings on the alarming lack of religious freedom in North Korea and China’s role in helping to spur it forward.
As North Korea shares a large border with China, many North Koreans flee persecution and travel to China in a desperate attempt to start new lives. It’s a calculated risk that many make, hoping to find human kindness from Christian missionaries or others who will help them before authorities catch them. However, for many of these individuals, life remains bleak. Stories of human trafficking and maltreatment of North Korean refugees at the hands of Chinese authorities and organized crime rings are common.
According to Open Doors, North Korea is the most dangerous country worldwide in which to be a Christian and China is the 19th.
In Matthew 5:10, Jesus said, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven”
Kamala Harris: Long on generalities, short on specifics
Last Thursday night, despite the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris had not earned one vote for the Democratic presidential nomination, she said this at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, reports LifeSiteNews.com.
HARRIS: “I accept your nomination to be President of the United States.”
Her speech was long on philosophy and short on specifics.
HARRIS: “Our nation, with this election, has a precious, fleeting opportunity to move past the bitterness, cynicism, and divisive battles of the past, a chance to chart a new way forward.”
She took potshots at former President Donald Trump.
HARRIS: “In many ways, Donald Trump is an unserious man, but the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious. Just imagine Donald Trump with no guard rails, (boos) and how he would use the immense powers of the presidency of the United States.”
Many Trump supporters simply point to his successful four-year record in maintaining peace abroad and lowering taxes at home.
Since Kamala Harris is beholden to the abortion giant Planned Parenthood, she objected to any notion of even typical medical reporting and documentation of abortions in each state.
HARRIS: “He plans to create a national anti-abortion coordinator and force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions. (boos) Simply put, they are out of their minds.”
And, using the euphemistically misleading reference to “reproductive freedom,” Harris committed to signing a codification of Roe v. Wade into law, report The Washington Stand.
HARRIS: “And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, as President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law.” (cheers and applause)
Ironically, the Democratic National Convention video feed featured a baby held in the arms of her father, a delegate.
Trump reacts to Kamala Harris DNC speech
Former President Trump called into FOX News after Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her acceptance speech at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, reports RealClearPolitics.com.
TRUMP: “Why didn’t she do the things that she’s complaining about? All of these things that she talked about — we’re going to do this, we’re going to do that, we’re going to do everything. But she didn’t do any of it. She could have done it three and a half years ago. She could do it tonight by leaving the auditorium and going to Washington, DC and closing the border.
“She doesn’t need a bill. I didn’t have a bill. I closed the border and created the safest border we’ve ever had in the history of our country. She was the Border Czar. She presided over the weakest border in the history of our country. She’s got four and a half five months left.”
Trump criticized Kamala Harris’ refusal to address many of the real issues facing America.
“She didn’t talk about fracking. She didn’t talk about crime. She didn’t talk about housing. She didn’t talk about child trafficking. She didn’t talk about interest rates. I mean, the interest rates are now getting close to record rates. People can’t do business. Nobody can borrow money. She didn’t talk about any of that.
“She’s a Marxist. She always was. She always will be.”
Ben Shapiro: Kamala Harris “owns this economy, this foreign policy”
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro was incredulous.
SHAPIRO: “There’s nothing there. It’s all a lie. She’s the Vice President of the United States. Inflation has been at 40-year highs. We’re in the midst of two major world conflagrations — one in the Middle East, one in Ukraine. Her administration has presided over both.
“She was the last person in the room when the United States decided, under Joe Biden, to pull out of Afghanistan and leave them billions of dollars in U.S. military hardware, as well as abandoning thousands of U.S. allies to be murdered by the Taliban, as well as abandoning 19 million Afghan women to be stuffed back into bags and back into basements, as well as getting 13 American troops killed at Abbey Gate.
“She owns this economy. She owns this foreign policy. She owns the social breakdown over which she has presided. But we’re supposed to pretend that she is just brand-spanking new, just fresh out of the package. It’s an audacious move. I will grant them that. It is audacious to take a woman who has been a senator from California, and the Vice President of the United States for the last three years, and pretend that she has had nothing to do with anything that is happening in the country right now!”
Proverbs 12:22 says, “Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are His delight.”
Robert F. Kennedy endorsed Trump for President
On Friday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent presidential bid and endorsed Donald Trump.
KENNEDY: “Three great causes drove me to enter this race in the first place, primarily. And these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent, and now to throw my support to President Trump. The causes were free speech, a war in Ukraine, and the war on our children.”
Trump offered him a possible Cabinet position, like Abraham Lincoln did of his presidential opponents in the 1860 election — Attorney General Edward Bates, Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase, and Secretary of State William Seward.
KENNEDY: “Now, one of the two candidates has adopted these issues as his own, to the point where he has asked to enlist me in his administration. I’m speaking of course, of Donald Trump.
“We talked about Abraham Lincoln’s Team of Rivals, that arrangement would allow us to disagree publicly and privately and furiously, if need be on issues over which we differ, while working together on the existential issues upon which we are in concordance.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., once a proud Democrat in the tradition of his uncle, John F. Kennedy, and his father, Robert F. Kennedy, is now demonstrably disgusted with the Democratic Party.
KENNEDY: “The DNC and its media organs engineered a surge of popularity for Vice President Harris based upon nothing, no policies, no interviews, no debates, only smoke and mirrors and balloons.
I urge you to take 24 minutes and listen to the entirety of RFK, Jr’s speech. It’s worth your time. We have it linked through our transcript today at www.TheWorldview.com.
Hugh Hewitt: RFK Jr’s endorsement of Trump will help him win
Appearing last Friday with Brett Baier on the Fox News program Special Report, radio host Hugh Hewitt weighed in on the importance of independent candidate for president Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsing former President Donald Trump.
HEWITT: “Robert Kennedy Jr. endorsing Donald Trump is a big deal. And I don’t care who says what about it. He had 2-5% in every battleground state. Most of that’s gonna go to Donald Trump. 60-75% of that. It was a 44,000 vote election in 2020. So that is a very big deal.”
Hewitt explained that Kennedy supporters would not find a home in the Kamala Harris campaign.
HEWITT: “A lot of the people who are supporting Bobby Kennedy have a great suspicion of the government, not just COVID, but just of the administrative state generally. Those folks are not going to find a home with Kamala Harris, who is the child of big government California, San Francisco, Democrat land.
“Although it’s only 2 or 3 percent, we’re talking about a toss-up. It’s like the bank shot at the end of a basketball game. It matters. It matters a lot.”
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