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Dr. John Cheng: The Hero of Laguna Woods
When confronted with the ultimate fight-or-flight moment, a brave American man chose the former.
Church Slapped With Criminal Summons Over Worship Service ‘Noise’
“Silent Night” has new meaning for a Louisiana church after they were issued criminal sanctions because their worship services exceeded 60 decibels — which is about the same noise level of a dishwasher. The executive pastor of Vintage Church was issued a criminal summons and the rest of the staff was threatened with “physical arrest” if they used any microphones or amplified sound in their worship services, according to a lawsuit filed by Liberty Institute.
Who’s Burning Black Churches? Oh.
Here we go again: another liberal narrative burned to a crisp. Over a two-week period in October, an arsonist targeted seven churches in the St. Louis area — including several in Black Lives Matter protest hotspot Ferguson, Missouri. The Atlantic magazine, invoking the “long history of terrorism against black churches in America,” lamented that the crime spree had been “slow to get the same attention” in the local and national media as another string of church arsons that occurred earlier this summer.
Something Worse Than the IRS Awaits Greedy Televangelists
The fourth circle of Hell, as envisioned by Dante Alighieri in *The Divine Comedy*, is reserved for the avaricious and the profligate. It is where those whose lust for getting and spending knew no bounds in life are punished in the afterlife by being battered endlessly with heavy weights. Notable among the souls damned for their greed, Dante wrote, “were clergymen and popes and cardinals, within whom avarice works its excess.” What disgusted the great poet in 14th-century Florence — money-grubbing hucksters masquerading as men of God — is just as disgusting in 21st-century America.
