Chickens are cooler than you knew (6 min)
We all know chickens have the astonishing ability to turn grain into a key ingredient for Egg McMuffins, but few know that chickens are also the animal equivalent of gimbal cameras – no matter how you move them, back and forth, round and round, up and down, their head remains fixed in one spot. It’s crazy. It’s also the fingerprints of the their great Designer… though this secular video doesn’t go there.
One note: the last 90 seconds of this is just a commercial for a 3D printer, so once that starts you can hit stop.
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Can Australia’s ban on social media for kids be a bad thing?
Australia is now banning kids under 16 from using social media. Hurrah, right? Well, as Rev. Witteveen outlines, there is a dark cloud to this silver lining – in keeping kids off, the government is implementing measures to further monitor everyone else. But they’ll use is responsibly, right? Social media is a big problem, but protecting our kids was always a parental responsibility, and if we hand it off to the government, we might not like what else they do with the power we’re handing over to them. Remember the Australian government’s response to COVID?
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The world has quite a pack of lies to sell. And God has something very different to say.
Surgery denied. Death approved.
A Saskatchewan woman, Jolene Van Alstine, who is suffering from a painful but treatable disease, has been approved for death-by-doctor (euphemistically called “MAiD”). As the linked article explains:
“We have a growing list of citizens choosing death because medicine has become a lottery →
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- a quadriplegic woman who applied for MAiD because she couldn’t secure basic home-care support
- veterans offered MAiD instead of trauma treatment
- homeless Canadians considering MAiD because they can’t survive winter
“And now a woman denied a simple, lifesaving surgery.”
American conservative commentator Glenn Beck has come to the rescue though, offering to pay for Van Alstine to get treatment in the US.
The author’s article doesn’t rule out MAiD altogether, but pitches it as a last ditch option. But in doing so, she too has lost the plot. If death is medicine at any time, then on what basis would it not be a valid offering all the time? Why refuse any good option? And why can’t it be a cost-cutting measure even? If it is valid to kill some to ease suffering, why couldn’t it be valid to kill more, so as to more quickly and more cheaply, ease more suffering? When murder is medicine the only fixed line has been crossed – we’ve long treated abortion as healthcare, and killing the born in the name of medicine is just the next step. Offering Alstine death as treatment is entirely in keeping with this worldview.
But there is another understanding of life. Not as something we hold and can choose to dispose of as we will, but as something entrusted to us, to steward. Christians seem unwilling to raise God in the euthanasia battle, but if we leave God out of this conversation, what basis is there for human worth? The State gives you worth? Well, then the State can take away that valuation, as it has done for Van Alstine. We decide our own worth? Again, not so for Van Alstine. Outside forces, the province’s neglect, have her devaluing a life she might otherwise treasure. Euthanasia’s lie of autonomy – you will choose when you die – is here exposed.
We need to highlight her plight to showcase the antithesis between murders being medicine and all murders being always wrong because we are made in the very image of God. All God’s people must proclaim God’s sovereignty over life, for His glory and because only His Truth can answer these lies.
One more reason we’re Protestants
Jeff Durbin highlights another area where the Roman Catholic Church is running right up against God.
