By David Ettinger
2 Hopeful News Stories
Recently, 2 stories appearing on the Fox News website offered hope for many readers. Both centered on the issue of “wokeness.”
The first story’s headline reads: “SpaceX fires employees who criticized Elon Musk.”[1]
Several employees penned a letter criticizing their boss’s behavior, which they deemed embarrassing and distracting. Rather than acquiesce to the employees’ fragile sensitivities and issue an apology, the company fired the letter writers for biting the hand that fed them.
The second story’s headline reads: “Tech Company CEO Slams Woke Corporate Culture, Offers ‘Triggered’ Employees Severance Deal.”[2]
According to the story, Kraken – a U.S.–based cryptocurrency exchange and bank – took action against a small number of employees who felt the company was not “woke” and “diverse” enough. They weren’t fired, but instead were offered severance packages to “pursue the next chapter of their career.”
The reader comments below each story were overwhelmingly positive, a good example being:
“This [the SpaceX article] is a sign that the pendulum is swinging back. This and the crypto company that told its employees if they don’t agree with the company’s public viewpoints … they should leave, are signs that sanity is going to eventually come out on top.”
This is a hopeful response to 2 hopeful stories, but is it true? Will sanity win out?
Subversive Agenda
No; sanity will not win out.
What at first began as a trickle in the late 1960s is a Tsunami today. The LGBTQ deluge is storming the culture in waves so gargantuan that the stoutest of protective walls are rendered futile.
The acceptance of every gender preference is being forced upon society to the point that all who resist will be buried in the surging waters of change and conformity.
Check out this headline: “British Man Turned Away From Giving Blood after Refusing to Answer if He Was Pregnant.”[3] The subhead reads: “Potential blood donors in Scotland are asked if they are pregnant as part of a mission to promote inclusiveness.”
In the U.S., more and more public elementary schools and libraries are opening their doors to “Drag Queen Storytime.” Their purpose, according to one website, is “teaching children.”[4]
It’s all part of a subversive agenda to turn humanity away from God and to the worship of Satan. Such followers of the Devil may not even believe in him, but this, nonetheless, is what they are doing.
Satan’s Authority
Whether or not the world believes in Satan, the Bible makes clear that he is real, and that if one is not following God, He is following Satan. We read in 1 John 5:19: “We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”
Furthermore, Jesus Himself calls Satan “the ruler of this world” (John 12:31; 14:30; 16:11). And the apostle Paul tells us that Satan is the “god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4).
And who is Satan? For one thing, he is “the father of lies.” Jesus describes Satan as “a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8:44).
Satan is also a thief of souls whose purpose is “to steal and kill and destroy” (John 10:10).
He is the one behind the world’s subversion – a subversion relentlessly growing and spreading the closer we come to the return of Christ. And because the unsaved – some wittingly, most unwittingly – are followers of Satan in one way or another, they are latching on to his nefarious program of deception.
Because of this, “in the last days difficult times will come” (2 Timothy 3:1). As such, “evil people and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13). Furthermore, “For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires” (2 Timothy 4:3).
And sadly, according to Paul, this subversion from God’s truth and sanity will infiltrate Christendom (and has already begun): “But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, your minds will be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:3).
Sanity Restored
So, back to our commentator who believed “that sanity is going to eventually come out on top.” Sadly, sanity will not return to Planet Earth this side of Christ’s return. As Paul wrote, things “will proceed from bad to worse.”
However, Jesus will return from His Heavenly abode, and when He does, He will establish His Kingdom on Earth, and will accomplish the “restoration of all things, about which God spoke by the mouths of His holy prophets from ancient times” (Acts 3:21).
Therefore, for now sanity won’t win out. But don’t despair, Christian, when Christ returns He will restore Planet Earth, including the restoration of all sanity!
[1] https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/spacex-fires-employee-criticized-elon-musk-report
[2] https://www.foxnews.com/media/tech-company-ceo-slams-woke-corporate-culture-offers-triggered-employees-severance
[3] https://www.foxnews.com/world/british-man-blood-question-pregnant
[4] https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/12/06/this-is-why-drag-queens-are-reading-stories-to-children-across-the-country/
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Lisa Beth
June 21, 2022
No indeed, sanity will not return. Neither will any moral standards we once knew.
Drag Queen Story hour, in NY public libraries, is most appalling. Geared to preschoolers, I could not believe my eyes when, upon the scheduled hour, numerous parents of all backgrounds, including some wearing hijabs, rushed their youngsters in.
Google “Drag Queen Story hour” and see the frightening indoctrination of toddlers.
I must add, Nancy Pelosi was on RuPaul show and said, “Drag Queen is what America is all about”.
Forgive me for going on! It’s insanity, it’s entrenched sin, quickly seeping into churches, and there’s no turning back!
Press on brother!
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dettinger47
June 21, 2022
“Forgive me for going on! It’s insanity, it’s entrenched sin, quickly seeping into churches, and there’s no turning back!”
So sadly true, Lisa Beth.
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Katherine
June 21, 2022
The city of Virginia Beach about an hour away from me has Drag Queen story hour. They haven’t started one at our library yet but have had various pride displays at the library including a large one in the children’s section.
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. “Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.” -Aldous Huxley, A Brave New World Revisited
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dettinger47
June 21, 2022
That’s an amazing quote, especially considering how long ago it was uttered! Thank you for sharing that, Katherine.
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Tom
June 21, 2022
Good thoughts, David, and all true. Yesterday, I saw the news story below which reported that the international swimming federation banned transgender swimmers from competing in women’s meets if they had their transgender process after age 12. That’s one lawsuit away from being overturned. Transgender surgery is bad enough for an adult but accommodating a child who desires to change genders is criminal. Your post and my comments will some day be designated as prosecutable “hate speech.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna34325
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dettinger47
June 21, 2022
Thanks, Tom. I saw that story yesterday, and I thought the same thing. The good thing is that this will allow women, for now, to primarily compete against each other. But then there’s the “12-year-old” part. So, so sad.
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Katherine
June 21, 2022
Someone was talking about that in a podcast yesterday about how it’s not a win because it’s just going to encourage people to “transition” at younger ages and how that’s just terrible for society.
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dettinger47
June 21, 2022
Good point. Very sadly true. Thanks again, Katherine.
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Tom
June 21, 2022
That’s right, Katherine, it’s not a win.
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seekingdivineperspective
June 21, 2022
That was my immediate thought, Katherine.
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Lisa Beth
June 21, 2022
Youths have deep regrets and emotional damage Tom, mostly unreported.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/18/detransitioned-teens-explain-why-they-regret-changing-genders/
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Tom
June 21, 2022
Thanks for the article, Lisa Beth. Sadly, many children are going to get sucked into (brainwashed by) this transgenderism, supported by parents who desire to be “cutting-edge.”
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Lisa Beth
June 21, 2022
What really gets stiffled are the deep regrets and emotional damage suffered by youths, so poorly advised by adults.
Many end up abusing drugs & alcohol and worse.
https://nypost.com/2022/06/18/detransitioned-teens-explain-why-they-regret-changing-genders/
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seekingdivineperspective
June 21, 2022
David, I don’t have my heart set on sanity’s return, I know that whether or not it does, the future for believers in Jesus is secure.
But having said that, I don’t think the state of our society is quite as one-sided as the mainstream media would have us think. There are many places where parents are starting to fight for their kids. They’ve been called “domestic terrorists” by some in authority, but they don’t care! They’re running for positions on the school board, winning, and throwing out the crazies. There are numerous places where the woke folks have overstepped their bounds and are reaping the consequences. They’ve awakened the mama bears, who will fight to the death to protect their cubs.
ABC, NBC, CNN, etc. won’t tell you this. They only report what they want you to know, and everything else gets buried or ignored. Try some of the alternative news sources whose ratings are going through the roof right now, and you’ll find many reasons to have hope for America. (Use discernment, though. There are some wackos out there.)
This nation may not last much longer, but God’s people (and a lot of other people who just have common sense) are not going down without a fight. Try ignoring the mainstream narrative for a while and see what’s REALLY happening when the cameras are turned off. The “silent majority” aren’t so silent. Even if they were, they will vote, and the truth will come out in the elections, as it’s already started to do.
True, our hope is in Jesus alone. But that doesn’t mean we just throw up our hands and say, “Oh well, America’s done.” Maybe it is, but I for one want to go down doing the right thing.
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dettinger47
June 21, 2022
Well said, Annie. Thank you.
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