Mark Bird

Christian, Conservative, College Professor (GBSC). Passionate about Theology, Apologetics, Ethics, and Discipleship. Worldview matters.

[AG @AGHamilton29]

It has been a while since I provided an updated list of Candace Owens conspiracies.

Seriously, read this to understand the alternate reality some people have entered.

In the last several years, Candace Owens has made all of these claims:

- The Earth may be flat
- Dinosaurs are “fake and gay” because only paleontologists have found their bones. It's unrealistic to believe they walked the earth or that they were killed by an asteroid.
- The moon landing is “fake and gay.”
- NASA is part of a satanic and occult effort
- Macron’s wife is secretly a man who took on the identity of his deceased or disappeared sister.
- Briggitte Macron, or her brother, who stole her identity, may have been part of the Stanford Prisoner psychological experiment because there is an image of one prisoner that looks like him.
- Emanuel Macron may have been part of the MK Ultra program or some other similar program to try to create a Manchurian candidate because the program started the same day that Brigitte Macron was born.
- Jews were behind the Bolshevik Revolution, and it was secretly a genocide targeting Christians that was worse than the Holocaust
- The Holocaust is either fake or severely exaggerated
- Jews orchestrated and were the primary force behind the transatlantic slave trade
- The crimes of the Allies in WWII and post-WWII were worse than anything the Nazis did
- The deportation of ethnic Germans from the rest of Europe post-WWII was worse than the Holocaust
- The US dropped the bomb on Nagasaki to target Christians
- Israel was behind 9/11
- Israel/AIPAC/Jews were secretly behind the JFK assassination
- A secret cabal of Hollywood Jews was behind the deaths of Michael Jackson and the people around him.
- The ADL was only started to protect a Jewish pedophile
- The Allies specifically did the Dresden bombings on Ash Wednesday because it was targeted at Christians
- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a secret Jew
- Stalin was a secret Jew with 3 Jewish wives
- Ashkenazi Jews are actually descendants of evil Khazars who mass converted in the 8th century while controlling parts of Russia/Ukraine (& thus aren’t connected to Israelites), and they have a secret plot now to destroy Russia and Iran as payback for the Persians and Russians defeating the Khazarian empire.
- The elites who control everything all follow a secret religion of pedophiles called Frankism based on the teachings of Jacob Frank. The Frankists were behind the Russian and French revolutions to “bring down Christian empires”.
- House of Dragons and other TV shows promote incest and other bad things because of a secret religious attempt to normalize deviency, and that religion is likely Frankism.
- The Star of David actually originated as a symbol for a child-sacrificing pagan God linked with sorcery and demons.
- The Moroccan flag used to have a Star of David because elites in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia were part of this secret cult that is connected to Israel.
- Christian Zionism is a secret plot by Jews targeting Protestants based on distorting the real bible by creating and publishing the Scofield Bible.
- Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad spy running an extensive pedophile blackmail ring on behalf of Israel.
- Trump might be hiding the Epstein files as a favor to his Jewish daughter and son-in-law, who might be more loyal to Israel than America.
- The socialist anti-Israel NYC Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is a secret zionist agent because his mom was married to someone Jewish.
- Harvard is a secret Mossad Base.
- Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel is lying about his experiences in the Holocaust and likely stole someone else’s identity. She also claims he is Robert Maxwell’s cousin.
- Rabbis in Israel are systematically raping toddlers as part of rituals involving pentagrams in the forest
- Owens claims the narrative about the Spanish Inquisition, a brutal campaign of forced conversion, expulsion, and persecution, which Pope John Paul II publicly apologized for, is “victim propaganda” spread by Jews meant to castrate Christians, and that Isabella I of Castile will one day be known as a Saint.
- Israel controls ISIS and uses them to target Israel’s enemies
- Brian Harpole, Charlie Kirk's security, Erika Kirk, TPUSA, and Charlie Kirk’s friends were behind and/or helped cover up a conspiracy to assassinate him.
- Mossad and the French legion, wearing maroon shirts, teamed up to assassinate Charlie Kirk
- The same assassination squad was also hired by the French government to kill Candace Owens. They spent around 1.5 million dollars on the planned hit.
- Egyptian planes followed Erika Kirk around for a year before the assassination
- Charlie Kirk secretly converted to Catholicism without telling anyone
- TPUSA is controlled by secret zionists who took out Charlie Kirk because he was becoming more critical of Israel
- Tyler Robinson didn’t kill Charlie Kirk; all the evidence against him is fabricated, and he wasn’t even on campus that day
- Erika Kirk has lied about her whole history and is secretly somehow connected to sex trafficking
- All the criticism of Russia and its actions is part of a secret conspiracy because they are defending Christianity.

[Justin Peters @JustinPetersMin]

Mormons believe in Jesus. @BasedMikeLee is correct in that. But so do Muslims. So do Buddhists.

The problem is that they do not believe in the right Jesus. They do not believe in the Jesus of the Bible: the Jesus Who is God the Son, co-eternal, uncreated, Who took upon Himself a human nature in the incarnation and Who has been ever since, is now, and will forever be the one and only God-Man.

[Mike Winger @MikeWingerii]

Mormons are often very personally offended when Christians say that Mormonism isn’t Christian. This is dumb.

Joseph Smith’s first “encounter” with God involves God telling Smith that every creed Christians profess is an abomination to God.

Every creed.

That includes the Nicene Creed. They reject who God is, who Jesus is, the nature of salvation, the nature of exaltation, the clear teaching of Scripture, etc..

Mormonism rejects the very core of the Christian faith in all its essentials. Joseph Smith knew this but nowadays they are playing mind games with their own people and with real Christians.

Either THEY are Christians or WE are. It’s one or the other. Not both.

When asked “Will all be damned but Mormons?” Smith replied, “Yes, and a great portion of them unless they repent and work righteousness” (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, pg. 119)

The Doctrine and Covenants (1:30) leaves no doubt to the Mormon teaching of exclusivity when it says the LDS Church is “the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth, with which I, the Lord, am well pleased ….”

Brigham Young, second only to Joseph Smith in Mormonism said…

“Should you ask why we differ from other Christians, as they are called, it is simply because they are not Christians as the New Testament defines Christianity” (Journal of Discourses 10:230).

“The Christian world, so-called, are heathens as to the knowledge of the salvation of God” (Journal of Discourses 8:171).

I could easily give you pages of them saying they are the only true Christians and how we are all ignorant beasts and our doctrines are wrong. They knew at the time they had a different God, gospel, Scripture, and system of belief. But now it has become expedient to pretend otherwise while still preaching all those false and unchristian things.

Mormons, your leaders are gaslighting you and you are gaslighting us. You aren’t Christian but we want you to be. Flee from Mormonism. Flee from Joseph Smith.

[Josh McPherson @McPherson_Josh1]

I had a pastor tell me a few weeks ago that religion has no place in politics.

I replied, “I realize you may not respect me or agree with me. No problem. Do you respect Charles Spurgeon?”

He responded, “Oh yes. I quote him in my sermons all the time!”

I sent him this Spurgeon quote for his next sermon:

“I often hear it said, ‘Do not bring religion into politics.’ This is precisely where it ought to be brought, and set there in the face of all men as on a candlestick.”

[Dr. Abby Johnson @AbbyJohnson]

With respect, speaking of Jesus doesn’t make one a Christian. Naming yourself Jesus doesn’t make you a Jesus follower. The LDD understanding of God is fundamentally different from historic Christianity. Christianity teaches one eternal, uncreated God in three Persons. LDS theology teaches a different view of God, including exaltation in which humans may ultimately become like God in a way Christianity has historically rejected.

[Jeff Keaton @JeffKeaton1]

@BasedMikeLee Do you really want to start this fight? They do not view Jesus as the one true God!! You have a lot of evangelical Christians who like you. You shouldn’t go here.

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

@TomSteyer This type of rhetoric is deliberate. Saying “every ballot” instead of “every legal vote”. That’s the tell. The real issue is making sure we only count ballots cast lawfully by actual eligible American voters. Nothing more, nothing less. We the people deserve better!

[Frank Turek @DrFrankTurek]

This word predestined, it means that you're guaranteed to be conformed to the image of His Son if you're in Christ. It doesn't mean you don't have a choice.

[Bonchie @bonchieredstate]

Sad what this guy has become.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I ordered one pancake in America. The waitress wrote it down and said, "one short stack."

Short. I am a small and humble man. A short stack sounded perfect for me. I waited with a calm heart.

She returned carrying three pancakes, each the size of my face, stacked into a tower, with a block of butter on top sliding down the sides like slow lava.

This was the short one. I did not dare ask what the tall one looked like. Some knowledge a man is not ready for.

I ate for forty minutes. I was not full. I was afraid. The tower did not shrink. I am fairly sure it was growing back faster than I could eat it.

I had to surrender. I left half. In Japan, leaving food is a deep shame. So I leaned in close and apologized to the pancakes directly, in a low voice, one by one.

The waitress asked if I wanted a box. I did not know food could be taken into custody. I declined. I did not want it following me home.
In America, is the short stack truly the small one?
I need time to prepare my spirit before I ever face the tall one.

[Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) @TheMilkBarTV]

How Candace Owens managed to manipulate her audience into believing that financially exploiting Charlie Kirk's death through endless engagement farming and repeated baseless accusations was not only normal but righteous.

While convincing them, Charlie Kirk's wife, friends, and employees carrying on his life's work is somehow evil.

Is a cult-level master-class in just how easily people can be manipulated.

[Divinely Designed @DivinelyDesined]

The most detailed 3D reconstruction of a cell ever created.

Blows my mind every time.

But what exactly are we looking at here?

The average human cell contains:

~ 15-20 total distinct organelle types, totalling between ~1-10 million working together per cell.

All these nano-machines in the cell are made up of proteins.

~ 8,000-10,000 distinct types of unique proteins, adding up to between 40 million - 10 trillion total proteins making up all those cellular systems.

~ 10,000 - 15,000 distinct types of RNA shuttling information around the cell, totalling up to ~10 million RNA molecules moving around the cell simultaneously.

~ Billions of Lipid molecules packed together into the cell membrane, which is also packed tightly with millions more protein-based nano-machines.

And let's not forget billions of lines of DNA information to build and run it all.

That's TRILLIONS of of individual molecular pieces working together to make a single cell function.

That means there is more complexity in a single cell than humanity's largest cities.

And people still believe this wasn't Divinely Designed.

This is God's Glory on Display.

But to make the point.

A cell couldn't have evolved from some nebulous simpler "protocell" because even the simplest cells still require massive complexity.

The "simplest" cell ever created was engineered by scientists knocking out pieces of a functional cell until it stopped functioning.

Here is what they found is the absolute necessary minimal requirements of a cell to function:

- Over ~531,000 lines of coded DNA information

- 473 total genes to create hundreds of unique protein products (they later added 19 genes back in because the cell was so weak)

- Hundreds of thousands of total proteins all working together

- Extensive regulatory networks guiding all these interactions

If the cell doesn't have all these systems in place, from the start...
it doesn't live.

Cell rely on an intricate network of complex systems, which are themselves built from complex interconnected pieces woven together into an incomprehensibly complex web of functionilty.

Only intelligence has ever been observed creation vast interconnected systems like this.

Life was clearly Created.

It couldn't happen any other way.

[Krisztina Maria @KrisztinaMaria]

Understand this.

Europe is not losing its soul because Islam is strong.

Europe is losing its soul because Christians have become embarrassed by their own faith.

The real problem is that we have turned Christianity into a museum. Something you visit at Christmas and funerals. Something you “respect historically” without actually believing it. Something you are expected to apologize for - or be shamed for - if you take it seriously.

The result? A cultural vacuum. And nature - and history - hate a vacuum.

Islam is not primarily strong theologically. Islam is strong because it is a complete system - law, politics, social order and religion in one. There is no separation. Sharia does not just regulate the relationship with God. It regulates contracts, marriage, punishment, governance, war and peace. Islam is a civilization with its own rules for everything. It is not a private faith. It is a political project.

And Muslims own it. They do not apologize for it. They defend it. They live it publicly. They pass it on to their children without question.

We have forgotten how to do that.

Christianity is something fundamentally different. Jesus said “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s, and unto God what is God’s.” He separated them deliberately. Christianity is not a legal code - it is a relation. To a person. A living God who knows you by name, who died for you, who rose again. You cannot legislate your way into it. You cannot inherit it. You have to choose it yourself.

This is not “back to the Middle Ages.” It is something far more radical:

To believe in and surrender to Jesus Christ is essential. Not as a metaphor or cultural heritage. But as a historical reality with consequences for everything.

Because when you do that - believe it and mean it - it changes your spine. You know who you are. You know what you are defending. You do not need to fill the void with ideology, identity politics or submission.

The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is not a pious greeting. It is a declaration about the structure of reality. That the world has a creator, that history has a direction, that human beings have a dignity that cannot be voted away.

This is civilizational - not just personal.

Islam as a political system has a cosmology. A complete worldview. Sharia is not just rules - it is a civilization’s self-understanding. It demands total submission - that is literally what “islam” means. And we are meeting that demand with silence. With a faith we no longer dare to own publicly. This is not an equal contest. It is surrender in slow motion.

You do not meet that with multiculturalism and “we respect all religions equally.”

You meet it with something at least as total. At least as demanding. At least as willing to say: this is true, and we build our society on it and its values.

The only thing with that civilizational weight in the West is Christianity. Not as an institution - that has been corrupted or hollowed out in many places. But as faith. As a living relation to a living God.

My message is this:

Europe cannot be saved by political parties alone. Not by demographic statistics. Not by border management - even though all of that has its place.

Europe will be saved by men and women who stop apologizing for believing in Jesus Christ. Who take ownership. Who pass it on to the next generation as if it is true - because it is true.

This is not the comeback of religion.

This is the survival of civilization.

It is the only way to win a spiritual war we are already in the middle of.✝️🪽❤️‍🔥

[Blake Neff @BlakeSNeff]

Nobody has profiteered more off of Charlie's death than you have, Candace, and you share plenty of Charlie's private communications with you. But there are a few important differences:

1. You were not Charlie's wife.

2. Your messages tend to be from half a decade ago or more -- I wonder why!

3. You love referring to dates he went on and women he knew prior to Erika. There is very clearly no reason to do this except trying to humiliate Erika, and you were doing even before you started accusing her of helping murder Charlie.

4. You do all of this to profit yourself. Yeah, Turning Point needs to raise money. It does that because it actually does things. It puts on multiple conferences a year, it organizes campus events and faith events; TP Action employs literally hundreds of people for ballot chasing efforts in swing states. You've never done anything remotely comparable -- and you couldn't, because you have neither the talent nor the selflessness to do it. All you have is the narcissism to think that what Charlie built should have been handed over to you for free.

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

When widowed, I had some people spin out around me and reveal their worst impulses; sudden death does that (outnumbered by the good, thank goodness). Not in my nightmares could I have imagined what people have put this woman through and I pray all the time she is relieved of it.

[Robert Booth @rwbooth]

HSBC Press has just received the second printing of Apologetics! The initial print run sold quickly, and we are grateful for the enthusiastic response to the curriculum.

It is encouraging to see the growing impact these resources are having in Christian education.

[Jason Howerton @jason_howerton]

Since I’m going to be hearing this for the next 6 months as a Texas voter, let me answer the question:

“You would vote for an adulterer over James Talarico? That’s not very Christian.”

Here’s the truth: I would rather vote for almost anyone else who is going to at least advocate for conservative *policies* over a literal heretic who wears my faith like a skin suit, advocates for policies that harm children, endorses immorality and generally harm society.

Ken Paxton has personal baggage. I don’t deny that. But Talarico has plenty too — and he openly mocks God’s law and treats Jesus as a political mascot all while pushing a radical far-left agenda that would be a disaster for my state.

You see, I’m an adult. I do not expect those who are seeking political office to be my moral superiors or even trustworthy. They are tools to be used to do the least amount of damage via policy.

I wish more pastors and men who live godly lives were running. I really do. But the options we get are what they are.

Paxton supports secure borders, law enforcement, lower taxes, unleashing American energy, the Second Amendment, just to name a few.

Talarico supports unlimited abortion, trans-ing children, higher taxes, government-run “healthcare,” and is incredibly comfortable blaspheming the word of God.

I’m not voting for a priest. I’m voting for an imperfect person to represent my interests. That’s how it works.

You’re not going to guilt trip Texans into supporting a looney tunes candidate like Talarico. Paxton will win by 5+.

It’s about policy, not personality.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

@EWErickson Wouldn’t this lead to candidates getting worse, not better?

If the only people voting are godless people, candidates *only* have to appeal to godless people to win in both their personal character and their proposed policies, seems like the fastest way to become Canada

[Joel Richardson @Joel7Richardson]

A whole segment of American conspiracy classes has been suckered by a transparent Islamo-Communist propaganda campaign into believing that America's greatest ally is actually its greatest threat.

[Skeletor 🧼🧽🫧 @TheMuppetPastor]

Honestly, I would much prefer a gay atheist communist candidate, not because I agree with them, but because I respect their honesty. They aren’t lying about who they are. And I can honor someone who is honest.

Talarico is a snake, liar, and charlatan.