Sam Ketcham, avowed kinist and Spanglerite, has posted video of the announcement of the excommunication he received from his RPCNA presbytery a couple months back.
So often, there is a contrast between what religious officials say publicly & what they do privately.
The diocese petitioned a judge to seal proceedings, so public wouldn't learn about concealment efforts, while publicly, bishops stated they would cooperate with investigation.
Abusers will actively try to undermine your confidence in your own intelligence and intellectual abilities.
They want you to think that ‘they know best’ and they want you to doubt yourself so that you will rely on them to ‘call the shots’ and make the important decisions in your life.
Some abusers will do this overtly, telling you you’re ‘stupid’, ‘thick’, ‘ignorant’, ‘naïve’ or ‘gullible’, when you put forward your ideas or opinions.
Others are more covert, smirking or smiling in a patronizing way while you share your views.
They will always ‘correct’ your way of thinking and steer it back to their own point-of-view.
The might shower you will links, articles, and ‘research’ to back up their opinions.
They will act superior and belittle you, and they will treat you like an ignorant child who doesn’t know what they are talking about.
They might use psychological manipulation by twisting your words or confusing you so that your ideas sound silly.
When an abuser uses any of these strategies consistently, you eventually come to doubt your own opinions, decisions, and perceptions, reinforcing their control over you. 🚩
#CoerciveControl #PsychologicalAbuse #Gaslighting
We often trust others in positions of authority because we assume that those with knowledge, intellect, and skill MUST be trustworthy. But that is not always the case. How often have we seen that the power that comes with knowledge, intellect, and skill can be abused?
I was an anti-Christian secularist for most of my life. I never thought I’d become a Christian. One day, I read the Bible, and it completely changed my life.
Read the Bible.
It’ll change your life too.
Dear Secretary Kennedy,
I'm writing to you as a paramedic and father, with rage and disgust I never thought I'd direct at you.
Let me be crystal clear, I watch people die. Not in abstract statistics or clinical trials, I watch them take their last breaths while I'm knuckle deep in their chest cavity doing compressions. I pronounce teenagers dead who collapsed on basketball courts. I hold the hands of confused elderly patients as they experience strokes with no risk factors. I see the blood clots, the sudden cardiac arrests, the unexplainable neurological events.
This isn't coincidence. This isn't normal. And you know it.
For years, you stood as one of the few voices willing to speak truth about the pharmaceutical capture of our regulatory agencies. You documented the corruption, the conflicts of interest, the suppression of safety signals. You gave hope to those of us watching this nightmare unfold in real time.
And now? You're promoting the same shots you once questioned. You're playing political footsie with the very system you exposed as fundamentally corrupt. You're offering "resources" to push more MMR vaccines while standing at the graves of children.
What happened to your spine?
I don't give a damn about political realities or the "long game" you might think you're playing. While you calculate your political survival, I'm calculating time to hospital for myocarditis cases in teenagers. While you craft carefully worded statements, I'm crafting incident reports for deaths that will never be properly investigated.
Unlike physicians, paramedics don't take oaths. We don't need to. Our commitment is demonstrated every time we run toward danger while others run away. Every time we tell hard truths when others offer comfortable lies.
My children deserve better than this medical tyranny. The patients I serve deserve better than regulatory capture masquerading as public health. And the movement you helped build deserves better than your betrayal.
You can't serve two masters, Kennedy. Either stand with the truth or admit you've surrendered to the machine.
The bodies are piling up. Autism is the new normal. The evidence is overwhelming. And your political calculations won't mean shit to history when the full scope of this disaster is finally acknowledged.
Find your courage or get the hell out of the way.
With utter disgust,
Harry Fisher
Paramedic and Father
Our Christian systems must ask, who is our master? We will always protect what or whom we serve. Our thinking is that whatever we do to preserve what reigns in our life is good. We are preserving what we love. How do we know what we love?
DOGE exposed the corruption in D.C. — not a single arrest.
Pam Bondi had all the Epstein files on her desk — not a single arrest.
The JFK files were (partly) released — not a single arrest.
COVID was proven to be a hoax — not a single arrest.
Starting to see a pattern?
Completely independent of tariffs, we need to have a frank conversation about why so many seniors are financially dependent on the stock market, especially when fixed-interest instruments are have been offering attractive yields.
You deserve the chance to become the person you were meant to be.
Your bullies & abusers do NOT deserve the power to choose FOR you who you are, what your relationships look like, what your career looks like, or how your story ends.
You deserve recovery. Put it on repeat.
Southern Baptists & other white evangelicals are long accustomed to religious leaders acting with impunity. They've normalized it & even sacralized it, saying they're men anointed by God. This "sowed the seeds for accepting political leaders of the same ilk." #ThisistheSBC
“For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against the evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against those mighty powers of darkness who rule this world, and against wicked spirits in the heavenly realms.”
Ephesians 6:12