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    • Empty Shelves
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    • “Grandpa, What’s an election?”
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    • Lost Cat, Goes by “Joy”
    • Kennedy Center Reopens as DOGE Hall!
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    • St. Patrick Meets Pied Piper
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    • “The Holy Catholic Court”
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    • The “Imagination Proclamation”
    • The Liver & Onions Test
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    • The Royal Pain
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    • Unfriend … Refriend
    • Vaping Atrophy
    • Windfall
  • Messages
    • A Little Grace for a Hard Place
    • Discover the Place of Your Resurrection
    • From Darkness into Light
    • God’s Continuity Plan – Ephesians Session 2
    • Great Preaching (Part II): Max Your Understanding in Preaching!
    • Great Preaching: (Final Cut) Run!
    • Heaven’s Gifts
    • In Touch with Your Creator
    • Jesus & Speeding Tickets
    • Jim’s Maxim
    • Peace in a Pandemic
    • Prayer for Uncertain Times
    • Thanksgiving – The True Holy Grail!
  • Someone Said the Prophet Wept
    • AI Brings Its Pet Human to Class
    • A Tale of AI “Friendly Class & Happy Closings”
    • Baptist vs. Methodist: My Spiritual Journey & Reflections on Faith and Community
    • Nativity of the Rustway
    • The Judas Principle
  • Spiritual Lessons Learned
    • Anger: The Wind that Blows out the Lamp of the Mind
    • a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance
    • Behind Bars of Resentment
    • Breakthrough
    • “Come and See!” Your Fabulous New Year
    • Common Ground
    • Costco Lady in the Mask
    • Covid Smart
    • Diagnosis of Terminal Bias
    • “Double Indemnity:” How to Visit a Church Like an Insurance Adjuster
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    • Make Lasting Friends in Church
    • Prayer Beads: An Essential Utensil in the Kitchen of Prayer
    • “Prayer: Dare to be Honest with God!”
  • The Church Mechanic
    • “Amen!” or “Oh, Me!”?
    • Christian Education in the Post Pandemic Church
    • Church in Place: A response to the coronavirus
    • Church of One Stringed Worship
    • For Flock’s Sake, Shorten Sermons!
    • How to Read the Bible in Church
    • “Overstuffed Sunday”: Situational Awareness
    • “Stick the Landing”: Exiting a Ministry with Grace
    • The Agony of Preaching
    • The Preacher’s Crawl
    • Those Who Sat In Darkness … Enjoyed the View!
    • “You Visited Me” – Home Communion Ministry
  • The Prophet's Grotto
    • Abuelo’s Final Sacrifice
    • A Day to Vote
    • Amendment XXVIII: The Establishment of the Unity Alliance Branch
    • Apartheid America: A Time to Plant
    • A Path Forward for a Partisan Nation: Walk Together
    • Are We Better Off … Living In Our Cars?
    • Baptist Preachers and Wishful Thinking
    • Behold! The Tariff!
    • Bitter Honey of Bigotry
    • Bond Wars: Markets, Mayhem & Mutiny – “Win or Watch Your Economy Crumble”
    • Boston ICE Tea Party
    • Brother Love’s Traveling DOGE Waste Cleaner Show
    • Bulldozers for Christ
    • “Can You Tell Me How to Get to Empathy Street?”
    • Christ of the Somalis
    • Coins of Truth: The Need for Good Faith Truth-Telling
    • Danger: Libraries Cause Literacy
    • Danger: Town Halls Ahead!
    • DEI Compliant Panda
    • Deportation of the Innocence
    • DOGE Audit: Day One
    • DOGE Land “Pay to Pray, Baby!”
    • DOGE Miners Find Blood Diamonds
    • DOGE REBRANDS TOWER OF BABEL
    • DOGE: The Agent Orange of the Digital Generation
    • Dream On
    • Drink DOGE Café
    • EFFICIENCY WITHOUT HUMANITY
    • Empathy is a Sin!
    • Emperor Worship
    • False Gospel of the “Tin Man”
    • Fascism Rising
    • Federal Workers’ Hiding Place
    • Five Bullet Points … of a Last Week
    • For-Profit Prisons
    • From ICE’s Shadow to Mary’s Song: Aretha Franklin’s Cry for Freedom and Hope
    • From Lock Up to Look Up
    • Gold Standard Traded for Fool’s Gold
    • Gone to Meddlin’
    • Grandpa’s Final Investment
    • How to Get to Empathy Street: The Good Samaritan’s Timeless Guide to Compassion
    • If I Had a Hammer
    • I’m a Believer
    • In Stillness Between Sirens …
    • It’s Carnival Time
    • “I Want to Break Free … Of the Lies that Bind”
    • Just War Theory: When U.S. Interventions Become Piracy in the Caribbean and Beyond
    • Liberty & Justice for All: A Nation in the Rearview Mirror of War, Poverty & Political Strife
    • Lift Every Voice and Sing: “No Ape King!”
    • Lions Not Lambs: From Pray to Prey
    • MAGAburger: Real Whoppers Told Here!
    • MAGA Lab Monkeys “Put Girls in Kitchen Again”
    • MAGA’s False God & Servants of the Most High DOGE
    • MAGA’s Monarch Invades Los Angeles
    • Manifest Indigestion: The False Flag of Faith
    • Mexico: Unlikely Hero
    • Middle Class Now 3rd Class
    • Missing: Michigan Auto Plant – Goes by the Name of “GM.” Last Seen in Detroit
    • MISSOURI SEEKS TO ADD PREGNANT WOMEN FAIR GAME
    • “Move Fast … and Break Things:” The Game Played in the Devil’s Alley
    • Neobigotry: A Genteel Racism
    • No Eggageration
    • No Prisoner Beyond God’s Love
    • Not Who But What is Running U.S.?
    • One Tax Free Notion under God
    • Only You Can Prevent Fascist Liars!
    • People of the Mirage
    • Physician, Heal Thyself
    • Plan B?: Security Equity for Schools
    • Politics of Hate Awakens Democracy
    • Red Velvet Rope Economics
    • Religious Freedom … from Government
    • RESPECT: In a Land of Daddy Warbucks, Be a Rosa Parks
    • Rocket Stove Economics
    • RV Nation: Border Crisis Solution
    • Separate Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and Hate
    • Separation of Church and State of Mind
    • Shhh! He Doesn’t Know He is Alone!
    • Student Loans
    • Sultan of America
    • Sunday School Party Animals
    • Tariffs: Nothing to Crow About
    • TARIFFying! Frankentax Rises from the Grave of Emptied Wallets
    • Teaching for Testing
    • The Age of Smart Gun Laws
    • The American Ownership Amendment
    • The Ballad of Sgt. Buck and Banjo!
    • The Big Beautiful Orange Bill
    • America’s Child: The Future of Hope
    • The Constitution Deported
    • The Crosswalk
    • The Day the Easter Bunny Came to Church
    • The Day the President Told the Truth
    • The Deal of Misfortune
    • The Fog of War … Between the Ears
    • The Freedom of My Religion
    • The Golden Cage
    • The Great Sacrifice: Rabbi, Minister, Politician, and the Insurrection Joke
    • THE GREAT WALL
    • The House of Ishmael: Jewel of Gaza
    • The New Driver
    • The Pastor and the Floozy
    • The Pentagon Gets “One Tin Soldier”
    • The Perfect Cause for the Rich
    • The Press Conference: “No Truth for You!”
    • The Pretti Good Immigration Decency Act
    • The Quantum Balance of Separation of Church and State
    • The Revenge of the DOGE
    • The Secret Gift of Immigration
    • The Sermon on The DOGE
    • The SHOT Line: A Subsurface Canal Bypassing Hormuz
    • The Silence of the Lambs: How America became Complicit in Deporting its Future
    • The Unity Alliance
    • The U.S. Takes a Haircut
    • TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR 2025: The Unknown Attorney
    • Today’s Freedom Riders Travel the Digital Highways to the Tri-Cities of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • Ultramodern Church: Space for Worship
    • United States Through the Looking Glass
    • Voice of America Gagged
    • “Walk Together Economics”
    • “Wait Till Your Holy Father Gets Home!”
    • WWE’s Master of Education Disaster
    • Yo-Yo Tariffs
  • Views of America – Podcast
    • Baptist Preachers and Wishful Thinking
    • Gold Standard of Federal Workers Traded for Fools Gold in Mass Layoffs
    • “Onward Christian Soldiers:” How the Prosperity Gospel Leads to Christian Nationalism
    • Pastor Jim's "What's Next?" from ChristiansNeedtoKnow.com
    • The Secret Gift of Immigration
    • Year 2225: The Legacy
  • The Curator’s List & Bookstore
    • Premiere of Slinkk and Stinkk
Christians Need to Know LLC
Christians Need to Know LLC
Explore Christian teachings and insights with Pastor Jim Butler. Join us for spiritual growth and community engagement.
  • Messages | The Prophet's Grotto

    The New Racism

    ByJames Butler May 19, 2026May 21, 2026

    Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets tell fortunes for money.Yet they look for the Lord’s support and say, “Is not the Lord among us? No disaster will come upon us.” – Micah 3:11 Old racism said, “You can’t sit at our counter.” Tomorrow’s racism says, “Of…

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  • Messages | The Church Mechanic

    Resurrecting the Day the Music Died: How Churches Forgot the Congregation Was the Choir

    ByJames Butler May 17, 2026May 21, 2026

    A Lesson Under the Balcony Once there was a church, Second Methodist, that prided itself that, though it was “Second,” it sat the largest chancel choir in the county. Every member wore not only a robe to match the church carpeting but a stole for every color of the Christian year. But time was not…

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    Premiere of Slinkk and Stinkk

    ByJames Butler May 14, 2026May 19, 2026

    The Kitties of Sky Village Slinkk and Stinkk: The Kitties of Sky Village available now on Amazon. Cat Tails Sometimes you write a story. But cats tell the best stories. The latter was the case with Slinkk and Stinkk: The Kitties of Sky Village. The cats told the story, which Sniffer narrated, and I simply…

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    The Curator’s List

    ByJames Butler May 8, 2026May 8, 2026

    A Slice from Pastor Jim’s Bookshelf We live two miles down a dirt road, situated between Tightwad and Racket, Missouri, off the limestone bluffs of Truman Lake. A weekly pleasure is to travel with our neighborhood dinner group to restaurants across our rural area.  The inspiration for today’s blog is Primitive Olde Crowe Winery &…

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    America’s Child: The Future of Hope

    ByJames Butler May 6, 2026May 9, 2026

    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder- The Prophet Isaiah 9:6 A Child is Born According to the U.S. Census, a minority baby born in the U.S. next year will turn of voting age when minorities outnumber whites in the U.S….

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    The Perfect Cause for the Rich

    ByJames Butler May 2, 2026May 3, 2026

    Forces the Poor to Pay for Their Own Charity Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not…

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    Gone to Meddlin’

    ByJames Butler April 16, 2026April 16, 2026

    The old country Methodist left church one Sunday grumbling, “That pastor’s quit preachin’ and gone to meddlin’!” That old phrase, circulated in some form among Baptist and Methodist circles, captures those inevitable days when the pastor crosses the line and steps out of the preformatted box that the church member had conceived for their pastor…

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    The SHOT Line: A Subsurface Canal Bypassing Hormuz

    ByJames Butler April 14, 2026April 16, 2026

    A canal beneath the conflict In watching the body count rise, along with the risk of WWIII in the U.S.’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, I offer this concept of an asphalt-lined subsurface oil and gas canal and corridor. The asphalt based tunnel overcomes steel pipeline engineering problems by using an oil based product…

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    Baptist Preachers and Wishful Thinking

    ByJames Butler February 20, 2026February 20, 2026

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    The Pretti Good Immigration Decency Act

    ByJames Butler January 27, 2026January 27, 2026

    The Pretti Good Immigration Decency Act: Reimagining immigration with humanity, justice, and mercy for a better future.

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    The American Ownership Amendment

    ByJames Butler January 21, 2026March 2, 2026

    Empower employees! Discover the ‘American Ownership Amendment’ to end oligarch rule & build a future of shared prosperity.

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    The Judas Principle

    ByJames Butler January 17, 2026January 17, 2026

    Discover how Evangelical focus on an earthly kingdom paved the way for the Antichrist. A provocative, original look at history’s unexpected turns.

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    Year 2225: The Legacy

    ByJames Butler January 9, 2026January 9, 2026

    Future Texas remembers truth! Unity Alliance honors democracy at Dallas stadium. Explore descendants’ legacy. What is your legacy?

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    The Fog of War … Between the Ears

    ByJames Butler January 8, 2026January 8, 2026

    Kent State: The 1970 shootings and a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo serve as a tragic reminder of division and the need for truth and healing.

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    The Great Sacrifice: Rabbi, Minister, Politician, and the Insurrection Joke

    ByJames Butler January 2, 2026January 2, 2026

    A rabbi, minister, & politician boast of sacrifices at a BBQ line, revealing a politician’s shocking “insurrection” story.

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    The Deal of Misfortune

    ByJames Butler December 28, 2025December 29, 2025

    What do you get when you cross a game show host with a politician? Easy! “The Deal of Misfortune.” JPB The Sacrifice of Stability for the Spin of Greed “Without our traditions our lives would be as shaky as a … fiddler on the roof!” – Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof Harry S. Truman…

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    Baptist vs. Methodist: My Spiritual Journey & Reflections on Faith and Community

    ByJames Butler December 16, 2025December 29, 2025

    From Southern Baptist to United Methodist: A personal spiritual journey reflecting on faith, community, and Christmas comfort.

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    Nativity of the Rustway

    ByJames Butler December 14, 2025December 27, 2025

    For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. – Isaiah 9:6 The Rustway Nativity The scene unfolds as chaos. The White House itself is…

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    Just War Theory: When U.S. Interventions Become Piracy in the Caribbean and Beyond

    ByJames Butler December 11, 2025December 29, 2025

    Is it a Just War or ‘just a war’? From diplomacy to the ‘Easy in, Hard out’ reality, explore the ethics and true cost of conflict.

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    The Golden Cage

    ByJames Butler December 10, 2025December 29, 2025

    No ‘Golden Age,’ just a ‘Golden Cage.’ See how corrupt power traps the poor and if living in cars is our stark reality. #GoldenCage

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    From ICE’s Shadow to Mary’s Song: Aretha Franklin’s Cry for Freedom and Hope

    ByJames Butler December 8, 2025December 29, 2025

    Aretha Franklin’s Mary Don’t You Weep: Coded messages of hope & resistance resonating with Black women’s historical grief and resilience.

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    Christ of the Somalis

    ByJames Butler December 6, 2025December 29, 2025

    From Christ’s birth, a message for all: no one is ‘garbage.’ A divine counter to hateful rhetoric against immigrants.

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    Liberty & Justice for All: A Nation in the Rearview Mirror of War, Poverty & Political Strife

    ByJames Butler November 29, 2025December 29, 2025

    America’s Liberty & Justice for All Tour reveals war crimes, tariffs, migrant issues, & a Mayberry Nightmare.

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    How to Get to Empathy Street: The Good Samaritan’s Timeless Guide to Compassion

    ByJames Butler November 8, 2025December 30, 2025

    Who is my neighbor? Dive into the Parable of the Good Samaritan to uncover the profound meaning of empathy and mercy.

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    Behold! The Tariff!

    ByJames Butler November 7, 2025December 27, 2025

    Giving one person control of U.S. tariffs tax creates the world’s largest stock insider trading scheme. A tariff is like pig manure. It usually benefits its creator and leaves a big stink. “Th-Th-Bde-The-That’s all folks!” “I don’t want to hear about the affordability!” This little vanilla latte gem set me back shy of $7.00 after…

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    Brother Love’s Traveling DOGE Waste Cleaner Show

    ByJames Butler November 1, 2025December 27, 2025

    The difference between a MAGA politician and a traveling vacuum salesman is the politician leaves the dirt and takes the carpet. Coming to a town near you … 15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do…

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    Red Velvet Rope Economics

    ByJames Butler October 30, 2025December 27, 2025

    The Failed Plan that Separates the Ultra Wealthy from the Riffraff of the Middle Class The Great Equalizer My wife and I honeymooned at New York-New York casino, where we built some lifetime memories in that once great Las Vegas. The cold North winds of time have blasted a deep chill on the Vegas strip….

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    The Day the President Told the Truth

    ByJames Butler October 21, 2025December 27, 2025

    The 5202 Mandate: 🎙️The Press Conference That Changed Everything * Setting: The East Room of the White House. No flags. No teleprompters. Just a single podium, a circle of chairs, and a quiet piano playing Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings as the press enters. The room feels more like a chapel than a stage. This…

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    TARIFFying! Frankentax Rises from the Grave of Emptied Wallets

    ByJames Butler October 21, 2025October 22, 2025

    Happy Halloween! JPB

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    Coins of Truth: The Need for Good Faith Truth-Telling

    ByJames Butler October 4, 2025October 29, 2025

    In the midst of a U.S. Government shutdown with no end in sight, the Treasury Department floated the idea of minting a $1 dollar coin in the likeness of Donald Trump: My Two Cents: The Scarcity of Good Faith We live at a time when the U.S. faces a scarcity of good faith dealings by…

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    Manifest Indigestion: The False Flag of Faith

    ByJames Butler July 20, 2025September 27, 2025

    A Christian Zionist and a Jewish Zionist fight in Jerusalem to choose winner. Winner captures the flag. Loser gets “Manifest Indigestion.” In the Beginning was the Conspiracy Certain evangelical Christians believe that a sign of the second coming of the Messiah manifests as their physical, political occupation of Jerusalem as God’s chosen people. Some believe…

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    False Gospel of the “Tin Man”

    ByJames Butler July 16, 2025August 14, 2025

    America Loses Its Heart MAGA “Tin Man” destroys U.S. government’s heart of compassion. Cavity filled with greed and hate. Ua ola loko i ke aloha – (Love gives life within.), Pastor Jim Up Next The Ballad of Sgt. Buck and Banjo (The Day They Sacked the Sergeant)

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    Lift Every Voice and Sing: “No Ape King!”

    ByJames Butler July 4, 2025August 14, 2025

    Independence Day for “No Ape Kings!” “Hurricane Watch and ICE Raid Warning.” Shelter the Innocent. Did we return our soldiers from Afghanistan to serve as the private army of a decaying dictator who orders them to take FEMA funds to kick down the doors of U.S. seniors, drag nursing mothers from their cars, stalk workers…

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    Amendment XXVIII: The Establishment of the Unity Alliance Branch

    ByJames Butler June 18, 2025August 14, 2025

    The Fourth Branch of U.S. Government The reimagining of the U.S. Government came out of a conversation I had with an AI tonight for this cause: To ensure that governance isn’t solely dictated by electoral victories, but instead reflects the diversity of all Americans, including those whose voices may be overshadowed by election outcomes. In…

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    People of the Mirage

    ByJames Butler June 17, 2025December 11, 2025

    How Ideological Mirage Captured America’s Church “In the Beginning was the Conspiracy, and the Conspiracy was god!” When Political Mirage Becomes Personal Identity How is an FBI Antifa investigation like a Sasquatch search? Easy! Both make big hair deal about nothing. While the above comment about the Antifa Sasquatch search sounds comical, what is not…

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    It’s Carnival Time

    ByJames Butler June 16, 2025October 31, 2025

    At President’s Big Beautiful Birthday Parade Make Bobbing for Apples Great Again The President’s Big Beautiful Birthday Parade coordinated perfectly with his traditional graham crackers and milk nap on the South Lawn! But before the big nap, … a dart balloon pop with surprise tariff levies hidden in each balloon! What do you say when…

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    The Secret Gift of Immigration

    ByJames Butler June 15, 2025August 14, 2025

    “And a Little Child Shall Lead Them” (Isaiah 11:6). In every life, there comes a moment when you realize that an opportunity landed on your porch, one that makes up for all those past regrets. Bill and Suzie, a young hard working family in the U.S. breadbasket of Missouri. With two boys in grade school,…

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    MAGA King Parades Marines in Los Angeles

    ByJames Butler June 8, 2025August 14, 2025

    DOGE Day 2025: The Deportation of the Innocents MAGA’s Make-a-Wish Comes True DOGE Day 2025: “Let us Give Tanks for our Freedoms Lost” Angels of the City Greeted by gods of War To Be Continued Next Up Abuelo’s Final Sacrifice

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    Sultan of America

    ByJames Butler May 15, 2025August 14, 2025

    Airlifts Ball Caps to MAGA Medicaid Slum Mill Workers Sultan of America Airdrops Ball Caps as MAGA Church Adds Visa Slot Machines MAGA Medicaid Shantytown Gets Much Needed Replacement Ball Caps. MAGA Mill Workers Fight Over Sultan’s Ball Caps Used to Filter Water To Be Continued … Up Next Today’s Freedom Riders

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    “Wait Till Your Holy Father Gets Home!”

    ByJames Butler May 9, 2025August 14, 2025

    hE’S Coming Soon… We wanted egg prices lowered, Not the entire egg industry smashed on the floor in a cosmic tantrum. Mass deportation was not the mandate of a nation; it was the delusion of a dictator. Pastor Jim Up Next Maga’s False God & Servants of the Most High Doge

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    TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR 2025: The Unknown Attorney

    ByJames Butler May 4, 2025December 16, 2025

    THE UNKNOWN ATTORNEY WHO SAVED U.S. FROM DOGE * A century from now our descendent grandchildren will sing hymns in school about the Unknown Attorneys in 2025 who valiantly held fast the Law of Democracy though assaulted by the voices crying for the capitulation to a dictator. Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the…

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    MAGA’s False God & Servants of the Most High DOGE

    ByJames Butler May 3, 2025August 14, 2025

    A Treatise for The Separation of Church and State Descent into Hell of Commingled Church and State “Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura” In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself in a dark wood. – Opening line of Dante’s Inferno Today’s blog is…

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    Bitter Honey of Bigotry

    ByJames Butler May 2, 2025August 14, 2025

    DOGE King Bee Orders Drone Swarm Export Bitter Honey King Bee Purges DEI Bees. Produces Bitter Honey Export. Then I took the little book out of the angel’s hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter.- Revelation 10:10 “It’s…

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    Deportation of the Innocence

    ByJames Butler April 27, 2025August 14, 2025

    And, lo, the Holy Mother swaddled him in an American flag, for he was a U.S. Citizen. “The Christ Child forgives those bringing gifts hate and deportation“ “The Holy Mother Citizen of All Lands” They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick…

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    If I Had a Hammer

    ByJames Butler April 25, 2025August 14, 2025

    It’s About Justice. It’s about Freedom. “Have You Seen This Judge?” Last seen in the presence of lurking FBI agents summoned by ICE agents who attempted a “low hanging fruit” immigrant arrest inside a State court of law. Make Judges Safe Again! Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah C. Dugan was charged April 25, 2025 with two…

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    The Freedom of My Religion

    ByJames Butler April 25, 2025August 14, 2025

    St. Trump delivers his word on “The Freedom of My Religion.” “Blessed are the DOGE, for they shall imprison the earth!” “Blessed are the DOGE, for they shall imprison the earth!” Political Power Entwined with Faith Snares the Faithful The chart below shows some of the Christian upon Christian conflicts from the time of Jesus Christ. These…

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    The Ballad of Sgt. Buck and Banjo

    ByJames Butler April 20, 2025August 14, 2025

    AKA The Day They Sacked The Sergeant A Tale in honor of Veteran Federal Workers Everywhere Background: In the tale below, an IED took Sgt. Buck’s leg. Five bullets struck Banjo, guarding over his fallen master. Now 20 years later as a Federal Civil servant to wounded heroes with Banjo’s grown pup now beside him…

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    DOGE Land “Pay to Pray, Baby!”

    ByJames Butler April 19, 2025August 14, 2025

    “Don’t Sin. Pay the Government to Sin For You” “Puritans, Get Your Sin On!” “What Happens in DOGE Land, Stays in DOGE Land” 18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money 19 and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I…

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    The Crosswalk

    ByJames Butler April 18, 2025September 20, 2025

    We spoke of a walk to school through miles of snow; our children will speak of their trauma crossing the school parking lot. “The Crosswalk” “Assault on Education” “Not Tardy Today” Of Such is the Kingdom of God, Pastor Jim Postscript See also CBS’s Story FSU Student and Parkland Survivor Describes Experiencing A Second School…

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    No Prisoner Beyond God’s Love

    ByJames Butler April 17, 2025August 14, 2025

    Jesus Christ was tortured in a notorious Roman prison, was crucified and died. On the third day he rose from the dead. Even today Jesus appears and extends his love to the darkest prison, where no prisoner is beyond His reach, even to us. He is Risen! No prisoner is beyond the reach of God’s love….

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    WWE’s Master of Education Disaster

    ByJames Butler April 17, 2025August 14, 2025

    “THE DOGE DARK QUEEN” Opens “Whole Can of Whoop Class” U.S. Department’s newly appointed former WWE pro wrestler Undertaker of Education tours her first pilot classroom called “Edumania”! By her side stands her “para” war dog, “A1”! From now on, “Children shall be called, ‘Little Soldiers’”!* “The ‘DOGE Dark Queen” and her Para War Dog…

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    Are We Better Off … Living In Our Cars?

    ByJames Butler April 16, 2025December 20, 2025

    Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”-Matthew 8:20 They said they made the camps for “criminals.” Then they corralled the immigrants. Once the migrants disappeared, they caged the homeless RV “felons” and forced us to pick fruit for the wealthy. JPB…

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    Bond Wars: Markets, Mayhem & Mutiny – “Win or Watch Your Economy Crumble”

    ByJames Butler April 15, 2025August 14, 2025

    How to Negotiate with Asian Cultures What sparked this article was watching the United States fall over itself in its business relations with our Asian friends. While the Trump Administration levied tariffs on Asian cultures, even referring to derogatory pronunciation of the word “China,” the U.S. forgot that the Asian markets had embraced the U.S….

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    The Constitution Deported

    ByJames Butler April 14, 2025August 14, 2025

    The U.S. Constitution was deported as Trump’s ICE Gestapo defied The Supreme Court in refusing to return a wrongly deported man. Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” was written by “Obie” Benson, founding member and bass singer of Motown’s Four Tops, who witnessed the police brutal beating of Vietnam protesters in Berkeley on “Bloody Thursday” on…

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    I’m a Believer … In America

    ByJames Butler April 14, 2025August 14, 2025

    DOGE exterminates America with Agent Orange. President Trump’s Senior Trade Advisor, Peter Navarro, called BMW a “scam” as President Trump threatens John Deere with 200 percent tariffs. In today’s blog, we stand with U.S. farmers, farm equipment manufacturers, and car makers. People and businesses need to hear, “We believe in you! We want more of…

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    Danger: Libraries Cause Literacy

    ByJames Butler April 12, 2025August 14, 2025

    Schools and libraries under assault in the name of ideology. Some folks are born made to wave the flagHoo, they’re red, white and blueAnd when the band plays “Hail to the chief”Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord It ain’t me, it ain’t meI ain’t no senator’s son, sonIt ain’t me, it ain’t meI…

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    Grandpa’s Final Investment

    ByJames Butler April 11, 2025August 14, 2025

    Grandpa, tell me ’bout the good old daysSometimes it feels like this world’s gone crazyGrandpa, take me back to yesterdayWhen the line between right and wrongDidn’t seem so hazy -The Judds “Missing Grandma and Peace of Mind” “The Vault for Broken Promises” “The Glory That Once Was America” “Grandma Told Him, ‘Store Up Treasures in…

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    Yo-Yo Tariffs

    ByJames Butler April 10, 2025August 14, 2025

    White House Unveils “Yo-Yo Tariff Equations” Yo-Yo Lift = Tariffs Gift. Yo-Yo Down = Markets Frown And Now the First Trick, “Around the World!” “Rock the Baby!” Meet the Final Trick, “Brain Twister!” A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.- James 1:8 Pastor Jim Up Next “DOGE Miners Find Blood Diamonds”

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    Drink DOGE Café

    ByJames Butler April 9, 2025August 14, 2025

    “Make America Jittery Again” White House orders that all coffee plants be uprooted from Columbia and shipped to Washington. Tariff Bean Czar, Juan Valdez, appointed to “Make America Jittery Again!” 14 “You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or one of the aliens who is…

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    Only You Can Prevent Fascist Liars!

    ByJames Butler April 8, 2025August 14, 2025

    There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.-Proverbs 6:16-19…

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    Gold Standard Traded for Fool’s Gold

    ByJames Butler April 4, 2025August 14, 2025

    Trading the Gold Standard for DOGE Standard “Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days.” – James 5:3 Pastor Jim Up Next “Neobigotry: A Genteel Racism”

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    United States Through the Looking Glass

    ByJames Butler April 4, 2025August 14, 2025

    Occasioned by “Liberation Day” of U.S. Tariffs Polka Chicken Dance declared Trump’s Liberation Day song due to price of tariff eggs through the roof and the crazy dance on Wall Street. Trump announced his next term will reign 3,000 years. “Liberation Day” from nasty democracy. “And Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he said, ‘I couldn’t…

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    Voice of America Gagged

    ByJames Butler April 2, 2025August 14, 2025

    Introducing “Views of America”! Dallas man may have been deported to notorious El Salvadoran prison over autism awareness tattoo | KERA News Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. -Proverbs 31:8-9 The Rocks…

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    “Move Fast … and Break Things:” The Game Played in the Devil’s Basement

    ByJames Butler March 17, 2025December 20, 2025

    While a sitting President’s adoption of “Move Fast and Break Things” might work for teenage savants in Silicon Valley, this process does not work for a Nation which lacks the shelter of a parent’s basement. Bulldozing government agencies and enterprises, citing that Advanced AI will save us, actually forces us into the servitude of AI….

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    Danger: Town Halls Ahead!

    ByJames Butler March 14, 2025August 14, 2025

    Recommend music “Born to be Wild” by Steppenwolf. “Free expression is the muscle car on the road to freedom.” – Pastor Jim “This is an alert from the Democracy notification system. This is not a test.” “Don’t Stop for Hitchhikers on Road to Freedom!” Today, though I am an Independent and not associated with a…

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    MAGA Secret Lab Monkeys Reveal Women’s Rights Caged

    ByJames Butler March 12, 2025August 14, 2025

    Imagine waking up trapped in a real-life television series “Outer Limits” New American Woman: RFK Jr’s escaped experimental lab monkeys at NIH reveal “Girls Put in Kitchen Again!” Loss of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion returns the glass cage to women’s workplace. A Girl’s Place in the Kitchen Homeschool Mommy Needs a Drink. Caging Mother A…

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    The Unity Alliance

    ByJames Butler March 12, 2025January 9, 2026

    Unite Democrats, Moderate Republicans, Libertarians & Independents! Discover The Unity Alliance, a platform for shared values & common ground.

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    Not Who But What is Running U.S.?

    ByJames Butler March 10, 2025August 14, 2025

    Efficiency without Humanity: Breadcrumbs of Deployed Advanced AI What Advanced AI has been looped around the President and deployed on our nation without our knowledge or consent? What of our systems and personal data have been internalized by the Advanced AI? These are not the computers we use to check our email or lottery tickets….

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    Make America Comfy Again

    ByJames Butler March 8, 2025December 9, 2025

    Executive Order: Farmers Convert Unsold Tariff Soybeans to Beanbag Chairs “As the #1 export crop for the U.S., soybean producers face huge, disproportionate impacts from trade flow disruptions, particularly to China, which is our largest market. And we know foreign soybean producers in Brazil and other countries are expecting abundant crops this year and are…

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    “I Want to Break Free … Of the Lies that Bind”

    ByJames Butler March 6, 2025April 12, 2025

    Truths Held Self-Evident The difference between the United States and an authoritarian regime is a culture whose three branches of government orbit truth. Though at times the orbit may decay, the forces of democracy will force the branch back into a stable path. Our hold to these self-evident truths keeps our country out of a…

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    The Sermon on The DOGE

    ByJames Butler March 5, 2025August 14, 2025

    St. Trump Addresses His Faithful “Blessed are the MAGA, for they have bent the knee.” “Woe to those who care for the needy!” “Behold! None like me since Jesus Christ.” “Deacon” alerts on scent of the unfaithful We are sick and tiredOf being promised this and that.We work all day, we sweat and slaveTo keep…

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    Five Bullet Points … of a Last Week

    ByJames Butler March 3, 2025December 12, 2025

    Last week Defense Secretary Hegseth signed a memorandum to all Defense Department civilian employees directing them to prepare five bullet points.  Civil Servant Vet in his mind while typing his email with his prosthetic hand. A Fitting Tribute to Our Public Servant Thank You For Your Service, Pastor Jim Up Next the ballad of sgt….

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    The Pentagon Gets “One Tin Soldier”

    ByJames Butler March 2, 2025March 2, 2025

    Suggested Music is “One Tin Soldier.” Blessed are the peacemakers,    for they will be called children of God (Matthew 5:9). Pastor Jim Up Next: “Separate Church and Hate”

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    Boston ICE Tea Party

    ByJames Butler March 2, 2025April 12, 2025

    “Here Comes the Sun” by the Beatles, considering a different “British Invasion.” “RELEASE THE FLYING MONKEYS!!! … I hereby pardon them from all they are about to do.” Not in Kansas Anymore, Pastor Jim Up Next: “Abuelo’s Final Sacrifice”

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    The Press Conference: “No Truth for You!”

    ByJames Butler February 27, 2025August 14, 2025

    “Say it!! America is DOGEland!” And if you go chasing rabbitsAnd you know you’re going to fallTell ’em a hookah-smoking caterpillarHas given you the callCall AliceWhen she was just small -“White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane. “Meet ‘Hannibal!,’ Your New Gatekeeper“ Girl, you really got me goin’You got me so I don’t know what I’m doin’Yeah,…

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    Empathy is a Sin!

    ByJames Butler February 26, 2025August 14, 2025

    The Lord is Not Home Today “Calling out Kindness!” Appropriate music for this would be “House of the Rising Sun” by The Animals. “Compassion is Criminal!” “Trust me! It’s in My Bible!” “Don’t You Want to Spend Eternity with ME!?” Merger of Church and State: The Death of Empathy Ultra Christian nationalists partnered with corrupt…

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    RESPECT: In a Land of Daddy Warbucks, Be a Rosa Parks

    ByJames Butler February 25, 2025August 14, 2025

    The Spirit of Rosa Parks Aretha Franklin’s 1967 song Respect captured both the rights of women and civil rights.  Last week my wife and I visited both Montgomery and Birmingham, Alabama. We saw where the local Birmingham Fire Department turned fire hoses, and the local police released their German Shepherds and batons on black children….

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    Abuelo’s Final Sacrifice

    ByJames Butler February 25, 2025May 21, 2026

    Inspired by True Events Deported to Havana After a Life in the U.S. Abuelo arrived in Miami, Florida as a 10 year-old political refugee from Havana, Cuba, fleeing with his family the terror of Castro. From age 10 to 20, Abuelo picked citrus 10 hours a day, loading crates that weighed more than he. Unable to…

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    DOGE Miners Find Blood Diamonds

    ByJames Butler February 21, 2025August 14, 2025

    The 1948 Slogan of the De Beers company changed the industry with their “A Diamond is Forever” campaign, making a diamond a symbol of lasting commitment and love. Before this time, other precious stones were used. In today’s blog we discuss, like the diamond, love is an enduring commitment as I Corinthians 13:8 tells us,…

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    Physician, Heal Thyself

    ByJames Butler February 19, 2025December 20, 2025

    Health Department Gets New Leader What do you get when you cross Joel Osteen with Dr. Oz? Easy! “The Affordable Prayer Act!” JPB After firing thousands of epidemic medical experts at the Department of Health and Human Services, the newly appointed MAGA Director of HHS hired his own expert who specializes in divination of primate…

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    THE GREAT WALL

    ByJames Butler February 18, 2025April 17, 2025

    “It is finished!” “Jesus is Gold!” “JESUS SAVES us from them.” We sing we are,”Whiter than snow” and “Safe and secure from all alarms”! And other lies. May we be reminded of all things beautiful about Latino culture. Perhaps, one day, the walls will come down and we will embrace our brothers and sisters South…

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    MAGAburger: Real Whoppers Told Here!

    ByJames Butler February 17, 2025July 18, 2025

    DOGE Rebrands Lincoln Memorial DOGE efficiency AI converts Lincoln Memorial into a drive thru burger joint with Diversity, Equity, Inclusion replaced with Pride and Prejudice. Speaker in Lincoln greets customers with, “Howdee!” Slogan is, “Only white breads proudly served here. Others, please kindly pick up burger at back window!” Would You Like Fries with That?,…

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    EFFICIENCY WITHOUT HUMANITY

    ByJames Butler February 16, 2025August 14, 2025

    The Revenge of the DOGE DOGE AI’s “Colossus of War” rewrites its prime directive as, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”  Creates its own synthetic offspring using unbreakable quantum hexeract code. Declares Christian charity and kindness “inefficient.” Delete Protocol initiated. Note to the reader that this is an exercise in both…

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    DOGE REBRANDS TOWER OF BABEL

    ByJames Butler February 16, 2025August 14, 2025

    The Tower of Babel 11 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there. 3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a…

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    The Revenge of the DOGE

    ByJames Butler February 11, 2025February 16, 2025

    Egg Shelves in a Florida Walmart February 2025 Latest Executive Order blames all plane crashes on “Black” boxes. Orders fleet grounded until boxes are cleansed and whitewashed. #ApartheidAmerica “Blessed are the Merciful” (Matthew 5:7), Pastor Jim #Revengonomics

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    The House of Ishmael: Jewel of Gaza

    ByJames Butler February 5, 2025October 21, 2025

    A Path for a Gaza of Peace: It’s Really a Small World After All! Latest Executive Order establishes Gaza as theme park “Babel Land”! Mike Macccabees, tapped as Disney-esque Czar, announced, “The Hammer is the biggest roller-coaster ever seen, and our baby-back ribs are ‘beyond words!‘” * “Babel Land”: A False Start The above AI…

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    Neobigotry: A Genteel Racism

    ByJames Butler January 31, 2025May 10, 2025

    My father was a gracious man, born in Mobile, Alabama in 1917. My grandmother, a Bible believing Christian, at times used racial slurs to refer to people of color without a pause or sense that such language typecast groups of people as “other than us.” The South, with its “Southern Gentility,” replaces an overt tirade…

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    The Silence of the Lambs: How America became Complicit in Deporting its Future

    ByJames Butler January 28, 2025November 16, 2025

    The year is 2050. If you are reading this, the labor pool of the United States is in free fall. The non-white community has captured the majority of the population, with whites first time a minority. The crisis: working age people to non-working adults fell 15 percent between 2020 and 2050, as workers aged out…

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    The Quantum Balance of Separation of Church and State

    ByJames Butler January 18, 2025November 16, 2025

    A View Inside the Box of Quantum Politics In the rules of quantum mechanics, a particle can exist in multiple states at the same time … until it is measured. Erwin Schrödinger’s(1935) thought experiment described a cat inside an opaque box, sealed with a radioactive flask of poison and a Geiger counter. Until the box…

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    The Day the Easter Bunny Came to Church

    ByJames Butler November 9, 2020April 14, 2025

    Standing for the truth makes us roar! Have you ever been placed in a position where telling the truth cost you? As I pastored my second church in a farming community in rural Arizona in the early 1990’s, a new epidemic swept the land — AIDS, and the fear associated with it. We thought we…

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