The six martyrs of Nashville, Getting Trump, and the Metaverse goes bust.
The Martyrs of Nashville. Joy Pullman says that the three 9-year-old children and the three adults killed by the transgender woman-identifying-as-a-man at the Christian school in Nashville are martyrs of the faith.
Citing Kylee Griswold’s story about how much of the media coverage sympathized with the shooter and framed her victims as the villains for being “anti-trans,” she concludes, “Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, William Kinney, Cynthia Peak, Katherine Koonce, and Mike Hill lost their lives for Christ’s sake.”
Now as of this writing, we don’t really know Audrey Hale’s motive, whether mental illness or a premeditated connection to the planned “Trans Day of Vengeance.” But Pullman draws attention to the dominant culture’s growing hostility to Christians, the demonic climate, and Christ’s words that if the world hated and killed Him, it will also hate and kill His followers.
So I am ready to add these six to the Christian martyrology. “The six Nashville martyrs endured to the end. March 27 is their saint’s day, marking their elevation to the great cloud of witnesses.”
Getting Trump. A progressive legal expert admits that the case against Trump is exceedingly weak, bogus, and politically biased. But, after a good analysis of why that is, concludes that this doesn’t matter. Apparently, the sentiment is that we just need to get him by any means necessary. In the words of the title of his article, Ankush Khardori says, Trump Seems to Be the Victim of a Witch Hunt. So What?
We keep hearing that the only way prosecutors could get Al Capone was on a tax evasion charge. But the case against Trump isn’t anywhere nearly as straightforward as a failure to pay taxes on his income from bank robberies.
Trump paying hush money to a porn star shows his sexual immorality, but it isn’t illegal. The charge is that he didn’t list the true reason for his payments on a form but classified it as a “legal expense.” And that the attorney who covered the payments before he was reimbursed for them was making an illegal campaign contribution. But if he was reimbursed, it wasn’t a contribution! And if the payment was part of a non-disclosure agreement doesn’t that make it a legal expense? (Also, aren’t non-disclosure agreements legally enforceable contracts?)
Trump has been accused of far more serious crimes. If there is anything to them, indict him for those. But the legal system is not supposed to be a weapon to “get” anyone.
Metaverse a Megabust? The much-heralded metaverse, projected by some enthusiasts to be a virtual reality that will replace actual reality, is shaping up to be a metabust. Disney and Microsoft have canceled their metaverse projects. The price of “real estate” (virtual estate?) in the metaverse has dropped 90% since last year. And a major driver of the metaverse, Mark Zuckerberg, who went so far as to change the name of his Facebook company to “Meta,” has reportedly turned his attention and that of his company to Artificial Intelligence.
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