(Near-Death Experiences) White American Southern man and farmer dies, which becomes a profound near-death experience for him as he meets the spirit Jesus, which reveals shocking truths about Black people. He never thought he hated them, nor did he notice his implicit biases, only "preferring to stick with his own kind."
"A smart, endlessly interesting exercise in connecting cultural dots to learn how we got here." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
From the New York Times best-selling author of Jesus and John Wayne, a revelatory history of white Christian womanhood in the United States.
In her “paradigm-influencing” (Christianity Today) bestseller Jesus and John Wayne, which has changed how countless Americans understand their [Christian] faith, historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez showed how evangelicals made Jesus into an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism. Now she uncovers the roots of today’s glittering, Instagram-ready culture of white Christian femininity.
Live Laugh Love explores a world intimately familiar to millions of American women: Christian bookstores and radio, Hallmark movies, multilevel marketing companies, and contemporary lifestyle brands.
This consumer culture may seem trivial, but Du Mez demonstrates that it has an unlikely and revealing history that stretches all the way back to the late nineteenth century and the emergence of New Thought, a movement that championed the power of the mind to shape reality.
Du Mez shows how this idea drew together disparate traditions, including Mormonism, holiness evangelicalism, and holiness theology’s charismatic offshoots. Usually seen as distinct, these creeds in fact overlapped, and in the process gave rise to prosperity theologies and to the gospel of positive thinking.
But positivity had a dark side. Du Mez introduces us to religious innovators who taught that positive thinking was the secret to spiritual and material success, and reveals how these notions gave rise to a new feminine ideal.
As women read prairie fiction; bought and sold Tupperware containers and Mary Kay makeup; shopped at Hobby Lobby, Target, and Altar’d State; and decorated homes with shiplap, they moved freely between the religious and the secular.
Marketed as empowering, these products were part of a consumer culture that elevated domesticity and vulnerability while exposing women to systems susceptible to manipulation.
Combining sweeping cultural history with intimate storytelling, Du Mez explains how theological exclusion led women to build their own brand of Christianity, rich in cultural influence if thin in formal doctrine.
Ultimately, Live Laugh Love explains how a powerful yet elusive vision of womanhood has shaped lives, families, and politics for more than a century now—and how it has brought us to our reactionary moment. More
El means "god" or "deity" or as a proper name, El refers to any one of multiple major ancient Near Eastern deities.
El ("God") is a Northwest Semitic word. A rarer form, 'ila, represents the predicate form in the Old Akkadian and Amorite languages [8]. The word is derived from the Proto-Semitic *ʔil- [9]. Originally a Canaanite deity known as 'El, 'Al, or 'Il was the supreme god of the ancient Canaanite religion [10].
It has always been understood that there were many gods, which is clear from teh Bible even as henotheists and monotheists try to obscure that fact.
Scholars like Frank Moore Cross and Ignace Gelb speculate El may have also been the supreme god of East Semitic speakers in the Early Dynastic Period of Mesopotamia (circa 2900–circa 2350 BCE) [11, 12].
Among the Hittites, El was known as Elkunirša (Hittite 𒂖𒆪𒉌𒅕𒊭 Elkunīrša). Although El was given different appearances and meanings in different languages over time, the word continues to exist as El-, -il, or -el in compound proper noun phrases like Isra'el (Hebrew Yīsrāʾēl, Israēl, which means "El [God] persists or rules," Micha'el, Beth'el, and El'izabeth, most of which are theophoric given names. More: El (deity)
The Elohim: Hebrew word meaning "gods." The word is plural. It can also mean "godhood," which is to say what beings who become gods are called. As an abstract noun it refers to the concept of "divinity." In the Jewish (Hebrew) Bible, it often takes singular verbal or pronominal agreement to refer to a single deity, particularly but not always the God of henotheistic and polytheistic Judaism, that later tried to claim itself only monotheistic. In other verses it takes plural agreement and refers to gods in the plural. Who were these other gods? God's wife Asherahwas one. She (the Goddess) was well known. The other, El, is less known because it is hidden through the biblical texts, which were chosen for political and Roman imperial purposes.
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889–April 30, 1945) was a foreigner, an Austrian-born German politician, who became the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his [staged] suicide [and escape to Argentina and New Swabia (Neuschwabenland, Antarctica) by submarine] in 1945.
He rose to power by forming and leading the Nazi Party [b], becoming the chancellor of Germany by legal election in 1933 then taking the title of "Leader of the Empire" (Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934 [c]). Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, under Mr. Hitler's leadership marked the outbreak of World War II.
This can't be true; this isn't what we were taught in American school as 'history.' He's the Devil.
Throughout the ensuing conflict, Hitler was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and was central to the perpetration [but no one has provided documented proof that he was aware] of the Holocaust [the Jewish Nakba before Zionist Jews perpetrated a genocide on Palestinians of Palestine, setting up a settler colonial project, saying this was really their land because Europe said so and Balfour wrote a declaration Zionists used as a carte blanche to violate the provisions of and stake a claim, form a Middle Easternized Ashkenazi culture for themselves, and declare "state" without a constitution or the legal formalities of actually being a state], with Western historians calling it a "genocide" [of coincidentally 6,000,000 Jews, the exact same number the New York Times previously reported were killed prior to the birth of Adolf Hitler, as if claiming the killing-off of "six million Jews" were a propaganda putsch that failed the first time so got repeated with Hitler as the perpetrator boogeyman.
Doubtless many Jews were killed because no country wanted to take them so they had nowhere to flee to, and Trump's ancestral land was not going to keep them, much as Zionists today laugh as they kill off "Arabs"/Palestinians/Gazans, while laughing that "no country wants to take them" when, in fact, no Palestinian is willing to abandon his/her own rightful land. The ethnic cleansing of Nazi Germany killed off many other victims that are often left out of the discussion.] More
Douglas Dietrich [silenced or banned from C2C AM?] Douglas Dietrich is (was?) the son of a retired U.S. Navy sailor who for a decade worked as a Department of Defense research librarian at Presidio Military Base of San Francisco, where he was tasked with document destruction. (But he took it upon himself to look at and blow the whistle on what he was ordered to destroy). He then got sent to the American imperial 1991 Kuwaiti campaign, serving in Desert Storm as a U.S. Marine.
Germany won WW II? Hitler and other top Nazis escaped: Empire Beneath the Ice
Researcher Steve Quayle discussed his latest work uncovering why much of what we think we know about World War II and the alleged defeat of Nazi Germany is WRONG.
Quayle contends that Nazi SS members, scientists, and soldiers escaped along with Adolf Hitler after WW II to create colonies in other parts of the world such as South America and Antarctica, where they continued their monstrous Nazi research.
According to an interview with a British wartime officer, in the summer of 1944, a team of 30 British scientists and commandos found an ancient tunnel in the Antarctic and went into it. But only two returned, and they described seeing "Nazis under the ice, polar men, and an under-the-ice city," Quayle recounts.
During Admiral Richard Byrd's Operation High Jump in the Antarctic, Nazis in flying saucers attacked the U.S. armada in 1947, he reports. To create their disc-shaped vimana flying craft, the Nazis reversed-engineered ancient alien technology via occult means such as seances "with ghost-like figures dictating to them advanced mathematic formulas," Quayle says.
Oracle Maria Orsitch of the Vril Society says she channeled alien technology from Aldebaran and offered it to the Nazis, who at that time were still up and coming and had not begun the atrocities for which they are infamous. She herself used one of the vimana crafts to reach Aldebaran, never to be seen on earth again.
The whole structure of the Nazi war machine was based on the occult and supernatural revelations, Quayle claims. He argues that the Germans actually won WW II, and to this day the world is secretly controlled by a malevolent shadow government. [Trump is a German using much of the same rhetoric to stir Americans up to support the same sort of policies that got Hitler into so much trouble.]
"The Nazis absolutely tapped into the multidimensional stargate realm...and through their banking interests and conglomerates still rule the world and are going to bring about the Antichrist" using hidden technology that is [now] also possessed by the U.S. and Russia [who seem to have stolen or inherited it from the Nazis], he warns.
GUEST: Author and researcher Steve Quayle (stevequayle.com) discusses his latest work uncovering why much of what we know about WW II and the alleged defeat of Nazi Germany is wrong, purposely, propagandistically wrong. He contends that Nazi SS members, scientists, and soldiers escaped with Hitler to create colonies in other parts of the world such as the Americas and Antarctica.
(Para Bellum) Nov. 6, 2025: Did ancient Rome really copy its religion from more ancient Greece — or is that just a modern myth? This video uncovers the true origins of Roman religion and shows how it developed into a unique and complex system of beliefs unlike anything in Greece.
The earliest Italic tribes of the Tiber Valley, whose worldview was shaped by animism (the belief that nature itself is alive with spirit), totemism (sacred tribal animals like wolves, woodpeckers, and boars), and fetishism — the idea that certain objects held divine power.
Discover the “pledges of Rome’s eternity,” seven sacred relics believed to guarantee the survival of the Roman state. From there, trace how Etruscan and Greek religion influenced Rome.
The Etruscans gave Roman gods human form, while the Greeks provided myths to explain their origins — pairing Jupiter with Zeus, Venus with Aphrodite, Mars with Ares, and so on.
But this blending was never perfect. Roman gods had different roles, personalities, and meanings. Explore gods the Greeks never had:
Janus, god of beginnings and endings;
Quirinus, protector of the Roman people;
the household Lares and personal Genius;
Pomona, Vertumnus, Terminus, Mefitis, and many others.
Roman religion also worshipped abstract values like Virtus (Valor), Pax (Peace), Fides (Loyalty), and Disciplina (Discipline), building entire temples to ideas rather than personalities.
Unlike Greek religion -- which emphasized myth, emotion, art, and beauty -- Roman religion was about duty, tradition, and exact ritual. The Romans believed the gods cared less about faith and more about whether rituals were performed flawlessly.
Every sacrifice, prayer, and gesture had to be precise — or repeated from the beginning. Divination was another core part of Roman religion.
Inherited from the Etruscans, practices like haruspicy (reading the entrails of sacrificed animals) and auspicy (interpreting bird signs) guided political decisions, wars, and daily life.
Uncover stories like Publius Claudius Pulcher at the Battle of Drepana, who mocked the sacred chickens — and lost an entire fleet.
Roman priests were not a separate religious class. Priesthoods were held by politicians and generals — Julius Caesar, Cicero, Sulla, Augustus, and Scipio Africanus all served as priests while leading the state, proving how religion and politics were inseparable in Rome.
In the end, Roman religion wasn’t a copy of Greek religion — it was a fusion of Italic, Etruscan, and Greek beliefs shaped by Roman values: duty, order, family, and the power of the state.
This video uncovers how it worked, what the Romans truly believed, and why their religious system helped build one of the greatest empires in history.
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‘South Park’ kicks off Season 28 with Trump and Satan’s baby drama
(Access Hollywood) Oct. 16, 2025: “South Park” has returned, but this time with a new season. On Oct. 15th, the Comedy Central animated show kicked off its 28th season, picking up where it left off, with narcissistic Pres. Trump trying to end “Satan’s” pregnancy by abortion.
3:18 - Vice President JD Vance cameo [Peter Theil]
4:15 - A cliffhanger ending
Though multiple online reports claimed that Season 27 was supposed to include 10 episodes, Access Hollywood has learned that the season was only slated for five episodes, as is Season 28. Access has reached out to Paramount and Comedy Central for comment. #AccessHollywood #SouthPark #Trump
(Access Hollywood) “South Park” returned Wednesday night [one night after JKL!'s return] and weighed in on Jimmy Kimmel’s nearly weeklong suspension.
In Episode 5 of Season 27, titled “Conflict of Interest,” the animated sitcom targeted Pres. Trump’s FCC Chairman Brendan Carr following his comments to a right-wing media figure that appeared to influence ABC’s decision to pre-empt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last week.
After Kimmel referenced the man who is accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk (suggesting he was much more likely a MAGA gun nut) during his Sept. 15 monologue, FCC's Carr appeared on conservative activist Benny Johnson’s podcast two days later and said:
“I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct to take action, frankly, on Kimmel or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Now, “South Park” is using Carr’s own words in their latest episode as the FCC chairman lands in the hospital. Carr has since denied he was “threatening” ABC’s licenses, per
God as the Substance of All Being - Julian of Norwich
1st English book by female
(Spiritual Quest) Premiered Aug. 7, 2025:
Discover the profound vision of Julian(a) of Norwich, a 14th-century mystic who redefined the Christian understanding of "God" during times of plague and despair.
This video explores her revolutionary insight that "God" is not a distant judge but the very essence of being—present in every breath, every tree, and even the smallest hazelnut.
Journey through Juliana’s mystical revelations that unveil divine love as the foundation of reality, embracing suffering as transformation and highlighting God’s maternal nature.
00:00:00 The Vision in the Stillness
00:01:06 A Mystic in a Time of Collapse
00:02:19 The Ground of Being
00:03:22 The Divine in All Things
00:04:32 Sin, Suffering, and Divine Love
00:05:34 Feminine Mysticism and the Motherhood of God
00:06:35 The Mirror of Consciousness
00:07:37 The Whole Story is Love
Perfect for spiritual seekers, this contemplative narrative blends medieval wisdom with modern philosophy, inviting us to experience unity, non-duality, and radical love (metta).
Let's immerse ourselves in this timeless story with serene cosmic visuals and a calming Northern English narration. Like and share if this message of hope and divine presence resonates.
Julian of Norwich (circa 1343 [note 1]–after 1416)—also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian [4], and Mother Julian—was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages.
Her writings, now known as Revelations of Divine Love, are the earliest surviving English-language works attributed to a woman. (One might surmise that the poems of Sappho from the Island of Sappho in ancient Greece wrote works earlier and was credited for doing so before Mother Juliana).
They are also the only surviving English-language works by an anchoress. Julian(a) lived in the English city of Norwich, an important center for commerce which also had a vibrant religious life.
During her lifetime, the city suffered the devastating effects of the Black Death (plague) of 1348–1350, the Peasants' Revolt (which affected large parts of England in 1381), and the suppression of the Lollards.
In 1373, aged 30 and so seriously ill that she thought she was on her deathbed, she received a series of visions or "shewings" (showings) of the Passion (Suffering) of Christ.
She recovered from her illness and wrote two versions of her experiences, the earlier one being completed soon after her recovery. A much longer version, today known as the Long Text, was written many years later. More
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