Wings of Liberty • July 2, 2023

Yuval Noah Harari and the Last Tower of Babel: an analysis of the doctrine of evolution’s global threat to individual rights.

If there is today any single mainstream, global orthodoxy masquerading as truth, it is without a doubt, the false doctrine of evolution. The theory is so mainstream people don’t even refer to it as “the theory of evolution” anymore. It is just simply – “evolution”. As in, gravity is gravity. Water is wet. Evolution is evolution. Move on, already.


As we’ve seen with Covid, however, it is imperative to ask questions, especially regarding compulsory narratives. If the media, the public school, the government, the medical complex, and the WHO want to compel you to think a certain way, you ought to be a skeptic by default.


Evolution is a godless theory, espoused by godless individuals. Evolution teaches that the origins of life occurred through a random combination of amino acids billions of years ago, and progressively evolved to the vast interconnected complexity that is observed today. All birds. All fish. All humans. All the biodiversity. The insects. Everything. All, according to the theory of evolution, come from a single cell, and developed through natural selection.


There are at least a billion problems with the theory, so many, in fact, that in 2019 over a thousand doctoral scientists signed a public statement dissenting from Darwinism.1 It states the following:


We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged. There is scientific dissent from Darwinism. It deserves to be heard.


But evolution has no intention of having a public debate over its legitimacy. That is not what strongmen do. And most of the scientific world glosses over all of evolution’s glaring and ridiculously obvious flaws with a single BandAid: time. Time is the essential answer to all objections.


You’ve likely heard the analogy about the junkyard and the hurricane. If you give a hurricane four billion years in a junkyard, who knows what amazing machines will be assembled, right? A working telescope? Or (profoundly more complex) the human eye? You can’t say it can’t happen because you’re not going to be alive that long.

That’s basically the theory of evolution.


But when you dig into the implications of evolution instead of assuming it is correct because the overlords who run the Matrix inform you it is, you realize it not only is impossible from a scientific or rational point of view, but you also begin to realize how dark it is.

Evolution, distilled and refined to its logical conclusions, inevitably results in darkness. Hopelessness. Oppression. Indifference. Suicide. Murder. Genocide.


Evolution teaches that there is no meaning to life. It was, and still is, an accident. Since it is an accident, there is no purpose, and no reason to continue to struggle and suffer. That thought alone has driven many a youth to suicide.


Evolution also teaches that the strong survive. Since there is strength in numbers, collectivism and tribalism is the best model of survival. Collectivism creates strength. Companionship. Collaboration. On the other hand, individualism and dissent weakens the collective. It is undesirable.


Survival of the fittest prioritizes aggression. Manipulation. Selfishness. Might makes right. The ends justify the means. Competition for supposedly scarce resources is fierce. So, strike hard, and strike first.


These are all principles inherent in evolutionary thought. There is no golden rule in the evolutionary paradigm. Why would there be? The golden rule is nothing but an impediment to natural selection.


So, we see that there is in Darwinism that which creates outright hostility to the rights of others. Or, in other words, evolution has no room for individual rights.


Consider the implications of the public-school curriculum in the United States, which mandates the teaching of evolution as fact, and has for many decades now.


Evolution is directly antagonistic to the principles of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, which holds “these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”2


Evolution, however, teaches U.S. school children that there is no Creator. He did not endow His creation with anything, because He does not exist. He did not create a humanity, the individuals of which are each recognized as equally valuable in His sight. Therefore, God gave neither life nor liberty.


These teachings directly undermine the very idea of America. They are not only antagonistic to its founding principles, they are contrary to the best interests of its misguided youth, and all of its inhabitants. Teaching children there is no meaning or purpose to life is certainly child abuse. But, to compel children to believe there is no Creator, no purpose to life, and no such thing as inalienable rights is a betrayal of the principles of the Republic.


We can also see that force-feeding evolution creates major problems for a social structure which is significantly based on the protection of minority rights, and individual rights.


Take property rights, for example.


Could it be that the public school curriculum is directly responsible for the creation of the smash-and-grab thugs who terrorize major American cities today? Is it possible that teaching youth that there is no God and no Ten Commandments creates young people who reject law and order, and who disdain the rights of others?

And don’t be deceived by the socialist pope: God believes in property rights. That’s why He commands, “Thou shalt not steal.”


If there’s no God, and no objective right and wrong, how can there any objection to the majority oppressing the minority? Who is there to object? Is there any objection to murder, even?


In the evolutionary worldview, how is murder distinguishable from natural selection? And who has the moral authority to say it is different? Your fellow descendant from the primordial ooze, more recently the cousin of the chimpanzee?


These questions bring us to consideration of the globalist powers of our day. Should anyone be surprised that the tyrants of the WEF and the WHO are fervent adherents to the self-centered religion of Darwin? The thugs of San Francisco reject private property rights, and is it surprising that globalist thugs do the same? If most of the people on earth will “own nothing and be happy”, who is going to own everything?


Simple. The elites will own everything, having stolen it all from everyone else.


We know that Professor Yuval Noah Harari, best-selling author, professor, and principal advisor to the WEF’s Klaus Schwab, has drunk deeply from the Darwinian well. Harari has repeatedly made public insinuations that there are no moral barriers at all to the termination of most of the “useless humans” on planet earth. Harari recognizes no God, and no such thing as human rights. His work is endorsed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Barack Obama.3


You can and should hear Harari discuss his ideas at the 2023 Frontier Institute conference.4


In popular presentations and in best-selling books, Harari asserts the following:


  1. There is no God, and no Creator.5 He is a fictional story invented by human beings.
  2. Life is a product of billions of years of evolution.
  3. There is no such thing as right and wrong. Life is meaningless and without purpose.
  4. Since there’s no God, and no such thing as right and wrong, there is no judgment, and no accountability.6


Human rights, like God, are just a fiction, a story that we have invented.


Harari darkly states that if you cut a human open, you’ll find a heart, a liver, and a spleen, but no rights.7


Should we be surprised by Harari, or the sudden plethora of tyrants like him? Harari’s overtly sociopathic musings regarding the elimination of so-called “useless humans” is the natural conclusion of Darwinism.


The textbook definition of sociopathy as an antisocial personality disorder is characterized primarily by disregard for others and a lack of empathy. In other words, a lack of conscience.


Should we be surprised that Harari is also a nihilist? Shouldn’t it be an axiom by now that Darwinism in the end always creates nihilists? Isn’t that a predictable “evolution”? And hasn’t humanity seen it before?


Stalin is said to have read Darwin’s Origin of the Species in one night, unable to put it down. It was Darwin which led Stalin to conclude that there is no God.


The following story is recounted of Stalin’s youth by Yaroslavsky, while Stalin was still in his formative years.


At a very early age, while still a pupil in the ecclesiastical school, Comrade Stalin developed a critical mind and revolutionary sentiments. He began to read Darwin and became an atheist.

G. Glurdjidze, a boyhood friend of Stalin's, relates:


"I began to speak of God, Joseph heard me out, and after a moment's silence, said:

"'You know, they are fooling us, there is no God. . . .'

"I was astonished at these words, I had never heard anything like it before.

"'How can you say such things, Soso?' I exclaimed.


"'I'll lend you a book to read; it will show you that the world and all living things are quite different from what you imagine, and all this talk about God is sheer nonsense,' Joseph said.

"'What book is that?' I enquired.

"'Darwin. You must read it,' Joseph impressed on me".8


Another commenter on Stalin’s policies stated the following:


". . .in order to disabuse the minds of our seminary students of the myth that the world was created in six days, we had to acquaint ourselves with the geological origin and age of the earth, and be able to prove them in argument; we had to familiarize ourselves with Darwin's teachings."9


In China, Mao Tse Tung was also a Darwinist. For Mao, Darwin provided the catalyst for rebellion as a right. As noted by China scholar James Pusey,


Mao Tse-tung finally claimed that Marxism-Leninism could all be boiled down to one sentence, tsao fan yu li — “To rebel is justified” — but that standard translation obscures the force of the li (reason or principle) that rebellion was now said to have. That Neo-Confucian word in [its] new context really meant that rebellion was a natural law, and that lesson had been taught to Mao Tse-tung not by Marx but by Sun Yat-sen and Liang Ch’i-ch’ao, who had learned it, rightly or wrongly, from Darwin. For the li of revolution, they had said, lay in evolution.10


According to Sir Arthur Keith, Adolph Hitler “consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.”11 Should this surprise anyone? Isn’t Untermensch just another word for “useless people”?


What Harari is teaching is age-old darkness. But, in largely accepting the theory of evolution into their doctrines, much of the Christian world has made a compromise with darkness, and no longer recognizes it for what it is. But there is nothing Biblical or Christian about evolution, and there is nothing evolutionary about Christianity. The two ideas are diametrically antagonistic to each other, and always will be.


Christianity has as its foundation a self-sacrificing Creator God who came to reunite God and Man, and to pay the penalty of sin. His followers, receiving the promise of a new heart and mind, are commanded to live for the good and salvation of others. They are even willingly to “die daily”.12 Nothing could be further from the teachings of evolution. Evolution is a greedy, grasping religion, built on the deification of self, openly embracing Machiavellianism, and rejecting the value of the individuals for whom Christ laid down His life.


There are Christians who foolishly attempt to reconcile the Bible with the theory of evolution, but this cannot be. Evolution recognizes no Creation, no Creator, no Fall, no such thing as sin, no need for an atonement, no resurrection, and no judgment. Attempting to reconcile the teachings of Jesus Christ with those of Charles Darwin is a delusion.


It is no mystery who inspired the theory of evolution. Satan was a liar and a murderer from the beginning,13 and it is unsurprising that his masterpiece of deception, evolution, is an integral cog in the last-day plan for the global elimination of all the so-called “useless people”. The original title of Darwin’s notorious work from 1859 was, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”. It was a work of eugenics from the beginning.


We can see the storm clouds gathering on the horizon. Most animals recognize the warning signs of impending danger, and head for cover. However, it may be that most of humanity is already too brainwashed to recognize its peril.



Crowds of cheering people listen enthusiastically to Harari lay out the globalist justifications for mass genocide, which presumably includes the elimination of the vast majority of people who clap for him.





1 https://thenewamerican.com/over-1-000-scientists-openly-dissent-from-evolution-theory/


Only rudimentary microscopes were available in Darwin’s time. It is now observed, however, that one human cell is more complex than a mid-size city at rush hour. This complexity was unknown to Darwin, who himself was given pause by the sight of a peacock’s feather in 1860 when he wrote, “The sight of a feather in a peacock's makes me sick." He could not account for its complexity.


2 https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript


https://www.breitbart.com/pre-viral/2023/06/29/supreme-court-racial-preferences-unconstitutional-college/ - the Constitution ought to be color blind. It is a biblical doctrine that we all are of one blood: Acts 17:26.


3. https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/meet-yuval-harari-superstar-historian-to-mark-zuckerberg/10200906


4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azwt2pxn3UI


5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGt5xklfmsU – Harari says, “God is dead. It just takes time to get rid of the body”.


6 Obviously this also means the elite are unaccountable to any higher power for the hundreds of millions of casualties of the Great Reset.


7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzj7Wg4DAbs – minute 9:25 on.


8. E. Yaroslavsky, Landmarks in the Life of Stalin (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing house, 1940), pp. 8-12.


9. Ibid, pp. 8-17


10. Pusey, James Reeve, China and Charles Darwin, Harvard University Press, 1983.


11. Arthur Keith, Evolution and Ethics, Putnam’s, New York, 1949, p. 230.


12. 1 Cor 15:31


13. John 8:44: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will d. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.”

Bob’s Your Uncle - Pope Leo XIV

By Wings of Liberty • May 9, 2025
The death of Pope Francis after his twelve-year pontificate initiated all the wheels of pageantry, intrigue and mystery of the process to select a new pope. Tens of thousands of social media pages and channels focused on Rome, waiting for the puff of white smoke from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel. Major news channels around the world offered free live coverage of the conclave. Breathless anchors analyzed every nuance from the Vatican. The global focus and elaborate ceremony is calculated to perpetrate the myth that popes, and the Papacy itself, are invested with some great authority and deserves honor and recognition from the world. The media charade is effective, wouldn’t you say? Revelation 13:3 says the world will wonder after the beast, and it certainly is. But the truth is that the pope is simply a man, just like Bill or Bob down the street. We now know the name of the man selected to be the next pope. His name is Robert Prevost, and he was born in Illinois in 1955. But a change of name is part of the mysteries of Rome, so “Robert Prevost” will be henceforth referred to as “Pope Leo XIV”, and “His Holiness”. According to the Vatican, Bob from Chicago is now the representative of Jesus Christ on earth. Since Jesus Christ is holy, now it is claimed that Bob is holy. It is said that he has the keys of heaven and earth, and is the successor to Peter (who the Papacy self-servingly claims was the first pope). All of this is blasphemy of the highest order, and is why the Bible unmistakably points to the papacy as “the man of sin”: Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God – 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4. See also Daniel 7, and the little horn power described in verses 24, 25, and Revelation 13:5-8. Mr. Prevost’s election as pontiff was announced by the cardinals with the words, “habemus papum”, translated literally from the Latin, as “we have a father.” The word “pope”, in English, comes from the word, “papa”, in Latin. The word “papa” means “father. By this, the cardinals, who are the so-called princes of the church, are announcing to the world that it has a spiritual father once more. But Jesus warned us clearly not to refer to mere men as “father”, because we have a Father, and He is in heaven – Matthew 23:9. The throne of God is never vacant – He is the Everlasting Father, and He is our Father, not Mr. Prevost from Chicago. What does it take to draw the attention of the entire world at the same time, to the election of one fallible man for a religious position? What does it take to perpetrate a global fraud? It takes money. Coordination. An agenda. And a power from beneath. The dragon gave his power, seat and great authority to the Papacy – Revelation 13:2. So what can we expect from the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV? Nearly everything the Vatican does has some symbolic meaning, and the assumption of the name “Leo” by Robert Prevost is no different. The last time Leo was used as a papal name was when it was used by Leo XIII, in his pontificate spanning the years 1878-1903. Leo XIII wrote the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the infamous anti-capitalism treatise on unions and workers’ rights. Leo XIII was known as “the Pope of the Workers”, and it seems likely that Leo XIV will continue the narrative of qualifying and curtailing individual rights in favor of implementing what the Papacy decrees to be the “common good”. A connection to watch will be papal support for principles and aims of Project 2025, and the initiatives in that document to harness the political power of labor unions, including by enforcing a mandatory weekly day of rest on the papal Sabbath, commonly known as Sunday. It should be remembered that it was during the papacy of Leo XIII that America had its Sunday law crisis in 1888, where national legislation was introduced by Senator Blair to compel observance of the papal Sabbath. This effort, which ultimately failed, was the culmination of the work of the National Reform Movement to combine church and state in America, a work which is mirrored by today’s New Apostolic Reformation, and its efforts to take control of the so-called seven mountains of societal influence. It ought not to be forgotten that it was Leo X who excommunicated Martin Luther, and demanded to have him delivered to Rome to face the Inquisition. Conclusion: It has long been said that there never would be a pope from the United States because of the global influence America already has. This has now suddenly changed, and is a solemn indicator of some momentous push requiring maximum political and religious clout.

THE SEVEN MOUNTAIN MANDATE PART 4: THE LOVE OF MONEY

By Wings of Liberty • April 25, 2025
For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church has fraudulently told the world that it holds the keys to salvation. It has even placed these keys, symbolizing its usurped authority over all things in heaven and in earth, on the Vatican flag. i And it has made merchandise of salvation, advertising that people can pay to enter the kingdom of heaven, selling forgiveness by issuing “indulgences” and relaxed punishments for sin. Catholicism teaches the unbiblical doctrine of eternal torment in hell, as well as the doctrine of purgatory, another place of punishment in addition to hell where a person must supposedly suffer for their sins and be refined before going to heaven. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states, “All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven”. i But (surprise, surprise!!) this process can be rapidly sped up, it is claimed, as long as the living are willing to pony up and pay for expedited cleansing of the dead. In the 15 th century, Johann Tetzel, one of these false hawkers of salvation, famously broadcast that, "As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs." This blasphemous and shameless exploitation of public ignorance and fear led Martin Luther in his 95 Thesis to proclaim that “They preach only human doctrines who say that as soon as the money clinks into the money chest, the soul flies out of purgatory." ii Luther wrote that indulgences were sold by the papacy for the most vile crimes, so that even if a person had raped Jesus’ mother they could get forgiveness by paying money to the Pope. iv The practice of issuing indulgences is still practiced by the Papacy today. Pope Francis before his death offered indulgences for sin and escape from purgatory during the Jubilee year of 2025. v These indulgences can be obtained, according to the Catholic Church, by going on a pilgrimage to Rome. Another indication that the New Apostolic Reformation is among the daughters of the Roman Church of Revelation 17 is its obsession with the accumulation of filthy lucre. C. Peter Wagner, church growth specialist, self-styled “apostle”, and often-credited originator of the name, “New Apostolic Reformation”, declares that, “Prosperity is the will of God, while poverty is the will of Satan.vi Wagner claimed that the reason Christianity had not succeeded in the Gospel commission is because it did not have enough money, asserting that money is the key to societal transformation. vii NAR Apostle Bill Johnson claims that “poverty is demonic”. viii Wagner taught that the NAR apostles needed to enter spiritual warfare with the powerful demons that controlled the seven mountains of society, and that “we will not experience sustained societal reformation until we bind the spirit of poverty through the blood.” ix NAR apostle Lance Walnau claims that Christianity doesn’t need more conversions to shift the culture , what it needs is “more disciples in the right places, the high places.” x It seems to have eluded Mr. Walnau that the apostate kings of ancient Israels also went to the high places to practice their idolatry. xi According to the teachings of NAR apostles, these assertions aren’t just opinions, either. “While there are several things that distinguish apostles from other members of the Body of Christ, the major characteristic that stands out over the others is their exceptional authority.” vii Like mother like daughter: the claim to authority is also papal. So, is the problem with the advancement of the Gospel in this world due to a lack of funds? Is Jesus waiting for His people to get a big pot of money before He can send them out successfully to do His work? Is that biblical, or is it unbliblical? The test of all doctrine is the Scriptures. We are to compare the teachings of the NAR with the Bible: “To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them” – Isaiah 8:20. The Pope claims to be the successor of Peter. He makes this boastful claim in regard to the same Apostle Peter who said to the lame man who looked to him for alms, “silver and gold have I none” – Acts 3:6. Jesus instructed the apostles to take “neither bread, neither money” (Luke 9:3) when they went out in ministry: they were to rely on the power and providence of God. But the Popes of Rome could hardly say that they have no silver or gold. The Vatican is full of both silver and gold, and all manner of costly riches in extraordinary abundance. When Simon Magus attempted to purchase salvation and the power to work miracles, Peter sternly denounced him, saying, “They money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money” – Acts 8:20. But Peter wasn’t finished. He continues: “Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God” – Acts 8:21. Simon had no lot or part in the Gospel ministry. The Bible says that “the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows” – 1 Timothy 6:10. Who had the money bag during the time Jesus was with His apostles on earth? It wasn’t Peter – it was Judas. But Judas was a thief, and he was stealing from the money bag. Paula White Cain, another of the New Apostolic Reformation’s Apostles and official leader of the White House Faith office, recently also monetized the blessings of heaven by selling Passover cups to her followers, and promising them that if they donated more than $1000 they would receive a crystal cross and 7 blessings, including God’s assignment of an angel to them, prosperity, healing, long life, etc.

Don’t Relent! Ash Wednesday, And the Image to the Beast

By Wings of Liberty • March 7, 2025
Bible prophecy warns us to expect powerful religious forces to hijack the American government and endorse and enforce a Roman Catholic institution as a condition of buying and selling. i This website has spoken ( here , here , here and here ) of the repeated papal and false Protestant efforts to seize control of civil power in the United States and reunite church and state. As Delilah the harlot sought to discover and eliminate the secret of Samson’s power, so the Papal harlot has unceasingly sought to find and eliminate the source of America’s power, and bring it to its knees. As Delilah sensed the moment of her triumph had come, the Papacy surely senses that the fall of the mighty is near. On behalf of apostate Protestantism, the harlot’s daughters, the New Apostolic Reformation believes in the subordination of the state to the church, and counts a number of prominent politicians and advisors in Washington D.C. as its followers. ii Catholic Integralism also maintains the church must control the state, and counts the Vice President as its follower, iii as well as multiple Cabinet members from the Opus Dei-influenced Heritage Foundation. iv Catholicism and apostate Protestantism, therefore, are in a position to exert substantial control over government, in effect uniting church and state in fulfilment of Bible prophecy. In another harbinger of the proximity of the crisis, on Wednesday, March 5, the White House held a Catholic mass on its grounds and issued a statement in celebration of the commencement of the Catholic festival of Lent on Ash Wednesday. The statement of the President and First Lady reads as follows: This Ash Wednesday, we join in prayer with the tens of millions of American Catholics and other Christians beginning the holy season of Lent—a time of spiritual anticipation of the passion, death, and Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. During the Lenten season, Christians spend 40 days and 40 nights praying, fasting, and giving alms to deepen our faith and strengthen our belief in the Gospel. Today, followers of Christ wear crosses of ash on their foreheads—a sacred reminder of our mortality and our enduring need for Christ’s infinite mercy and redeeming love. As we solemnly contemplate Jesus Christ’s suffering and death on the cross this Lent, let us prepare our souls for the coming glory of the Easter miracle. We offer you our best wishes for a prayerful and enriching Lenten season. May Almighty God bless you, and may He continue to bless the United States of America. v The White House should not be hosting Catholic mass on government grounds. The White House is a government building, and it ought to be a neutral religious space, not a place to endorse the practices of any one religion, or denomination. So why are the President, the head of the Executive Branch, and the First Lady, issuing a statement on a government website with respect to Lent at all? Donald Trump and his wife Melania can celebrate Lent if they want, but they ought not to misuse the enormous power of the US government to encourage or endorse religious practices to Americans. The Bible says, “Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves.” vi The point is that government leaders are welcome to observe Lent if they wish in their own personal lives, but they are out of their sphere of authority to use their influence to normalize Lent or any other religious observance. The White House statement then claims that Lent is a Christian practice, but is Lent biblical? Does the Bible talk about moping around with the sign of the cross drawn with ashes on your forehead? The Bible answer is a resounding ‘No’. Lent is not a biblical precept or festival any more than Sunday is the biblical Sabbath. Both are Roman Catholic traditions devoid of Scriptural origin. With respect to Sunday observance, Rome boasts of its change of the Sabbath, even issuing an unanswerable challenge to Protestants who bow in homage to her authority in honoring Sunday. We invite you to read “ Rome’s Challenge ” if you have never done so. vii Similarly, Lent is a Roman Catholic tradition. It is a merits-based exercise from start to finish devoid of the righteousness of Christ. The Reformer John Calvin called it “superstitious” and “wrongheaded zeal.” viii The Reformer Ulrich Zwingli declared the observance of Lent incongruous with the Christian gospel in a sermon on April 16, 1522. ix We would add that Lent is precisely the kind of public virtue signalling the Bible condemns x and right-wing conservatives dislike about their left-wing opponents. Think of it as the Catholic version of painting a rainbow on your face. Key Points of the White House Statement The endorsement and promotion of Lent by the White House is a violation of the spirit of the separation of church and state. It is a formal commendation by the civil power of the US government of a Roman Catholic religious festival. Consider the following. The Executive Branch of the US government has no business declaring its favor, participation in, or endorsement of a certain religion’s festivals The White House in its statement on the official government website refers to "the holy season of Lent". As discussed, there is nothing in the Holy Bible about Lent being a holy season. God never said anything about Lent at all, it is wholly an ordination of the Man of Sin. But apart from this, the Executive Branch of government should not be declaring festivals or feast days to be holy or unholy. That is not the proper role of any earthly government. When God delivered the Ten Commandments to Moses, they were written on two tables, thus evidencing the difference between humanity’s obligations to God, and humanity’s obligations to their fellow humanity. Christ declared in immortal words the principle of the separation of church and state when He stated, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” xi God is holy, and it is for the Lord to declare what is holy and what is not. Caesar is not holy, and has nothing to do with saying what is or is not holy. Any attempt to declare that something is holy when God has not said that it is holy is an intrusion on the exclusive territory of the Deity. 2. The White House states that, During the Lenten season, “Christians spend 40 days and 40 nights praying”, and "Today, followers of Christ wear crosses of ash on their foreheads." It is not for the American government to declare what the followers of Christ do or do not do. This ill-conceived statement underscores the pitfalls of government wading into the religious realm to declare what is orthodox. First, and strictly factually speaking, it is the followers of the Papacy, and Pope Gregory specifically, who put ashes on their foreheads, xii it is not done pursuant to any decree of Christ. According to the Catholic Church, “the use of ashes is a survival from an ancient rite according to which converted sinners submitted themselves to canonical penance.” xiii Canonical penance is a form of works-based righteousness by which Catholics believe they accrue or accumulate personal merit to gain standing with God. Penance in Catholicism was declared by the Council of Trent xiv to be “at all times necessary for the remission of grievous sin.” xv The Roman Catholic Church teaches that the person who sins “must repent and as far as possible make reparation to Divine justice.” xvi But the Bible teaches that Christ has made reparation for humanity. He died “once for all”, xvii and that the “Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” xviii No additional reparations (works) can be added to the completed work of Christ in taking the sins of the world upon Himself. The Apostle Paul states, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.” xix 3. The White House claims the penance of Lent “deepens our faith and strengthens our belief in the Gospel” Is this true? No, it is not. Works based righteousness, i.e. wearing ashes on one’s forehead to make reparations for sin, undermine and repudiate faith in the Gospel. They do not strengthen faith in the Gospel at all! Such acts of penance declare that a person places merit on their own acts of contrition, their own works, to commend themselves to God, and disbelieve the sufficiency of Christ’s payment for the sins of the world. xx 4. Jesus Christ never wore ashes on His forehead, nor did He command His followers to do any such thing, nor is there any example of any of His apostles doing this On what basis does the White House presume to declare that the followers of Christ do this? Do the mournful people following the Papacy’s Lent realize that Jesus specifically taught His followers not to fast in this way? The Lord declared, “When ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast . Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.” xxi Christ said the reward of the people with ashes prominently displayed on their foreheads is the notice of men, not the commendation of God. 5. The White House states that we should "... prepare our souls for the coming glory of the Easter miracle" by fasting for Lent. Should a neutral state on a government website be making this statement? Is it the place of the Executive Branch to offer spiritual advice to Americans? Why is the U.S. government promoting the Papal teaching that penance and fasting is required to prepare for Easter? Promoting papal teachings on Lent is a definite step toward promoting Papal teaching on the sacredness of Sunday. Since the White House has already declared that the Papal practice of Lent is “holy”, is it not reasonably foreseeable that the White House will one day declare that the Papal teaching of Sunday is also holy, and is the day that Christians rest from their labors? CONCLUSION The Bible teaches that religious forces will cause America to make an image to the Papal power, and enforce observance of the mark of Papal authority – the change of the fourth commandment to solemnize dia solis, the Day of the Sun – Sunday. Revelation 13 states that the Lamb-like Beast will cause everyone “to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads .” xxii Given the certainty of the prophetic warnings in Revelation 13, the White House’s endorsement of Papal ashes on the foreheads of Americans is uncomfortable foreshadowing. Lent has its origins in paganism and Babylonian myth. The word "Lent" comes from the Old English word for Spring, "Lencten". To read about the pagan origins of Lent, and the 40 day weeping for Tammuz referred to in Ezekiel 8:13, 14,..... click here . _______________________ i Revelation 13: 11-18 ii https://forward.com/culture/672745/christian-nationalist-guide-influence-trump-election/ ; NAR Apostle Paula White is the Senior Advisor of the newly created White House Faith Office. iii https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/j-d-vance-and-the-rise-of-the-postliberal-catholics.html iv https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/26/kevin-roberts-project-2025-opus-dei v https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/the-president-and-first-ladys-message-on-ash-wednesday-2025/ vi Romans 14 :22 vii https://www.romeschallenge.com/ viii https://heidelblog.net/2013/02/calvin-on-lent/ ix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Sausages#:~:text=The%20Affair%20of%20the%20Sausages%20(1522)%20was,God%2C%20Huldrych%20Zwingli%27s%20Reformation%20took%20its%20start.%22 x Isaiah 58:4, 5 “ Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?”. xi Mark 12:17 xii https://www.dynamiccatholic.com/lent/ash-wednesday.html? srsltid=AfmBOopiIDBGnYFGsJhchQ4xtGbzxfWFN-JckjKMQbIAu_fMH_IUkgo- xiii https://www.ncregister.com/blog/9-things-to-know-and-share-about-ash-wednesday-oeeorfvu - penance is a Catholic concept of works-based merit to earn standing with God. xiv (Sess. XIV, c.i) xv https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11618b.htm xvi https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11618b.htm xvii Hebrews 10:10 xviii Isaiah 53:6 xix Romans 4:4,5 xx 2 Corinthians 5:14, 15 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if One died for all, then were all dead: And that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again. Colosians 1:20, 21 For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled. xxi Matthew 6:16 xxii Revelation 13:16