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Who or what killed George Floyd?

Saturday, August 8, 2020, 11:02 am | Randy Thomasson

Why did you see only one video of the Minneapolis police officers’ encounter with George Floyd on May 25, and not the police bodycam video until August 3? We all had to wait more than two whole months for it, because the Democrat Attorney General of Minnesota hid it from the public.

So the false narrative that police in the United States are hunting down and killing unarmed black men ran unabated in the media. Meanwhile, anarchist activists within Antifa and Black Lives Matter took full advantage of the lie, destroying property and killing innocent people all across America.

The police video shows George Floyd resisting patient officers for eight straight minutes. And the toxicology report confirms Floyd was high on drugs, which constricted his breathing and contributed to his demise.

Those are the facts and you can come to your own conclusion. But it’s clear from the video that Floyd was resisting big-time, repeatedly claiming he couldn’t breathe as police patiently tried to get him to sit in the police car, and that cops were concerned enough to call for an ambulance.

The toxicology report found a massive overdose of the opioid fentanyl, along with methamphetamine, in Floyd’s body. These harmful drugs – which can cause “severe respiratory depression, circulatory collapse, coma, and death” — explain Floyd’s paranoia, aggression, and the breathing problems he had while standing and sitting.

As expert prosecutor George Parry details: “In short, Floyd’s foaming at the mouth, incoherence, physical incapacity, non-compliant behavior, breathing difficulty, and rapid downward spiral into unconsciousness and death are fully explained by the toxicological evidence that he had ingested a massively lethal overdose of fentanyl mixed with a smaller dose of similarly dangerous and debilitating methamphetamine. In other words, by the time he first encountered the police, Floyd had already rendered himself a dead man walking and was only minutes away from expiring.

All lives matter, but you only saw one video. Now see the police bodycam video here.

Then read these expert reports on the video and the toxicology report:

Who Killed George Floyd?
By former federal and state prosecutor George Parry in the American Spectator

Why George Floyd Died
By Rod Dreher, senior editor at The American Conservative

“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”
Nicodemus, advocating for fairness for Jesus Christ, before the Sanhedrin

prejudice: The act or state of holding unreasonable preconceived judgments or convictions.
An adverse judgment or opinion formed unfairly or without knowledge of the facts.

Try to open your church school now — the State says you can

Friday, August 7, 2020, 9:45 am | Randy Thomasson

For the sake of survival and for training children in academics, moral character, and the Word of God, Bible-based schools must try to reopen now.

Like in 1860, right before the Civil War, when there were official “slave” states versus “free” states, California, controlled by Democrat politicians, has made slaves out of its people, in contrast to numerous Republican states that are free from lockdowns and mask mandates.

On August 3, your California “slavemaster,” Gavin Newsom, controlled and spoke through his California Department of Public Health to issue this public statement:

Waiver Process for Elementary Schools to Resume In-Person Instruction  
On July 17, 2020 Governor Gavin Newsom announced that schools in counties that have been on the County Data Monitoring list within the prior 14 days, are only allowed to conduct distance learning and that there would be a waiver process that could allow some elementary schools in those counties to conduct in-person learning if they could meet stringent health requirements. State health officials noted recent scientific data showing that young children were far less likely to shed and transmit the virus.

Today, the California Department of Public Health is releasing that waiver process. A district superintendent, private school principal or head of school, or executive director of a charter school may apply for a waiver from the local health officer to open an elementary school for in-person instruction in a county on the monitoring list. This waiver is applicable only for grades TK-6, even if the grade configuration at the school includes additional grades. The application for a waiver must include an attestation that the applicant consulted with parent, labor, and community organizations at each school site for which an application is being submitted. 

This means religious schools may ask their county health officer for permission to reopen for in-person classroom instruction. Here’s the sample letter explaining how to make this happen (note that private schools only need to consult with school staff, not with “labor and community organizations.”) Here’s the full announcement with how-to links.

Even if you have to reopen in a slavish, limited, and politically-correct way, please reopen anyway. Your Bible-based school needs to survive and thrive, and so do the hearts, minds, and souls of the children you want to love and train.

Reopening, even under these oppressive regulations, would also help reopen California as whole. Church schools can lead the way to break the logjam of the Democrats’ destructive lockdown. Schools that stay closed will develop bad reputations when other schools successfully reopen to the joy of families. And if church schools discount their tuitions, they can attract more students. California Christian-format schools must try to reopen!

However, not all California counties will currently “permit” private schools to reopen. Note this from the Orange County Register: “But the waivers can only be considered in counties where coronavirus rates meet a certain threshold. And that means Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Riverside county schools cannot apply under the current guidelines.”

Lastly, here’s documentation of the science that children aren’t threatened by, and don’t spread, COVID-19:

School Children Don’t Spread Coronavirus, French Study Shows
Schools have low coronavirus infection rate, German study finds
Children rarely transmit COVID-19, doctors write in new commentary
Children are not COVID-19 super spreaders: time to go back to school

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.
Protestant reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546)

5 questions for California pastors

Saturday, July 25, 2020, 12:05 pm | Randy Thomasson

Why are pastors closing up their congregation’s meeting place?

Every pastor in California or anywhere else where a Democrat governor’s administration has “ordered” a cancellation of congregational meetings needs to ask and answer these five questions:

Q: Is there a New Testament mandate for meeting and singing?
A: Yes, there is. Hebrews 10:24-25, Ephesians 5:19, Colossians 3:16, James 5:13

Q: Are you guaranteed free exercise of religion in the U.S. Constitution?
A: Yes, you are. “Congress shall make no law … prohibiting the free exercise … of religion”

Q: Is pastoral ministry to congregation members needed more than ever?
A: Yes, indeed. California pastor: “We’ve been essential for 2,000 years”, California pastor: “We are a hospital for all kinds of different people. The church is essential”, Rick Warren: Meeting people’s four deepest needs

Q: Is there a written law passed by the California State Legislature and signed by California’s governor?
A: No, there isn’t. See Peggy Hall’s analysis

Q: Are police likely to barge in on a Sunday morning to warn or cite you?
A: No, they’re not. Most California sheriffs and police chiefs didn’t bother churches earlier this year, and since then, several have announced they would not enforce the lockdown or masks or both.

Ultimately, the question is will pastors fear God or man. The recommended “considerations” (not a duly-approved statute) from the unelected state employees of the California Department of Public Health are easy to resist, since not many cops want to barge into a Sunday morning church service.

And what if they did? Is there no Biblical example of suffering for Jesus Christ and being loyal to Him — no matter what?

Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season.
Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
2 Timothy 4:2

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.
Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works,
or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.
Revelation 2:4