Responding to people, especially Christians, who don’t get “It”, and what is “It”?

Let me begin by asking you, dear reader, a question, before I attempt to answer my own and get on to my response. In the past week, we have learned of the assassination of Charlie Kirk (see here for my thoughts), the Tommy Robinson “Unite the Kingdom” rally (see here for my thoughts) and now we are on to Donald Trump’s still ongoing state visit of the UK (see here for what I wrote about his last visit to the UK) (all my “see heres” are pertinent, btw). My question is: what have all these events got in common?

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Some personal reflections as a result of yesterday’s “Uniting the Kingdom” London event

Yesterday a huge event was held in London under the title “Uniting the Kingdom”, discussed by the BBC under the headline “Dozens of officers injured as up to 150,000 join Tommy Robinson rally” (see here). It has been well reported and misreported (e.g. by the BBC) and it has attracted all sorts of disaffected “far right, racists” (according to some reports) intent on causing havoc and venting their grievances because of things like immigration, free speech and loss of British identity with, depending who you read, anywhere between 100,000 and three million people in attendance.

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The Assassination of Charlie Kirk

I have found when it comes to my entrées into the blogosphere that sometimes these come in thick and fast and sometimes it is a matter of biding my time and finding the right subject to write about when it comes to what I see when I venture outside the camp. When I came home last night, I learned Charlie Kirk had been shot. Shortly before turning in I found he had been killed by an assassin’s bullet and already tributes were coming in. This became even more evident when checking out my social and other media feeds this morning, often coming from unexpected places. For such was this man’s impact that people were affected by someone they esteemed highly.

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Agenda 2030

Part of my journey in trying to figure out what is truly go in the world has entailed exploring all sorts of nooks and crannies, going down many rabbit holes in order to explore, including what the Unholy Trinity of politicians, media and elites would have us believe are conspiracy theories. One often recurring theme in this is Agenda 2030. I asked Meta AI what that is:

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Frederick Stanley Arnot – From Glasgow to Garenganze (1)

I am in the process of reading a book titled “From Glasgow to Garenganze” by Ian Burness, someone who I first come across many years ago concerning his role in Echoes, a missionary organisation that my own church (I served several years as the missionary secretary of said church – Coleman Street Chapel) supported during all of the 113 the years it had been going.

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