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Attention has been drawn to this: https://www.un.org/pga/77/wp-content/uploads/sites/105/2023/08/Final-text-for-silence-procedure-PPPR-Political-Declaration.pdf

And today a friend in NZ sent this: https://www.mbie.govt.nz/dmsdocument/27180-new-zealands-future-quarantine-and-isolation-capability-proactiverelease-pdf

Reckoning with this sort of thing can of course be fear-inducing. What I have written above is intended as an antidote to fear.

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Hi Dr. Farrow,

We can’t post comments on your latest essay, but you do have an important typo, I think: you say ‘True authority occurs, as Augustine says, when justice accedes to power”. I think you mean the other way around?

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Thanks for pointing out the closed comments. That was accidental and is fixed now, I think.

Re: Augustine, no: justice (cross) + power (resurrection) = authority (ascension).

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Just brilliant.

First time I've seen a theological critique that squarely deals with the whole summation of the evil we've been witnessing since 2020. With its roots long established beforehand,to be fair.

This is an irrestible blend of Augustine's core text, as manifested in classical church ecclesiology . And landing finally before us with serious Pauline prophecy included as and when.

The appalling Papa Doc Francis is as much a today and placement as is Welby or Trudeau.

No doubt Benedict had to be removed ,so today's corporate authoritarian evil could be unleashed.

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No one reading still reading Paul or Augustine—and why would anyone cease reading Paul or Augustine?—will, if reading carefully, fail to recognize that what is happening around us, even in many churches and Christian communities, is a departure from the Faith those worthies proclaimed. We need a Bernard, a Ferrer, a Catherine, a Kierkegaard...

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Maybe I'd simply say a Jesus.

In Jn 16.33 He speaks of overcoming the world.

In 17.15 , He knows that those disciples of His will be easy prey for satan etal.

Both seemingly contradictory notions are said in the coming traumatic ethos of the coming Passion.

Within 16 short Bible verses.

1 Jn 5.19 also states that this world is satan's realm , as a natural setting when people rebel,conspire and mock what God created and Jesus redeemed

Today, we don't need those titans of old. We've got you...and so many fearless truth tellers and thinkers to enable us to fashion something that will confound the evildoers in Lucis' train....here's hoping!

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As usual, much to think through here. As the fear campaign is again ramped up, God's people must do a better job of countering it this time.

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Yes, and alliances must also be made among all who are concerned about this sort of thing, to which the pandemic was just a prelude: https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/g20-announces-plan-to-impose-digital-currencies-and-ids-worldwide-5489947. Countering, however, is not only a political or economic or legal task, but ultimately an evangelical task.

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