Thread by @LarryTaunton

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WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM UPDATE 2:

Greetings from Europe. Arrived yesterday. I am jet-lagged. Ugh.

The WEF begins Monday Jan 16 and concludes Friday January 20.

I’ll attend midweek once the initial craziness has subsided. As a lead-up to that, I’ll slow roll …

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…some tidbits about the WEF. Watch this space.

To give you some idea of my approach, I will leave specifics of WEF policy objectives to others. I am mostly interested in the core ideas driving their agenda.

2 Corinthians 10:5 says: “We destroy arguments & every lofty …

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…opinion raised against the knowledge of God…”

That is my personal mission statement. It is what I do for a living. I construct & destroy arguments that impede belief in Jesus Christ.

How does the WEF figure into that? In 2006, we began addressing the “New Atheism”…

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…made popular by Oxford’s Richard Dawkins, journalist Christopher Hitchens, Tuft’s Daniel Dennett, & Stanford’s Sam Harris.

We invited them to debate their views. They accepted. I put my friend John Lennox in debates with Dawkins. We both debated …

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…Hitchens & Dennett & still others. Many of you are familiar with these debates as they captured much public attention.

Many Christians thought these “pointy-headed academic discussions” irrelevant to average people. Indeed, when I spoke to …

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…pastors warning them that something wicked this way comes, it was not uncommon to get a smugly dismissive response. I recall the pastor of a megachurch smirking throughout just such a conversation:

“Larry,” he said, “We have 7,000 members. I don’t think we need to …

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… worry ourselves with your ‘militant atheists.’”

“Oh, but you do,” I replied. “Your church growth is an illusion. You aren’t growing via conversion. You are growing because members of Church A migrated to Church B because of your hip new youth center & coffee shop in the…

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…foyer. In ten years, you’ll be struggling to maintain your membership. In 20, these facilities will be largely empty.”

15 years on, I am sad to say that my prediction is fast becoming a reality. Churches didn’t equip the faithful. The average Christian doesn’t know how …

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…to share his faith, much less defend it.

So, again, what’s that got to do with the WEF?

Since 2006, we’ve tracked that same atheism as a hunter tracks big game. It has moved from high level academic discussions thru public schools, Hollywood, & medicine until it is …

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…now taking the form of public policy. Same animal, different disguise.

Those who will implement WEF policies are, in a sense, Dawkins’s ideological children. (He told me he “hated” the article below. Probably bc it’s true.)

This morning I read…

larryalextaunton.com/2021/04/richar…

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…@TianaTheFirst’s excellent interview with the WEF’s US rep Paul Smyke in today’s Washington Examiner.

The interview is worth reading even though Smyke prevaricates throughout, saying the WEF “has no agenda.” He insists the WEF simply facilitates “conversations.” But …

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…Russia isn’t invited to the conversation while China is. That smacks of an agenda.

Besides, the absurdity of the “no agenda” lie is evident in Smyke’s very title: “WEF Agenda Contributor.”

So, then, what is the agenda?

Stay tuned.

From Europe.

Peace out.