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Eat your cockroaches, they're good for you!

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The rightwing US TV network Newsmax said it had no plans to interview Lara Logan again, after the award-winning war correspondent turned rightwing pundit launched a QAnon-tinged tirade on air.

Speaking to host Eric Bolling, Logan said “the open border is Satan’s way of taking control of the world” and claimed world leaders drank children’s blood.

QAnon is a pro-Trump conspiracy theory which holds that leading liberal figures in US and world politics are, among other things, secretly murderous pedophiles.

Logan told Bolling: “God believes in sovereignty and national identity and the sanctity of family, and all the things that we’ve lived with from the beginning of time.

“And he knows that the open [southern US] border is Satan’s way of taking control of the world through all of these people who are his stooges and his servants.

“And they may think that they’re going to become gods. That’s what they tell us … You know, the ones who want us eating insects, cockroaches and that while they dine on the blood of children? Those are the people, right? They’re not going to win. They’re not going to win.”

Newsmax said in a statement it “condemns in the strongest terms the reprehensible statements made by Lara Logan” and had “no plans to interview her again”.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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"All the things we have lived with since the beginning of time." Tell me again about that snake and the apple. “And they may think that they’re going to become gods. That’s what they tell us … You know, the ones who want us eating insects, cockroaches and that while they dine on the blood of children? Those are the people, right? They’re not going to win. They’re not going to win.” Is sure hope she is right about this. It is her ilk that is saying this blather.

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I know Christmas is coming but still - it's a bit early for fruitcake, no?
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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Perhaps, but then, just like fruitcake, these idiotic stories are never fully considered or digested, just passed on to another person.

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Logan told Bolling: “God believes in sovereignty and national identity and the sanctity of family, and all the things that we’ve lived with from the beginning of time.

“And he knows that the open [southern US] border is Satan’s way of taking control of the world through all of these people who are his stooges and his servants.

“And they may think that they’re going to become gods. That’s what they tell us … You know, the ones who want us eating insects, cockroaches and that while they dine on the blood of children? Those are the people, right? They’re not going to win. They’re not going to win.”
Lara Logan is quite ready to declare that her God believes in exactly the same things she does does in matters both political and culinary, yet is blissfully unaware that her God literally said to go ahead and eat insects (Leviticus 11:21-22):
Yet these may you eat of all winged swarming things that go upon all fours, which have jointed legs above their feet, wherewith to leap upon the earth; even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kind, and the bald locust after its kind, and the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.
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And, if I recall, John the Baptist ate only locusts and honey

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Logan used be a pretty mainstream respected journalist albeit prone to the occasional error - I don't know if that was disproportionate. But she went loopy a few years ago - not sure what happened. I don't think it was the Tahrir Square incident when she was sexually assaulted - IIRC she seemed to recover OK from that but who knows what damage is done on the inside.

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One of the most chilling aspects of watching the rise of the Trump/MAGA/Q et al. cult is seeing so many intelligent and capable people fall down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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