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Whole Foods, the grocery store chain owned by Amazon, developed a heat map tool for determining which of its stores was most likely to unionize. The statement from the heatmap, published by Business Insider after receiving information from “five people with knowledge of the matter and internal documents,” explains: “The [Team Member] Relations Heatmap is designed to identify stores at risk of unionization. This early identification enables resources to be funneled to the highest need locations, with the goal of mitigating risk by addressing challenges early before they become problematic.”[1] Whole Foods, in an attempt to control the fallout of…
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The oldest Masonic lodge confirmed is the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary’s Chapel) No. 1, operating since July 31, 1599. The first Grand Lodge was the Grand Lodge of London and Westminster, which was founded on June 24, 1717. In 1884, Pope Leo XIII wrote an encyclical titled Humanum Genus, in which he stated that Freemasons “are planning the destruction of holy Church publicly and openly, and this with the set purpose of utterly despoiling the nations of Christendom, if it were possible, of the blessings obtained for us through Jesus Christ our Saviour.”[1] The Holy See has maintained that Catholics…
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Pope Leo XIII issued a letter to James Cardinal Gibbons, the Archbishop of Baltimore, in 1899. He explained his worry of novel opinions being held among those seeking to reform the Church, that is, those who hold that “the Church should shape her teachings more in accord with the spirit of the age and relax some of her ancient severity and make some concessions to new opinions,” applying “even in regard to doctrines which belong to the deposit of the faith. They contend that it would be opportune, in order to gain those who differ from us, to omit certain…
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Tatian the Syrian (120-180 AD) “Our God has no introduction in time. He alone is without beginning, and is himself the beginning of all things. God is a spirit, not attending upon matter, but the maker of material spirits and of the appearances which are in matter. He is invisible, being himself the Father of both sensible and invisible things.” (Address to the Greeks 4).[1] Athenagoras (133-190) “I have sufficiently demonstrated that we are not atheists, since we acknowledge one God, unbegotten, eternal, invisible, incapable of being acted upon, incomprehensible, unbounded, who is known only by understanding and reason, who…
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It is common among Protestants to shun classical philosophy, viewing the scholastic tradition which masterfully weaved Greek philosophy and Catholicism as ‘pagan’ and something which should be avoided. For example, Protestant philosopher William Lane Craig has said, “drawing far more on pagan philosophical sources than on Scriptural witness, Aquinas has presented a deeply distorted and hopelessly abstract notion of God more akin to a Buddhist abyss, or a Hindu absolute than to the living, personal, and very particular God of the Bible.”[1] But the Bible itself conflicts with his opinion. The Wisdom of Solomon is a text which was written…
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Baptism “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age.” (Matthew 28:19-20). Eucharist Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all…
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Bernard Nathanson was one of the leading abortion advocates in America. He was blunt in describing the demographics of abortionists: “For some reason Jewish doctors seem to be attracted to abortion work,”[1] he said. Nathanson was recruited by Larry Lader, and the two of them became the Jewish representatives of abortion in New York. Lader was referred to by Betty Friedan as “the father of the abortion movement.”[2] Nathanson wrote: I worked hard to make abortion legal, affordable, and available on demand. In 1968, I was one of the three founders of the National Abortion Rights Action League [NARAL]. I…
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Liberty is conceived of today as ultimate freedom. For many, this means freedom from government. But when the wealthy exploit the poor, it is only the government that can step in to institute regulations to mitigate corrupt business practices. What this modern sense of liberty really means is the liberty to be controlled, whether it be by debt or pornography. E. Michael Jones explains how pornography is used as a tool to keep the public from being fixated on their crippling debt: The ultimate result of the moral deregulation which took place beginning in the 1970s was massive student loan…
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Immutable “For I the Lord do not change,” (Malachi 3:6). Simple “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth,” (John 4:24). “You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder,” (James 2:19). Omnipresent “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” (Jeremiah 23:24). Omnibenevolent “The Lord is just in all his ways, and kind in all his doings,” (Psalm 145:17). Omnipotent “all things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made,” (John 1:3). “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together,”…
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