by Allen Ray Johnson | Sep 17, 2021 | Atrocities, Scandal, Uncategorized
This post is about a cub bear that I found in our chicken coop in August 2020. An illegal radio-tracking collar was on the bear. Trying to get the collar off, the cub had gotten its right leg through the collar and was unable to pull it out. This further tightened the collar such that it was cutting through the bears neck with resultant open wound.
West Virginia has a 365-year season when hunters can train their dogs on live bears (just not kill them except during hunting season. Thus these “sportsmen” (ha) chase bears in spring and summer, often scattering cubs from parents. In this case, the hunter captured a cub and put on a radio-collar to readily locate it whenever he wanted to easily find a bear for his dogs to chase.
This year-round training season needs to be abolished!
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by Allen Ray Johnson | Feb 8, 2020 | Scandal, Uncategorized
Thirty years later I can still remember my first encounter with Robert Tilton. I had stopped by a room at the nursing home I worked at. On the TV screen was Tilton, eyes scrunched shut as he bleated a prayer for prosperity on watchers who had sent in donations. My immediate response was, “This preacher is a fraud bilking money from the poor and hopeless.” … Read More
by Allen Ray Johnson | Jan 15, 2020 | Church, Following Jesus, Scandal, Uncategorized
The “Prosperity Gospel” is a seductive syncretism of orthodox traditional Christian belief with idolatrous Baal worship. In this, the new Baal priests promise prosperous lives of health, wealth, and security to followers if they sacrifice to them lots of their money.… Read More
by Allen Ray Johnson | Feb 18, 2019 | Church, Following Jesus, Scandal, Uncategorized
Nothing is worse than the use of the name of Jesus to prey on the vulnerable.” Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention If there is one good thing about the plethora of sexual abuse revelations in church bodies, it is that some of the wolves preying on the sheep are being caught.… Read More
