Monday was a pagan day in America.
A giant solar eclipse moved all the way across the United States over the course of the day.
There are a couple of different ways you can view a solar eclipse.
If you are a normal person, you&#8217;d view the solar eclipse as a wonderful example of science at work, an incredible example of the workings of the universe in which the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon — the workings of the rotations of the universe and the solar system. That&#8217;s really cool.
Before they knew any of the science, traditional religions suggested that things like solar eclipses — which rarely appeared and were also very scary to people — were the heavens moving in response to human sin. Human beings would sin, and then God would respond with a solar eclipse.
The other way to view it from a religious perspective would be to say that this is amazing and wonderful evidence of God&#8217;s handiwork in the universe — the intricate workings of the universe that God created. All of those are well within traditional monotheistic religion.
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Then, there&#8217;s the pagan view.
The pagan view is that you sin against nature, and then the gods smack you.
That view has apparently been taken by a wide variety of people across the United States. The most obvious example of someone with this belief is Sunny Hostin, co-host on “The View,” who not only blamed the solar eclipse on climate change, but also blamed earthquakes on climate change.
Now, it may be that Hostin doesn&#8217;t know anything about science, or it may be that, in pagan circles, you are supposed to blame everything on man&#8217;s sin against nature. Man has sinned against Gaia, and now Gaia will take her revenge.
In the most spectacular scientific fail of the day, Hostin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/legitimately-insane-sunny-hostin-mocked-for-suggesting-climate-change-behind-solar-eclipse-earthquakes">said</a> yesterday: “We got a solar eclipse. We’ve got earthquakes. … The Rapture is here. Also, I learned that the cicadas are coming. For the first time in a hundred years. This is for the first time in many, many years. … All of those things together, would maybe lead one to believe that either climate change exists, or something is really going on.”
There is something going on with what Hostin said, and that is the view that if you live in this pagan world, where the world takes its revenge on you for sinning against the climate, then you must pay homage to the climate.
You don&#8217;t have to try and solve a problem. It&#8217;s not a real-world problem that the climate is changing over time and that perhaps you adapt as human beings or you try to mitigate particular activities.
Instead, it is a sin against the climate.
This move toward paganism is occurring across the spectrum. The same exact people who will say monotheistic religion is a bunch of hocus-pocus are claiming the woo-woo crystals they are wearing are changing their elemental relationship to the universe.
On Monday, NASA decided they were going to bring on an indigenous scientist named Dr. David Begay to talk about the solar eclipse. They asked him how the eclipse related to indigenous science and what the eclipse meant to the Navajo people.
Begay stated:
<blockquote>I think the knowledge on the eclipse, it goes way back from time immemorial, I&#8217;m told by my elders. They knew that when you look at the sun directly, you can damage your eyes. And so they knew the danger of looking at the eclipse with the naked eye. So people were encouraged to go inside to ensure that people weren&#8217;t looking up, especially the kids. So it goes way back.
And as far as eclipses, it&#8217;s a time of renewal. The sun alignment with the moon and also the earth alignment, the whole cosmic cycle goes through a regeneration process. It revitalizes the process. And so it&#8217;s a gift that goes on for many years, over and over. It’s a cycle.</blockquote>
The fact that NASA is promoting this is proof of a return to near pre-scientific paganism.
What he&#8217;s talking about is not science; it is, in fact, a religion of one sort or another. And NASA is promoting that now.
Would NASA feature a devotee of ancient Christian or Jewish theology to talk about how man’s sins against God caused the solar eclipse? I don&#8217;t think so.
Apparently, “diversity and inclusion” means that we have to act as though indigenous ancient science is the same as Western science. Ancient peoples could not even properly chart the dates of solar eclipses because they didn&#8217;t understand the science.
NASA is supposed to have the best scientists. These are the people who put us on the moon. These are the people who may help us get to Mars. And here they are doing this interview.
The reversion to pagan ideology is bizarre, but it does tie into a moral underpinning that says we are to make certain sacrifices to the pagan universe — and then we backfill the rationale for them.
This is why on the Left, once you get rid of monotheistic religions, they are filled in with some other form of religion. It could be with scientific theism — which at least has a track record of scientific progress — or with a pagan morality.
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Pagan morality is what many people tend to fill it with, which is why you see Whoopi Goldberg, another co-host on “The View,” justifying abortion by citing the Ten Commandments. When you get rid of Judeo-Christian religion, you end up with new sacraments.
And the new sacraments of the far-Left include things like justifying child sacrifice, in the sense that you are talking about the justification of the termination of pregnancy and calling it moral.
She is basically saying that if you are willing to execute child rapists and murderers, then you should also be willing to excuse the killing of the unborn.
Why? Because this is now a sacrament on the Left. That is why they&#8217;re now twisting the Bible.
This has become a sacrament on the pagan Left: Abortion is not just something terrible that sometimes people have to do. It is something that is an affirmative good.
That is perverse. And the Left’s sacraments include things like abortion, climate change, and trans ideology, which explains the bizarre spectacle of the legendary women&#8217;s basketball coach Dawn Staley suggesting trans women should be allowed to play in NCAA events.
Making abortion a sacrament and paying homage to the climate change gods so there won&#8217;t be an earthquake or a solar eclipse are all parts of the bizarre universe we now inhabit.
And it is incumbent on moral people to push back against that bizarre universe by demonstrating moral clarity.

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The Vatican reaffirmed the Catholic Church&#8217;s opposition to radical gender theory in a new document published Monday, saying sex change procedures threaten the &#8220;unique dignity&#8221; of a person.
The <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2024/04/08/240408c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a>, &#8220;Dignitas Infinita&#8221; or &#8220;Infinite Dignity,&#8221; was signed by Pope Francis and warns against &#8220;the age-old temptation to make oneself God.&#8221;
&#8220;Regarding gender theory, whose scientific coherence is the subject of considerable debate among experts, the Church recalls that human life in all its dimensions, both physical and spiritual, is a gift from God,&#8221; the Vatican document reads.
&#8220;Desiring a personal self-determination, as gender theory prescribes, apart from this fundamental truth that human life is a gift, amounts to a concession to the age-old temptation to make oneself God, entering into competition with the true God of love revealed to us in the Gospel,&#8221; the document says.
Biological sex and gender — &#8220;the socio-cultural role of sex&#8221; — can be &#8220;distinguished but not separated,&#8221; the Vatican said.
Radical gender theory is also problematic because it denies sexual difference, which threatens the family, the Vatican continued.
&#8220;In the male-female couple, this difference achieves the most marvelous of reciprocities,&#8221; the document reads. &#8220;It thus becomes the source of that miracle that never ceases to surprise us: the arrival of new human beings in the world.&#8221;
&#8220;Only by acknowledging and accepting this difference in reciprocity can each person fully discover themselves, their dignity, and their identity,&#8221; the Vatican said.
It is &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; that gender theory asserts itself as &#8220;absolute and unquestionable, even dictating how children should be raised,&#8221; the document says.
On medical sex change procedures, the Vatican reminded readers of the Church&#8217;s position that &#8220;humans are inseparably composed of both body and soul.&#8221;
&#8220;We are called to protect our humanity, and this means, in the first place, accepting it and respecting it as it was created,&#8221; the Vatican said. &#8220;It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception.&#8221;
The document also reaffirms the Church&#8217;s opposition to surrogacy, abortion, and euthanasia.
Surrogacy, in which a woman carries an unborn child for someone else, turns an &#8220;immensely worthy child&#8221; into a &#8220;mere object,&#8221; the Vatican said.
Pope Francis has previously called for a universal ban on surrogacy.
Monday&#8217;s document comes after a Vatican document released in November resulted in significant confusion around the Catholic Church&#8217;s position on trans-identifying people.
The November document intended to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/people-who-got-transgender-surgery-can-be-baptized-and-be-godparents-under-certain-conditions-vatican-clarifies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clarify</a> that people who previously received gender surgery or hormone treatment can be baptized and be godparents under certain conditions.
A person who has received gender surgery or hormone treatment can be baptized “under the same conditions as other believers,” the Vatican said.
On the godparent issue, the Vatican said that people who have undergone transgender medical treatment can serve as godparents, but &#8220;pastoral prudence demands that it not be permitted if there is a risk of scandal.&#8221;
In recent years, there has been much speculation about whether Pope Francis would change the Catholic Church’s approach to LGBT people.
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The Catholic Church <a href="https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/does-doctrine-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">never changes</a> its official doctrine, although it often clarifies particular points.
Transgender medical interventions such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries like genital surgeries and double mastectomies have exploded in popularity in the last few years, first in Europe and, more recently, in the U.S.
Several European countries have begun to curb these transgender medical interventions for children, more and more of whom are seeking them out.
At least 24 U.S. states have also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sacramento-declares-itself-sanctuary-city-for-trans-identifying-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cracked</a> down on these medical interventions for minors.

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After making $9 million on the pornography-streaming site OnlyFans, Nala Ray told The Daily Wire host Michael Knowles that she&#8217;s found God and quit the biz.
Ray sat down for a wide-ranging interview with Knowles, who dug into her own past as the daughter of a pastor and how she initially got into pornography — and what finally made her decide to let it all go.
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The former model detailed a series of losses — from losing her home in a tornado at a young age to going through her parents&#8217; divorce, all by age 11 — and how her family fundamentally changed when her parents remarried a few years later and her father became a pastor.
The years that followed were also tumultuous, as churches they were part of went through painful splits that she said were much like divorces on a grander scale. It wasn&#8217;t until she was old enough to get her first job — at a Hardees — that she said she finally felt like she had some autonomy.
The move into pornography, she explained, came as the result of an innate fascination with the human body and its beauty.
&#8220;I love the human body, I think it&#8217;s artwork,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;When I started this journey on OnlyFans, I was very pro — like — nudity. Because I love the human body, I think we&#8217;re beautiful, truly. I have a different form of that love now, for — it&#8217;s more I love what God created instead of just nudity.&#8221;
&#8220;What do you see as the distinction?&#8221; Knowles asked, and Nala&#8217;s response was immediate: &#8220;Perversion.&#8221;
Nala said that what ultimately brought her to Christ was the fact that she felt &#8220;numb&#8221; — and that she believed there had to be something more. &#8220;It was difficult for me to feel things. Like sadness, I felt like I had never cried. I could get angry, and my temper was probably a little worse than it should have been, but crying was not a big thing for me. I didn&#8217;t feel very emotional, I felt very numb to things.&#8221;
She went on to say that she wouldn&#8217;t take anything back — although she admitted she felt shame for the things she did while on the pornography platform – because it was what had &#8220;shaped&#8221; her and brought her to where she is today. And that, she said, might help her to reach young people who were thinking about joining the platform.
&#8220;I feel like my testimony is very strong now,&#8221; she explained, referencing Saul who had persecuted Christians before his Damascus road conversion. &#8220;He got radically changed on the road to Damascus, completely changed &#8230; and became a living, walking testimony to people who were just like him.&#8221;
&#8220;Why I say I wouldn&#8217;t take it back is because God could absolutely use me if I never would have gotten on OnlyFans. I don&#8217;t need to have that testimony to be able to reach people,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;But if you were a young girl thinking about starting an OnlyFans and being influenced by this current generation to start an OnlyFans, would you listen to the person that&#8217;s never been on OnlyFans or never had any direct connection to it saying, &#8216;Don&#8217;t do it, don&#8217;t do it,&#8217; or would you listen to the person at the top of the hill who&#8217;s saying, &#8216;There&#8217;s a cliff after this&#8217;?&#8221;

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Two prominent Christian groups sent a letter to Politico on Wednesday demanding an apology for a reporter&#8217;s viral comments about Christians that the groups called &#8220;deeply disturbing.&#8221;
The Family Research Council and Catholic Vote criticized Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla for &#8220;trying to demonize the Christian community&#8221; with her comment that only extremist &#8220;Christian nationalists&#8221; believe human rights &#8220;come from God.&#8221;
The groups said Przybyla&#8217;s comments &#8220;demonstrated a disqualifying lack of knowledge of the United States of America’s founding documents and a profoundly prejudicial view toward American religious groups.&#8221;
Przybyla, Politico&#8217;s national investigative correspondent, made the controversial remarks during an appearance on MSNBC last week.
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Politico National Investigative Correspondent <a href="https://twitter.com/HeidiReports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HeidiReports</a> says Christian Nationalists – but not Christians – are united by a belief &quot;that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don&#39;t come from any earthly authority&#8230; They come from God” <a href="https://t.co/vSMWe1nedR">pic.twitter.com/vSMWe1nedR</a>
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Przybyla said that the &#8220;base of the Republican Party has shifted&#8221; after former President Donald Trump attracted a &#8220;more extremist element,&#8221; including &#8220;Christian nationalists.&#8221;
&#8220;The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists — not Christians, by the way, because Christian nationalist is very different — is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don&#8217;t come from any earthly authority. They don&#8217;t come from Congress, they don&#8217;t come from the Supreme Court. They come from God,&#8221; said Przybyla.
This is a problem, Przybyla said, because it means &#8220;men are determining what God is telling them.&#8221;
She went on to say that &#8220;natural law&#8221; is a pillar of Catholicism and has been used for good in social justice campaigns such as Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s civil rights movement.
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&#8220;But now you have an extremist element of conservative Christians who say that this applies specifically to issues including abortion, gay marriage, and it&#8217;s going much further than that,&#8221; Przybyla said.
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Brian Burch of Catholic Vote wrote in their letter to Politico that it is &#8220;deeply disturbing&#8221; that Przybyla seems &#8220;unaware of the opening of the Declaration of Independence or to its references of &#8216;the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.'&#8221;
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&#8220;Her statements constituted an attempt to spread misinformation about Christians by creating the perception that they hold unique beliefs that pose a distinct and, in her words &#8216;extremist,&#8217; threat to our country,&#8221; the Christian groups wrote. &#8220;Setting aside the inaccuracy of her commentary, she was manifestly trying to demonize the Christian community and sow fear through propaganda.&#8221;
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The letter added that Przybyla&#8217;s public platform where she can reach millions of people makes the situation even more disturbing.
Additionally, the groups said Przybyla has a &#8220;pattern&#8221; of singling out Christian organizations, as evidence by her recent articles.
&#8220;Rhetoric like Ms. Przybyla’s, which demonizes religious groups, is profoundly dangerous. It can motivate disturbed individuals who may be predisposed to commit violence against faith communities,&#8221; the groups wrote.
The groups said they believe Przybyla’s comments reflect a &#8220;pervasive bias&#8221; that prevents her from covering religious issues.
&#8220;Ms. Przybyla owes people of faith an apology, as does her employer. Politico must confirm that such offensive comments have no place within its organization,&#8221; the groups wrote.
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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/patrick-mahomes">Patrick Mahomes</a> credited God with the team&#8217;s Super Bowl LVIII win after coming from behind to beat the San Francisco 49ers 25-22 in overtime on Sunday.
The three-time Super Bowl MVP spoke to the press immediately after the Chiefs won the big game for the second consecutive year and said, &#8220;I just got to give God the glory&#8221; as he praised his team members for never faltering during the difficult season.
&#8220;He [God] challenged us to make us better,&#8221; Mahomes added. &#8220;And I am so proud of my guys man, this is awesome. It&#8217;s legendary.&#8221;
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Mahomes has often spoken about his faith. Last February he praised God after he scored the NFL&#8217;s Most Valuable Player award for the 2022 season.
&#8220;First, I want to thank God for giving me this platform and putting so many amazing people around me to help support this dream I&#8217;ve had since I was a little kid,&#8221; Mahomes <a href="https://chiefswire.usatoday.com/2023/02/09/kansas-city-chiefs-patrick-mahomes-mvp-acceptance-speech/">said</a>. &#8220;Without him, none of this would be possible.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chiefs-qb-patrick-mahomes-tells-press-my-christian-faith-plays-a-role-in-everything">Chiefs</a> quarterback previously discussed Christianity with reporters at a Super Bowl event last year.
&#8220;My Christian faith plays a role in everything that I do,&#8221; Mahomes revealed. 
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&#8220;I mean, I always ask God to lead me in the right direction and let me be who I am for His name,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Obviously it will be on a huge stage in the Super Bowl that He&#8217;s given me and I want to make sure I&#8217;m glorifying Him while I do it.&#8221;
Mahomes had spoken about his relationship with God last year after recovering from an injury to lead the Chiefs to beat the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC Championship.
&#8220;First off, I wanna thank God, man,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He healed my body this week, had to battle through that. He gave me the strength to be out here.&#8221;
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Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro sat down with SpaceX and X owner Elon Musk in Krakow, Poland, for an exclusive in-depth discussion hitting numerous issues.
Before Shapiro and Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-slams-dei-during-discussion-with-ben-shapiro-could-come-out-of-a-george-orwell-book">took the stage</a> together at the European Jewish Association (EJA) conference in Krakow on Monday, the two had their own separate discussion covering a range of topics from diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agendas in business to space exploration and religion. The 50-minute Shapiro-Musk sitdown was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ben-shapiro-with-elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released on DailyWire+</a> on Wednesday. 
During the conversation, Shapiro zoned in on the current business climate in the West, and Musk revealed what he views as the biggest obstacles standing in the way of companies’ success. The two then discussed the increasing leftist push for companies to go along with DEI. 
“One of the things that you and I had been discussing a little bit offline is the fact that DEI effectively is a conspiracy theory in which there&#8217;s a cadre of powerful people who are at the top and they control everything else that&#8217;s happening,” Shapiro said. “And because those powerful people are at the top, they are exploiting everybody else and they have to be taken down more than one peg. And that conspiracy theory aligns very closely with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.” 
“I think DEI is very extremely anti-Semitic in its core,” Musk replied. “And it&#8217;s just generally anti-meritocratic, which I think is very dangerous. You want to have a society where you succeed based on your skills and hard work, and that’s it. And it doesn&#8217;t matter about your race, gender, creed, religion, nothing. You know? Just, are you good at your job? Do you work hard? Do you have high integrity? Nothing more.”
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Shapiro also asked the billionaire entrepreneur about his concern for declining birth rates around the world, especially in the West, and how much he thinks religion plays a part in people’s choice about having children. 
“The birth rate tends to correlate with the degree to which someone is religious, the degree to which they have the least amount of education, and basically the poorer someone is, the less educated someone is and the more religious they are, the more kids they will have,” Musk said. 
“So I&#8217;m going to make the case to you on a religious level that the only one of those things that is possible to have in the West and not get rid of all the glories of the West is a belief in a higher power or inner religious belief,” Shapiro responded. “I mean, like I&#8217;m doing pretty well, and I have four kids.” 
Shapiro closed out by asking Musk about an “experience that defines” him, and Musk discussed his ideas on philosophy, God, and the meaning of life.  
“In order to [understand the meaning of life] you have to expand the scope and scale of consciousness and get out there and explore the galaxy and then you can better understand the meaning of life,” Musk said.

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Could Generation Z — the generation currently in their teens and early 20s — be finding religion?
This week, a TikTok from the fall resurfaced showing a young girl who looks to be in her early 20s sitting alone in a large, empty church with her knees up as the sound of someone playing piano echoes through the cavernous space.
&#8220;2023 hit so hard I had to turn to religion,&#8221; reads the caption of the <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@dandanthexanman/video/7293440492614847777?_r=1&amp;_t=8ivWbBWsofu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">video</a>, which was originally posted back in October.
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this tiktok has 2.1M views &amp; 382k likes, with comments like:
“I started praying” “I got baptized” “I went to church last week for the first time in my life”
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A quick look at the comments casts doubt on the idea that the post might just be a joke.
The video has a whopping 385,000 likes and more than 8,000 comments, most of which are from other Zoomers saying they too have wandered into churches recently.
&#8220;For real. I went to a church last week for the first time in my life. I get it now,&#8221; someone wrote.
&#8220;No bc low-key this,&#8221; wrote another. (That means &#8220;I kind of identify with this,&#8221; in Gen Z speak for those of you who are not chronically online.)
&#8220;The way I went from basically atheist to praying every day and going to church w my family now,&#8221; posted another.
&#8220;Nah bc I randomly started praying consistently,&#8221; another wrote.
&#8220;So relatable I left the church at 15 and now I&#8217;m back as an adult because I&#8217;m so scared of life,&#8221; one girl wrote.
Two commenters said they were just recently crying and looking up nearby churches. Others expressed relief that they were not alone in their desire to become religious.
&#8220;This wasn&#8217;t only me oh my gosh?? I became religious this year and go to church every week. Loving it,&#8221; someone wrote.
&#8220;Ok so it&#8217;s not just me? I literally started the process of becoming catholic,&#8221; someone wrote.
&#8220;So is this a collective thing? Cus it&#8217;s so bad that I even went to church yesterday, I need a reason to keep going on life,&#8221; someone wrote.
At least four people commented that they recently got baptized. Several said they recently returned to the Catholic Church, and one said they &#8220;literally went to confession the other day.&#8221;
Other commenters wrote that they were thinking of going to church for &#8220;some sort of direction in my life,&#8221; and one girl said a &#8220;breakup pushed me to church.&#8221;
At one point, the girl who posted the video commented, &#8220;Imma keep showing up.&#8221;
Comments like this, written in telltale Zoomer lingo, go on and on. Just when you think the hate comments are around the corner, more Zoomers are posting that they went to church.
A few other TikToks <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@mandymalake/video/7298004187340721441?_r=1&amp;_t=8ix2qKEexP5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> young people saying the same thing — that they started going to church last year, although those videos got fewer views.
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On paper, Gen Z is the least religious generation. Nearly half, 49% of Zoomers say they do not have a religious affiliation, <a href="https://religioninpublic.blog/2023/04/03/gen-z-and-religion-in-2022/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a 2022 YouGov survey.
However, about a year ago another survey noted a surprising increase in young people saying they believe in God. About a third of people age 18 to 25 say they believe, more than doubt, the existence of a higher power, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-surprising-surge-of-faith-among-young-people-424220bd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a survey from the Springtide Research Institute. That&#8217;s up from only about a quarter of young people in 2021.
While belief in God does not necessarily translate to joining organized religion, some Zoomers commented on TikTok that they were drawn to church for the &#8220;peace and quiet.&#8221;
Back in April, a Los Angeles rabbi <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-surprising-surge-of-faith-among-young-people-424220bd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Wall Street Journal that more young adults were showing up to Friday night services at the synagogue.
In many more traditional Catholic parishes, the churches are <a href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/3-reasons-why-young-catholics-love-latin-mass" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filled</a> with young people, including older Gen Z-ers who are already young parents with small children themselves.
Another driving force in these young people&#8217;s turn to religion could be Gen Z&#8217;s rampant anxiety.
More than 40% of 18 to 26-year-olds are diagnosed with a mental health condition, and 90% of the time it&#8217;s anxiety, <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/state-of-gen-z-mental-health/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a survey by Harmony Healthcare IT.
The pandemic sent the most anxious generation&#8217;s mental health further into a tailspin, isolating them and intensifying worries about finances and their loved ones.
In response to life&#8217;s stressors, some Zoomers say they <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-surprising-surge-of-faith-among-young-people-424220bd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">are</a> searching for relief in something beyond themselves and that faith provides an answer.
Belief in God “gives you a reason for living and some hope,” an Iowa college student told the Journal last year. Some of the TikTok commenters said they ended up in church for this reason as well.
Whatever the reason Gen Z-ers are ending up in church, clearly the next generation has the same age-old longing for peace, meaning, and truth.

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Academy Award-winning filmmaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/martin-scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> claims that his new &#8220;film about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jesus-christ">Jesus</a>&#8221; will radically alter public opinion on organized religion.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/movies">movie</a>, which is based on Japanese novelist Shūsaku Endō’s book “A Life of Jesus,” was announced last year and is scheduled to start filming later in 2024. The screenplay is reportedly finished, and the movie will have an estimated run time of 80 minutes.
Scorsese discussed his goals for the project during a Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2024-01-08/martin-scorsese-killers-of-the-flower-moon-new-jesus-film">profile</a> published Monday. “I’m trying to find a new way to make it more accessible and take away the negative onus of what has been associated with organized <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/christianity">religion</a>,” Scorsese said of the film.
“Right now, ‘religion,’ you say that word and everyone is up in arms because it’s failed in so many ways,” the 81-year-old filmmaker continued. “You may reject it. But it might make a difference in how you live your life — even in rejecting it. Don’t dismiss it offhand.”
The outlet noted that Scorsese decided to make the movie after meeting with Pope Francis in May 2023. “I have responded to the Pope’s appeal to artists in the only way I know how: by imagining and writing a screenplay for a film about Jesus,” he said at the time.
Many moviegoers will recall that the Hollywood director has made a movie about Jesus before. His film “The Last Temptation of Christ,” was extremely controversial when it premiered in 1988.
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Eternal World Television Network founder Mother Angelica <a href="https://www.slashfilm.com/753575/the-last-temptation-of-christ-controversy-explained-how-martin-scorseses-passion-project-became-a-nightmare/">called</a> the movie &#8220;sacrilegious&#8221; for its storyline, which depicted Jesus as a mortal sinner like all other people in existence. One of the most infamous scenes shows Jesus (Willem Dafoe) fantasizing about having a sexual relationship with Mary Magdalene.
The film includes a disclaimer saying it’s “not based on the Gospels, but upon the fictional exploration of the eternal spiritual conflict,&#8221; but that didn’t stop Christians from boycotting the movie.
The book Scorsese is using as his inspiration also approaches the topic of Jesus in an unconventional way. Endo <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/A_Life_of_Jesus.html?id=xzJqjZaT1mwC">wrote the book</a> for Japanese people who would be more open to the “motherly side of Jesus” because fathers in his culture are seen as stern and harsh.

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Pope Francis on Monday condemned the practice of using a surrogate mother to birth a child and called for a global ban on the practice.
The pope called surrogacy &#8220;despicable&#8221; during an annual foreign policy address to ambassadors of 184 countries.
“I consider despicable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child,&#8221; Francis <a href="https://apnews.com/article/pope-surrogacy-vatican-russia-israel-ukraine-56acaa8500336db81ee18913a77ddc0f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The pope <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-surrogacy-deplorable-practice-turns-child-into-object-trafficking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> surrogacy exploits the surrogate mother&#8217;s financial situation and said an unborn child must not be “turned into an object of trafficking.”
He called for a global ban “to prohibit this practice universally.”
&#8220;A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract,&#8221; Francis said.
The Catholic Church prohibits couples from using a surrogate mother and teaches that conception must only occur through the marital act between husband and wife.
This is not the first time Francis has explicitly condemned surrogacy.
In 2022, he <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/01/08/pope-francis-describes-surrogacy-as-deplorable-calls-for-ban/?sh=665f958a3181" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condemned</a> the &#8220;inhumane and increasingly widespread practice&#8221; of a &#8220;uterus for rent,&#8221; saying it is almost always poor women who are exploited in this way and the unborn children are &#8220;treated as commodities.&#8221;
Surrogacy is legal in the U.S. but illegal in several other countries, including Spain and Italy.
The surrogacy process is an expensive one, in many cases <a href="https://money.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/family-finance/articles/how-much-surrogacy-costs-and-how-to-pay-for-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">costing</a> upwards of $100,000, making it prohibitively expensive for many families. The idea of becoming a commercial surrogate is <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/07/womb-for-rent-more-women-are-working-in-commercial-surrogacy-industry.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attractive</a> to some low-income women.
American celebrities, including Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian, Anderson Cooper, Andy Cohen, Nick Jonas, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Jimmy Fallon, have all <a href="https://people.com/parents/celebrities-who-have-used-surrogates/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hired</a> surrogates to carry and birth their babies.
In 2022, the global commercial surrogacy industry was estimated to be worth more than $14 billion, <a href="https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/surrogacy-market" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to Global Market Insights.
The pope&#8217;s annual address to the countries with diplomatic relations with the Vatican, sometimes called his &#8220;State of the World&#8221; address, provides the pontiff with the opportunity to speak about the world’s current conflicts and injustices.
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Francis took that opportunity during his remarks Monday, naming several ongoing issues, including the “large-scale war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine,” a more pointed comment on Russia&#8217;s role in the conflict than he usually offers.
The pope also discussed the Israel-Hamas war, the immigration crisis, climate change, artificial intelligence, Christian persecution, and antisemitism, among other issues.
He lamented that the new year comes at a time when peace is “increasingly threatened, weakened and in some part lost.”
&#8220;We must not forget that grave violations of international humanitarian law are war crimes,&#8221; Francis said.

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Shia LaBeouf received the Sacrament of Confirmation, completing his conversion to Catholicism, on Sunday, and the actor&#8217;s confirmation sponsor suggested LaBeouf may become a deacon &#8220;in the future.&#8221;
The 37-year-old actor was confirmed into the Catholic Church by Bishop Robert Barron on Dec. 31 at Old Mission Santa Inés Parish in Solvang, California, the <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/256429/shia-labeouf-enters-catholic-church-considers-vocation-to-the-diaconate">Catholic News Agency</a> reported.
&#8220;We are thrilled to share that our dear friend Shia LaBeouf has fully entered the Church this past weekend through the sacrament of confirmation!&#8221; a post on the Capuchin Franciscans &#8211; Western American Province <a href="https://www.facebook.com/capuchinswest/posts/765820738923419?ref=embed_post">Facebook</a> read.
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&#8220;The Capuchin Franciscan friars are overjoyed to welcome him into the fold and witness his deep commitment to his faith journey,&#8221; it added. &#8220;Shia LaBeouf, known for his incredible talent and passion in the entertainment industry, has embarked on a profound spiritual journey that has led him to embrace the teachings of the Catholic Church.&#8221;
&#8220;His decision to fully enter the Church is a testament to his sincere desire to grow in his relationship with God and live out the Gospel values,&#8221; the statement continued, asking for prayers for the actor &#8220;as he continues to deepen his faith and seek God’s guidance in his life.&#8221;
The post concluded with a message about LaBeouf&#8217;s journey possibly inspiring &#8220;others to explore their own spiritual paths and find solace in the loving embrace of the Church.&#8221;
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LaBeouf&#8217;s sponsor, Capuchin friar Brother Alexander Rodriguez, told the outlet that the actor has expressed an interest in becoming a deacon &#8220;sometime in the future.&#8221;
In 2022, LaBeouf appeared on &#8220;Bishop Barron Presents: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjxKG4mR3U4">Conversations at the Crossroads&#8221;</a> and talked about studying for his role as St. Padre Pio in the film &#8220;Padre Pio.&#8221;
The actor told Barron that the role led him to convert, admitting that he always had a belief, but no connection.
LaBeouf said he was &#8220;never an atheist,&#8221; but instead agnostic and credited &#8220;Pio&#8221; with saving his &#8220;life&#8221; at a time he described as &#8220;nuclear&#8221; because roles had dried up. In 2021, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/talent-agency-caa-no-longer-representing-actor-shia-labeouf">LaBeouf</a> was facing a variety of allegations, including abuse.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shia-labeouf-discusses-role-that-lead-to-his-conversion-to-catholicism-saved-my-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shia LaBeouf Discusses Role That Led To His Conversion To Catholicism, ‘Saved My Life’</a>

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Pope Francis clarified this week that Catholic priests can bless individuals in same-sex couples but cautioned that such a blessing does not sanction the union and cannot resemble a marriage ceremony.
Couples in &#8220;irregular situations,&#8221; including same-sex relationships, can receive blessings that do not &#8220;sanction or legitimize&#8221; their unions, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, which exists to defend Catholic doctrine, clarified in a <a href="https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/12/18/0901/01963.html#en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a> published Monday.
The document, called &#8220;Fiducia Supplicans,&#8221; was signed by Pope Francis as well as the Dicastery’s new prefect, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández.
Priests can give people in same-sex couples a &#8220;spontaneous blessing,&#8221; but the blessing cannot be a &#8220;liturgical&#8221; act or resemble the sacrament of marriage, the document says.
A blessing on people in same-sex couples cannot be given in connection with a civil union, and no &#8220;clothing, gestures, or words that are proper to a wedding&#8221; can be included in order &#8220;to avoid any form of confusion or scandal,&#8221; the document says.
&#8220;Rites and prayers that could create confusion between what constitutes marriage — which is the &#8216;exclusive, stable, and indissoluble union between a man and a woman, naturally open to the generation of children&#8217; — and what contradicts it are inadmissible,&#8221; the document warns.
Instead, the Vatican said that a priest can give a blessing in other contexts, such as a visit to a shrine, a meeting with a priest, a group prayer, or during a pilgrimage.
In the blessing, the priest can pray for the individuals to have &#8220;peace, health, a spirit of patience, dialogue, and mutual assistance — but also God’s light and strength to be able to fulfill his will completely,&#8221; the document states.
&#8220;There is no intention to legitimize anything, but rather to open one’s life to God, to ask for his help to live better, and also to invoke the Holy Spirit so that the values of the Gospel may be lived with greater faithfulness,&#8221; the document adds.
The Catholic Church does not sanction same-sex marriage, and that official position remains unchanged, the document emphasized.
&#8220;The Church’s doctrine on this point remains firm,&#8221; the document says.
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&#8220;At the same time, one should not prevent or prohibit the Church’s closeness to people in every situation in which they might seek God’s help through a simple blessing,&#8221; the document adds.
In recent years, there has been much speculation around whether Pope Francis would change the Catholic Church’s approach to people in same-sex relationships.
On Monday, media outlets and commentators <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesMartinSJ/status/1736752055362936938" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presented</a> the Vatican&#8217;s document as a major shift for the Catholic Church.
However, the Catholic Church <a href="https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/does-doctrine-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">never changes</a> its official doctrine, although it often clarifies particular points.

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The man who destroyed a Satanic holiday display in the Iowa State Capitol on Thursday has been arrested and charged, police said.
Michael Cassidy, 35, was arrested after allegedly beheading a Baphomet statue put up last week by the Satanic Temple of Iowa, the Iowa State Police <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/satanic-display-inside-iowa-state-capitol-destroyed-man-charged-officials" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> to Fox News.
He has been charged with 4th-degree criminal mischief.
Cassidy, a former Navy pilot who now works as a flight instructor and was previously a Mississippi congressional candidate, <a href="https://republicsentinel.com/articles/exclusive-christian-tears-down-and-beheads-satan-shrine-in-iowa-capitol?fbclid=IwAR3IAvn-ot35lKKtSK6UhP1YOt7PFHyjQdEWQCCzjMiB26OWyYC8y197168" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> to The Republic Sentinel why he decided to destroy the Satanic display.
“I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged,” Cassidy told the outlet. “My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted.”
“The world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan, but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of Satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment,” Cassidy added. “Anti-Christian values have steadily been mainstreamed more and more in recent decades, and Christians have largely acted like the proverbial frog in the boiling pot of water.”
After being charged, Cassidy posted a Bible verse to social media on Thursday evening.
“1 Peter 5:8 KJV Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,” Cassidy posted on X.
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The Satanic Temple of Iowa <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/688085943432528" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a Facebook post that the statue was &#8220;destroyed beyond repair&#8221; but that they will continue their holiday display for the next few days.
“We ask that for safety, visitors travel together and use the 7 Tenets as a reminder for empathy, in the knowledge that justice is being pursued the correct way, through legal means,” the group wrote. “Happy Holidays! Hail Satan!&#8221;
The Satanic Temple of Iowa <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SatanicIowa/posts/pfbid0WraUi8Axcy8CBaFPcc4ZUP4UCtEKtHSKWTfoj58h4qq8Z6EHt5YbkAHybZizZBVil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it obtained permission from the state for the display, which was <a href="https://republicsentinel.com/articles/exclusive-christian-tears-down-and-beheads-satan-shrine-in-iowa-capitol?fbclid=IwAR3IAvn-ot35lKKtSK6UhP1YOt7PFHyjQdEWQCCzjMiB26OWyYC8y197168" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> set up near displays of the Nativity on the first floor of the Iowa Capitol. The display showed the idol Baphomet holding a pentacle surrounded by candles.
Governor Kim Reynolds (R-IA) encouraged residents to counter the &#8220;objectionable&#8221; display with more speech.
“Like many Iowans, I find the Satanic Temple’s display in the Capitol absolutely objectionable. In a free society, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech, and I encourage all those of faith to join me today in praying over the Capitol and recognizing the nativity scene that will be on display – the true reason for the season,” Reynolds <a href="https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/2023-12-12/gov-reynolds-statement-satanic-temple-display" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Tuesday in a statement.

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