**Yes, the chart is correct based on the sources it cites.**
- US gun deaths (2024): 44,447 (CDC)
- European summer heat deaths (Jun–Sep 2024): 62,775 (ISGlobal/Nature Medicine)
- European gun deaths (EU-27): ~6,700 annually (older EU Firearms Factsheet, consistent with long-term data)
- US heat deaths: low thousands (CDC official counts ~2k–3k recently)
The visual comparison holds: more Europeans died from summer heat than Americans from guns in 2024. Data is for total firearm deaths (incl. suicides) and estimated heat-attributable mortality.
There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.
And honestly, it explains a lot.
We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.
We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.
That is not a small thing.
People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.
Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.
We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.
We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.
We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.
We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.
And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.
That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.
A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.
We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.
That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.
But we exist.
We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.
And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.
Larry is either lying, illiterate, or misinformed.
My hope is that he is simply misinformed.
Let me refute his article…
The charge that Mike Heiser “supported polytheism” only works if we redefine polytheism and ignore how Heiser himself defined elohim.
Mike never taught that Yahweh is one god among many equal gods. He taught the opposite:m often saying, “Yahweh was an elohim but no other elohim was Yahweh.”
Heiser’s point was that elohim is not a word for a set of divine attributes like omnipotence, eternality, or creatorhood. Rather, it is a “place of residence” term for beings of the spiritual realm. Yahweh alone is uncreated, sovereign, incomparable, and worthy of worship. 
So the Larry’s main mistake is simple: he assumes that calling a being elohim means granting it the status of the one true God. But Scripture itself does not use the word that way. The Bible uses elohim for Yahweh, members of Yahweh’s council, the gods of the nations, demons, the deceased Samuel, and angels/the Angel of Yahweh. Heiser’s argument was not “there are many Gods like Yahweh” but that the Bible’s vocabulary is wider than our English word ‘God.’” 
Psalm 82 is not a “quotational” use. The text says, “God stands in the divine assembly; he administers judgment in the midst of the gods.” The Hebrew has elohim twice: the first is singular, the second is plural.
Heiser points out that the grammar requires a group: God is judging “in the midst of” other elohim. These beings are then called “sons of the Most High” in Psalm 82:6, and they are condemned for corrupt rule. That is the biblical writer speaking in his own voice. To suggest it’s a pagan quotation is actually insulting to the Word.
The “human judges” view also fails miserably. Psalm 89 locates the council “in the skies” and “among the sons of God,” not in an Israelite courtroom. Heiser rightly says there is no biblical text where Jewish leaders are placed over the nations in the heavens. Psalm 82 ends by asking God to “inherit all the nations,” which makes sense if the corrupt rulers are supernatural beings over the nations, not Israelite magistrates.
Deuteronomy 32:17 is also not a rescue for Larry. It says Israel sacrificed “to demons, not God, to gods they had not known.”
Heiser’s pointed out how the shedim are called elohim! Paul follows that logic in 1 Corinthians 10:20–21 when he says pagan sacrifices are offered to demons.
So yes, Paul calls them demons. But that does not prove they are not real elohim in biblical vocabulary. It proves what Heiser argued, which is that rebellious spiritual beings can be both “demons” and “gods” in the biblical sense.
Larry also mishandles “there is none besides me.” That language does not mean no other spiritual beings exist. It means no other being compares to Yahweh. Heiser gives the obvious parallels that make sense. Babylon and Nineveh say “there is none besides me” in Isaiah 47:8 and Zephaniah 2:15, but no one thinks that means no other cities existed. It means incomparability.
That is exactly how Deuteronomy 4:35 works! Yahweh alone is God in the ultimate, sovereign, covenantal, creator sense.
So my answer to the challenge is this: the Old Testament itself supplies the non-quotational examples. Psalm 82:1, 6. Psalm 89:5–7. Deuteronomy 32:8–17. Psalm 29:1. Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7. These are not pagan slogans whatsoever but rather show the Bible’s own supernatural worldview.
And the New Testament does not erase that worldview. Paul says idols are nothing in themselves, but the spiritual beings behind pagan worship are demons, and Christians must not have fellowship with them (1 Cor 8:4–6; 10:20–22). This is more sound biblical theology than what Larry seems to be suggesting.
So no, Mike Heiser did not smuggle polytheism into Christianity. He forced us to stop protecting ourselves from the Bible. As he put it, “The biblical writers weren’t polytheists,” but there is also “no need to camouflage what the Hebrew text says.” 
I believe in one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I believe Yahweh alone is eternal, uncreated, sovereign, omnipotent, and worthy of worship.
But I also refuse to pretend the Bible does not say what it says. The biblical writers believed in a real unseen realm. They believed Yahweh had a heavenly host. They believed rebellious spiritual beings existed. They called those beings elohim when appropriate, and they still confessed, without contradiction, “Hear, O Israel: Yahweh our God, Yahweh is one” (Deut 6:4).
So there ya go Larry. I hope this shows how you were tearing down a strawman.
God Bless
Michael Heiser made it cool for Christians to talk as if the Bible teaches many gods exist. I don't claim to know exactly what Heiser himself believed. But many of his followers cheerfully affirm polytheism and don't seem to realize it. Blog post dropped 👇
Croatia has stormed the Eurovision final with a historic anthem that denounces the Ottoman occupation and revives the ancient Christian tattoo tradition to protect young girls from rape
Performed entirely in Croatian, the song slams centuries of Islamic Turkish occupation of their lands and recalls how Catholic girls were tattooed with Christian motifs to stop them from being abducted, converted to Islam, and forced into sexual slavery
"That’s why many chose the grave, our mothers did not birth slaves”
Turkey is already attacking the group for performing the song
Perspectives: Mozart premiered an entire opera about the Muslim enslavement of Europeans in Vienna in 1782, within 100 years of the Ottoman siege of that city.
All of Europe, with Vienna at the center of the fight and with Barbary pirates still capturing innocent Christian Europeans, was still dealing with the constant threats from the Islamic world and only newly free of the threat of conquest by the Ottomans.
This aria from The Abduction from the Seraglio (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), featured in the film Amadeus, is a woman singing of her resolve to remain pure and undefiled by the Turk who has abducted her, conceding that due to his determination to r*** her she will look forward instead to the liberation afforded by death itself.
In a hit opera about the rescue of Christian women from the hands of Islamic traffickers.
1782. This was European high art and culture in 1782, based on current events and it's odd how many people want us to forget that.
FLASHBACK:
BBC and CNN are now in full panic after Israeli forces captured and interrogated Islamic Jihad spokesperson Tariq Salami.
According to his interrogation, this is how the media game actually worked:
- When rockets hit Gaza hospitals or schools → blame Israel.
- When Hamas fires from inside those same buildings → Israel gets accused of “war crimes” for striking back.
- Every explosion was pre-agreed to be blamed on Israel, even when Islamic Jihad rockets fell short (like the Al-Ma’madani hospital blast).
This wasn’t journalism.
This was coordinated disinformation between terrorist groups and major Western media outlets.
The public was deliberately misled for years.
Demand accountability.
Share this. Don’t let them get away with it.
🇪🇺 The Europeans have gone insane🇪🇺
At a summit in the UK, a French NGO executive discusses the use of *military force* to compel American tech platforms to follow censorship directives.
Moderator: "What do you mean by kinetic methods?"
Speaker: "Using the military. Yeah."
Breaking: Muslim terrorists just stormed a Christian village in Nigeria and unleashed pure demonic savagery on innocent families who couldn’t run fast enough to escape.
They captured pregnant women and hacked their bellies open with machetes — forcing the young women to witness their own unborn babies die right in front of them as they succumbed to fatal stab wounds.
All because they were Christians who refused to convert to Islam.
No one in the international community, UN, EU, ICC, or ICJ seems to care. Not even Christian leaders in the West.
Please pray for the persecuted Christians in Nigeria.
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The NYPD is crushing it when it comes to taking illegal mopeds and scooters off our streets.
So far this year, the NYPD has seized over 5,700 of these dangerous, illegal vehicles — and we are not letting up.
🚨 EVERY VACCINE BATCH HAD A DIFFERENT FORMULA. THE LOT NUMBERS JUST PROVED IT.
Not a theory. Not an interpretation. A dataset. 12,000 lot numbers. Cross-referenced with VAERS adverse event reports. The correlation is absolute.
A team of researchers — 4 statisticians, 2 pharmacologists, 1 former FDA regulator — published their findings on a decentralized server Wednesday. The paper is 147 pages. Peer review was impossible because no journal would touch it. So they released it directly to the public.
The finding: specific lot numbers produced 4,000% more adverse events than others. Not random variation. Not manufacturing inconsistency. A deliberate, systematic pattern.
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Lot numbers ending in 20A through 20F: near-zero adverse events. Saline. Placebo. Water with a label.
Lot numbers ending in 21K through 21X: moderate adverse events. Fatigue. Myocarditis. Blood clots. Hospitalization rates 300% above baseline.
Lot numbers ending in 22R through 22Z: catastrophic. Stroke. Cardiac arrest. Neurological damage. Death rates 8,100% above the statistical norm for any pharmaceutical product in history.
Three tiers. Three formulas. Distributed in a pattern that ensured no single hospital, no single city, no single demographic received enough catastrophic doses to trigger an obvious statistical signal.
They spread the damage thin enough to call it "rare side effects." But it wasn't rare. It was targeted.
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The distribution pattern wasn't random. The catastrophic lots were sent disproportionately to specific zip codes. Zip codes with high concentrations of military veterans. First responders. Independent business owners. Communities with historically low compliance to federal mandates.
The people most likely to resist were given the most dangerous doses.
The moderate lots went to urban centers with high media consumption — populations that would report mild symptoms, be told it was "normal," and return for boosters without question.
The placebo lots went to politicians, media figures, and pharmaceutical executives. The people who promoted it on camera. The people who told you it was "safe and effective" while receiving saline.
They took the same shot on television. They did not take the same formula.
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The 12,000 lot numbers are now mapped. Every batch. Every destination. Every outcome. The data is on the blockchain. It cannot be retracted. It cannot be memory-holed. It cannot be fact-checked into oblivion.
The former FDA regulator on the team submitted the dataset to the military tribunal with a single statement: "This was not negligence. This was a weapons deployment protocol disguised as public health."
The tribunal accepted it into evidence Thursday morning. Case number: GT-2026-0441.
Every lot number is a fingerprint. Every adverse event is a witness. Every death certificate is an indictment.
CODE: LOT-NUMBERS / 3-TIERS / ZIP-TARGETED / GT-2026-0441
They didn't give everyone the same shot. They gave everyone the shot they were assigned. Now the assignment list is evidence.
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Someone you know got a different formula than they were told. Share this for them.
Mr Pool
If your reaction to the recently released report on sexual assaults is "Release the photos of the women stripped naked with their genitals mutilated because we can't trust Israel" then I genuinely don't know if there is any hope for you.
No, nobody is doing that. You won't believe it anyways, and if you did you would defend it.
Too many people have already seen those images. You don't get to partake in a final act of humiliation for these woman.
Hantavirus infects up to 100,000 people every year, yet suddenly a handful of cases on a cruise ship sparks a mass public health panic fanned by the WHO. We should be very suspicious as to why, says Dr David Bell. dailysceptic.org/2026/05/11/why…
I'm Italian. Greece has been my second country for years.
The Greeks I know rarely spend their summers on the cruise islands. Not Santorini. Not Mykonos. Not Crete. Not Rhodes.
They take the ferry from Piraeus to islands the world hasn't found, or drive into a continental mainland that foreign lists never mention.
Greece is the most layered civilization in Europe.
10 underrated places where the kafeneio is real, the ouzo is local, and history isn't behind glass.
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"My biggest surprise was that [Israelis], unlike what I was taught, are not really obsessed with killing all the Arabs and taking all the land and establishing Greater Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates. All the conspiracy theories that I had learned at the time, all of it was wrong."
@hahussein tells the @MisgavINS Mideast Horizons podcast about how, from growing up in deeply anti-Israel environments in Iraq and Lebanon, he came to write "The Arab Case for Israel."
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