Maggie Danesfahani

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@RightToLifeUK God, please forgive us.

A failed abortion procedure in Australia resulted in a baby being born alive and left to die alone while sucking his thumb, whistleblower reveals.😢 Read the full article here: righttolife.org.uk/z3jp

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@JamesHu27192912 Very powerful. Thank you.

Revelation 17 is one of those chapters where you read it and think, “Wow. That escalated quickly.” A woman. A beast. Multiple heads. Too many horns. And absolutely zero chill. But before we turn this into a conspiracy PowerPoint with red string and thumbtacks, Revelation is doing something very specific here. It’s explaining how power works. And more importantly, how it fails. Enter Babylon. She’s dressed in purple and scarlet. Gold jewelry. Flashy. Confident. Influencer energy. She looks like she has everything figured out. And she’s riding a beast, which should immediately make us pause, because riding something is not the same thing as controlling it. Babylon thinks she’s in charge. The beast knows better. In the Bible, Babylon is not just a city. It’s a system. A mindset. A way of organizing the world that says power, wealth, and control are the highest good. Babylon is the “we’re doing great” civilization built on the quiet suffering of people no one wants to talk about. She’s also described as drunk. Not on wine. On power. On success. On the blood of the saints. Which is Revelation’s very blunt way of saying this system thrives by chewing people up and calling it progress. John is understandably disturbed by all of this. And honestly, same. Then the angel explains the symbolism, because Revelation does not expect us to guess blindly. The beast represents political and military power. Kings. Kingdoms. Authority structures that rise and fall over and over again. The woman rides the beast because Babylon depends on power to exist. She doesn’t generate it herself. She borrows it. This is the part where Revelation gets almost funny, in a dark way. Because the beast eventually turns on her. The same power that carried Babylon decides it’s done. The ride is over. The system eats itself. Which is exactly what power built on exploitation always does. It never stays loyal. It never stays stable. It eventually looks around and says, “Actually…I don’t need you anymore.” Revelation is basically saying, “You trusted the beast. What did you think was going to happen.” This chapter is not about identifying one villain. It’s about recognizing patterns. About how flashy systems promise safety and deliver fragility. About how riding close to power feels secure right up until the moment it isn’t. Babylon thought she was untouchable. The beast was never loyal. Revelation 17 is asking a question without asking it directly. Who are you hitching your wagon to. Because proximity to power is not the same thing as protection. Being carried by something does not mean it cares about you. And systems that demand worship eventually demand sacrifice. Usually of the people who trusted them most. The uncomfortable, relatable truth here is that Babylon didn’t fall because someone pushed her. She fell because the thing she relied on turned around and bit her. Which makes Revelation 17 less about end times charts and more about wisdom. Don’t build your life on something that can decide you’re expendable. Because Revelation keeps pointing out the same thing with increasing clarity. God’s kingdom doesn’t eat its own. Babylon always does.

@DanBurmawy Gracious food for thought. Thank you.

The moment I left Islam felt like a mountain had been lifted from my shoulders. I rejoiced in being freed from the chains of a fear-based religion, one that shaped me into a slave, built the world around me on fear and suspicion, sanctified violence, enforced inequality, imposed sex segregation and sexual repression, and normalized hostility and abuse. Yet only months before that moment, if someone had criticized Islam in front of me, I would have attacked them. Why? Because when you are enslaved to an omnipresent deity, one who is tyrannical, brutal, and never pleased with you, you spend your life trying to appease him. And the most effective way to do that is by defending him against his enemies. Publicly pledging allegiance to Allah in the presence of those who do not submit to him becomes a survival strategy. It is an attempt to gain favor, to soften threats, to delay punishment. Thank God someone helped me see the truth, to recognize that this imagined god was nothing more than a manufactured idol, created by a seventh-century warlord to dominate the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula. United under that ideology, they went on to conquer half of the known world, erase entire civilizations, and Arabize vast Christian territories. Ironically, had the person who helped me been a polite Western gentleman, I would never have left Islam. He would have been careful not to offend my beliefs, and in doing so, he would have left me chained to them. That is exactly what the West is doing to Muslims today. By refusing to offend, it keeps them bound to an ideology that cultivates fear, scarcity, guilt, hostility, and division. “Islamophobia” was never designed to protect Muslims. Western laws already do that. It was designed to protect Islam from scrutiny. And in doing so, the West has rendered itself deaf to the silent screams of millions who are enslaved within it, desperately longing to be released.

@iamrjknight Thank you.

The moral collapse of the world should not shock the Christian. Scripture has been telling this story since Eden. Man does not drift toward God. He runs from Him. The Bible never promises cultural improvement before Christ returns. It promises increased lawlessness, hardened hearts, and truth being suppressed. The task of the church is not to reclaim power, but to bear witness. Not to legislate righteousness, but to proclaim repentance and faith in Christ. Do not be surprised by the darkness. Be faithful in it. Read the full article 👇 buymeacoffee.com/iamrjknight/do…

100s maybe 1000s of pieces of research done about children transitioning out of care and yet has it really changed in the 40 years since I left care? This is what my autobiographical novel #Hiraeth is about. We follow Marianne 1974-1976 finding ways to survive without family.

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Opening this week! Civil Service Care Leaver Internship. #careleaver #internships

As I'm currently in Australia to attend the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Care Leavers Australasia Network (@CLAN_AU) and visit their Australian Orphanage Museum, I'll use the first half of next week's meeting to discuss developments over here for our fellow care leavers.

A reminder of our new project launching in September 💙

@thatdudereed_ Keep going Reed. You are doing absolutely brilliant and are such an inspiration.

I hope it’s not to late for me. #fitness #weightloss #journey #motivation

@SteveChalke Very true. School can be like being in prison. The day drags and the teaching goes over your head. Soon you are labelled a trouble maker, or given a label, sent out of class and so begins the decline of your education. Imagine all those years when things could have been different

For too many children school is a miserable experience. Why? Because we’ve still not learned that if the child doesn’t learn the way we teach, we need to start teaching the way they learn.

💙 Care doesn’t stop at 25 Through the Care Leavers Connected project, we’re building a strong, welcoming community for care-experienced adults of all ages. Funded by @TNLComFund , this project by the CLA is all about connection, empowerment and shared experience.

Our new research shows the shocking disruption children in care face during crucial exam years. Every child needs stability when it matters most. Let's give all children a fair chance. Read the report: org.pulse.ly/n9hftupbls

@Invessted Thank you. This was really helpful and wow.

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