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I have a friend who was a director in a criminal justice system. A detective working on one of the infamous daycare cases of SRA told my friend that a psychiatrist working with a child from this daycare showed her what they did in these rituals or part of what they did and told the detective that the room immediately dropped 20° And she had the child stop. It is very real and been going on forever. This was back in the 90s. We have to make people aware, especially ones that work with these victims, but everyone needs to know and understand what’s going on and stand up or it will continue Because like you said they think they’re winning. I tell people you think it’s horrible to think about think how horrible it must be for the people actually going through this.? someone fighting this in the last part of the 20th century was Ted L Gunderson, former FBI agent now deceased. There are lectures of his on the Internet just look up his name on Google or any podcast app.

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The crimes connected to Jeffrey Epstein were real, horrifying, and deeply damaging. Children were harmed. Institutions failed. Those facts alone should sober any society that takes seriously the protection of its most vulnerable.

What I find difficult to accept in this article is not its moral outrage, but its insistence on drawing conclusions that go far beyond what has been demonstrated. When claims move from documented abuse into assertions that the world is governed by a hidden, ancient religious system sustained by ritual child sacrifice, the question is no longer whether evil exists, but whether the explanation being offered is responsible, grounded, or even helpful.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Here, interpretation is presented with the certainty of fact, while crucial distinctions are left unmade. The result is not clarity, but fear, and fear is a poor substitute for truth.

I’m also struck by what gets lost in this framing. The children themselves fade into the background, replaced by cosmic conclusions. The necessary, uncomfortable questions remain unanswered: How were these children groomed? Where were the parents and guardians? What social, economic, and institutional failures allowed predators to operate? Those questions matter because they lead to prevention, accountability, and protection. When everything is absorbed into an ancient, omnipotent evil system, responsibility dissolves and action feels futile.

As a Christian, I believe Scripture speaks plainly about the reality of evil. But Scripture never invites us to surrender to it, mythologize it, or treat it as unbeatable. Biblical faith does not culminate in dread. It calls people to vigilance, repentance, justice, and hope. Darkness is named so that it can be confronted! Not so that society is convinced it is already doomed.

What concerns me most is the atmosphere this kind of writing creates. It does not draw people together. It does not strengthen communities. It does not encourage parents, churches, or neighbors to become more attentive to the children in their care. Instead, it feeds suspicion, despair, and paralysis, the emotional equivalent of a steady diet of junk food.

We should be deeply disturbed by what happened. But disturbance should move us toward responsibility, not resignation. Toward discernment, not panic. Toward solidarity, not fragmentation.

If anything, good can come from this dark chapter, it will not come from convincing people that the world is secretly run by unstoppable forces of evil. It will come from ordinary people paying closer attention, asking better questions, holding institutions accountable, and taking seriously their role in protecting the vulnerable. Naming evil matters. But so does refusing to let fear and hopelessness be the final word. Fear divides, and despair immobilizes. Truth, rightly handled, does neither.

A Prayer

Lord,

We bring before You what troubles us. The harm done, the failures we see, and the questions that remain unanswered. We do not come pretending these things are small, nor do we come surrendering to despair.

Guard our hearts from fear that clouds judgment and anger that hardens compassion. Give us wisdom to seek truth carefully, courage to face what is real, and humility to admit what we do not yet understand. Turn our attention toward what we can do to protect children, to watch more closely, to speak with care, and to act with integrity.

Where darkness has been exposed, bring healing. Where trust has been broken, bring accountability. Where people feel overwhelmed or divided, bring steadiness and unity.

Teach us to be people who carry light without shouting, hope without denial, and conviction without cruelty. Let our concern produce responsibility, not panic and our faith produce love, not fear. We place this world, and especially its most vulnerable, into Your hands. Strengthen ours to do the work You have given us.

Amen.

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