Doug Batchelor Welcomes Barbara O'Neil, Defies SDA "Cancel Culture"

There are times where I'm glad to be a Seventh-Day Adventist....this ain't one of them.

The TL/DR: Barbara O'Neill is an alternative health care practitioner and member of the SDA church in Australian who...how can I put it simply? Ahh, yes: she's a crank... (O'Neill's health claims, Australian criminal investigations) ..enough of one that the New South Wales Health Care Complaints Commission found multiple substantiated complaints agst. her, enough to where in Sept. 2019 she was given a prohibition order banning her from putting forth the info she was giving.

Didn't stop her though; she kept right on and also went full-on anti-vax (far more so than even RFK Jr. at his worst ever did)...everything built up enough to where Adventist Health Ministries, the in-house health group of the General Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists officially advised member SDA churches and organizations (i'll get to them in a second) not to have her speak at their churches or organizations.

Enter one of those aforementioned SDA organizations, Amazing Facts. HQ'ed in Granite Bay, CA and led by Granite Bay SDA Pastor Doug Batchelor, AF is one of the major unofficial SDA organizations in existence (along with 3ABN, Voice of Prophecy, Hope Channel, 2CBN in Africa and so forth)...they're a powerful outside voice w/in SDA circles and Batchelor is one pastor who I really, really respect and admire...

...and yet, according to the video above and a recent article in Adventist Today, they invited Ms. O'Neill to speak at Sacremento Central (Sac Central) SDA church (according to their FB page, the week's run of shows is booked solid). 

Yeah, You and me both, Jesus.

Now, I'm relatively new to Adventist (it'll be three and a half years since I first began attending my local SDA church here in Morganton, NC) but if there's one thing I keep seriously it is the Adventist health message, something I do principally because its' a commonsense health message, especially the diet part - no, I'm not a vegetarian or vegan; I'm more of a flexitarian in my eating habits. I also take a more focused approach to my health, especially given all of my past health issues mental and physical.

Part of that is paying attention to the best advice of medical professionals on both medicine and vaccinations....which makes me wonder what in the holy kernals is Pr. Batchelor doing bringing a crank and oddball like Barbara O'Neill to the 'States to peddle her crap?

She's no "health educator" (with all due respect to Mr. Batchelor) she's a Down Under crank. Period, end of story.

Are Democrats Destroying Themselves?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer? Yes, but so long as there is no viable alternative for liberals/leftists to go to, not in the immediate future (with all due respect to Townhall's Mark Lewis). That said, even a cursory look at the political map shows how hard it'll be for them to get back the reins of power. For instance, while the House could still flip next November, if the Senate even reverts to the Presidential line, its' a one-seat loss for Dems (from 53 seats currently to 54 seats).

Go out four years and its' still just as bleak there for Democrats.

Karl Rove once spoke of the "permanent Republican majority" during George W. Bush's administration....I still think he was wrong then but I do believe that every so often each party has a generational majority that endures for a couple decades either way.

Until recently Dems' owned a lock on the House majority (1954-1994) and odds are there were people who were born, lived and died only knowing Democratic house majorities (led by, among others, Sam Rayburn, Carl Albert, Tip O'Neill and Tom Foley). Likewise, assuming no epic collapses by Republicans, Democrats may be staring at a generational minority in the Senate of similar length.

Why? Couple reasons but the two that come to mind quickest are: (1) lack of a viable Democratic bench in a bunch of GOP-led states and (b) their collapse in winning red states over the past couple decades.

Until Democrats square those two, they may never hold all three reigns of elective federal power in the immediate future. Of course, given who runs the Democratic Party these days....

Founders' Quote, 18 Feb. 2025

Founders' Quotes are quotes by those who were involved, in one way or another, with the founding the United States - either through the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States or through close proximity to either, followed by a comment from yours truly.

We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times - George Washington, letter to Philip Schuyler, 1777

Life always has bumps and dips and troubles; always has since the first humans walked the earth. The trick is to get through those problems to the other side.