The Vatican’s Reptilian Jesus: I Understand the Art, but I’m Still Creeped Out

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The Vatican has a 66-foot-wide bronze sculpture of the resurrected Jesus that looks like Christ emerging from a nuclear apocalypse—or possibly a reptilian family reunion. I understand the artist’s Cold War symbolism, appreciate the theological message, and reject the internet’s conspiracy theories about secret lizard overlords. But as a Christian, I still have one question: Why does our victorious, resurrected Savior look like something that escaped from a science-fiction horror movie? Sometimes an ugly statue is just an ugly statue. And sometimes understanding the art doesn’t make it any less creepy.

Highlights of the Week with Don Surber

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Don Surber delivers his commentary on this week’s news. Remember someone somewhere telling us to pay attention to who resigns, dies or gets arrested? Just remember Proverbs 24:17-18. Do not gloat when your enemy falls; when they stumble, do not let your heart rejoice, or the Lord will see and disapprove and turn his wrath away from them.

Is America Doomed?

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Steve, the history professor, provides details about how Clinton & Obama suffered massive losses in the House & Senate during their mid terms. Also, Diane and Steve discuss what will happen if the Democrats are successful in destroying the Electoral College as they have insist they will do.

Does God use Islam to Punish Christians? 690 AD Called. It Wants Its Moral Collapse Back.

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In 690 AD, Christian civilization was getting its backside handed to it by Muslim armies. One theologian offered a disturbing explanation: God wasn’t rewarding Islam—He was punishing Christians for abandoning their moral foundations. Fast-forward to 2026, where nihilism, moral relativism, and cultural decay are fashionable, and objective truth is apparently optional. Fourteen centuries later, are we watching history repeat itself? Or are we simply too arrogant to recognize the warning?

Gavin Newsom is wrong on just about everything else, but he got this one right

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As both of my regular readers know, I am opposed to capital punishment. It is my position that we should not kill anybody, unless it is absolutely necessary, and if we have a prisoner so securely held that he cannot prevet his own execution, he is, by any rational definition, helpless. If he is helpless, it is not necessary to kill him.

Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is commuting the capital sentences of all 548 people on death row in the Pyrite State, although technical problems exist. This is no surprise, given that he imposed a moratorium on executione when he entered office in 2019, and California has not actually executed anyone since 2006. But some families are very upset:

Her son was raped, murdered. Newsom’s death row decision brings ‘soul-hurting pain’

By Michael McGough | November 6, 2026 | 6:42 PM PST

Among the 548 inmates sentenced to death in California is Robert Rhoades, who abducted 8-year-old Michael Lyons as he walked home from school in Yuba City on May 16, 1996, then tortured and raped him before stabbing him more than 70 times.

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A few items in the news

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I am working on tomorrow’s Highlights of the Week. A few important items are too long for the format so I will give them the space they need today.

ITEM 1: Presidents traditionally leave a letter for their successor. This week, the New York Times revealed the letter Trump left for Biden. The original was written with a black Sharpie.

Ludwig von Mises Was Right: America Has Become a Daycare Center for Economic Failure

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A century ago, Ludwig von Mises warned that socialism couldn’t repeal economic reality. Today, America has perfected capitalism without consequences, where profits are private, losses become public, and Uncle Sam runs an economic daycare center funded by taxpayers. From Soviet collapse to Venezuela’s economic disaster, history keeps delivering the same lesson: government cannot manufacture prosperity by subsidizing failure. Yet Washington keeps trying, armed with trillion-dollar deficits and apparently fewer than two functioning brain cells.

White House officials brief after FAA declares nationwide ground stop for all aircraft

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The Federal Aviation Administration declared a nationwide ground stop for all U.S. airports earlier today. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told the press the Federal Aviation Administration’s nationwide ground stop for all aircraft is due to a “telecommunication outage” and that the American public should have “no fear.”

The Cost of Free: The Era of Rage Politics

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Our founders still speak to us. Their writings, their essence, their shadows, still traverse the corridors of governance. For millennia, they discerned the reasons for the decline of nations, meticulously steering clear of errors while acknowledging that their work remains humanly imperfect. With faith in God, they persevered.

We had a script but insisted on going our own way.