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The Bible is filled with accounts of powerful people being brought low by those whom they deemed to be of lower status. In Paul's first Letter to the Corinthians, he states that this is all part of God's plan: "Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no human being might boast before God" (1 Corinthians 1:26-29).

As it was then, so it is now.

The weakness, ignorance, venality, deceit and selfishness of America's "elites" is on display every day. Those who hold the highest positions in society -- the famous, the wealthy, heads of companies, spiritual gurus, authors, educators and esteemed administrative leaders, powerful government officials, well-known media personalities and the world's highest-paid entertainers -- are revealing themselves to be utterly unworthy of their social status.

The most recently released content from the "Epstein files" has proven to be a cesspit of disgusting revelations about some of the world's upper crust. Emails purport to show that Bill Gates contracted a sexually transmitted disease from one of his affairs, and planned to secretly administer medication to his then-wife, Melinda. Another email, apparently from evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers, describes the sexual benefits of transitioning children in the most vulgar of terms. Spirituality author Deepak Chopra sent an email to Epstein in which he wrote, "God is a construct. Cute girls are real." The worst part of all this is that despite these........

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