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Hentenza · 2025-11-19T06:10:39-0600

chevyontheriver said:
But of course.

Not without Jesus at the core they won't.

Salvation is personal not a group decision. My statement still stands. No denomination, including Catholics, will ever save anyone.

chevyontheriver said:
But the opposite of thinking a denomination saves is to have a religion of 'just Jesus and me'. Jesus didn't start anything like that.

Ah, that Catholics are the original, supreme church nonsense, yada yada. Not going there with you.

MarkRohfrietsch · 2025-11-19T06:06:31-0600

I had a great year on the outdoor range with my .22 bench rest. I also picked up a Zastava M22 to play with... it is no CZ. I have also been shooting in our inter-county .22 handgun bulls-eye league. That has been fun. I'm not doing great, but having fun. Picked up another project at a local auction; it may never shoot again, but it is a wall hanger. 16 ga. single barrel. That should keep me busy. I go to pick it up this Saturday.

Hentenza · 2025-11-19T06:04:04-0600

boughtwithaprice said:
No you expect them to be constrained and prevented from ever thinking that the law needs to be enforced

Presence in the US without authorization is a civil offense

Re-entry after deportation is criminal. Entering through a non designated point of entry is criminal

Even if your argument is merely civil offenses, the civil penalty for unauthorized presence is deportation. Deporting for civil offenses is not unreasonable, criminal acts involve jail time and imprisonment. ICE is deporting, not imprisoning unless there is also concurrent criminal offenses.

Here illegally? Expect to be civilly deported. The government is even offering a free plane ticket and a thousand dollars for those who choose to self deport

Keeping ICE from enforcing the law does nothing to elevate Latino dignity. It even lowers it by giving the perception that as a group of people, they are exempt from the law. No society functions like that just because you call it racist

You need to stop your Strawman. No where did I call ICE racist. It seems that you have a standard reply to anyone that disagrees with you. I’m not from the left. My issue is with the trampling of the 4th amendment. You know, the constitution? The same constitution that you should be defending?

rjs330 · 2025-11-19T06:01:01-0600

Meh.. why is this a thing. Oh I know its because Trump did it. People upset about this are most likely very hypocritical.

The pardon is a thing its not going away. All people arw doing is trying to be divisive and partisan.

This is a prime example about what happens when a president does something new. It opens the door for others to do the same thing. Biden did this and people on the left didn't care that much. Then Trump does it and suddenly its a big deal. Democrats go after Trump and people on the right and the left loved it. Republicans go after those who went after the right and the left is totally upset.

Next Democratic President is going to pardon other people. Its all ready been proven.

Can we all just give up on the faux outrage?

Dan1988 · 2025-11-19T05:55:06-0600

fhansen said:
So, are you just avoiding the question here, or what? Does hell involve the absence of God’s presence, as maintained in 2 Thess, or not?

I'm not sure which verse or chapter of 2 Tess you're referring to, but I already know that it doesn't mean what your trying to suggest it's saying. I assume it saying those in hell will not enjoy communion with God, because He doesn't show them any mercy or love. All they see from God is His wrath and vengeance and torment.
So I think you mean they are separated from God love

johnnypapa · 2025-11-19T05:53:59-0600

Day 2... 11/19/25

O Immaculate Virgin Mary, Mother of Our Lord Jesus and our Mother, penetrated with the most lively confidence in your all-powerful and never-failing intercession, manifested so often through the Miraculous Medal, we your loving and trustful children implore you to obtain for us the graces and favors we ask during this Novena, if they be beneficial to our immortal souls, and the souls for whom we pray.

(Privately form your petitions here.)

You know, O Mary, how often our souls have been the sanctuaries of your Son who hates iniquity. Obtain for us, then, a deep hatred of sin and that purity of heart, which will attach us to God alone so that our every thought word and deed may tend to his greater glory. Obtain for us also a spirit of prayer and self-denial, that we may recover by penance what we have lost by sin, and at length attain to that blessed abode where you are the Queen of angels and of men. Amen.

fide · 2025-11-19T05:49:49-0600

JimR-OCDS said:
My former parish has embraced the LGBTQ+ ideology. Conservatives and of course Trump
supporters, are convinced to leave. It doesn't matter if you don't support Trump, but as
long as they think you do, you're not welcomed.

This is when love and forgiveness is put to the test.

I am most interested in your last sentence, and would appreciate your expansion on it, if you're willing. Of the several kinds of parishes around, when it this test passed, and when is it failed, and when is it avoided? Of course some of us really have no viable choice in the matter - in which case it seems, God has chosen for us.

Apple Sky · 2025-11-19T05:49:33-0600

Phil G said:
No it isn’t. You’re in denial again.