This is an informative article about his whole situation.

Akita Suggagaki said:

That is pretty good in a nutshell. And I suppose there is a spectrum in between.

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Yes, and in looking a little bit further, there also seems to be smaller, more "Purple Politics" middle-stance where Public Theology is addressed by Post-modern(ish) Christian Philosophers, like James K.A. Smith.

Hammster said:

Did he speak openly about covering up?!

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No idea. Is that the standard now? That politicians need to publically announce previous lies? If so, campaigns will become nothing but apologies.

Look, I agree 100% that he was in the wrong when he (his campaign technically but there is no way he didn't approve it) lied about his DUI. But that was also almost 20 years ago and the thing he had lied about he has acknowledged and now talks candidly about. So I'm not sure why this is such a big deal to some.

Land of the free, eh?

Lord have mercy!

Good! Leave minors alone!

May God keep the Holy Father safe!

If more Dems and Repubs would have the courage to dare to think outside the 2 part system, we might have a chance.


I just wish the candidates were higher profile and vetted.

But at this point we are all desperate.

PesachPup said:

Did Jesus "ascend to heaven" before he was resurrected?

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Sure.

mourningdove~ said:

I do believe God chooses to involve us in his plans for mankind.

And when He shows us things, it is not just to entertain us, make us feel 'super spiritual', etc.
Many times, I believe He reveals things to us ... so that we will pray.

So many things in this life we do not have control over. Most things, in reality.
But we can pray.
Even a sick or disabled or elderly and physically weakened daughter or son of God can pray from their bed.
And in doing so, she/he remains an active soldier in the army of God ...

(Prayers continue for President Trump and his family.)

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Amen.

Why would the enemy identify Himself as Amalek/Esau when He is intending to guide folks to destruction?
But most self professed Christians worship Him and His doctrines. After all, He has a good disguise.

AlexB23 said:

Worst case scenario, as your church does not have a Eucharist, you can just stream church from TV and not have to drive at all. For Catholics, we can stream also, but there is more of an obligation of going physically to church.

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He doesn't livestream his services. I'm not sure he knows how. He would have the money to get the equipment to do so I just think he is too low tech to figure out how to do so and nobody would probably watch anyway if he did livestream. We're a very small congregation but he does print all of his sermons every week for all congregants to read every Sunday and the sermons that we miss he has his treasurer mail to us so that we dont technically miss a sermon even if we are not physically present.

Our church generally has communion the first Sunday of every month and my wife generally tries to get that Sunday off. Walmart has an app for their employees where they can apply for time off and a team lead looks over the requests and either approves them or denies them and then a computer will do out their schedule for that week about 2-3 weeks in advance. My wife tries to put in the first Sunday of every week into the app so that we can at least get to church for communion since it is very important. If we can't get the first Sunday off for whatever reason we still try to attend at least once a month and our Elder appreciates us coming each time we can attend because he knows that my wife has a very tight work schedule and especially now that she's working full time.

He would disagree that being in church online would be basically the same thing or else he wouldn't have concerns about our attendance because like I said, we receive paper copies of his sermons every week in the mail. But he's big on fellowship and worshipping as a congregation. Oftentimes he encourages us all to worship together and basically be one big happy family.

I sometimes find it annoying but he also has a really big point I have to admit.

FaithT said:

I‘ve considered cremation but think I’ll have a traditional burial. Just maybe a closed casket so I dont have people looking at me, making comments.

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I’ll probably do open casket with embalming.

Cremation is too violent for me.

"Replacement" and Attitude: In AVIATION attitude is the plane's position in relation to the horizon/the ground.
So if Your plane has the wrong attitude your heading for a crash and probably death.

And if one is a "devout disciple" then one is devoted to being in harmony with the Master. To do that one has to study and conform our thoughts and actions with what the Master is teaching. So if we study a book that does not correctly present the Master's Way, we get lost
If the Master's words have been sabotaged, your attitude is sabotaged and you are on a crash course.

And Christ's Words and Intent has been altered. So false words and logic have to replaced with correct Words/Logic. Until the Sabotage of the Edomite Jews is removed from our mind, habits and actions, we are still on a crash course.

The Edomite Jews and their converts have been working on wrecking Your Spiritual relation with YahShua. He can't save You if your mind is full of Edomite mentality.

It seems most christians who are not orthodox or catholic mostly those against the orthodox and catholic believers don’t give Mary the mother of Jesus the honor she deserves. The bible says all generations will call me blessed whether they choose christ to be saved which is part of honoring her truly or forced to in hell or just to say in all generations there will be people who honor her.But that is not supposed to be the case. To give honor pleases christ though bible says there is only one mediator if one wilfully dishonors not just an opinion may have lack of reward it still pleases christ to honor her who sacrificed alot.

One does not need an intercession to be saved but I think it helps as she is close to Jesus just to help to give assurance you are on the way to have peace.That verse there is only one mediator does not mean others can not help you as even we believe we benefit from others prayers on earth but that christ is sufficient to save but may not have extra blessing of others help just to help support you following the right way.

We can derive from the bible alone Mary was probably a virgin all her life since when angel said she will have a son she said how can this be meaning she did not plan to have a marriage where you have children.You can not know for sure from bible alone but you can choose to accept incase.But being a virgin alone does not make one more holy except for the reason that it shows she was seeking to be content with christ only to magnify Him.The orthodox and catholic church is not the source of the belief but they lived in time or close to time of Jesus that it would have been spread by word of mouth but God only had churches record it so that it is never a point of contention that others have to believe it or be lost if others also doubt those others not from orthodox or catholic church who support it but wanted honor freely given.

The supernatural is real.

We all know it. We all know that there are “things visible and invisible,” and we’ve all experienced moments where the veil between the two has thinned-out and surprised us — through our dreams, our guts or our physical, peripheral senses — with information we need, consolations that feed or warnings we’re smart to heed.

Like Hamlet, we all know there are “more things in heaven and earth, than are dreamt of” in our philosophies. We all go out in search of connecting with that thing — that force, that power, that energy, that “thing” — that exists beyond our perceived-as-natural world.

The search for the supernatural​

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Vatican peace envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi spoke this week with a Chinese government official about the Russia-Ukraine war.

The phone conversation was the most recent step in the Vatican’s continued diplomatic efforts to promote lasting peace in the region.

Zuppi’s Aug. 14 phone call with Li Hui, China’s special representative for Eurasian affairs, followed a meeting between the two in Beijing in September 2023, one of several diplomatic visits the papal delegate has taken to advance peace between Russia and Ukraine.

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Walz’s false claim that Vance never voted for any pro-worker bills​

Still, we identified at least two pro-worker bills that Vance voted for, which by Walz’s definition would at least be a stopped clock.

• Railway Safety Act. Vance is a co-sponsor of the bill, intended to respond to the 2023 Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, and he voted for it in December when it was approved by the Senate Commerce Committee. The bill, which would impose new safety requirements and enhance fines, has not yet come to a floor vote yet because of a filibuster threat. Rail unions have held rallies calling for it to be passed, and it has won the support of the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers’ Transportation Division, the Transport Workers Union of America, the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, the American Train Dispatchers Association, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers, the United States Conference of Mayors, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and the International Association of Machinists.
• Radiation Exposure Compensation Reauthorization Act. Vance was one of 20 Republicans to vote for this bill, which passed the Senate in March by a vote of 69-30. The bill, which had the support of uranium miners, would have extended the period for filing claims under the 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, improved compensation for workers involved in uranium mining, and added parts of Arizona, Utah and Nevada to the program. The House did not act, though, with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) citing the expense and lack of Republican support. The old law lapsed in June, though Democrats promise to revive it next year

Speaking to a union audience, Walz swung too hard for the fences. He claimed that Vance has not voted for any “pro-worker bills,” and his source was a union report card that covered only two bills in one year. As we have documented, Vance has voted for at least two bills that helped workers and had union support. On top of that, claiming that Vance knows nothing about working people, when that’s the subject of his book, is also false.
Walz earns Four Pinocchios.

Four Pinocchios​

iluvatar5150 said:

NYT speculates that Trump is confusing Willy Brown with former CA governor Jerry Brown, with whom he once did share a helicopter ride (along with Gavin Newsom, the ex of DJT’s future DIL).

Problem is, that flight didn’t have any problems and they never talked about Harris.

Now that NYT picked apart Trump’s story, he’s threatening to sue.

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...a ride with Jerry Brown seems more likely.

...and as Willie Brown noted:
Mr. Brown, who loves regaling anybody who will listen with stories and who penned a weekly column in The San Francisco Chronicle until 2021, added, laughing: “You know me well enough to know that if I almost went down in a helicopter with anybody, you would have heard about it!”

dogs4thewin said:

The why were there hiring signs EVERYWHERE and places that ( even after the restrictions were lifted only waiting on half their tables.

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Was it no one wanting to work or not wanting to work in restaurants? A lot of people were slow to go back to dining in. Few customers means workers depending on tips for income are going to struggle.

Christsfreeservant said:

To sing a new song, a song in my heart,
A song that’s of joy, to never depart,
To sing it out loud where people can hear,
To sing now with courage and never with fear,

To sing in the morning and even at night,
To sing of salvation, of Jesus, the Light,
To tell of His wonders, His miracles, too,
To tell of His grace and His mercy for you,

To tell how He died that horrible death,
To tell how He breathed then His very last breath,
To tell then of how He rose from the grave,
In order that our souls He would now save,

To tell of our need to die now to sin,
So we can live with Him forever in heaven,
To tell we must walk in His righteousness,
To tell how obedience gives us sweet rest,

To tell this with joy, with love in my heart,
That you would believe in Him, never depart,
That you would submit to Him, Jesus your Lord,
That you would now walk with Him, in one accord,

Brings joy to my heart, such peace satisfies,
Assurance of faith, and never in lies,
To know that you, too, are walking with Him,
And that you’re no longer walking in sin.

An Original Work / March 19, 2023

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Amen to this. I like your poem, and this is why I sometimes sing Christian songs (such as Chris Tomlin, other Christian artists, and Catholic hymns), in order to worship God and honor His Son who died and rose again for us.

After the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAFL) last month issued a booklet summarizing the Church’s teaching on a number of bioethical issues, the section on “artificial nutrition and hydration” (ANH) has some observers concerned about what they see as a departure from previous Church teaching.

The Pontifical Academy for Life was founded in 1994 by St. John Paul II to study and provide formation on bioethical issues for the promotion and defense of life. Published only in Italian on July 2, the PAFL’s new booklet says it has “the aim of clearing up confusion” about the Church’s teaching on a number of bioethical issues.

In the English-speaking world, however, the booklet has garnered scrutiny for appearing to soften the Church’s stance on the importance of providing food and water to patients in a vegetative state.

The Church’s teaching on this issue was recently in the news in the United States because of the ongoing case of Margo Naranjo, a disabled Texas woman whose parents, who are Catholic, announced last month that they had decided to allow Margo to die by starvation in hospice. They were prevented from doing so after a judge intervened.

What has the Church taught about withdrawing food and water?​

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orbiter said:

The just shall live (have an age-lasting life) by faith. They will not perish mortally from this earth but shall continue to live in this earth and not be removed from it.

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This sounds like you are claiming that there is no resurrection of the dead? That there is no new heaven and earth? That we will not be changed from corruptible to incorruption? Opposite from scripture.
Please clarify. Thanks!

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.