Sadly, this is speaking about what is going on within the gatherings of what are called “churches” today here in America. We have many professers of faith in Jesus Christ who are living in disobedience to the Lord in defiance of his commandments (New Covenant) in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord and against other humans. For they are following after liars and deceivers who are teaching them a diluted and altered gospel message which makes no requirements of them for genuine repentance, walks of obedience to the Lord, and holy living, as required for true salvation.

And this is not teaching “works salvation.” This is teaching the true gospel of Christ which says that the righteous requirement of the law is fulfilled in us who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. And if anyone would come after Christ he must deny self, take up his cross daily (die daily to sin) and follow (obey) Jesus. For if we hold on to our old lives of sin, we will lose them for eternity. But if for Jesus’ sake we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow him in obedience, we have eternal life. For if sin is what we practice, and not obedience to God, we do not have life in Him.

So, these liars and deceivers need to be silenced, too, for they are leading the masses astray to follow after this altered gospel message which is telling the people that they can profess faith in Jesus Christ, have all their sins forgiven, have heaven guaranteed them when they die, but regardless of how they live. But Jesus died that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. He gave his life up for us, and he put our sins to death with him, so that we can now be crucified with him in death to sin and now walk with him in obedience to his commands in holy living, by his grace.

And a lot of these liars and deceivers are teaching what is false for shameful gain. And they have turned the gatherings of the church into marketplaces where they are marketing “the church” to the people of the world just like other businesses. And so they have compromised the truth of the gospel to make it more acceptable to the ungodly and to human flesh so as not to offend the people of the world who they are trying to attract to their gatherings. And so they have also altered the character of God and of his true church, the body of Christ, to blend Christianity in with the world.

So, there should be men of God in positions of leadership and authority within the universal body of Christ in various locations who will make it their responsibility to rebuke these liars and deceivers, that they may be sound in the faith. But sadly, so many of them are among the liars and deceivers who have bought into marketing “the church” to the world and who have embraced the “cheapened grace” gospel, that it appears that few are willing to speak out against the lies and to instruct the people in the truth of the gospel as taught by Jesus and by his NT apostles.

So many people today, thus, who are making professions of faith in Jesus Christ, do have both their minds and their consciences seared (defiled) by the lies which they are believing, and so they are continuing in deliberate and habitual sin against the Lord Jesus, and obedience to God and to his commandments is not their practice. So they profess to know God, but they deny him by their works (deeds, actions). And according to the Scriptures they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work. And they will not inherit the kingdom of God regardless of what their lips profess.

[Matt 7:21-23; Lu 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14; Rom 12:1-2; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Co 10:1-22; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; Gal 5:16-24; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:1-17; Titus 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-10; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; 1 Pet 2:24; Heb 3:1-19; Heb 4:1-13; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2]

Your Grace Divine

An Original Work / November 6, 2011

All I have is Yours, Lord.
You gave all to me,
When You died at Calv’ry
On that cruel tree.
Crucified for my sins;
You paid what I owe,
So I’d be forgiven;
My God come to know.
All I have is Yours, Lord.
You gave all to me,
When You died at Calv’ry
On that cruel tree.

Lord, I am so thankful
For Your grace divine.
I invited You, Lord,
In this heart of mine.
I have been forgiven
For all of my sins,
So I’d live with Jesus;
His grace flow within.
Lord, I am so thankful
For Your grace divine.
I invited You, Lord,
In this heart of mine.

Growing in Your grace, Lord;
Live for You each day;
How I love to worship
You throughout my day.
Sitting at Your feet, Lord,
List’ning to You speak,
Leads me to love You, Lord,
More throughout the week.
Growing in Your grace, Lord;
Live for You each day;
How I love to worship
You throughout my day.

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I had to see this myself because I thought my coworker was exaggerating.



There’s a section with glowing bios for her and her new VP....and a section for donations...and a section for volunteers.

And a giant merch store.

For all the guff they've given Trump about the MAGA hat....apparently, they're taking a page from his playbook. This is like the time they painted Joe orange.

Also....why is this campaign still begging for money? She has about 3 months. We've all heard about the record donations that she's gotten....how much of your money could she possibly need to run for 3 months?

I expected her to run on being a non-white, non-man for awhile until she could lay out policy positions....but it's starting to look like she has none. To be fair, Joe didn't really have any either....and I think that's possibly the new direction of the Democratic Party. No policies, no promises, no platform....just vote for whomever they trot out or you're a fascist, racist, misogynistic bigot.

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Swish. Nailed it.

I'm starting to wonder if the whole strategy of nominating Harris for VP was to pick someone who would make an aging and mentally deteriorating Biden look smart.

I mean...wow.

You get what you vote for people.

Artwork created through the use of artificial intelligence. Partially at least…

Blurb available here on the “Editorial Reviews” tab:

The word “fascist” gets thrown around a lot in politics, but it’s hard to find a more apt one for “Unhumans,” which came out last month. The book argues that leftists don’t deserve the status of human beings — that they are, as the title says, unhumans — and that they are waging a shadow war against all that is good and decent, which will end in apocalyptic slaughter if they are not stopped. “As they are opposed to humanity itself, they place themselves outside of the category completely, in an entirely new misery-driven subdivision, the unhuman,” write Posobiec and Lisec.

The piece goes on to describe the book’s adulation of Franco, Pinochet, and McCarthy; and quote Vance saying that the US needs a de-Baathafication-like purge to rid us of wokeness.


Other endorsements come from Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump Jr., a key figure in his father’s presidential campaign. The foreword is by Stephen Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist.

Walz’s history on born-alive abortions opens door for Trump, GOP to flip extremism argument​

At least eight infants were born alive after botched abortions in Minnesota on Walz's watch, none was given life-saving care, reports show.

In summer 2022 as Tim Walz was steaming toward reelection as Minnesota governor, his state health agency published a required abortion-statistics report with little fanfare. In it, though, was a secret that is certain to catapult to national prominence now that Walz has been selected to be Democrat Kamala Harris’s running mate.

In Walz’s state and on his watch, five infants were "born alive" in 2021 during failed abortions, and none was provided life-saving care though two got “comfort care,” the Minnesota Department of Health reported on July 1, 2022.

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Three other infants were "born alive" during abortions in 2019, Walz’s first year as governor, and they too perished without life-saving care, according to a July 1, 2020 report from the same state agency.

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MNAbortionReportJuly2020.pdf
Minnesota was the rare state to require such born-alive abortions to be publicly reported, creating a powerful statistic for pro-life and anti-abortion forces to draw upon.

But in 2023, Walz worked with his new Democrat-controlled Legislature to eliminate both the reporting requirement and the state’s legal obligation for doctors, nurses and medical professionals to administer life-saving care to infants born alive during an abortion procedure. The governor-turned-vice presidential nominee signed an omnibus bill known as SF2995 that closed one of the few statistical windows on late-term abortions and the possibility that babies born alive were left to die.

That’s just evil. But she’s the Left’s darling.

LINK

The Justice Department has charged a Pakistani man who has alleged ties to the Iranian government with seeking to carry out political assassinations, a case that prompted the US government to increase security for former President Donald Trump and other officials, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.

FBI investigators believe that Trump and other current and former US government officials were the intended targets of the plot, a US official briefed on the matter said.

Asif Merchant, 46, is accused of traveling to New York City and working with a hit man to carry out the assassinations in late August or early September, according to charges filed by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York.

[Stop me if you've heard this one: Hitman was a fed.]

Merchant said that he wanted to target individuals in the United States who are “hurting Pakistan and the world, [the] Muslim world,” according to court documents, adding that “these are not just normal people.”

But apparently he’s a moderate. This is disgusting. Yet the left will just fawn over him because they have to.

FBI agents executed a search warrant late last week on Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles as the first-term Republican faces continuing scrutiny over fraudulent campaign financial reports that he filed, NewsChannel 5 has confirmed.

Following NewsChannel 5's revelation, Ogles posted a statement on social media admitting that his cell phone had been seized by the FBI.

"It has been widely reported for months that my campaign made mistakes in our initial financial filings. We have worked diligently with attorneys and reporting experts to correct the errors and ensure compliance going forward," Ogles said in the statement. "Last Friday, the FBI took possession of my cell phone. It is my understanding that they are investigating the same well-known facts surrounding these filings."

[Oh, all just some honest mistake.]

Back in May, Ogles filed a series of amended campaign financial reports, admitting he had not personally loaned his campaign $320,000 as he had reported back in 2022.

That development came several months after NewsChannel 5 Investigates raised questions about whether Ogles had the financial resources to make that personal loan. Despite having reported making the $320,000 personal loan, Ogles' personal financial disclosures did not show any substantial investments — not even a savings account.

[Hmmm. Three hundred large just fell off a turnip truck? That he then loaned to himself? (But didn't.)]

Can you guys please pray for my dad his name is Michael for complete healing and for him to be walking in his healing and being completely obedient to God and that he lives and not dies all the days of his life can you pray for my sister Micah that God will give her a raise in her job that she would get a significant raise and that God heals her and forces her to be obedient and righteous to God all the days of her Life and if you guys can pray for my mom that God heals her body all the days of her life and that she stays completely obedient to God and that she will be completely obedient and righteous and that she lives and not die all the days of her life and can you pray that whole entire prayer for my sister and brothers genesis,zaniah,justice,jolane, jabez,jp,billie, and me and can you pray for my brother zion that God heals him and forces him to be obedient and righteous all the days of his life and that God forces him to the Dr. And that God heals him completely all the days of his life and that God finishes his will in our lives and that God takes all our pain away all the days of our life

The excavations, with St. John Lateran’s church in the background – credit, Italian Ministry of Culture

Woe betide anyone who plans road construction in Rome.

In late July, news headlines brought the world up to speed regarding ongoing excavations of the previous center of the Catholic Papacy—the Patriarchio, a palace of Papal authority dating back to the late Roman Empire.

Discovered during roadwork in the plaza in front of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, a series of walls are believed to represent defense works that protected the Patriarchio in the heart of the Eternal City.

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Can you express why you are supporting your third party candidate? What does he/she stand for, what has he/she accomplished that garners your vote over the Democrats and Republicans?

For myself, I may vote 3rd party, cos I am tired of the woke stuff, but also not a fan of the rhetoric from the current Republican party.

American Solidarity Party:

Libertarians:

List of 3rd party candidates:

Can you express why you are supporting your candidate without mentioning Kamala? What does he stand for, what has he accomplished that garners your vote?

Can you express why you are supporting your candidate without mentioning Trump? What does she stand for, what has she accomplished that garners your vote?

Powdered whole milk samples from Ernest Shackleton’s 1908 Nimrod expedition offer a glimpse into dairy’s evolution.

As dairy alternatives such as almond, oat, and soy milkcontinue to grow in popularity, an centuries old question regarding cow’s milk still remains. How does today’s dairy differ from what previous generations consumed?


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Knowing doctrines intellectually is not sufficient for a full Catholic life or evangelization. But knowing them to the best of our ability is necessary.

It shouldn’t be shocking to me anymore, but it was.

A “professor of public theology” at a Catholic institution criticized another person on social media encouraging people to evangelize. What was the problem? Was he advocating deceitful means? The use of force? Offering people money to convert?

None of these.

This person had posted a handy poster distinguishing between Christ’s Ascension and Mary’s Assumption. The key is that Christ rose by His own power while Mary was raised up by Christ’s power. The distinction is very important, especially in dealing with Protestants who think Catholics consider Mary an independent deity. This misunderstanding is a scandal—a stumbling block—to being open to seeing the fullness of Christianity in Catholic faith. Yet the professor scoffed that “rote memorization of obscure theological factoids unrelated to living a Christian life” has nothing to do with evangelization. “Winning Catholic Jeopardy! won’t bring the Reign of God.”

In a very literal sense, the professor is partially correct. Simply knowing doctrines is not the same as living them. Even believing them true isn’t enough. “You believe that God is one,” St. James writes in his Epistle; “you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder” (James 2:19). But knowing that “God is one” is not a mere obscure factoid for a trivia game.

So, too, the distinction between Our Lord’s Ascension and our Lady’s Assumption, which is built upon the orthodox understanding of who Jesus is. Our Lord rose by his own power, or “ascended,” because He is a divine person who took his perfected human nature into Heaven by His own power. Mary, though sinless, was “assumed”—taken up!—into Heaven by the power of God.

Jesus is God and Redeemer. Mary is a creature fully redeemed.

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Ten minutes of video provide a basic answer to the thread's question. The answer is no. Here is the video.
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The Catholic Church and Science have had a… tumultuous history,
as the Church is generally afraid of science and persecutes anyone who challenges the
Bible with science. It did so with Hypatia, Galileo, and Giordano Bruno, to name a few.
Or… so the story goes. There’s just one problem: these stories are myths.
While there have definitely been conflicts between individual scientists and the
Church over the years, with some of them experiencing harsh punishments for their work,
the idea that the Church has ever had anything wrong with science in itself is completely false.
What actually happened with these three,
and what can we say about the Church and science today? This is Catholicism in Focus
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We begin with Hypatia, a fifth century woman known for her work as a neoplatonist philosopher,
astronomer, and mathematician. Although not the first female professor in Alexandria,
she is the earliest for which we have any reasonably well-kept records of her life.
It’s no wonder, then, that modern people have held her up,
not only as a scientist, but as a strong feminist icon.
It’s no wonder that her brutal, unjust death would be remembered so many centuries later.
As the story goes, she was attacked by a mob of Christians, incited by Cyril,
the bishop of Alexandria, because of her philosophical teachings against Christianity.
She was torn limb from limb, scraped to the bone, and then burned. A martyr for philosophy,
the last of the Hellenes, a symbol of Catholic oppression of free thinking.
At least, these are things that were attributed to her in the 19th century,
1500 years after her death. The reality is that she was never perceived as a martyr in her
time because her death had nothing to do with science or religion.
Although a pagan and a philosopher, there appears to be no conflict between
her teaching in Alexandria and Christians prior to this moment. She was well regarded
for her tolerance towards Christians, and even taught them in her school.
There was also nothing fundamentally problematic about her branch of philosophy—neoplatonism was
actually a preferable branch of philosophy at the time for Christians, taken up by key
figures like Origen, Psuedo-Dionysius, and most notably, Augustine of Hippo.
When you’re a pagan on the side of Augustine, the Church is going to like you.
The problem, and what ultimately led to a mob violently ending her life,
was her politics. Historians say that she was well-connected in the political
world and often found herself in league with ambitious and ruthless men. This
would ultimately lead to her demise when she crossed paths with Cyril.
Although canonized a saint, he bears the mark of a very flawed, very violent man,
fraught with controversies. He used force against the Jews in retaliation for persecution,
fought nasty theological battles against the heretic Nestorius, and engaged in a
violent feud against with Prefect Orestes, who represented the moderate camp of Christians.
According to Neoplatonist historian Damascius, this is what led to Hypatia’s demise,
as she was his close friend. Cyril incited a mob against her and she was brutally killed.
Meaning, that her death had nothing to do with science. She was not persecuted for any of her
scientific beliefs—she died because her politics conflicted with a violent man.
Was this man a bishop? Yes. Is that a good thing for the Church? Absolutely not. But
it doesn’t provide a drop of evidence that there is a conflict between the Church and
science. It just shows that some of the people who led the Church were bad men.
In her time, she was not seen as a martyr for science or as someone
in conflict with the Church. This did not appear until the 18th and 19th centuries,
when her story was revived as a powerful symbol of an anti-Catholic scientific movement.
The same can be said about the Giordano Bruno,
the Dominican Friar and priest often regarded as the first martyr for science.
Born in 1548, he was ordained a priest at the age of 24, and spent a number of years studying,
wandering Europe, and publishing works. He was interested not only in science,
but in mathematics, philosophy, poetry, and theories regarding the cosmos. He was
among the first to defend the then-controversial Copernican
model of the Universe, and wrote about his belief in the plurality of worlds.
In 1593, his beliefs caught the attention of the Roman Inquisition,
and he was arrested. After convicted in trial in 1600 he was burnt at the stake as a heretic.
A man supporting a scientific principle we now know to be true
is killed by the Church. Obviously, this is a problem for the Church.
Except, his support of heliocentrism was hardly his biggest concern. Bruno was also a major
advocate against the virgin birth, denied transubstantiation, questioned the miracles
of Jesus, supported pantheism, and possibly even believed in reincarnation and Hermetic occultism.
That is quite the rap sheet for a priest.
Although his support of heliocentrism and plurality of worlds were mentioned at his
trial and certainly played a part in why he was initially questioned,
they were by no means the primary reason he was convicted. He was
condemned for his LONG list of heretical theological beliefs.
It can certainly be argued that the Church used excessive force in punishing heretics—a topic
for another video—but there is simply no argument that Bruno was condemned for being a scientist.
But what about Galileo, the grandaddy of them all, you ask? This was not a priest with unorthodox
beliefs. He didn’t get wrapped up in politics with the wrong people. He was just a scientist
who was condemned, jailed, and tortured for boldly contradicting the Bible, right?
Yes… and no. Galileo’s story is by far the most complicated.
For one thing, the image of Galileo heroically standing up to the Church
in defense of science is just untrue. At no point did he publicly reject Church teaching,
nor did he categorically defend heliocentrism. What brought him before the inquisition was a
book entitled “Dialogue on the Two World Systems” in which three characters discuss
the theories of the universe. One of the characters does defend heliocentrism,
but it is unclear whether Galileo held that position at the time.
In all likelihood, Galileo DID side with heliocentrism but because of the threat
of punishment, he remained silent on the matter. It’s also important
to remember that the best scientists of his day all disagreed with heliocentrism.
Not for biblical reasons, but for scientific ones. The science of the day didn’t support
Galileo, and Galileo didn’t have the evidence to defend his new claims.
It’s also difficult to be a martyr when little was done to him besides censure.
While the story for many years was that he was tortured and jailed by the Inquisition,
the evidence says otherwise. During his trial, he was lodged at the Tuscan
Embassy. After convicted of suspicion of heresy, he was placed under house arrest
at the Archbishop’s residence in Siena, a personal friend. After a few months,
he moved back to his villa near Florence where he spent his remaining years.
With the exception of the three days of interrogation, June 21-24, 1633,
he was housed in luxury. It is not known where he stayed during those days, and it is possible that
he was put in a jail cell, but much more likely that he was lodged in the prosecutor’s apartment.
The likelihood of torture seems even more remote. Court records show that the pope
decreed against torture in his case, and that he was interrogated merely with the
threat of torture on June 21. No record remains of any methods used upon him,
a requirement of inquisitors, and given the fact that he appeared in court on the 22nd,
at an advanced age, strongly suggests that he was not maltreated.
Contrary to common knowledge, Galileo never heroically stood up to the Church
nor was he jailed and tortured for his beliefs. He was silenced,
forced to give up teaching and publishing.
Which, is not insignificant, and the Church has since recognized this. In 1992,
Pope John Paul II praised Galileo’s work and admitted the error of his
contemporary scientists. For a time, their improper elevation of Aristotle’s
philosophy and literal interpretation of scripture clouded their judgment.
Both Church and scientists were simply wrong in the case of Galileo. We unfairly
censured a brilliant scientist, and for that we must do penance.
But notice what we’ve done here in this video. In unpacking these three situations,
we have not exonerated the Church from any wrong doing. Not at all. We have acted harshly along
the way—a bishop incited a mob against someone, a man was burned alive for his theological beliefs,
another was put under house arrest for our mistake. This is not great.
But it’s also not evidence that the Church has a vendetta against science. While each of these
cases involved scientists, the fact that they were scientists had nothing to do with what happened to
them. During Hypatia’s time, Augustine was supporting the same philosophy; during the
time of Giordano and Galileo, the Church was the leading supporter of research in astronomy
and was educating thousands of people in its universities in natural philosophy and physics.
Throughout our history, the Church has not only tolerated the sciences,
it has kept them alive and allowed them to flourish. We can thank Catholic priest Marin
Mersenne for founding the science of acoustics; Bl. Nicolas Steno for the field of geology;
Jesuit priest Angelo Secchi who pioneered the use of spectroscopy
to study stars and developed the first systematic classification; Augustinian friar Gregor Mendel
for his experiments on plant hybridization, earning him the title “Father of Genetics”;
Fr. Georges Lemaître for his proposition of, wait for it, The Big Bang Theory.
You simply can’t have martyrs for science if the Church has never been inherently against science.
Rather, what you have are three people who were the unfortunate victims of powerful,
ill-formed men. You have examples of the Church overstepping her authority and acting
very un-Christ-like. You have individuals, in particular times, acting on their own accord,
against the overall tradition of the Church. We must atone for sins we’ve committed against
Hypatia, Bruno, and Galileo… but calling them what they’re not won’t help anyone. The Church
may have a problem with power, but it does not have a problem with science.

Please Pray that The Heavenly Father grants Godly Wisdom to Bangladesh's new interim government as they decide the next steps to take in order to lead:

An action can be wrong without being sinful. So how do we know what's what?​

Everyone knows—or almost everyone does—that there are morally good actions and morally evil actions. But when is an action not only wrong, but sinful? And particularly mortally sinful? After all, as St. John says, “all wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal” just as “there is sin which is mortal” (1 John 5:16,17). A mortal sin is one that “destroys in us the charity without which eternal beatitude is impossible. Unrepented, it brings eternal death,” as the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) puts it (1874). That’s what makes it “mortal,” or deadly: it cuts us off from God forever, unless it is “redeemed by repentance and God’s forgiveness” (CCC 1861).

Thanks be to God, not every evil action is mortally sinful. So how do we know which is which? Just as there are three ingredients in evaluating a moral action (the object, intention, and circumstances), so there are three ingredients in a mortal sin: (1) “grave matter,” (2) “full knowledge,” and (3) “deliberate consent.” And the Catechism is clear that all “three conditions must together be met” (1857).

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As usual, Charlie Kirk does an amazing job at highlighting everything that Tim Walz has done, and everything that Tim Walz is... and everything that Tim Walz has done here in Minnesota has been disastrous, catastrophic, and has been a blunder for the state of Minnesota.

Charlie Kirk: Everything You Need to Know About Kamala's Minnesota Marxist VP
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Michele Bachmann: Tim Walz is 'as radical as AOC or more'​

(Member of Congress served with Kamala's VP pick for years)

Former Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, now dean of the Robertson School of Government, served with now Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for years.

And after Kamala Harris tagged Walz as her pick for the Democrat party's nomination for vice president, she spoke out.

"I went to Congress with Tim Walz in 2006 and served with him for 8 years. On the outside, he looks like an awe-shucks, back slapping, nice guy politician, when in fact he is as radical as AOC or more," Bachmann said.

She said, "Because of Tim Walz, more people have moved out of the state than at any other time in Minnesota's history. Last year, $2 billion and 30,000 people left the state of Minnesota." And she noted Walz promoted "the strongest transgender protection bill in the country and the strongest pro-abortion bill in the country."

I used to pride myself on being mainstream. I didn’t want to be an intellectual or a scholar. I did not want to write books that would be read and admired by eleven of my friends. I wanted to write for regular folk. I liked being invisible and was always grateful for the fact that as a writer, I could be. As far as my beliefs went, I considered myself what I called a “meat and taters Catholic.”

And then I became a “radical.” I did so without moving an inch. Instead, the world moved under my feet, and, sadly, the Church moved as well. Everything around me shifted and suddenly I went from being mainstream to being considered a member of the fringe element. I did so because I could not swallow “it’s all good,” just as I cannot now swallow “Jesus gets us.” I knew that it was not all good. Anyone who has been paying attention knows that it hasn’t been “all good” since Adam and Eve. And yes, I came to be considered part of the fringe element because I clung to my Bible. I had to. It was the only thing not moving.

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Prayer (Sanskrit: प्रार्थना, romanized: prārthanā) is considered to be an integral part of the Hindu religion; it is practiced during Hindu worship (puja) and is an expression of devotion (Bhakti). The chanting of mantras is the most popular form of worship in Hinduism. The Vedas are liturgical texts (mantras and hymns). Stuti is an umbrella term for religious literary creations, but it literally means "praise."

The Hindu devotional Bhakti traditions place a focus on repetitive prayer, known as japa. Prayer is centred on the personal forms of gods and goddesses, such as Vishnu's avatars, most notably Rama and Krishna, Shiva, or Shiva's sons such as Kartikeya and Ganesha, as well as Mahadevi, the supreme goddess, and her forms, such as Lakshmi or Kali.


If I have an acquaintance who is Hindu, and they want to pray with me to Vishnu. Is is acceptable for me as a Christian to pray with them? Would this prayer be acceptable to God?