Mary Eberstadt is right: The “new intolerance” around sex is not an accident...

What are you trying to do? Half way accept the world? And why do you mention what is done of them in secret. Have you no condemnation or consideration? With such posts you are wearing down the rest of us who are trying to be good. Being informed is one thing but try to conform to biblical standards, won’t you?
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Looking into the Perfect Law

All good points. I'd only submit that the healing is also a process; we can prefer our sickness, we can return to it. There's still a struggle between good and evil, to persevere, until the day we physically die.
Yes, we are in process, and yes, we can return to it, but the danger there is that we may not return to the Lord and thus heaven will not be our eternal destiny. And yes, there will always be a struggle between good and evil, but if by "struggle" is meant regularly giving in to sin, then that also will not result in eternal life with God. For if we walk in sin, making sin our practice, we will not enter the kingdom of heaven. But if righteousness and walks of obedience to our Lord are what we practice, then we have the hope of eternal life. But yes, we do need to persevere until the day we physically die or until the day Jesus returns to take us to be with him for eternity.
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Encouragement

A helpful resource that I have come across, for religious OCD: Scrupulosity.com: Faith-based Solutions for Religious OCD - Scrupulosity.com

Also, a good online support community called "Christianity and Anxiety Disorders" (a closed Facebook group, so the friends on your public page can't see that you're a part of it): Christianity and Anxiety Disorders - Let's Talk | Facebook

And some thoughts that I wrote as a comment on a different post, regarding intrusive thoughts:
"My advice might differ from some that you've already gotten. I have OCD, and have had intrusive thoughts. I do not believe that they are inherently evil or from some evil source. I also do not necessarily think that "attacking" them is the way to get rid of them. That may be the case for some kinds of intrusive thoughts, but when you have OCD, your brain functions a bit differently from that of someone without OCD. Our brains are highly creative and are good at making associations and sending thoughts that we don't want - and even making us think that we might actually want them. EVERYONE'S brains come up with weird, crazy, disturbing, and even "bad" thoughts - it's just that most people kind of automatically filter those thoughts out. But people with OCD are predisposed to anxiety, and it's almost like our brains are searching for something to be anxious about. We also tend to be extremely analytical and able to pick up on very small nuances. So if we have a disturbing thought, instead of easily and casually dismissing it, sometimes we "latch onto" the thought and try to figure out what it means about us; we start to get fearful, to hyper-analyze our thoughts and feelings, and to try to figure out what to do to "neutralize" the terrible thoughts and feelings we are having, which we worry mean terrible things about us."
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SCOTUS Declines to hear Christian preacher's challenge to University of Alabama

In 2016, Keister, along with a companion, preached using an amplifier and distributed Christian literature from a sidewalk adjacent to the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa, trying to engage passersby. School officials told Keister he needed a permit for a public-speaking event, prompting him and his companion to leave.

A federal judge in 2020 ruled in favor of the school officials, finding that the sidewalk was a "limited public forum" - a status giving public universities and other government entities more leeway to regulate particular classes of speakers or kinds of speech. The Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed last year.

Education Under God- Prying an Ostrich’s Head from the Sand

Take slavery. Slavery, and its by-products including lynchings, breaking up of families, and the subsequent marginalization and disenfranchisements of those people, exists in the U.S. to this day. The interests of jurisdictions that want to deny such knowledge are ostensibly concerned that people learning of these things, things that their ancestors participated wholeheartedly in, may cause a mental meltdown. After all, how do you reconcile something like people who regularly attended church and who show they believe in Christ almighty and his teachings, yet have undertaken in things like slavery et al., disregarding things like loving your neighbor as yourself, loving a stranger among you as you love yourself, and recognizing that those who love God, no matter who they are, are entitled to the same inheritance of Abraham, being heirs according to the Promise to Abraham that God made?

In a sense, such a fear of a mental meltdown goes against human nature. It is more likely that an individual who is presented with conflicting knowledge will undertake every effort to reconcile the conflicts to see if there is an explanation they can live with. In most cases, people who are faced with such cognitive dissonance, especially when it involves people they love, will resolve it to their understanding. This is one way that one acquires wisdom. In accordance with Verses such as Proverbs 1:7, God wants us to acquire such wisdom. But to know wisdom is to know good and evil...and if we hide our heads in the sand to avoid learning of the evil that is in this world, we will not have the capacity to exercise wisdom.
So are you talking about slavery in the South in the 1800's where "Southern Methodist" and "Southern Baptist" denominations formed because the Christians in the South wanted to allow slavery, while "General Baptists" and other groups did not want slavery?

Are you talking about Democrats promoting "Jim Crow" Laws in the South and asking if they had church support for that?

Or are you claiming that Christian churches today argue for racial bias telling members not to hire certain races in their businesses or telling their members not to permit certain races to own businesses in the towns in which they live?
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People Share the Reasons They Left Organized Religion

There ought to be a warning label on the Church: We are all fallen, do not follow my path unless I show true virtue, otherwise; you are now a role model to how the Lord led you here.
Let us not look at the failings, let us look at how the Lord calls all His fallen children and so we do not see the splinters in eyes, but work on our logs which we have for seeking to see the splinters.
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Fry pizza, add Marmite to roast potatoes: 27 eye-opening and invaluable tips from top chefs...

Whether you want to thicken a stew, tenderise meat or get your scallops squeaky-clean, the pros have a trick for it

If you have ever tried to re-create a restaurant dish at home, you will almost certainly have been perplexed by the experience. No matter how much care and attention you give to your version, something seems to be missing when you tuck in. What are chefs doing differently? Here, 27 professionals divulge their favourite kitchen trick – the one unexpected riff that keeps them ahead of the pack.

A little tip for roast potatoes is to put a bit of Marmite in the water when you’re parboiling the potatoes. It gives them a really nice colour and will present you with deep-golden roasties every time.” Simon Shaw, chef patron and creative director at El Gato Negro, Canto and Habas, Manchester

“To thicken curries, soups and stews, add in chopped, boiled sweet potato. It dissolves into the dish, adds sweetness and creates a thick and tasty sauce.” Lisa Marley, chef trainer for ProVeg UK

“For juicy, tender meat, blend fresh celery and add it to your marinades. This helps to tenderise the meat before cooking, giving you the perfect flavour.” Kerth Gumbs, head chef at Fenchurch restaurant, London.

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The Internet is Forever

The difference is, Jesus of Nazareth *WAS* innocent; George Floyd was not. George Floyd was an ex-convict with a criminal history that included trespass, theft, home invasion, aggravated robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon.

The media painted the cop who detained Floyd as a murderer (and quite possibly he was), but on the other hand, if Floyd's system hadn't been overloaded with the illegal substances fentanyl and methamphetamine at the time of his detainment, he probably wouldn't have died.

Mssr. Martin and his playmates conveniently ignore all of this in order to twist the narrative to fit their agenda, which apparently seems to be equating the Savior of the word with a criminal drug addict.
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JPII’s astonishing ‘rule’ for married couples available for the first time in English

An English translation of St. John Paul II’s “rule” for married couples is now available to the general public — for the very first time.

“St. John Paul II’s Rule gives spouses the key to unlock how to authentically live out their faith, grow in conjugal spirituality (their united relationship with God), and find lasting joy!” Theresa and Peter Martin told Our Sunday Visitor of its significance.

The married couple feature an English translation of St. John Paul II’s “Rule for Married Couple Groups” — together with translations of two other rediscovered texts by the saint — in their new book: “The Rule: St. John Paul II’s Rule for a Joy-Filled Marriage of Divine Love.”

All three texts, the Martins said, are part of a collection of works by St. John Paul II that were found during the cause for his canonization. He wrote the two other texts — “Reflections on Marriage” and “Love is the Moral Foundation of Marriage” — within the same decade as the rule, around 50 years ago.

The Martins’ book, published in February, uses these two other texts “to more fully understand what he meant within the Rule,” they said.

Discovering the rule

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Young Catholic triathlete with Down syndrome, inspired by faith, tells UN he has ‘no limitations’

UNITED NATIONS (OSV News) — It was his first speaking engagement at the United Nations’ headquarters in New York, and Gabriel Cobb, who has Down syndrome, was admittedly “a little nervous.”

But it was obviously nothing the 22-year-old Catholic from St. Louis couldn’t handle.

“I am Gabriel, God’s messenger,” he told OSV News in a March 17 interview, moments before he was set to address a U.N. gathering of advocates for those with Down syndrome and autism who discussed the challenges faced by families raising children with different developmental expectations and milestones.

“It was never my intention to come to New York, but I prayed on it,” Lori Cobb, his mother, chimed in.

She explained to OSV News the U.N. had invited Gabriel to speak at a similar event three years ago, but it had been canceled due to COVID.

But that gave Gabriel, as well as herself, the time needed to prepare.

“Here we are three years later, and he has had a year of practicing. And now he is comfortable and confident, way more than we were then,” she said.

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Experts applaud new Catholic instruction against transgender interventions

Experts commended the U.S. Catholic bishops after they expressed concern about transgender medical interventions and instructed Catholic health care services not to perform such interventions.

“People need to hear the truth: we are created only male or female,” Mary Rice Hasson, the director of the Person and Identity Project and the Kate O’Beirne Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, told Our Sunday Visitor. “The body is good and we need to respect God’s design for our bodies, our lives, and the created world.”

Teaching clarifies limits of medical intervention

She and others responded to a doctrinal note issued Monday by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Doctrine addressing the moral limits to technological manipulation of the human body. In it, the bishops expressed concern for “the range of technological interventions advocated by many in our society as treatments for what is termed ‘gender dysphoria‘ or ‘gender incongruence.'”

The bishops went on to define these interventions.

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How does someone "get" saved?

The false doctrine in the OP of predestination Augustine, Calvin and the WCF teaches that God created the majority of man to be reprobates without ever having the chance to be saved and to remain blind and dead in their sins since they are not one of the " elect ".
:openmouth: :sick: How awful.
I know as I was a Calvinist for over 40 years and defended this nonsense that attacks our Loving and Holy God. It make God nothing but a moral monster.
It sounds like it.
That God he's not like that.
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De-transitioned teen sues Kaiser Permanente for performing double mastectomy on her at 13: 'Intentional fraud'

article said:
"I don't think I should've been allowed to change my sex before I was legally able to have sex," Jane told Fox News' Laura Ingraham last Thursday. "I don't think I'm better off for the experience, and I think transitioning just completely added fuel to the fire that was my preexisting conditions."

Exactly---and just as I predicted when this whole craze got started. The chickens are coming home to roost, and there is going to be a lot of turmoil as these child victims realize their situations.

I suspect the "transgender" craze is going to result in the biggest batch of medical malpractice suits since the use of Thalidomide as a morning sickness med.

USA: Three Out of Five Workers Fear to Share Their Religious Points of View in the Workplace

More than likely, that might be true.
The world is the world.

Always leave them via virtue to wonder.

I just watched a movie of St Zita. And she showed her faith by her countenance and easy going ways.
[Poorly acted but the message was there]
She helped convert hearts through her humble personality.
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Top Vatican official admits spying on banker’s phone

Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra admitted to asking Vatican national police to spy on the director of the Vatican's primary bank.

The sostituto of the Secretariat of State, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, appeared as a witness before a Vatican City court on Friday, telling judges that he had ordered unsanctioned electronic spying on the phone of the director general of the IOR, the Vatican bank which had rejected a loan application from Peña Parra’s office.

Admitting that he ordered electronic “monitoring” of IOR director Gianfranco Mammì, both in Vatican City and in Italy without a court order, raises questions about the operation of the rule of law at the highest levels of the curia, and accountability among Vatican law enforcement personnel.

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