ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations
- By RileyG
I don’t like politicizing my savior. Right or left, I don’t care. It just feels so, so wrong. IMO
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I had not considered your interpretation of these verses. Thank you for sharing your viewpoint.2 Corinthians 11 30 If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.
So Paul boasts about his weaknesses being a "fool", and his thorn in the flesh whatever it was. Having a heavenly experience is not a weakness. Paul is talking about the author of Revelation, and not himself in 2 Cor 12.
Only by this fascist administration. Who else would see anti-fascists as terrorists?If you are referring to ANTIFA, they are considered domestic terrorists.
Goodie!But because they are on US soil, they fall under the jurisdiction of law enforcement, not the military.
That this administration likes to play fast and loose with terms like "terrorist" and given the recent defenses of extrajudicial killings of people merely accused of being terrorists, I'm even you can see where the concern starts to set in.So what is your point?
Judge to address how he'll proceed with contempt inquiry into AEA deportations
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, in a hearing Wednesday, is set to address how he will proceed with the early stages of contempt proceedings into whether Trump administration officials violated a court order by deporting hundreds of men to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act in March.
I just find constantly playing devil's advocate and seeing people's real problems as purely hypothetical exercises in logic to be getting very tiresome. You don't have to try and rationalize everything this administration does, you know.What, is that not true?
Given that we average 2,240 naturalizations per day, any policy change or new restriction is always going to be "cruel timing" for somebody. No matter which day you pick, and no matter how far out you pick it, there's always going to be some people who just barely missed the cutoff when they thought they were in the home stretch.
If policy changes could never be disruptive to people who were at the final phase of the process, then there would never be any policy changes, because there are perpetually always people at the final phase of the process.
But it didn't.
President Biden’s immigration record from 2021–2025 combined an early shift to prosecutorial discretion and humanitarian programs with later, tighter asylum limits and accelerated removals: the administration issued prosecutorial-discretion priorities in September 2021 and carried out roughly 1.1–1.5 million deportations/returns through early 2024 while focusing removals on recent border crossers and public-safety risks [1] [2]. After Title 42 ended, the administration layered tools — CBP One, a “Circumvention of Lawful Pathways” rule, a June 2024 executive order setting deportation triggers, and limits on asylum between ports of entry — that substantially narrowed access to asylum and increased removals [3] [1] [4] [5].
So Biden was right, yet again.
| Biden Total/Avg. (through 2024) | ~8.1 million / ~2 million | ~11 million total encounters over 4 years; ~4.4 million repatriations (including 3 million Title 42 expulsions). |
Only in your febrile imagination.
In other words, you have no response. You recognise that the flights cannot be rationalised with the only flat earth map that has ever been presented, so you have to create some fantasy map that you imagine you might (some day, which will never come) be able to work with. It seems you have not even begun to plumb the depths of your delusion.
What a ridiculous map. What is that land mass between Australia and South America supposed to be, seeing as no such continent exists. I thought Jerry Pinochet was retarded.
If you are referring to ANTIFA, they are considered domestic terrorists. But because they are on US soil, they fall under the jurisdiction of law enforcement, not the military. So what is your point?We also had this administration label car keying vandals as “terrorists” just a few months ago so forgive me if I find their designations of terrorism to be sorely lacking.
The laws of armed combat says that lethal force can be authorized against an enemy combatant once the enemy target has be confirmed and is not surrendering. Nothing more. Just another reminder, we are not talking about criminals, we are talking about designated terrorists and combatants in the global war of terror. No different than ISIS.Our laws do not call for the death penalty for drug traffickers.
But it didn't.“A potential surge could create chaos and a humanitarian crisis, overwhelm processing capacities and imperil the agenda of the new administration,” Biden’s advisers wrote.
What a ridiculous map. What is that land mass between Australia and South America supposed to be, seeing as no such continent exists. I thought Jerry Pinochet was retarded.Here’s another version:
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However, this is in of itself a projected image, and might have some distortion.
So why hasn't congress stopped him yet?As I mentioned in another post, the power granted by Congress to the President to designate enemy combatants applies only to terrorism. This authority does not extend to narcotics or other offenses. If the President of the United States wishes to label a drug trafficker as an enemy combatant, he must first seek approval from Congress to broaden the scope of the enemy combatant parameters.
No historical evidence exists to prove your conspiracy theory. It’s all in your head. The early church began keeping the Lords day in remembrance of Jesus resurrection from the very beginning of the church. Only the legalists and the unbelieving Jews continued to keep the law.Ample evidence from history shows that the celebration of Sunday originated from pagan practices of SUN WORSHIP. In March of 321 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine, who was at first a sun-worshiper and later a Christian convert, issued the first decree declaring Sunday to be a legal day of rest. In 336 A.D., the Roman Catholic Church officially changed the observance of Sabbath to Sunday for political and economic expediency. Since then, the original Sabbath gradually gave way to Sunday observance and the practice remains to this day.
The Catholic authorities proclaim: "The Bible says, 'Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.' The Catholic Church says, No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day, and command you to keep the first day of the week. And lo, the entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience to the command of the holy Catholic Church!" Father Enright, C.S.S.R. of the Redemptoral College, Kansas City, Mo., as taken from History of the Sabbath. pg. 802
The Biblical Sabbath, however, is and has always been on the seventh day of the week, or Saturday. Despite the prevalence of Sunday worship in Christendom, we must look to the Bible as our authority and keep the seventh day Sabbath ordained by God.
So now you will prove to me out of the Bible that keeping the 1st day of the week Sunday, is now a Commandment!!
Although from what I see, it is hard to see how similar the boats are. I can't determine how long the boat is, nor what engines it is using. But I can definitely tell that one has fishing gear with no drugs, and the other has drugs with no fishing gear. Can you at least acknowledge that?If you can't see similarities between this:
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and this:
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then I might suggest an eye exam. They are, of course, not identical, but they are of similar size and shape. Could those white blurs at the front be bundles of coke? Sure. They could also be coolers full of fish or piles of nets though. The point is, we don't know.
Furthermore, I was responding to another poster's assertion about what fishing boats in the Caribbean look like. It's pretty clear that fishermen in the Caribbean use whatever boats they have at their disposal, and thus it's impossible to tell at a glance what a particular boat might be employed in doing without a clear view of what's inside.
This is far off topic, and I am not discussing that here.
I'll just say the cross is not Christian, and Revelation refers to priests and kings in the kingdom rule of 1,000 years.
However, that's totally off the rails of this thread. You might want to start a new thread, rather than derail this very interesting one, which a lot of persons identifying as Christian, might not like very much, since their religion never touch on Bible principles that address modern day technology and God's view of their content.
Only in your febrile imagination.Ah right, now I get it.
In regards to your question, I would have to plot it on the moon map, as that would be the, accurate fat world map.
In other words, you have no response. You recognise that the flights cannot be rationalised with the only flat earth map that has ever been presented, so you have to create some fantasy map that you imagine you might (some day, which will never come) be able to work with. It seems you have not even begun to plumb the depths of your delusion.Maybe some other day. Issues with projection have to be accounted for as well as you can see.
Thanks, but I can't take credit for those facts. lolYour opinion is noted.
This is far off topic, and I am not discussing that here.Revelation 1:6
To my knowledge there’s actually only one lineage that uses the cross in their heraldry, to signify descent of that line, and that would be the Rurikids with some branches. Of course, you will find many other Biblical themes in many other lineages.
As for the priestly class, that would be the Apostles and the book of Acts, and the history that followed. Albeit, we received a thousand years of made up time thanks to the Reformation, and a lot of ancient history, that never was.