lismore said:

Hello! What if what Mohammed said 15 centuries ago was along the lines of encouraging his followers to say anything people want to hear until they have political power then to use it to take power for Islam? Would that be concerning?

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No, not really. We have laws still, a Second Amendment and they’re only like 2% of the population.

Where is this fear of encroaching Islamism coming from?

SabbathBlessings said:

Do you believe the greatest commandment to love God with all our heart, might and soul, wipes out the commandments God gave that defines how to love Him?

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There goes the straw man again. No one here has argued that the commandments of God have been wiped out.

Is there any data on the average tenure of clergy in Anglican parishes?

Belk said:

I fail to see that as a sufficient reason to further control peoples choices.

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It doesn’t matter because those choices are going to be restricted which will be good for them.

Delvianna said:

Let me tell you though, he's perfected faking it.

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Ok.
But even though it took you a while, you got there. As a child of God you can never be snatched from his hand.
Let Satan cackle now - his days are numbered.

HIM said:

Worship is done everyday. But the Sabbath is a day sanctified and set apart to rest from our secular work and keep holy. In it we shall do no work but that of the Lord our God. For God had said,

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If you choose and not judge others for not choosing as you (Col. 2:16).

lismore said:

Hello! What if what Mohammed said 15 centuries ago was along the lines of encouraging his followers to say anything people want to hear until they have political power then to use it to take power for Islam? Would that be concerning?

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It's far less concerning than the Christian Nationalists alive today actively proclaiming that they are trying to take power for Christianity.

Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt​

A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore real-time American Sign Language interpretation at all press briefings conducted by President Donald Trump or press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the Trump White House’s decision to end ASL interpretation illegally excluded deaf Americans from crucial updates from the government on matters of war, the economy and public health. And evidence shows, Ali noted, that closed captioning and transcripts are insufficient alternatives.

Disliking the “image” of ASL interpreters alongside the president is not a basis to defy the Rehabilitation Act’s requirements, Ali said.

Tom D said:

How Good Is AI at reading and understanding narratives?

How well can AI read and comprehend stories and novels? Not many people have tested this.

It's time to find out the answer.

Ask an AI software to rate a story on a scale from 0 to 10. It gave a score—let's call it X.

Now it's your turn. Read the same story and give it a rating. Then compare your score with the AI's.

How close is the AI score X to YOURS?

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I don't think testing AI with highly subjective nature of tests is a good way to test AI. You'll get wildly inaccurate results. If the bold texts in your post are supposed to be links to an article, I'm getting nothing.

The recent movie "Relay" for example made high score on IMDB. But I didn't like it. I'd rate it considerably lower than most people gave it. Does this mean my reading/hearing comprehension is way off?

Or simply because I find the story unrealistic and the lead female character (not the actress) unlikeable?

A much better way to test AI's reading comprehension is putting it to work. Given it instructions to do some text or data processing. The results can still be inaccurate. Either AI did fail to comprehend your long instructions or you failed to articulate the process well enough.

Due to Mamdani's election, NYC loses a billionaire Nobel Prize winner

lismore said:

Islam can't condone homosexuality.

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Well, apparently some Muslims can.

Always in His Presence said:

I really wish you would become a Trump supporter, because you do so well at supporting people with what looks like zero research.

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I'd fit the bill I grant you that.
To be fair, I'm not making any CLAIM about their relationship so I don't NEED to do any research. YOU are the one who should be doing the research (which makes this statement absolutely drip with irony)

Always in His Presence said:

This one is from AI - Grok to be exact



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Ok.


Your post literaly supported my "Ok, so he went to his mosque and took a picture with him".
They have no "deep history". They have no "Deep friendship". They don't have video of them leering at young women while biting their lip.



My question was.....

You have less concern with Trump's BFF status with a convicted pedo sex offending, child raping, underage human trafficker than with Mamdani having a PICTURE with this guy?

essentialsaltes said:

Faith leaders blocked by ICE from delivering Communion to immigrants speak out​

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Pope Leo offers his strongest criticism of Trump yet​

[The Pope] is, she said, citing a church tradition stretching back more than 100 years on the issue, that includes ensuring the rights of families to remain together and protecting their spiritual needs.

The Pope underlined that last point himself when journalists asked about an immigration facility near Chicago where detainees have reportedly been barred from receiving communion. Many people targeted in the ICE raids are Catholic, from the Americas.

"I would certainly invite the authorities to allow pastoral workers to attend to the needs of those people," he said.

Emerging to address a bank of TV cameras outside his papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo and offering to answer "one or two questions", Pope Leo XIV said there were people who have lived in the US "for years and years never causing problems, who have been deeply affected" by Trump's hardline policy on migration.

Speaking in English, and reaching a US audience directly, he reiterated the Catholic belief that every Christian will ultimately be judged on how they welcomed "the foreigner".

Always in His Presence said:

I really wish you would become a Trump supporter, because you do so well at supporting people with what looks like zero research.

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Interesting take. I agree that that seems to be a prerequisite for becoming a Trump supporter, but I'd be a bit concerned about getting a warning for leading with that.

Netanyahu has diplomatic immunity.
The US does not recognize ICC warrants or decisions.
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That being said, many here and many mayors would have no problem with arresting alleged war criminals. Others would have no problem hosting them.

The government of NYC can certainly greatly restrain the travel of alleged war criminals.

Chesterton said:

Oh boy another one. Please provide a link to support that or forever hold your peace.

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I did a cursoury search and it was a bit tough to find. I understand that he questions numbers; that he refes to jews being gassed as "cookies in an oven" (not denial... but better?....)
Fact Check: Has Nick Fuentes explicitly denied the Holocaust in pu...
That should help.

essentialsaltes said:

U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime

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US not poised to strike military targets in Venezuela, for now

Trump admin tells Congress it currently lacks legal justification to strike Venezuela​

Trump administration officials told lawmakers on Wednesday that the US is not currently planning to launch strikes inside Venezuela and doesn’t have a legal justification that would support attacks against any land targets right now, according to sources familiar with the briefing conducted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and an official from the White House’s Office of Legal Counsel.

Lawmakers were told during the classified session that the opinion produced by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel to justify strikes against suspected drug boats, first reported by CNN last month, does not permit strikes inside Venezuela itself or any other territories, four sources said.

But the Trump administration is seeking a separate legal opinion from the Justice Department that would provide a justification for launching strikes against land targets without needing to ask Congress to authorize military force

“What is true one day may very well not be the next,” said that US official when discussing the current state of the policy

May he rest in peace and rise to glory!

rambot said:

Campaigning is welcoming him into his mosque and having a picture taken.
Again....is this some long deep history?

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I really wish you would become a Trump supporter, because you do so well at supporting people with what looks like zero research.

This one is from AI - Grok to be exact

Yes, Zohran Mamdani did campaign with Imam Siraj Wahhaj during his 2025 New York City mayoral run.

Mamdani’s association with Wahhaj drew significant attention and controversy. Here's a breakdown of what happened:

Campaign Collaboration Highlights​

• Public Appearance: Mamdani met and posed for a photo with Imam Siraj Wahhaj at Masjid At-Taqwa in Brooklyn, calling him “one of the nation’s foremost Muslim leaders” and a “pillar of the Bed-Stuy community”.
• Support Network: Wahhaj was part of a broader coalition of Muslim and socialist groups that backed Mamdani’s campaign. Other prominent figures like Linda Sarsour also supported him.

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GoldenBoy89 said:

Mayor-elect and I would hope no mayor in America is looking to harbor an alleged war criminal sought by the ICC.

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Let's be serious. LOTS of posters here and LOTS of mayors in the US would have zero problem harboring an alleged war criminal with a warrant pending by the ICC.

DOJ tells Republicans that Epstein files even worse for Trump than they thought: report​

Several House Republicans have reportedly heard from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that the unreleased Jeffrey Epstein documents are especially compromising for President Donald Trump.

That's according to reporting from former MSNBC, CNN and Fox News reporter David Shuster, who posted to his X account on Wednesday that there is "speculation/rumors sweeping through [the] GOP caucus" about the details of the Epstein files.

"A few GOP house members say they’ve heard from FBI/DOJ contacts that the Epstein files (with copies in different agencies) are worse than Michael Wolff’s description of Epstein photos showing Trump with half naked teenage girls," Shuster wrote.

The veteran journalist further reported that Republicans were "spooked"by Attorney General Pam Bondi's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, after she refused to answer a question from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) about whether she had personally seen the photos after the contents of Epstein's safe were confiscated.

Vambram said:

The newly elected mayor of NYC is ignorant.

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Proclamations like this are better if you include a trumpet fanfare meme. It'll add more gravitas to a statement that is as dense as aerogel

Strong in Him said:

As light, yes - Lucifer means light.
As the God of love? I shouldn't think so - he doesn't know how to love.

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Let me tell you though, he's perfected faking it. Took me a bit to figure it out and then he promptly made fun of me for deceiving me for so long (was only a few months...)

GoldenBoy89 said:

If only there was this much concern for poor migrants fleeing actual persecution.

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Are we speaking of the legal migrants or illegal aliens?

As the son of legal migrants - I have great empathy - can your point to where legal migrants are being perscuted?