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Postvieww · 2025-11-14T06:57:39-0600

What is it about that fact that entering this country illegally is a crime that many liberals just can’t understand? What is it about rogue judges who hate Trump who use their power for their own political whims that many liberals just can’t understand. Rouge judges who have disgraced their oaths are a big part of the problem

A Harvard Law Review dataset (covering injunctions since 1963, through 2023) found 127 nationwide injunctions in total — 64 of those were issued against policies of the Trump administration and 63 were issued against all other presidents. This is a disgrace on many of the rogue judges who have lost their way and let hatred of Trump control their decisions.

Apple Sky · 2025-11-14T06:56:58-0600

Phil G said:
Don’t you realise that in order to be believed you need to have at least strong evidence for your claims?

And the problem is that, not only do you not have evidence for a variety of claims, the evidence points to the opposite of your claims.

So it all boils down to your belief which goes against actual facts and nothing else.

So ..........

Apple Sky · 2025-11-14T06:55:57-0600

I only read non-fiction but I do watch funny videos. ^_^

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Richard T · 2025-11-14T06:49:25-0600

Servus said:
Surely Bannon knows that Trump can pardon him and others from future prosecution for past crimes, the way Joe Biden did for his son Hunte

The Barbarian said:

"As God is my witness, if we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included. They're not going to stop."

‘Some in This Room Are Going to Prison – Myself Included’: Bannon Predicts Grim Fate for Himself If Democrats Win Upcoming Elections

Steve Bannon told a hall full of conservatives that if Democrats win the 2026 midterm elections and the presidency in 2028, some of them will go to prison, including him.

www.yahoo.com

The last time, he defrauded Trump's followers, but Trump pardoned him. No pardons this time. And now he's facing the reality.

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There is a theme I am sensing. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Both sides have legitimate and political prosecutions. We are seeing both. It will flip back to the GOP being prosecuted. It seems like it is God's plan to rid government of corruption. We might go back and forth until the voters can learn to pick leaders of good character that are not self-serving.
The GOP will lose because the economy is failing and Trump's policies have hurt major groups of voters such as SNAP and Obama recipients, federal employees, farmers and ranchers, and everyone who hurts from tariffs. Not too mention certain immigrant groups. 2000 rebates or other vote buying will not be enough. I have said before: Why did God never target Obama or Biden with all the unfortunate stuff? Because God judges the church and not nations is my answer I settled on. Many in the church entered politics and compromised their mission and character. We failed because humility always comes before restoration and renewal. No one represents the love of money more than Trump and many Christians have bought into that. Can you see change coming? It will better.

Maria Billingsley · 2025-11-14T06:47:09-0600

jonojim1337 said:
The archtypical Pharisee is everywhere around us. It’s interesting that Christ did spend a good part of his ministry exposing these people, explaining their doom. And just like Abraham said, if they do not believe the words of Moses, neither will they believe if one rises from the dead.

They’re good at trying one’s patience and faith. Is that the only reason why they’re here?

Depends on how one defines the characteristics and teachings of a modern day Pharisee. I would define them as religious, powerful, political, influential, legalist, tradition driven, self righteous and most of all hypocritical. Fortunately, none of these characteristics describe a Christian. That said, why would one come even close to trying your patience and faith?
Perhaps one is being tested. Stay, the course and put on the full armor of God.

Be blessed.

The Barbarian · 2025-11-14T06:41:59-0600

David Lamb said:
There are baptist churches, but no such thing as the Baptist Church. I have never come across a baptist church that is only interested in getting people saved. That's important, but once saved, it is important that the church members care for one another.

Most Baptists I know are pretty good Christians, and personal experience is that they do follow Jesus' teachings.

rocknanchor · 2025-11-14T06:34:26-0600

What a trajectory of error it is to turn one’s back on the Holy Spirit’s choice of words for each of us “not to think more highly of himself than he ought”(Rom 12:3). Not only for the flock of God to heed, but OS who take part to exceed DO.

For that is all that is required is to take part in the dismantling spiritual communion, AKA: dreadful quench of the Holy Spirit. Making it easy to sow the needed discord to garner more and more disciples. Spirit of Christ, recover in ourselves to forgive thoughts that has done this.

Just as the Apostle said following such actions, “when you come together, it is not the Lord’s Supper you eat”. Behold what ease of calamity we grant from you guessed it, from error-strapped OS.

How oft-comes the rebuttal; ‘the gates, the gates of hell are nowhere in overcoming sight!’ Oblivious, neither is the awareness, neither is the sensitivity to hear when it slams against a spiritually dull eardrum.

Revelation’s harlot, Babylon, does corrupt all, including the regular churched to welcome error when care is not upheld, to which God tells his own to reward her double to all she has rewarded you. DH (Double Honor) and DD (Double Dishonor).

Richard T · 2025-11-14T06:25:30-0600

Anonymous9090 said:
Pray that Jesus Christ leads Christian pastor, priests, & all people in Christian ministries to Denounce the use of AI technology as a significant other, therapist, shrink, etc.:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/11/11/the-promise-and-the-perils-of-using-ai-for-therapy

Yes, denounce as needed by all Christians in leadership and by other faiths as well for any evil, sinful or misguided purpose. I pray too that for most ai will not be a stumbling block but rather a blessing when used in good practice.

JimR-OCDS · 2025-11-14T06:22:32-0600

Vanellus said:
The OP stated he was a "Muslim" in a way that implied that would be a bad thing for New York who don't need any help from me or you in deciding who to vote for.

"Democratic socialism" - like in Scandinavian countries for many years since WW2 - of course the people in those countries are all poverty stricken as a result. How's their life expectancy cf US?

But what Mamdani is advocating is not democratic socialism like in the Scandinavian countries. He's calling for the city to
abolish the police department, to take over the grocery stores and to tax white neighborhoods higher than minority
neighborhoods.

This is not an egalitarian society as they have in the Scandinavian countries.

Richard T · 2025-11-14T06:19:10-0600

Michie said:
New research reveals which U.S. states are the most and least charitable during the Christmas season, a time often defined by generosity, approaches.

A study compiled by WalletHub and released on Monday ranked U.S. states from most charitable to least charitable, based on two categories: the amount of volunteering and service that residents of each state engage in, as well as the amount they donate to charity.

Factors that influenced a state’s score on volunteering and service included the volunteer rate, number of volunteer hours per capita, the share of the population that does favors for their neighbors, the amount of money that people would lend their neighbors in need, the share of the population that collects and distributes food, the share of the population that collects and distributes clothes, the share of the population that fundraises or sells items to raise money, and the share of the population that engages in general labor.

Continued below.

Which states are most and least charitable? New study answers

New research reveals which U S states are the most charitable and least charitable as the Christmas season, which is often defined by generosity, approaches

www.christianpost.com

Congrats to Wyoming and Utah for leading the nation. I imagine that the high amounts of giving and volunteering are linked to community ties including religion. Course one of the criteria was sheltering the homeless. If Wyoming did not do that in the winter, some would die. Interestingly Oregon made the top ten. Perhaps some liberals there really do care?

JimR-OCDS · 2025-11-14T06:17:44-0600

Then it would depend on the age of the people making the loan on whether or not they qualify for a fifth year mortgage.

Either way, it's the banks that make the decision.

JimR-OCDS · 2025-11-14T06:16:02-0600

Fr Leo on the issue;

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Larniavc · 2025-11-14T06:11:58-0600

7thKeeper said:
Hundreds of Korean workers detained in Georgia to file lawsuit against ICE - The Korea Times

Hundreds of Korean engineers who were arrested and detained during an immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG Energy Solution battery plant in Georgia in...

www.koreatimes.co.kr

The article doesn't say where they are filing the lawsuit, but I'd assume South Korea? Will have to see if other articles clarify this.

Another example of big business being the driver of the ‘immigration’ problem.

Larniavc · 2025-11-14T06:10:12-0600

jonojim1337 said:
I have a lot of misaligned joints and crack them all the time. However, I know how to do it with the right amount of force and angle to get a ”damp” crack that stimulates synovial fluid production.

Seeing the commercials chiropractors make themselves is just painful. They seem to be giving way more force and angle than what the patients need. You can hear their joints weren’t ready for that manoeuvre.

Chiropractic relies on vitalism which is basically a magical energy.

I’m surprised a Christian would go for that.

Larniavc · 2025-11-14T06:06:02-0600

Valletta said:
While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim,

Yeah that makes sense. I can’t see any harm done. Trump fans would never have been taken in by something as simple as being told something that was clearly untrue on the tele.

Jane Chai · 2025-11-14T06:02:40-0600

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Today I experienced a very difficult moment at work. I was scolded by my boss, and it has left me feeling deeply sad and overwhelmed—I have been crying much of the day. Despite this, I want to continue to forgive, to love, and to maintain a peaceful and positive heart in my workplace.

Please pray for me that God would:

Heal my heart from the sadness and hurt I am feeling.

Help me forgive fully and not hold resentment.

Strengthen me to show love and patience to my boss and colleagues.

Give me peace and joy as I continue to work faithfully in this environment.

Guide me in humility and grace in every interaction at work.

I truly want to honor God through my attitude and actions, even in difficult circumstances. Your prayers and encouragement mean a lot to me.

Thank you and God bless.

Jerry N. · 2025-11-14T05:50:04-0600

Lukaris said:
C.S. Lewis in his book: The Great Divorce says this is so because we are bound by time but the Lord isn’t.

I had mentioned this in another thread in post #107 ( quoting from Lewis etc.)

Hell doesn't exist and there is no eternal suffering, instead bad peolle just cease to exist

(β) Tradition.—The historical objections to the doctrine of eternal punishment may really be reduced to one head—viz. the views of Origen. In his “De Principiis,” i. 6, this great man gives it as his opinion that even the devils will undergo a long course of purification and be saved at last...

www.christianforums.com

I haven’t seen that post, but thank you for your response. It would help answer the question about all of the people who have never heard the gospel.

Richard T · 2025-11-14T05:44:11-0600

The government always picks some people to be winners and losers. Fortunately, for most of us we are generally only helped or hurt in small er ways. Still those small ways can add up. In general Trump is seen as not doing much to help the lower classes. He is the one that took the SNAP fulfillment to the Supreme court to deny their allocations. Trump too extended the tax cuts to the rich while imposing tariffs on all Americans. Trump has helped some workers though in the USA. but that help has some high costs. I have seen former studies about how much it has cost to the U.S. government to save an auto industry job. Sometimes the findings are a million plus. Yes, that as a policy in the past, America jobs were protected for over a million each. So that is not an economy that helps all. The reality is that most politicians only want to help those that help them. So you have to find true public servants, not rented politicians with their own self interests.

Consider the case of VP Pence. He did a decent job but was cast aside because he followed the constitution and rightly certified the election. Too many Americans are low information voters and deluded in the policy prescriptions of extremists in both parties. Of course I hope this changes.

In my years involved in politics, there are some public servants out there. Most elected ones never get promoted because no one wants to back someone that can not be bought and money runs U.S. politics. I do think though that we will see many charlatans exposed. Praise God that he likes justice and dislikes oppression.

chevyontheriver · 2025-11-14T05:31:40-0600

Michie said:
The Vatican bank has rehired a married couple fired last year for breaking the financial institution’s internal regulations forbidding workplace marriages.

The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) — which manages financial assets entrusted to it by the Holy See, the Vatican City State, and Catholic institutions globally — rehired the couple in a negotiated settlement following the couple’s filing of a wrongful termination lawsuit in January, a union for Vatican lay employees announced Wednesday.

Silvia Carlucci and Domenico Fabiani married on Aug. 31, 2024. The IOR fired the couple a month later, on Oct. 2, citing a rule introduced by the financial institution in September 2024 that explicitly forbids the employment of spouses or other close family members.

The Association of Lay Employees of the Vatican (ADLV) celebrated the outcome of the case — the couple was dubbed by the Italian media as the “Romeo and Juliet of the Vatican” for defying a rule they considered unjust and outdated — as a victory for justice and good sense.

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Vatican bank reinstates couple fired for violating married employees rule

The Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) rehired the couple in a negotiated settlement over a wrongful termination lawsuit filed in January.

www.catholicnewsagency.com

So they married in August, the rule came into effect in September, and they were fired in October. And it took a year for them to get their jobs back. Wow. The Vatican financial institutions are a morass of corruption and they want to reform by firing people who want to be above board sexually by actually getting married? I want cardinal Pell back.

Normandt · 2025-11-14T05:21:37-0600

Homily Saturday, November 15 2025

32nd OT

Ws 18:14-16; 19:6-9

"Out of the Red Sea an unimpeded road. (…) They ranged about like horses, and leapt like lambs."

Joy in God's Love helps us move forward, free and confident.

Lk 18:1-8

Jesus says: "Will God be slow to answer them?"

God doesn't make anyone wait. But why do people wait and want proof that God is present?

Let us teach people that we are in the present moment. We are not in yesterday or tomorrow. God is present in the present, and we too are in this moment, now.

This is the simplest way to encounter God.

Let us often meditate on the simple, childlike joy within us.

God's Love is infinite to this joy within us. Let us allow Him to open our hearts to His joy, to His Love, and let us encounter Him, now, within ourselves.

Biblical texts: NAB-RE

Normand Thomas.

chevyontheriver · 2025-11-14T05:21:08-0600

Michie said:
At the @USCCB meeting

During a discussion of doctrine Strickland raised Fr. James Martin and the scandalous confirmation of an openly homosexual man with his 'husband'

He received absolutely no response from the chair or the panel

He'd clearly challenged a taboo topic of his fellow bishops -- the scandalous acceptance and celebration of homosexuality by 'Catholic' clergy and laity

This cannot remain a taboo subject for Catholic bishops because it is open defiance of Divine Revelation

Thank you @BishStrick

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Strickland Ignored for Raising Issue of Gay Entering Church at USCCB – Deacon Nick Donnelly

Strickland is somehow poison for the rest of our bishops. Reminds me a tiny bit of the way Athanasius was treated, except when Athanasius fled to Rome he was well treated there. Strickland is treated like poison starting in Rome. Roma delinda est? I know I can’t say that.

A2SG · 2025-11-14T05:19:16-0600

Servus said:
Whatever the Democrats do wrong, they try blaming it on the Republicans.

I'm not blaming the Republican party for coming up with the ACA plan, that was the Heritage Foundation. But I do blame the Democratic party for implementing it. They should have gone with a much better single payer system instead.

Servus said:
The Schumer Shutdown: supposedly the republicans.

They intended to cut health care subsidies over objections from Democrats. Democrats responded by not voting on the continuing resolution to reopen the government (for a while anyway). On the other hand, denying SNAP benefits was a choice made by Trump and the Republican party. They had the money in an emergency fund and they refused to implement it, despite a court ordering them to do so.

Servus said:
Obamacare: supposedly the republicans.

Well, the Heritage Foundation did come up with the basic plan back in 1989, and Republicans proposed it in a bill back in 1993, but it was never passed. It wasn't until President Obama and democrats decided to implement that plan themselves that the GOP decided they no longer supported it, despite there being very few changes in the interim.

These are facts.

Servus said:
Perhaps.

Single payer would be much more efficient, and a lot more cost effective. Just for starters, the for-profit health insurance industry generates billions in profit every single year, imagine what would happen if that money went to providing health care to those who needed it.

-- A2SG, but I guess we all need to ensure that health insurance executives and CEOs keep getting their huge bonuses instead....

Richard T · 2025-11-14T05:06:20-0600

RamiC said:
Is there an Amendment to the Constitution which allows a third term if the candidate is the alleged messiah?

If Trump ran for a third term, then what would stop Obama? It won't happen, Trump is heading to being a lame duck President very shortly. I think he may not even serve his full second term.

RamiC · 2025-11-14T05:05:22-0600

ChubbyCherub said:
So, what ultimately happens, is that the words of the bible are weaponized against the other person to end discussion and both part angry and, you guessed it, divided..

I believe this is a very important point. If we can take it as given that the Bible has been provided for us as a gift and God's Will that we have access to it, is it in our hands so that each can come to know God's love through connection to the Holy Spirit, and so that each can see how our respective denominations and churches relate to it, or is it there so that we can smugly know who else is condemned?

HIM · 2025-11-14T05:03:20-0600

Hentenza said:
The same c&p with the same verses that have been refuted over and over. Jesus is indeed God. Jesus did indeed create everything. Jesus is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. Jesus is perfectly capable and powerful to complete one covenant and give us another. He is perfectly capable and powerful to fulfill the law including the 10 commandments. He is perfectly capable and powerful to fulfill the 4th commandment on Himself ( not the Strawman of becoming the sabbath that you stated in your post) and declare Himself Lord of the Sabbath. Our rest now is in Jesus not in one day.

It is a day that God set apart for us to keep holy and rest from our secular labors. We must be resting in Him to keep the day holy. But it is a day that we are to rest physically too.

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