ThatRobGuy said:

Would the reaction to this be the same had any other non-Trump president went down this path? ...just if you had to take a wild guess.

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Tearing down parts of a house, seen as a symbol of the people, yes I think many would see that as problematic. I'm pretty sure that if king Charles changed the outward appearance of Buckingham palace, there would be a public outcry. Fixing heating, ventilation and electrical system is ok, as is upkeep of the interior and the facade, but making major changes to the outside would raise some eyebrows. Pretty sure it would be discussed with some antiquarian, at least that is my guess.

ThatRobGuy said:

It seems as if (based on a few of the other posts), people seem to assume that because it was a Trump idea, that it's going to be the worst of everything.

To me, it feels like the inverse of the whole "Obama put in a basketball court" outrage.

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Rescued One said:

I fell in the yard and couldn't get up. A stranger from one street over helped me get up. That was encouraging! It's too bad he's moving away.

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I hope you’re doing ok! God bless!

PloverWing said:

Suppose Netflix (and similar streaming services) had a more detailed rating system, so instead of just an age, there was some content description, and there was a way to select/screen based on some of these descriptions. "Contains LGBTQ content." "Contains depictions of smoking." "Contains depictions of religious observance" (maybe listing which religion). "Contains teenage romance", etc. Then parents could select for or screen out topics they want their children to be able to see. Would that solution satisfy the CWA folks?

I note that the content that one family might seek out is content that another family might wish to avoid. Surely a computer program could be written to let viewers select content in this way.

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Sounds perfectly good to me! After all we have warnings on games, cds, movies, and other content. That way people can choose what media they want to consume or not! Eh?

Not surprising, sadly.

I will have to watch this later!

Hey! I’m all for it! As the old saying goes, it takes two to tango

AvilaSurfer said:

I’m no theologian, but to me this borders on blasphemy. The Nativity is sacred, not a political poster.

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Amen!

JSRG said:

Lindsay Halligan didn't replace an AG (attorney general), of which there's only one, which is currently Pam Bodi. Halligan was brought in to replace the Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, a lower position. Maybe this is pedantic, but I think it's worth noting.

However, I do not believe the second and third indictments were brought by Halligan. She brought the first, which got dismissed because (correctly, according to my understanding) a judge ruled she hadn't been properly appointed, and since she was the only one who signed onto the indictment, it couldn't fall to another prosecutor. So it wouldn't make any sense to have her go and do it a second time.

This article (by Andrew McCarthy, which argues that both James's case against Trump and Trump's case against James are absurd and partisan) says that the second was brought by a guy named Roger Keller, who unlike Halligan actually has prosecuted cases before. A bit odd that the newbie managed to get an indictment while the actual prosecutor failed, but Halligan might've just lucked out on the grand jury selection. I don't think we know who brought the third indictment--we don't actually have a formal record of any rejection, the information about it is just from "anonymous sources familiar with the proceedings". If it was rejected we'll find out soon enough, but for now we don't know who it was. But it probably wasn't Halligan given, again, that would most likely just get it dismissed again by a judge, so they need someone else to do it.

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Short hand for the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. Too long to write.

Wolseley said:

50% of all new marriages end in divorce. 80% of all divorces are initiated by the women. 75% of all suicides annually are committed by men. And society has become "feminized" to the point where male roles are not recognized any more, or if they are such roles are..

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survival of the fittest.

embrace it.

Mark Quayle said:

No. If he caused it, and that is reality, then whatever is real within that reality is caused by God. To characterize something within that reality as uncaused is therefore logically self-contradictory.

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Only if God is unable to make a person or agent who can also be a causer. But if God can cause a causer, one who can affect the cosmos like God can, even if only on a tiny scale, then everything is NOT caused by God.

And if God causes all real things within the reality you speak of, then God is wholly to blame for any real sin. There is no one else to blame. And if blaming God for sin is sinful in itself, blame God for causing me to do it--I can only do what God causes me to do.

Always in His Presence said:

That is the beauty of having personal opinions - they can differ.

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That's a beautiful sentiment, but it comes at an amazingly high cost, because that freedom means that some people are going to have opinions that tear at the very core of your sense of right and wrong, nonetheless you're going to have to respect their right to hold them, because to do otherwise is to judge them for that which you also do.

'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us'... that's a tough bugger to live up to.

com7fy8 said:

In the Law is commanded stoning of a woman who lies about being a virgin, in order to get a man to marry her > Deuteronomy 22:20-21.

This is in the Torah. How do you fulfill this?

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The words of Yeshua have to be the go-by, or there is no reason for any further discussion. Various expositors and Jewish Rabbis down through the centuries have tried to encapsulate a summary of the Torah with a core principle including Hillel the Elder, as we know, who emphasized loving your neighbor as the fundamental teaching. Yeshua finally ties it all together, starting on the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:17-18, and approaches the pinnacle, so to speak, when he answers the lawyer regarding which was the great commandment of the Law in Matthew 23:36-40. Basically he gives him (2) commandments will fulfill the entire Torah: Love God and Love your Neighbor as Yourself. On these two commandments hangs (suspends) all the law and the prophets. The final pinnacle is in John 13: 34: "A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." Remember that Yeshua's references to keeping the Torah were mainly focused on the moral law or 10 commandments, including the adultery, stealing, lying, murder, honoring your parents, etc., per Matthew 19:16-19. He corrects previous areas, i.e., "Ye have heard it has been said", reversing the eye for eye and tooth for tooth thought process, and emphasizing loving our enemies, if you look at Matthew 5:38-44. In answer to your question, in our day and age it is no longer our responsibility to stone a woman, or actions similar to the account of John 8:1-11 where a woman was caught in the act of adultery and brought to Yeshua and the accusers rehearsed the commandment in the Law to stone her. Per Yeshua, there was no one worthy or sinless enough to stone her, and that point was made clear. So to my understanding, the commandment still exists, but we are not in the position to execute that form of judgement. If you look at the events that will transpire at the end of this age in Revelation 19:11-16, Yeshua himself will judge sin and evil, and the armies in heaven, (believers), will follow him on white horses, but Yeshua himself will execute the judgement on wicked and ungodly people. This relieves us to fulfill the Law of Love in purity and in so doing we have an accurate understanding of sin and evil when confronted by it, but no responsibility to actually engage in the final judgement of sins and wickedness. Thanks and I hope this helps to answer this important question. Bob

(shrug) We all know that the mainstream media has about as much accuracy, integrity, and impartiality as Pravda and Izvestiya, circa 1950.

SabbathBlessings said:

Where does Scripture say because Jesus rose on the first day that we no longer need to keep His commandments?

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It's in the same place that says Gentiles have to observe the Sabbath and be circumcised.

According to their parish website, the pastor of St. Susanna in Dedham, Massachusetts is Fr. Steve Josoma.

I would caution you, Father. Another priest, once upon a time, went into politics instead of sticking to his priestly ministries---his name was Father Joseph Coughlin, and we all know how that turned out, don't we?

Using state funds to influence elections is illegal.

They are not migrants. Migrants migrate. They stay in one place for a specific job or a set amount of time, and then they leave and go somewhere else.

They are also not immigrants. Immigrants enter a country legally, with the intention of becoming citizens and permanent residents.

Let's call them what they really are: illegal aliens.

lismore said:

Hello Dale. Good to hear from you. So the age of the earth given by Creationists and the age of Written History more or less coincide. The outlier is the proposed dates given for fragmentary evidence of various kinds. God Bless You

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No, the dates do not coincide. For the creationist view to make any sense, there would have to be at least a thousand years between the Garden of Eden and Noah's Flood, and at least another thousand years until the Tower of Babel. All that would have to be before written history begins.

You mention "fragmentary evidence." There are many lines of evidence for the figures that I am quoting. Recently, DNA evidence has been used to shed light on when animals are domesticated. This new form of evidence has only backed up what researchers had concluded by other means.

rjs330 said:

Except Islam allows lying to infidels in order to do whatever it takes to take over.

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It doesn't, as I explained in this response to you back in October.

rjs330 said:

Yes we need to listen to Muslims who have left to get the stories we wouldn't know otherwise... If you don't want to believe her story, then don't. Turn a blind eye. I don't care anymore.

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I don't doubt her stories about child brides and being promised to her cousin when she was born. This is a practice that occurs in the Islamic tribe I work with. More than half the children are married by contract before they are five years old, and the wedding can take place once they reach puberty and a dowry is paid. I have attended dozens of weddings that were prearranged by the parents and where the bride was a child. In 2016, I tried to help a 13-year-old girl get out of an arranged marriage by convincing the girl's mother and the boy's family how important it was for her to stay in school. I also had to pay the boy's family the same amount of money that the parents had agreed to years earlier for the girl's dowry. In their culture the family of the groom gives a dowry to the bride's family. In many cultures it's the other way around. The agreement was I would pay the money the boy's family needed for the dowry if they agreed to wait until she finished school to move forward with the wedding. Unfortunately, later that year I made a brief trip to the US, and while I was away, the girl's mother died, and the boy's family took the girl against her will to another island, and they were married anyway. Everything ex-Muslim Sabatina James blames Islam for in that video when it comes to her prearranged marriage and child marriages in general is the result of culture and tradition, not Islam. Those practices predate Islam and occur in non-Islamic cultures as well.

Just four minutes into the video, Sabatina James says, "Recently in Pakistan, five women were buried alive just because they refused the arranged marriage that their family had chosen for them. They wanted to marry men of their own choices. Three of them were actually teenagers. So this stuff happens every single day."

That incident wasn't recent; it happened in 2008, and it was tribal traditions, not the teachings of Islam, that led to their deaths.

Pakistan: Three teenage girls buried alive in tribal 'honour' killing

Three teenage girls have been buried alive by their tribe in a remote part of Pakistan to punish them for attempting to choose their own husbands, in an "honour" killing case. Some reports said that two older relatives of the girls had tried to intervene, but they too were shot and buried with the girls while still alive.

Under tribal - not religious - tradition, marriages are carefully arranged by elders. Marrying without permission is considered an affront to the honour of the tribe.

Another article:

Five women beaten and buried alive in Pakistan 'honour killing'

Honor killings predate Islam and occur in Pakistani Christian families as well.

Pakistani murders his sister in name of ‘honor’: police

A Pakistani girl has been killed by her brother for insisting on marrying a man of her choice, police said on Tuesday, marking the nation’s latest gruesome “honor killing”

Anum Ishaq masih, in her late teens and from a Christian family, was murdered while she slept in the city of Sialkot, southwest of Lahore, in the early hours of Sunday.

“Saqib Ishaq masih, 23, killed his sister by smashing her head with a wooden log while she was sleeping,” said Rana Zulfiqar, the officer in charge of the police station in Sialkot. “The girl, named Anum Ishaq masih, was in her late teens and wanted to marry a Christian neighbor, but the family was against the marriage.”


Later in the video she says the following: "It's actually frightening how little Christians know about what Islam teaches about them. Christians are among the worst of creatures."

Islam doesn't teach that Christians are the worst of creatures. Only those who oppose God's revealed books to them or those who engage in idolatry are considered the worst of creatures.

She goes on to say, "The Quran itself in Surah 5 says that a Muslim and a Christian cannot be friends."

The verse she's referring to was revealed in Medina during a time of conflict when certain Christian, Jewish, and pagan tribes had formed alliances to fight against the Muslims.

"O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies; some of them are allies of one another. Whoever of you allies himself with them is one of them. God does not guide the wrongdoing people." (Qur'an 5:51)

The Christians being spoken of were very specific Christians at a specific point in time. That verse is not a blanket command for Muslims to not be friends with Christians today.

As for those who have not fought against you for your religion, nor expelled you from your homes, God does not prohibit you from dealing with them kindly and equitably. God loves the equitable. But God prohibits you from befriending those who fought against you over your religion, and expelled you from your homes, and aided in your expulsion. Whoever takes them for friends—these are the wrongdoers. (Qur'an 60:8-9)

O you who believe! Do not befriend those who take your religion in mockery and as a sport, be they from among those who were given the Scripture before you, or the disbelievers. And obey God, if you are believers. When you call to the prayer, they take it as a joke and a trifle. That is because they are people who do not reason. (Qur'an 5:67-58)

As you can see from those verses, Muslims can be friends with those who do not fight against them or mock them.

Sabatina James knows the things I pointed out above, but she also knows that those watching the Michael Knowles show, like yourself, don't.

Here in the US, we can get crazy competitive about the dumbest things. Apparently, that's true in the UK as well.

If you enjoy putting up lights and baking cookies, do it. If you don't enjoy it, don't do it. Don't give your neighbors a hard time about what they do or don't do in December. And be merciful to those who are exhausted or sad during Advent and Christmas -- which is more people that you might think.

I'm sorry your friend has annoying neighbors.

Genesis 6:4​

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4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
1 Enoch internally written before the flood by Enoch 7th from Adam inspired scripture hidden (apocrypha) from the swine, and unworthy by God himself explains how the sons of God were fallen angels, and Jude, and Peter imply the same thing when they say angels left their heavenly abode were put in chains until judgement which is what 1 Enoch says also.

The Cave of Treasures internally is written after 70 AD as it says Titus has destroyed Jerusalem. Inspired scripture stopped 70 AD (Dan 9 said vision, and prophecy would be sealed up by then) so it is not inspired. Some manuscripts say it was written by Ephrem the Syrian who died 373 AD. That text says sons of Seth mated with daughters of Cain, and made the giants, and explicitly says fallen angels were not involved. Augustine of Hippo 400 AD says the same thing. Conflict of Adam, and Eve with Satan (which is divided into 4 books) also say the same. That text was also written after 70 AD as it says Titus has destroyed Jerusalem, and shares a lot of content with Cave of Treasures. That text also says Melchizadek was the son of Cainan. I'm not sure if it was written before or after cave of treasures. So Ephrem the Syrian is the earliest author denying what 1 Enoch says AFAIK. In those texts sons of god meant Seths children as Seth, and other people in that lineage were righteous Genesis 6:9. Augustine also promoted the idea that 1 Enoch was not written pre flood. So up until 300s AD the majority of Christians believed 1 Enoch was written pre flood like Jesus, Jude, 1 Enoch, and all the other evidence says it was (there is stuff in the dead sea scrolls about Abraham reading Enoch when in Egypt, and Levi passing Enochs books to his children). My guess is the synagogue of satan after 70 AD started saying to Christians you can't trust 1 Enoch it is a myth it is pseudepigrapha it was written after the flood etc, and a lot of Christians believed them just like Adam, and Eve believed the devil in the garden of Eden, David believed satan with the census (God allowed the devil to tempt David) , and just like 50 million Christians today believe the synagogue of satan when they say "god gave us palestine help us kill steal and destroy in the name of the god of abraham'. The reason the synagogue of satan did not like 1 Enoch is because of the son of man that existed before creation with the lord of spirits prophecy (ask chat GPT to show all the prophecies of Jesus in 1 Enoch) which was used by Daniel later on, and when Jesus called himself the son of man the high priest rent his garment, and said “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Look, now you have heard the blasphemy. Mathew 26: 65.

BobRyan said:

Interesting youtube vid

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Notice there is a reference to GC 588 in the video.

Also notice that in the past 7 or 8 days we have Kirk Cameron discussing his rethinking of the soul and eternal hell, and we also have the release of the book by Charlie Kirk 'Stop in the name of God".

Both are discussed in that video

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I pre-ordered the book and received it but I probably won’t read it. I honestly do not trust that it was not altered prior to going to publish. I am glad to hear Kurt Cameron changing his views, hopefully he will on the Sabbath as well.

Trump attacks on political opponents spur a surge of threats, NBC News review finds​

President Donald Trump’s heated rhetoric against his perceived political enemies has resulted in a blizzard of threats against at least 22 officials on both sides of the aisle in recent weeks, according to an NBC News tally.

Law enforcement has not identified the sources of the new wave of threats, but many of Trump’s targets say the president provoked them with over-the-top accusations of criminality on the part of Democrats and betrayal on the part of his fellow Republicans.

A spokeswoman for the White House, Abigail Jackson, said the president is concerned about political violence and hasn’t done anything wrong.

BobRyan said:

Adam and Eve were held accountable in Gen 3 for what God said in Gen 2 even though Moses had not yet been born. Clearly they did not have to wait for Moses to be born to hear what God had said.

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God told them and it is written. No sabbath though. I’m done with your circular logic and argument from silence. The only thing that can win the argument for you is to post a verse that shows people keeping the sabbath before Moses and a verse showing which commandments Abraham kept (maybe the Noahic law?). And then while you are at it post a verse that shows that the Mosaic law including the Ten Commandments was given to the gentiles collectively. I’ve been asking for these verse for quite some time but you either keep ignoring the requests or simply can not comply because they don’t exist. Which one is it?

Jan001 said:

I don't think the inspired scriptures were suppressed or hidden.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

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Yes they were hidden by God. I made a post about How God hides things. Ask chat GPT to show all the bible verses about God hiding things, and why. It is so only wise people come across it not swine/unworthy. The word apocrypha means hidden. Thanks for the positive comment.