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So Democrats are worried about people that want to vote but: Don’t work Don’t receive benefits Don’t receive Social Security Don’t file taxes Don’t participate in economy in any way Don’t have a library card Don’t go to the doctor Never attended school Never received a Social Security card Never received a birth certificate Never legally got married Don’t drive Don’t own a car Don’t rent a car Don’t have a credit card Don’t have a bank account Don’t own a house Don’t rent a house Sure Jan…

@Atomsmade That’s true, at the end of the day, God will punish mankind’s evil. You can repent, and accept His sacrifice on your behalf, or face the consequences of your own actions.

@NASA_Tim Jesus moved his own punishment to afterlife, they are both evil.

As an atheist, I believe morality is objective, and it has nothing to do with God. Infact basing morality on god is oxymoronic! I don’t need a sky daddy, a holy book, or the threat of hell to know that torturing innocent people is wrong, that helping others is good, or that causing unnecessary suffering is evil. Morality comes from reality itself. Conscious beings can feel pain and joy. We can observe, measure, and understand what increases well-being and what causes harm. That’s enough. Empathy, reason, and evidence are all we need. If your God disappeared tomorrow, rape would still be wrong, kindness would still be good, and exploiting the vulnerable would still be evil. Not because a deity said so, but because these things affect real people in the real world. Religion didn’t create morality. It tries to take credit for it, while often distorting it. I’m an atheist, and my moral compass works just fine without God. Always has. Always will. No divine babysitter required. Thank you.

@mattvanswol @Joy_Galt This is what’s going on.

I could use some help... I came back to church after years away and I'm still figuring a lot of it out... but what is going on with the "Christian Leftists"???? These are people who know Scripture better than I do... but the SAME PEOPLE turn around and tell me a kid in elementary school can know 100% that they were born in the wrong body. That puberty blockers are healthcare. That get flustered and extremely angry at any reasonable question I throw at them about it. That actually to question any of it is a form of sin in someway? These people will literally say the church is too White. As if whiteness itself is a big problem or a sin and that we need to repent of being white, and fix it in a room full of people who showed up to worship Jesus. Can someone explain this to me? How on earth does this make any sense from someone who is supposed to be a Christian? How did these Christians get to this place? How did a faith built on the goodness of creation, the dignity of the body, the truth that every person bears the image of God regardless of skin, end up getting SO sucked into these Leftist slogans? What I notice is that every position the Christian left holds happens to track PERFECTLY aligns with the cultural arguments of the Leftist political movement. Every single one. Trans kids. Race. Sexuality. Borders. Guns. Climate. And they'll use the Bible, in genuinely bizarre fashion and slogans to uphold these political beliefs. Like "love thy neighbor" for example, to say that illegal immigrants didn't do anything wrong. "The least of these" somehow means trans kids or something? "Turn the other cheek" somehow means that criminals should never be held accountable for crimes. It seems, and I could be wrong, that a LOT of Christians are using politics to shape their faith. Not the other way around Maybe I'm missing something. I'm willing to be wrong. But from where I'm sitting it looks FAR LESS like Christians are wrestling with hard questions and more like a version of Christianity that has agreed to push forward every argument the culture wants it to... What's going on with the Christian church??????

Few verses in Paul’s letters get hijacked more often than Romans 9:6: “For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.” Replacement theologians love this one. To them, it's the smoking gun — proof that Paul quietly redefined “Israel” to mean the Church. The Jewish people, they argue, forfeited their place; the “New Israel” is now anyone who believes in Yeshua, regardless of bloodline. Case closed. The most sophisticated version of the argument comes from N.T. Wright, who has spent thousands of pages — most fully in Paul and the Faithfulness of God — insisting that Paul has “redefined” Israel “around the Messiah.” On Wright’s reading, the true Israel is now the Messianic family of Jew and Gentile together, while ethnic Israel, apart from faith, no longer carries the covenantal weight it once did. Wright resists the label “replacement theology,” and to his credit he is more careful than most. But the destination is functionally the same: Israel as a people, in any meaningful covenantal sense, has been absorbed. It’s a clean argument. It’s also wrong. Let me show you why — and to do that, we just need to do something that’s apparently radical in certain theological circles: read the chapter Paul actually wrote. Start where Paul starts You cannot understand Romans 9:6 without Romans 9:1-5. And what does Paul say there? He tells us he has “great sorrow and unceasing anguish” in his heart. For whom? For his “kinsmen according to the flesh” — Israel. He is so grieved over their unbelief that he says he could wish himself “accursed and cut off from Messiah” for their sake. Then he lists what still belongs to them: “the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the Law, the worship, and the promises… the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, is the Messiah.” Stop and think about that for a second. If Paul believed ethnic Israel had been replaced by the Church: Why is he weeping? Why the anguish? Why list — in the present tense, “to them belong,” not belonged— covenants and promises that supposedly no longer belong to them? You don't grieve over a people God has cast off. You grieve over a people God still loves. WHAT 9:6 ACTUALLY SAYS! Now we are ready for verse 6: “For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel, and not all are children because they are Abraham’s offspring.” Paul is making a distinction within the Jewish people, not replacing them with someone else. He is saying what every Hebrew prophet said before him: physical descent from Abraham does not automatically make you faithful. Throughout the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible), God always preserved a believing remnant inside the larger nation — Elijah’s seven thousand who had not bowed to Baal, Isaiah’s faithful few. Paul is standing squarely in that prophetic tradition. There is “Israel” — the entire physical nation descended from Jacob. And there is the believing remnant within Israel — Jews who trust the God of their fathers. Both are Israel. The remnant does not replace the rest; it lives inside the rest as a sign of God’s continued faithfulness to His covenant people. In fact, Romans 11 suggests that the faithful remnant intercedes for the unfaithful whole. (see Romans 11:5-6, 16). Now notice what Paul does not say. He does not say, “And so the Gentiles are now the true Israel.” He does not even hint at it here. That reading has to be smuggled into the text from outside, which is why it was over 100 years before anyone began to preach such a thing. PINEAPPLE If I fly to Hawaii, eat a pineapple, and taste flavors I have never experienced in any pineapple anywhere else, I might turn to my wife and say, “I don't think I have ever had pineapple before!” Of course, I have had pineapple. Plenty of times. Nobody listening would accuse me of lying. They would hear the rhetoric. What I am actually saying is: yes, I have had pineapple, but the pineapple here is so much better that it is as if I have never tasted pineapple in my life. That is exactly what Paul is doing in Romans 9:6. He is saying that the truest, deepest, most realized sense of belonging to Israel is having a living relationship with the God of Israel through Yeshua. It is a rhetorical move, not a redefinition. Paul is not erasing ethnic Israel; he is emphasizing what covenantal Israel looks like at its fullest. The trouble is that we tend to flatten the Bible. Taking the biblical narrative literally is good. Treating every single word as literal — and refusing to make room for rhetoric, hyperbole, and literary devices — is not. Everyone uses these tools. Including Yeshua Himself. Do you really think He wants you to poke out your eye? To hate your father and mother? Of course not. That is hyperbole, not instruction. And it is exactly the kind of language Paul is reaching for in Romans 9:6. ROMANS 11 SLAMS THE DOOR If there were any lingering doubt, Paul shuts it down two chapters later: “I ask, then, has God rejected His people? By no means!” (Romans 11:1). And then he says it again, just to make sure no one missed it: “God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew” (11:2). This is two chapters after romans 9:6, so either Paul is contradicting himself or those who are using Romans 9:6 to demonize Israel do not understand Paul. Then comes the olive tree. Gentile believers, Paul says, are wild branches grafted into a cultivated tree whose root is Jewish. The natural branches that were broken off can be — and will be — grafted back in. “And in this way all Israel will be saved” (11:26). That is not replacement. That is not even within shouting distance of replacement. That is restoration. WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TODAY? This is exactly the point R. Kendall Soulen made so forcefully in The God of Israel and Christian Theology. Soulen showed that even Christian theologies that claim to honor Israel often quietly assume God’s covenant with the Jewish people was merely the prologue to a universal Church that would eventually render it obsolete. He gave that quiet assumption a name — “structural supersessionism” — and argued, rightly, that it cannot survive a serious reading of Paul. The election of Israel, for Soulen, is not a discarded first chapter. It is permanent, irrevocable, and the very framework within which the gospel itself unfolds. Once you see that, the stakes of Romans 9:6 become obvious. If Romans 9:6 means the Church has replaced Israel, then the modern State of Israel is a theological accident. The return of millions of Jews to the land, the rebirth of Hebrew as a living language, the regathering Ezekiel and Isaiah described in detail — all of it would be meaningless, or worse, a deception. Some replacement theologians have actually said exactly that. They interpret the promises of the restoration of Israel, spiritually, so the actual restoration of Israel was just a massive coincidence that God somehow didn’t notice happening. To be clear: this is not about the theology itself being argued. Theologians have wrestled with Romans 9 for two thousand years. That is what theologians do, and there is nothing wrong with the academic debate. What changed after October 7 is that this verse stopped being a seminary discussion point and became a slogan in the mouths of people who do not study Paul, do not love the Bible, and do not care what Soulen or Wright or anyone else thinks. They are quoting Romans 9:6 — six words from a Jewish apostle weeping over his own people — as proof that God has finally rejected the Jews, and that whatever happens to them now is therefore justified. They are not making a theological argument. They are using a Bible verse, out of context, to baptize their antisemitism. And that is exactly why this is so important today. But if Paul means what he says — that God still has a people, that the natural branches will be regrafted, that “all Israel will be saved” — then what we are watching unfold today is precisely what the prophets promised. The Jewish people are returning. The land is bearing fruit. A growing remnant of Israel is recognizing Yeshua as Messiah. The trajectory is unmistakable to anyone willing to see it. Romans 9:6 is not the death certificate of the Jewish people. It is a quiet reminder that even in Israel’s deepest unbelief, God has always preserved a remnant — and through that remnant, He is keeping every single promise He ever made, not the least of which is Romans 11:26, “and in this way all Israel should be saved.” He has not replaced Israel. He is restoring her. —Dr. Ron Cantor Sign up for our emails at roncantor.com, and we will send you a free book on Israel and revival.

@garrettham_esq That doesn’t make them right.

Most Protestants reject the Real Presence in the Eucharist as unbiblical. The Didache (~100 AD) teaches it. Ignatius (~110 AD) teaches it. Every Church Father who addressed it before the Reformation taught the same. They reject what the apostles' own students taught.

@_CoryBowen So what? I can declare myself Grand King of the world, but that doesn’t make it so.

Protestants will continue to say "Mormons aren't Christian" while ignoring the the official name, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This is overlooked primarily because the actual name is the most straightforward, logical name a Christian church could have.

@jwludwig @AWRHawkins Guess what happens to disarmed populations.

@AWRHawkins Gun fanatics, and their death cult. Neanderthals, who are simply not willing to live in the 21st-century as decent human beings.

Buy guns and ammo. If you have any money left over, buy extra magazines.

@AWRHawkins If the world really goes to crap, even gold and silver become useless metals again, and brass and lead become the medium of exchange.

@ReallyAmerican1 It takes three years to breed a beef cow to harvesting age. What we are seeing now is a result of poor management three years ago.

BREAKING: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins blames Biden for beef price increases, a claim disputed by experts who point to broader supply and cost pressures.

Except the $30K fee is used to maintain the wildlife in the area, and you are only allowed to take animals past breeding age, which has a secondary effect of taking pressure off of the environment. It’s actually a really great well run program. The program does far more good than harm.

If you hunt to feed your family, you won't hear a word from me about it and I fully support you. But if you pay $30K to fly to Africa and shoot a lion in the face, there's something wrong with you.

@haveaconcern It has no legal meaning. None.

Why all of a sudden did we have to have "organic" food products? We just had food for hundreds of years. What the hell does organic even mean 🤔

Bob Seger is better than Bruce Springsteen. I don’t know how many of you are joining me on this island but I feel like it will be 50% geniuses and 50% guys who make women instinctively lock their car doors.

@Herr_Oberst45 @Protestia No, they don’t. Your pope is in grievous error, but cannot be removed.

@Protestia Let me guess, other Sola Fide and Sola Scriptura believers will disown him. LOL Just admit it. Sola Fide and Sola Scriptura beliefs ultimately lead to Sola Me and Sola Myself.

"I do not believe Christ died for our sin....I don't live in a sacrificial culture anymore... When people are like 'I'm just moved by the idea that Jesus died for our sins'- I'm not. I don't even understand the sacrifical system." 'Pastor' of Vinnings Lake Church is too honest.

Canadian PM Mark Carney: “It’s my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of Europe.” Because of Trump, the U.S. is no longer seen as the leader of the free world

@JohnRad15 So, who owes you a living?

Listen Jim. Capitalism is not consensual. It's like this: Put a rat in a cage and the only way it can get water is to run in a wheel you rigged up. Leave it there. You have just forced the rat to run in the wheel. It is not voluntary. ALL this bullshit is installed by propaganda.

@ajlamesa No one cares. Trains are for loser countries.

This attitude is exactly why Florida doesn't have a modern high-speed rail line between Orlando and Tampa right now.

@Microinteracti1 Yeah. Saving Europe from Europe twice is enough. We have carried you for 80 years. Time to put on your big boy pants and go it alone.

The MAGA crowd in Washington has decided that since Europeans don’t sufficiently appreciate Trump, the American bases on the continent must go. This is the strategic reasoning of a man who burns down his own kitchen. American bases in Europe were never a favour. They are the logistical spine of every war the United States fights east of Gibraltar. Ramstein moves the cargo, Aviano launches the jets, Rota services the ships. Without them the Pentagon does not project power into the Middle East. It projects PowerPoint. The fantasy assumes the alternative is aircraft carriers gliding majestically into the Persian Gulf. That era is ending. A modern carrier is a thirteen-billion-dollar trophy that can be reduced to scrap by a couple of hundred cheap missiles fired from the Iranian coast. China noticed. The other fantasy is that America simply fights from home. Picture the alternative: twenty thousand transatlantic sorties shuttling spare parts, munitions, fuel bladders, mechanics and replacement pilots from Norfolk and Dover to wherever the war happens to be. A C-17 burns through roughly 35,000 dollars of fuel every hour it flies, and the round trip from the American east coast to the Gulf is the better part of a day. Multiply that by every bolt, every missile, every spare engine. The war becomes a sustained airborne traffic jam with the bill arriving by the second. So you need land, specifically land near the war. Modern combat aircraft are not Spitfires you fuel up and send off with a wave. An F-35 demands an entire Walmart of spare parts, a small city of technicians, climate-controlled hangars and a supply chain stretching halfway round the planet. Drones need operators, networks, satellites and a steady diet of components no carrier can store. Modern war arrives by container ship and lives in a warehouse. Close the bases, and Washington loses the warehouses. Lose the warehouses, and the next confrontation with Iran is either fought by phone or fought from Kansas with a flight schedule that bankrupts the Treasury before the first missile lands. MAGA thinks shutting Ramstein punishes Europe. It punishes America. Europe will be inconvenienced. America will be unarmed. And so, after a thousand insults, a thousand sneers, a thousand late-night posts about freeloading allies, Europe is quietly drafting the politest letter in diplomatic history. It thanks America for its service. It wishes the troops a safe journey home. It suggests, with great warmth, that Washington might now turn its attention to its neighbours in Latin America, where a fading superpower can busy itself with whatever a fading superpower busies itself with. Spain had its century. Britain had its empire. The Soviets had their parades. Each ended the same way: as a shadow of itself, with the historians left to argue, volume after volume, about precisely when the rot set in and why nobody noticed in time. America is welcome to join them on the shelf.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ If you like what you read, please follow Gandalv on Substack: @gandalv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@gandalv

@amelia_tweetz Oh, that explains why they filed for bankruptcy three years ago.

The CEO of Spirit Airlines has no reason to lie about why they went bankrupt: it was due to the sudden rise in the cost of jet fuel. Period.

The Graham Platner tattoo controversy is not about youthful mistakes. It is about the specificity of the Totenkopf. This is not the widely recognized swastika, it is the specific insignia of the SS units that ran the Nazi death camps. This is the symbol of the executioners. This is the symbol of the men that murdered 10 million men, women, and children. These men murdered the babies. For a self proclaimed military history enthusiast to wear the literal badge of Holocaust executioners for 20 years shows a level of understanding and admiration that cannot be explained away. People tattoo on their body WHO THEY ARE and WHAT THEY LOVE. The Democrats are so desperate to flip a Maine Senate seat that they have abandoned every moral red line they once claimed to hold. They have proven that winning at any cost is their only conviction and the Holocaust is just a cheap political prop to be weaponized only against their opponents. This is not just a betrayal of their voters. It is a total moral collapse.

@TroddenTrail Republican governor versus democrat governor. That’s the real difference. Larry Hogan did a more complex higher and longer bridge for way way cheaper. rkk.com/our-work/portf…

Because you wanted a Francis Scott Key Bridge update. *collapsed 2 years ago *primary contractor fired *budget initially 1.8 billion now 5.2 billion *completion initially 2028 now late 2030. Posting this in pencil.