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@LizzieMarbach Does he need a momentary distraction from anything right now to have people momentarily focused on something other than his job? Idk, but since that causes me to focus on the latter I stop paying attention to the former.

Trump addresses his blasphemous post and says that he thought he was being depicted as a doctor, not as Jesus. What do you guys think of this excuse? For me, personally, I think it is possible he thought that, but unlikely. And even if he did think so, he still needs to apologize for it and repent before God for it. There are many crass and off the cuff comments from Trump I am willing to overlook or justify, but blasphemy is not one of them, even if unintentional. I pray this situation makes him humble himself before God. “Now therefore, O kings, be wise; be warned, O rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.” Psalm 2:10-12

@LizzieMarbach @TheLaurenChen Other religions don’t have quite the strong in-group unity she thinks. Shi’a fight Sunnis; Wahabbis don’t accept Sufi. Diff groups of Hindu fight — don’t even get started on caste. Western media show them more as monolithic & they’ll band together toward outsiders.

@TheLaurenChen I completely agree! I have extreme in-group preference for fellow Christians. But we must be clear on what a Christian is. Treating those who reject the gospel as brothers and sisters is deadly to their eternal soul and dangerous to the actual flock.

I want Christians to have the same in-group preference for each other that other religions do. We are brothers and sisters in Christ, a Church family, and we should actually act like it!

@CigsMake Jeff Spicoli in the 21st century

It’s preferable that my tax dollars go to this guy instead of foreign wars

@MsPanda007 @Red___Poppy @BGatesIsaPyscho @KathleenZinkel4 People who know nothing about burns or their treatment & predisposed to believe there’s more to it like OP suggests aren’t going to listen to reason. The media isn’t trustworthy but many people are not intellectually equipped to sort fact from fiction.

@Red___Poppy @BGatesIsaPyscho @KathleenZinkel4 She was covered in a burn sheet to help regulate her body temperature and prevent infection. She was breathing in hot gases. Most of her worst burns were inside.

The story of Anne Hesch & one of the most evil US Celebrities ever - Ellen DeGeneres

@ASingeveryday My goodness that’s fantastic! Seemingly endless rows of books surrounded by intriguing views! I’d be there every day, too!

If this was an American bookstore in my area, I'd be there every day! 😍

@BClarkBand @BillyGraham @TEDTalks Hybels, Warren, et al studied corporate mgmt techniques from Peter Drucker incl large scale door-to-door surveys prior to starting their churches asking people what they didn’t like about church that kept them away. Warren gave literal Ted Talks. Now they’re rich & retired.

No, it’s a practice that was not only common but powerful. For reference, watch @BillyGraham altar calls. Non-doms stopped doing it around the time sermons became @TEDTalks. The “seeker-sensitive movement” became prevalent in the 90s in response to “prosperity gospel” churches and aimed to be more inclusive. They affirmed people’s lifestyles without taking a position. The church became more of a “new age” hellscape where people could feel good, enjoy the music, and be affirmed about being “themselves—when it was a problem within “themselves” that brought them to church in the first place. So no, altar calls are not “new”; they are essential. Because they are essential, they were “canceled” to keep church growth going—but it didn’t grow anything and caused massive problems in the Body of Christ.

@jakedell73 Just answered hundreds of different “why do they do/allow this” questions against believers & biblical Christianity in the U.S.

Churches don't want converted people

@Thatguy15287315 @5Solas2 I’m praying for you

@5Solas2 @5Solas2, if you could spare a pray for my mother to have enough strength to fight off the Pneumonia she's currently battling with, I'd appreciate it immensely. Thank you. x.com/Thatguy1528731…

It’s not split by race bcz Protestants are most Americans by background & don’t have to be split from foreign elements to get different results. Pre-1970s America everyone longs for was when Protestants dominated in govt & nearly every institution; they settled+designed US with Caths = 1% of ppl in 1790. If it was so satanic your ancestors shouldn’t have come to be beneficiaries of it & you can leave anytime.

1. Why weren’t Catholics broken down by race? 2. MexiCatholics are probably afraid some formerly Protestant White lesbian will deport them if they don’t answer correctly woke on the survey. 3. Thank you, Protestants, for making this a Satanic Jewish country; Christian in name only.

Sorry, but no. Only 32% of Catholics say homosexual behavior is wrong. This is compared to 51% of all Protestants, which even includes the fake pride flag churches. 72% of white evangelicals say homosexual behavior is morally unacceptable. Only 50% of Catholics who attend mass weekly say that homosexual behavior is morally wrong, compared to 86% of white evangelicals

You’re asking questions that can’t be answered in short posts. Essentially you’re asking questions regarding big chunks of the history of Christianity and its development in the U.S. over the 20th century. That may be why no one answers. If you’re really interested try grokking those questions & when you’ve got enough meat on the bone to work with, find the books that address it.

@JacksonMM052904 @conservmillen Second, why do Catholics seem so hell-bent dedicated to eliminating Protestant denominations? Is it directed by Rome? Or just a morbid dedication to the Pope? The Eastern Church seems to want nothing to do with Rome. I'm curious about related topics. (3/X)

@keraz37 @CMerandi 2016 GL started under Obama & PROP goes back even further. This is a fully bipartisan effort; be quiet.

@CMerandi Truml shutting down hospice care He gets off on making people suffer Malignant Narcissist

“My best friend was dying from cancer and her local. Walgreens refused to fill the meds, even after talking to the hospice doctor.” The government created a machine nobody knows how to stop Wait until you’re affected

@speakinghouston @CMerandi If you can find a doctor while living in Mexico, perhaps, but they won’t Rx for you to take back over the border. They’re extremely strict for Rx. We went to the Netherlands to ride it out in 2017 w no end in sight. Medical exile sucks.

@CMerandi No one should suffer. I’ll go to Mexico if I need to rather than suffer needlessly because of stupid beyrocrats. I will make sure that the cartel is paid to take care of a few people that caused the death.

@this_Just_in89 yeah, it’s pucker time; “this is when Columbia bought it” wd run thru my mind…

ngl those knocks would have me pooping my spacesuit 💀

@Matthew56193629 @oneforisrael Anything to avoid something that points to Jesus as messiah

I miss the days when Jews were interested in and studied the multiplicity of persons within the Godhead, the two powers in heaven, YHWH on earth calling fire down on Sodom from YHWH in heaven. All replaced with Maimonides and Aristotle, and a fictitious construct where the rabbis "defeated God" and took over the reins of Judaism.

“Now therefore, O kings, show discernment; take warning, O judges of the earth. Serve the LORD with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, that He not become angry, and you perish in the way, for His wrath may soon be kindled. How blessed are all who take refuge in Him!” (Psa 2:10-12). The meaning of verse 12 is hotly contested. The debate centers on the word “bar,” which most Christian translations render “son,” while Jewish translations render it “purity.” The main objection to “son” is that “bar” means son in Aramaic but “purity” in Hebrew, and Psalm 2 is written in Hebrew. Yet this argument overlooks two important facts. First, “bar” is used for “son” elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible (Prov 31:2). Second, Psalm 2 already contains an Aramaic loanword, “uproar,” in verse 1. But the strongest support for translating “bar” as “son” lies in the psalm’s structure. Psalm 2 unfolds in three movements, each requiring both the LORD and his Messiah. The nations rebel against both (vv. 1-3): “Let us tear THEIR fetters apart.” “Their” refers to the LORD and His Messiah. The LORD installs His King (v. 6), and the Son declares, “He said to me, ‘You are My Son’” (v. 7). Finally, the rebels are urged to reconcile before it is too late (vv. 10-12). If “bar” does not mean “son,” then they reconcile only with the LORD but not with his Messiah. The structure therefore strongly supports translating “bar” as Son, since only acceptance of him completes the call to repentance. And if “bar” means “son,” then the Messiah in Psalm 2 shares in God’s divine identity. Everywhere else the phrase “take refuge in” appears in the Hebrew Bible, the object of trust is a divine being (Deut 32:37; 2 Sam 22:3, 31; Isa 57:13; Nah 1:7; Psa 2:12; 5:11; 16:1; 18:2, 30; 25:20; 31:19; 34:8, 22; 37:40; 64:10; Prov 30:5). Thus Psalm 2 reveals a critical truth. Reconciliation with God is not complete without paying homage to God’s Son and taking refuge in Him (see Dan 7:13-14). “The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand. He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him” (John 3:35-36).

Here's the thing about all those "recent Catholic converts" They keep showing up in my Protestant Reformed church 18-36 months after they’ve “come home to Rome” they’re in my office, at my Bible study, or meeting me for breakfast Asking me about the "bait and switch” They were promised unity, beauty, and unchanging doctrine They got a modernist, globalist institution instead, with a deeply anti-American agenda

Most Bibles have a detailed acct of that version’s translation history in the preface, tracing back thru earlier English versions it’s replacing in updated English. Besides that you can grok it or google “KJV/modern Bible translation controversy.” The short version is during the 16th-18th centuries scholars only had access to original language manuscript copies created after 1000 AD. In 19-20th c. much older manuscripts dating to early 2nd century were discovered - written within a few decades of the apostles - and those lacked parts of verses, and in a few cases several verses. They discovered that over time over-zealous monk copyists added bits & pieces to certain verses bcz they confused margin notes that clarified verses as part of the verses themselves, and after a certain point in time couldn’t tell the actual text from the additions, so in an abundance of caution included everything. There’s no conspiracy to conceal truth from people. It’s commendable you’re being thorough, so follow thru as with options above.

@farmingandJesus What does it mean if they cannot be found in older manuscripts? An indication that they were removed from said manuscripts?

Just read and believe the Bible. Dont add to it, dont take away from it. Know God the way he intended. Believe God for what he said, don’t twist things into what he didn’t say. Don’t assume your religious practices are pleasing to him if you cannot align them with scripture. This is serious, He is holy He gave us his word and it’s sufficient.

@KosherRedPill You’re not exactly the conscientious type. You could’ve grokked your “thousands” before posting, but didn’t. You could’ve checked the profile but didn’t. Not much of a red pill when you’re so unreliable about simple facts.

@OldHat77 Ok Dutchman

There's a lot going on here and most of it's highly controversial and uncomfortable but without looking at the difficult stuff we can't see the whole board so strap in: America was founded predominantly by Anglo-Protestants, Catholics were here since the begging and they even got Maryland but that didn't go so well and it reverted to protestant control The American ruling class was dominated by high-church Anglos When the first big waves of Irish, German, and Italian immigration arrived they were Catholic, the ethnic and religious tensions began Much like Indian immigrants do today, Catholics took over urban hubs and used machine politics to turn government jobs into ethnic cartels, Catholic neighborhood form, Catholic schools segregate out the new minorities and allow them to retain their culture and faith We also start to see significant Eastern European immigration which is why America has more Jews here than Israel does in their specifically Jewish ethno-state This is how we got the Know Nothings (beware of foreign influence, Catholics will follow their king in Rome) Most people think of the KKK as an organization that tormented black Americans but it was mainly a protestant reaction to Catholic and Jewish immigration Catholic and Jewish diasporas were able to control local urban politics but found it difficult to break into the higher echelon because the ruling class remained White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) and they were uninterested in handing power to the new comers This is why you heard so much about Catholics and Jews being excluded from country clubs, where WASPs did the real politics The mainline Protestant denominations held the ruling class but evangelical low-church Protestantism swept through the heartland The ruling class might have been Anglican/Episcopalian but evangelicals had the passion and the numbers Jews were already not huge fans of Catholics for reasons that should be obvious, and Evangelicals adopted this novel form of theology called dispensationalism that featured the Jews prominently as a chosen people to be protected and to whom a homeland was owed if Jesus was to return Evangelicals are also very politically convenient because while they have the numbers and accumulated wealth to be very politically useful, they have no interest in ruling Many Evangelicals even believe that holding power is against their religion and are very amenable to handing power to another ruling class So you start to see an Evangelical-Jewish axis form in American politics to unseat the WASPs and freeze out the Catholics Dispensationalism was key to securing support for the founding of Israel and Jewish allies here are very aware of how important it is to keep Evangelicals the dominate Christians force in America politics But as America continued to experience unprecedented levels of legal and illegal immigration it didn't just shift the ethnic make up, but the religious composition as well When foreigners are Christian (instead of say Muslim or Hindu) they are not Evangelical, they're Catholic or Orthodox (sorry Catholic bros but America isn't getting more Catholic, it's getting more foreign and less American) These immigrants don't have the American addiction to WW2 Holocaust history and their faith is at best neutral to Judaism, if not openly hostile They're not natural allies to Israel and American Jews are very aware of this So what you are watching under the surface of the current debate is an ethno-religious shake up of the American political landscape The remaining WASPs who resent losing power aligning to some extent with Catholics (who were already ascending, notice the Supreme Court and conservative intelligentsia are increasingly more Catholic and less Jewish) while Jewish Americans attempt to hold onto their hard won positions by utilizing their alliance with Evangelicals Paula White vs The Pope, it's just ethno-religious factionalism dressed up in ideology

The cage match has been simmering the last few years online from a combination of points. 1) A loud sliver of Catholic intellectuals have claimed biblical Christianity is responsible for the cultural breakdown of last 50 years & only a Catholic-dominant America with its govt in submission to Rome can save it; Catholic podcasters have been working with Russian Alexander Dugin to overthrow Protestants, esp evangelical Protestants, from being the culturally dominant factor in Republican politics so Catholics can replace them & implement their integralist agenda; e-Catholics have been pushing this as well as constantly shoehorning Catholicism into early US history in ways it never existed, trying to steal our history in an attempt to re-write it to include themselves as “heritage Americans.” It recently blew out of its usual online spaces from pope Leo’s recent comments & high profile Protestants replies. If one wasn’t aware of the above, it looks like it erupted from nowhere, but really an ongoing simmering online controversy just boiled over from Leo’s recent comments.

I think this is very well laid out and thoughtful. I wonder two things: is dispensationalism losing steam? When I was a teen all my evangelical friends were deep into the Left Behind books (I’m dating myself here) but I don’t hear as much talk about that kind of thing anymore and I live in a rural, evangelical area. Also the recent catholic vs Protestant cage match seems like it erupted suddenly. Obviously Israel is a hot topic but I opened X one day, got called an integralist and had to google what that even means. I’m joking a bit obviously but it sure seems inorganic . Just thinking out loud.

It’s only appeared to lose steam. A lot of supersessionists beneath their covenant theology mask have been tearing at it for a few years online, while Catholic & Orthodox (also supersessionists) have been trying to shoehorn themselves into early American history in a desperate attempt to be “heritage;” along with a subversive online trend against it starting over a year ago, falsely claiming Darby created it with a Schofield reference Bible whose annotations were part of a Jewish plot; that converged with two waves of intense Jew-hating from Hamas ‘23 & Iran ‘26 for the great dog pile to smother dispensationalism. But it hasn’t gone anywhere - it’s online smoke-n-mirrors.

@KosherRedPill @lemurian_star9 @AuronMacintyre Jews are not a heritage demographic which is a cultural designation. Began w 23 in 1654 & slowly grew to 1k to 2.5k by 1790. They weren’t present in enough numbers or influential individuals in the colonial history or founding. Far more Catholics & they aren’t heritage either.

@lemurian_star9 @AuronMacintyre Doesn't frigging matter. Jews are a heritage American demographic.