Jon Krombein

@drantbradley Literacy rates in the US were above 95% before Horace Mann and compulsory public education. Since then, it has not been above 75%. No one has to homeschool, but if you care about your children, get them out of govt school.

To The “Everyone Should Homeschool” Crowd, you live in a bubble. ~Yours Truly, Reality. “According to the National Literacy Institute, 21% of U.S. adults are illiterate, while 54% have a literacy comprehension below a sixth-grade level.”

@NeilShenvi Counter: Deuteronomy 28:43, 45a The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher & higher above you & you shall come down lower & lower. “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you & overtake you till you are destroyed because you did not obey the voice of the LORD.

"When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God." - Lev. 19:33-34

@CarriePrejean1 The canon was established before the Roman Catholic Church formally began. Despite what Catholics hat to believe, the RCC didn’t actually exist until Pope Gregory I in 490AD.

Mocking the Pope while reading a Bible canonized by the Catholic Church is ignorance and delusion. Protestantism took the Church’s Bible, rejected the Church’s authority, and fractured into thousands of man-made interpretations. That’s what happens when everyone becomes their own Pope. You’re not funny @TheBabylonBee

@KhalilAndani What about when we accepted worship as God and when he said that he one with the Father? Or when he said that if you’ve seen him then you have seen the Father?

When Jesus called himself Son of God, he meant the human messiah king anointed by God. Just like David and Solomon. This is also what NT authors understood by the term and what biblical scholars say about the term’s meaning.

@JamesSurowiecki Why would lie like this?

There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.

@john_paske56238 @Write4Republic “You cannot have God for you Father if you will not have the church for your mother” - St Augustine of Hippo

@Write4Republic I personally prefer no church, and just talk to God through Jesus. Works well.

Wow, y'all definitely turned me away from the Catholic Church real quick 😂 The orthodox bros were just as bad. I'm just looking to be in a denomination that isn't insane, but I don't know if that's really a thing. Many protestant churches are just as nuts. I suppose when the whole culture turns to garbage, the churches aren't spared either. Welp, I'm still a Christian, but I find little in common with most others anymore.

@exanxc The Protestant West is an inarguable good and ensured the spread of the gospel to virtually everywhere.

The Protestant Reformation

Wesley Huff is the most viral apologist on the planet right now. Joe Rogan. Piers Morgan. Diary of a CEO. Millions of views. So I fact-checked his biggest historical claims against the actual peer-reviewed scholarship from Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale. Every single one collapsed. 66 books? Wrong number. 1,600 years? Wrong math. Luke the historian? The census fails. Gospel names prove eyewitnesses? Fiction passes the same test. His dating timeline? Not even close to mainstream. Clip by clip. Source by source. This is Part 1. Full video linked below. Part 2 on manuscripts drops soon.

@JohnCleese In Matt 28, Jesus told his disciples that “all authority (power) in heaven and earth had been given to him”. Then he commanded to christianized the entire world.

MAGA supporters have always struggled with Christ's teachings Jesus never spoke about power. Everything he taught is NOT about power MAGA are interested ONLY in power 'And never the twain shall meet'...

@nichols_senator They’re illegal. Citizens should remove them if the City won’t. Ideally, LOE will assist.

Thoughts on the poles at Boise City Hall?

Let me get this straight Yesterday Anthropic announced a new AI model that autonomously found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD In under a day For under $20,000 It also found a 16-year-old bug in video software that had survived 5 million automated tests and every human reviewer who ever looked at the code It chained together 4 vulnerabilities to escape a web browser sandbox It solved a corporate network attack simulation that would have taken a human expert over 10 hours By itself With no human involvement after the initial prompt Meanwhile I have to fill out a form on a government website that doesn't fit my browser window The submit button is cut off The error message says "please try again later" It's been saying that since Tuesday The federal government spends over $100 billion a year on IT 80% of that goes to maintaining legacy systems That's $80 billion a year To keep systems running that were built when Nixon was president The IRS still uses a system written in COBOL from the 1960s It won't be fully replaced until 2030 At which point it will be 60 years old The Treasury's taxpayer system is 51 years old HHS runs a patient system that is 50 years old The Department of Education runs student information on a 46-year-old platform These aren't obscure backroom tools These process the money, the healthcare, and the education of 330 million people On code written before the internet existed Let me run the math $80 billion a year For 10 years That's $800 billion Spent maintaining technology from an era when the most advanced computer in America had less processing power than a modern thermostat For the same price Anthropic's new AI model could run 40 million individual security assessments Each one capable of finding decades-old vulnerabilities in a day 40 million And the government can't build a webpage that fits on a laptop screen In private equity we have a term for this It's called "capex misallocation" When you spend enormous sums maintaining obsolete infrastructure instead of replacing it It shows up on the balance sheet as an asset But it functions as a liability It drags down productivity It creates security risk It compounds every year And eventually it becomes so expensive to replace that you just keep paying to maintain it Forever Which is exactly where the federal government is A $100 billion annual IT budget 80% allocated to keeping the lights on 20% for everything new No private company would survive running its infrastructure this way But the government doesn't have to survive It just has to keep collecting taxes And those taxes are processed on a 60-year-old COBOL system That still can't handle a form that fits in my browser window Make common sense common again Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

@jblairsanders OK, how about this: liberal progressive policies that hinge on taxing everyone in order redistribute what you earn to people who didn’t is a violation of the commandment to not steal. Charity is only charity if it is freely given. Also, don’t murder babies or mutilate children.

Moving forward, I need to institute a rule on my posts that if you have a problem with Christians voting Democrat, you have to express it without jumping to "baby murder" or "child mutilation" rhetoric. It's lazy and unpersuasive.

@BiblicalAnarchy Christianity is true. The others are false. Consider how Elijah mocked the worshippers of Baal and Jesus ridiculed and insulted the Pharisees.

No President Should Mock Christianity No President Should Mock Judaism No President Should Mock Islam If the last one there offends you, but not the first two, why?

@BillyHoag0311 You understand that “rooted in scripture” and “taught in scripture” are different, right? Also, we can start with priests. There is no biblical context at all for priests—anywhere. Churches are local and lead by local elders.

Protestants: “we’re “scripture alone” and you Catholics don’t read or even practice what’s in scripture.” Catholics: “please show us where in the Mass and what is done in Mass is not found and or taught in scripture” Protestants: “well that’s what Wes Huff said and he DEFINITELY went to Bible College so he’s very smart” Catholics: 🤣

@BishopJaxi In scripture, (1 Tim 3) we are told that elders must be married me men. If you do not have a wife and demonstrable track record of leading your own family well, you have no biblical basis to claim leadership in the church.

No apostolic succession, no biblical claim to the office of pastor. In Scripture, those who shepherd the Church receive their authority through the apostles and those they appoint. If you cannot trace your authority to the apostles, you do not have a biblical basis to claim it. That means every Protestant “pastor” claims an authority Scripture never shows being taken apart from the apostles and their successors, and is operating outside the structure Christ actually established.

@grok why is the algorithm serving me almost non-stop Roman Catholic nonsense today?

Facts

@Vitus_osst No, it can’t. Not really. It was bastardized around the 5th century and has been disconnected ever since. The reformation is was established the faithful church.

The Catholic Church is the only religion that can trace back its history to Christ.

@Catholic_bro Hahahahahahah! Tobit isn’t inspired. It’s not God’s word and has no divine authority. It’s just a folktale!

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Strong Protestants become Catholic Weak Catholics become Protestant.