John Hester

@Windsofchains @TradCathEd I like him, too. Read John 6 starting around verse 30 to the end.

@TradCathEd I like this guy. The outfit and delivery seals the deal. Still can't find transubstantiantion in the scriptures but this guy was over the target.

In late 1960s Bishop Sheen predicted that the ruination of many countries in future will not be caused by wars, but by FALSE COMPASSION. Bp. Sheen: "False compassion is a pity shown, not to the mugged but to the mugger; not to the family of the murdered, but to the murderer."

What makes people believe in flat earth theory? ✍️

@VigilantFox @EricoChili It’s amazing the democrats have gone so far left that Bill Maher sounds like a conservative.

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes. “Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.” “And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.” “The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.” “The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.” “How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?” “Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

A few days ago, I took Varsity on his freedom ride away from the Fulton County animal shelter. He’ll stay with us a few weeks on his way to his forever home!

@forallcurious Jimmy Hoffa

What would be the most terrifying thing we could find on Mars?

@DavidFischer @grok Marian apparitions encouraged veneration & prayer for her intercession:Guadalupe(1531)-miraculous tilma, millions converted; Lourdes (1858)-declared ‘I am Immaculate Conception’ with 70 healings; Fatima (1917)-called herself Lady of the Rosary, the Miracle of the Sun,seen by 10K

Hey @grok, list all the Bible verses that support praying to Mary as an intercessor to God along with Jesus. If there are none, say none.

@Protestia Satan is working hard to take us away from God.

"The New Testament is NOT the word of God' UCC Bishop says we need a 'Third Testament' because the first two are 'problematic,' and contain bad theology. As a result, "we need to pull those pages out"

I never thought of that!

@NYM3stooges And 0-10 since this happened:

Mets are 45-69 since this moment.

@PoliticoKen @matthewdmarsden Mediator and messenger are not the same. Mary has been sent as a messenger, via Our Lady of Guadalupe,Lourdes and Fatima. Before you reject them, I challenge you to investigate the details of this visits, including message, the miracles witnessed by many and the conversions.

@jhester22 @matthewdmarsden Scripturally they are no longer needed to relay messages. Thanks to Christ's work on the cross, we have direct communication to God. It's not an argument, it's scripture. 1 Tim 2:5, we have one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus.

Just an fyi for the people who are confused about what the Catholic Church teaches: Prayer of worship (adoration, latria) is directed to God alone (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). Saints and Mary are never worshiped. When Catholics "pray to" a saint (e.g., "St. Anthony, pray for us" or the Hail Mary), they are asking the saint to pray for or with them — requesting intercession, just as you might ask a living friend or family member to pray for you. Saints in heaven are not considered "dead" in the final sense. They are alive in Christ (see Mark 12:27 / Luke 20:38: "He is not the God of the dead, but of the living"). This is tied to the communion of saints (mentioned in the Apostles' Creed and Catechism paragraphs 946–962). Catholics explicitly reject necromancy (conjuring spirits of the dead for information or power), which the Bible condemns (Deuteronomy 18:10-12; 1 Samuel 28). They argue their practice is different: no summoning, no seeking secret knowledge, no two-way conversation — simply asking righteous people in heaven (who are closer to God) to join their prayers to God. They also pray for the dead (especially souls in purgatory, according to Catholic doctrine), asking God to have mercy, purify, or forgive them. This is seen as supported by 2 Maccabees 12:38-46 (a book Catholics include in Scripture but most Protestants do not), where Judas Maccabeus prays and offers sacrifices for fallen soldiers so they might be "loosed from their sins." Now I will await the bombardment of abuse saying this is wrong. Interestingly, they will say that the Holy Spirit revealed this to them, but will dismiss the idea that the Holy Spirit could have revealed this to the early Church Fathers. Do you see the contradictions there?

@PoliticoKen @matthewdmarsden So you’re saying that now the angels are no longer needed? It’s really a weak argument. In reality, angels or saints are not needed, but God uses them for his purposes.

@jhester22 @matthewdmarsden Yes I did, somewhat exhaustively. An angel was needed at that time because Jesus had not yet become our mediator or communication line to the Father.

@PoliticoKen @matthewdmarsden You didn’t answer the question.

@jhester22 @matthewdmarsden We only have access to the Father thru Jesus. Jesus had not paid the price at this time so mankind did not have a line of communication thru Christ at that time. Now we have one mediator between us and the father in Jesus Christ.

@LibOrNormal The Fly - the original with Vincent Price

Gremlins! You?!

@sqareheaddoug @StillADog I think they were filmed separately and dubbed in during post production…

@jhester22 @StillADog I did not know this, did any of the extra terrestrials have problems adopting to Earth's Atmosphere and Gravity?

@nobullsix @vivensvero @CSW_Hoosier What does the explicit text of John 6:48-59 say?

@vivensvero @CSW_Hoosier Seems like you reject the explicit text of the Bible written by a direct follower of Paul through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in favor of an apocryphal letter 50 years later in a time with rampant heresy.

Yes, because this was the Passover Seder. A meal which, according to Jewish tradition, required the sacrifice AND consumption of a perfect, spotless lamb. The sacrifice (and therefore covenant renewal) COULD NOT BE COMPLETE without consuming the lamb. If Jesus is the Passover Lamb, we must consume Him to be in covenant with Him. The Apostles understood this and instructed their disciples in this manner. St Ignatius of Antioch, a disciple of John, wrote in his letter to the Smyrnaeans that anyone who denies the Eucharist is the true body and blood of Christ is a heretic.

@PoliticoKen @matthewdmarsden Why does God have angels? Did He need Gabriel to communicate Mary’s answer at the annunciation?

@matthewdmarsden God doesn't have a hearing problem. He doesn't need people who are "closer" to communicate on your behalf. No one is closer to God than the other anyway. You're either in Christ or you are not. No scripture supports communicating to dead loved ones, saints or not.

@peterpeccavi you are ignoring the marion appearances. The veneration of Mary is justified by her appearances at Lourdes, Fatima and Guadalupe. They resulted in massive conversions to Christianity and were accompanied by miracles witnessed by hundreds of people these occurred after the gospel

If Peter is the first Pope, why is it that he never “venerates” Mary? I ask because if Rome stands on Peter, then Peter’s silence matters. And if Rome stands on apostolic tradition, then the apostles’ silence matters. Let’s look at Peter first. We don’t need tradition about him. We have his written testimony. Peter’s preaching is recorded in detail in places like Acts 2, 3, and 10. His focus is relentlessly on Christ--His life, death, resurrection, and lordship. Mary is never invoked, addressed, or presented as an object of devotion. Not once. When Mary does appear, like in Acts 1:14, she’s simply counted among the believers praying. She’s not singled out, not exalted, not approached. She’s *in* the Church, not over it. In Peter’s own letters, there is zero Marian language. No appeal to her, no special honor, no hint of intercession. For someone supposedly establishing a pattern of Marian veneration, his silence is deafening. This all lines up with the broader New Testament witness. When a woman in the crowd tries to elevate Jesus’ mother, Christ redirects the blessing to those who hear and obey the Word (Luke 11:27-28). The emphasis consistently moves away from biological proximity toward faith and obedience. Now widen the lens across the apostles as a whole. In their preaching, in their letters, and in their instruction to the churches, there is no instance of Marian veneration as it is later defined in Roman Catholic practice. No invocation. No devotional address. No liturgical pattern. Nothing that even approximates it. That matters, because doctrine doesn’t emerge ex nihlio. It emerges from what is taught, practiced, and handed down within the apostolic witness. And here the pattern is not mixed or ambiguous. It is uniformly Christ focused and entirely silent on Marian veneration. So the question is not whether one can locate a verse that explicitly forbids it. The question is whether there is any positive apostolic pattern that gives it warrant in the first place. And when the entire apostolic record is taken together, the answer is that there is none. So here again is the papist dilemma: If your standard is Peter, then your first pope never practiced it. If your standard is apostolic tradition, then the apostles never transmitted it. Either way, it’s not grounded in the apostolic witness. It’s something that shows up later and then gets read backward into texts that never contained it. Which is error. And that’s the point. Not that silence alone proves falsity, but that the total apostolic pattern gives no positive warrant for it. Marian dogma is none other than idolatrous deception. Repent.

@realmikolson Why do Prots ignore the Marian visits?God sent her after the gospels were written.She calls herself as the immaculate conception, the Mother of God and the Lady of the Rosary.The visits have resulted in huge conversions.As God’s messenger, we must listen and revere her

A common Roman Catholic talking point about praying to Mary or other deceased Christians is that they’re not really “praying” to them at all. They’ll say they’re simply asking for intercession, no different than asking a friend on earth to pray for you. But that comparison breaks down real fast. If I ask a friend here on earth to pray for me, I just ask. I tell them what’s going on and ask them to keep me in their prayers. Scripture actually encourages this kind of mutual care among believers. But that’s not what’s happening with Mary. I don’t - build statues of my friends and kneel before them. I don’t - burn incense or light candles in their honor. I don’t - call them a co-mediator between me and God. I don’t - use language for them that the Bible reserves for God alone. And I certainly don’t - bow in prayer to them so they can pass my requests along. At that point, the “it’s just like asking a friend” argument isn’t just weak, intentionally misleading. Whatever is going on in those practices, it goes far beyond simply asking a fellow believer to pray.

@AmericaFirsst I guess the Democrats don’t really want to win the presidency.

🚨BREAKING: Many Dems are now leaning towards a Harris / Buttigieg ticket for 2028. What's your reaction?