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THIEF WHO WENT TO PARADISE WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN : Thief said, 'We deserve to die for our crimes, but this man [Jesus] hasn’t done anything wrong.' - Luke 23:41

BE A TRUE WORSHIPER OF GOD & FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM AT ALL TIMES (1 Cor 1:9,1 Jn 1:3).

To become a true worshiper, you must STAY AWAY from sin, idol worships, ALL 'man-made' religion including Christianity, its leaders/churches/fellowships/places of worship, denominations & traditions (1 Tim 6:5, Col 2:8). ONLY THEN GOD WILL ACCEPT YOUR WORSHIP & FILL YOUR LIFE WITH JOY & PEACE (Jn 4:19-24, Gal 5:22-23). God bless you & yours.

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It was fun hanging out here for a little while again. But time isn't plentiful at this stage of life. Time to step away again for an indeterminate time.

Peace to you all, and may you all growth in faith, hope and charity.

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I think in charity, if the tapes show what we think they does, and if those tapes are connected to the people we think they are, that the reason she isn’t releasing more information maybe isn’t that she’s dead inside, but that powerful people are leaning on her with serious leverage.

Perhaps she doesn’t want to end up on the news as some poor woman who struggled with depression and unfortunately shot herself twice, rolled herself up in a rug, and tossed herself into the Potomac. Or having her family turn into sudden depression cases.

Hard to be certain what is true, and while the whole thing stinks, the powerful are called that for a reason.

Firing the prosecutor after knowing/seeing thousands of children were molested/raped on video, then denying the tapes exist, is the undeniable pattern of protecting abusive white men we see in conservative politics every day.

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It’s probably fair to say that there was more to his call to repentance than merely kindness and non-judgment. We don’t have full transcripts between Jesus and those he meets, but there is enough in the Gospels to suggest he was generally firm about repentance and probably pressed it if the person wasn’t already showing signs of repentance and faith.

Jesus was friendly with some of the religious authorities as well (e.g. Nicodemus), and I suspect his choice of words and tone had a lot more to do with the individual circumstances of his hearers than their profession or social class.

People who are religious do face temptations to sin in ways that prostitutes and worldly people don’t, and if our hearts are hard, we who say we are religious will likely face harsher condemnation as the Pharisees did.

Later, Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Do not sin anymore, so that nothing worse happens to you.” The man went away and told the Jews that Jesus was the man who had made him well.

“Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Then he again bent down and wrote on the ground. When they heard his response, they went away one by one, beginning with the elders, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Then Jesus straightened up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She replied, “No one, sir.” “Neither do I condemn you,” Jesus said. “Go on your way, and sin no more.”

At that time, some people who were present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He asked them, “Do you think that because the Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you will all perish as they did.

Jesus continued journeying through towns and villages, teaching as he made his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few be saved?” He answered, “Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will try to enter but will not succeed in doing so.

Then he (Jesus) began to reproach the cities in which most of his mighty deeds had been performed because they had refused to repent.

“Yes Jesus sat with sinners but he didn’t sin with them!”

This is always thrown around as a gotcha. Like, “Sure, Jesus ate with them. But he didn’t want to be like them.”

That’s missing the point 101. Jesus did indeed sit with the outcasts. The sex worker. The tax collector. He loved them. He ate with them, sat in their homes. He even proclaimed that they would be the first to enter heaven.

He never condemned them. He DID condemn the religious elite at the time.

“He called them to repent!” Yes. He did. In the most gentle of ways. His kindness was the call. His non-judgement was the call. Not the Bible beating. Not the picketing. Not the harassing.

Just, “Hey. Wanna get food?”

Kindness has the power to transform. He knew that.

He saved his anger for the religious people. Who claim to know God, but didn’t. Who judge and condemn. Who exploit.

Sex workers loved Him. Addicts today still love Him. The poor, the homeless, the traumatized…they all love Him. Because they see someone who loved them at their darkest.

That’s something that the religious person can never do.

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This claim is just propaganda.

It would easy to produce similar lists of violence committed by BLM-supporters, black nationalists, leftists, Muslims, etc. The vast majority of these cases are actually mental health issues.

🔥 http://dlvr.it/TM2M0G

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Pope Leo XIV with a little plushie he caught

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Vasectomies are contrary to natural law and should be banned. See, I have no problem regulating men's bodies.

Exactly http://dlvr.it/TLq8TM

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Catechism #2271 : "Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable."

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It is ironic that a platform which exists solely so that women can expose private information about men became a vehicle for exposing the private information of those same women.

Fragili-TEA of Personal Data🫖

This article reflects the importance of data protection risks as it navigates the Tea app privacy leak.

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Being younger and not knowing as much probably helped, but yes your ultimate judgment was right.

This is the framing. On 9/11, we were attacked at two (almost three) places, with 3,000 Americans suddenly killed by terrorism. It was both a bit scary and also a personal affront to the national pride which I think people felt quite a bit more strongly in those days than today. Bush, who was having a so-so start to his Presidency, suddenly saw a 90% approval rating in the aftermath of the attacks. I remember sitting in a classroom and hearing a fellow classmate say we should bomb every country that ends in 'aq' or 'an'. The Authorization for Use of Military Force passed Congress a week after the attacks with only 1 nay vote.

Saddam Hussein had been the bad guy for over a decade at this point. He had invaded Kuwait for no reason because was crazy and evil (this is what most Americans believed) and we were forced to keep bombing him throughout the 1990s because he wanted to murder his own people..

The argument for invading Iraq in 2002 was related to this history plus the recent 9/11 attacks. It was said that he was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, and that due to our poor relations he might give a terrorist group some of these weapons, and with them we could experience a super 9/11 with a much larger number of casualties. On top of that, he was an evil dictator(TM) who was willing to kill even his own people and it's wrong to just let him be in power if we could remove him and we had the power to do that. This argument started to be made publicly very soon after the attacks, in 2002. AOL & AIM were things back in those days, and so was Bolt, but social media wasn't really a thing aside from message boards and chatrooms. Myspace hadn't even been founded at this time. You got your news through mass media (TV/newspaper). Even blogs were very new and not really mainstream at this point (IIRC I started reading blogs around 2005). As such, support for the war was about 72% of the American public when it started. I recall going to a debate on campus and I'm pretty sure the two sides were 'we should attack Iraq unilaterally' and 'we should attack Iraq with multilateral support'.

As it turns out, we were tricked by neocons, especially Zionist Jews in the Office of Special Plans and their allies in mass media and the administration. This continues a time honored history of Americans being propagandized and tricked into war, including the Gulf War, Vietnam, World War II, World War I, Spanish American War, Mexican American War, etc.

Hopefully we won't allow ourselves to be tricked into war again, after the experience of Iraq and the rise of alternative media. We should have a reflexive anti-war stance.

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Final Fantasy?

sick of this anti-aging obsession. let's go in the opposite direction. i want more characters who are hardened & grizzled & have a face lined with the harrowing tribulations of time--and then halfway through the narrative u find out they're 27

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Not justifying all the military expenditures, but those things actually are relatively cheap.

Healthcare in America costs about 18% of GDP, about $5.5 trillion for this year. Federal, state and local governments actually cover something like $3 trillion to $3.5 trillion of that total directly or indirectly. This includes Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA subsidies, Veterans Health, Indian Health, health insurance for government employees, and tax advantages for health insurance premiums and HSA savings.

Education is probably just under $2 trillion, with $1.7 trillion in direct spending, plus various tax advantages for private education spending.

Income support (SNAP, Social Security, unemployment, section 8, public employee retirement, old age pensions, veteran support, etc) is about $3 trillion.

That's $8 trillion of annual government spending or tax incentives, an enormous amount.

The parade probably cost several million bucks. Golfing, even for the President, is in the same context. The military and foreign military aid are admittedly more, but quite a bit less than social spending.

As an analogy, this would be like saying that millennials spend all this money on lattes and avocado toast but complain that they have no money for housing, tuition, and health insurance.

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Today I went to the parish San Martín de Porres in Arecibo, PR, for Latin Mass and have a jug of water blessed and exorcised. And while I was there I got this rosary for myself:

Olive wood beads! Miraculous Medal, and my patron saint St. Michael Archangell! Blessed and exorcised by the same priest who made it! (I learned this last bit after the fact, but how cool is that?)

"The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want... Oh, wooden rosaries!" 👀 💕 That's me, @angeltreasure @austerity-audacity-asceticism @cheerfullycatholic @historian-in-pearls @marian-devotee @romancatholicroymustang

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On the contrary, it is written:

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him. - 1 Peter 3:21-22

Aside from the contrary witness of sacred scripture, the early Church did not get the memo on baptism being some short-term thing.

This person posts such serious errors that it is hard to tell whether their Biblical knowledge is simply very weak or if they are a bad actor. I don't not mean to be hostile with such remarks, for perhaps they honestly believe what they are posting, but if a satanist wanted to corrupt Christians, this would be an effective way to do it. This person claims the Bible is telling them to ignore their leaders, to not go to Church, even to avoid baptism! It's hard not to think of Matthew 4.