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Michie · 2025-12-02T11:46:50-0600

New York City’s new socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pledged to open city-run grocery stores to lower costs and help the working class with his socialist policies.

City-owned and managed grocery stores have resurfaced as eye-catching policy ideas to lower food costs and fight hunger. However, they will have the opposite effect: wasting taxpayer money, promoting inefficiency and hurting local food businesses.

Mamdani’s Plan: Bad Economics

Mamdani bases the need for city-run grocery stores on a socialist theory rather than hard data. This is a blatant feel-good dream that denies basic economics. This sounds very good on paper, ‘free’ always does, until the money needed to fund the free goods cannot be found.

He argues that these stores are needed to address supposed food “deserts,” which are usually crime-ridden areas that retailers often avoid. He also claims the groceries will provide working-class New Yorkers with better access to affordable food. His pilot program consists of launching five stores across the city, one in each borough. It is all part of his socialist platform, which, besides lowering grocery costs, also includes freezing rent and increasing corporate taxes to fund this project.

A closer examination of the plan reveals it cannot succeed because it entirely replaces market signals—such as costs, property rights, profit and the profit motive—with bureaucratic decision-making. He proposes the classic Marxist alternative to a free market economy.

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Mamdani’s Socialist Grocery Store: Shopping in the Aisle of Denial

New York City’s new socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has pledged to open city-run grocery stores to lower costs and help the working class with his socialist policies. City-owned and managed grocery stores have resurfaced as eye-catching policy ideas to lower food costs and fight hunger. However...

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Benaiah468 · 2025-12-02T11:45:36-0600

timothyu said:
Yas and the only chosen people will be all those of the Kingdom. Religion and ancestry is obsolete. Jesus went first to the House of Israel, and when they failed Him yet again, then later to the gentiles of all nations, for all of mankind was free to repent and pledge allegiance to the Kingdom,, no longer being slaves to the nations nor the elohim powers that still control them.

G-d's promise to the nations is that they can be grafted in to the spiritual olive tree of Israel through faith in Christ, sharing in the promises and blessings of the covenant. Two olive trees symbolize the two houses of Israel (Jews and Gentiles) to carry out His heavenly mission. Romans 11 holds powerful truths that relevant for us today as we witness Israel's two-stage restoration (both physical and spiritual), depicted by the symbol of two olive trees.

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: Isa 5:7

Always in His Presence · 2025-12-02T11:44:39-0600

lismore said:
Looking at the Apostles in the bible.

Yes please - not just the twelve

lismore said:
1) They were able to heal, almost at will.

God healed the sick through them - according to God's will. Not something they could turn on or off.

lismore said:
2) What they said and wrote was considered to be the very inspired word of God.

The Word of God is still just as inspired. The writing has ended but the Word is still just as inspired, just as anointed and just as powerful.

lismore said:
3) They were witnesses of the risen Christ.

Not Barnabus - Not Paul - not several others

Paul told the church in Ephesus and Corinth that Apostles, Prophets, Pastors are gifts to the church. (Evangelist and Teachers in Ephesians). How long will we have them in the body?

Eph 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

lismore · 2025-12-02T11:44:01-0600

Yttrium said:
...

Wait, what?

You have a problem with fables?

When I was in primary school I remember being given a school book about evolution, diagrams of a fish like creature crawling onto land an artist's impression of ape men sitting round a camp fire having a jolly, based on a single tooth. The people who produce such drivel for children were evidently ideologically driven blinkered zealots, but I have even encountered people in the church who would irrationally defend this stuff. God Bless You have a good day

Servus · 2025-12-02T11:43:49-0600

Aryeh Jay said:
Follow their orders without question but don't believe anything they actually say.

Genius!

That didn't come anywhere close to answering the question of is there any solid evidence. It'd be cool if someone just gave an honest answer instead of non sequitur deflection.

Michie · 2025-12-02T11:41:55-0600

AI overview:

While the lily is more commonly associated with Mary in Christianity, the lotus flower can represent her as well, symbolizing purity and divine beauty, much like the lily. Both flowers represent purity and are often found in artwork and churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

Similar symbolism

Purity: Both the lily and the lotus are used to symbolize purity because of their ability to rise from muddy water or dark places unstained and pristine.
Divine beauty: The lotus is seen as a symbol of divine beauty and grace, qualities also attributed to Mary.
Church art: The lotus is depicted in some ancient churches dedicated to Mary, according to Oxford Academic.

More common association with Mary

The Lily: The lily, especially the white lily, is the more prominent flower linked to Mary. It was carried by the Archangel Gabriel during the Annunciation and is often used in art to represent her.
Other flowers: Other flowers, such as roses, violets, and bluebells, also have specific connections to Mary in Christian tradition.

childeye 2 · 2025-12-02T11:41:30-0600

CoreyD said:
We have nothing else to talk about.

I don’t need the last word, but I do want to leave you with this --> Scripture says the will is enslaved to sin until Christ sets it free (John 8:34–36; Romans 6:18). That’s why the only true free will is the one liberated by Him. My hope isn’t to win an argument, but to point to the freedom found in Christ.

Valletta · 2025-12-02T11:41:23-0600

Nithavela said:
Nothing then. Thought so.

Moving on.

"The Sixsmiths of this world are not at all angry about the mass killings and the mass burnings of unborn babies going on today right before our eyes. No, they are too busy fabricating stories about nuns sexually assaulting young women, stealing their kids, and dumping their bodies in septic tanks. It tells us a great deal about the current state of anti-Catholicism that such bull is not only accepted, it is welcomed as affirmation of the venality of the Catholic Church."

DEBUNKING THE "MASS GRAVE" STORY - Catholic League

To read Donohue's full account of this story, see the "Special Reports" section on the Catholic League's website.

www.catholicleague.org

Aryeh Jay · 2025-12-02T11:41:05-0600

Say it aint so said:
Sometimes, I wonder if this really is a Christian forum.

It is.

Valletta · 2025-12-02T11:38:12-0600

comana said:
I agree, we should study what Trump did to negotiate these peace deals. I’d love to have the details laid out as to why these minor, and not significant enough to draw world attention, were suddenly a priority for Trump.

Also, the negativity for Trump’s tarrifs is not going away as our economy suffers.

The naysayers on the tariffs were proved wrong, the tariffs, as Trump told us, might show a minor or temporary increase in prices. Our economy is once again picking up, although I expect the Democrats to once again shut down the government and hurt our economy.

bling · 2025-12-02T11:36:37-0600

BelieveItOarKnot said:
Are you claiming

Mark 4:15 applies to everyone. All are tempted internally and therefore have evil present within them.

First off in Mark 4:15 Jesus specifically says: “Some people” and not “all people”.

Look at the context of Mark 4: 15 starting with Mark 4: 13 Then Jesus said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How then will you understand any parable? 14 The farmer sows the word. 15 Some people are like seed along the path, where the word is sown. As soon as they hear it, Satan comes and takes away the word that was sown in them. 16 Others, like seed sown on rocky places, hear the word and at once receive it with joy. 17 But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. 18 Still others, like seed sown among thorns, hear the word; 19 but the worries of this life, the deceitfulness of wealth and the desires for other things come in and choke the word, making it unfruitful. 20 Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”

In context there are four different groups of soils (people).

Jesus was tempted so being tempted does not mean He has “evil present within” them.

BelieveItOarKnot said:
And that would be your own add on position trying to disqualifying your neighbors love and self justifying yours.

The contingency is right from the Bible “if we Love one another”.

BelieveItOarKnot said:
Read my statements again. Then give a specific named person. Just one will do. Hint in advance. You wont find a single one.

1 Timothy 1: 19 holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. 20 Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.

1 Tim. 4:1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron.

1 Tim. 5: 11 As for younger widows, do not put them on such a list. For when their sensual desires overcome their dedication to Christ, they want to marry. 12 Thus they bring judgment on themselves, because they have broken their first pledge. 13 Besides, they get into the habit of being idle and going about from house to house. And not only do they become idlers, but also busybodies who talk nonsense, saying things they ought not to. 14 So I counsel younger widows to marry, to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander. 15 Some have in fact already turned away to follow Satan.

2 Tim. 1: 15 You know that everyone in the province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

2 Tim. 2: 7 Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who have departed from the truth. They say that the resurrection has already taken place, and they destroy the faith of some. 19 Nevertheless, God’s solid foundation stands firm, sealed with this inscription: “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Everyone who confesses the name of the Lord must turn away from wickedness.”

2 Tim. 4: 10 for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.

BelieveItOarKnot said:
All are under sin. Romans 3:9. Sin is of the devil, 1 John 3:8, Mark 4:15.

Ro. 3: 9 What shall we conclude then? Do we have any advantage? Not at all! For we have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin.

This is referring to both Jews and Gentiles. Yes all mature adults sinned.

1 John 3: 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.

We are either servants of satan or servants of God.

Mark 4: 15 is explained above.

BelieveItOarKnot said:
It is incumbent on your position to eradicate those scriptures and a host of others

God does make people believe or they wouldn't believe

Believe/faith is not a “work” (meaning deserving of something), but humility and believe is our part which we bring to the salvation process. Every mature adult believes in somethings (some worship gods of stone).

BelieveItOarKnot said:
The shotgun is being held by people who thinks God is going to burn them or others alive forever. These positions are simply forced manipulation. Believe or else. Common works/law salvation positions

To believe in hell you have to believe in the Christian God.

BelieveItOarKnot said:
God did it to Himself bt aggravating devils in people which same killed Him, thereby sealing their fate to hell

So this is a suicide act?

BelieveItOarKnot said:
God is not in need, least of all for the self centered self interested love of mankind, as if we have something Ge needs.

I am not saying God needs anything, God is just trying to get us to humble accept His Love.

BelieveItOarKnot said:
Nope

As previously noted your pisition eliminates both the Will of God and the will of the tempter in the equations. And therefore doesnt add up

It fits man’s objective.

BelieveItOarKnot said:
God always has two positions active with everyone And it's quite simple. For good/against evil, simultaneously

Neither can be eliminated from His sight

How is this not saying that God’s actions are contingent on the choices of the people?

BelieveItOarKnot said:
The evil present in no one makes good choices is the point. Your positions try to eliminate the obvious issue. It doesn't add up.

Never will

Yes it does.

Michie · 2025-12-02T11:36:17-0600

Over the summer of 2019, there was a lot of righteous anger among traditional Catholics online (and in real life) over the fact that the folks in charge of the Vatican the last decade had placed Pachamama idols—idols Burgles’ staff admitted to Catholic News Agency were not the Blessed Virgin Mary—in various Catholic Churches in Rome, including St. Mary Transpontina near the Vatican.

Dr. Taylor Marshall and I had decided to go dunk these wicked idols, but he had to bail at the last minute. I still went to Rome, in any case, with a different Taylor M. (not kidding) and a traditional gentleman from England.

You see, Dr. Marshall and I had a big argument over this miscommunication but later reconciled. We actually discussed this reconciliation on his show on narcissism several years after the following event, but we did not exactly name the event you are about to read about because you-know-who was still alive. We discussed how narcissists don’t know how to apologize, and yet Dr. Marshall and I had to apologize each to each other for various parts of this event. I’m glad we did that.

In any case, Marshall sent Mr. Alexander Tschugguel into Transpontina to trash the idols very early on 21 October 2019. However, because I had lost contact with Marshall due to our argument, I didn’t know he sent in Tschugguel at 6am. Thus, the other Taylor M. and I went into Transpontina at 9am and got caught while trying to escape with the abominations in that temple. (Keep in mind Tschugguel bravely trashed several idols, but the wicked folks running Rome had many back-up idols at that point that we were able to intercept in the following body cam footage you are about to see.)

Continued below.

My Role in the Pachamama Event.

Over the summer of 2019, there was a lot of righteous anger among traditional Catholics online (and in real life) over the fact that the folks in charge of the Vatican the last decade had placed Pachamama idols—idols Burgles' staff admitted to Catholic News Agency were not the Blessed Virgin...

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Say it aint so · 2025-12-02T11:33:59-0600

MarcusGregor said:
It's literally the example given in the Law of War manual on the DoD(W) website:

18.3.2.1 Clearly Illegal Orders to Commit Law of War Violations. The requirement to refuse to comply with orders to commit law of war violations applies to orders to perform conduct that is clearly illegal or orders that the subordinate knows, in fact, are illegal. For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.

Thank you.

JulieB67 · 2025-12-02T11:30:51-0600

Hentenza said:
Fire consumes the material, like the body, but not the immaterial, like the spirit and soul.

We are talking about God's consuming fire that can destroy both body and soul. And I choose to believe Christ's words in that we are to fear the one that can destroy (fully in the Greek) both body and soul. That's why Christ calls it the "second" death. Afterwards he claims to make "all things" new and that the former things will be passed away.

Say it aint so · 2025-12-02T11:30:50-0600

Servus said:
This is the best dirt they could dig up? Seriously? lol.

One more time.
This is a report from FBI agents themselves.
But no, it's far worse than just losing the confidence of those who you are suppose to lead.

iluvatar5150 · 2025-12-02T11:28:01-0600

Landon Caeli said:
Check out NYC 3 days ago...

Login to view embedded media ...An entire crown shouts in agreement!

https://x.com/ChrisCuomo/status/1941134211358097892?s=20

If you cut out the Arabic, that sounds a lot like hundreds (maybe thousands?) of evangelical services I've heard.

If you add the Arabic back in, it sounds exactly like basically every charismatic service I've heard, with their faux-Arabic "speaking in tongues."

another_lost_guy · 2025-12-02T11:26:26-0600

NxNW said:
13.6% is more than half that, not nearly half.

Both can be true.

NxNW said:
4: Her husband manages her investments.

And does so without consulting her at all? Please, North.

NxNW said:
They convicted Martha Stewart, didn't they?

I actually looked more into Martha Stewart and it turns out she was never actually even convicted for insider trading either. Her broker was. Congrats! You've conceded the entire argument.

NxNW said:
Did she personally trade in those stocks using that knowledge?

Did Martha Stewart?

NxNW said:
Just not very informative.

At least you acknowledge it wasn't an argument now.

essentialsaltes · 2025-12-02T11:25:46-0600

He truthed it, and truthed it again a few minutes later. It must be truth!

essentialsaltes said:
DJT is on a tear. Down 43% over the last 6 months. Still above its all time lows.

OK, now it's around its all time (post-SPAC) lows.

FAITH-IN-HIM · 2025-12-02T11:24:18-0600

Yarddog said:
Which account of Paul's conversion is correct?

And they that were with me beheld indeed the light, but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.
Acts 22 : 9

And the men that journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing the voice, but beholding no man.
Acts 9 : 7

I don't know how to reconcile these verses nor has the Holy Spirit told me how to do it. I choose to not worry about.

Why would one compare these two events? In Acts 9, the event occurs on the road to Damascus during Paul's conversion to Christianity, while the account in Acts 22 takes place 23 years later in Jerusalem.

wing2000 · 2025-12-02T11:23:03-0600

rambot said:
I like that he's pointing out that "Radical leftists" are keeping America safe from Drug Traffickers!

Thanks Honduras man!

The John 8:32 letterhead was a nice (cynical) touch.

essentialsaltes · 2025-12-02T11:19:08-0600

It's still eating at him. (Oped by Thiessen)

SabbathBlessings · 2025-12-02T11:18:44-0600

DamianWarS said:
Why are you refusing to comment on the blood covenant established in 24? You seem to be hyperfocused on these stone tablets being physically seperate to other laws and drawing some off doctrine that the tablets form their own covenant relationship. I know your motivated by your traditions and I get that but your not saying anything of substance that would lead us to this special clause covenant doctrine of the tablets. Ex 20-24 very clearly shows a different narrative of a covenant relationship that includes the 10 along with other commandments. There is no other way to phrase this blood covenant in Ex 24.

The Scriptures I posted already addressed this. The Ten Commandments is not the book of the law or book of the covenant- same thing.

Exo 34:7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.” 8 And Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you according to all these words.”

Deut 31:24 So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they were finished, 25 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying: 26 “Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there as a witness against you

The Ten Commandments is written on stone by God, inside the ark Exo31:18 Exo40:20, not in a Book and they already agreed to keep this covenant separately Exo19:8 because its not the same Law. I will add the law of Moses included the Ten Commandments, because all of God's people keeps His commandments, but by the clear Scriptures I provided, its clearly a separate law that serves a different purpose.

Mari17 · 2025-12-02T11:18:21-0600

Hi, I'm not sure where else to post this...how can I upgrade my account using the Blessings earned? I see the options for things to purchase under Shop, but it will not let me buy anything. Thank you!

Michie · 2025-12-02T11:17:30-0600

A week after The Catholic Register in Canada revealed that pro-life advocate Alissa Golob went undercover while 22 weeks pregnant to test whether late-term abortions were accessible in Canada without medical justification, the national response continues to intensify, with a new twist: a fourth hidden-camera video that Golob says she is legally barred from releasing.

Golob, co-founder of RightNow, posed as an undecided pregnant woman in abortion facilities in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary in 2023. The Nov. 19 Register story detailed her conversations with clinic counselors and physicians who told her late-term abortions could be arranged at nearby hospitals, sometimes “up to 32 weeks,” without needing to provide medical reasons.

Staff described procedures as a “mini stillbirth,” advised her she could “expel the fetus in the car,” and said reasons such as already having two children or “not wanting to be pregnant” were acceptable.

Those recordings — three of which have now been released — directly contradict long-standing political claims that late-term abortions in Canada are only performed in cases of maternal health risk or severe fetal anomalies.

In an email interview with The B.C. Catholic, Golob said the reaction from Canadians has been more visceral than she expected.

The dominant response has been “overwhelming shock and horror from the average Canadian who didn’t think late-term abortions were possible,” she said.

Many who describe themselves as pro-choice wrote to her saying the recordings were disturbing and that unrestricted late-term abortion “just shouldn’t be allowed.”

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Reactions mount in Canada to undercover video exposing late-term abortions

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