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Jesus Christ is God of the white house United States of America

Jesus Christ is God of the White House United States of America Philippians 13:20 NKJV
Transcending you into Citizens of heaven , For God is love (no fear) To Have what the Word says you will have. Jesus Christ is God in we trust.

Philippians 4: 19 KJV

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

God is blessings with your name on it.

Overwhelmed by the amount of stuff left in Mom's house and thinking I may have to clear it out one day

Near the end of 2022, my dad passed a way and left a lot of material possessions at my mom's house. There is stuff piled up almost to the ceiling in the garage and in a room that was dad's office, and those rooms are completely full lengthwise and width-wise. The shed in the backyard also has a lot of stuff in it too, including a ride around lawn mower that is broken. A lot of the stuff is clutter or junk, like old books or computer equipment, car parts, etc. I feel very overwhelmed with the idea that I may have to clear out the house in the future, if I inherit the house, in order to resell it. There is a significant amount of stuff in the other rooms of the house too, but not as much. My mom is currently 75 years old and we are located in the U.S.A.

Earlier in 2022, I moved to an apartment in a new city that is about an hour away from my mom's house. I moved for a job I was hired at, and also to live closer to my special needs brother so I can visit him more often at the care center he lives at. I kind of feel like I am more at home in this area close to my brother and at a job that is better than a lot of jobs I have had in the past. So I feel like staying at this apartment and reselling my mom's house if I inherit it in the future, so I can continue life here. I don't know if my mom's health would go downhill in such a way that I would need to move back to her house to take care of her, or if I could get others to help.

So I wanted to ask for advice about how I should go about clearing stuff out of the house, or how involved I should be or not be. I only go home to my mom's house about once a month on the weekend, or during my vacation. Mom will not allow my friends or other people from church to come to the house to help out, so I have to do it myself. I would work on it by filling up my car with stuff and taking it to Good Will. I think I want to start working on it in the near future. I am uncomfortable with renting a dumpster and throwing good stuff out that could be reused by others. If I am left with it in the future when my mom passes, I may call a junk removal service, but I am thinking that this could cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars with all the stuff. If I inherit the house, I would have to deal with removing or selling all the furniture too, and that has me overwhelmed. I am not sure I would post it on Facebook Marketplace, because I am not sure if having strangers to the house when I am by myself in the house is a safe idea. Although at a past apartment I moved out of, I posted furniture on Craigslist and had strangers buy the stuff, and I was fine by myself with strangers coming in. I am not sure about my ability to take a bunch of vacation time or a bunch of weekend trips there if my mom passes to get rid of all the stuff.

What I am really struggling with now, is how often do I want to take weekend trips to work on this. If I wanted to, I could go there almost every weekend. Or I can just go once a month or maybe every other weekend. I am thinking that if I go almost every weekend, that it will negatively affect my physical health. I am kind of in the routine of going to the fitness center near me on the weekend for cardio exercise for heart health. For some reason on the weekdays after work, I like to relax more and not drive out to the fitness center, but I tend to just want to go on a walk outside after work. So that leaves me to going to the fitness center on the weekend usually on Saturday, and my membership is only valid at my current city, not elsewhere. I usually exercise on the elliptical or treadmill for an hour. If I did not do this exercise regularly, I am thinking I could be more at risk for heart attack, and I am in my 40s, but maybe I am worrying too much.

The other dilemma I am struggling with is how frequently I just want the weekend to be a more relaxing weekend, and a time where I can work on my own hobbies or do chores at my apartment. If I would decide to go to my mom's house a lot more weekends, this would force me to do more of my chores and housekeeping on weeknights after work. Usually after work I tend to want to relax more and not work on as many tasks. What I am wondering about is how much does God want me to rest. If I take weekend trips on top of working Monday through Friday, I could be working seven days a week and not taking a day of rest for myself. And there are hobbies I want to pursue more, and maybe read some books, or visit some nice parks on the weekend. Since I like to go to my mom's house with my vacation time, I can use that time to work on it instead of many many weekends. If I inherit the house after my mom's passing than I may be under a lot more pressure to take weekend trips or vacation time to clear it out a lot more quickly.

When I do take weekend trips home to my mom's house, I find that on Friday night, I like to just relax and text people, maybe go to a restaurant with my mom, and not work on much. I am thinking about limiting distraction to my work by using app blocking software that sets time limits or can completely block texting.

I have also been wondering if I would want to just sell the house as is, with the stuff still in it, if I inherit the house. My dad's hoarding problem is not really my problem, so I don't have to carry the burden of it. I might want to totally disband from tons of weekend trips, or from taking out a loan to pay tens of thousands for it to be cleared by a junk removal service. It seems like a very highly involved burden that is too heavy, and I might just not want to deal with it, by selling as is.

The other issue to discuss is that the mortgage for the house is only three fourths paid off, and the mortgage company said that since my name is not on the mortgage, I am not able to assume the mortgage payments in the event of Mom's passing. I still need to talk with the mortgage company to ask for their advice about this future situation, but I am thinking I might be under a time crunch to resell the house in this situation. There is also a lien the government placed on the house because of my Dad receiving coverage for care in the nursing home through Medicaid.

I am not sure how I want to deal with these things, but I am really overwhelmed by the amount of stuff. I realize the rapture could happen, when Jesus comes back and we are given new glorified bodies, and this could happen before I have to deal with inheriting Mom's house.
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More than 740 High-Ranking National Security Officials have Endorsed VP Harris

More than 700 high-ranking national security officials have endorsed Democratic candidate Vice President Harris in her run for the White House, with some leaders expressing concerns about former President Trump’s “scary authoritarian streak.”

“Vice President Harris has all the leadership qualities needed to be a strong commander in chief. She’s prepared. She’s strategic. She’s understands all sides of an issue,” retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Michael Smith told The Hill. “We saw as much during the debate.”

The letter endorsing Harris consists of 741 former high-ranking national security officials, including 233 general and flag officers. Among those 741 officials are 15 four-star generals, 10 former Cabinet secretaries and 10 service secretaries as well as leaders who served in Republican administrations.

“We do not agree on everything, but we all adhere to two fundamental principles,” the letter reads. “First, we believe America’s national security requires a serious and capable Commander-in-Chief. Second, we believe American democracy is invaluable.”






NSL4A Endorses Kamala Harris for President of the United States

To the American People,

We are former public servants who swore an oath to the Constitution. Many of us risked our lives for it. We are retired generals, admirals, senior noncommissioned officers, ambassadors, and senior civilian national security leaders. We are Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. We are loyal to the ideals of our nation—like freedom, democracy, and the rule of law—not to any one individual or party.

We do not agree on everything, but we all adhere to two fundamental principles. First, we believe America’s national security requires a serious and capable Commander-in-Chief. Second, we believe American democracy is invaluable. Each generation has a responsibility to defend it. That is why we, the undersigned, proudly endorse Kamala Harris to be the next President of the United States.


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“The Current Crisis of Faith in the Church Has Its Ground in the New Mass” — Analysis by Fr. Michael Gurtner

The following superb article by Austrian priest Fr. Michael Gurtner appeared in German at the site katholisches.info on November 27, 2022; the translation is published here with permission.—PAK



At present, the modern Church is working to change its internal constitution, transforming itself and by its own initiative from a hierarchical Church, as willed and instituted by God, to a “synodal” (and therefore humanly constructed) Church. In the one and only Church of Jesus Christ, which is the Catholic Church, a process of successive detachment from divine revelation and from Christ Himself has been underway for decades: it is thus a process of self-destruction. The Church is currently tearing itself apart from within. Unfortunately, the question is now very legitimate as to how Catholic the Catholic Church on earth still is. Is it really still as Christ intended and wanted it to be?

True, it is clear that the Catholic Church is identical with the Church instituted by Jesus Christ. One can, so to speak, point to the Catholic Church and say, “This is the one and only Church that Jesus Christ instituted.” Quite different, on the other hand, is the question of whether what is generally done, taught, decided, or believed by the earthly hierarchs of this one and only Church of Jesus Christ at any given time corresponds to what Christ willed.


One must not make the fatal mistake of thinking that everything the Church says in its visible organs automatically corresponds to the teachings and will of Jesus Christ. Not everything that the Church says and does is automatically in accordance with the divine will: in it there is very well also the potential to act in word and deed against the revelation of God. This is called error when it happens out of ignorance through no fault of its own, and sin when it happens willfully and consciously.


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Your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of WOMEN

David lamented for Jonathan in 2S 1:

25 “How the mighty have fallen
in the midst of the battle!
“Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
26I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
very pleasant have you been to me;
your love to me was extraordinary,
surpassing the love of women.
27 “How the mighty have fallen,
and the weapons of war perished!”

David was not alone in this expression. There is a Chinese proverb: 兄弟如手足,妻子如衣服. Brothers are like hands and feet; wives are like clothing. The proverb was derived from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 15. Liu Bei compared one of his sworn brothers to his hand and foot, something like this: If I lose my wife, I can replace her with a new one, but I cannot replace my hand or foot.

The Greeks had a similar concept. These were examples of platonic love.

In the NT, Jesus went one step further and commanded us to love one another (Jn 13:34). In several of Paul's letters, he instructed believers to greet one another with a holy or brotherly kiss (1Th 5:26).
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Women are using the 6-6-6 dating rule to find the perfect man — but is it hurting their chance at finding love?

People are just discovering what dating profiles with 6-6-6 mean. No, it’s not satanic — but it could lead you to a devilishly eligible bachelor.

The 6-6-6 rule refers to men who are 6 feet tall, have six-pack abs and make over six figures.

Some women claim to use the rule to find men who fit the bill and help narrow down the seemingly never-ending lineup of potential matches on dating apps.

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OPINION: Harris lies about Trump and flip-flops on policy. What does she really stand for?

As a prosecutor turned politician, Harris can communicate effectively. When she doesn't, there are only a couple of possible reasons: She's either deliberately being unclear or lying.
Harris' lies have become more prominent in the past month. During an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) on Tuesday, Harris said, "Four years ago, when we came in, we came in during the worst unemployment since the Great Depression." She made a similar statement during her debate with Trump.

This was written by someone who is no fan of Donald Trump. My concern is that most people don't realize how extremely radical Kamala is and that we will lose our freedoms under a Harris regime.

Christian male 38 trying to get to know a 32 year old woman; is this parental behavior normal? This is my first actual dating experience

A few days before July 28th, I felt a name laid upon my heart. I also felt an odd feeling I should go check a certain dating site which I had signed up for, but only looked once on and it had no one near local on it.

I decided to go check it. There was a person's profile who instantly stood out to me, 31 and I'm 38. She was local and nearby, very nearby. 4 miles away to be exact. It was an unusual name which made me instantly assume a fake. I couldn't see no pictures, all blurred and only some of the profile and it had verses about glorifying God. Which is what I'm looking for it and at the intro I seen it had FYI only the first message is free and they had their IG left.

I looked up their name, and it translated into the name that was laid on my heart.

July 28th I don't use social media, and so I made an instagram just to message this person. I introduced myself in very few words, and just said that I'm a virgin, my height, etc and would you allow me an email that I may fully introduce myself with a picture and everything to you? They messaged back that night and said it's very strange, but I guess that is what I got for signing up for a dating site and then I emailed them.

Our emails instantly hit it off, our similarities were eerily similar. Both homeschooled, both full virgins(Never been kissed, etc), neither having any real dating experience. Our emails grew long, and eventually we decided to make a video call date. We did, and it went even better, we shared text information and it continued to grow better. Eventually after one of our video calls she says would you like to meet up after church for lunch Sunday?

I was hesitant due to severe social anxiety, but then she said what about the library? I had already told her about my severe social anxiety. She told me they had meeting rooms, and so we agreed. Our meeting was beyond belief incredible. We had agreed to a certain time before she had to go teach at her studio. (She's a Taekwondo teacher 4th degree black belt)

As my car is currently broken down(yes I'm working on getting another one), I walked back, and suspected she had already left as it had been five minutes. I looked down and seen she had messaged me, would you like to take a picture together?! I replied yes, but with a frowny face because it was over five minutes ago. I walked back towards the parking lot and to my surprise she was still there, and we took some pictures and even a video together.

We started trying to meet every chance we could, we texted all the time, and then a few days before our one month from meeting, she said her dad would like to take me out for lunch. I said, I'd prefer to just meet one on one in the meeting room. Wednesday night(meeting is Thursday, also the day of one month of us meeting)she calls me and says, my mom also wants to meet you. Being one day before the meeting, I felt I had no choice but to say yes and so I agreed.

I sat down from 3:20 to 6:55pm talking to her parents until the library Personnel said we are closing in a minute. I expected maybe an one hour meeting. Not basically a four hour meeting of questions being asked all about my life. Why do you like her, etc, etc.

They said they were leaving. So me and this woman walk to our bench where we normally pray together, hold hands and side hug and then go home. It's a library public park. Some little children were out with their parents near the fountain etc. It's a nice open place.

We pray holding hands as normal. I said, well I would hug you, but your parents might be watching. She said no they left. Then she pulls out a necklace, and said my mom told me not to give this to you, but I want, I feel I need to give this to you. It's a necklace with a saying from my mom, (my mom had seen this woman before and said I should date her, story for another time.) and on the front Isaiah 60:22 The smallest family will become a thousand people, and the tiniest group will become a mighty nation. At the right time, I, the LORD, will make it happen.”(We had been talking about a future together) She was trying to get the necklace clasp open, almost breaking a nail(was creeping me out) and getting tense from trying to open it. I said it's okay, don't worry about it, I think it'll need a pin in it to open it and I can do it when I get home and put it in my shirt pocket.

Well, I decided to give her a two handed side hug to thank her as I had to go for my ride. So I leaned back to my left sitting looking at her and side hugging her with both hands around her, saying thank you, and that everything will be okay. Another reason I gave her the two sided sitting down side hug. As I was about to have to leave as my ride was already waiting. Then she says my parents are here. She changes into a statue looking like a principal just walked in in elementary school.(They never left was spying on us from across the park, pretended to have leave, but they said they were 'just talking' and seen it)

Her 68 year old dad and 60ish mom get out, walk up in the public park to the bench, and the dad asks me what are you doing with my daughter? I said had my arm around her and we were praying. Sorry if I offended you. (I have no clue at this point what is going on. She's 31(now 32) and I'm 38. Which is both true. The mom meanwhile starts waving her arms around like a bird, saying we don't do any of this, NONE of this until marriage. They then walk back to their vehicle, and she of course now has to leave. I tell her sorry, no clue what to say to her at this moment.

I walk her to the car, open the door and close it for her as always. Then walk up to their vehicle and he rolls down the window(Yes dumb move I know now), and I said I have nothing but good intent for your daughter Sir. Mom is saying into the window, she hasn't done any of that. I said neither have I ma'am. He says well the spirit and the flesh wrestle against each other. Then I just moved my head and walked off for my ride as they drove off.

That night she continued texting me until 11pm. I had been getting asleep around that time, I could not fall asleep until around 7am, I felt a horrible, horrible feeling over me. The next day there was no message from her at all.

The next day comes a 9am message. Saying,

'
Good morning, myname ☀️
I miss you and hope you slept well.
I very much hope the other night didn’t upset you too much, because honestly it did me.
You were amazing in so many ways and I was so grateful for the time and honesty which you offered so freely to my parents (and me of course :))
Other than the obvious at the end of the night, there were just a couple moments that made me feel just a bit uneasy.
And while I’d like to address it right away, I believe the right thing to do is to continue in prayer and space to think.
I hope this time to be short lived as I’m anxious to see you again! But I think it best to simply take myself out of the next conversation and I’m sorry to ask this but that you would please contact my Dad for the next conversation.
I hope this won’t be too much to ask, as I’m sure he’s not the first person you’re eager to talk with right now, but I know you’re a pretty brave man ;)
I know you’re a man of God, honorable and wants to do what’s best and so in respect for me, I ask that we do this by honoring our parents through this process.
You have not left my prayers.
I miss you, myname.
And I pray you have a very blessed day. '


Then she sends his phone number. Her being uneasy and everything is a surprise to me. End up calling her dad, left a message, a day later he replies, saying he didn't know it was my number. (Despite the voice mail saying so) So due to this I missed her birthday. Labor day weekend etc with her.

First thing he wants to discuss is what caused you to put your arm around her? As this woman loves side hugging me. She was the one who brought up the side hugging to me the first day we met and I declined it, due to I felt I thought it would be better to give her a full normal hug first, because I wanted to date her and was seriously interested in her. Though we did after the first meeting start side hugging on the bench only though. To protect her, I don't mention this to him. So, we get 45 minutes into the conversation, and then says he wants to meet me again for I can explain holiness and purity to him. As I had been talking about this with her, and them during our basically four hour meeting. I took it as a sermon,(which is what I'm planning to do one day as I'm trying to go into ministry)

I end up for the next 45 minutes discussing the Holy Bible with him, until again the library ends up announcing they are closing and so I'm at a loss as to what is still going on. I ask if she can go to church with me Sunday? He says no, we aren't ready for that.(Previous week me and the woman had agreed to it, but I ended up not being sure I could get there that week so it didn't happen. )

He said I'd still like to meet with you again, but I'll have to pray about it. I'm going to talk to her. He goes on to say I want whatever the Lord wants, and I don't want to stop anything, but it's going to be up to her. I asked can she message and tell me. And he said he will have to talk to her and his wife first.

Few days later, I get a message from her asking if I'd like to meet. I say yes, I get there, brought her birthday gift, not her card as it's hard to finish a custom made card with all this going on. As I'm walking down to the bench, where she said she'd be at. I notice the dad in the corner of my eye sitting in his vehicle next to hers.

She's completely different from before. Her posture is different, she's facing me looking towards her dad's vehicle. At opposite ends of the bench. He starts texting her during the conversation, and then he called and she didn't see it and he got out of his vehicle until she called him. We are about the handicap parking to the walmart entrance of any normal walmart.

(Ten days since I've seen her)So we start talking some, and she says, one little thing about the hug and then doesn't want to talk about it anymore, but then says my dad said you didn't want to meet him again. I told her I never said that, which I never did. I didn't understand why in the first place I'm meeting her dad.

Asked her why she couldn't go to church, and she said my dad doesn't want rumors or gossip to start. I ask her if she thinks that this is normal? What's normal anymore she replies. Then later she tells me she doesn't like when I contradict her parents. Basically the conversation feels like the woman is a middle man, and asking me questions for her parents. End up running out of time, she had to be at work, no one told me. I asked her if I could text her, and she said I don't want to have to ask again, but could you text my dad? Then I walk her to her car and I ask, so I need to text your dad before I can talk to you again? She says yes please.

So we go back to silence. I decided to wait a day to message her dad, because honestly I'm confused as to what is going on and how a side hug she enjoyed and we only did, now is suddenly a great act of wickedness. I message him at around 2:30ish pm Tuesday if he could meet me Friday(trying to meet her dad again to honor her), and apparently my discipleship teacher which teaches me said hello to him where her dad works, as he works at a common place you shop.(I found this out Wednesday night) He gives me a Christian reference letting her dad know I attend church/Bible study regularly in his class.

Only that daughter goes to church that I know of. The one I had been getting to know. Dad texts me Friday morning at 10:30ish am Sorry can't. Silence still, Monday comes and she asks if she could call me. I see it thirty minutes late, due to not expecting any messages. She calls me from her home on IG video.(She never ever even voice calls from her home; let alone a video call.)

She starts talking just about regular things holding the phone in her hand(She lives at home with an older sister, and younger brothers in their mid-late 20's with their parents)then she said what did you tell that man at church? I told her that I am very fond of you. And that he's watching over me. She says, well the intent of his message didn't work.

(The intent was to vouch that I'm truly attending church etc. A great thing to have from anyone) So now I'm confused, and will later have to ask my discipleship teacher about this. Turns out he did nothing more than that as I thought)

She then tells me, well I will decide by Wednesday night if we can continue. Then the night ends. Wednesday comes, and she asks if I'd like to have another call. We set one up for Thursday. She's outside at home(again not normal). We start talking, then she says again, I wish the meeting with my dad would have went better and you would have wanted to meet him again. I tell her again, I didn't say no and that I had texted him already. I ask her if she could ask a neutral church in town about all this. And she says well, I don't think it would matter, my parents know me. I told her I don't know what to do to fix this?
Then she says I want to just drop it and I said I do too. (I didn't bring it up again, she did about her dad being unhappy about me somehow saying no to meeting him again, despite me being the one who hasn't received a message back from him. ) So the conversation starts coming to a close, and I ask if she's going to the special event on the river. She says no, then she asks if I'm going to a special event near the river.(Large local event) I don't have anyone to go with I tell her. She says would you? That's a big crowd. She gets excited and then I ask her if she'd go with me. We ended up sitting up a day Saturday at 3pm. 9:45pm Friday night she messages as I'm preparing to be ready for bed and get up for tomorrow to do this with her. That she can't find peace, and if she meets me she will change her mind again. So she says goodbye to me, which is a couple days before my birthday.

What is going on? She talks consistently about having to honor her father and mother. The first day I met her, her mom called her at the library and I could hear her asking if her GPS was on. During the last conversation on video, she said she has to respect her parents, and I said they have to respect you too, as you're an adult. She said they are or I wouldn't be talking right now.

She's always smiling and happy with me. She said she's been unhappy when we aren't talking. She had no issues with us hugging. But it's like all about her mom and dad now. Is it normal for a 32 year old woman not to be able to text/talk/video, meet without her parents permission? Not even be able to let anyone come to her studio to sit and talk with her, in her car, anything without permission?

I understand fully honoring thy father and thy mother, but not being able to choose who you can meet, date, talk with, text, visit, etc. Is this biblically correct at all? Her ending message Thursday night stated with the other stuff , "I want to assure you that this is completely and 100% my decision" Which feels really weird, because she was happy and excited when videoing Thursday about us going out to talk and look at things together.

What is going on?? I didn't reply, because truthfully my heart is broken. In the message she said she admired me, etc, etc and all these things, but does this to me? What am I missing? Please any advice is appreciated.

I started studying the bible seriously and after years I'm getting anxiety

Hi everyone, I gave my life to Christ a couple years ago and he's slowly transformed me to the man I am today. I've been progressing little by little but to give an overview of the efforts I've put so far go as follows. I read every night, I pray and meditate on his word daily. I go to church every Sunday where I always feel replenished after going. I've come to realize over time that I did not put the same effort of studying as I do in other aspects of my life. I recently just started studying more intensely to get a better understanding of God's teaching for us that he gives us access to through the Bible. I have been anxious free for years, until recently now that I've taken this next step to further my relationship with the Lord. I read in the mornings now, and now I'm taking notes. I cleaned up the things I have watched and watch more that teach me more about Jesus. This anxiety is small but I am very conscious that this is not from God. Is there an explanation for this? I always pray that God leads me and shows me what he needs to me to see and pray for access to the wisdom of what I read.

Thanks for all the help and bless you all!

Kamala Harris to skip Al Smith dinner, a traditional event for major presidential candidates

PHOENIX (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will skip this year’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York, breaking with presidential tradition so she can campaign instead in a battleground state less than three weeks before Election Day.

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Why Trump Can’t Shake Project 2025

Ezra Klein sums up Trump's conundrum with Project 2025 well:

"The MAGA coalition — particularly its elected officials and Washington staffer class — has grown beyond Trump. It has more views on more issues than he does. It has absorbed more specific and unusual ideologies than he has. It is more hostile to abortion than he is, or than he wants to appear to be. It is more committed to deregulating health insurance than he is, or than he wants to appear to be. There is a great gap between the MAGA leader who slept with a porn star and the factions in the MAGA movement that want to outlaw pornography, as Roberts proposed on Project 2025’s first page.

Trumpism is whatever Trump says it is, but MAGA is whatever his movement becomes. This is why JD Vance has been a political liability to Trump’s campaign: Vance represents MAGA as it has evolved — esoterically ideological, deeply resentful, terminally online — unleavened by Trump’s instincts for showmanship and the winds of public sentiment. It is telling that it is Vance, not Trump, who wrote a glowing forward to Roberts’s forthcoming book. Trump is where MAGA started, but Vance and Roberts is where it is going."

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Deuteronomy 8:3


Deuteronomy 8:3 And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

To interpret the NT as speaking against obeying the Torah is to interpret it as speaking against living by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Who will accept the results?

Nearly 50% Of Republicans Say They Won’t Accept Election Results If Trump Loses; 15% Willing To ‘Take Action’ To Overturn Results: Report - Thenewsglobe.net

50% won't accept Trump loss and 15% of Republicans are will to take action.

25% of dems won't accept results but only 1% willing to take action.

Is this surprising? Is this the path you saw the parties taking?
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Against My Better Judgment...

I think Nicea 2 is an accretion in the Chruch. The scholarship is unanimous that icon veneration did not exist before the sixth century.

What would I need to change my view on this? I have thought about it. What would get me to reconsider is I would need this:
1) It would have to be in the third century or before.
2) It would have to be from three ECF (who are considered orthodox Christians, not Gnostic sources).
3) It would have to be directly affirming Icon Veneration as described in Nicea 2. That would mean it would include bowing down to, kissing, or praying through the icon as a window into heaven.

I am NOT interested in the catacombs. I am NOT concerned with Christian art which may serve certain purposes other than Icon Veneration.

Help me understand, were Jesus's words uncreated, in the same way as the uncreated light?

If the uncreated light of the transfiguration was uncreated, then how about the words that Jesus spoke? The only difference between sound and light is the speed at which they travel according to physics; How should I understand this from a EO view and how would non-EO explain this such as Roman Catholics. thanks

Kamala Harris Runs To CNN, Demands Second Debate After Ducking Fox News Event

Trump has pushed back on the idea of agreeing to another debate with CNN, pointing to the fact that Harris ducked a September event that was set to be hosted by Fox News. The Trump Campaign pointed to the fact that they agreed to a debate with a left-leaning, anti-Trump network in calling for Harris to reciprocate, though she ultimately decided to skip the September 10 debate.
She only can look good with people propping her up, like Oprah did.

"Trans" Woman as a Nurse?

On Friday, my regular nurse came to give me my shot. He comes every two weeks to administer a shot to me for my mental illness. Most of the time it is him. Sometimes it is someone else. He had someone shadowing him on Friday. A woman, or so I thought. The woman looked very masculine. I can't prove it was actually a man though. Just had man-like hands, was very tall, and had a kind of fake femininity which I found really creepy.

The question would be if I should actually do something about it at this point. I don't think I should. I think I should wait until I get this same person to give my shot again (or perhaps this person will be the new person to give me my shot). The nurse I currently have is fine. I don't think he is a Christian. I have talked about my faith with him quite a bit. Obviously, he knows I am a Christian. He knows I like apologetics. He knows I like Christian Metal (which he actually thinks is pretty cool since he likes bands like Tool which is a band I used to really like but have since stopped listening to almost entirely because of my conviction against it). The nurse I currently have is changing positions a bit. He said he will still be in the field some, but he has this new role of training nurses and doing more administrative stuff. I am thinking that if this "trans" woman gives me my shot again, I should tell the company that having this person give me my shot makes me feel uncomfortable.

What are your thoughts on this?

Janet Jackson Questions Whether Kamala Harris Is Black, Thinks Election May Bring ‘Mayhem’

In an interview with The Guardian, pop star appears to parrot misinformation Trump and others have spread

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Just exactly who is Kamala Harris?

I just saw this -- and now I have a lot of questions...

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Who exactly is Harris?

This chart shows no-limit on late term abortions in 7 states

When asked about this - the news moderators try to step in on behalf of Harris so she never has to ask if she is backing all that wild business about no limit.
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Missing the earlier years

Lord, I know I'm in a world where there are others that watch and track. That they scrutinize my mannerisms, how i speak and make relations. That it's filled with the labeling from others. I know I can't please everyone as judgement exists from both ends. You know I miss the times when such things wasn't as prevalent and as hyper. We must all help one another but I cannot deal with those that judge so negatively on every small thing.

Settling down in a place where it isn't rather hostile-minded is best. To be in a place satan hasn't quite done a number on would be amazing because I sense it all around me.

Unfortunately, it is this way but I'm asking you to just place your hand over the heated and just the overall general negativity and to just ease the tension in this world that's currently ruled by the bearer of artificial light. In Jesus' Name, I pray,

AMEN

Gun ownership on the rise among liberals according to a new report

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that more and more liberals are buying guns, calling it a "surprising" trend among a group of voters that typically support restrictions.

For a piece published Thursday, the outlet looked at new gun ownership data and spoke to experts and several Democratic gun owners to understand what’s behind this trend.

The piece opened with the example of lifelong Democrat and gun restriction supporter Michael Ciemnoczolowski, who recently bought his first firearm.

Ciemnoczolowski, a liquor store clerk in Iowa City, Iowa told the journal that he bought the weapon because he’s worried about "street crime, armed right-wing extremists" and voiced his fear of U.S. politics getting worse.

"Domestic politics have grown increasingly acrimonious," he told the media outlet.


Sounds like code for gearing up for a civil war. Some of them are already trying to gun down the opposing party.

Biden admin. funding play with hermaphrodite angels to promote LGBT ideology

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the 'pride' month celebration on the South Lawn of the White House on June 10, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Thousands of people came to the White House to celebrate so-called LGBTQIAA++ pride month with a performance by singer Betty Who.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at the "pride" month celebration on the South Lawn of the White House on June 10, 2023 in Washington, D.C. Thousands of people came to the White House to celebrate so-called LGBTQIAA++ pride month with a performance by singer Betty Who. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

The Biden administration is funding the production of a play in the Eastern European country of North Macedonia that features a man dying of AIDS who has prophetic visions of an angel described as having "eight vaginas."

In September, the U.S. State Department approved funding to the Association For Affirmation Of Theatre Presvrt Skopje for the production of Tony Kushner's two-part play "Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes" in North Macedonia. The play had its Broadway debut on May 4, 1993.

According to federal grant records, the department's plan also includes "conducting open talks to raise awareness about HIV stigma and LGBTQ+ issues" in the Eastern European country. The department is obligated to spend $20,000 on staging the play and has directed $10,500 in non-federal funding toward the production, resulting in a total funding of $30,500.

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A judge is killed, the sheriff charged — and a small town in Kentucky is shaken to its core


A small, tight-knit southeast Kentucky community has been reeling after their sheriff was arrested for the killing of a prominent district judge in his chambers Thursday – spurring residents to wonder what could have triggered the shooting and prompting calls for better courthouse security.

Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines, 43 - a man whose role made him responsible for judges’ personal security - gunned down District Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, at the Letcher County courthouse in Whitesburg, according to Kentucky State Police.

Stines turned himself in after the shooting and was arrested at the scene without incident, authorities said. He is now facing a first-degree murder charge, state police said.

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