fhansen said:

Same post. You quoted 2 Cor 5: "If anyone is in Christ...", and then added your opinion that the resulting new creation cannot be uncreated, that we can’t compromise our saved status.

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fhansen said:

And I quoted John 15:5 in response: Jesus said, "If you remain in Me..." That implies choice-as do many of the quotes in my following post.

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Showdown at CDC as director refuses to leave post, amid pressure from Trump administration​

JosephZ said:

You probably can, but what about the average low-life who wants to shoot up a classroom full of kids or a place of worship? Or someone who gets kicked out of a bar after having a few too many and comes back with their gun in a fit of rage? Also, switching magazines is much easier in a controlled environment compared to an adrenaline-induced situation. Mistakes and missteps are more likely to be made in the latter.

Each time a shooter has to switch magazines, even if it takes just a couple of seconds, it gives people an opportunity to react, whether that is to run, hide, or, as has happened many times, stop the shooter.


"I saw the Waffle House employees scatter. Then I looked back and I saw a person laying on the ground right at the entrance of the door," said Shaw, wearing a brown suit jacket and with his right forearm bandaged.

Shaw said he slid from his table and moved toward the door, which the gunman was trying to enter after apparently firing through the glass.

"I'm pretty sure he grazed my arm," said Shaw, 29.

"I kind of made up my mind, because there's no way to lock that door, that if it was gonna come down to it, he was gonna have to work to kill me."
As the shooter was either reloading, or the weapon jammed, Shaw ran and hit him with the swivel door, leading to a scuffle.

"I managed to get him with one hand on the gun, and then I grabbed it from him and threw it over the countertop," before getting the suspect outside, Shaw said.



Jacob later said he thought the gunfire was fire crackers, but as he processed what was happening, he pushed his girlfriend onto a nearby table before falling to the ground; though he didn’t yet know it, he had been shot in the chest.

Chaos erupted as students fled, trying to escape or hide as the assailant continued to shoot — one 17-year-old was struck and killed.

From the floor, Jacob said later that he saw the assailant point a rifle at the head of a female student. The assailant pulled the trigger, but the gun did not fire.
As the assailant attempted to reload his weapon, Jacob got off the floor and ran 20 feet toward the assailant. He tripped and fell, but immediately returned to his feet and charged the assailant. He took the boy to the floor, causing him to drop the rifle. They struggled on the floor and other students joined in to assist Jacob, including his younger brother.



Several people were injured Saturday night after a driver ran his truck into a crowded Hiram restaurant and opened fire, police said.

Eduardo Morales, 34, was arrested after a group of patrons at the 278 South Bar & Grill detained him while he was trying to reload the gun, the Hiram Police Department said in a statement. A concert was underway at the time, the establishment’s owner told Channel 2 Action News.

“I dove in through the driver’s side window, and when I reached in there, I noticed that he had a pistol and he was reloading and putting another magazine in,” Puerto told Channel 2.” And I grabbed the wrist where he had the pistol. He was putting up a fight and he wouldn’t let it go. I kept elbowing him with my right arm.”



Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged shooter in Tucson, used a 33-round magazine in a murderous rampage. The sheriff says 31 spent rounds were found on the scene.

As we now know, a group of heroic bystanders stopped the shooter by wrestling him to the ground. But they didn't have an opportunity to intervene until he emptied the magazine and paused to reload.

If the shooter didn't have access to the high-capacity magazine that he used, he would have stopped to reload sooner and lives might have been saved.

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Xeno.of.athens said:

You presume error where the Church teaches infallibly. The Catholic Church does not “spoon feed” doctrine; she transmits divine revelation safeguarded by the Holy Spirit. The First Vatican Council (1870) dogmatically defined that “the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra… possesses that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer willed His Church to be endowed” (Pastor Aeternus, ch. 4; DS 3074). You may reject this authority, but you cannot refute it by mere assertion.

To call the Church’s teachings “erroneous” is to accuse Christ Himself of falsehood, for He promised, “The gates of Hell shall not prevail against it” (Matthew 16:18) and “He who hears you hears Me” (Luke 10:16). The Magisterium does not invent truth; it guards and articulates what God has revealed. Your claim betrays ignorance of the Church’s doctrinal foundations and the rigorous theological tradition that undergirds them.

You speak as though your private judgement supersedes two millennia of apostolic continuity. That is not intellectual courage—it is spiritual presumption. The Church does not appeal to sentiment or manipulation; she appeals to reason illuminated by grace. As Dei Filius affirms, “faith is not a blind sentiment of religion springing from the depths of the soul… but a genuine assent of the intellect to truth received by hearing” (ch. 3; DS 3010).

If you reject the Church’s teaching, you reject the means by which Christ communicates saving truth. You may call it “spoon feeding,” but it is in fact the nourishment of eternal life. “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you” (John 6:53). That is not metaphor. That is dogma. And it is not yours to dismiss.


You appeal to Scripture while dismissing dogma, yet Scripture itself presupposes the authority of the Church to define dogma. You ask where one must believe a “particular dogma” to receive grace—yet the very act of believing in Christ entails assent to His teaching, His sacraments, and His Church. To isolate the resurrection as the sole necessary belief is to mutilate the Gospel and reduce Christ to a slogan. “He who hears you hears Me” (Luke 10:16) was spoken to the apostles, whose successors define dogma not arbitrarily, but as guardians of divine revelation.

You demand a verse that lists dogmas as prerequisites for grace. That is a category error. Grace is freely offered, but not received apart from faith rightly ordered. “Without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6), and that faith is not generic—it is ecclesial, sacramental, and doctrinal. The Council of Trent (Session VI, ch. 7) teaches: “Justification… must proceed from the predisposing grace of God… whereby man is moved to believe those things which are divinely revealed.” That includes the Trinity, the Incarnation, the Real Presence, and the authority of the Church.

You cannot receive Christ while rejecting what He instituted. “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you” (John 6:53) is not optional. It is dogma. The Eucharist is not a symbolic add-on—it is the source and summit of Christian life (cf. Lumen Gentium, §11). To deny it is to deny Christ’s own words. Likewise, baptism is not a suggestion: “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God” (John 3:5). That is dogma. That is grace mediated through sacrament.

You cannot pit Scripture against dogma, for dogma is the Church’s authoritative interpretation of Scripture. To reject dogma is to reject the Church. To reject the Church is to reject Christ. “If he refuses to listen even to the Church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector” (Matthew 18:17). That is not metaphor. That is ecclesial judgement. You may claim to believe in Christ—but if you reject what He taught through His Church, your belief is self-fashioned, not salvific.

I shall leave the rest of your reply unanswered because answering it will in all likelihood be unfruitful.

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RFK Jr. Says CDC Needs to More Closely Align With Trump’s Agenda​

public hermit said:

I saw your post. The number of guns doesn't matter if our attitude towards guns have changed, and they have.
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RFK Jr. bashes CDC after firing of director, resignation of key leaders​

ozso said:

I think the only thing some people really know about the numbers is what CNN et al tells them to believe. Just like the first time around when everything was going to collapse etc.

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Valletta said:

"Research from the Center for Immigration Studies estimates that each illegal immigrant generates an average lifetime net fiscal cost of $68,000, calculated as the difference between public services received and taxes paid. Multiply that by 1.6 million, and the long-term cost of supporting these migrants would be roughly $109 billion.
Put simply, spending $1,000 per person upfront is a tiny fraction—about 1.5%—of what it might cost to support them over a lifetime."

This is a great start.

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Michie said:

A disturbing trend.

Shooting at Catholic School Mass. Update: Shooter Was Trans. – Creative Minority Report

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Platte said:

Demons having children with humans doesnt make sense to me...I don't know of any examples where demons had a physical body.

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RileyG said:

No. Those logos were considered offensive by some and were removed.

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RileyG said:

Quite frankly, NONE of this is a real issue.

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BeckyJ said:

Living in denial seems to be a thing for you.
I'm comfortable with it.

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timewerx said:

Are you trying to say you're vulnerable getting influenced by sinners because you're not Jesus?

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Brightfame52 said:

This sounds crazy. The Holy Spirit saves us Titus3:5-6


5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

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Hentenza said:

You might want to consider the verses before these for context.

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their wrongdoings against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭17‬-‭19‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬

If those with saving faith are indeed a new creation then how can they be uncreated? If God gave those with saving faith the ministry of reconciliation and not counting their wrongdoings against those with saving faith then how can those with saving faith loose the ministry of reconciliation and have their wrongdoings counted against them?

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Richard T said:

The PCE the Fed's preferred inflation measure comes out this Friday. That could be somewhat of a preview. I guess the latest .9 percent PPI should be disregarded? (Over a 10% annual rate, if it were to persist)Powell is a dove and was wrong before of as they said inflation was "transitory." Raising taxes and eventually prices from tariffs is interesting because it does two things. It raises consumer costs and workers will try to demand more wages, this will allow inflation to linger longer and likely it could multiply for some time.

However, the second thing tariffs do is reduce demand because consumers now have less money. This will likely occur more slowly. Deficient demand will work the opposite way for prices. Some of this lack of demand is that the US tariffs will be hurting the world economy. So less world demand, inefficient cost shifting between countries and reduced domestic spending power is going to likely pack a punch. Powell has to try and thread the needle. Likely he is going to lower 1/2 point (one or two meetings) and pause. Inflation will likely show up to justify this. But soon we will see a crash, (maybe very soon, the stock market is at record highs).

Other things to watch for.

The Fed keeps track of the demand for all it's auctions. The latest demands were quite week. Lowering rates will make this problem worse. So you actually could see short-term rates go lower but long-term rates increase. https://www.barrons.com/articles/treasury-30-year-bond-auction-yields-f32727f4
The Fed could buy longer term maturities directly but their balance sheet money printing will spook investors if they even hint at that.
The bond market took the last hit of inflation. Many lost serious money buying a long maturity bond that paid just 3%. I doubt we will ever see
long term rates that low again. Why? Because no one wants that debt when the government is increasing their spending. Even with the tariff revenue the deficit is climbing. Things are getting unsustainable and the Federal Reserve is really in no position to help that much.

Stagflation which is very new to most is likely for some months. Inflation plus low or negative growth. Powell will be defenseless. raise rates and hurt the eocnomy more, lower rates and the long end of the curve may not even move. He is lucky he is retiring soon.

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Jerry N. said:

We don't receive the gift of the Holy Spirit until we are saved. Before salvation the Holy Spirit is pulling us to repentance in a thousand different ways from the "outside" if you will. After we accept, Christ the Holy Spirit leads us from within, and that is the most important part of the gift of the Holy Spirit.

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ozso said:

Deflection time.

I think the only thing some people really know about the numbers is what CNN et al tells them to believe. Just like the first time around when everything was going to collapse etc.

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