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Tropical Wilds · 2025-09-08T16:01:27-0500

Pommer said:
I still pronounce it in my head as hyper-bole.
We all misspeak, sometimes in front of large gatherings; getting called out for it, 15 years later, is priceless.

Macabre got me the other day. I’m a whole-word reader and I get nuked all the time.

rambot · 2025-09-08T16:00:57-0500

RDKirk said:
I define "irrelevant" as "feckless."

I'd disagree in your description then. Not sure if you've noticed that people have things to say about this. And quite a few people did, in fact, NOT vote for this.

And the margin of victory was so small that to constantly harp about some kind of "nature of government" changing mandate, seems like a laughably desperate attempt to shut down debate (not to say you're making that one here though).

essentialsaltes · 2025-09-08T15:59:31-0500

To (try to) forestall the obvious, people's signatures change over time.

Clare73 · 2025-09-08T15:59:15-0500

fhansen said:
No, love...both, IOW
If a person doesnt believe, going by Scripture, alone that, 'at the evening of life they shall be judged on their love'. then Scripture alone hasn't served to fully inform them.

You have no Biblical basis for that assertion.

Many Orthodox Jews love well, but they will be judged not on their love, but on their faith in Jesus Christ.

fhansen said:
And yet, according to Scripture, His teaching doesn't end with Scripture. 2 Thess 2:15

It doesn't while he is alive and able to correct any errors (Gal 1:6-9).
But after he is gone, and 2,000 years later, his written record is the only authority.
We have ample evidence in church history of "oral tradition" contradicting the word of God written.
Which is why there was a Luther.

fhansen said:
Yes, that's your opinion.

Backed by the history of Christianity.

fhansen said:
I didn't say it wasn't biblical; I said it's dependent on the interpretation; intepretations can undermine the meaning.

Correct interpretation is in agreement with all Scripture.
Such interpretation does not undermine any correct meaning of Scripture.

RDKirk · 2025-09-08T15:59:05-0500

rambot said:
Which is, of course EXACTLY what the left was saying was going to happen.

I'll be curious to see how the number of voters may change.

It's exactly what the people who voted for Trump wanted to happen, so that was a feckless warning.

Make no mistake: The United States has gotten precisely the government that the majority in the US wanted.

rambot · 2025-09-08T15:58:37-0500

rjs330 said:
If they made it unhindered to American soil they would have come under the Constituion as it applies to America. But they we discovered on the high seas where the military can act to a threat on Americans under governmental policy. Thankfully they were discovered enroute with their poison and were blown up.

1) They were in the southern Carribean, what was the evidence they were going to the US? Or at least, WHERE is that evidence?
2) It kind of looks like there are bags of things in the boat. No way to tell what it is. But tell you what, go fish it out from the bottom of the ocean. Then you'd get TOWARD me accepting this kind of action.

RileyG · 2025-09-08T15:57:06-0500

The Liturgist said:
Interestingly despite Traditiones Custodes, the FSSP and ICKSP have no shortage of vocations (neither does the SSPX for that matter). I think a lot of men who would otherwise be comfortable with dedicating their life to Christ and taking a vow of celibacy are uncomfortable with the more liberal dioceses, and also with a lack of liturgical beauty, and the result is they’re joining the TLM part of the Catholic Church because they know that they’ll never be celebrating Sunday mass to an empty church (since those places where the TLM is still available are even more overcrowded now than they were before Traditiones Custodes) or being put in a compromising position regarding their commitment to traditional Roman Catholic moral values.

Tradition is the future, in my opinion.

Hentenza · 2025-09-08T15:56:55-0500

Jipsah said:
I do indeed. Y tu?

Seguro que si.

RDKirk · 2025-09-08T15:56:55-0500

rambot said:
Not sure how you define "irrelevant" but I'd say no.

I define "irrelevant" as "feckless."

rjs330 · 2025-09-08T15:56:43-0500

wing2000 said:
11 people were killed.

Despite Hegseth claiming “We knew exactly who was in that boat,” the U.S. government has not released the name of all 11 individuals on that boat.

Do they need to? Let's say a boat load of jihadists were coming with a bunch of bombs to blow up Americans and we caught them on the high seas, do you think we have to know their names before blowing them up?

rambot · 2025-09-08T15:56:10-0500

rjs330 said:
Did you actually believe the God given rights outlined in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution applies to those who reject them and wish to live under a different system? Perhaps the US ought to invade Great Britain and strip its government of their power and instill a US Constitutional one. After all the Declaration of Independence gives us that right. Canada should really be first since its so close.

Did you really believe thats what they meant?

Given what the 2nd Ammendment has been twisted into why not?

Bradskii · 2025-09-08T15:54:16-0500

zippy2006 said:
Again, that's not what a reliable source means, and that's not what someone means when they say the word "reliable source."

Where's that sigh emoticon...

If someone is discussing vaccines for example, and uses a quote from someone to back up whatever point they are trying to make then they are using that quote from someone they consider to be a reliable source. Rather obviously. But if that person doesn't even have a medical degree and has a track record of ignoring actual medical advice then they are not a reliable source. Again, rather obviously.

rjs330 · 2025-09-08T15:53:48-0500

DaisyDay said:
That's a "no" then.

Everyone knows these eleven individuals were engaging in narcoterrorism, so no need for evidence, identification, interdiction, trial or such liberal nonsense!

If they made it unhindered to American soil they would have come under the Constituion as it applies to America. But they we discovered on the high seas where the military can act to a threat on Americans under governmental policy. Thankfully they were discovered enroute with their poison and were blown up.

Jipsah · 2025-09-08T15:53:22-0500

Hentenza said:
Do you know what incarnate means?

I do indeed. Y tu?

But the attempt to slither around the reality is simply too thin. Our Lord Christ is God or He is not. The Christpan Faith says that He is in fact "very God of very God", and not a hybrid of some sort.

rambot · 2025-09-08T15:51:50-0500

It seems most people are of the opinion that drug traffickers are killing Americans.

Well, private health insurance companies are also killing and maiming Americans. And they are doing so WITHOUT the consent of the person who is dying.

What is the appetite for extra-judicial killings of Insurance company employees?

We're all Luigi fans here I assume?

The Liturgist · 2025-09-08T15:51:07-0500

boughtwithaprice said:
Scripture is simple. A woman cannot have children by two different fathers while both fathers are still alive and not be guilty of adultery

Would Mary abandon her son’s purity by profaning her maternity and entering into adultery? Modern society does not give it a thought and actually say that those who object are prudes or old fashioned poly Anna’s, but we are taking about God here. You know, the One who wrote the book, I am who am?

You really think that He would allow His Son to be associated with adultery?

As to the Ark of the Covenant, compare 2 Samuel 6 and Luke 1. The wording is in parallel. No one touches the Ark and lives. Mary is a virgin and it would have been such great dishonor that Joseph most likely would have been struck dead had he tried to have intercourse with Mary
Also check Tobit chapter 6 that speaks of a woman that had seven husbands stuck dead on their wedding night because they approached her with lust. Too bad you have falsely been told that is not scripture

David said how is it the Ark should come to me. Elizabeth asked the same question of Mary. David danced before the Ark. John the Baptist lept for joy at the sound of Mary’s voice. The Ark remained with David three months, and Mary stayed with Elizabeth three months
The Ark contained the stone tablets, manna, and the rod that budded. Mary contained in her womb, the living Word of God, the Bread of Life, and our great High Priest. All three were symbolized by the contents of the Ark of the Old Covenant

The parallels are striking. Also in Revelation, when originally written , did not have chapter and verse. We read at the end of Revelation 11 that John saw the Ark and immediately in Chapter 12:1, he saw a woman clothed with the Sun, the moon under her feet and on her head a crown of 12 stars

It’s in scripture. You have the option to doubt as God gives you free will, but that is not the fault or lack of scripture, rather your own understanding or lack of belief

I want to thank you for a well-articulated Scriptural defense of many of our beliefs concerning the Theotokos.

It is also definitely the case that it would have been immoral for the Blessed Virgin Mary to have relations with Joseph after having born a child of the Father by the Holy Spirit, even though the Holy Spirit in impregnating her did not do so through physical means but rather in a supernatural manner.

Some people incorrectly think of St. Joseph as the human father of Jesus Christ, but this is crypto-Adoptionism; that is to say, it is dangerously close to the belief of the Adoptionists who claimed that Christ was conceived and born in the ordinary way and then adopted as the Son of God due to his perfect virtue. There is also a hybrid of Nestorianism and Adoptionism wherein our Lord is fathered by Joseph according to His humanity. These ideas are inconsistent with Scripture in that it makes it clear that the Blessed Virgin Mary was a virgin at the time she became pregnant with Christ our True God. Thus St. Joseph was the adoptive human surrogate father of Christ our God, but both had in common God the unoriginate Father, the difference being St. Joseph was created by the Father whereas Christ was begotten by Him before all ages, begotten, not made, and like the Holy Spirit shares in the Divine Essence of the Father, having put on our humanity without change, confusion, separation or division.

The Barbarian · 2025-09-08T15:50:09-0500

Platte said:
You'd feel better if it said "the clouds opened" and it rained 40 days and 40 nights?

So now, it's not literal after all?

rambot · 2025-09-08T15:49:41-0500

rjs330 said:
Ate they evil or good? Don't dodge the question.

Certainly you remember that it's not what goes INTO our body that is a sin but it is what comes OUT.

You could certainly argue they are unhealthy and bad for us....but "evil" ain't it.

essentialsaltes · 2025-09-08T15:49:41-0500

essentialsaltes said:
Trump Responds After Report on 50th Birthday Letter to Jeffrey Epstein
The president told the Journal in a Tuesday interview: "This is not me. This is a fake thing. It's a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture in my life. I don't draw pictures of women. It's not my language. It's not my words."

Trump ranted about the Journal on Truth Social, writing: "The Wall Street Journal, and Rupert Murdoch, personally, were warned directly by President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they printed by President Trump to Epstein was a FAKE and, if they print it, they will be sued. Mr. Murdoch stated that he would take care of it but, obviously, did not have the power to do so. The Editor of The Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was told directly by Karoline Leavitt, and by President Trump, that the letter was a FAKE, but Emma Tucker didn't want to hear that. Instead, they are going with a false, malicious, and defamatory story anyway."

Trump Epstein letter and drawing from ‘birthday book’ released

The letter is publicly visible for the first time since its existence was first reported by The Wall Street Journal in mid July. Trump has not only denied writing the letter, but sued the newspaper for defamation.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt asserted that the publication of the drawing “PROVES this entire ‘Birthday Card’ story is false.”

“As I have said all along, it’s very clear President Trump did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it,” Leavitt said in an X post.

perplexed · 2025-09-08T15:48:26-0500

Always in His Presence said:
Perhaps both sides should top?

I should stop , I have gone feral
have a nice day

Strong in Him · 2025-09-08T15:48:14-0500

Clare73 said:
The same reason he chose a devil to be an apostle.

Because he wanted to bring evil into his closest group of friends?
Because he didn't believe his own teaching - "when you pray, say ............. 'deliver us from evil'?"
Because he told darkness - i.e a devil - to be light to the world?

Pommer · 2025-09-08T15:47:24-0500

essentialsaltes said:
Local grandmother held by ICE over $25 bad check from 10 years ago
Jim, a veteran, and Donna, a full-time health care worker, married about eight years ago. A simple life of faith, family and friends. Jim says she’s the first to help others in times of trouble.

Donna, an Irish citizen, came to the U.S. when she was just 11 years old. She is a legal resident alien, or green card carrier, but not a U.S. citizen.

All was well, Jim says, until July. While in Ireland for a family funeral, on the way back at customs in Chicago, Donna was arrested.

“You don’t arrest 58-year-old grandmothers. It’s just wrong. She hasn’t committed crimes. You just don’t do that,” he said.

[To be fair, she did commit a crime.]

Ten years ago, Donna wrote a bad check, charging documents say, for $25. She was a single mom.

She paid it back and got probation. But Jim says the U.S. government is suddenly arguing that was a crime of moral turpitude.

[She was moved from Missouri to a county jail in Kentucky, where she's cooled her heels the past 30 days.]

The worst of the worst!

rambot · 2025-09-08T15:46:16-0500

RDKirk said:
So, the "Americans who don't want to live in a banana republic that seeks to emulate Central and Southern American government styles" are irrelevant.

Not sure how you define "irrelevant" but I'd say no.

RDKirk said:
Why are you talking about them?

cause you asked.

Strong in Him · 2025-09-08T15:45:28-0500

RandyPNW said:
I disagree. I think it is perfectly appropriate to apply Heb 6. Judas gave up on the only source of atonement that could cover his sin.

Hebrews 6 had not been written when Judas was alive.

I disagree that he "gave it up".
People choose to end their lives because they are in great despair and a very dark place. Yes I don't think he was expecting the resurrection - but
neither were the others; they were locked away in fear.

Aryeh Jay · 2025-09-08T15:44:46-0500

Send her to El Salvador!

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