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ICE Nabs Murderers, Rapists, Pedophiles, Traffickers Over Labor Day Weekend

“While Americans enjoyed the holiday weekend, ICE law enforcement was hard at work arresting barbaric criminal illegal aliens. Some of the worst of the worst arrested include murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and drug traffickers,” a DHS Spokesperson shared with The Daily Wire, adding, “Our brave ICE law enforcement officers never stop working to make America safe again.”

Thank you ICE!
Cops working on weekends?
Is there nothing that President Trump cannot achieve!?

Funny how the “law &order” crowd never seems to desire that the President and his minions underlings also stay within the bounds of the law.
And the left ‘persecutes” him for it; ever the hero, ever the victim.
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This is the scariest verse in the bible for believers

My dad and sister are unbelievers, your post made me think, i have the courage to preach to them no problem, the thing is am trying to find the opportune moment, also myself, even when i don't sin much, i am not an example, so i fear they would just say 'you preach but your life is a disaster'
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The Conjunction of Opposites

You are straying from inspired scripture. Neither Jung or Rilke are inspired reading.
Annoying how people have this tendency not to read just one book.

I think that's what they call "literacy".

Ah well. I can proof text with the rest of them:

Matthew 5:44 — “But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”

Romans 12:20–21 — “If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink… Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

1 John 4:18 — “There is no fear in love. But perfect love casts out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.”

Psalm 103:13–14 — “As a father has compassion for his children, so the Lord has compassion for those who fear him. For he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust.”

Ezekiel 16 (the abandoned infant parable): Israel is pictured as a helpless child “thrown out into the open field… you were naked and bare,” and God says, “I passed by you and saw you kicking about in your blood, and I said to you, ‘Live!’”

Mark 5:1–20 (the Gerasene demoniac): A terrifying, possessed man lives among tombs. Yet when Jesus confronts him, what surfaces is not power but desperate helplessness (“What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High?”). Healing comes not by destruction but by restoration.

Luke 23:34 — “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
Even those committing a terrifying act (crucifying Christ) are revealed as fundamentally blind, helpless, and in need of love.
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How is it that the Catholic Church is evil?

Which heresy would that be?
Nestorianism.
And yet no human Jesus, no filfillment of the law, and no atonement.
So, are you saying that our Lord isn't God Incarnate? Now that's heretical!
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How is it that the Catholic Church is evil?

You just could not resist referring to heretics did you? You mariology stems from the second century Christians that defended Mary against the horrible insults by the gnostics creating which by the Middle Ages became the cult of Mary. Mary was just a human, obedient and venerated for sure but just a human.
So you choose to take offence at that one word so you can avoid responding to my actual argument.
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How is it that the Catholic Church is evil?

I am an orthodox Christian but not an “Orthodox“ Christian. Your church does not have the monopoly on Christ or Christianity.
I am suggesting you educate yourself so you can stop making false claims about my Christianity. I don't understand why this is upsetting you so much.
You didn't give an explanation which is why I asked. I had no idea what you were trying to say by posting that verse.
this verse which you ignored and did not quote.
Clearly I did not ignore it, seeing as I asked if you meant a specific thing by posing that passage. I didn't think I needed to quote the verse since you had already posted it twice already.
I’m not claiming that He ceased to be God but that He cooperated with His human nature.
Thank you. That's all I needed to know.
“who, as He already existed in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself by taking the form of a bond-servant and being born in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death: death on a cross.”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭2‬:‭6‬-‭8‬ ‭NASB2020‬‬
I'm quoting it now. Are you happy? It still doesn't add anything to the conversation.
So if I do something, it is arrogant, but if you do the same, it isn't. Got it.
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MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be Deported to African Country of Eswatini

You can’t block abortion clinics, which nobody disputes she did. You can’t threaten or intimidate people accessing legal medical care, either, which was what the bulk of her and her co-defendants sentences was for. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

She has nothing to bleat about, anyway. She got a movie sure to be watched by dozens of people.
Hey, you remembered me :wave:.
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MS-13 Gang Member Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be Deported to African Country of Eswatini

I would like to have Garcia face criminal charges for any crimes he is suspected of doing. The only one we can't do is the domestic violence case. The wife recanted and it's too late. He's still a wife beater, just can't be prosecuted for it now.

Let him have his day in court for any other criminal acts hes suspected of and if he is found guilty he goes to jail and then to Africa after hes served his time. If he's found not guilty then he gets shipped to Africa for being an illegal.
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