essentialsaltes said:

It's a free country.

Among our first amendment rights are the right to free speech and the right to peaceably assemble, and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

These people had grievances against the government and peaceably assembled to speak about them.

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I understand that, but I find that a waste of time, in my opinion. Isn’t there a better way to address grievances?

My opinion only.

I wouldn't put any confidence or credence in anything that woman (?) says, even if she said water is wet. She always struck me as being so hampered in her viewpoints by institutionalized perceived racism and all of the other liberal baggage they all drag around and which they shape their personalities by, that she wouldn't know real oppression if it came up and punched her in the nose.

ViaCrucis said:

And the Seed of Abraham is Christ, and all who are in Christ are Abraham's children.

So relevance to the modern state of Israel = none.

-CryptoLutheran

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Nos is the time

LONDON (AP) — Scarlet uniforms flashed against the riverbank. Wooden skiffs glided in formation. A young swan, gently lifted from the water, was measured, inspected and released.

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Jerry N. said:

If you are saying that God reveals and does all sorts of things that our limited minds attribute to angels, then I agree with you. As long as God is given the glory. It is not always for us to know if angels were involved or not. It is enough to know God did something that we should praise Him for. Do I have that right?

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You do ... but it is first and foremost not about that which is outside of the city ... so to speak ... when we enter into his word, his word begins to be revealed all around us, and to this revealing all of it begins to speak to (both seen and unseen) though it has always spoken thus), which is not separate from the purpose God purposed in himself.

It shouldn't be any stranger thing to us then being equal with God ...

ozso said:

58 thousand out of an estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants, means 0.53% of them have been detained.

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Right, that's why it's 'mission impossible'. Getting rid of all of them was always a pipe dream.

I missed what you wrote but were you referring to Bishop Mengeling that just passed?

RileyG said:

My cousin, who sadly took his life at 15 in 2006 and had a Catholic funeral, had his ashes scattered in Wyoming or Colorado. He would have been 35 today.

(Neither of his parents attend Mass any longer).

Personally? I'd rather be wrapped in a shroud, without embalming, and buried directly into the ground.

Let the worms and grubs feast on me!

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That's the way really.

You borrowed these resources from the universe. Best to give them back.

XrxrX said:

I was using "Fathers" colloquially and being jocular.. I probably should be more careful with my language.

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Yes, and you probably should delete the parts of your posts that have now been pointed out to you as slanderous.

St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore — founded 1791 — is helping its seminarians become the best priests they can be.

St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore — founded 1791 — may be the oldest seminary in the country, but its approach to helping its seminarians become the best priests they can be is very new.

When Sulpician Father Phillip Brown took leadership of the seminary as rector in 2016, he came on a mission to revamp the way it trains priests. After a period of thorough observation, seminary leadership realized that St. Mary’s had a problem. While — true to its reputation — its academic programs were strong, they concluded that an overemphasis on study was causing other important aspects of the seminarians’ training to fall by the wayside.

While courses on Scripture, moral theology, and Church history are essential to make priests effective teachers and witnesses to the Gospel, knowledge alone is not enough. Father Brown recognized that the seminary could be doing more to raise up priests who are holy, well-adjusted and able to care for their people.

Seminarians from dioceses like Buffalo, Louisville, Richmond, and even Kumbo, Cameroon, spend their final four years before ordination at St. Mary’s. The new approach has resonated with them.

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lifepsyop said:

Actually, dinosaurs are simply the types of creatures that have been found to be the most similar to birds. They aren't really anymore dinosaurs than humans are fish.

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Show me one feature in birds that is not found in at least some other dinosaurs. What do you have?

lifepsyop said:

Show me a feature in humans that is not found, at least in some basal or primitive form, in fish. What do you have?

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Hair. Four-chambered heart. Three-bone middle ear. Separate reproductive and excretory passages. Heterodont dentition.
How many would you like? It's true that since mammals evolved from tetrapods that evolved from fish, humans could be considered highly-evolved fish.

On the other hand, as you seem to realize, there is no feature in birds that is not found in at least some other dinosaurs. And that makes all the difference.

lifepsyop said:

You will always be disappointed if you try and pretend that Evolution is anything like a hard, precise science when in truth it is extremely creative and elaborate visual storytelling.

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Your story is a comforting one that YECs tell each other. But it's false. The Hardy-Weinberg equation, used to detect selective pressure in populations, for example is a precise mathematical tool. Population genetics, is almost entirely mathematical. People are often down on things they aren't up on. Would you like some examples of these tools?

Neither evolution nor gravity nor any other natural phenomenon has fallacies.

lifepsyop said:

Evolution and gravity represent man's attempt to understand the natural world and have historically been laden with fallacies, and fallacies likely continue, especially in academic institutions that hold an almost religious commitment to 18th and 19th century ideas about the universe.

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Well, let's test that assumption. Of Darwin's four points of evolutionary theory, or Newton's laws of motion, show us which of these have since been falsified. I'm guessing you don't know either of these, but you can look them up. Let us know. And you're still confusing natural phenomena with theories that explain them.

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When all your theory really says is that "things change"... and "that which survives, survives" .

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See, not knowing what the theory says, is holding you back from understanding anything about it. No wonder you hate science; if I thought science was like that, I'd hate it too.

lifepsyop said:

What else do you have? You're not even claiming anything to dispute.

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So now you want me to teach you what evolutionary theory is actually about? Wouldn't it have been smarter to learn what it is, before presuming to tell us about it?

lifepsyop said:

You're doing philosophy and pretending it's something else.

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Perhaps you don't understand the difference between science and philosophy. Here's a good place to start your journey:


It's a very accessible, basic primer on biological evolution. Do some reading and then come back and tell us about it.

Yeshua, Yahweh incarnated

Apple Sky said:

The bit which confirms that the earth does not orbit the sun.

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There is no such statement.

Git repo: GitHub - backdrop-contrib/reftagger: Converts Bible references on your Backdrop CMS site into links with tooltip and link to full text

rocknanchor said:

Thank God for those of you who have been spared.

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Those who received His compassion and those who have found His mercy. How shall we number them? There is a predominate number.

Those who have been spared are in the majority (1 Corinthians 10:13).

Those we choose to suffer the consequences or somehow miss the opportunity (2 Corinthians 2:7).

Desk trauma said:

Hey member this:

Russia not on Trump's tariff list​

What’s 100% of zero?

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Exactly, why would you care about a threat that doesn't really harm you?

Russia 'didn’t care' about Trump's weapons for Ukraine, tariff threats, official says​

Russia continued its nightly bombardment of Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, shortly after President Donald Trump announced his decision to supply Ukraine with new military equipment and White House threats of further economic measures against Moscow.

Dmitry Medvedev -- -- the former Russian president and prime minister now serving as the deputy chairman of the country's Security Council -- was more forthright, writing on social media that the Kremlin was unmoved by what he called Trump's "theatrical ultimatum."

"The world shuddered, expecting the consequences," wrote Medvedev, who during Moscow's full-scale war on Ukraine has become known as a particularly hawkish voice within Putin's security establishment. "Belligerent Europe was disappointed. Russia didn't care."

essentialsaltes said:

I think the usual step would be targeted sanctions of some sort. But Trump's favorite hammer is tariffs...

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The US has negligible imports from Russia, which account for around 0.2% of U.S. imports, according to Census Bureau data.

Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Monday that he would impose "severe tariffs" -- though it was not entirely clear if the president was referring to tariffs, sanctions or both

Aw, let's give him the benefit of the doubt that he knew what he was talking about, but couldn't quite find the right words for it.

1 Pet 4:6 " Because it was for this that the good tidings were proclaimed to the dead, that though judged in flesh according to human beings they might live in spirit according to God"
This passage is talking about non believers who had died, but the good tidings, or gospel was proclaimed to them so that they might live in spirit according to God.
Why would God allow the preaching to the dead if they could not respond? Does God just tease them knowing that their fate is sealed?
Can the death of the mortal body not be the end of the story for those who never saw Jesus for who he really is?

In a statement, [California] state officials said they had conducted a site visit at Glass House in May and found no violations. But later that month, the department received a complaint [of underage workers] and opened the investigation.

“The employment of individuals under the age of 21 in the cannabis industry is strictly illegal, a serious matter, and is not tolerated,” the statement said. “We encourage anyone with information about child labor or trafficking at any facility to immediately contact the Department.”

Glass House is one of the largest legal cannabis operations in California, the largest taxpayer in Ventura County and one of the area’s largest employers. One of its founders, Kyle Kazan, is a former Torrance police officer.

Court filings show many of Glass House’s employees actually work for a Camarillo labor contractor.

[This is the same fig leaf that allows many companies to hire illegal workers and keep its hands clean.]

The labor contractor and the company have been accused of labor law violations in recent years, including failure to pay overtime or give meal breaks. Glass House has disputed the charges, levied in civil suits in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, which are still pending in court.

An attorney at the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, Yliana Johansen-Mendez, said her office had interviewed some of the children who had been detained as part of the raid. She said all the children now face deportation. Even those children who have family members nearby, she said, probably will not be able to reunite with them easily.

“It’s nearly impossible for undocumented family members to get children out of ORR [the Office of Refugee Resettlement] to reunite,” she said, adding that under the Trump administration, the government has been pushing to deport children who in years past may have been granted residency.

Chris35 said:

Can an all-powerful God create a stone so heavy that even He cannot lift it? At first glance, it's a logic trap. If God can create such a stone, He cannot lift it—and is therefore not all-powerful. If He cannot create it, then He is also not all-powerful. The paradox seems unbreakable.

What if the answer has already been lived—in the person of Jesus?

A Paradox with Flesh and Blood​

Christian theology asserts something radically unique: that God voluntarily limited Himself and became fully human in the person of Jesus. This concept, called the Incarnation, is not just a doctrine of faith but a potential resolution to the omnipotence paradox.

In Jesus, God took on weakness. He got tired. He suffered. He died. These are not symbols or metaphors; they are core to the claim. The infinite became finite. The omnipotent allowed Himself to be bound.

And yet, Christians also believe that Jesus was still God during this limitation. That means God chose to become someone who could bleed. Someone who could fall. Someone who could be crushed by a stone He Himself created.

Self-Limitation Is Not Weakness—It Is Power​

What makes this answer profound is that it redefines what true power looks like. Power is not merely the ability to do anything at any time. Real power includes the ability to choose restraint.

God did not cease to be all-powerful by becoming man. He exercised His omnipotence by limiting Himself, for a purpose. This is not a contradiction. It is a richer form of strength—one that can hold back, one that can suffer willingly, one that can enter into the weakness of creation and still redeem it.

Can God Create a Stone He Cannot Lift?​

Yes.

But only because He chooses to. And only for as long as He chooses to. That stone was the weight of mortality, of suffering, of death itself. In Jesus, God carried it. He let it crush Him. And then, by His own will, He rose again—lifting not only the stone but the whole of creation with Him.

The paradox is not a flaw in logic. It's a glimpse into divine love.

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God cannot do anything that contradicts either His Nature nor His eternal attributes

Fervent said:

The difference is my opinion is based on my own studies on the languages and what is involved in language studies, while yours is apparently based on nothing more than agreement with an extreme minority of scholars. You admit you don't have the background to make an evaluation of the scholastic arguments, so your opinion is simply an uneducated one and you have no basis for it. So spare the martyr talk until you have something worthwhile to base your opinion on.

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So you are saying from your studies you know more than men like David Bentley Hart ? The very thing that you say you have come to know from your studies is more scholarly and more linguistically correct than scholars like Hart . I have never claimed to be a linguistic scholar, but I am a student of those who are, and what they teach is more correct than Western Tradition. What those in the Western Tradition are doing is exacly what 2 Cor 10:12 says " they compare themselves by themselves" for the last 1500 years that is what has happened.
2 Pet 2:1-2 " Yet there arose false prophets among the people as well, just as there will also be false teachers among you who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, EVEN DENYING THE MASTER WHO HAS PURCHASED THEM, bringing swift destruction upon themselves; And many will follow their licentious ways, by whom the path of truth will be blasphemed"
I have never heard of the path of truth being blasphemed for believing that when God said, its his will for all to come to know him, or that God is reconciling the the world to himself in Jesus, or that Jesus came to save the world not judge it, for none of these things have I ever heard a non believer blaspheme the word of truth. In my 45 years in christian ministry, I have seen the people, who will have nothing to do with a God who would create someone knowing that they would not hear the gospel or not understand it, and then torture them forever for not understanding, but I have never seen anyone who blasphemed God, when the true gospel was shared, that God loves all his creation and Jesus came down into our darkness and paid the price of liberation for all humanity, they just need to wake up to the reality of what Jesus did, they may still remain in their darkness but they do not blaspheme that message.
I have listened to some Orthodox teachings and in one the priest was saying, they do not try to define God, they just want to know him so well that they can discern when looking at something, that it is definitely not of God, and ECT is definitely not of God.
I do not care how many people are dragged out, with the worlds system of letters behind someones name, the truth is the truth and that will never change.
I know for now you see it differently and would say the same thing of what I believe, that's ok, I for one will not break fellowship over this and build walls of separation, each one will stand before God and give account and he will judge, If I am judged for overstating his infinite love, then I will gladly take whatever discipline he deems fit.

Unqualified said:

I pray he believes or believed in the biblical Jesus. In Jesus Name.

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He does.

While Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary specifically caters to older vocations, many other seminaries have a significant portion of their seminarians made up of older vocations.

Deacon Brian Delaney has begun his final year at Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Massachusetts. He hopes to be ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Boston in 2025.

While serving in the U.S. Navy, he first felt the call to become more involved in the Church — and eventually decided to “get rid of everything” and enter seminary. His time there has been “absolutely wonderful,” he told the Register. As a priest, he wants “to be the best spiritual father than I can be.”

While Deacon Delaney’s enthusiasm and desire to serve may be common among many seminarians, his personal journey is somewhat less so: He’s a widowed 63-year-old with an adult daughter who decided to enter seminary after retiring from a 40-year career in the military and defense industry.

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essentialsaltes said:

Inflation rate edged higher by 2.4% in May, CPI report shows. Here's what that means.​

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Inflation heats up in June as President Trump's tariffs start to bite​

Consumer prices in June were up 2.7% from a year ago, according to a report Tuesday from the Labor Department

Rising rents were the main driver of inflation in June. But the price of clothing, appliances and toys also jumped — which likely reflects the effects of import taxes. Clothing prices rose 0.4% while the price of appliances and toys jumped nearly 2%.

Energy and food costs were also higher in June, while the price of new and used cars and airline tickets was down.

Falling energy costs had helped to keep overall inflation in check in recent months. But gasoline prices rebounded in June. And electricity costs jumped by 1%, as hot summer weather kept air conditioners busy.