The Barbarian said:

All the criminals identified so far, were avid Trump supporters.

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Right, and yet they are trying to rewrite history, denying the significance of January 6th because they are tired of hearing about it and can no longer even acknowledge the gravity..

By the end of 2021, 725 people had been charged with federal crimes. That number rose to 1,000 by the second anniversary of the attack, to 1,200 by the third anniversary (three-quarters of whom had by then been found guilty) and to 1,500 before the fourth anniversary. By July 2023, 629 defendants had pleaded guilty.

The Trump administration clarified in a late-night Monday court filing that Elon Musk is not a DOGE employee, and instead serves as a White House advisor, in a similar vein as former Biden advisor Anita Dunn.


The filing comes after D.C. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan heard remarks in the case filed by 14 state attorneys general against Musk and the Trump administration. The states argue that Musk and the administration have engaged in illegal executive overreach.

Chutkan expressed that she wasn't convinced by the arguments on Monday after asking what harm the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) imposed, as well as whether any federal employee terminations took place at the end of last week.

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We are only at the beginning of facing the problem of AI generated
"evaluations" or "reports".

The article is interesting.

Because the industry of producing AI generated reviews is growing,
consumers will be facing the more and more difficult job of trying to
figure out which reviews online, are "real", and which are reviews that
were bought by a company, for money.

Rooftop Revelations: Though I deal in politics because of my position in the city of Chicago, I never let it rise above my faith in God​

We Americans are living in a time unlike anything before. Most of us can barely keep up with the changes coming out of Washington, D.C. to the rest of America and the world.


Nobody has even asked what President Donald Trump is going to do in his first 100 days because he has already done more than the last four presidents combined did in their first 100 days. The fact there would be resistance to this new agenda was a given, but what I do not tolerate is the call for violence in Jesus’ name.

When Rev. Steve Caudle took the pulpit at the Greater Second Missionary Baptist Church of Chattanooga in Tennessee, he said that "sometimes the devil will act so ugly that you have no other choice but to get violent and fight."

Caudle set the stage for his call for violence with a foreign policy focus. "Fact of the matter is, we live in a world that is violent," he said. "You don't believe me, all you have to do is turn on the television set this afternoon and you'll see Gaza, where every building has been leveled by bombs, and then shooting and killing."

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ALBANY, New York – New York’s top court has upheld the constitutionality of the state’s new ethics commission, delivering a blow to former Gov. Andrew Cuomo as he considers a run for mayor.

Cuomo had challenged the commission after it launched a probe of his $5 million deal to write a memoir on Covid. He won in two lower courts.

But the Court of Appeals sided with the state in a split 4-3 decision. The Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government does not run afoul of separation of powers rules and can continue to operate as designed, the judges said. The decision means COELIG can resume its investigation into Cuomo, just as he puts together the pieces for his likely high-profile New York City mayoral campaign.

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The Southern Baptist Convention is looking to take advantage of a Republican-controlled Congress and White House to finally strip federal funding from Planned Parenthood.

The SBC's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission has launched a campaigncalling on Congress to remove federal funding from the nation’s leading abortion provider.

ERLC President Brent Leatherwood told The Christian Post that the strategy is centered on having the funding cut as part of the reconciliation process presently occurring in Congress.

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The Vatican’s doctrine chief delivered a pointed critique of gender ideology at a theological conference in Germany on Monday.

Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, addressed scholars at the Cologne School of Catholic Theology (KHKT) about gender ideology’s “claim to omnipotence.”

Speaking via video link in German, the cardinal rejected the notion that gender and bodily identity could be subject to radical change based on individual wishes and claims to freedom.

Transgender surgery, he argued, goes beyond mere external changes like cosmetic surgery, as it involves “the claim to a change of identity, to the desire to be a different person.”

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Westminster Leningrad Codex, Ps 8:

2a מפי עוללים ׀ וינקים יסדת עז

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עֹז: strength, might, power

ESV, Psalm 8:

2a Out of the mouth of babies and infants, you have established strength.

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Swete's Septuagint:

ἐκ στόματος νηπίων καὶ θηλαζόντων κατηρτίσω αἶνον

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αἶνον (ainon): Praise, hymn.

Brenton Septuagint Translation:

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou perfected praise.

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Matthew 21:

16 and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; have you never read, “‘Out of the mouth of infants and nursing babies you have prepared praise’?”

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Jesus quoted the LXX version and not the Hebrew version.

♡ChildofGodMostHigh♡ said:

saved by faith through grace.. why do people say we're saved by grace, therefore we need not work for anything? isn't it mercy that spares us, and grace gifted so we don't have to be ashamed as we learn to repent?.. It sounds to me like we are to work out our salvation through grace, rather than being instantly saved.. idk

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Salvation by grace through faith is such a beautiful truth! It means that we are saved not because of anything we can do, but because of what Jesus has already done for us on the cross. Ephesians 2:8-9 reminds us, 'For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.' God’s grace is His unearned favor, and through faith in Jesus, we are brought into a relationship with Him. This is what makes Christianity so unique—God has reached down to us in love, offering salvation as a gift. I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Like it or not, the current battle that has been teed up will bring clarity to the limits of executive power that are vested in the POTUS by the US Constitution. Hold on to your seats and enjoy the ride.

Deuteronomy 9:

9 When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the Lord had made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water.

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Moses received the Decalogue from God and brought it down from the mountain. In his absence, the Israelites worshipped a calf, which angered him. When he saw their rebellion, he broke the stone tablets. Afterward, he went back up the mountain.

18 Then once again I fell prostrate before the Lord for forty days and forty nights; I ate no bread and drank no water, because of all the sin you had committed, doing what was evil in the Lord’s sight and so arousing his anger.

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Did Moses fast for 81 days straight?

There is a parallel account in Exodus 32:

1 When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”

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The above happened during Moses' first 40-day fast.

19 When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. 20 And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.

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After Moses came down the mountain, there was no mention that he ate anything; there was no mention that he fasted either. If he ate, he had to be careful to go slow and not to overwhelm his digestive system all of a sudden.

27 Then he said to them, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Each man strap a sword to his side. Go back and forth through the camp from one end to the other, each killing his brother and friend and neighbor.’ ” 28 The Levites did as Moses commanded, and that day about three thousand of the people died. 29 Then Moses said, “You have been set apart to the Lord today, for you were against your own sons and brothers, and he has blessed you this day.”
30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the Lord; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

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There was at least one day in between the two 40-day fasts. I suspect Moses did eat and drink something during the in-between periods. He probably didn't fast more than 80 days straight.

6 days is again not measured in time.
Because paradise was before time.

Only after the fall did anything become measured

Friedrich Rubinstein said:

I literally linked the source confirming the entire death toll. No exaggeration about the number of deaths. Now you are complaining that the database of Islamic terrorism is too detailed.

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That source cites a human rights NGO. There are no official sources or local media reports of that many people being killed during the same period. I was able to find a local media source that cites the same number from the NGO, but it also states that security forces in the area only report 14 deaths with several people still missing.

Security sources report a toll of 9 civilians killed in their fields with knives.

For about four days, ADF rebels have intensified attacks against civilians, mostly farmers and returnees in the southern part of Irumu territory...

Security sources report a toll of 9 civilians killed in their fields with knives.

This toll could increase, warns civil society, which explains that several people are missing. Four other bodies of civilians killed by the same ADF were found the day before in the village of Kazaroho west of Bwana-Sura.

The NGO CRDH indicates that more than 100 civilians have already lost their lives since the beginning of this week in this area.


I searched and couldn't find any additional reports of massacres taking place during the first week of February in the the DRC. Out of the six claims I listed from religionofpeace website, only one could be verified to a certain extent.

2025.02.04 DRC Beni Muslim terrorists set fire to homes and murder ten residents.

From the same article above:

"The most recent incursion took place on Tuesday, February 4 in the southern part of the Irumu territory. These rebels killed 10 people, burned houses and looted property in this area where military operations are nevertheless underway, specifies the same source [the human rights NGO]"

I also provided several examples from the Philippines that were common acts of violence that religionofpeace counted as terrorist attacks. If religionofpeace is reporting false claims of terrorist attacks in that country, then you can be certain that many of the reports they have on their website from other countries are also false.

The religionofpeace website is not a reliable source for reports on acts of terrorism. In addition to reporting false information as I have shown, the number of terrorist attacks they report along with the number of fatalities is greatly inflated and does not align with the more comprehensive terrorism databases available that are compiled by terrorism experts and specialists in the field of terrorism who rigorously investigate and research violent incidents and acts of terror around the world.

Mark Quayle said:

Reminds me of a fellow teaching sunday school, saying that a Christian cannot be demon-possessed, since a Christian is already inhabited by the Holy Spirit. I say, you can't know that, because the spiritual does not operate by our physical principles.

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See Demon oppression vs possession and follow up there

[Genesis 17:7-9; Genesis 18:19; John 8:18-19,38-47; Romans 2:28-29; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 9:4-8,25-28; Romans 11:1-36; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 3:16,26-29; Galatians 4:22-31; Ephesians 2:11-22; Ephesians 3:6; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-16; Hebrews 8:6-13;1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 2:22; Jude 1:5; Revelation 2:9; Revelation 3:9]

Now, I am not going to get into all the history behind this, for I believe the Lord wants me to focus on one main specific topic which can be applied to the church today, as well. And that has to do with what constitutes genuine faith in the Lord and who are the ones who are the children of God, God’s chosen people today. And what is the present day criteria for being a child of God and an heir according to the promise God made to Abraham?

Paul made it a point to point out that he was speaking of his “brothers” according to the flesh, and not according to the Spirit. They were the Israelites of the Old Covenant, and Paul was deeply concerned for them, because most of them did not believe in Jesus Christ, the promised seed of Abraham, and the Messiah who was to come and who did come to the Jewish people. So they were not part of Spiritual Israel.

And we can apply a similar principal to “Christians.” Just because someone claims to believe in Jesus and to be a Christian, it doesn’t necessitate that is the truth, in reality. For just as the Jews who did not believe in Jesus were no longer the children of Abraham and part of Spiritual Israel, so those who profess faith in Jesus but whose faith is not biblical faith, and so there is not the evidence that true faith exists, are not the children of God.

So, it is not by lip service only, nor by physical birth, nor by being physical descendants of those who worship the one and only true God – Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit – that we are or that we become children of God and heirs of the promise God made to Abraham, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. Only if we belong to Christ are we Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise God made with Abraham.

So, what does it mean to belong to Christ? It means we are his possession and we are no longer our own, doing whatever it is that we desire to do, but now our lives are given over to the Lord in death to sin and in walks of obedience to his commands in surrender to his will and purpose for our lives. He owns us and now we are his possession, and so we are no longer the ones in charge of our lives, but Jesus is. So we now follow him.

Jew and Gentile alike, by physical birth, are only biblical Israel and heirs of the promise God gave to Abraham and to his seed by genuine faith in the Lord Jesus via dying with him to sin and now being raised with him to walk in newness of life in him, no longer as slaves to sin, but as slaves to God and to his righteousness. And only those who have died to sin and who are now walking in obedience to our Lord are God’s children and biblical Israel.

It doesn’t matter if we prayed a prayer to receive Christ, and/or that we were baptized, or that we went through catechism, or that we joined a local institutional “church,” or that we attend “church services” weekly if all that we are doing is going through religious exercises but we have not surrendered our lives to the Lord Jesus, died with him to sin, and now we walk (in conduct) in obedience to his commands, by the Spirit.

And if a Jew by physical birth has not done the same, i.e. surrendered his life to the Lord Jesus, died with him to sin, and is now walking in obedience to the Lord and to his commands, by his grace, he is not part of Spiritual Israel, the Israel of God. But all Gentiles whose faith in Jesus Christ is genuine are part of biblical Israel, and we are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise God made with Abraham and his seed.

We are God’s chosen people, both Jew and Gentile by spiritual birth via genuine faith in the Lord Jesus. We are his holy nation who are heirs of the promise God made with Abraham. All who do not believe in Jesus Christ, who have not died with him to sin, and who are not walking in obedience to his commands, are not the children of God, not heirs of the promise. The only way to God the Father is through faith in Jesus Christ, his Son.

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

In Harmony

An Original Work / September 2, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
Based off Ro. 12:9-21; 1 Pet. 3:8-17

Love each other truly.
Cling to what is good.
Hate all that is evil.
Never lack in zeal.
Serve the Lord with fervor.
Joyful in hope be;
Patient in affliction;
Praying faithfully.
Honor one another.
Live in harmony.

Share with all God’s people
Who are found in need.
Do not be conceited.
Sympathetic be.
Love, and show compassion
In humility.
Keep your tongue from evil.
Peaceful you must be.
Honor one another.
Live in harmony.

God sees who are righteous;
Listens to their prayers.
But He’s against evil –
Is His to avenge.
Do not fear what they fear.
Suffer patiently.
In your hearts, make Christ Lord.
Serve Him faithfully.
Honor one another.
Live in harmony.

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An Original Work / February 18, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Apple Sky said:

King James Bible
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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Watching for a peace agreement.

Guttairc said:

He walked in his home-town, Nazareth, all his life, never traveled. And people made his small town into a mall, so he got angry and tilted tables and whipped people in this temple. But, I mean, he never was an murderer I think, so why`d he be sentenced to death on a cross? Was he sentenced to death by the Romans just for being popular? I find it a little strange the story, he obiviously cared about people, so why`d he do anything to them? The society at the time, had pretty much the same rules as now, laws, they couldn`t sentence him to death for nothing

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I have only just come across this thread, so I apologise for the late reply. First, I would say that it is important to get the facts correct. He didn't walk "in his home-town, Nazareth, all his life" - we read of Him going into Samaria:

“But He needed to go through Samaria. So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.” (Joh 4:4-5 NKJV)

Also, we are told that He left Nazareth, and lived for a time in Capernaum:

“And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naphtali,” (Mt 4:13 NKJV)

The incident in the temple took place in Jerusalem, not Nazareth. There was no temple in Nazareth:

“So they came to Jerusalem. Then Jesus went into the temple and began to drive out those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. And He would not allow anyone to carry wares through the temple. Then He taught, saying to them, "Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’"” (Mr 11:15-17 NKJV)

We are also told why the Jewish leaders wanted Him crucified:

“And the scribes and chief priests heard it and sought how they might destroy Him; for they feared Him, because all the people were astonished at His teaching.” (Mr 11:18 NKJV)

“Therefore, when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" For he knew that they had handed Him over because of envy.” (Mt 27:17-18 NKJV)

So they feared Him and they were envious of Him.

You are right when you say that "they couldn`t sentence him to death for nothing." But they wanted Him dead, so they listened to false witnesses who told lies about Jesus:

“Now the chief priests, the elders, and all the council sought false testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, but found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward and said, "This [fellow] said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days.’"” (Mt 26:59-61 NKJV)

Mark's account says that the testimony of the false witnesses did not even agree!:

“Then some rose up and bore false witness against Him, saying, "We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.’" But not even then did their testimony agree.” (Mr 14:57-59 NKJV)

I think at least part of the reason why you find the story strange is that you have many of the facts wrong. (I'm not criticising you, so please don't take offence.)

Who is God for? He is for those who are for him, who have surrendered control of their lives over to the Lord Jesus, who have died with him to sin, and who are now walking in obedience to his commands in holy living, for the glory of God, in the power of God, and by the grace of God. We are those whose minds are set on the Spirit, and not on the flesh, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. By the Spirit we are putting to death the deeds of the flesh that we might live to please our Lord.

But this does not make us perfect. We are still works in progress, mere clay in the hands of the Potter, being molded by God into the likeness of the character of Jesus Christ. But “not perfect” does not include willful, defiant, deliberate, rebellious, and habitual sin against our Lord, and against other humans, in complete contradiction to God’s will and purpose for our lives. For if sin is what we practice, and if righteousness and obedience to our Lord are not what we practice, we will not inherit eternal life with God.

For God is not okay with sinful lifestyles where the sinner deliberately, with full knowledge, chooses habitually to ignore the commands of the Lord in order to commit the sin he knows he must not do that is against the Lord, and is against other humans, and is contradictory to God’s will and purpose for our lives. And just making a confession of sin to the Lord every time you sin does not make it right, either. For if we say we have fellowship with God while we walk in sin, we are liars (read in context 1 John 1:5-10).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 1:12-13; John 6:44; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 2:6-8; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; Galatians 5:16-21; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:5-10; 1 John 2:3-6; 1 John 3:4-10]

So, if God is for us, it is because we are for him, which is evidenced by how we live our lives in obedience to his commands and in daily saying “No!” to sin and “Yes!” to God and to his will and purpose for our lives. And who then can be against us? Well, according to the Scriptures, including the teachings of Jesus, if we are serving the Lord with our lives, doing what he says, obeying his commands, and sharing the truth of his gospel, we will be hated and persecuted and even put to death because of our walks of faith in Jesus.

[Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 10:16-25,34-39; Matthew 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-17; John 15:18-21; Ephesians 6:10-20; Revelation 6:9-11; Revelation 7:9-17; Revelation 11:1-3; Revelation 12:17; Revelation 13:1-18; Revelation 14:1-13]

So, we need to look at what this passage of Scripture in Romans 8 is teaching us from that perspective. And does God give us “all things”? Not all things, but those which are according to his will and purpose for our lives. So, what is the point of what this is teaching us? It is that no matter what we go through, no matter how many people are against us, no matter how much we are suffering for the sake of our faith, Jesus is interceding for us, and God will give us all that we need to withstand what we are suffering.

God will provide us with the strength, the endurance, the faith, the stamina, the grace, and all the love that we need to endure what we are going through and what is yet to come. But we have to rely upon him for our support and for our help, and trust him with our circumstances, and not let the devil make us afraid, and not give in to our circumstances to where we live in fear rather than walk by faith, and to where we surrender to our circumstances rather than surrender to the will of God for our lives.

And if we are drawing on the strength of the Lord to see us through it all, and to respond in the right ways, and to not give way to fear, then we will be victorious over all that is stacked up against us, through our God who loves us. For no rulers of nations, nor the things presently going on within our nations, and in the world, nor the things that we know are sure to come will be able to separate us from the love of God as long as we choose to keep following the Lord and to not jump ship and deny him and not be for Him.

The Rock of My Heart

Lyricist: Bassford, Matthew W.; Psalm 73
Composer: Schales, Glenda Barnhart

My Lord, I need nothing beside You;
Without You, I could not have stood.
Your promise is my hope and my refuge;
Your nearness, my strength and my good.

When I was distressed and embittered,
By things I could not understand,
Your presence was continually with me;
You always took hold of my hand.

I know that Your counsel will guide me
In wisdom, devotion, and love,
And afterward You’ll call me to glory
To dwell in Your presence above.

My heart may be broken within me;
My earthly strength may depart.
But You are my portion forever,
You are the Rock of my heart.
You are the Rock of my heart.

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Who is God For?
An Original Work / February 18, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Psalm 27 said:

Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why

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Ungodly geologists don't know why.

Obviously God Knows Why All Along.

Plato considered the planets to be gods moving in perfect circles. Until the late Middle Ages, people viewed the world as permeated by the divine, which had therapeutic value as existence then appeared exciting and mysterious. In this respect, something valuable has been lost.

The problem was that Christian theologians never fully understood Jesus's proclamation of God's kingdom—a kingdom that is near but not obvious. Jesus wanted people's longing to be directed towards God's kingdom rather than divine planets or worldly idols. Although Jesus himself says that his kingdom is "not of this world," theologians have been unwilling to see God's kingdom as another dimension of reality.

Science has indeed killed the projection of the divine onto the world, but it cannot kill God's kingdom. We still have the possibility to relate to God's kingdom as a parallel reality.

Strong winds i bet....

Thank Our Lord God that everyone survived...

Heavenly Father, Holy is Your Name, we pray You will comfort and heal Linda, in the Name of Jesus, as only You can do. Amen and Amen.

This is a circus, and RFK is promoting quackery. Mifepristone is safer than Asprin or Tylenol:

While drugging your own daughter seems ghastly and extreme, I don't believe a minor child is competent enough to decide to become a parent. So this is a difficult case and I would hope the mother receives clemency.