Boils your blood and makes you weep. Reminds me of that song with the line “they’re so open minded, one of these days their brain is going to fall out.” 😦
Posted this late last night on the other thread, but thought it was a good commentary by Andree Seu Peterson at World about what’s going on in the Roman Catholic church. It will be interesting to see where the church goes, especially with whoever is chosen as the next pope — and the one after that. It’s my belief that things are rapidly changing there and this pope is the opening act of that.
But I may be wrong. 🙂 ‘Cause I have been wrong before. Here and there. Once in a while. 🙂
One can only imagine the panicked frenzy that occurred behind the scenes within the corridors of power at the Vatican when it was learned that the Davis meeting was dominating the post-tour news cycle. After all the goodwill they had garnered carrying the water for climate-change apostles in public appearances with President Obama, how could they have been so careless as to upset the homosexual lobby? A way must be found to publicly downgrade the significance of the time with Mrs. Davis, the Kentucky woman who stood up to the gay juggernaut. ….
…. Ah, it was “kindness,” then, nothing personal. (I thought it was only the mafia who betrayed people while saying, “Nothing personal.”) But wouldn’t true and biblical kindness be sincerely meaning your words of support to Mrs. Davis, and not denying them for political gain once you’re back home?
Do you know who did get an “audience” with the pope in Washington, and not just a lowly “meeting”? A man named Yayo Grassi, an openly gay Argentinian and former student of Francis’ who arrived at the “audience” with his longtime partner.
And this, you can be sure, is what the Vatican wants you to see.
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Donald Trump delivered a new dig in his ongoing feud with Sen. Marco Rubio on Monday: a 24-bottle care package with the label “Trump Ice Natural Spring Water.”
The set of bottled water was sent to the Rubio campaign’s Washington office on Monday.
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Does anyone recall that period of time between the commencement of the US bombing of Afghanistan and January 20, 2009, in which it was “the military” and not George W. Bush whose actions killed Afghan/Iraqi civilians?
Yeah, neither do I. Come to think of it, if I had read NYT or WashPo articles in a vacuum at the time, I would have thought Dubya had personally ordered every misguided bomb or drone strike.
Fast forward to 2015, a time when the “military struggles” (since, apparently, neither it nor the CIA are the responsibility of President Nobel Peace Prize except, you know, when he wants to claim Bin Laden as a trophy) to deal with the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital:
“It is supposed to be the model multicultural state. But Sweden is facing problems of its own after gangs of immigrants spent a fifth consecutive night rioting in Stockholm.
Officers are battling to keep the capital under control after hundreds of cars were torched, a police station set alight and fire services kept from a major blaze by a stone-throwing mob of youths.
To make matters worse, rioting has now spread to Sweden’s two other major cities, Gothenburg and Malmo.”
Growing unrest turned to violence last Sunday in a north-western suburb called Husby – where more than 80 per cent of the residents are from overseas, mostly Turkey, Somalia and the Middle East.
Trouble then spread to some of the city’s most deprived areas, shattering the country’s proud claim that it is a template for a successful and ethnically diverse society.”
“On Thursday night there were 90 separate blazes in the capital. Thirty cars were torched and there were eight arrests – mostly of people in their early 20s.
In earlier attacks, groups of up to 100 rioters targeted schools, nurseries and shops – breaking windows and setting buildings ablaze.”
Known as “God’s salesman,” Peale merged worldliness and godliness to produce an easy-to-follow theology that preached self-confidence as a life philosophy. Critics called him a con man, described his church as a cult, and said his simple-minded approach shut off genuine thinking or insight. But Peale’s outlook, promoted through his radio shows, newspaper columns and articles, and through Guideposts, his monthly digest of inspirational messages, fit perfectly into the Trump family culture of never hesitating to bend the rules, doing whatever it took to win, and never, ever giving up.
“Believe in yourself!” Peale’s book begins. “Have faith in your abilities!” He then outlines 10 rules to overcome “inadequacy attitudes” and “build up confidence in your powers.” Rule one: “formulate and staple indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding,” “hold this picture tenaciously,” and always refer to it “no matter how badly things seem to be going at the moment.”
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Behaving like a follower of Jesus is both difficult and messy. It demands much of us on every front. Concerning the worldwide crisis of displaced peoples, the truly Christian thing to do is that which is most difficult: treat them as neighbors that you love like you love yourself.
…Loving neighbors means we see them as the image-bearers of God. Knowing the risks, we treat them with dignity and humanity. We seek to feed them if they are hungry. We get to know them if they are strangers. We refuse to allow our fears to harden our hearts toward them.
I had a friend who use to say that sometimes that “God can hit a mighty lick with a crooked stick.” I was actually brought back to the church through Peale and Kenneth Copeland and other prosperity doctrine preachers. I see their errors now but at the time it seemed like a ray of light against the dour, humorless and (in case of one Grandmother) downright scary faith I grew up around. Now I believe that God is both justice and mercy, He takes us to the valleys and the mountains and He will provide us with what we need to do what He asks us to do.
Good points Kbells. Although in Trump’s case, he still seems to idolize him — and based on his earlier public comments on the subject, he just doesn’t really understand the Christian faith. I remember my mom reading Peale’s book at some point, I was probably only 10 or 12 or so, and I don’t think it really “took” with her. 🙂 But it was a runaway best-seller for many years.
But yes, we all probably look back at earlier churches or Christian associations we were in and see flaws that we just couldn’t have seen then. Yet God was drawing us irresistibly to him and it all became more clear as we grew.
(A friend in my last church came to the faith through Hal Lindsay’s church — which is local and in our area — he was raised Catholic but became fascinated with end times speculations as a young adult. Later, as he began exploring the faith with more seriousness, he grew beyond that and became a very seasoned and grounded believer.)
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More Western Christians are beginning to see the light.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/10/who_will_save_middle_east_christians_obama_or_putin.html
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Boils your blood and makes you weep. Reminds me of that song with the line “they’re so open minded, one of these days their brain is going to fall out.” 😦
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/10/06/europes-rape-epidemic-western-women-will-be-sacrificed-at-the-alter-of-mass-migration/
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Posted this late last night on the other thread, but thought it was a good commentary by Andree Seu Peterson at World about what’s going on in the Roman Catholic church. It will be interesting to see where the church goes, especially with whoever is chosen as the next pope — and the one after that. It’s my belief that things are rapidly changing there and this pope is the opening act of that.
But I may be wrong. 🙂 ‘Cause I have been wrong before. Here and there. Once in a while. 🙂
On the pope and Kim Davis
http://www.worldmag.com/2015/10/the_pope_s_betrayal_of_kim_davis
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One can only imagine the panicked frenzy that occurred behind the scenes within the corridors of power at the Vatican when it was learned that the Davis meeting was dominating the post-tour news cycle. After all the goodwill they had garnered carrying the water for climate-change apostles in public appearances with President Obama, how could they have been so careless as to upset the homosexual lobby? A way must be found to publicly downgrade the significance of the time with Mrs. Davis, the Kentucky woman who stood up to the gay juggernaut. ….
…. Ah, it was “kindness,” then, nothing personal. (I thought it was only the mafia who betrayed people while saying, “Nothing personal.”) But wouldn’t true and biblical kindness be sincerely meaning your words of support to Mrs. Davis, and not denying them for political gain once you’re back home?
Do you know who did get an “audience” with the pope in Washington, and not just a lowly “meeting”? A man named Yayo Grassi, an openly gay Argentinian and former student of Francis’ who arrived at the “audience” with his longtime partner.
And this, you can be sure, is what the Vatican wants you to see.
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Whomever, of course.
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Hillary’s probably getting nervous by now
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/joe-biden-beau-2016-214459
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OK, this was actually kind of funny.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/donald-trump-bottled-water-marco-rubio-214455
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Donald Trump delivered a new dig in his ongoing feud with Sen. Marco Rubio on Monday: a 24-bottle care package with the label “Trump Ice Natural Spring Water.”
The set of bottled water was sent to the Rubio campaign’s Washington office on Monday.
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hahaha The scary part of this is that I now identify with Joe Friday
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Rubio has joked about that MINOR incident himself.
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Does anyone recall that period of time between the commencement of the US bombing of Afghanistan and January 20, 2009, in which it was “the military” and not George W. Bush whose actions killed Afghan/Iraqi civilians?
Yeah, neither do I. Come to think of it, if I had read NYT or WashPo articles in a vacuum at the time, I would have thought Dubya had personally ordered every misguided bomb or drone strike.
Fast forward to 2015, a time when the “military struggles” (since, apparently, neither it nor the CIA are the responsibility of President Nobel Peace Prize except, you know, when he wants to claim Bin Laden as a trophy) to deal with the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/10/05/afghan-forces-requested-airstrike-that-hit-hospital-in-kunduz/
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Sweden is dealing with an immigrant problem too. And it’s multi-cultural utopia is burning as a result.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330247/Sweden-flames-As-gangs-migrants-riot-nights-running–Utopian-boats-multicultural-success-story-turn-ashes.html#ixzz3nnwzwtjX
“It is supposed to be the model multicultural state. But Sweden is facing problems of its own after gangs of immigrants spent a fifth consecutive night rioting in Stockholm.
Officers are battling to keep the capital under control after hundreds of cars were torched, a police station set alight and fire services kept from a major blaze by a stone-throwing mob of youths.
To make matters worse, rioting has now spread to Sweden’s two other major cities, Gothenburg and Malmo.”
Growing unrest turned to violence last Sunday in a north-western suburb called Husby – where more than 80 per cent of the residents are from overseas, mostly Turkey, Somalia and the Middle East.
Trouble then spread to some of the city’s most deprived areas, shattering the country’s proud claim that it is a template for a successful and ethnically diverse society.”
“On Thursday night there were 90 separate blazes in the capital. Thirty cars were torched and there were eight arrests – mostly of people in their early 20s.
In earlier attacks, groups of up to 100 rioters targeted schools, nurseries and shops – breaking windows and setting buildings ablaze.”
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Ungrateful savages.
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This is pretty interesting and could explain a lot — Trump grew up going to Norman Vincent Peale’s church.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/donald-trump-2016-norman-vincent-peale-213220
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Known as “God’s salesman,” Peale merged worldliness and godliness to produce an easy-to-follow theology that preached self-confidence as a life philosophy. Critics called him a con man, described his church as a cult, and said his simple-minded approach shut off genuine thinking or insight. But Peale’s outlook, promoted through his radio shows, newspaper columns and articles, and through Guideposts, his monthly digest of inspirational messages, fit perfectly into the Trump family culture of never hesitating to bend the rules, doing whatever it took to win, and never, ever giving up.
“Believe in yourself!” Peale’s book begins. “Have faith in your abilities!” He then outlines 10 rules to overcome “inadequacy attitudes” and “build up confidence in your powers.” Rule one: “formulate and staple indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding,” “hold this picture tenaciously,” and always refer to it “no matter how badly things seem to be going at the moment.”
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Norman Vincent Peale was a heretic who denied the deity of Christ.
Unfortunately, Peale’s ideas have spread so far that Christians forget we are not called to earthly comfort and securtiy: http://erlc.com/article/syrian-refugees-and-the-christian-use-of-razor-wire
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I had a friend who use to say that sometimes that “God can hit a mighty lick with a crooked stick.” I was actually brought back to the church through Peale and Kenneth Copeland and other prosperity doctrine preachers. I see their errors now but at the time it seemed like a ray of light against the dour, humorless and (in case of one Grandmother) downright scary faith I grew up around. Now I believe that God is both justice and mercy, He takes us to the valleys and the mountains and He will provide us with what we need to do what He asks us to do.
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Good points Kbells. Although in Trump’s case, he still seems to idolize him — and based on his earlier public comments on the subject, he just doesn’t really understand the Christian faith. I remember my mom reading Peale’s book at some point, I was probably only 10 or 12 or so, and I don’t think it really “took” with her. 🙂 But it was a runaway best-seller for many years.
But yes, we all probably look back at earlier churches or Christian associations we were in and see flaws that we just couldn’t have seen then. Yet God was drawing us irresistibly to him and it all became more clear as we grew.
(A friend in my last church came to the faith through Hal Lindsay’s church — which is local and in our area — he was raised Catholic but became fascinated with end times speculations as a young adult. Later, as he began exploring the faith with more seriousness, he grew beyond that and became a very seasoned and grounded believer.)
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