https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/a...h-didnt-exist/
Whatever helps you sleep at night.Not just on my head. On your head too. It is the crux of that whole omnipresence thing.
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In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches:
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. . . . No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. (Matt. 6:19–24)
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
iolo (01-22-2019)
To kudzu: Lets talk about money:
“I don’t want to convert you,” Pope Francis once said to a group of Protestant pastors visiting the Vatican. His message to the Islamic world is the same. He is the perfect pope for a post-Christian age, reducing the Church’s “witness” to the ratification of a lowest-common-denominator culture in which all religions supposedly converge on the same path to civilization and salvation. Except they don’t. Out of religious relativism has come less true religion and an explosion of false ones. For centuries the Church sent missionaries out to preach Christ crucified — to challenge disbelief, not confirm it. Now papal trips have all the evangelical fervor of a United Nations delegation visit. The pope offers “hope” not in the cross but in a syncretistic logo cobbled together by a committee.
The Pope’s Bridge to Nowhere
George Neumayr
January 20, 2019, 12:01 am
https://spectator.org/the-popes-bridge-to-nowhere/
I get the feeling that Big Frank wants to divide the world into territories the same way bootleggers did it in big cities during prohibition:
syncretism (noun)
syncretism | \ 'si?-kr?-?ti-z?m,'sin-\
1: the combination of different forms of belief or practice
2: the fusion of two or more originally different inflectional forms
Every addiction breeds bootleggers making money from the addiction personality who buy whatever is being sold. Religion’s bootleggers selling institutional compassion are the worst of all. Much worse than every other addict. No sane person wants drug pushers in their life, yet billions worldwide invite pushers into their homes every day. Not only that, those same people encourage their children to listen to charity bootleggers for hours on end.
Charity bootleggers have been around since the first government was formed. They will be around forever because governments force addiction-free individuals to feed the addicted. Inevitably, being forced to pay the bootleggers ends up with everybody working for the addicts physically, financially, and politically. In short: Religion’s bootleggers do not care how many addicts they create well-knowing society will pay to care for them without curing them.
Let me remind you that the R. C. Ch. considers Latin America its territory much like Prohibition era bootleggers divvied up territories in cities and states. The motive is the same:
It follows that the R. C. Ch. has every incentive to encourage a population of Catholic lay people from south of the border to come to the United States. So it is easy for the Vatican to envision a customer base populating the North Pole all the way to Cape Horn.
Incidentally, weakness, or genes, or lack of character, does not create an addict. Gullibility is the prime mover that creates addicts.
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer
God has not a damn thing to do with organized religion:
A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream. Who but God can help us now?
God Help Us: Atheism Becomes Largest Religion In U.S.
By Michael J. Knowles
April 7, 2019
https://www.dailywire.com/news/45655...hael-j-knowles
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible. Eric Hoffer
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
ברוך השם
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
ברוך השם
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
ברוך השם
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