The Christian left and democratic socialism

[RB 60]

Why should I answer your dumb questions when you won't answer mind??

You really should stop w/ the US & WE.

You play your persona as a Christian, eventhough nothing about your persona is Christian.............

Your defense of the faith you know nothing of?? (just lookin for another fight, you poor victim you)

You have never read the bible & don't know a damn thing about the Christ or Christianity-you are a poser-pretending, nothing more.......

Still can't answer my question, can you, little willie?

[Lightbringer]

Still can't answer my question, can you, little willie?

Answering questions is hard.

[RB 60]

Answering questions is hard.

Little willie has issues....maybe that's why?

[Lightbringer]

Little willie has issues....maybe that's why?

Yep. Him and others. Those motherfuckers are incapable of dealing with the truth, their religion won't let them.

[RB 60]

Yep. Him and others. Those motherfuckers are incapable of dealing with the truth, their religion won't let them.

Their "religion" is hate, lies and bullshit.
Little whining willie won't admit he hates
anyone with spiritual beliefs. He isn't alone.
But when asked why, he runs like a scared
dump rat.

[Cypress]

I like to think most ppl are better than the troll they play here..

Obviously I could be mistaken about a few lol

Some claim to be Christian, although there is zero evidence of that.......

I guess it is hard to hold them to it if they never bothered to even learn anything about the one they claim to follow..

I see very little Christ-like behavior on message boards, even from those who wear their self-professed Christianity on their sleeve. Which is surprising, considering how much bible thumping has been on jpp dot com.

This kid only lived to be 15 before dying of leukemia, but in his short time on earth, he showed what it meant to live the authentic Christian life.

Millennial and Gen Z Catholics love Carlo Acutis. Here's why

Ahead of Carlo Acutis’ beatification this week, people who knew the young computer programmer shared their memories of his love for the poor.

“With his savings, he bought sleeping bags for homeless people and in the evening he brought them some hot drinks,” Antonia Salzano, Acutis’ mother, recalled at an event in Assisi Oct. 5.

“He said it was better to have one less pair of shoes and able to do an additional good work [with money not spent on shoes],” she remembered.

The Italian teenager, who loved soccer and video games, also spent his time volunteering at a soup kitchen in Milan run by the Capuchins and Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity.

Acutis was religious from a young age, despite his mother saying his family had rarely attended church.

From childhood he showed great charity towards others. His love was extraordinary, first of all for his parents and then for the poor, the homeless, the marginalized and the elderly abandoned and alone,” Nicola Gori, the postulator of Acutis’ cause, has said.

“He used the savings from his weekly pocket money to help the beggars and those who slept outdoors. He organized fairs in the parish to help the missions with the funds raised.”

Acutis will be beatified in Assisi in the Basilica of St. Francis Oct. 10. He was buried in Assisi in 2006 at his request because of his love for St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the poor.

“Carlo had a special bond with Assisi. He had Assisi in his heart. He said it was the city where he felt happiest,” his mother said.

When he died, at the funeral, the church was full of poor people. Everyone else wondered what they were doing there. Well, Carlo used to help them in secret,” said Nicola Gori, who represented Acutis’s beatification case.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/n...fication-45189

[leaningright]

TBH I don't know how that works and that goes for everyone. If you Tweet for example are you tweeting on behalf of your employer, school, church etc. or just tweeting as an individual? Same with posting on Facebook. He'll also post pictures of his daughter and his family. He'll post about upcoming sermons and what the church is doing in the community. So he's not posting about politics 100% of the time.

Here goes... My Facebook page is loaded with anti-abortion, pro-2nd amendment and pro conservative posts. It also has some gardening/canning posts and some hunting/fishing posts. You know, just my life stuff. But I also have been putting my sermons on Facebook live (since the pandemic) for my folks who are still afraid to come to the building to worship. But the notion that I don’t pay taxes is false.

I get paid around $12,000 a year for preaching, on all of which I pay taxes to the state and feds.

Let me back up... Our religious organization follows the example of the New Testament as closely as we can. We have elders to oversee the local congregation and the local congregation is all that they oversee. Every Sunday a collection is made and the money given to the church is to be used for either evangelizing (including paying the preacher) and benevolent work. That money is not taxed being in the treasury of the church. Once it is paid to the local preacher, his salary is then taxed according to the rules of the state and federal government as income. I have to file it as self-employment tax.

Every preacher that I know personally pays taxes in this way. We’re not all Graham’s or Olsteens.

Just wanted to answer that “preachers don’t pay taxes” thing.

[cawacko]

Here goes... My Facebook page is loaded with anti-abortion, pro-2nd amendment and pro conservative posts. It also has some gardening/canning posts and some hunting/fishing posts. You know, just my life stuff. But I also have been putting my sermons on Facebook live (since the pandemic) for my folks who are still afraid to come to the building to worship. But the notion that I don’t pay taxes is false.

I get paid around $12,000 a year for preaching, on all of which I pay taxes to the state and feds.

Let me back up... Our religious organization follows the example of the New Testament as closely as we can. We have elders to oversee the local congregation and the local congregation is all that they oversee. Every Sunday a collection is made and the money given to the church is to be used for either evangelizing (including paying the preacher) and benevolent work. That money is not taxed being in the treasury of the church. Once it is paid to the local preacher, his salary is then taxed according to the rules of the state and federal government as income. I have to file it as self-employment tax.

Every preacher that I know personally pays taxes in this way. We’re not all Graham’s or Olsteens.

Just wanted to answer that “preachers don’t pay taxes” thing.

Hey LR!!! Thanks for chining in. Question for you. You referenced posting about issues (abortion, 2nd amendment) but do you ever post specifically about politicians? Or since this is election season do you post pro/anti about Trump and Biden?

[leaningright]

Hey LR!!! Thanks for chining in. Question for you. You referenced posting about issues (abortion, 2nd amendment) but do you ever post specifically about politicians? Or since this is election season do you post pro/anti about Trump and Biden?

I posted earlier today. It went like this:

Any of my friends who might live in Kendra Horn’s district....let me encourage you to vote Stephanie Bice. ����

So on occasion I do post about specific politicians. In this case I don’t even live in the district where that representative race is. But there is never any doubt who I am supporting even if I don’t post about a candidate by name.

[Bill]

Their "religion" is hate, lies and bullshit.
Little whining willie won't admit he hates
anyone with spiritual beliefs. He isn't alone.
But when asked why, he runs like a scared
dump rat.

Sad, the only fool you could find hates your religion & you for believing it........

You trying to rationalize/pretend about it shows how far you have fallen from grace..............

[Bill]

I see very little Christ-like behavior on message boards, even from those who wear their self-professed Christianity on their sleeve. Which is surprising, considering how much bible thumping has been on jpp dot com.

This kid only lived to be 15 before dying of leukemia, but in his short time on earth, he showed what it meant to live the authentic Christian life.

A true example for all humanity.....

[Bill]

Here goes... My Facebook page is loaded with anti-abortion, pro-2nd amendment and pro conservative posts. It also has some gardening/canning posts and some hunting/fishing posts. You know, just my life stuff. But I also have been putting my sermons on Facebook live (since the pandemic) for my folks who are still afraid to come to the building to worship. But the notion that I don’t pay taxes is false.

I get paid around $12,000 a year for preaching, on all of which I pay taxes to the state and feds.

Let me back up... Our religious organization follows the example of the New Testament as closely as we can. We have elders to oversee the local congregation and the local congregation is all that they oversee. Every Sunday a collection is made and the money given to the church is to be used for either evangelizing (including paying the preacher) and benevolent work. That money is not taxed being in the treasury of the church. Once it is paid to the local preacher, his salary is then taxed according to the rules of the state and federal government as income. I have to file it as self-employment tax.

Every preacher that I know personally pays taxes in this way. We’re not all Graham’s or Olsteens.

Just wanted to answer that “preachers don’t pay taxes” thing.

Thanks for clarifying.......

[RB 60]

Sad, the only fool you could find hates your religion & you for believing it........

You trying to rationalize/pretend about it shows how far you have fallen from grace..............

You calling yourself a fool? I'd say you have company.

It's obvious. And YOU start a thread singling out one denomination. Why is that? Why won't you answer that?

[Bill]

You calling yourself a fool? I'd say you have company.

It's obvious. And YOU start a thread singling out one denomination. Why is that? Why won't you answer that?

Because you want me to....

Now listen to this brother:

[Bill]