Father Chad Ripperger tells Tucker Carlson sugar is a big addiction demons drive in people who are possessed.
“I’m not surprised even a little bit. I’m just surprised you said it out loud.”
WOW! A drone show put on by a church in Manvel, Texas depicts our Savior Jesus on the cross.
One of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Tomorrow, HE IS RISEN.
Jesus made worship free. The Jewish system ran on recurring sacrifice. Livestock, grain offerings, costly festivals where you burned your best animals to keep God satisfied. Jesus replaced the whole system. Passover with communion. Bread and wine instead of a slaughtered lamb. He replaced constant animal sacrifice with one final sacrifice on the cross.
You used to need a priest between you and God. That became direct access. Three mandatory trips to Jerusalem every year (Passover, Pentecost, and the fall harvest festival) became "where two or three are gathered." Even the entry cost changed. Circumcision became baptism. The entire subscription model collapsed into something that cost nothing.
Jesus constantly pairs religious leaders with tax collectors because they run the same operation. One charges an empire tax, the other a spiritual tax. But this wasn't unique. Every pagan system surrounding Israel ran on the same "spiritual taxation" model.
You could see who was going to win immediately. Paul walks into Ephesus and the entire city economy runs on the goddess Artemis. Silversmiths making shrine replicas, temple fees, festival seasons that shut down commerce. The Ephesians were paying to worship. The Christians were not. The silversmiths rioted because they could see exactly where this was heading.
This is why it outcompeted every pagan faith. A religion that costs less and gives you more of your life back will always spread faster. Especially against one that demands your best lamb four times a year. Christianity was streamlined technology. Once people figured out they could worship without bleeding their household dry, they never went back.
> Be David Goggins
> 51 years old
> Looks 25
> Beaten with belts by his dad as a kid
> Becomes 300 lbs
> Spraying cockroaches as a job
> Severe learning disability and stutter
> Decides to become a Navy SEAL
> Loses 106 lbs in 3 months just to qualify
> Fails BUD/S twice. Broken legs. Stress fractures.
> Gets in 3rd time. Becomes the only member of US Armed Forces to complete SEAL training, Army Ranger School, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller training
> Runs 100 miles in 19 hours with zero training to raise money for charity
> Breaks his feet and kidneys during the race
> Keeps running anyway
> Breaks the World Record for pull-ups (4,030 in 17 hrs)
> Finds out he has a hole in his heart the size of a poker chip
> Operates at 100% capacity while technically "broken"
> Spends his summers as a wildland smokejumper putting out forest fires
> Releases a book that sells millions without a major publisher
> Lives by the "40% Rule"—when your mind says you're done, you're only 40% there
And Goggins is still the hardest motherf*cker on the planet who refuses to be comfortable.
Goggins is badass.
Satan doesn’t work hard, he works smart, he couldn’t care less about you if you’re on way down. Why would he?
He only concerns himself with those on their way up. He locks on when it looks like you’re going to be a problem down the line. He sees you before you see him.
It’s February 2007, I’d been in Afghanistan for about 6 weeks. This was the most stressful moment of my life. I was there as an orthopedic trauma surgeon and deployed to Bagram. I had just turned 40 years old and was relatively new in my surgical career. The operations tempo was high and we were pretty inundated with trauma every day. Little kids getting legs blown off by landmines, IED explosions and rocket blasts were pretty common. We were in a tiny hospital made out of plywood with a tin roof. We had 2 operating rooms that were basically Connex boxes and I had to constantly hunch over so my head didn’t wack into the OR lights. My surgical partner Dr Tom Large (pictured along with me and Dr Claude Hawkins our commander ) and I operated every single day often 14-16 hours a day due to non stop trauma either locally or shipped in as we were the main referral hub for the war theater.
We often had various politicians stoping by the facility for photo ops and in February we had the vice president coming by. Apparently the Taliban had gotten intel on his visit and wanted to try and make a statement of possibly kill him.
As the base was on high alert they had no chance of success but that did not deter them. Routinely we would have dozens of locals with their young kids hanging outside our main gates because we often would give them food, clothing and other resources.
A suicide bomber decided that this is where the statement would take place.
We were in the OR doing our usual trauma stuff when we were alerted that a mass casualty even had occur at our gate. The bomber approach the crowd of locals and detonated his suicide vest. Immediately 20 or so were killed with another 25 to 30 severely injured. The suicide vests often contained things like screws, ball bearing, nails etc.. often covered in feces to increase the lethality via infection for those that survived the blast.
The ER was full of frenetic activity as the medics scrambled to resuscitate, triage and treat as many people as possible. The triage for a mass casualty event looks is designed to sort the wounded into three categories.
1. Unsalvageable, not going to live, massive wounds, exposed brain or something similar
2. Injured but not critical, can wait a bit for the OR- broken bones, limb injuries etc
3. Critically injured but potentially can be saved. Often belly bleeding- if we can get them to the OR, open them up and find the bleeding and stop it we can resuscitate them
It was the 3rd group that we were focused on as surgeons. My specialty was orthopedics and I had plenty to do to keep me busy for the next 40 or so hours with all the broken bones and extremity trauma that was coming in, but the initial task was to try and help save the wounded with the belly trauma and so we were scrubbed and assisting our general surgeons in finding the bleeding and shutting it down.
We had been at in for about an hour or so and the patient on the table was a local afghan civilian who was going to die if we didn’t stop the bleeding. There were about 5 of us packed into the tiny little Connex box/OR and were frantically digging through this guys intestine looking for bleeders.
This is, as you might imagine a bit stressful, but then a nurse comes into the room and lets us know, that they think there is another suicide bomber in the hospital and they are recommending we evacuate.
A common ploy used by the Taliban was to set off a bomb, wait for the first responder and then detonate a second bomb to kill them as well.
The tension in the room was palpable, I think everyone’s butt cheeks clenched up, I know mine did. The general surgeon looked at all of us, the other surgeons, the scrub tech, or nurse and anesthesiologist and said what do you guys want to do? Evacuate or keep going and try and save this guy.
Without hesitation every single one of said “fuck it, keep going, let’s save this guy”
For the next twenty minutes we operated as quickly …..
"Yalnızlığın ve asfaltın soğuğunda son nefesini beklerken, merhamet dolu bir yüreğe rastladı. Kirli tüylerinden arındı, ruhu sevgiyle yıkandı. Artık onun da gözleri parlıyor, artık onun da bir 'evim' dediği yer var."❤
📹 Paco Paco Paco
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“I’m grateful for my Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ and that He’s blessed me to be in this position…. All of this will come & go, but Jesus Christ doesn’t.”
- Penn State wrestler Josh Barr after winning his first NCAA Championship