The story in the Bible that rattled me before I converted to Christianity from Islam:
The two thieves crucified next to Jesus. I never knew about them. Bro. Theyโre the whole Gospel in one scene.
Two men. Same sin. Same cross. Same dying breath. Same distance from Jesus โ mere feet away on either side.
One mocks Him. One turns to Him and says, โJesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.โ
And Jesus tells the second man: โToday you will be with Me in paradise.โ Luke 23:43.
That man did ZERO good works. He couldnโt. His hands were nailed down. He never prayed five times. Never fasted. Never gave to the poor. Never got baptized. He had nothing to offer but a dying glance toward Jesus.
And Jesus saved him... on the spot.
In Islam, that man was doomed. No time to balance the scale. No deeds to weigh. Game over. A horrible life with a horrible punishment ahead.
I wonder if that would be meโฆ
Yet in the Gospel, that man was in paradise the same day โ because salvation was never about his works. It was about WHO he turned to in his last moment.
Two criminals. Same cross. One simple difference: which one turned to Jesus.
Thatโs why the Gospel is offensive.
And Jesus asks everyone: who do you say I am?
The heroes who stormed the beaches of Normandy to fight against tyranny must never be forgotten.
Generations have enjoyed freedom thanks to those in uniform and all who helped.
On the 82nd anniversary of D-Day, and always, we continue to remember and honor their legacies. ๐บ๐ธ
When I was Muslim, I would argue & say we had the same prophets as Christians.
But this one broke me:
Surah 17:101: Allah gave Moses 9 clear signs.
I knew the list. The staff. The shining hand. The drought. The flood. The locusts. The lice. The frogs. The blood.
I held onto those 9 signs like proof I had the real story.
But bro, you know what shook me?
Thereโs a night missing.
After all nine signs, right before Israel walks out of Egypt, something happens that the Quran goes completely silent on.
A lamb is slaughtered.
Its blood painted on the doorposts.
And death passes over every house covered by that blood.
The Passover.
I grew up hearing the whole Exodus story. But nobody ever told me about the blood on the door.
Islam just skips it.
And hereโs what wrecked me.
The Bible, the book I was taught was corrupted, mentions the Passover over 70 times.
Exodus. Leviticus. Numbers. Deuteronomy. The Psalms. The Prophets. The Gospels. Paul.
70 times.
So I had to ask myself the honest question:
If men corrupted this book, why would they obsess over the same story for 1500 years? Across dozens of authors who never met?
You donโt forge a document 70 times.
Thatโs just not corruption.
That to me is preservation.
And then I read the line that finished me off.
1 Corinthians 5:7.
โChrist our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.โ
Thatโs when it hit me.
The whole story was never just about Moses.
It was always pointing to a King.
The final lamb. Whose blood, when applied to your life, makes death pass over you.
Forever.
The Quran gave me 9 signs but hid the one night that explains why any of them happened.
Because the moment a Muslim understands the Passoverโฆ
heโs one step away from the cross.
๐จ HOLY SMOKES. Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy just DEMOLISHED insufferable Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D)!
GILLIBRAND: Your [America250] road trip was paid for by companies you oversaw!
DUFFY: Do YOU have jurisdictions over law firms? You received $7 MILLION DOLLARS from the TRIAL BAR!
GILLIBRAND: Oh my god!
DUFFY: You receive $7 MILLION DOLLARS, and you have jurisdiction on the trial bar! Want me to go on the list of WHAT ELSE you received?
GILLIBRAND: This hearing is about YOU!
DUFFY: I didn't make any money [on the road trip]. Maybe YOU should answer for getting $7 MILLION from the trial bar! $7 MILLION. That goes in state dinners, to put your ad on TV, that's all to YOU! YOU spend that money.
GILLIBRAND: You are using your position for political ways.
DUFFY: $500K from the TRIAL BAR to fly you on a PRIVATE JET! They paid for you to fly. Answer to that. I made NOTHING. They put your face on TV, your dinners, your vacations. I make NOTHING on this. I make no money.
@SecDuffy ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
One of his BEST MOMENTS YET.
She's this outraged over Duffy's America250 "Great American Road Trip," by the way.
Country star @ericchurch breaks the internet with his powerful "six-string" commencement speech ๐
"This speech is absolutely worth your time. If you haven't seen it, you should." โ @dbongino
I never ever thought I would have this problem. I donโt LOVE Trump, but Iโm tied to him by virtue of my party affiliation. I am devastated over the loss of close family over this nonsense.
Greg Gutfeld just delivered a savage 2-minute monologue exposing exactly why 60% of Democrats are ending relationships over politics.
He nailed the hypocrisy with one brutal question about dads and Trump:
โIf your dad loves Trump and you love your dad โ shouldnโt you maybe question whether your dad doesnโt love a Hitler figure?โ
GUTFELD: โYou know, the difference between Dems and Republicans come down to one thing.โ
โThey apply moral value to political preference, and that would make sense if your political party praised Hitler or protected murderers and sex fiends.โ
โBut the mistake is, itโs not the Republicans. But they have always compared Republicans to some kind of existential threat.โ
โTheyโve done it with climate change, theyโve done it with compassion, they do it with Trump.โ
โThat allows them to label them as amoral.โ
โRepublicans are not evil. We have a different path to the pursuit of happiness, and serenityโฆโ
โI donโt care that you hate Trump. Why should you care that I like him? The answer would be because heโs evil.โ
โHeโs like a Nazi. Well, this is where the whole thing falls apart.โ
โWhat does that mean to me if Iโm your Republican friend who voted for Trump? That you would believe I would support a Nazi. Weโve been friends for years.โ
โIf you are my friend, you have to realize thatโs illogical, because how were we friends for 10 or 20 years and now you find out I was a fascist?โ
โHow did that happen?โ
โYou knew I was a right winger in 80s, in the 90s and now all of the sudden youโre like, oh I canโt be seen with him.โ
โSo the key moment in the self-realization of a liberal should be, if your dad loves Trump and you love your dad โ shouldnโt you maybe question whether your dad doesnโt love a Hitler figure?โ
โAnd therefore, maybe Trump is not a Hitler figure, and that flaw in your thinking should put into question the reliability on your filter, on your life.โ
Democrats are destroying their own relationships over a lie.
@BNODesk I've decided that the 9/11 deniers are right up there with the flat-earthers. Tell me you skipped physics class in high school without telling me you skipped physics class in high school.
That Bonanza/Piper or whatever it was may have been traveling at 80-90 kts.