"Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God’s heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips but with your heart. In fact, on certain occasions, you should only speak to Him with your heart."
Padre Pio
Republicans are in charge because we promised:
to Make America Healthy Again.
to start No New Wars,
to put people above corporations,
to put America above foreign countries,
to release the Epstein files,
to not spy on citizens,
to eliminate fraud,
what the hell happened?!
“Elon Musk is a trillionaire.”
As a securities law attorney, please allow me to explain how anyone who says this is basically lying to you:
1. The Securities and Exchange Commission has a myriad of laws that prevent founders and other large stockholders of publicly traded companies from dumping their shares. There are substantial holding period requirements, volume of sales limitations and public reporting obligations for stock sales. Basically, Elon holds largely illiquid shares, he is a “trillionaire” on paper only, and the best analogy is when people peg your net worth based on your home’s market price. That’s not money in your pocket, that’s the house you live in.
2. All that money raised in the IPO? That’s not going into Elon’s pocket like the lying socialist idiots want you to believe. It’s a capital influx that will be used to make more rockets and get more payloads into orbit. It’s a CAPITAL investment—that money is like a business loan, it’s not your money to keep, it’s your money to grow the business.
3. If it WERE legal for Elon to dump his shares, the share price would crash basically instantly and the company could very well fail.
If you bought SpaceX shares in the IPO, congrats. You just bought a lottery ticket, just like Elon. May the odds ever be in your favor.
So the next time someone screeches about how unfair it is that Elon Musk creates wealth that benefits all of humanity, throw the truth back in their faces.
“Mary, give me your Heart: so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate; your Heart so full of love and humility that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life and love Him as you love Him and serve Him in the distressing guise of the poor.”
St. Teresa of Calcutta
"The greatest proof of love is to suffer for the beloved, and Jesus has done this for us. His Sacred Heart is our refuge and our rest."
St. Francis de Sales
Sola Scriptura, “Scripture alone,” is the formal principle of the Protestant Reformation. Protestants claim to go by the Bible alone. So why do they disagree about so many things?
Lutherans teach from the Bible that baptism regenerates and justifies. Baptists claim the Bible teaches the opposite. Presbyterians and other Reformed Protestants say the Bible teaches infant baptism. Baptists say it teaches baptism for believers only.
Some Protestants say the Bible teaches that believers can lose their salvation. Others claim it teaches “once saved, always saved.” Some say the Bible teaches a pretribulation rapture. Others reject that entirely based on their own reading of the same Bible. Calvinists say Christ died only for the elect. Most other Protestants say He died for all.
Beyond these, sincere Bible-reading Protestants have reached contradictory conclusions on the Lord’s Supper, church government, women in ministry, the millennium, Sabbath observance, and predestination.
A Protestant might argue that these are merely secondary doctrinal disagreements. But where does the Bible itself classify doctrines as “primary” or “secondary”?
Lutherans regard baptism as a primary doctrine. Calvinists regard limited atonement as a primary doctrine. And how can the question of whether baptism regenerates be called secondary when the Bible places such extraordinary emphasis on it?
Jesus tells Nicodemus that no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit (John 3:5). He declares that “whoever believes and is baptized will be saved” (Mark 16:16). He commands His Apostles to baptize all nations as the means of making disciples (Matthew 28:19-20). Peter tells the crowd at Pentecost to “be baptized for the forgiveness of your sins” (Acts 2:38). Peter writes that “baptism now saves you” (1 Peter 3:21).
If the Bible is sufficiently clear to serve as the sole, sufficient rule of faith, why can’t Spirit-filled, Bible-reading Protestants agree on whether the sacrament Christ Himself commanded produces the regeneration He said was necessary for entering the kingdom of God?
And why are there so many Protestant denominations that claim to go by the Bible alone yet teach so many contradictory interpretations of it?
If sincere, Bible-believing Protestants who pray for the Holy Spirit’s guidance all believe that the Holy Spirit has led them to correct doctrinal conclusions, why do they reach contradictory conclusions on foundational questions such as baptism, the Lord’s Supper, predestination, and the nature of salvation itself?
Since they all appeal to Scripture alone in support of their conflicting interpretations, how can anyone determine which interpretation is correct? Is the Holy Spirit teaching contradictory doctrines to different believers? If not, by what authority can these contradictions be definitively resolved?
Revelation 20:12-13 states that “the dead were judged according to their works” (κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν). If works play no role in our final salvation, why are people judged according to their works at the final judgment?