I feel genuinely terrible for all my Southern California friends who worked so hard. It was always going to go this way because that’s how communism works.
Once you vote it in, you can’t vote it out.
We have almost reached an agreement with the Islamic Republic for two months.
During that time, they attacked seven of our allies and our U.S. troops.
Enough is enough.
We were slaves in Egypt for 400 years before Hashem rescued us.
Hashem has delivered us from the worst of the worst, every-time.
Have some emunah! (Faith)
אלה שבכול דור ודור, עומדים עלינו לכלותנו. והקדוש ברכו מצילנו מידם 🙏
I had a pastor tell me a few weeks ago that religion has no place in politics.
I replied, “I realize you may not respect me or agree with me. No problem. Do you respect Charles Spurgeon?”
He responded, “Oh yes. I quote him in my sermons all the time!”
I sent him this Spurgeon quote for his next sermon:
“I often hear it said, ‘Do not bring religion into politics.’ This is precisely where it ought to be brought, and set there in the face of all men as on a candlestick.”
This is one of the things I find hilarious about the Quran.
Surah 8:41 came down after Badr. They had already fought, won and were arguing over the spoils. Then the revelation arrived with distribution rules.
God gave Moses a complete and comprehensive legal system at Sinai 50 days after they left Egypt. Criminal law, property rights, inheritance procedure. All for scenarios that had not happened yet. The one reactive episode in Torah is the daughters of Zelophehad, which expanded inheritance rights downward to people who had none. The Torah never created a personal exemption for Moses.
The Quran does the opposite. The revelation tracks desire. Muhammad wants to marry his adopted son’s divorced wife: the verse arrives and collapses the Arab prohibition on such marriages. He needs to manage spoils from a battle just fought: God speaks. He needs cover for a slave relationship: God speaks. He needs guests to stop lingering at his dinner table: God speaks.
Aisha watched this from inside the household and said to Muhammed “Your Lord does not hesitate to meet your desires.” That is in the Sahih Bukhari. His most beloved wife (child bride) made the same structural observation that it seemed like revelation always came to conveniently bail him out or meet his wild desires.
Islam insists Allah is eternal, complete, and has boundless knowledge. No new information reaches Him. If that is true, He knew before creation that Badr was coming and that the spoils question would follow. Why did He not send Gabriel with a comprehensive legal framework as He did with Moses?
The first prophet gets a God who legislates for a future his people haven’t lived yet. The so called final prophet gets a God who speaks when it is convenient for one man. Very fishy.
Dear Muslims who believe that "Israel is only 76 years old,"
The word Israel is mentioned 43 times in the Quran.
Israel is not younger than your grandma.
Israel is older than Islam.
A lot of the Woke Right BS "fighting Israel's war" narrative is deliberately constructed and strategically deployed to create demoralization in our wonderful U.S. Armed Services members, who are also overwhelmingly in the target age demographic. It's a traitorous op.
Social media is filled with the righteous indignation of the Mormons---who claim to be the only true Church, all other churches are corrupt, their creeds an abomination, their ministers the hirelings of Satan---that they, the Mormons, are not really Christians. It's just a tad ironic, but it does play on the ignorance of most LDS, and non-LDS, about LDS history and teachings.
Their current modus operandi is to use the phrase "creedal Christians" and try to make the issue post-biblical. Here's the problem. The fundamental distinction between Christianity and Mormonism goes back to about 1400 BC, not 400 AD. Here is the foundational contrast:
Before the mountains were born,
Or Your brought forth the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting,
You are God. (Psalm 90:2)
...for I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea, and take away the veil, so that you may see.
Joseph Smith, 1844
Now, two quick things: 1) Psalm 90 is a song of Moses, hence the early date. 2) The King Follett Funeral Discourse is not LDS Scripture. But it is the most often cited sermon of Joseph Smith by the leaders of the LDS Church itself, and is one of two foundational sermons preached within the last months of his life.
Hence, the issue is stark and clear. Monotheism vs. polytheism, one transcendent Creator God vs. an exalted man from another planet. Just a reminder from Brigham Young as to how Smith's words were interpreted by those who heard him initially:
“Mankind are here because they are the offspring of parents who were first brought here from another earth, and were enabled to propagate their species, and they were commanded to multiply and replenish the earth. How many Gods there are, I do not know. But there never was a time when there were not Gods and worlds, and when men were not passing through the same ordeals that we are now passing through. That course has been from all eternity, and it is and will be to all eternity.”
Brigham Young, JD 7:333, August 28, 1859.
Spoke at Turning Point’s WLS this year, as I have every year since 2017. The room was full and super engaged. Mostly women in their 20s, and lots of young moms with babies. It’s a really sweet event, and I always love being a part.
Single women sway left with the peer group vibes
Dating a man? ‘I’m not really into politics’
Married? Quietly right-leaning while playing centrist
Then kids hit: Mom’s loading the family into the 6-ton grocery hauler with a ‘Protected by 2A and Prayer’ sticker, suddenly obsessed with the gubernatorial race
Many such cases