PatriotDad_Defiant!

JD, MBA, Entrepreneur, Patriot. Believer. Husband. Father of 8, all under one roof. Parents’ Rights are Human Rights. 🇺🇸 #LDS #MakeItaTrillion

[PatriotDad_Defiant! @SomeDadIKnow]

@jakeshieldsajj 8. All under one roof.

People never regret having one more. Each is a precious treasure, worth more than *any* amount of money.

[The Primary Pianist @Primary_Pianist]

Mormon: What do I need to be saved?

Evangelical: Do you believe in Jesus?

Mormon: Yes.

Evangelical: The Jesus of the Bible?

Mormon: Yes.

Evangelical: That Jesus is the Son of God?

Mormon: Yes.

Evangelical: That He died for your sins?

Mormon: Yes.

Evangelical: That He rose from the dead?

Mormon: Yes.

Evangelical: That He’s the only way to salvation?

Mormon: Yes.

Evangelical: Then why don’t you believe in Jesus?

Mormon: …I just said I do.

Evangelical: No, not that Jesus.

Mormon: Which Jesus?

Evangelical: The Biblical Jesus.

Mormon: The one who is the Son of God, died for sins, rose from the dead, and is the only way to salvation?

Evangelical: Yes.

Mormon: That’s the one I believe in.

Evangelical: No, you believe in a different Jesus.

Mormon: How is He different?

Evangelical: Because you don’t believe in the right Jesus.

Mormon: Which Jesus is the right Jesus?

Evangelical: The Biblical Jesus.

Mormon: …

Evangelical: …

Mormon: We’ve been standing in this same circle for three hours, haven’t we?

Evangelical: That’s exactly what someone who doesn’t believe in the Biblical Jesus would say.

[PatriotDad_Defiant! @SomeDadIKnow]

@justin_hart @MattDarJeito @realDrTT Unchanged, like the other 12 Articles of Faith, for 184 years now.

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

Of course it’s inherently better. First of all it guarantees the voter is a real person living at least nearby. Second, there’s at least a little verification. Third, people should be able to make as much effort to vote as they do to buy condoms or smokes

[PatriotDad_Defiant! @SomeDadIKnow]

@LW1307 @CapturingChrist How many convictions?

Zero.

[Chad C. Mulligan, Sociologist Extraordinaire @7bil_1island]

Yeah, my religion was founded by a convict

[PatriotDad_Defiant! @SomeDadIKnow]

❤️

[US Department of the Interior @Interior]

You could say they nailed it. (And also sanded it, painted it, and rebuilt it.)

@NatlParkService staff from across the country are working hard to make DC safe and beautiful, installing and repairing more than 1,000 benches this year.

Their work may happen behind the scenes, but the results are on display every day in the shared spaces that help to tell our nation’s story. 🇺🇸

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

I'm going to have to break with NRO on this because I fundamentally disagree with this sentence from the editorial:

"...Trump’s unworthy and abusive campaign to investigate and prosecute his political opponents."

Trump didn't make these individuals his "political opponents" -- that reverses the causation.

The fact that individuals launch misguided and/or illegitimate efforts at a sitting President, or at an individual out of office with an intent to run for office again, does NOT then become provide them with a cloak of immunity from their own potential criminal behavior.

To dismiss all the investigations as "retribution" - and declare them illegitimate based on that label -- is de facto immunity they purchased for themselves by going first.

The cautionary tale in this is as follows:

Do not employ the criminal justice system as a political tool to stymie the implementation of policies you disagree with after losing an election.

Political motives should not provide protection from an investigation as to whether your own conduct was, in fact, legal.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Decay is a choice. DC before vs after:

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

BREAKING: Less than 12 hours after I exposed Judge James Boasberg’s conflict of interest with his daughter Katharine Boasberg, who works for a 501c3 called “Partners For Justice” @PFJ_USA that gives criminal illegal aliens and gang members legal advice,
Katharine Boasberg has DELETED her @LinkedIn page and her Instagram account.

I have exclusively uncovered a massive CONFLICT OF INTEREST involving Judge James Boasberg, the Chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Judge Boasberg recently made the decision to prevent the deportation of criminal illegal alien gang members on planes out of the country.

This is enough for President Trump’s legal team to push for a MOTION FOR RECUSAL for Judge Boasberg.

Cc: @StephenM @RealTomHoman @Sec_Noem @CcpSkipTracer @LoomerUnleashed

See Video receipts below 👇🏻

[Margo Martin @MargoMartin47]

Last night, @POTUS invited the hardworking men who renovated the Reflecting Pool to the Oval Office ❤️

Every man received a signed hat and a presidential challenge coin!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

NOVEMBER 30, 2010:

Four weeks after losing the election as AG of CA, Kamala Harris wins due to mail-in surge from LA

Harris won by less than 1%

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

"You aren't a Christian if you don't accept the Trinity."

The history of that statement is quite shocking, and almost nobody who says it knows that acceptance of the doctrine of the Trinity was once enforced by exile, fire, and death.

Here is what happened.

For the first 300 years after Jesus, Christians did not agree on how He related to God the Father. They argued about it constantly. There was no official rule. That was just normal.

Then a priest named Arius said the Son came from the Father and was beneath Him. Not equal. Not eternal. A lot of Christians agreed with him. A lot. This was not some fringe group. For stretches of the next century, his side was winning.

Other Christians said the opposite. The Son was fully God, equal to the Father, no beginning. Two camps, same Bible, opposite conclusions.

The fighting got bad. Riots. Mobs in the streets. Christians brawling over the nature of God.

So the Roman emperor stepped in. Constantine. He had just won a civil war and he wanted his empire to stop fighting. He was not even baptized. He did not care about the theology. He cared about order.

In the year 325 he called the bishops to a town called Nicaea. He paid for it. He ran the meeting himself. And they voted. They ruled that the Son was equal to the Father, fully God, one substance with Him. That ruling is the core of the Trinity. It got settled in that room, by that vote, on one word that is not even in the Bible.

They wrote the ruling into an official statement of belief. A creed. Every bishop was expected to sign it.

That is the part people think is the story. It isn't. The shocking part is how they made everyone accept it.

Constantine made the bishops sign the creed. The few who refused, he banished.

Then he ordered every book Arius ever wrote to be burned.

Then he made a law. If you were caught hiding one of those books, you were put to death.

Even after all of that, the Trinity did not win for good.

A few years later Constantine changed his mind. He brought Arius back. And he exiled Athanasius, the bishop who had won the argument at Nicaea. That man got banished five separate times in his life for believing the thing the church now says you have to believe.

For the next fifty years it flipped back and forth. One emperor said Trinity. The next said no. Whoever sat on the throne decided what was true. The official belief about God changed every time power changed hands.

It finally got locked in by another emperor named Theodosius. He made the Trinity the law of the empire. Disagree, and you were a heretic. Not in some spiritual sense. By law. Backed by soldiers.

A few years after that, the empire executed a bishop for his beliefs. The first time the state put a Christian to death over doctrine. It would not be the last.

Then came the document that says it out loud. A creed written around the year 500. Almost five centuries after Jesus. They named it after Athanasius, that same bishop. He did not even write it. They put his name on it for the authority.

It opens by declaring that anyone who does not hold the Trinity, whole and complete, will perish forever. Believe it or be damned. Put in writing, and made the test of who gets saved.

So that is where the line comes from. Not from Jesus. Not from the apostles. From emperors and councils who needed a divided empire to fall in line.

The Trinity did not become the rule because the argument was settled. It became the rule because the side that held it had the throne, the law, and the sword.

The next time someone says you aren't a Christian unless you accept the Trinity, remember what it took to make that rule stick. Exile. Fire. And death.

[LEGO Joseph Smith @Mormonger]

Is this meant to be an argument or just a list of things you think sound weird? 😂

"Mormons make stuff up"
*lists a slew of lies*

Let's get into it...

"Magic underwear"? That's the intellectual level we're operating at? Religious garments exist in numerous faiths. Calling them "magic underwear" isn't a refutation; it's playground mockery.

"Golden plates and a seer stone." Correct. Joseph Smith claimed revelation through unusual means. Christians believe God spoke through a burning bush, a donkey, dreams, visions, angels, and a resurrected corpse. If your standard is "sounds unusual," Christianity fails before Mormonism does.

"God was once a man" and "humans can become gods." You apparently don't know that deification is a historic Christian doctrine. The idea that humans can participate in divine life predates Mormonism by centuries. The disagreement is about the nature and extent of exaltation, not whether the concept exists.

"Jesus and Satan are spirit brothers." This is one of the favorite anti-Mormon talking points because it sounds shocking until you think about it for ten seconds. Traditional Christianity teaches Satan is a created being who derives his existence from God. LDS theology teaches Christ is the divine Son and Satan is a fallen being. The point isn't that they're equals. They aren't.

"No Trinity." Correct. Latter-day Saints reject the Nicene formulation. That's a theological disagreement, not evidence of fraud. You actually have to argue why the Nicene model is correct instead of pretending its truth is self-evident.

"Total apostasy." The New Testament repeatedly warns of apostasy, false teachers, corruption, and falling away. You can disagree with the LDS interpretation, but acting as if the idea appeared from nowhere only advertises ignorance of the texts.

"Kolob." The Book of Abraham doesn't say God lives on Kolob. Critics repeat this because they know most people won't check.

"Humans get their own planet." Not official doctrine. Again, critics repeat it because it gets laughs.

"Baptism for the dead." Paul literally mentions people being baptized for the dead in 1 Corinthians 15:29. You may reject the LDS interpretation, but the practice is rooted in a biblical text, not thin air.

Every religious worldview can be made to sound absurd through hostile wording.

"Christians believe in eating the body of their God - they're a cannibalistic death cult."

See how easy that is?

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

I regularly say Mormons are facing the same attacks and have the same weaknesses of modern Christians. Yet you show up to “scold me,” and while doing do, lie. Proving my original point. If you’re flying a Christian flag, then behave better than a secular Reddit reply guy.

[PatriotDad_Defiant! @SomeDadIKnow]

@EYakoby The colonizers in Ireland are killing the indigenous peoples there.

[PatriotDad_Defiant! @SomeDadIKnow]

@BrandonLansdown Meanwhile evangelicals now believe there is essentially no sin. You can even live with your partner, or partners, even if not married to them. Even if a pastor. Totally fine, according to them.

Is this gospel contrary to what Paul preached?

https://t.co/onwgfbNxmN

[PatriotDad_Defiant! @SomeDadIKnow]

@conservmillen @BasedMikeLee The core tenant of Christianity is that Jesus Christ, the creator of all things, was born into this world to take upon him the sins of the world and to save mankind. That he lived, taught, healed, died, and rose again on the third day.

Mormons believe all these truths.

[PatriotDad_Defiant! @SomeDadIKnow]

@BrandonLansdown Years after the letter to the Galatians, an angel came to John and gave him the book of Revelation.

Revelation is the most unique book in the New Testament. Hundreds of things are in Revelation that appear no where else in the Bible.

Yet it is the word of God.

[PatriotDad_Defiant! @SomeDadIKnow]

@Mormonger @BrandonLansdown Years after the letter to the Galatians, an angel came to John and gave him the book of Revelation.

Revelation is the most unique book in the New Testament. Hundreds of things are in Revelation that appear no where else in the Bible.

Yet it is the word of God.

[PatriotDad_Defiant! @SomeDadIKnow]

@TedRall Ever hear of Obama Care?