Something a lot of combat veterans struggle with is why they made it back home and their friends didn’t.
They were better men, fathers and husbands with families.
Something I wrestled with for a long time.
Wasn’t until after we had my son that it finally dawned on me.
He needed to born, he needed dad. That’s why I survived.
You have purpose. God has a plan for you.
You honor their memory by living a life of service to those around you.
Be an American worthy of their sacrifice.
Keep moving forward.
Disembodied consciousness will be possessed by something
Silicon Valley is rushing to build a vessel to contain forces they do not understand, a modern spin on a tale as ancient as humanity itself
Time is not fundamental. It arises from entanglement and relational measurements between subsystems. Without entanglement (or suitable correlations), there's no experienced "time."
For something to be funny, there has to be an element of truth to it. When a comedy page targets the same religion over and over and over and over, never diversifying, viewers start to realize it’s all just thinly veiled visceral hatred, and the “jokes” become cringeworthy.
There's a lot going on here and most of it's highly controversial and uncomfortable but without looking at the difficult stuff we can't see the whole board so strap in:
America was founded predominantly by Anglo-Protestants, Catholics were here since the begging and they even got Maryland but that didn't go so well and it reverted to protestant control
The American ruling class was dominated by high-church Anglos
When the first big waves of Irish, German, and Italian immigration arrived they were Catholic, the ethnic and religious tensions began
Much like Indian immigrants do today, Catholics took over urban hubs and used machine politics to turn government jobs into ethnic cartels, Catholic neighborhood form, Catholic schools segregate out the new minorities and allow them to retain their culture and faith
We also start to see significant Eastern European immigration which is why America has more Jews here than Israel does in their specifically Jewish ethno-state
This is how we got the Know Nothings (beware of foreign influence, Catholics will follow their king in Rome)
Most people think of the KKK as an organization that tormented black Americans but it was mainly a protestant reaction to Catholic and Jewish immigration
Catholic and Jewish diasporas were able to control local urban politics but found it difficult to break into the higher echelon because the ruling class remained White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) and they were uninterested in handing power to the new comers
This is why you heard so much about Catholics and Jews being excluded from country clubs, where WASPs did the real politics
The mainline Protestant denominations held the ruling class but evangelical low-church Protestantism swept through the heartland
The ruling class might have been Anglican/Episcopalian but evangelicals had the passion and the numbers
Jews were already not huge fans of Catholics for reasons that should be obvious, and Evangelicals adopted this novel form of theology called dispensationalism that featured the Jews prominently as a chosen people to be protected and to whom a homeland was owed if Jesus was to return
Evangelicals are also very politically convenient because while they have the numbers and accumulated wealth to be very politically useful, they have no interest in ruling
Many Evangelicals even believe that holding power is against their religion and are very amenable to handing power to another ruling class
So you start to see an Evangelical-Jewish axis form in American politics to unseat the WASPs and freeze out the Catholics
Dispensationalism was key to securing support for the founding of Israel and Jewish allies here are very aware of how important it is to keep Evangelicals the dominate Christians force in America politics
But as America continued to experience unprecedented levels of legal and illegal immigration it didn't just shift the ethnic make up, but the religious composition as well
When foreigners are Christian (instead of say Muslim or Hindu) they are not Evangelical, they're Catholic or Orthodox (sorry Catholic bros but America isn't getting more Catholic, it's getting more foreign and less American)
These immigrants don't have the American addiction to WW2 Holocaust history and their faith is at best neutral to Judaism, if not openly hostile
They're not natural allies to Israel and American Jews are very aware of this
So what you are watching under the surface of the current debate is an ethno-religious shake up of the American political landscape
The remaining WASPs who resent losing power aligning to some extent with Catholics (who were already ascending, notice the Supreme Court and conservative intelligentsia are increasingly more Catholic and less Jewish) while Jewish Americans attempt to hold onto their hard won positions by utilizing their alliance with Evangelicals
Paula White vs The Pope, it's just ethno-religious factionalism dressed up in ideology
It's been over a year and a half.
You've been asking for it.
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Video games are one of the most accessible ways men have to stay connected with each other.
Every game offers some version of a quest, an adventure you can go on without a plane ticket.
Most games feature multiplayer functions, so guys can meet up in person or sync up online—playing a few rounds in the living room, or logging on at the same time from different cities.
Either way, they're going on a mission together, and that matters.
It's not that different from us getting together for a movie night or a group chat that runs all evening.
The medium is different, but the need is the same.
Men deserve a space of their own, and video games are one of the best ones they've found.
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Let’s pray for our world right now. Join me.
Father in heaven,
We come before You in this moment, not as people shaken by the noise of the world, but as citizens of a Kingdom that cannot be moved. You are enthroned above every nation, every ruler, every headline, and every decision made by human hands. Your Word declares that the heart of the king is in Your hand, and You turn it wherever You will.
So we ask You now, not in fear, but in faith:
Let Your Kingdom come. Let Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Even in the midst of flawed leadership, confusion, and unrest, we ask that Your purposes would not be hindered. Advance Your Kingdom through Your people. Let the gospel run swiftly. Let truth rise. Let righteousness stand. Let light break through every shadow.
Lord, remind us that You are not reacting to history, You are writing it.
Where men make decisions in pride, establish Your wisdom. Where there is injustice, bring Your justice. Where there is division, release Your peace. Where there is deception, let truth be revealed.
And in us, Your people, anchor our hearts.
Teach us to live with eternal vision. Your Word says our life is a vapor, here for a moment and gone. So fix our eyes not on what is seen, but what is unseen. Let us live in a way that echoes into eternity, faithful, bold, unshaken.
Give us peace that surpasses understanding. Not peace because circumstances are stable, but peace because You are sovereign.
Remind us that Christ has already overcome the world. That the cross was not defeat, but victory. That the resurrection was not a possibility, but a declaration that Your purposes cannot fail.
So we stand today with confidence:
Your Kingdom will advance. Your purposes in Christ will prevail. Your glory will fill the earth.
Keep us faithful in the meantime. Watchful. Prayerful. Steady. Let us be found doing Your will when You return.
We trust You. We rest in You. We follow You.
In the name of Jesus Christ, our King,
Amen
Honestly, had anyone in either Washington or Tel Aviv ever played Sid Meier's Civilization, they'd have never made the mistake of initiating the war in the Mideast on Feb 28. They just would've known better.
It’s been a long time coming but I’m glad to see Michael O’Fallon & James Lindsay officially come out against Christian morality in American politics
Tonight, they both said they oppose Christians advancing a biblically-grounded moral vision of law and politics
Masks off
@GmorganJr You've become a derivative emotional gatekeeper, just cancelled my Mug Club subscription, been with you since you left The Blaze. Read the room