David Lichtenstein

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@Tokyo_pi1 Put the assets in a trust. Much simpler.

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@MikeNellis When did responsibility to feed children shift from the parents to the government? I raised five children and paid for all of their meals...

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@JamesCarne49587 St. Varus is known to intercede for our loved ones.

https://t.co/Ljxp7g0vPZ

[Phil Johnson @Phil_Johnson_]

John MacArthur would have loved this:

[Fr. Daniel☦️ @Fragbaza]

It is better to be a hundredfold fornicator than a heretic.

— St. Gabriel (Urgabadze)

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@Flammiferrus My goodness, where did you get that picture from! Father John Fention at Holy Incarnation... with his two sons. That may actually be and much older version of me to his left!

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@DrNeilStone We would also need to be thankful for the millions and millions who survived the flu!

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@5solas Churchly topic... not for public debate （read wrong fourm）

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

The Catholic Church certainly played a major role in canonization and preservation of Scripture in later centuries, but the Bible existed long before the institutional Catholic Church formally compiled its canon.

The Old Testament was preserved for centuries by Jewish scribes with astonishing precision. The Masoretes and earlier Hebrew scribal traditions copied manuscripts letter by letter, counting words, lines, and even individual characters to ensure accuracy. If a copy contained too many errors, it was destroyed. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls confirmed just how carefully the Hebrew Scriptures were preserved over more than a thousand years.

The New Testament was also widely circulated very early. We now have over 5,800 Greek New Testament manuscripts, plus tens of thousands more in Latin, Syriac, Coptic, and other languages — far more manuscript evidence than exists for any other work of antiquity. Some fragments date within decades of the original writings.

What makes this important is that the sheer number of copies from different regions made large-scale alteration nearly impossible. Once thousands of manuscripts were spread across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, no single church, empire, or authority could secretly rewrite the text without contradictions immediately appearing in the manuscript record. Scholars can compare copies across centuries and locations to identify variations, which is precisely why we can reconstruct the biblical text with such a high degree of confidence today.

The Bible survived because generations of faithful Jews, early Christians, monks, scribes, translators, and scholars painstakingly copied and preserved these texts across continents and centuries. The Church helped preserve and spread the Bible, absolutely — but it was not created out of thin air by a single institution.

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

Mike Pence talks about “traditional conservative principles” like free trade and low tariffs as though the last several decades were some unqualified success for the American worker. But many Americans watched those policies coincide with the generational loss of manufacturing, technology, and entire industries to other countries.

For decades, the United States embraced free trade while other nations protected their own economies aggressively. Countries around the world imposed high import duties, value-added taxes (VATs), regulatory barriers, currency manipulation, and state subsidies that made it far more difficult for American companies to compete fairly in their markets. Meanwhile, the U.S. kept lowering barriers and opening access to our consumers.

The result was a massive trade imbalance. America became increasingly dependent on foreign manufacturing for critical goods ranging from steel and pharmaceuticals to semiconductors and electronics. Entire communities across the Midwest and industrial regions were hollowed out as factories closed and jobs moved overseas. This wasn’t just an economic shift — it was a generational transfer of industrial capability, technical expertise, and economic leverage away from the United States.

Critics often describe tariffs as “anti-free trade,” but supporters see them as a response to decades of unequal trade practices. They argue that tariffs are not about isolationism, but about reestablishing leverage and rebuilding domestic production capacity after years of one-sided agreements that benefited foreign competitors at the expense of American workers.

Pence is correct that this debate represents a major divide within the Republican Party. But many voters no longer believe that unrestricted global trade automatically strengthens America. They see strategic tariffs, industrial policy, and economic nationalism as practical tools to restore manufacturing, secure supply chains, reduce dependence on adversarial nations, and rebalance trade relationships that have been unequal for decades.

The real question for Republicans heading into 2028 may not be whether to return to the pre-Trump economic model, but whether that model adequately protected American industry, labor, and long-term national interests in the first place.

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@briankeepsworth This isn't a request for where they are... This is an invitation to self-awareness, repentance, and relationship.

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@MattisRedacted Genesis 5:4 explicitly says Adam and Eve had “sons and daughters.”

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@eligedisciplina lol... I'm so thankful for AI... why are people wasting their time on this foolishness?

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@DineshDSouza Inflation is a lie... it's actually the devaluation of the currency. When you understand... you understand.

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@drhingram Try using the web-based Outlook!

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

$1.1 million stolen from American taxpayers meant for feeding children.

One year in prison.

You or I would get a decade behind bars for stealing a fraction of that.

My End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act stops this from happening. Call your senator and tell them to support my bill → [phone]

[David Lichtenstein @DavidLS69]

@elonmusk @grok @elonmusk ... you need to. I use both Grok and ChatGPT. ChatGPT edges out Grok. Almost exclusively business related work.