Recovering Curmudgion

Scrambling up mountains, metaphorical and otherwise. Husband, father, grandfather, Veteran USAF, Patriot, Christian at large. 🇺🇲🇧🇴🇯🇵🇱🇹

[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.

[MOMof DataRepublican @data_republican]

I'm generally pro-states' rights and prefer it over federal intervention. Most of what we are seeing in California is not illegal. Laws were passed in California to encourage this.

If they want to do this for their own state, then people who disagree need to move out or endure, but if they are doing it to elect representatives to the U.S. Congress who will impact the entire nation, then it should be stopped.

Maybe change could be encouraged by cutting off federal funds? Just my opinion based on observation. Lots of you know more about this than I do.

[Recovering Curmudgion @deango]

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[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.

https://t.co/EIJyuNeFU1

[Chris @chriswithans]

California's going to have over 9.4 million primary votes cast for governor in 2026. That's about 35% more than both 2018 and 2022. Those two midterm years were similar. This despite the fact that the state's lost about 1.5 to 2 million citizens since 2018, mostly but not entirely replaced by immigrants and migrants.

It's trivially easy to register to vote in the state with little to no documentation. And the state will then mail out ballots to you without hesitation. Automatically. Fair to say that if you're a noncitizen, you're much more likely to just turn in the ballot if you receive it unsolicited in the mail than if you have to ask for one.

It's quite obvious what's happened from 2022 to 2026, and I'm tired of pretending otherwise. No, the citizen population didn't just suddenly became hyper-engaged in primary politics. No, they weren't desperately worried that Steyer or Becerra would be locked out of the governorship to two Republicans.

All this starts with how easy it has become for anyone, literally anyone, to get a ballot. And continues with that ballot just requiring a signature that might not be verified. And finishes with massive ballot harvesting up till 8 pm Election Day. With the postscript that they can "arrive" somewhere 7 days post election day and be counted in some way 13 to 30 days after election day.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

The more Los Angeles citizens discover about what is legal here regarding voting, the less it feels like democracy at all.

[Insurrection Barbie @DefiyantlyFree]

Watched this three times already

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Whites are the LEAST racist group in the world.

So why is the LEAST racist group called the MOST racist?

The best explanation I can come up with is that the racist groups are calling whites racist, for racist reasons.

It's a weapon.

They know whites care about being fair and impartial above all else.

So they hit whites as hard as they can with the "racist card" to make whites doubt whether they are living up to their own standard.

It's racist, predatory gaslighting.

And it's inflicted relentlessly against whites on a mass scale.

Whites, we are the LEAST racist group.

When they call you racist, understand that that's actually THEM.

They're being racist toward you by calling you racist.

You are not racist. They are.

Don't put up with their racist bullshit.

[Burgess Owens @BurgessOwens]

44 years ago, I decided I would quit debating and find out once and for all if what my friends, teammates, and two young men in white shirts and ties had told me about the @Ch_JesusChrist was true.

There is a promise given at the very end of the Book of Mormon:

And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.”

Moroni 10:4–5.

Our Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ, keeps every promise. I read, prayed, asked, and listened.

He answered.

That decision will bless my family and me for an Eternity.

– Burgess Owens, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

Thomas Sowell:

“What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail.”

“In so far as they fail, they receive the money. In so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.”

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Wait, Tim Walz and Minnesota AG Keith Ellison THREATENED and MONITORED fraud whistleblowers?! But they said they didn't know anything about the fraud! Well now, a House Oversight Committee report has just exposed that they both KNEW about and IGNORED the fraud as far back as spring 2019.

They had the authority to investigate, suspend payments, shut it down, and protect the taxpayer. But instead, according to the report, they chose to protect themselves by guarding the fraud machine.

And if that wasn't bad enough, they used mob-like tactics to RETALIATE against whistleblowers exposing the fraud. They hired private investigators to monitor whistleblowers. The investigators took pictures of their cars and homes, monitored their phones and computers, and even asked where the whistleblowers’ kids went to school. And they took the fraud hotlines, which were supposed to be anonymous, and exposed who was calling so they knew who to monitor.

If this is proven in a court of law, that should be a crime against the Republic. I hope the whole book gets thrown at Walz, Ellison, and any other official involved. Life in prison. No one is above the law.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

CALIFORNIA VOTE IS RIGGED 🚨 Voters were rejecting a new sales tax increase in Los Angeles County but because of a ‘surge with late mail in ballots’ the sales tax increase PASSED

The same late mail in ballots that pushed Nithya Raman ahead of Spencer Pratt also pushed through Democrat’s sales tax increase

“I'm going to talk about one of the strangest results in the LA County — sales tax increase that will take the sales tax in Los Angeles County from a very high 9.75% to the almost unthinkable 10.25%, one of the highest in the country. Why did this happen? — Initially, it looked like Measure ER, the tax increase, was going to fail, but with late ballots coming in, especially for Nithya Raman, the tax increase passed.”

I found this new sales tax increase is expected to take a BILLION dollars per year from residents.

Again, they were rejecting it. But Democrats forged it through with mail in ballots

[Brigitte Gabriel @ACTBrigitte]

🚨@SecRubio warns: Radical Islam isn’t satisfied with a Middle East caliphate. Their doctrine demands conquering the West, occupying more land, controlling more people, especially America, the “Great Satan.”

Terrorism. Infiltration. Whatever it takes. They hate anyone who resists.

[Peacemaking Saint @PeacemakingSt]

In my eyes the greatest defense of the Book of Mormon ever delivered behind a pulpit—

President Jeffrey R. Holland declared a powerful testimony of the Book of Mormon that every truth seeker needs to hear.

“For 179 years this book has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other book in modern religious history—perhaps like no other book in any religious history. And still it stands.”

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

🚨 Stephen Miller: “What we’ve found, since President Trump took office, is that the Democrats have set up a system to funnel hundreds of BILLIONS... ultimately TRILLIONS... to migrants that are in our country.”

These Democrats belong behind bars.

[Recovering Curmudgion @deango]

@smith_john45146 @AwakenedOutlaw It says it's closing their E&E site.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Over the last 20 years…

Elections decided on Election Night:
Republicans: 52%
Democrats: 48%

Elections decided AFTER Election Night:
Republicans: 20%
Democrats: 80%

This is totally insane.

Nothing to see here…

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

OMG

US attorney Bill Essayli reveals California lets people register to vote using:

-Gym memberships
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance card

California is also BLOCKING a federal audit of voter rolls

They aren’t even trying to hide it

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud.

When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized.

[Some.BYU.Dude @ByuSome]

The Book of Revelation says not to add to the Bible.

Sorry creedal Christians, but the Nicene Creed is invalid. Checkmate.

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