Garden Grazer

.Jesus.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

At 11, Lionel Messi was just under 4 feet 2 inches tall and taking nightly injections in his leg just to grow. Yesterday, at 38, he scored a World Cup hat trick and tied the all-time record for most goals in World Cup history.

His body couldn't produce enough growth hormone, the hormone that tells your body to grow. Without treatment, doctors said he would reach only 4'7" as an adult. The injections cost around $900 a month. His family couldn't afford them.

Two of Argentina's biggest clubs, River Plate and Newell's Old Boys, saw his talent and passed on paying for the treatment. FC Barcelona didn't. Carles Rexach, their sporting director, wrote a contract on a napkin in 2000 to secure the 13-year-old. The club covered his medical bills. He came over, grew to 5'7" (the average height for an Argentine man), then went on to score 672 goals for Barcelona alone, more than any player has ever scored for a single club in football history.

Messi has won the Ballon d'Or (given annually to the world's best footballer) 8 times, more than anyone in history. He has 46 team trophies. His 474 goals in La Liga (Spain's top football division) lead the all-time list by more than 160. His 414 career assists are a world record, meaning he set up more goals than most players score across their entire careers. In 2012 alone, at 25, he scored 91 goals in 69 games, breaking a Guinness World Record from 1972 and outscoring 13 entire La Liga clubs in a single season.

Yesterday, in his record sixth World Cup, he scored three more to reach 16 total, tying Miroslav Klose's record set across 4 World Cups between 2002 and 2014. At 38, he became the oldest player to score multiple goals in a single World Cup match. He was substituted in the 80th minute to a standing ovation, then turned to his coach and cried.

The napkin Barcelona signed in 2000 has now produced over 910 career goals.

[Garden Grazer @fieldviewdreams]

@Primary_Pianist @tnsampson2 And Mormons say the same as Lucifer: “I want to be exalted as a god one day, too!”

It’s amazing you don’t see that the thing that Lucifer was thrown out of heaven for is what you guys aspire to be. It’s just as blasphemous today.

[Garden Grazer @fieldviewdreams]

@NateSilver538 Stay in your lane bro

[Garden Grazer @fieldviewdreams]

@mldiffley Yes and one is a humble servant leader and the other is arrogant and self-absorbed.

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Even Haaland, who had an incredible performance of his own today, was in awe of Messi's legendary performance 😂

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Messi x3 🎩

#FIFAWorldCup

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

MESSI SCORES HIS FIRST-EVER HAT TRICK AT A WORLD CUP AND TIES THE RECORD FOR THE MOST-EVER WORLD CUP GOALS 🐐

[Carli Lloyd @CarliLloyd]

Messi is playing with complete freedom. He’s already achieved the ultimate goal by winning the World Cup, and that makes him even more dangerous this tournament. No pressure or expectations to live up to—just pure football. Enjoy every moment while we still can. There’s simply no one else like him. 🐐

[Ryan S. Walters @ryanswalters73]

More Gems from Mormonism:

“… you have got to learn how to be Gods yourselves …the same as all Gods have done before you” - Joseph Smith, King Follett Discourse

“All those who are counted worthy to be exalted and to become Gods, even the sons of God, will go forth and have earths and worlds like those who framed this and millions on millions of others.” - Brigham Young

“The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like Himself. …to become Gods like unto our Father in heaven.” - Brigham Young

“There is no end to this development; it will go on forever. We will become gods and have jurisdiction over worlds, and these worlds will be peopled by our own offspring. We will have an endless eternity for this” - Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr.

“We educate ourselves in the secular field and in the spiritual field so that we may one day create worlds, people and govern them.” - Spencer W. Kimball

“As man now is, God once was; As God now is, man may be.” - Lorenzo Snow, Mormon Church’s fifth president

[thatbrian @Thatbrian]

Don't let the Mormons fool you:

Biblical Jesus:

He is fully God, not a created being or subordinate in essence

He is not created or "made" at some point in time

Jesus is truly God in the fullest sense, not a lesser god

The unique, eternal Son — not one among many

Two natures (fully divine + fully human) united in one Person

Equal in power, glory, and eternity with the Father and Spirit

The Mormon "Jesus":

Jesus is the literal firstborn spirit son of Heavenly Father and a Heavenly Mother. All humans (including Lucifer) are his spirit brothers and sisters.

He was created/begotten as a spirit being in premortality — He is not eternal in the same way the Father is.

Jesus is not equal with the Father in essence or position. He is subordinate to Him.

The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are three separate beings with physical bodies (except the Holy Ghost). They reject the Trinity.

Like the Father, Jesus progressed and became a God. He is not "God" in the same eternal, uncreated sense as traditional Christianity.

While they say Jesus is the Savior, exaltation (the highest level of salvation) requires following LDS teachings and ordinances.

Mormon "Jesus" is not the Jesus of the Bible

[Ryan S. Walters @ryanswalters73]

More true scholars on the fraud of the Book of Abraham:

“What he calls the 'Book of Abraham' is a funeral Egyptian text, probably not older than the Greek ages.... Jos. Smith certainly never got a Divine revelation in the meaning of the ancient Egyptian Script, and that he never deciphered hieroglyphic texts at all.” - Friedrich W. von Bissing, Prof. of Egyptology, Univ. of Munich

“The plates contained in the 'Pearl of Great Price' are rather comical and a very poor imitation of Egyptian originals.... The text of this chapter, as also the interpretation of the plates, displays an amusing ignorance. Chaldeans and Egyptians are hopelessly mixed together, although as dissimilar and remote in language, religion and locality as are today American and Chinese. In addition to which the writer knows nothing of either of them.” - Rev. Dr. John Punnett Peters, Prof. of Semitics, Univ. of Pennsylvania

“It is difficult to deal seriously with Joseph Smith's impudent fraud.... I need scarce say that Kolob, etc., are unknown to the Egyptian language.... Smith has turned the Goddess into a king and Osiris into Abraham.” - Archibald Henry Sayce, Prof. of Assyriology, Oxford

“The 'Book of Abraham,' it is hardly necessary to say, is a pure fabrication. Cuts 1 and 3 are inaccurate copies of well known scenes on funeral papyri, and cut 2 is a copy of one of the magical discs.... Joseph Smith's interpretation of these cuts is a farrago of nonsense from beginning to end. Egyptian characters can now be read almost as easily as Greek, and five minutes' study in an Egyptian gallery of any museum should be enough to convince any educated man of the clumsiness of the imposture.” - Arthur C. Mace, Asst. Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dept. of Egyptian Art, New York

“The Egyptian papyrus which Smith declared to be the 'Book of Abraham,' and 'translated' or explained in his fantastical way, and of which three specimens are published in the 'Pearl of Great Price,' are parts of the well known 'Book of the Dead’.” - Eduard Meyer, Prof. of Ancient History, Humboldt Univ. of Berlin

“From the standpoint of the Egyptologist the explanations given with these illustrations are incorrect. The Egyptian language on such documents is decipherable and has appeared in translation in various books.” - John Albert Wilson, Prof. of Egyptology, Univ. of Chicago

[Garden Grazer @fieldviewdreams]

@FreddyLA7 We need to know your post-America weight gain when this is over. For science.

[Garden Grazer @fieldviewdreams]

@herculezg I love the goal, but U11s on my son’s elite team trivela quite frequently.

[USMNT Only @usmntonly]

JUST A REMINDER.

Paraguay beat Brazil and Argentina and had the best defensive record in South American World Cup qualifying.

They just lost 4-1 to the USMNT in their opening match at the 2026 World Cup final.

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

Opening Statement. 🇺🇸

[Garden Grazer @fieldviewdreams]

@RedHotFuzz @chadpostolico @dominicptaranto You’re comparing Jesus speaking with people in person to your praying to Mormon Jesus and Mormon Jesus giving you a fuzzy feeling? Is it Jesus you’re claiming is responding to you? The Holy Spirit? What are your biblical claims that show Christians should affirm truth in this way

[Garden Grazer @fieldviewdreams]

@chadpostolico @dominicptaranto The Bible: “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked;
Who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9

Mormons: Did you feel that burning in your bosom?

[College Soccer Truth ™ @ImCollegeSoccer]

Soccer/Futbol is the greatest game ever! ⚽️

#CSTruth

[World Cup 2026 @ofootball__]

If you missed the World Cup ceremony, this thread is for you. 🧵👇

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

THE FIFA WORLD CUP 2026 IS HERE 🇺🇸🇲🇽🇨🇦

The greatest tournament of them all. Sit back, relax and enjoy the football 🙌