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[Reluctant Political Junkie @hood_dario]

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[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Good men must die, but death can't kill their names.

[Serah Oceane @SerahOceane]

If you feel unprepared to defend Jesus or Christianity when challenged, you don't need any clever arguments or advanced training. There are simple, clear and biblically grounded ways to answer a few of the most common objections...

• If they say: "Jesus never existed."

You say: Even non-Christian historians like Tacitus, Josephus and Pliny the Younger mention Him. No serious historian doubts that a man named Jesus of Nazareth existed and was crucified under Pontius Pilate.

• If they say: "The Bible has been manipulated and changed too many times, it can't be trusted."

You say: Ask them, How precisely do you know what the Bible originally said in order to make such a claim? We have over 5,800 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. Scholars compare them carefully, and the core text remains about 99.5% consistent. No other ancient document comes close to that level of preservation. The message is cohesive throughout, there is a unity of thought and none of the real variations change any core teaching or big idea within it.

• If they say: "The disciples just stole the body of Christ."

You say: People will die for what they sincerely believe is true. They do not willingly get tortured and executed for something they know is a lie. Most of the disciples, except John who died of old age, were persecuted and martyred for claiming they had seen the risen Jesus and none of them recanted to save themselves.

• If they say: "Jesus was just a good moral teacher."

You say: A good moral teacher does not claim to forgive sins, accept worship, or call Himself equal with God. Those claims force a choice: He was either lying, insane, or telling The Truth. The Gospels present Him as the last of these. [see John 10:30, Mark 2:5–12 & John 20:28]

• If they say: "A good God wouldn't allow suffering."

You say: Christianity is the only worldview in which even God Himself entered human suffering. He did not merely watch from a distance, He was tortured and killed on a cross for sinners and the only one to defeat death. No other religion has a God with physical scars. [Isaiah 53; Philippians 2:5–8; Revelation 5:6]

These short replies are easy to understand, historically grounded and rooted in the biblical picture of who Jesus is and what He did. I hope they can help you to earnestly contend for the faith. :)

[Reluctant Political Junkie @hood_dario]

@iAnonPatriot These aren't liberals, they are actually Marxists, Communists...

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

108 years ago today, a red-headed farmer from Pall Mall, Tennessee did something in the Argonne Forest that still doesn't seem real.

Alvin York grew up dirt poor, a hard drinker and brawler, until a religious conversion in his twenties changed his whole life. When the draft notice came in 1917, he asked to be exempted as a conscientious objector. His church opposed war and so did he. The Army said no.

His battalion commander spent hours going through the Bible with him, trying to convince him that a man could fight and still be right with God. York went home on leave, prayed on it for two days on a mountainside, and came back ready.

On the morning of October 8, 1918, York was one of 17 men sent to slip behind German lines and knock out machine guns near Chatel-Chehery, France. They surprised a group of Germans and captured them. Then the machine guns on the ridge above opened up. Six Americans were killed instantly and three more went down wounded, including the sergeant in charge.

That left Cpl. York in command of seven men, most of them pinned flat guarding prisoners.

So York went to work. Every time a German gunner raised his head to fire, York shot him. He'd been shooting turkeys in the Tennessee hills since he was a kid and he was not missing at that range. When six Germans charged him with bayonets, he drew his pistol and dropped all six, starting with the last man and working forward, so the ones in front wouldn't realize what was happening.

A German officer, Lt. Paul Vollmer, emptied his pistol at York and missed every shot. Watching his men fall one after another, Vollmer finally called out in English and offered to surrender the whole position if York would stop shooting.

York agreed. Then he used Vollmer to order other German positions to give up as they marched back through the woods.

By the time he reached American lines, York had killed 25 men and was herding 132 prisoners in front of him with a handful of survivors.

When a general told him he'd heard York captured the whole German army, York said "No sir. I got only 132."

He was promoted to sergeant and received the Medal of Honor. New York threw him a ticker tape parade. Companies offered him a fortune to endorse their products and he turned almost all of it down. He went home to Tennessee, married his sweetheart, and spent years raising money to build a school for kids in the mountains who had no shot at an education.

When Hollywood finally made his story in 1941, he agreed partly to fund a Bible school. Gary Cooper won the Oscar for playing him.

The man who didn't want to go to war became the most famous American soldier of it.

[OSZ @OpenSourceZone]

Fox: Crude oil has been the cheapest under Donald Trump

Days with crude oil above $100 a barrel
Obama: 🔴 308 days
Biden: 🟡 83 days
Trump 2nd: 🟢 24 days
Trump 1st: 🟢 0 days

[Reluctant Political Junkie @hood_dario]

@kevinxu "For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?" - Matthew (16: 25-26)

[Reluctant Political Junkie @hood_dario]

@MarkRicht My sincerest condolences Coach Richt. Based on what you said here alone, your character is a living testimony of your mother. Be Blessed Sir.

[Reluctant Political Junkie @hood_dario]

AI is stoopid, college football is great. #SEC #NCAA #olemiss #LSU #lanekiffin

[Gete polding @gete_polding]

Last one now it’s time for tulane 😂

[Reluctant Political Junkie @hood_dario]

@DavidVanKnapp11 Uhh, Stock?

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

Leading Physician Confirms Unborn Children Feel Excruciating Pain During Abortions https://t.co/UGO3UiXsx9

[Philosophy Monk @PhilosophyMonk]

14 HARVARD TECHNIQUES to be better than 99% of the world

1. The 5 - second rule

[Reluctant Political Junkie @hood_dario]

@PaulEmbery @grok when was this and what was the occasion?

[Reluctant Political Junkie @hood_dario]

Interest Rate Decision Today: In short, your savings rate could go higher. Your cost of borrowing will go higher. #interest #federalreserve #Fed #economy #savings #mma #moneymarket #USfederalreserve #housing #mortgage #mortgagerates #carloans #heloc

[Reluctant Political Junkie @hood_dario]

@AthleticsGirl Progressive white women, the bane on society, watching too much Handmaids Tale.

[Reluctant Political Junkie @hood_dario]

He's not my most favorite guy, but the way you conducted yourself #UT #Texas students with Sen. @tedcruz (who was advocating on your behalf!) on #ESPN #Collegegameday was less than Honorable #UTstudents. I hope #OhioState #OSU beats the crap out of you!

[Tanya @tanyaelisabethh]

My grandma kept her house clean, she cooked every day for all of us, so many days with fresh fish my great grandfather would bring home from the dock early in the morning. My grandmother raised children, she raised grandchildren, and she buried my grandfather.

The world has not given my grandmother any rewards, or praises. She never had a salary, she never wrote a resume in her entire life, she never got a raise, she never has clocked in for a job.

By today’s standards her life has been a complete and total waste of potential, all that she has done, all of it does not count.

But I have lived the life of a career woman, I have seen the inside of therapy offices, I have been inside the lives of women who by all standards are doing exactly what the world has told them they should do, I have lived it myself, and I have seen it all lived right next to me, I have seen what emptiness looks like up close. I have felt what emptiness is like, for many years it was a friend I myself kept close.

The work my grandmother did, by worldly standards is irrelevant, and yet it held our family together, it gave us a place to kill the loneliness, a place of comfort where we knew we belonged. She fed us, loved us, yelled at us for our nonsense some few times, and she sent all of us out with something solid in our hearts.

So much so that after years living in the vast loneliness of the world, after years of living what the world told me to do, I looked back on my life to find where I last had peace, comfort and meaning, and I’ll tell you what, it has never been in a cold office working long hours, dealing with office politics, deadlines and pressure, it has always been my grandma’s kitchen where the food smelled like love, and a kiss on my forehead felt like rest.

The world might have nothing to show for my grandmother, but I do.

[Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy]

Why are so many women sooo angry? They won. They got everything they wanted. Men have never been doing this badly, and women have never been doing this well. They make more, they have the majority of jobs, they are the majority of college graduates, (UCLA undergrad is 60% female), they make more money, have much lower rates of suicide, addiction, and alcoholism, and live longer. They won: they took over all men-only spaces, they took over the Boy Scouts, they ended men’s bathrooms, they can fly fighter planes and be in combat. Marriage is optional, divorce is no-fault, they win 99% of the custody battles, they can control fertility at will, and they can’t get drafted. We are all living in the female future they promised.

[Heisenberg @Mr_Derivatives]

$SPX Are you Team A or Team B?

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Brian Sweeney's voicemail to his wife Julie (Jules) from flight 175 on 9/11.

"Jules, this is Brian. Listen, I'm on an airplane that's been hijacked. If things don't go well, and it's not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to do good, go have good times. Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I'll see you when you get there. Bye, babe. I hope I call you."

Life is so full of tragedy. Be kind. Take nothing for granted ❤️

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

This is your reminder to find a good woman, marry her and start making babies. This is where you build true wealth and a legacy. When you die, their faces are what you’ll see. NOT a boat, a nicer car, a fancier job title or a bigger house. Their faces. ❤️

[Reluctant Political Junkie @hood_dario]

@mattvanswol Mr. Gil know there ain't no mention of "retirement" in the Bible even as I help people "retire." May God Bless this man and those around him greatly. #retirement