Indeed. And godless capitalism is no better than godless communism - led & run by amoral people, often psychopaths, each godless system despises real people and uses them only to reach its leaders' end-goal: power, comfort, abundance & safety for themselves.
Indian doctor won a “genius” visa to America, shared millions in grants, and boasted of membership in the prestigious Royal College of Physicians. Turns out, all of his accomplishments, degrees, etc, were all FAKE. https://t.co/56chfRUCtR
@Andrewnsnyder You've never tried to preach and teach the full gospel of Jesus Christ in the Bible Belt. Much hunger for it, but even more opposition to experiencing Pauline freedom in Christ.
@padikiki Have you seen the videos where the two Brit guys travel across America eating US food? They practically have orgasms every time they encounter authentic barbecue.
What is the Mormon explanation for 1 Nehi stating that there were horses in the Americas in 600 BC?
There definitively were not horses here at that time, so how does this not invalidate the legitimacy of the scripture?
Here’s the problem. Trump, Pratt and others say the LA election was rigged. They know it. We know it. Everyone knows it.
Kirsten Welker? She demands evidence. The rest of the corporate media demand to see the evidence. WHERE’S THE EVIDENCE, they scream in unison?
But if a REPUBLICAN won a questionable election, Welker and the entire mainstream media apparatus would have one focus. FIND THE EVIDENCE. In other words, they would do their jobs. Democrats steal an election and they do damage control. They circle the wagons.
They have no interest in breaking the story. That’s why Trump was enraged. That’s why all decent Americans are pissed. The Democrat machine stole the LA election and the media is most definitely a vital part of that machine.
Christians do not believe Jesus is the product of celestial procreation.
Christians do not believe God was once a man who ascended to Godhood on another world.
Christians do not believe God dwells near a star called Kolob.
Christians do not believe faithful humans can become gods ruling worlds of their own.
Christians do not believe that Jesus visited America after His resurrection.
Christians do not believe Jesus and Satan are spirit brothers.
Christians do not believe there are multiple gods.
Christians do not believe God the Father has a physical body of flesh and bone.
Christians do not believe Native Americans received dark skin as the result of a curse.
Mormons are generally kind people. But kindness is not theology. Many Mormon beliefs—past and present—are fundamentally incompatible with historic Christian doctrine.
Update on the landlord operation:
1. I have trained 7 people and am about to train an 8th one on how to find deportable H-1B landlords. Please support these patriots who are stepping forward.
2. We are starting to build a team to review our findings to flag possible mortgage fraud. We have 5 state governments that expressed interest in this data.
3. A financial institution expressed interest in knowing which mortgage brokers have high-risk clients, so that they can begin parallel construction and review these mortgages.
4. I am noticing that some H-1B landlords are starting to list their houses on the market now, hoping to sell before things get really bad.
New Yorkers voted for a radical socialist communist Muslim mayor from Africa who only obtained citizenship 7 years ago.
Now they are complaining that the city is turning into an Islamic hell.
@car25176@gregbagwell Just the opposite. A Europe with Muslims controlling UK & French nukes will matter a great deal.
Just look at how much Iran is mattering.
I want to tell you a story about a “journalist.”
I’m pretty sure the journalist in question was Scott Pelley, but for reasons I am about to explain I can’t be 100% sure—I just know it was a major US TV reporter.
August, 2003.
I was the G-4 of the 82nd Airborne Division. The IED threat had just become a real thing in Iraq and the 82nd—having just returned from Iraq—was sent back to the fight.
The “Division Support Area” was earmarked for a place called al Taqaddum, or “TQ.” I led the advance party to occupy the site (we drove from Kuwait). TQ was a huge area on a high bluff, west of Fallujah, and had a cratered Iraqi Air Force airfield. Later in the war it was a plush site with a PX and restaurants, but when I occupied it, it was nothing but a bunch of abandoned buildings, hulks of old Iraqi fighting vehicles blocking the runway, nightly rocket and mortar attacks, and constant probing of the huge perimeter by insurgents.
The IED threat was happening because insurgents were pulling artillery rounds out of abandoned Iraqi army ammunition supply points and turning them into roadside bombs.
We had been on TQ about one full day when the front gate called me on the radio: “All American 4, we have some TV reporters here, they want to come in, what should I do, over?”
After telling the gate to check IDs and do a sweep of their vehicle, I said: “Send them to me, over.”
A few minutes later an armored Mercedes pulls up to our TOC. The “talent” is in the very back where I could barely see him, but I’m pretty sure it was Scott Pelley. (Pelley was definitely in Iraq at the time, I checked.)
His producer gets out from the air-conditioned Mercedes plushness and pulls out a map. He arrogantly points to an Iraqi ammo supply point between TQ and Ramadi and demands: “I need you to escort us to this location.”
(They wanted to do a story with reporter speaking against a backdrop of an ammo supply point, because that’s where the IEDs were coming from.)
“NEED? I’m sorry sir, that site is not secured and I am not putting my paratroopers at risk for your story.”
Big disappointment and head shaking. I’m thinking: “The NERVE of this guy. Does he think I work for him?”
He then asks: “Well what will happen if we go by ourselves?”
My response: “You’ll probably die.”
(Important background: TQ also had a giant Iraqi ammo supply point that was inside the wire but we had not cleared it yet—it could have been booby-trapped, we just did not know at the time.)
He points at the map again: “Well how about the ammunition right here? We can just drive over there, right?”
“No sir, you cannot. We have not cleared that site.”
By this time he was visibly angry, he had a chat with the talent in the back, and then they all got back in and left without even saying thank you or good bye.
(Important point: the ammo on TQ he wanted to use as a backdrop for his “story" was SECURED from Iraqis grabbing any of it, yet they wanted to use that as a backdrop for a story on Iraqis grabbing ammo.)
The point of this story is this: those “journalists” were incredibly arrogant, incredibly dismissive of anyone in uniform with dirty boots, and basically oozed a sense of entitlement as if they were on some sort of noble mission, when in reality their mission was to smear the effectiveness of our operations because Bushitler.
When you hear Scott Pelley talk, oozing with arrogance over his “combat” experience, remember that he is of a breed that all think and act alike. To those "journalists," we were not American fighting men and women in combat. No, we were there for their convenience. It sickened me, and still does.
You think you hate journalists enough...
With Mormonism being the scuttlebutt of the hour, thanks to @SenMikeLee demanding the Pentagon undo 2k-year-old historic Christian doctrines to allow their inclusion, you might find my I2I piece on Mormonism and Freemasonry interesting, from a while back:
Joseph Smith became a Master Mason in Nauvoo in March of 1842, advancing through the degrees with astonishing speed, and soon surrounded himself with a leadership class heavily populated by fellow Masons, including his brother Hyrum Smith and future successor Brigham Young. The Nauvoo Lodge exploded into one of the largest Masonic bodies in Illinois almost overnight as hundreds of Mormon men entered its ranks, effectively intertwining the lodge and the church.
Smith himself occupied a unique concentration of power: prophet, revelator, mayor of Nauvoo, lieutenant general of the Nauvoo Legion, presidential candidate, and Masonic initiate, all at the same time. He presided over a movement that functioned as church, government, military force, and fraternal order simultaneously.
Then, within weeks of becoming a Master Mason, he unveiled the Mormon temple endowment, complete with ritual handshakes, sacred signs, ceremonial garments, secret passwords, veiled progression rites, and penalties for revealing the mysteries. He baptized those rituals, declared them divine revelation, and presented them to his followers as sacred ordinances revealed directly from heaven. Millions of people today regard these ceremonies as the pinnacle of God's restored truth, unaware that they originated in a nineteenth-century fraternal order.
The parallels are not vague similarities that only cult specialists can detect. They are so obvious that even Mormon historians are forced to acknowledge them. The secret handshakes. The ritual grips. The sacred clothing. The penalties for revealing temple secrets. The progression through degrees of hidden knowledge. The symbols carved into temples. The veils separating one realm from another. Strip away the pseudo-Christian terminology, and what remains is a structure that looks remarkably less like the New Testament church and remarkably more like a Masonic lodge. The Book of Mormon supplied the mythology. Freemasonry supplied the architecture. Joseph Smith fused the two together and called the result "restoration."
That reality creates an uncomfortable question for Mike Lee or anyone else insisting Mormonism is merely another Christian denomination. If the defining rituals of the faith were imported from a secret fraternity, if its temple ceremonies were constructed from borrowed Masonic forms, and if its doctrines of exaltation and progressive ascent mirror Masonic concepts of advancing toward greater light, then what exactly was restored?
The deeper one digs into Mormon origins, the less it resembles Christianity rediscovered and the more it resembles a frontier-era religious entrepreneur who wraps borrowed rituals in biblical language and persuades thousands that the costume itself is revelation. Once that possibility enters your mind, Mormonism stops looking like an ancient faith restored and starts looking like the most successful act of religious rebranding in American history.
Read at Insight to Incite. Link in the next comment.