One of my friends…He goes, I just can’t believe in a God that would send me to hell just because I don’t believe in Him.
I said, Why is that?
And he goes, Because that’s an ultimatum. Believe in Jesus or go to hell. That sounds manipulative.
I said, Let me ask you something. If a building is already on fire and someone kicks the door open and says, Come out, this is the only way, is that an ultimatum, or is it a rescue?
He said, What do you mean?
I said, Well, you were already going to hell. I was already going to hell. That’s not God being cruel. That’s humanity choosing sin, and that’s justice.
God does not send innocent people to hell. The fact is, there are no innocent people. The standard is perfection. Not better than your neighbor. Not mostly good. Perfection.
I asked him, Have you ever lied? Have you ever lusted? Have you ever hated someone? Have you ever been prideful?
He said, Yeah.
I said, Well, then you’re guilty. I said, To be honest, I have too. We’re all guilty.
And he goes, So you’re telling me it’s believe or just burn?
And I said, No. It’s guilty but rescued. You weren’t standing on neutral ground and God came up and just shoved you toward the fire. You were already falling, and He caught you before you hit the ground.
Jesus didn’t come to threaten you. He came to take your sentence. The Cross was not an ultimatum. It was a substitution.
Justice says the wage of sin is death, but love says, I’ll pay it for you.
A friend asked me, But why make belief the condition?
And I said, Because love can’t be forced. Salvation is not a hostage situation. It’s a gift. If someone pays your debt, you still have to accept it. If you refuse it, the debt doesn’t disappear.
God is not saying, Believe in Me or I’ll torture you. He’s saying, You’re already dying. I made a way. Take it.
Hell is not proof that God is cruel. The Cross is proof that He’s not.
And if you’re wrestling with that same question, it means the door is still open.
🚨Wow, more data major red flags from the midterm numbers are developing:
The narrative that Republicans failed to turn out is false. The vote totals show Republicans performed right in line with their usual midterm participation and actually picked up additional support compared to the last midterm.
Rough House vote comparison:
Republicans
2022: 54.2 million
2026: roughly 55.6 million
Net increase: 1.4 million
Democrats
2022: 51.3 million
2026: roughly 70 million
Net increase: 19 million
Republican turnout stayed at typical midterm levels and edged higher. The idea that they stayed home is a complete lie and fabricated.
What stands out is the Democratic side: they added about 19 million more votes than in 2022, reaching numbers closer to a presidential election. The open question is where those extra votes came from and why were so many citizenship not verified.
And it's not in just one or two states. This is starting to show up in several states.
Story is developing....
Texan here, haven’t come across any Republican voter who flipped.
This was the same plan that worked with Biden. None of those architects were prosecuted.
So they did it again. And again.
This is a fascinating point.
If this was a “blue wave” election, then that generally means that tons of Republicans flipped their votes.
Not “stayed home.” Literally, flipped votes.
Because the data show that Republicans showed up at the same level as previous election cycles. You know, when they won.
It looks like Democrats were able to conjure up about 1.7 million more voters than the 2022 election. About 1.4 million from the 2018 election.
If you are thinking, “wait, wasn’t Trump president in 2018?” then congrats. You are starting to hone in on why this turnout makes no sense.
Because California transplants don’t account for it. There are only about 700,00 net Californian migrants, max.
H1Bs and permanent residents are not allowed to vote. Illegal aliens don’t legally vote, although people *could* vote for them thanks to our dirty voter rolls.
So, where did all these Democrats come from?
Let's touch on the given reasons why. The Iran War? Okay, where were all the anti-war protests in the streets?
The left was burning Teslas over modest DOGE cuts, for chrissakes.
Expensive gas? You mean, the same prices we saw at the end of Biden. Did these Dems flip for Trump over that in 2024?
Maybe to some degree, Latinos did. But not anywhere close to these margins.
ICE deportations? Those border counties that are being cited as the major surge in Latino voters for the Democrats went about +14 Trump in 2024.
That would be the presidential election when Trump said mass deportations were on the table.
But we aren’t as concerned about the 'why' as we are about the math.
Because there is reported to be about 2.9 million new voter registrations between 2022-2024. Texas doesn't demand proof of citizenship for these TPS registrations, but they are ultimately supposed to be checked against SAVE databases for non-citizen flags.
After all is said and done, however, there were a net 950,000 new voter registrations in Texas.
So, the Democrats would have to get all of this mathematically and then almost double.
Why would there be a "blue wave" mainly over the Iran War when there were few anti-war protests?
Why would Trump win in 2024 while promising mass deportations and all of a sudden modest ICE enforcement is causing a shift of 40-50 points for Latino voters?
Why would polls have a bias for Dem respondents that showed close races, but then this turned out to be a blue wipeout with GOP turnout about the same as past years when their candidates won?
These questions may have good explanations. As for me, I've got nothing.
@0hrl1 Have you even wondered why she uses so many?
You jumped to a conclusion that could be wrong.
Have you talked to your daughter about her health? How her body changes cyclically? What her needs might be?
Instead she’s made to feel she’s bad for needing pads.
My wife has taught high school in Tokyo for twenty years.
Every year, a few of her students spend a year living with a family in America. When they come home, she asks each of them one question.
"What do you miss?"
She expects hamburgers.
She almost never gets hamburgers.
And these aren't old stories. Most of these kids came home in the last two years.
"Every time I left the house, my host mom said, 'Text me when you get there.' In Japan, nobody needs to know where I am. In Ohio, somebody always did." (Mina, 17, Ohio)
"If you walk toward a door, an American will hold it open. Even if you are very far away. So you have to run. I ran to so many doors." (Itsuki, 16, Georgia)
"My host brother screamed on the floor of a grocery store. A stranger walked by and said to my host mom, 'You're doing great, Mama.' She almost cried. I didn't know strangers were allowed to say that." (Aoi, 17, Texas)
"We went away for the weekend and left our trash can at the curb. When we got back, it was by the garage. Nobody said who. My host dad said if it had been there one more day, the neighbor would have knocked." (Haruto, 16, Minnesota)
"A car got stuck in the snow in front of our house. Four men came out of four houses. Nobody called them. They pushed, the car drove away, and they went back inside without saying their names." (Ren, 17, Michigan)
"Every American has jumper cables. Maybe half of them know which clip goes where. The other half help anyway." (Shin, 16, Montana)
"In July, my host family put a cooler on the porch. Cold water, snacks, and a sign: 'For our delivery drivers. Thank you!' I asked if they knew the drivers. They said no." (Nanami, 16, Arizona)
"Downtown, there are banners on the lampposts. Photos of soldiers from the town. Some old, some very young. My host grandpa walked me down the street and told me every name." (Yuna, 16, Iowa)
"I got a C-plus on my first test. My host dad said, 'I'm proud of you,' and put it on the fridge. In Japan, nobody is proud of a C-plus." (Takeru, 17, Pennsylvania)
Then the quietest girl in the class raised her hand.
Sora. Seventeen. Missouri.
"Nobody asks me 'home safe?' anymore," she said.
She was wrong.
In September, there was a typhoon warning for Tokyo. At 2 a.m., Sora's phone lit up.
It was her host mom. In Missouri. Watching the weather in a country she had never been to.
"Saw the storm. You home safe?"
Sora told my wife she cried for a long time. Then she typed the answer she had typed a hundred times, from football games and friends' driveways.
"Home safe."
Her host mom wrote back one line.
"Good. That's all I needed."
My wife has asked that question for twenty years. Not one kid has ever said they missed how big America is.
They miss how America says goodbye. And how it checks that you got home.
So, America. You think you've lost something.
You haven't. It's on a porch in Arizona. It's pushing a car in Michigan. It's awake at 2 a.m. in Missouri, watching our weather.
You don't remember doing any of it.
A kid in Tokyo will never forget.
@DataRepublican Our school systems don’t teach critical thinking. The US population walks willingly to our country’s demise.
Our churches’s foundations are eroding. “Leaders” leaning against them to hasten the collapse.
Claiming sin is ok…
Appealing to the ignorant and lost.
@johnkonrad That is the ultimate purpose of DEI. To stoke division, to create chaos. It’s a devious strategy masquerading as a compassionate one.
And one of many tools and it’s been effective.