Kyle W. Sargent

Love God, family, country, good debate, hockey, and rugby. Son of New England, citizen of the West. Agree or not, opinions are my own. Fiat volúntas tua.

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@DustinAshWrites That last paragraph captures my point of balancing between the OP--weakness is no/never a virtue--and your initial response--weakness is sole/main virtue--almost perfectly, and should be one with which all can agree.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit. His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.

Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response—the only response—is righteous anger. One of the most important things the Trump administration has proven to the world is that stopping the flow of mass migration and defending national sovereignty is a matter of political will and leadership. Anything else is an excuse.

It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody—nobody—should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@rickbrennanjr @Burgess7281975 "Tyndale’s supposed crime was translating Scripture into the language of ordinary people."

Disagree with the accusations, trial, or with execution by Henry (to whom Protestants owe so much). But why do knowledgeable Protestants need to strawman--or outright lie about--history?

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@JeffcoColorado Pride: The deadliest of sins. A flag of evil. And inclusion and belonging for everyone except county citizens who are Christian, believe in a moral law and gov't, oppose mutilating healthy bodies, and accept biological reality of two sexes.

Miserere nobis, Sancte Corpus Christi.

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@Musa_alGharbi @literaryeric Can argue DoD to DoW: that's a prudence question. But article isn't the issue. Plenty in NY support continuing DEI, which is Marxism/Socialism. Idea "normies" hold/vote on only/mostly economic views/issues fails to account for the cause and effect of 80+ years of "culture wars".

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@Musa_alGharbi @literaryeric Here's an example from this morning. If your argument is that renaming the Gulf is an unnecessary act to restore Americanism, fine. But if argument is 'public voted for status quo just not any worse or reverse it', ie, voted for capitulation in the culture wars, that's wrong.

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@Musa_alGharbi @literaryeric Is argument here that the public just wanted an end to the culture wars but also to keep the status quo, eg, BLM, attacks on American cultural history, etc.? That this cultural destruction imposed by the left/progressives should remain unaddressed, that the left should "win"?

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@rickbrennanjr @DustinAshWrites Good discussion. (Disagree that, absent extraordinary mercy, one can end up in Glory who testifies against Christ's Church while alive.)

Will submit Catholics hold that Christ is present in Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity. Ie, local/corporeal and spritual, unlike Protestants.

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@Theoldp @ClayTravis Or getting plunked. But real issue is that it's all about the individual and disrespecting your opponent. Old school; Act like you've been there before. If not, your own teammates would've handled it.

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@megbasham If it's a "secondary issue", why change?

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@HumbleFlow Ora pro nobis, Sancte Ioannes Corvinus.

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@rustinsweeney @hdpayens But He does: "The Son of man shall send his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all scandals, and them that work iniquity. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire..."

"...Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil,,."

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@rustinsweeney @hdpayens ...Christians are commanded to render unto Caesar. The State is to promote virtues and prevent/punish evil, such as the sins of murder, theft, and perjury. So it should with abortion, aldultery, sodomy, etc. Our God is merciful and just. But there can be no mercy without justice.

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@rustinsweeney @hdpayens Agree in part. But the Son left His Church and His Apostles, granting them the power to bind and loose. Christians are commanded to obey the Church; to do otherwise is to sin against God. This has been taught since the beginning. The State has a duty to follow Christ's Church...

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

In hoc signo vinces.

[Cards of History @GodPlaysCards]

When Constantine's army stood north of Rome, outnumbered, staring at the Tiber, a sign appeared in the night's sky with the words:

In this sign, conquer.

The battle that followed would forever alter the course of history, and we still feel its effects today.

Here is why:

🔹First some context: In 305 AD, the emperor Diocletian does something no Roman emperor had ever done willingly. He retires, alongside his co-emperor Maximian. The system he built to keep the empire stable begins falling apart almost immediately.

🔹The Tetrarchy, Diocletian's system of four co-emperors governing a divided empire, collapses into civil war within a year of his departure. Multiple men claim the throne, and only blood will settle it.

🔹Constantine rules the northwest of the empire, Britain, Gaul, and Spain. Maxentius holds Rome, Italy, and North Africa. In 311, Maxentius declares war on Constantine, blaming him for the death of his father.

🔹In spring 312, Constantine makes his move. He crosses the Alps with around 40,000 soldiers and marches south into enemy territory. No Roman emperor had invaded Italy in living memory.

🔹He hits northern Italy like a hammer. Turin falls, then Milan. His army fights its way down the peninsula, defeating Maxentius's forces at every encounter.

🔹In Rome, Maxentius is watching the festivals celebrating his sixth year as emperor. The crowds in the Circus Maximus are nervous. They beg him to march out and face Constantine before he reaches the walls.

🔹Maxentius makes a decision that will cost him everything. He crosses the Tiber and takes up position on the north bank. To control his retreat, he cuts the Milvian Bridge and builds a pontoon bridge of boats alongside it.

🔹The night of October 27, Constantine receives a vision. A cross of light appears in the sky above his camp. Three words come with it: In this sign, conquer.

🔹He orders every soldier to paint the Chi-Rho on their shield before dawn. The first two letters of Christ's name in Greek. No Roman army has ever marched under a sign like this.

🔹October 28, 312. The two armies face each other on the banks of the Tiber. Constantine has around 40,000 men. Maxentius commands a significantly larger force. The walls of Rome are visible in the distance.

🔹Constantine sends his cavalry in first. They crash into Maxentius's line with full force. The line holds for a while, but shatters shortly after.

🔹The center of Maxentius's army buckles. Panic spreads from soldier to soldier like fire through dry grass. Men stop fighting and start running.

🔹They run for the pontoon bridge. Thousands of soldiers, fully armored, converge on a structure built for an orderly retreat. It was never meant for this.

🔹The bridge collapses. Men plunge into the Tiber by the hundreds. The current is fast and the armor is heavy. Almost none of them make it to the other bank.

🔹Maxentius goes into the water with his soldiers. The emperor of Rome drowns in the river beside his own men.

🔹His body is pulled from the Tiber the next morning. His head is carried through the streets of Rome on a spear.

🔹Constantine rides into the city unopposed. The Senate receives him. The people line the streets. Rome has a new master.

🔹The year after the battle, Constantine issues the Edict of Milan. Christianity moves from a persecuted sect to a protected faith across the entire empire.

🔹Within twelve years, Constantine defeats his last rival and rules the Roman world alone. The empire he shapes from that point forward is Christian.

🔹Constantine founds a new capital city on the site of the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium. He names it Constantinople.

🔹It is consecrated in 330 AD.
Rome is no longer the center of the world. Power shifts east, to a city built from scratch by the man who won at the Milvian Bridge.

🔹When the western half of the empire falls to barbarian invaders in 476 AD, Constantinople keeps standing. The eastern empire survives for another thousand years.

A single battle on a October morning in 312 AD set the Roman Empire on a path that shaped every century that followed. The world Constantine made is still, in many ways, the world we live in.

Without Milvian Bridge, Christianity remains a minority sect competing with Mithraism, Neoplatonism, and dozens of other cults. The entire trajectory of Western religion hinges on that morning.

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@broncos314 @Rossputin Agreed with Kaminsky on naming issue. Statute appears clear the Board cannot change the name.

However, also clear that judge, appointed by Obama with a wife on the J6 committee, overstepped and will almost certainly be overruled.

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[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@rustinsweeney @hdpayens Have no argument with faith, hope, and charity (love) as fundamental Christian virtues. But point was there are commandments. The Apostles, thus the Church, were given the power to bind and loose. Society allowing unfettered free will for immoral acts is simply not Christian.

[Kyle W. Sargent @kwsargent]

@rustinsweeney @hdpayens Love is a "force" and is commanded: "...Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets." Mt. 22

Our Lord's "force": "Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword." Mk. 10