As a former Muslim, here's a thought that completely wrecked me:
If Jesus walked into many mosques today and said exactly what He says in the Gospels, most
Muslims wouldn't call Him "just a prophet."
They would reject His claims outright. Think about it.
"I and the Father are one." (John 10:30)
"No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:6)
"Before Abraham was, I AM." (John 8:58) After the resurrection, He receives worship instead of correcting it.
Those are not the claims of an ordinary prophet. And that's what forced me to wrestle with the real issue.
For years I tried to fit Jesus into the Islamic category of "great prophet."
I told myself the Bible must be corrupted. I told myself Christians misunderstood Him.
I told myself He never really claimed what Christians say He claimed.
Then I actually read the Gospels.
And I realized Jesus doesn't speak like any prophet before Him.
He doesn't merely point to the way. He presents Himself as the way.
The question that changed my life wasn't, "What do Muslims say about Jesus?"
It was: "What did Jesus say about Himself?"
Because if He really said those things, then every person has to make a choice.
Either He was wrong. Or He was exactly who He claimed to be.
And that's a question none of us can avoid forever.
When I was Muslim, my strongest weapon was: “God is ONE. How can Jesus be God? That’s three gods.”
I thought it was checkmate. Tawhid versus Trinity. Game over.
But here’s what nobody told me.
Christians don’t believe in three gods.
They’d reject that as fast as I would. The Bible says it louder than the Quran: “Hear O Israel, the LORD our God, the LORD is one.” Deuteronomy 6:4.
Jesus Himself quoted that verse as the greatest command. Mark 12:29.
And then the rest of scripture…
The Lord God WALKING in the Garden with Adam and Eve. Abraham meeting God in Human form.
It’s always been so consistent that God was interacting with us in human form. The details.
The Trinity was never three gods. It’s one God who is so far above me that His oneness isn’t as flat as my math.
I was a created thing demanding the Creator fit inside my categories.
I was accusing Christians of worshiping three gods while not even understanding the one thing they actually said.
I wasn’t refuting Christianity.
I was refuting a cartoon of it I built so I wouldn’t have to deal with the real thing.
My name is Ella, I'm 17 years old.
I do long jump. I play volleyball. I go to school in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
When my school allowed a biological male into the girls' restroom without telling parents —
I went to the school board.
With my name attached.
In my own town.
I got bullied for it. Harassed online. Even some of my own teachers came after me.
I'm still here.
Because here's what I know:
The net in women's volleyball is set nearly a foot lower for a reason.
A biological male can hit a ball across that net at force that could seriously injure a girl.
And in track — all it takes is three biological males entering the girls' category
and not a single girl in this state stands on a podium.
I didn't speak up because it was easy.
I spoke up because somebody had to.
The Supreme Court is about to answer the question every girl in America is asking.
We're ready.
@JenniferSey@xx_xyathletics
I’m 50 tomorrow, I currently have a dislocated AC joint in my shoulder, tore my ACL couple years ago, and can’t see menus in dark restaurants.
Despite that, I’m changing my name to Dolly, putting on a wig and joining the WNBA next season to protect Caitlyn Clark.
@RightScopee Instead of being jealous and greedy for someone else's success, why don't you reate something that employs thousands of people and makes the American dream possible for other others instead of just being critical of those who have done it. America is a republic that has freedom.
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire.
The typical American household would have to work more than 11 MILLION years to make Elon Musk's level of wealth.
We need a wealth tax.
REVOLUTION just hit the NYT Bestseller list! And it hit the list at #2!!! Right behind Jill Biden's "book" at #1. That's like getting the silver and "Lia" Thomas getting gold! We're just getting started. God bless America!
🚨 WOW! Dr. ALVEDA KING just said it PERFECTLY on Capitol Hill
"I still have a dream. I dream that one day we will move beyond black power and white power and embrace GOD'S power and human dignity!"
"I reject the notion that Americans who hold traditional Christian beliefs should be treated as THREATS or TERRORISTS simply because we disagree with a prevailing political thought!" 🙏🏻
"I dream that Americans will one day see each other, not as enemies, but as neighbors. I dream that we will hear each other, see each other, and recognize that every human life has value from the womb to the tomb and beyond."
"We are as scripture teaches, one blood, one human race. And if we remember that truth, we can build a future worthy of the sacrifices made by those who came before us."
"We must speak out for truth and against the forces that would manufacture hate, fear, division, and violence simply to line their pockets and further their political ambitions."
"God bless America, God bless you!"
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@Keir_Starmer You DO tolerate it. You aid and abet it. You are a coward and all the blood is on your hands. You will be held accountable one day. You have a corrupt, evil heart. Repent. Turn from your sins and be a leader!!
Mr President. Who are you listening to?? Islam only makes a "treaty" to be broken after their strength is re-established. I must believe you have another successful plan. This gal doesn't.
I did not want to write these words.
I have never wanted to write these words about the man who ended Qasem Soleimani and spoke of peace through strength with lethal clarity.
But the hesitation now unfolding…the pauses, the postponed strikes, the surreal floated meetings with a new Supreme Leader while the theocratic death cult regroups and the nuclear threshold creeps closer…has created a wound in the coalition that silence would only deepen into rot.
This is not the resolve we were promised.
It is the same pathological restraint that has defined every American failure against ideological zealots for generations:
the refusal to impose a decisive endstate on an enemy whose ontology does not recognize negotiation as anything but weakness to be exploited.
The Iranian regime is not a rational state actor.
It is a memetic pathogen fused with eschatological certainty…a death cult that weaponizes human life and reads Western half-measures as divine permission to continue.
The American people who love this President through the fire deserve more than strategic ambiguity and Gulf-mediated whispers.
They deserve the unvarnished case. They deserve to know whether family security calculations are now shaping the response to a regime that has already targeted his daughter.
And they deserve a Commander-in-Chief who finishes what he begins or tells them, plainly, why he will not.
What follows is not betrayal. It is the forensic demand of someone who believed the promise and refuses to watch it curdle into the same slow-motion self-sabotage that has humiliated this country for decades.
Read it. Then demand the President address the people who elected him…before the window closes and the blood price of hesitation becomes irreversible.
https://t.co/6J3WqbWI4J
Introduction
This spares nothing. Not a fucking thing. Congress is beyond fixable.
The 535 who sit in Congress are not representatives.
They are a parasitic class that has colonized the machinery Washington bled to create and turned it into a feeding trough for donors, foreign interests, and their own perpetual power.
This is not policy failure.
It is institutional pathology…a legislative body that no longer fears the people it claims to serve and has therefore become the enemy of the republic it was meant to protect.
Washington would have recognized the pattern immediately.
He hanged spies and shot mutineers because he understood that internal betrayal is more lethal than any foreign army.
Jefferson named the remedy in plain language…the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
The current Congress has made its choice.
It has chosen to become the tyrant.
Every last one of them must go. Root and branch.
There is no reform left that can save what they have already sold.
The only question is whether the American people still possess the spine to do what the founders would have done when the forms of government became the instrument of its own destruction.
This piece is not an argument.
It is the only conclusion left.
Period.
https://t.co/QGF9LxhuHV
Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸
🚨HOLY CRAP!!!
ICE has just confirmed that it ARRESTED THE EMPLOYERS of 48 illegal immigrants in South Carolina!!!
Both the Plant Manager and HR Coordinator for a casting company in Abbeville SC were ARRESTED and face years in prison.
IS THIS WHAT YOU VOTED FOR?!!!!!
Send the video to everyone you know showing how heinously Nowak was treated by the police in his dying moments and how the police cravenly kowtowed to his murderer.
Legacy mainstream media, same ones who wrote about George Floyd millions of times, are dead silent about Nowak.
@ericmetaxas I am from Indiana. Mike Pence went to my church and I voted for him and supported him all the way up through governorship. I won't waste the money to buy his book. I even heard his Christian testimony so I do not know what happened. What pressures what restrictions motivated him.