@D_Preacher_1 So, the words sister and brother in Scripture, due to the limitations of Hebrew, can mean anyone in your extended family tree…
To this day, in India, some areas consider their whole village “brothers and sisters”.
@Fr2404_starwars@TheRabbitHole Well, that’s not exactly true.
The trans community has a statistically mind-blowing percentage of mass shooters.
Still, individuals of any persuasion deserve respect for their dignity as children of God, and are precious in his sight.
@RossKneeDeep Democrats did this:
Founded the KKK
Jim Crow
Segregation (Biden defended it!)
Obama’s Crime Bill - jailed blacks
Lynchings
Slavery
You name it, they did it.
@DrPanMD As long as one defines “children” as “anyone age 19 and under”, as your statistics choose to define it.
That way gang shootings can be included….. but that’s probably a coincidence.
▫️ “Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude [of the people] also be; even as, wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church...”
—-Ignatius of Antioch, disciple of John the Apostle, martyr, 107 AD
▫️ "They (the Gnostics) abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they confess not the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which suffered for our sins, and which the Father, of His goodness, raised up again."
—-Ignatius of Antioch, Disciple of John the Apostle - Martyred, 107 AD
▫️ “[Eve], having become disobedient, was made the cause of death, both to herself and to the entire human race; so also did Mary, having a man betrothed [to her], and being nevertheless a virgin, by yielding obedience, become the cause of salvation, both to herself and the whole human race. And thus also it was that the knot of Eve's disobedience was loosed by the obedience of Mary. For what the virgin Eve had bound fast through unbelief, this did the virgin Mary set free through.”
—-Irenaeus, disciple of Polycarp, who was discipled by John the Apostle,
189 AD
▫️ “For Luke, in the inspired Gospel narratives, delivers a testimony not to Joseph only, but also to Mary, the Mother of God, and gives this account with reference to the very family and house of David”, and, “It is our duty to present to God, like sacrifices, all the festivals and hymnal celebrations; and first of all, [the feast of] the Annunciation to the holy Mother of God, to wit, the salutation made to her by the angel, ‘Hail, full of grace!’”
—-Gregory Thomautourgos, 262 AD
(aka, Gregory the Miracle Worker)
(At least, as a Christian, don’t lie)