@JJ_n_TX@GODSAVEDME007@Pontifex That’s why there are 40,000 different denominations, right JoAnJo? Everyone has a different interpretation, everyone is their own pope, a free for all!
If the blinkered pro-Palestine crowd want to talk about ‘genocide’, they should start with Israel’s murdered mothers and mutilated children:
"You want genocide? OK, read the pathologists’ reports. A girl, around five years old, who has been shot through her body from her skull to the soles of her feet. A 12-year-old girl shot in the head and then decapitated. Teenagers who received a video on their phones of their petrified grandmother as she was about to be executed (Hamas got a kick from sharing their work).
Young women at the Nova peace festival, half-naked, strung up from trees the better to defile them. Vaginas rammed with knives and bottles. Twin baby boys, their mother slaughtered in the kitchen fetching milk for them, their father riddled with bullets as he struggled to keep the door of the safe room shut; the orphaned babies used as bait for 14 hours, little Guy and Roi, 10 months old, left to scream so they would lure neighbours to rescue them and those brave souls were then picked off by the terrorists lying in wait. I stood outside that house on Kibbutz Kfar Aza imagining all too well the panic of parents unable to protect their children; the number of bodies recovered was chalked on the wall. Yes, but…
Killing parents in front of their sobbing children, then setting the house on fire so those children are burnt alive and all that remains of that beautiful family is cremated remains. Can we at least agree that goes beyond the bounds of “wrong” to a place we haven’t quite got a name for? “Evil” feels too small a word. For three years, I’ve been struggling to find the words; some way, at least, of expressing what happened. Because I believe it should matter to anyone who cares about our civilisation; make no mistake, the foul fiends responsible will come for us all if we let them.
“They don’t just hate Jews, Allison, they hate freedom. They hate life.” That was Meirav Gonan, who I met in Tel Aviv after her daughter Romi was abducted at the Nova festival (Romi was held hostage for 471 days in Gaza). One thing I do know: the stories of suffering are seared on my soul. Yes, but…
And it was all deliberate, that carnival of cruelty. On October 7, 2023, Hamas did not just seek a military victory over the IDF soldiers at the border posts. They wanted to provoke Israel into a retaliation that would scupper any chance of an imminent peace accord with Saudi Arabia, which would thwart Iran’s ambitions in the region. So they used civilians as playthings to torture, humiliate, defile (even carrying helpful translations to instruct women to undress). Yes, but…
Who can forget one of the defining images of that day’s barbarity? Twenty-two-year-old German-Israeli Shani Louk, her body chucked on the back of a flatbed truck like a sack of potatoes, her leg obscenely twisted at a right angle, one of her murderers casually resting his boot on her naked flank. That beautiful young woman was a trophy of war, her corpse paraded through Gaza to the frenzied delight of the mob. Only a splinter of Shani’s skull was ever recovered. Yes, but…
Shame on every single person who marches on October 7 – they celebrate the suffering of families cremated in their own homes, of Shani Louk paraded as a spoil of war, of a mother murdered when she went to fetch milk for her babies. Roi and Guy, the twins, now four years old, are thriving. The aunt and uncle who adopted them don’t want the boys to be tragic figures. Like their country, they have to be resilient. They love life.
I am not Jewish, but I believe the Jews deserve and need a homeland. I hate their enemies because they are our enemies. So that makes me a Zionist. If you have any sense of where history teaches us, this leads you should be a Zionist too. No more “Yes, buts…”
Today of all days let us stand with our Jewish brothers and sisters."
-Allison Pearson, The Telegraph
@realBigBrainAI He has a limited understanding of consciousness and where it comes from, no wonder he thinks a machine can be conscious. The intellect is his god, he does not believe in the soul.
@GODSAVEDME007@Pontifex Some might not like the Pope but they must still respect the office of the Pope. No need to be rude to him, would you speak like that if you met him?
If you really are considering converting, the Catechism is an important and helpful resource. 🕊️
You are not considering converting as your mind is clearly made up. You do need to though as you are full of hatred and need healing.
Perhaps you can read the Catechism of the Catholic Church on the Vatican website to actually understand Church teaching.
Your decision should not be based on any Pope, it should be based on following Jesus, belonging to His Church and communing with His true presence in the Eucharist. 🕊️
This was one of the most depraved scenes in modern history - still chills me to my core that so many people watched this barbarism and immediately sided with it
@59NorthCRO@myultimateisrdy@ComicDaveSmith I offered questions in the form of possibility’s (maybes). It was for you to consider. You tried to shut ME down with your rude “maybe, maybe, maybe…” comment.
You are not here to discuss (you are free to do so) you are here to bait and then act like a victim.
@59NorthCRO@myultimateisrdy@ComicDaveSmith Not necessarily nowadays, so who knows, maybe she is.
How about this maybe…. The British knew better back then what they were doing then you know now sitting behind your keyboard living such a blessed life you can afford to be sad on the internet that Hitler lost.
@59NorthCRO@myultimateisrdy@ComicDaveSmith Maybe Hitler was actually scared of British power to destroy him, not that they were “bros”. Maybe once Hitler had taken over everywhere else he would have come for the British. Maybe Hitler wasn’t trustworthy and the British knew it.
Want the return of WOMEN’S SEX BASED RIGHTS? 🙋♀️
“…just get over it….” 🫢
@SenKatyG Minister for Women, attends @unwomenaust International Women’s Day breakfast each year. @UN_Women in a post this week, described rape culture as the attitudes and silences that excuse sexual violence and protects perpetrators. 🤐
UN Women also counts males who identify as women as women. @AustralianLabor wrote that into the Sex Discrimination Act in 2013, removing the biological definitions of man and woman 🚻 and adding gender identity as a protected attribute. Gallagher has defended leaving it there. Once a male cannot be excluded for being male, a female-only space has no lawful sex boundary left. ‼️
State systems have used that opening. Males, including men with sexual-offence histories, have been placed in women’s prisons. Female prisoners have reported rape, sexual assault and intimidation after those placements. The boundary was removed by policy. 👨⚖️⚖️
When @PaulineHansonOz sought to restore sex as the boundary, Labor and the @Greens blocked the bill at first reading, before debate. On 19 September 2024, opposing even a committee referral, Gallagher told the Senate: “The Senate should just get over it and stop bringing matters like this into the chamber.” She has since said Labor has no plans to amend the Act. 🙅♀️🙅♀️
The minister who shares UN Women’s platform maintains the rule that overrides a woman’s refusal of a male in an intimate space, and calls the objection something the Senate should get over. That is the attitude and silence UN Women says rape culture depends on. The hypocrisy of UN Women and Labor is inexcusable.
#FixTheSDA 💜🤍💚