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Open Thread
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Jesus Christ exists in the Hypostatic Union. God is. God’s name is “I AM”
I forgive, I forgive, I forgive. The murderer killed my neighbor. I forgive the murderer of my neighbor and turn the other cheek, that is, live in the same community with the murderer.
How does this help the murderer save is soul. The murderer scandalized me and taught me how to murder.
Jesus said that the murderer must die in the depths of the sea for scandalizing his victim.
I can forgive my murderer. Forgiving my neighbor’s murderer is plain cowardice and injustice.
The death penalty is the temporal punishment for homicide in the first degree…and the devil has him by the private parts.
P.S. There was a day when the judge imposing the death penalty said: “And may Almighty God have mercy on your immortal soul.”
Not so since the atheist cannot be offended or the atheist will haul you into court, Now, that is amusing.
Visually striking colors with a pleasing outline.
Depends on how you ask the question and who you ask it to….
Shouldn’t Dearborn MI and Utah be dark blue?
How can it be that NH which has the lowest murder rate per capita in the country has a low belief in God?
VT? – yeah ok.
Europe is lost.
If the SSPX in choosing Their own Bishops is excommunicated for Believing in what the Church has always Taught, not promoting LGBTQ “synodal” bishops, with the CCP choosing bishops in full view …. That! will be decisive split indeed.
And “I think” that! is going to happen.
Speaking of belief in God –> every year the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission holds a regulatory information conference, usually in late winter or early spring. While this year is no different, for the first time that I can remember, participants began the conference by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, including the phrase, “One nation under God.” In the attached photo you can see some current and former US NRC Commissioners during the recitation. Only under the Trump Admininstration would this happen. Yes, I voted for this. It’s about time that the US NRC recognizes that it works for the American people. Deus Primus, Familia Secunda, Patria Tertia.
I would have a lot more blue on that US map, starting with Texas. FWIW. The old joke here is that in Texas, you can call God on a pay phone, because it’s a local call. 😇
Don Surber has a good column today on our proudly anti-American mass media. I usually ignore them, because of this exact reason, so every time I see someone calling out the MSM’s propaganda, it just raises my blood pressure.
https://open.substack.com/pub/donsurber/p/ayatollah-press-says-irans-winning?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=do3lm
Look at the yellow that is Russia AND “the West”.
Is that the “benefits” of 80 years of peace?
The lower the standard of living, the better off you would seem to be. Yet, we keep saying to God “Make me richer – I’ll worry about the eye of the needle later!” I’m not saying the rich are evil – just that wealth often shifts the focus from eternity to the present.
I think the “certainty” question is distorting the results. I could answer yes to the question, but I wouldn’t say that I’m certain of, for example, the Trinity. The underlying data, if I’ve found the right polls, have “absolutely certain”, “fairly certain”, “not to / not at all”, and “don’t believe”. For the states and many countries, the first two choices dominate.
LQC:
It was under Trump’s first term. Trump said: “Now, you can say Merry Christmas in public.”
Thank you, Mr. President.