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Gospels Not Gospel Anymore?
by Tom McLaughlin
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What Should Trump Do With
His Next SCOTUS Pick?
by Jonathan V. Last
{weeklystandard.com} ~ After Neil Gorsuch was confirmed, most of America moved on to Russia, North Korea, the tax plan, and Rodrigo Duterte. But a small universe of Republican legal thinkers moved on, instead... to war-gaming the next Supreme Court vacancy. It is widely believed that Justice Anthony Kennedy will step down in the near future. One of the selling points for Gorsuch was that, as a former Kennedy clerk, his elevation would reassure the 80-year-old justice that Trump could be trusted to pick his successor. If/when that comes to pass, President Trump will be faced with the decision to stick with the list of 21 potential justices he provided during the campaign, or go rogue. And the politics of this decision are complicated by the fact that this will be the first Supreme Court nomination begun without the possibility of a filibuster...
{weeklystandard.com} ~ After Neil Gorsuch was confirmed, most of America moved on to Russia, North Korea, the tax plan, and Rodrigo Duterte. But a small universe of Republican legal thinkers moved on, instead... to war-gaming the next Supreme Court vacancy. It is widely believed that Justice Anthony Kennedy will step down in the near future. One of the selling points for Gorsuch was that, as a former Kennedy clerk, his elevation would reassure the 80-year-old justice that Trump could be trusted to pick his successor. If/when that comes to pass, President Trump will be faced with the decision to stick with the list of 21 potential justices he provided during the campaign, or go rogue. And the politics of this decision are complicated by the fact that this will be the first Supreme Court nomination begun without the possibility of a filibuster...
Kellianne Conway on Trump's First 100 Days: "Promises Made, Promises Kept"
VIDEO: Kellianne Conway on Trump's First 100 Days: "Promises Made, Promises Kept"
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Berkeley Professor and Ann Coulter Agree on First Amendment
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtyvL_nk4gA
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtyvL_nk4gA
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President Trump Remarks in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: President invigorates crowd
VIDEO: https://www.c-span.org/video/?427466-1/president-goes-fake-news-media-touts-record-first-100-days
President Trump Remarks in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: President invigorates crowd
VIDEO: https://www.c-span.org/video/?427466-1/president-goes-fake-news-media-touts-record-first-100-days
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TUCKER: "They're Murdering People!": Tucker and Immigration Attorney Debate MS-13
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5415744994001
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TUCKER: "They're Murdering People!": Tucker and Immigration Attorney Debate MS-13
VIDEO: http://video.foxnews.com/v/5415744994001
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The Dems Get Trump And The Republicans To Fold,
There NEVER Will Be A Border Wall
by Michael Snyder
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Well, that didn’t take long. Last week I reported that the Democrats were threatening to force a government shutdown if money for a border wall was included in the bill to fund the government... and one day later Donald Trump has unconditionally surrendered. Despite all of Trump’s promises, a border wall isn’t going to happen at this time, but of course he is pledging to “try again” in September. But will anything change for the Democrats between now and September? Of course not. The Democrats will continue to use these same tactics whenever funding for a border wall comes up, and because Republicans always end up backing down on the most controversial issues that means that there never will be a border wall...http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/democrats-trump-republicans-never-border-wall/
.Massive Spending Bill Fails to
Meet Conservative Priorities
{dailysignal.com} ~ Early Monday morning, congressional negotiators released text of a massive omnibus appropriations bill that would fund the government through Sept. 30... The bill is expected to pass later this week with bipartisan support and avoid a government shutdown. While the bill does make progress on issues like additional defense funding and increasing border security, it woefully fails the test of fiscal responsibility and does not advance important conservative policies...http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/01/massive-spending-bill-fails-meet-conservative-priorities/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpneE4yRTRObUZrWlRrMSIsInQiOiJXTjFSTWwybE1cLzlFR05SM1NCZjVYM3FVNWwrZG5RTzdDRGNYM204Y1ZRanVRakYyVmRLazdSaVBBcm5lM3BhNEtFNFFTaHlzQ2FiWThOdUlYMWRscDVzWHJ6eUJnWVRIa01Lckt0eFdNYVRsNGlGOGVQRzc3VTRNQzJxY3Y0OUcifQ%3D%3D
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Tomi Lahren settles lawsuit
with Glenn Beck and The Blaze
by Bryan Jacoutot
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Tomi Lahren settled her lawsuit Monday with her former boss, Glenn Beck, and his conservative media firm The Blaze... The deal allows the 24-year-old pundit to be freed from her employment contract — which was to expire in September — and pursue new work that competes with The Blaze. She also gets to keep the Facebook page that The Blaze created for her, and on which she has amassed 4.3 million followers. Lahren will “promptly” return The Blaze’s “intellectual property” that was posted to the Facebook page, said her lawyer, Brian Lauten. In court hearings, Lauten had offered to delete all of the videos produced by The Blaze off the Facebook page, which would include some of Lahren’s most popular posts. Some had been watched more than 67 million times...
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One Jesuit, James Francis Carney, SJ was born and raised in Chicago and killed while fighting with Marxist revolutionaries in Honduras. “We Christian-Marxists have to fight side-by-side in Central America with the Marxists who do not believe in God,” Carney wrote, “in order to form a new socialist society . . . To be a Christian is to be a revolutionary.” If you google Carney's name, you’ll find nothing but adulatory posts about him from other Jesuits and Catholics in general. Tim Kaine sought out and spent an evening with Father James Carney in Central America before he was killed.
What he said about the gospels is much like what Democrats claim about our Constitution: There are no absolutes. They can mean whatever you want them to mean.
Gospels Not Gospel Anymore?
by Tom McLaughlin
President Evo Morales gift to Pope Francis
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ It was worse than I thought. The Roman Catholic Church was being undermined by Marxists further back than I ever imagined. I knew there were Jesuits and other priests holding official positions in the Marxist Sandinista government of Nicaragua during the 1970s, but I thought they were anomalous. Now I’m learning that a majority of Jesuits believe Marxism and Christianity have more commonalities than differences.
For decades, Marxist Catholic priests and bishops stayed in the closet, just as Marxist Democrats in the US government did, but Marxists in Catholic Church came out first — during the 1970s near as I can tell. They were led by Jesuits who had for centuries been the most conservative of priestly orders. By the seventies they’d become the furthest left. Marxists in the Democrat Party are mostly closeted, though Bernie Sanders opened the door by declaring himself socialist. The support he received last year indicates like-minded Democrats are in the majority.
Sanders came close to the presidency in 2016. Had he won, he’d have replaced the deeply-closeted Barack liar-nObama. He lost the nomination, however, to liar-Hillary Clinton, who chose as her running mate Virginia Senator Tim Kaine. He was nearly elected vice-president — a heartbeat away from the presidency. Kaine was educated by Jesuits. He’s also a true-believer in Marxist “Liberation Theology” under which Jesuits justify making revolution alongside Marxist guerrillas in the jungles of Central America and elsewhere.
I’m nearly done with a book called The Jesuits, by the late Malachi Martin, a former Jesuit. It was published in 1986, and I wish I’d gotten my hands on it sooner. Martin makes a strong case that Jesuits moved away from the traditional Christian view that the individual human soul is where the battle between good and evil is fought. Now, he says, there exists within the order a “tendency to disassociate the concept of evil from the individual man and woman and to place it instead within a societal framework.”
Evil in that “societal framework” is capitalism — as practiced in Central America and elsewhere under the leadership of the United States. That’s what Jesuits fight now. On page 57 of The Jesuits, Martin describes the nexus of Liberation Theology and Marxist-Leninism, in part, thusly: “Hell became the capitalist system. The American president, leader of the greatest capitalist country, became the Great Satan.” In 2013, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI resigned and was replaced by Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope.
Martin sometimes called Jesuits the pope’s “rapid deployment force.” That’s apt, as he explained when describing former soldier St. Ignatius of Loyola’s purpose in founding the Society of Jesus, as the Jesuits are called officially, back in the 1500s. They were like soldiers, only they were fighting intellectually and morally, not physically. Each member had to undergo a rigorous educational training regimen so as to be ready to match up with the sharpest theologians, scientists, philosophers, politicians and government officials the world over. For centuries they engaged in intellectual combat with anti-Christian leaders in Enlightenment Europe and more than held their own.
For more than four hundred years, Jesuits took the usual vows other priests did as well as an additional vow of total obedience to the pope himself, whoever he might be and whatever he might order. Under conservative Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, Jesuits chafed against their orders. What will happen under Pope Francis — one of their own?
Recent remarks from Father Arturo Sosa Abascal, the new Jesuit Superior-General, are making big waves. He claims we cannot know what Jesus actually said because there were no tape recorders two thousand years ago. He claims the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John cannot be taken literally, and that: “Doctrine is a word that I don’t like very much. It brings with it the image of the hardness of stone,” he said. “Instead, the human reality is much more nuanced. It is never black or white. It is in continual development.”
Comments
Thanks Dales for your response. It is intellectual dishonesty, a living document of the Constitution.
Anyone who accepts the theory that there are no absolutes, are themselves providing an example of what they deny, in that they are absolutely adopting idiocy as a form of intelligent reasoning.
Relativism, in the Godless minds of many, seeks to destroy the absolute rather than illustrating the interdependency of nature and the complimentary design inherent in the absolute existence of it.
If I exist, and I do, then He who formed me exists also, and that is not only relevant to my being but absolutely necessary for my existence.
The Constitution was written and ratified absolutely. It was open ended to allow for Amendments. This too is an example of absolute. If it had not been written, then it would not have been ratified, and it would not be necessary to leave it's nothingness open ended for amendment simply because there wouldn't be anything there to amend.
One must always look to the intent of a design. Always. Starting with the intent of God in forming man in His own Image. There is a purpose.
The Constitution is purposeful. It is the Law. People like Obama could reason it away. For example, if it is a living document then it could be amended out of existence by lawless government who consider National sovereignty as detrimental to global utopia.
And that is the absolute intent of their intellectual dishonesty.