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Is Trump about to start a war against Venezuela to distract American citizens from his involvement in the Epstein scandal? Does anyone really doubt that he wouldn’t hesitate to do it if he thought it would help him? He cares no more about the lives of Venezuelan citizens than he does about those women who were exploited when they were underage girls.
Robert F-I always thought that Trump was unhinged, but the whole thing with Venezuela is another way to show how loopy he really is.
Linn, Maduro is no doubt a bad man and an autocratic leader, but what Trump is doing in regard to Venezuela is evil.
Alice Wong RIP
My wife found my great grandmother’s copy of the Heidelberg Catechism from 1877, Central Publishing House of the Reformed Church, Cleveland, O.
It was passed down eventually to my dad who gave it to me so long ago that I forgot that I had it.
Quite interesting to read in these days of Biblical illiteracy as a record of his spiritual heritage.
JD, what a treasure!
What I find amazing that my dad was the only person who actually went to college in the family.
An eighth grade education was considered the maximum necessary back when he grew up.
Yet the little book in my hands was required reading, giving everyone a general understanding of essential basic Christian doctrine by the age of fifteen.
Today most Christians have no idea what that is. They’ve been told just repeat a prayer asking Jesus into their heart and: presto!
Instant salvation. Add water and that’s it.
No wonder it seems like a three-ring
circus at church these days. Completely dominated by ringmasters telling stories and quoting extra-biblical authors to the suckers being “born again” every minute.
I was born to a family of recent Italian immigrants to the U.S. Their relationship to Roman Catholicism was utilitarian: the church was a functionary for christenings, weddings, funerals, and a kind of superstitious talisman against bad things, but was never a path of Christian discipleship. I suppose that was typical for many Italian peasants and working class people. I went through the ritual milestones of formal Catholic religious instruction, though I attended public schools after the first grade. As a young adult I found myself alienated from the Catholic Church, and set loose in the American religious marketplace to make my choice among forms of Christianity, forms of religion, or of no religion at all. I visited numerous evangelical churches, Pentecostal and non-Pentecostal, as well as Reformed and mainline churches, as well as exploring Buddhism during my time of conscious religious exploration, but the one things that stuck with me was a kind of humanism that was there, among other both good and bad things, in my Catholic religious instruction. I finally figured out, after much thought and struggle, that this humanism was rooted in the humanity of Jesus Christ, and depended on that for its power and meaning. That’s where I am today; I practice Christianity in mainline churches, but my loyalty is to the sacred humanity of Christ as I seek it and it comes to me in the world of humanity.
Sick.
“Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays”
https://thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-trump-ice-raids-churches-holiday/
Sick ,indeed…
churches are going to have to decide where their support begins and ends–of immigration rights, the sacredness of sanctuary, the enablement of government overreach and misconduct, the willingness to take a stand on something–anything! There are many Judas-like characters hidden among the disciples.
They’ve already made that choice…
I’m not so sure–a common MAGA characteristic is that there isn’t any change of mind until the policy directly affects them. The insulation for many is about to end if those raids begin and people they know personally are rounded up OR mistakenly arrested OR physically manhandled as a bystander or collateral damage in their presence at church on a Sunday or holiday occasion.
Beautiful quote from someone who paid the ultimate price:
“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”
Dietrich B.
I thought this was encouraging.Looks like we’rec not as divided as is commonly assumed.
“Eight in 10 U.S. adults agree on a variety of issues that reflect core aspects of U.S. democracy.
“These include that using violence to achieve political goals is never OK;
that elected leaders should compromise to get things done;
and that having a mix of races, religions and cultures benefits the nation.
Americans also express a desire to limit the political influence of wealthy individuals and businesses and believe there is a difference between facts and opinions.”
https://news.gallup.com/poll/696494/americans-show-consensus-democracy-related-matters.aspx