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tanyev's JournalI have mixed feelings about defining it in such an intellectual way.
I mean, hes correct, but mostly its a bunch of assholes wanting to burn everything down. And hardly any of them would interested in or capable of describing what theyre doing in the manner of this article.
How the worm turns.
The convention of the American Council of Christian Churches April 28 unanimously passed a resolution disapproving a Catholic as President. The resolution said, in part, The present accusation of bigotry by Kennedy supporters and others we believe is an effort to silence those who are raising pertinent questions relative to our historic American heritage of separation of church and state. Therefore, the American Council of Christian Churches goes on record as being opposed to a Roman Catholic for President.
The National Assn. of Evangelicals April 29 adopted a resolution expressing doubt that a Catholic President could or would resist fully the pressures of the ecclesiastical hierarchy . The real source of unrest in respect to church-state separation is the total lack of any convincing commitment of the Roman Catholic Church to the principle of church-state separation .
The American Lutheran Magazine April 19 called for an official declaration by the Roman Catholic Church that its traditional position of union or collaboration of church and state did not apply to the United States.
https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal60-880-28174-1331407
Good article. Love this paragraph:
Their directors cut of his wandering mind. Thats perfect.
Yes. A lot of reasons get mentioned for our dismal media--
complicity, right wing owners, the profit of clickbait, laziness, newstainmentbut another one I think should be mentioned is an obsession with inside baseball.
Something happens and then a lot of pundits want to show off how much they know about politics and how many important contacts they have by instantly going to how this will affect the election in District X, behind the scenes gossip of how it happened, or what kind of a bind this will create for Democrats, etc.
As the article said, this is what they focus on instead of addressing problems and how they can or are being solved.
Right, just like all the doctors marveled at his understanding of Covid.
THE PRESIDENT: And, by the way, NIH, what theyve done I spent time over there and I like this stuff.You know, my uncle was a great person. He was at MIT. He taught at MIT for, I think, like a record number of years. He was a great super genius. Dr. John Trump.
I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it. Every one of these doctors said, How do you know so much about this? Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for President.
https://it.usembassy.gov/remarks-by-president-trump-after-tour-of-the-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention/
The Dark Triad
Whenever someone is asked about something Trump said about them
I want to hear, Donald Trump says many, many things. Most of it makes no sense, and very little of it is true. If you have a policy question Ill be happy to answer that, but I do not have time to respond to all the nonsensical gibberish that Donald Trump says or posts on social media.
Republicans have had trouble with that for awhile now.
Rant: Learning to Love the Imperial Presidency
How conservatives made peace with executive power.
GENE HEALY | FROM THE OCTOBER 2007 ISSUE
"I took an oath, and I take that oath to the president very seriously," former White House aide Sara Taylor told the Senate Judiciary Committee during the summer hearings on the U.S. attorneys purge. Taylor's statement prompted an indignant clarification from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D'"Vt.): "No, the oath says that you take an oath to uphold and protect the Constitution of the United States!"
Leahy was right, of course. But it's not surprising that the 32-year-old Taylor, born the month after Nixon's resignation, had some trouble locating the object of her sworn fealty. For as long as she's been alive, the conservative movement has prioritized the expansion of presidential power, often at the expense of the Constitution.
https://reason.com/2007/09/12/rant-learning-to-love-the-impe/
St. Paul was not a huge fan of marriage and procreating, 1st Corinthians 7:
1Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me:
It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. 7For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
8But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am; 9but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
To the Unmarried and Widows
25Now concerning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one whom the Lord in His mercy has made trustworthy. 26I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distressthat it is good for a man to remain as he is: 27Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.
29But this I say, brethren, the time is short, so that from now on even those who have wives should be as though they had none, 30those who weep as though they did not weep, those who rejoice as though they did not rejoice, those who buy as though they did not possess, 31and those who use this world as not misusing it. For the form of this world is passing away.
32But I want you to be without care.He who is unmarried cares for the things of the Lordhow he may please the Lord. 33But he who is married cares about the things of the worldhow he may please his wife. 34There is a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the worldhow she may please her husband. 35And this I say for your own profit, not that I may put a leash on you, but for what is proper, and that you may serve the Lord without distraction.
Dec 2019: A brief history of world leaders laughing at Trump
Instead, Trump has been the object of repeated jest and even mockery by fellow world leaders. And its been caught on tape again.
The most recent example came Tuesday, when the leaders of Canada, France, Holland and the United Kingdom seemed to be recounting Trumps lengthy and occasionally wild interactions with reporters earlier in the day.
Even more world leaders appeared to join in mocking Trump last year during his speech at the United Nations. Trump made one of his characteristically hyperbolic claims about his achievements as president In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country and drew audible laughter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/12/04/brief-history-world-leaders-laughing-trump/
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