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kepford 5 months ago
Visited another Orthodox church tonight. Such a beautiful experience. It was a cultural celebration and there were people of different Christian traditions asking questions of the deacon. He said the church is growing and they are running out of space. Many are young people disillusioned by the world and its turmoil. It fills me with joy to hear this.
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kepford 5 months ago
When you're a commie I guess anyone to the right of Bill Clinton is "far-right" image
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kepford 5 months ago
I pray that this tragedy is a wake up call for many. Have had friends and family sharing their disgust with the hate for Charlie Kirk. It's shocking for sure. We win people over by being better. And we need Jesus to do that. I know I can't love my enemies on my own. Love does win. The kind Jesus taught us. RIP Charlie Kirk
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kepford 5 months ago
2 Timothy 2:24–26 (ESV): 24 And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, 25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will. How should we respond? Like this. It doesn't mean we shouldn't be bold or speak the truth but allow anger to overtake you.
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kepford 5 months ago
It almost seems like the people that hate Trump are trying to create the situation where a strong man will be given the powers they claim Trump wants. Its kinda wild. People are so bought into one side or the other that they apparently can't see this.
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kepford 5 months ago
"We are pleased to say we are bombarded with orders. Please expect your book to ship within 5 \22610 business days." That's quite the window.
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kepford 5 months ago
Rush Limbaugh's Treatment by CBS 60 Minutes in 1991 This video from 1991 should be a reminder that the world and issues you see today are not new. They weren't new then and they aren't new now. I grew up listening to Limbaugh and I have PLENTY of issues with his positions and the positions of the "conservative" movement. But, the hypocrisy of the critics at the time is a story we are seeing repeated today. Rush mocked those in power (Democrats mostly). This was often translated to he was mocking democrat voters. Sound familiar? The irony of this report is pretty amazing to me but not unfamiliar. The criticism of Rush was that he's insulting and crass and yet I heard the following insults. He is called * Dangerous * Fat * College drop out * Twice divorced * Bigot * Nazi 30+ years later... Rush was only dangerous to the politics he opposed. He was far from extreme. Just as political figures on the left are far from extreme today. We just aren't supposed to think for ourselves and question the status quo. That's not safe. We are supposed to stay in line. Limbaugh like Trump says more about his time that himself. The response to them is more instructive than anything they say.
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This video from 1991 should be a reminder that the world and issues you see today are not new. They weren't new then and they aren't new now. I gre...
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kepford 5 months ago
Am I "woke right"? - Tom Woods
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 Just had to share one more worthwhile newsletter from Woods. ## Tom Wood's Newsletter I don't want to mention names, because I have no interest in another fight, but there's a certain person you probably know who goes around calling dissidents like you and me "woke right" -- a meaningless and foolish term, but one he returns to again and again. The right-wing dissidents he targets are "woke," he thinks, because among other things they believe in oppressors and oppressed, just like Marxists and the left. What he doesn't mention, and probably doesn't know, is that long before Karl Marx and his "woke" descendents came along, the classical liberals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had developed their own class theory. Marx himself noted that "no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle and bourgeois economists the economic anatomy of the classes." So in fact there is nothing inherently "Marxist" about noting the existence of classes, or of oppressors and oppressed. Marx himself admits that others perceived these phenomena long before he came along. The classical liberal theory of classes was that the oppressors were the ruling class who populated the state apparatus, and the oppressed were the ordinary citizens who were expropriated by that apparatus. (The late historian Ralph Raico discusses the classical liberal theory of class in an article called "Classical Liberal Roots of the Marxist Doctrine of Classes.") Simply because someone uses language Marx used, or says something that sounds -- superficially -- like something Marx said, doesn't make that person "woke." As we've said, Marx actually adapted his theory of class from others, and furthermore Marx had a habit of saying things that might have been true had his subsequent analysis not been hopelessly confused. For example, Marx had a theory of exploitation. It was entirely wrong. It is therefore not "Marxist" to adopt a correct theory of exploitation -- as in, the state exploits peaceful participants in the private economy. I realize the word "exploitation" appears in both theories, but that is where the similarity ends. Thus I am unmoved by the accusation that I am "woke right." ### More from the email Yesterday I mentioned poor Senator Tim Kaine, who evidently despises the fundamental ideas of his own country, and who recently mocked those ideas in the U.S. Senate. In particular, Kaine is appalled that people believe that "rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the Creator." Common sense will tell you that if you have no rights until government grants them to you, then you really have no rights at all, because what government gives you, government can also take away. Kaine is a perfect example of the kind of person we mean when we say we are ruled by people who hate us.
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Just had to share one more worthwhile newsletter from Woods. Tom Wood's Newsletter I don't want to mention names, because I have no interest in ano...
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kepford 5 months ago
The low-IQ senator award - Tom Woods on Tim Kaine
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There have been several good responses to Sen. Tim Kaine really bad take on rights but I appreciated Bishop Barron's words here. When you listen to...
 to this demonstration of one politicians lack of understanding of the very words of the Constitution earlier. Tom Woods also had some good thoughts on it. ## From Tom Wood's Newsletter: They sure don't make 'em like they used to. U.S. senators, that is. Read the debate between Senators Robert Hayne and Daniel Webster in 1830, or the lesser-known but equally valuable debate between John C. Calhoun and Daniel Webster in 1833 (featuring the latter's speech "The Constitution Not a Compact Between Sovereign States") and you'll say to yourself: I realize our senators today could never carry on debates at this level, but I'd be content if they could at least understand them. We cannot set our expectations too high for a man who ran as the vice-presidential candidate with Hillary Clinton, but I think most people would not have expected his comments last week. Kaine said: > The notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government, but come from the Creator — that's what the Iranian government believes. It's a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Sharia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá'ís, Jews, Christians and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling. What can surprise us at this point? John Locke's argument, echoed by Thomas Jefferson, was that rights preceded government, and that the purpose of government was not to grant rights, but to protect pre-existing rights. (Whether governments do a good job of that in practice is of course not the point here.) Tim Kaine wants you to believe that our rights "come from laws" and "come from the government" -- because what government gives you, government can also take away. That's why Americans have been rather more fond of the idea that we possess these rights already, and do not merely enjoy them at the good pleasure of United States senators.
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kepford 5 months ago
Bishop Barron calls out Politician claiming natural rights come from government There have been several good responses to Sen. Tim Kaine really [bad take on rights]( but I appreciated Bishop Barron's words here. When you listen to what people like Kaine think so many more things about their positions make sense. Not only do they not respect the Constitution. They don't even understand it at all. We have generations of people that do not understand this document that is supposed to protect our rights. The Bishop says one thing that I really wish more people would realize. He says, if you believe that rights come from the government that gives the government god like powers. He's absolutely right. One of the things I have come to see and believe is that the state is a false god. Its not just evil for what it does, it is a false idol that humans worship and trust in to do things only a god could do. The state is literally anti-Christ. Do not misunderstand me. Governance and hierarchic order are not evil but the modern state is 100%. Refreshing to hear someone in the clergy that gets this. We need more men like him. I do think that Kaine is confusing law and rights. Laws and rights both pre-date the government. The irony of Kaine's idea here is that if the state is where are rights come from what do you do in a state like Nazi Germany? Does this idea that rights come from the state help you there?
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Bishop Barron calls out Politician claiming natural rights come from government \ stacker news
There have been several good responses to Sen. Tim Kaine really bad take on rights but I appreciated Bishop Barron's words here. When you listen to...
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kepford 5 months ago
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 If you like to keep up with the business news you might like this. Heard about this on the [No Agenda Show](https://www.noagendashow.net/). It is funded by Mark Cuban. Do with that what you will.
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If you like to keep up with the business news you might like this. Heard about this on the No Agenda Show. It is funded by Mark Cuban. Do with that...
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kepford 5 months ago
Israel targets Hamas leadership in Qatar's capital as blast heard in Doha
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The strike on the territory of a U.S. ally marked a stunning escalation and risked upending talks aimed at winding down the war and freeing hostages.
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