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 As one of her "constituents," (never voted for her but live in her district), I'm elated.....I think. I hope that she gets voted out. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-drops-marjorie-taylor-greene-endorsement-calls-her-ranting-lunatic-hints-backing-primary-rival But she wants back in... https://www.foxnews.com/video/6385175423112 There is resistance to her here, even in the Republican party. She needs to be replaced with a non-drama-queen candidate.

 The cross is the greatest possible being expressing the greatest possible virtue in the greatest possible way. Romans 5:1-8. I saw this quote on an advertisement for the Colson Center Conference, given by a former Muslim. I believe the only thing that will reach Muslims is love; their religion is devoid of it.  *** I heard a podcaster saying the other day that a political ad had pictures of a bunch of random black people to impress constituents.  People can not be random.  Randomly chosen, perhaps, but not random. Although I have been guilty of saying things like "There were a bunch of random people there..." random cannot apply to people, only their actions or the actions done to them.  And really, very few things are random, when you dig into it.  **** Add your own random thoughts (!)

I watched the first episode last night. I will at least watch one more.  I don't want to give it away, just to say it's about a virus that zombifies the world's population for a while and then has its permanent effect on all humans because victims make sure they infect everyone by licking kissing, breathing, etc.. All humans except a dozen who don't know each other. The protagonist is one of the immune ones. She's a negative, pessimistic person, now one of twelve in a world with a hive mind of . . .  it's hard to tell what after one episode. Reviews say happiness, but it's a shallow happiness so far.  I enjoyed it because the pessimist is a best-selling author who knows her books, a series, have become crap, but she makes a lot of money at them.  I also wondered if it is a parody of cult members (evangelicals, Mormons).  Or if, even deeper, it's a desire for something closer to that hive mind.  It's well produced to give creepy thrills, and I like th...

I can't say I've heard many sermons on this passage, or the rest of Romans 15.* We then who are strong ought to bear with the  [ a ] scruples of the weak, and not to please ourselves.  2  Let each of us please  his  neighbor for  his  good, leading to  [ b ] edification.  3  For even Christ did not please Himself; but as it is written,  “The reproaches of those who reproached You fell on Me.”   4  For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the  [ c ] patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.  5  Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus,  6  that you may with one mind  and  one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is not preached on much because it is hard thinking, believing, and living.  1. If you are a str...

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 Why anti-semitism? I have to confess that this is a prejudice I have never understood. I can see, on the fringes of my understanding, Some prejudices and group hatreds come from recent, or not so recent wars and genocides. The Armenians and the Turks, for example, make some sense.  But Jew hatred, the real meaning of anti-semitism (see below) seems to come from hatred of difference and envy of their financial and cultural success. And, to less extent, the medieval mythologies of the Catholic Church about Jewish crimes.  I listen to at least one "Jewish" or "Jewish affiliated" podcast, the Commentary Magazine podcast, and to others that are pro-Israel--Christianity Today, the Dispatch podcast, Breaking History, and some others. Evangelicals of my stripe are pro-Israel as far as American support for Israel's defense, but we are not anti-Arab or anti-Muslim. That doesn't mean we like everything the State of Israel does. Israel might say they have freedom of re...