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Bonus Episode: Everything is Still Falling Apart
Building an institution on celebrity power, charisma, and a spirit of grandiosity attracts a lot of people, money and a certain kind of cache for everyone involved. It helps them all to feel like they're part of something that's big — a movement providing…
**From Formative to Performative, from Mold to Platform (e.g., Celebrity Culture): This is America's problem. Our govt, churches, media, etc. are all wrapped up in this change of focus.
"Now we have "stolen valor" and people with no responsibility asking us to trust them. We have people borrowing on the capital of giving their lives away." -Mike Cosper
Another takeaway: Power without wisdom is folly.
May we repent!
Listen!
"Now we have "stolen valor" and people with no responsibility asking us to trust them. We have people borrowing on the capital of giving their lives away." -Mike Cosper
Another takeaway: Power without wisdom is folly.
May we repent!
Listen!
These violent threats via phone and email to lawmakers, people having to worry about the safety of their families, protests at people's houses, harrassment of lawmakers in our own Capitol in DC and harrassment of SC judges, people trying to start riots and hurt others- this is ugliness of the worst kind - an ugliness of the heart. America is sick at her heart level and only the Master Physician can heal her.
The truth will come out about many things in the coming weeks. The wounds must be cleaned before they can heal. The medicine is bitter but good. Let it be done.
The truth will come out about many things in the coming weeks. The wounds must be cleaned before they can heal. The medicine is bitter but good. Let it be done.
We have to stop "acting" like Christians and let Jesus work through us. We can't make people "line up" like we want them to or think they should and control them, then expect things to work out. There is no power or love there. Only Jesus changes people's hearts. Speak the truth with love and grace and let Him do the rest.
My first actual, non-holiday mass; only my 2nd time at a mass in my entire life. I learned a little about the saints mentioned on the front of the program (apparently King Henry VIII liked excuting priests as well as his women). There were aspects like Protestant Evangelical churches but not not like them (Homily or message, hymns of praise). They did the Holy Eurcharist (Holy Communion) but I did not partake as I am not a baptized Catholic and that would have been offensive to their faith.
It was a peaceful service and reception following (they can party too). I meditated with them and in my own way (Ave Maria is one of my favorite musical pieces). Catholic people do read the Bible, they pray, and they are very reverant.
It was a peaceful service and reception following (they can party too). I meditated with them and in my own way (Ave Maria is one of my favorite musical pieces). Catholic people do read the Bible, they pray, and they are very reverant.
They do not worship the statues you see in their churches. They worship Jesus differently and that is okay. Jesus can take care of anything else he needs to take care of in that realm. We could alot learn from them in Protestant Evangelicalism about revenance and peace. I was honored and blessed to be a part of this.
At the end of the day, toxic people run from confrontation of their character. They are afraid and the don't know or understand love. Oh that someone would have loved that little boy or little girl! My hope is they will turn to the One who can heal them.
I've heard lots of controversy about the Netflix movie Cuties (yeah I'm two years late but 2020 was COVID for me). This was a French-Senegalise movie with English subtitles. Although I would not have chosen the way the film director highlighted the hightened sexualized culture we live in across the Western world, she got her point across. I think she was telling her story in some ways honestly. Parents, this is not a show for your kids. Adults and parents this show will make you uncomfortable.
The movie is about four 11 year-old, hurting, lost little girls who have access to too much online sexualized content and who don't realize what they are getting into. Little girls never do understand what they are getting into. The main character Ami, who the story revolves around and her friends, the Cuties, as they call themselves, love to dance way to provacatively and think themselves older than they are. I saw in the film little girls, trying to be "sexy women", yet not understanding what that is or what it entails. I saw culture and adults who knew better, taking advantage of that. Like I said, I would not have chosen the way the film director showcased this but again, she got her point across.
You see Ami's story delving into her personal pain surrounding her mother and family and the struggle between the culture of her ultra-conservative Muslim upbringing and the sexualized culture of the West. No wonder a little girl would turn to such things - her father, an absent figure aside from material things. Her and her mother both living with the decision of her father to take a 2nd wife that is permitted in their culture. Ami's pain runs very deep and she is crying out for love in the things she chooses.
I had nothing but compassion for these characters. God never intended life to be this way for any young girl or woman. God never intended children to be sexualized by culture or by adults. Oh how far we have fallen. Oh how we must return to Truth again.
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The movie is about four 11 year-old, hurting, lost little girls who have access to too much online sexualized content and who don't realize what they are getting into. Little girls never do understand what they are getting into. The main character Ami, who the story revolves around and her friends, the Cuties, as they call themselves, love to dance way to provacatively and think themselves older than they are. I saw in the film little girls, trying to be "sexy women", yet not understanding what that is or what it entails. I saw culture and adults who knew better, taking advantage of that. Like I said, I would not have chosen the way the film director showcased this but again, she got her point across.
You see Ami's story delving into her personal pain surrounding her mother and family and the struggle between the culture of her ultra-conservative Muslim upbringing and the sexualized culture of the West. No wonder a little girl would turn to such things - her father, an absent figure aside from material things. Her and her mother both living with the decision of her father to take a 2nd wife that is permitted in their culture. Ami's pain runs very deep and she is crying out for love in the things she chooses.
I had nothing but compassion for these characters. God never intended life to be this way for any young girl or woman. God never intended children to be sexualized by culture or by adults. Oh how far we have fallen. Oh how we must return to Truth again.
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Ya'll Roe is gone! I can't hardly believe it! Now let's help men, women and children and truly be pro-life!
Straight out of the SC ruling, page 7:
The Solicitor General suggests that overruling Roe and Casey would threaten the protection of other rights under the Due Process Clause. The Court emphasizes that this decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion. Pp. 63–66.
The Solicitor General suggests that overruling Roe and Casey would threaten the protection of other rights under the Due Process Clause. The Court emphasizes that this decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion. Pp. 63–66.
Pg 66, 3, Court Opinion:
Unable to show concrete reliance on Roe and Casey themselves, the Solicitor General suggests that overruling those decisions would “threaten the Court’s precedents holding that the Due Process Clause protects other rights.” Brief for United States 26 (citing Obergefell, 576 U. S. 644; Law- rence, 539 U. S. 558; Griswold, 381 U. S. 479). That is not correct for reasons we have already discussed. As even the Casey plurality recognized, “[a]bortion is a unique act” because it terminates “life or potential life.” 505 U. S., at 852; see also Roe, 410 U. S., at 159 (abortion is “inherently different from marital intimacy,” “marriage,” or “procrea- tion”). And to ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized, we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.
The SC will not look at the validity of these other cases.
Unable to show concrete reliance on Roe and Casey themselves, the Solicitor General suggests that overruling those decisions would “threaten the Court’s precedents holding that the Due Process Clause protects other rights.” Brief for United States 26 (citing Obergefell, 576 U. S. 644; Law- rence, 539 U. S. 558; Griswold, 381 U. S. 479). That is not correct for reasons we have already discussed. As even the Casey plurality recognized, “[a]bortion is a unique act” because it terminates “life or potential life.” 505 U. S., at 852; see also Roe, 410 U. S., at 159 (abortion is “inherently different from marital intimacy,” “marriage,” or “procrea- tion”). And to ensure that our decision is not misunderstood or mischaracterized, we emphasize that our decision concerns the constitutional right to abortion and no other right. Nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.
The SC will not look at the validity of these other cases.