Former U.S. President Donald Trump, if re-elected in 2024, would expand his first-term immigration crackdown to include sweeping roundups of people who would be held in large camps to await deportation, the New York Times reported on Saturday.
When they were alone, the people around Jesus, along with the Twelve, asked him about the parables. 11 He said to them, “The secret of God’s kingdom has been given to you, but to those who are outside everything comes in parables. 12 This is so that they can look and see but have no insight, and they can hear but not understand. Otherwise, they might turn their lives around and be forgiven.
Mark 4:10
I agree. He was really into it. He deliberately talks in a hard to understand manner so humans who don’t get it will burn in hell.
It’s been a while, I looked it up. Very clever. Is this type of cherry picking done in megachurch sermons to propagate the message of supply side Jesus?
I don’t know if quoting a text in context that is aligned with other passages is really cherrpicking. Jesus is very much into revenge on people who don’t follow him. If the man existed, which I don’t think he did, he must have been insufferable. Demanding that everyone give up their life to follow him, absolute faith from his followers, absolute love from his followers, claiming no one can know anything at all except what he teaches. A narcissist to the hundredth power.
Not the message I took as a kid but I suppose I haven’t been to church in decades unless it was for a funeral or wedding.
I guess when you are making a religion you have to make sure your literature confidently reinforces that yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory and those other mf’ers can go to hell.
Mark 4:10
I agree. He was really into it. He deliberately talks in a hard to understand manner so humans who don’t get it will burn in hell.
It’s been a while, I looked it up. Very clever. Is this type of cherry picking done in megachurch sermons to propagate the message of supply side Jesus?
I don’t know if quoting a text in context that is aligned with other passages is really cherrpicking. Jesus is very much into revenge on people who don’t follow him. If the man existed, which I don’t think he did, he must have been insufferable. Demanding that everyone give up their life to follow him, absolute faith from his followers, absolute love from his followers, claiming no one can know anything at all except what he teaches. A narcissist to the hundredth power.
Not the message I took as a kid but I suppose I haven’t been to church in decades unless it was for a funeral or wedding.
I guess when you are making a religion you have to make sure your literature confidently reinforces that yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory and those other mf’ers can go to hell.