As a Canadian, I don't understand why the first part of the 2nd amendment is, seemingly to me, so often ignored: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State...." Regulated means that the people can set up and enforce rules. The infringement that seems to me to be forbidden is against the citizenry to be able to have armed militias, but there is an expectation that they would be regulated, and well regulated at that. I guess militias would have their own leaders who would be in charge of regulating them. If the militia leaders thought you were a drunken idiot, they would probably take away your musket or whatever and tell you to get it together. That's how I picture the 2A in the Founding Fathers' minds. But I'm just a Canadian so what do I know?
But son excludes daughters, and reporting with this word would imply by omission that a president's daughter had previously been tried. Child is the correct word, and it's English's fault it makes us think of minors when people use it. It happens to me when I talk about my children, who are grown adults.
Believe me, I have a lot of bones to pick with the mainstream media, but they're actually not guilty on this count.
I don't get the problem, other than English has this strange situation where the word child has two meanings: a minor, or an offspring of any age. Would you rather they said offspring? Not really natural speech. My children are adults and I use that word to describe them, including just now.
He's not dead. However, I do think the DS did it, though. I bet they were thinking of all those old sitcoms where there's always one episode where a character would get bonked on the head and get amnesia or turn into a genius, but then in the 3rd act they get another bump on the old noggin and they're back to normal again, group hug and cue the credits.
Promoting LGBTQ+ to impressionable elementary school children would be a prime example. Allowing every Tom, Dick and Harry who wants to waltz into a female change room because they "identify as female" would be another. Destroying female sports in the name of trans inclusion. Pushing to label as a hate crime any time someone expresses any point of view that it's a sin to engage in gay or lesbian sex. You know... Everything that has been happening in the past decade or so. While I condemn all violence against LGBTQ persons, I don't think it's a healthy thing to promote that lifestyle, especially to children.
Because people with courage have been speaking out against the Rainbow Mafia brainwashing, more Canadians have the courage to push back, more are beginning to question giving extremists carte blanche to do everything they demand, more are seeing it's not good for society, and more are waking up to the fact that lies and poisonous ideologies have been thrown at us.
I am a believer in Christ, but I do respectfully disagree with your assertion that the word believe can only refer to believing in the truth, believing in God, believing in Christ. We are believers in the truth, but there are plenty of people who believe in lies, and the Bible speaks of such people. For example, 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 (King James Version):
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
1John4:1:
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
There is the idea in the Bible of correct belief -- belief in the truth of God -- and when it's not qualified by the context, you can assume the word believe refers to this. It's like faith implying true faith, faith in the truth. However, it is incorrect to assert that there is no other way to use the word believe, whether in the Bible or in everyday speech.
Blessings.
After someone on another WIN (not sure why there instead of here) posted some rather brutal remarks regarding my post, I looked up this Nick Cohen guy. He is, it seems, centre-left and critical of many of the things we would stand for. Keep that in mind if you're going to amplify this quote. However, regardless of the political leanings of the source, the quote does strike me as true wisdom.
Biting commentary from Louis Rossmann: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxMCm941WA
For a few months after the incident, people were posting all kinds of videos that, especially when put together, disproved the official narrative back then. YouTube & other platforms then purged all such content. I think of my awakening as happening at different stages and to deepening levels of awakening. This stuff propelled me to a whole nother level.