There is never a right time to overreact, or it would be the correct amount of reaction.
You clearly care what the team colors are, it's just that your team colors are "good" and "evil".
Everyone says shit like this that could be claimed to "promote violence", however the context tells everyone but the mentally deranged that it's not about violence.
The responsibility is on the people who do the crimes, not the people who show some fight and spirit. The alternative is a sterile world where everyone is nice all the time and no one has any passion or drive for victory. AKA the inhuman world that the cabal wants.
Wild to me how many people are comfortable on an intellectual, logical level with simultaneously calling themselves Catholic while wholesale rejecting submission to the earthly authority which God has given us.
In what way is one Catholic at that point? Doesn't respect authority, rejects their place in the hierarchy, thinks there is no Pope, believes that the solution is schism from the Church with an unbroken lineage starting with Saint Peter, etc.
Like, at least have the decency to become Eastern Orthodox or something. Can't have your cake and eat it too.
The difference is that God didn't personally assure us that the Gates of Hell will not prevail against our country.
Biden is certainly not president of anything, for sure, but Francis is Pope and the only other option is "Catholicism was fake and gay this whole time". There is no Catholic option to reject Pope Francis.
You can't be Catholic and believe there is no Pope.
Are we sure it's not "those people"?
How is Vigano saying:
"No Catholic worthy of the name can be in communion with this “Bergoglian church,” because it acts in clear discontinuity and rupture with all the Popes of history and with the Church of Christ."
not akin to spiritual genocide as a result of all the Catholics who will follow him away from the Mother Church?
Like, cool opinion, but you don't sit in the Chair of Saint Peter and so you don't get to personally make such a determination without being guilty of exactly what you're accused.
Vigano may be based, but that doesn't make him perfect. This is no different from Martin Luther calling for a mass exodus because he refused to submit to higher authority. Whatever you may think, it isn't Catholic.
To decry the Pope as not being Catholic is probably the single most uncatholic thing one could do; it is textbook heresy.
This is just another flavor of Protestantism, as you're pretty much saying that the gates of Hell have prevailed against the Roman Catholic Church, thereby disqualifying it from being God's Church. Additionally, you're saying that you personally are in a position to make such a claim.
Also, you're describing secular political maneuvering to achieve your personal goals/desired outcome. The thing is: apostolic succession is not some feudal dynasty war. You can't just boot out one guy, put some new guy in, and then claim an unbroken succession from St. Peter. "Oops, that last election was a bust, we'll get it right this time!" is a vehemently uncatholic concept. What even is a "stolen Pope election"? What does that even mean? If we're being honest, it means you're a Protestant.
The ultimate reality that many Catholics simply don't want to accept, is that their (our) opinion on any given topic doesn't matter and that the hierarchy of the Church puts them (us) at the bottom. Submission to God means submission to teachers and spiritual leaders He provides for us.
Edit: While downdoots are irrelevant, I'd still like to clarify that I didn't downvote you.
All the minute changes add up, and as you point out, the machines don't really matter if ballots are being hand counted.
If they're truly going to be verifying the ballots by hand, this isn't getting anyone to shut up, it's simply fixing the problem.
Genital mutilation is not healthcare.
Great news!
The problem is that we are demonstrably getting worse, not better.
Today we're sicker, dumber, weaker, and slower than ever before. Not better, stronger, smarter, faster like they claim.
You can't prove evolution. It's a completely impossible theory until the source of new genetic information can be shown. And until evolution can be proven, these claims of us improving are worse off than claims of God.
And what you're saying is exactly the same as believing the Bible. You have a hunch, no evidence, and ultimately just lean towards it based on faith. That you aren't 100% sure doesn't change this. Plenty of Christians aren't 100% sure.
There's also plenty of "advancements" that are total nonsense. I'd wager that 3/4 of all science today is just made-up fantasy. We don't even understand how light works... well we did about 100 years ago, but now we've got Modern Science to tell us the right beliefs and deboonk everything else.
https://www.conspiracyoflight.com/Cosmology/BigBang1.html
And you only have to look at human nature to know that we are weak/fallen creatures. Go find some non-Christian countries, and it falls apart rapidly the further you go away from the civilized western world. But still, we are made in the image of God. What is better than that? I'd much prefer that to some equally evidenceless claims about some inherent power I possess.
Right. That power is already within you. It's yours to use. God does choose when and where to intercede on your behalf. That's why I also mentioned Job.
It's God's to use, as evidenced by the fact it only works when He intercedes on our behalf.
You unbelieving and perverse generation. This must mean that if you cannot go out and lay hands on the sick to heal them then you have no faith and God has abandoned you entirely.
No, it just means that it only works when God deems it fit to work. The power is God's, to be employed by our faith, as His will decrees.
You are ideologically confused. We as Humans can absolutely move mountains. We do this all the time. Do you think the passage means that with enough faith you can in an act of magic literally pick up a mountain and put it down somewhere else? Why would you think that?
You are literarily confused. I tried to make clear in my final sentence that I understood the meaning. All things are possible with God. This means we can do great things, but only through faith in God are these things possible. As such, all glory to God.
You are born and he gave you a soul. What more do you want, him to literally come down from heaven and guide the details of your life for you? How sad.
No, I'm quite happy that God enables me to do great things. Without Him, nothing good would be possible (in fact, nothing would be possible since He created everything).
Fair enough, fren.
And sorry if I was a bit harsh. Trying to reign it back in among all my responses to several people here.
They cannot be Christian and serve the CC.
Well, they can if they are like Vigano. But most are weak or complicit in the structure and the sheep have their eyes closed.
This is an intrinsically uncatholic thing to say. It's anti-Catholic. It at least borders on self-worship. As does you claiming that the woman in the video should "clean up her own house".
By the way, sorry about my prior hostility. I guess I was a bit cranky with a lot of my comments, trying to reign it back in.
Then no one is going to coddle you either, and you can simply spew more negativity into the world, which is the exact problem the world has. There are far more tactful, and far more respectful ways to communicate the same thing. Your false choice of speak my mind or bend over to coddle people is simply an excuse for you to be an ass.
And Satan is the ruler of this world. He has a vested interest in the evil winning. Therefore, if Trump wins, it's God overruling Satan.
It's a perfectly reasonable position, and it has just as much evidence as any of the other stuff you've said thus far.
(response may be somewhat disjointed and out of order. It is what it is)
There is no all-powerful cabal.
Also, your theological understanding is pure ignorance.
God used the flood when every single person had only evil in their hearts continually. He saved the only people who were good. Then He promised to never do it again, and never did.
Satan doesn't make you do it. Sorry. In reality, people do bad things because we are all bad people. On one side good, on the other evil. We are not perfect beings.
One guy says God should smite sinners, the other guy says He shouldn't because that's "mean". Maybe, just maybe, neither guy's opinion matters and only the opinion of the being that created everything does. My ego is big, but it's not so big that I think, even on a purely conceptual level, that my opinion is more important than that of a being that allegedly created us (is that a neutral/secular enough presentation for you?).
And I can not believe there are still people out there who think the "problem of evil" is a problem for anyone other than intellectually challenged Atheists (sorry if this is harsh, but it's where I'm at). It actually baffles me. Not imposing on free will is more important than God going on the selfsame Holy Crusade that you would call evil if some would-be King tried it. God didn't make us robots, and we get ample time in our lives to repent and strive to be good. You seem to think that evil people are just evil and unsavable.
Now the real juice: Entropy disproves an endless universal cycle that always was. Something needs to exist outside of it to reboot it each time, and the minute you go outside of the universe you're no better off than someone who claims God, evidence-wise (at best, in reality you're worse off).
Matter can't be created by nothing. Nothing doesn't explode. You have no evidence. You have a faith and religion, just like we do. Or maybe more accurately, you have a philosophical presupposition just like we do. Yours that everything can come from nothing, ours that there must be an intelligent creator with a will.
And hold up, "since the beginning of existence itself"? So it's not endless. Sounds like a contradiction to me.
"Muh God is just another link in the chain", I hear you say...
No He's not. God can actually always exist because He's not bound by physics. And if you insist on it, sure, this is a faith claim. But so is anything you can claim on the origins of the universe.
I read it, I reread it, and I responded only to it. I won't be reading it again.
So be a big boy and reiterate your point if it's actually been misunderstood. Adults communicate what they're trying to say, children whine when they're misunderstood because they don't have the words to express themselves.
Seeing as you simply ignored all my logical arguments on faith, I'll try a different line of reasoning.
So what? Read number 4 in that link and tell me the problem. To have faith in God is a good thing. To take Him on faith is a great thing. Even greater than when we have hard evidence. And what do you lose by having faith? Nothing that matters, as if you're wrong, nothing really matters anyway.
As for existence, we know it exists because it is consistent for everybody. People misremembering is again a deficit of the mind, not of reality. There is not a shred of evidence on the old spelling of the bears being different, but what the Mandela Effect does is create an unfalsifiable theory that disallows contrary evidence.
I can't prove it used to be spelled a certain way, because if I pull out an old VCR, the Mandela Effect would simply state that the VCR is from the new/current timeline. Or it'd say I'm from the current timeline and the people misremember really got transported between the two. All without evidence it says these things.
This is why open-mindedness is a bad thing. It suggests that we allow total absurdities to pollute our minds for no reason other than some misguided attempt at considering all options. It's freethinking, sure, but at that point, what good does it do you? You need strong walls to protect your mind, a sturdy gate, and then you use reason to decide what to let in.
And again, everything is the same for everyone. These cases of supposed discrepancies are dishonest at best. Every single person who isn't blind can go outside at the same time, and they'll all see the same thing. It's extremely concrete, physical, solid. Go play a virtual reality game if you want an example of the opposite.
The one thing that changes what people notice is their focus, but focus does not change reality. It determines what you experience in your reality, but your reality is ultimately the same as mine, it's just that it's so vast and complex that we can focus on different things for 80 years and never overlap.
Yes He did. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it false.
Just because some guy 500 years ago didn't like it, doesn't make it false.
No one was Christian for 1500 years (insert historical revisionism that discredits the Church's known timeline here) I guess... give me a break.
You really do think you're the authority on scripture. A common trait among Protestants, and one I'm not too eager to show any charity towards in this case, considering your level of anti-Catholic rhetoric.
Make your point again, because as presented, all you're saying is that your view comes above that of any given priest, and that they have to be like someone you personally like to qualify as Christian. So you're the judge of who is Christian or not.
From the Catholic perspective, this is self worship, as you put your own views above that of those who God puts in place to shepherd us.
And I'd call your comment bullshit for calling anyone who disagrees with you a sheep with their eyes closed, which is pretty much what you said.
Preciously.
Ironically, it's the Atheists that operate in the unknown space of "we don't how this works, so it must just be something we don't understand yet."
They're no different from a Christian saying God did it. They're presupposing that a natural explanation exists, and we presuppose that God exists and does these things.
And then, like you say, even if something can happen naturally, God can cause it to happen all the same. And to the Atheists dismay, this can't be scientifically differentiated because it's not a scientific question, it's a philosophical one.
https://youth.rcdow.org.uk/voices/5-secular-non-biblical-authors-who-verify-jesus-life-and-ministry/
https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/is-there-any-evidence-for-jesus-outside-the-bible/
Some sources are shared between articles, but there's plenty.
Sure, from a certain point of view.
But from the point of view of people who believe in God, you came in and just shat all over their entire worldview by calling it "imaginary". As if we haven't put just as much thought into our positions as you have into yours.
Surely you can see how people would be at least slightly irate at that.
I didn't intend to imply that.
I'm just saying you consider the teams to be good and evil instead of red and blue. The rest of my point follows that. It's pretty shit timing, but if no one shot Trump then the statement would just be yet more meaningless political posturing,
It's no more indicative of anything than any other similar kind of statement. And no one takes it literally unless they're already deranged.
Edit: and the reason I said that, is because it seems to me to be a double standard regarding Biden. Something like "well he's evil so when he says 'x' it proves even more how evil he is!".