Either that or Bill Gates is hiding under that mask. WTF?
Thank you. I now better understand the gap between our positions. You seem to think because Bannon endorses Project 2025 that he must have had something to do with its development.
In that case, using your logic, you can count me as one of the original authors of the Holy Bible, Shakepeare's plays, and the Declaration of Independence.
As if.
Your claim was that Bannon worked directly on Project 2025. No other sauce will do!
To each their own.
Hardly. The term, Christ figure, is well-known and in no way takes away from his being a singularity, the only god-man in all of human history.
And he's not in his grave. He is risen!
My mistake. I read something in your response wrongly. Apologies.
I would agree here, except that one can't teach to the brainwashed. It's like the KGB defector and former Soviet propaganda expert said on the Phil Donahue show (and I paraphrase):
Once a person is brainwashed, you can present them with all kinds of conflicting information, but it cannot break the brainwashing.
Pearls before swine. Different context, I know, but it's truly useless and IMHO arrogant to believe that any of us could singlehandedly break through someone's programming.
You're missing the point entirely. They come to the table with the attitude that they are entitled to talk politics and that, to respect them, we are required to listen.
You want to feed into that? Go right ahead. Not me.
Hey, if you guys can talk politics and still get along, more power to you. My OP clearly stated: If you'd rather not talk politics...
I couldn't disagree more.
The Marxists on the Left want us to believe as they do, not only that everything is political, but that politics is everything.
Honest relating requires that we remind them: there's MUCH more to life than politics.
I never compared DJT to Christ.
https://www.faith-theology.com/2007/06/25-great-christ-figures-from-novels.html
I walk where angels fear to tread. Sauce?
OMG LOL YES!
Be as courteous as possible. But when somebody wants to take the conversation into the political, kindly remind them that this is a day set apart for this religious remembrance, and that political discussion can only take away from what can be accomplished today.
Every other topic is allowed. But politics is off the table. When asked why? Because politics only ever divides people. And that's not what this holiday is about. Quite the opposite, actually, if you think about it, what with God reconciling Man to Himself and all.
That will work for some, so long as you're prepared to ask those who won't stop politicizing the conversation to leave. Count the cost.
I hear you, Oldgal. In light of today, it's sad.
In light of Eternity? The fact that your daughter was saved from her sins and may need to endure some slings and arrows on behalf of the One who bled and died for her? There's no finer thing, according to what we read in the Epistles.
There's no getting away from the violence in this. Not until we're called to Glory.
But it's my hope today that you would feel a comfort and proper pride about her. Tomorrow she'll be exactly where she's supposed to be, and with good reason. And speaking as a dad of three, one never knows who a situation like that can help prepare her down the line for an even greater moral challenge, right?
Peace.
And therein lies the irony. He not only found the door, but he IS the door. Peace to you!
I taught Literature for twenty years, but clearly, because you can only see it one way, I MUST BE WRONG.
Whatever.
And that's okay. Jesus wasn't welcome everywhere, and neither should his followers be.
I was saved in August of 2003. At the time, I had been listening to a lot of Wretched Radio w/ Todd Friel. His Witness Wednesdays, wherein he used Ray Comfort's approach to evangelizing, using the Ten Commandments to help people recognize their need of a savior, was always a favorite of mine.
https://livingwaters.com/are-you-a-good-person/
That Christmas, after the festivities at my sister-in-law's place had begun to die down, I saw an opening w/ my niece and nephew, both of whom were in their early teens at the time.
I took them through the Law, and they answered my questions, more out of genuine curiosity than anything else. Clearly, they had never heard the Gospel presented like this.
When I finished, my sister-in-law's husband told us that I would never again be allowed to share anything about my faith in his house again. I told my wife that, if Jesus wasn't welcome there, we weren't either. And so we left, my wife in tears.
Months later, I brought an olive branch to him and his wife, my sister-in-law, telling them that I meant no disrespect to either of them when sharing, and that I'll never do it again.
But despite the temporary heartache of that day, I was faithful to plant the seed of the Gospel in the minds and hearts of my nephew and niece that day.
There will always be a cost to sharing Jesus in this sin-cursed world. May we never fail in being faithful to share who He is with others.
Thanks for reading. Happy Easter!
I'm not likening them at all. One was the god-man, and the other is just a man.
But this retired English teacher isn't wrong when I say: many good stories have a Jesus figure. Look it up. Morally upright, though not perfect. Sacrificial. Righteous in his or her cause.
Yeah. They could sign an agreement w/ Paramount and sign Brent Spiner to reprise his role as Data, who could present it objectively yet sincerely. (That would be so cool.)
Thanks, 7s. Happy Resurrection Day to you.
This is exactly where my mind went. Who's under that mask? My money is on Bill Gates. Or is it Jeffrey Dahmer? Too many choices!