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Political Nativity: California Methodists Display Caged Holy Family
The Institute on Religion & Democracy ^ | 9 December A.D. 2019 | Jeffrey Walton

Posted on 12/11/2019 6:23:44 PM PST by lightman

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To: the OlLine Rebel
Methodists have been aberrant for a long time.

True.

There are Methodists,
and there are 'Methodists'.


Matthew 15:8-9 NIV
'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.'”
--Jesus; referring to an OT passage that they ALL knew:


Isaiah 29:13
The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

41 posted on 12/12/2019 5:33:17 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Trump.Deplorable
It was actually to keep the pesky idiot kids from breaking them and stealing Baby Jesus


Baby Jesus was missing from Nativity

T'was the day after Christmas at the church.

The pastor of the church was looking over the nativity scene when he noticed the baby Jesus was missing from among the figures.

Immediately he turned and went outside where he saw a little boy with a red wagon and in the wagon was the figure of the infant of Jesus.

So he walked up the the little boy and said, “Well, where’d you get Him, my fine friend?

The little boy replied , “I got him from the church.”

“And why did you take him?”

The little boy replied, “Well about a week before Christmas I prayed to the little Lord Jesus and I told him if he would bring me a red wagon for Christmas I would give him a ride around the block in it.” 

42 posted on 12/12/2019 5:46:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: trublu

You’re right!!!!


43 posted on 12/12/2019 8:12:05 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Elsie

“I would give him a ride”

Dragnet did a Chrimas show where Friday looked for a stolen baby Jesus.


44 posted on 12/12/2019 10:31:06 AM PST by fproy2222
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To: lightman

Except Joseph and Mary were not “refugees”, they were citizens who were required by law to journey to Bethlehem to register for a government.

And they were not “homeless”, they had a home where they came from — it was just that the government did not ensure that there were enough rooms available; Joseph and Mary therefore could not find a room to stay, but were allowed to stay in a relatively well-sheltered space.

Now, later, Herod tried to round up and murder all the babies, but that is more like the abortionists.


45 posted on 12/12/2019 10:44:08 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: GOPJ

Dear God Almighty, make this stop!


46 posted on 12/12/2019 2:55:13 PM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: Elsie

Thanks for the smile on a very bleak thread!


47 posted on 12/12/2019 3:03:31 PM PST by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: fproy2222

Cool!!


48 posted on 12/12/2019 5:33:05 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: fproy2222

How do you get a philosophy major off of your front porch?

Pay him for the pizza.


49 posted on 12/12/2019 5:33:17 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: miserare
It's not up to Him; but US!
50 posted on 12/12/2019 5:34:11 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: miserare
We must inject humor as often as we can; for...


Proverbs 17:22 KJV

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine:
but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

51 posted on 12/12/2019 5:37:47 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: miserare

We need to fight to keep our culture... Maybe the solution is to peacefully divide the county...


52 posted on 12/13/2019 6:56:40 AM PST by GOPJ (Will Chris Wallace kiss Comey's butt on-air - or after the show is over... (Sunday Morning))
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To: lightman

Joseph and Marry got around by Mass Transit?


53 posted on 12/13/2019 7:07:45 AM PST by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: GOPJ

That would be wonderful.

Problem is...How and Where?

What region has the most and worst cities..Il, MI CA..? Ship them all there?


54 posted on 12/13/2019 7:15:04 AM PST by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: Leep

Step One is get liberals on our side to split the country - peacefully.

Benefits of splitting the country into two countries need to be explained to progressives, activists at Democrat Underground (DU), Antifa members, HBO’s Bill Maher and the DNC etc. We can enlist their help by telling them how THEY’LL benefit. Here’s a partial list:

On day one of the split democrats could...

Confiscate ALL guns in their country.

(Including guns used by police.)

The ‘press’ being a free arm of the Liberal Elite Deep State now, would become part of ‘the state’ in PUS... reporters would be paid by the government to get ‘approved’ information out to citizens.

People like Jonathan Turley would be arrested, tried and sentenced to a state run re-education camp.

Minimum wage would be raised to $30 an hour... or more.

Abortions would be allowed up to the day of birth and two days after in the event the child was ugly and/or the “mother” changed her mind.

Hollywood ‘stars’ would be granted 10 seats in the State Legislature and the right to choose the vice President of “Progressive United States” (PUS)

Generous reparations would be paid to all black citizens... for years.

Open borders would exist with BETO in charge of making sure they ‘stay open’... all people of the world could live free in PUS (Progressive United States)...

‘Free heath care’ would be provided to all citizens and to anyone who crosses the border into PUS... citizenship never a factor.

Fossil fuels would be heavily taxed or outlawed. Solar and wind farms would be subsidized - no matter the costs...

Criticism of Global Climate Change would be against the law... disagreeing with ‘settled science’ would bring a quick trip to a reeducation center.

Plastic straws and big gulps would be outlawed.


The only caveat is a Wall must be build between the two countries BEFORE the official split so when their starving citizens attempt to escape into our country they can be stopped at the border.

Extend abortion to day of birth and two days beyond (kid might be ugly)


55 posted on 12/13/2019 8:59:40 AM PST by GOPJ (Will Chris Wallace kiss Comey's butt on-air - or after the show is over... (Sunday Morning))
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To: GOPJ

Don’t forget the 19 hour work week and 3 year unemployment benefits..and college loans forgiven.


56 posted on 12/13/2019 9:07:52 AM PST by Leep (It's.. (W)all or nothing..!)
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To: Leep
Don’t forget the 19 hour work week and 3 year unemployment benefits..and college loans forgiven.

Excellent Leep.

AND College will be FREE. Rather than grades K through 12 it'll be K through 16. AND 'college' will be mandatory... why not? K-12 is mandatory now... it's how the liberal control freaks think...

John Brennan and Peter Strzok can head up the Secret Police... with Lisa Page being an official Secret Police slut. Soros will get all drugs make legal - and free. Heroin and meth for free. Woo Hoo... Yes, something for everyone.

White Liberal Elites will have everything they've been fighting for... AND we'll be rid of them. It's a win-win.

Divide the country NOW. Conservative United States (CUS) and Progressive United States (PUS)

57 posted on 12/13/2019 9:32:59 AM PST by GOPJ (Will Chris Wallace kiss Comey's butt on-air - or after the show is over... (Sunday Morning))
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To: GOPJ
AND College will be FREE. Rather than grades K through 12 it'll be K through 16. AND 'college' will be mandatory... why not? K-12 is mandatory now... it's how the liberal control freaks think...

Age 3 Pre-K will be FREE and mandatory...mandatory boarding school beginning at 1st grade with no parental visitation and only brief semester breaks.

Imagine.

58 posted on 12/13/2019 8:53:55 PM PST by lightman (The Millenials are asleep in their "wokeness".)
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To: lightman

Thanks - one more reason we need to peacefully divide the country...


59 posted on 12/14/2019 3:12:31 AM PST by GOPJ (radical socialists backed by self-righteous celebrities on Twitter are electoral poison PIERS MORGAN)
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To: lightman

Must be a rough neighborhood, to have to keep the vandals from destroying the Nativity like that.


60 posted on 12/14/2019 3:20:59 AM PST by Daffynition (*I'm living the dream.* & :))
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