Posted on 01/01/2025 12:57:31 PM PST by ransomnote
The Masons aren't a homogeneous and monolithic group. There are good and not so good people everywhere you look in our society.
I don't know any masons who would have voted unanimously, three times, to accept Joe Biden.
This assumes he was raised to Master Mason. I don't see how he could have memorized the required ritual in order to be raised. It was hard enough when I was 30.
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I don’t know about that, but since no one else has said it, I will. You cannot be a Catholic and a Mason.
The Masons are cool with it, why aren’t the Catholics?
Trump has praised President McKinley, who, I am pretty sure, was very much in favor of gold. And McKinley was assassinated. Hmmmm.... I wonder if he opposed any of the Jekyl Island plans.
Second pic down; Trump with a Teddy Roosevelt mustache, glasses, and uniform... 👍👍👍👍👍
If I was more learned I would share I just know there are some conflicts.
That Fabulous 51 that Trump just “fired” are bound to have something to say about their demotions. Let’s see if they have the nerve to get the band together one more time to issue a “joint” statement. Unless they’re all on the same meds they will keep their pie holes shut——like they should have in the first place. But I’m sitting on the curb getting ready to clap at whatever they parade by.
And who are their lawyers? They must have some by now? DC must be getting short on lawyers wot with Trump firing up the place. But you notice how happy Trump seems to be now? He has a license.
I always thought it was, "Let him who is not stoned, commit the first sin."
The Jekyll Island meeting occurred in 1907. McKinley died in 1901.
Roosevelt was incensed when he found out that people in the press were calling him “Teddy.” “It’s Theodore,” he fumed. “The damned impertinence!”
Mason objectives, ceremonies, and practices are inimical to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the faith and life of the Christian church.”
Reminds me of another T.S.Eliot quote (what a great mind):
Everyone gets the experience.
Not everyone learns the lesson.
IDK ... but I’ve got popcorn ready :)
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Pete Hegseth has four biological children and three stepchildren:
He has one daughter with his current wife, Jennifer, and three kids with his second ex-wife, Samantha Deering. He’s stepdad to Jennifer’s three children from a previous marriage.
He was Ike's Secretary of State, but there is another story of his work as the co-head of the investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman, along with his brother Allen, that occurred around Christmas 1941.
FDR got word from his Secretary of the Treasury that BBH was still funneling money to Hitler after we had declared war on Germany. Prescott Bush, GHW Bush's father, was the delivery man. FDR picked up the phone and called John Foster Dulles at BBH with J. Edgar Hoover in the room listening in. Hoover got years of mileage telling this story at parties on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that he attended with Clyde Tolson. Hoover was a gifted mimic, and if you closed your eyes, you would swear that FDR was in the room with you.
"Foster, what in the hell is going on up there? I hear you're still investing in Hitler. ... Don't you know there's a war on?! ... Now cut that out this very minute, or I'll send Edgar up to New York to slap the cuffs on the whole lot of you. ... Well, that's better. ... Now give my love to Lucille. ... Merry Christmas, Foster."
By the way, Foster's son Avery became a Catholic, a Jesuit, a Cardinal, a teacher at Fordham, and was the definitive author on books about the Second Vatican Council.
They found a LOOPHOLE to make this stick.
Federal regulations generally protect career employees from being reassigned for at least 120 days after new leadership takes over.
But Pam Bondi hasn't been confirmed yet. The firings come from the ACTING AG 🤯
And who is the interim AG? STOP THE STEAL organizer Ed Martin. The Acting AG is James R. McHenry III, who happens to be very aligned with Trump policy - especially on immigration. I'm thinking Garland was forced to resign early so this could happen.
https://thepostmillennial.com/maines-public-schools-refuse-to-comply-with-trumps-order-on-transgender-ideology
Maine’s public schools refuse to comply with Trump’s order on transgender ideology
“The Executive Order ‘Defending Women From Gender ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government’ applies to the Federal government/Federal government agencies only and does not inhibit the force of Maine law or locally-adopted school board policies,” the state DOE said in its priority notice.
https://expose-news.com/2025/01/25/davos-2025-milei-and-trump/
Davos 2025: Milei slams Starmer’s woke policy of jailing citizens for exposing Muslim rape gangs and Trump declares “America is back”
[EXCELLENT]
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/republican-senators-reject-democrats-request-bipartisan-bill-immigration
Republican senators reject Democrats’ request for bipartisan solution on immigration
A group of 12 Democratic senators sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., for a bipartisan solution on the issue.
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/ice-arrests-over-530-illegal-migrants-including-sex-traffickers-and
ICE arrests over 530 illegal migrants, including sex traffickers and gang members: report
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Thursday night that some of the migrants arrested were members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
https://justthenews.com/government/robert-f-kennedy-jr-tulsi-gabbard-kash-patels-hearings-all-take-place-next-week
Confirmation hearing for RFK Jr., Gabbard, Patel all to take place next week
Kennedy Jr. will testify before the Senate Finance Committee which oversees HHS on Jan. 29.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/biggs-starts-collecting-signatures-arizona-governors-race
Rep. Andy Biggs starts collecting signatures for Arizona governor’s race
His nominating petition will need to hit a certain threshold of signatures in order for his name to appear on the ballot. Earlier this week, he announced he was going to contemplate the “weighty decision” after filing an official statement of interest with the Secretary of State’s office.
[Establishment clause is about a STATE religion!]
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/supreme-court-will-review-oklahoma-funding-catholic-school
Supreme Court will review Oklahoma funding of Catholic school
The case marks a potential landmark for the First Amendment’s establishment clause.
AZ - a rogue state with stolen elections!
https://justthenews.com/government/shut-it-down-closing-us-border-illegal-crossers
On Arizona border, police and residents describe surge of illegal crossings, see hope in Trump
Brennan described human smuggling as an “ever-present theme.” Deputy Dan Brennan of the Criminal Interdiction Team in Cochise County, Arizona
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/uk-pro-hizballah-teacher-in-london-school-vows-to-transform-children-into-jihadis
UK: Pro-Hizballah teacher in London school vows to transform children into jihadis
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/germany-three-muslim-migrants-repeatedly-stab-18-year-old-man-in-the-back-critically-injuring-him
Germany: Three Muslim migrants repeatedly stab 18-year-old man in the back, critically injuring him
https://jihadwatch.org/2025/01/israeli-attack-on-irans-nuclear-program
Israeli Attack on Iran’s Nuclear Program
Not imminent, but “soon.” The die, we are told, is cast. That’s according to a senior European diplomat. What is not known is if Donald Trump will provide the large, 30,000-pound bunker buster bombs that would allow Israel to destroy the underground nuclear facility
This Week In Jihad with David Wood and Robert Spencer: Child Marriage Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek2jE6NF4M0&t=1512s
https://gellerreport.com/2025/01/iran-is-pressing-the-gas-pedal-on-uranium-enrichment-iaea-chief-says.html/
Iran is ‘pressing the gas pedal’ on uranium enrichment, IAEA chief says
https://slaynews.com/news/democrat-dick-durbin-calls-government-agencies-defy-trump-dei-ban/
Democrat Dick Durbin Calls on Government Agencies to Defy Trump’s DEI Ban
https://slaynews.com/news/anti-trump-woke-bishop-launches-media-tour-promote-resistance/
Anti-Trump ‘Woke Bishop’ Launches Media Tour to Promote ‘Resistance’
Eurotyrant doubles down
https://slaynews.com/news/wef-spanish-leader-reveals-plan-to-mandate-digital-id-for-social-media-access/
WEF: Spanish Leader Reveals Plan to Mandate Digital ID for Social Media Access
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/desantis-pushes-florida-lawmakers-take-action-illegal-immigration-warns-consequences-defiance
DeSantis pushes Florida lawmakers to take action on illegal immigration, warns of consequences for defiance
DeSantis is pushing state lawmakers to crack down on illegal immigration and support the Trump administration sooner rather than later
In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled Q ~ Trust Trump's Plan ~ 01/01/2025 Vol.503, Q Day 2623, Mr. K wrote: The Masons are cool with it, why aren’t the Catholics?
I'm Protestant, but I think the answer may suit Christians in general.
I sat through a funeral service featuring a Mason Lodge leader and about 24 of their members who arrived all wearing their aprons.
In the service, the leader said there was no higher honor available on Earth than the possession of the Masonic apron and it sounded like he compared it with spiritual Salvation (need the apron to pass into the other realm upon death). He described death as the deceased 'climbing the golden ladder and being met by countless others with shining faces'. All of this happened without God or faith, in his telling. He was completely intense in all his statements which elevated Masonry above all else on earth or in heaven.
It was an unusual service with both a Christian and Masonic eulogist. The Christian pastor went to the mic after the Masonic version of death and resurrection had concluded. He spoke to those 24 stone-faced Masons (no pun, but there's opportunity here) in a fatherly, warm way, as he refuted their humanist self-salvation. (they ultimately decide who is awarded heaven by deciding who is a Mason).
The Christian pastor gently said, "Now I know you don't believe that only Masons go to heaven, because you wouldn't accept that your wives and children couldn't go to heaven because they weren't Masons..." and so on. All the Masons were glaring at him but he continued along this vein.
The Masons replaced Christ's sacrifice for our sins with their belief that only Masons could 'climb the shining ladder' and overall, elevating obligation to Masonic princibles etc. over God and the Bible. I think many Christian denominations might quibble with the Mason view of death and the afterlife.
Masonic induction services also make promises (swear to..." which must put such promises ahead of the will of God; that's my opinion based on reading their texts.
https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-5-34/
34But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is God's throne: 35Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King. 36Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
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