Posted on 10/06/2024 5:52:44 PM PDT by xoxox
UFOs are supposed to be the stuff of conspiracy theories and fringe documentaries. And yet many high-ranking government officials believe some of the most explosive claims about UFOs to be true. How would this potential reality affect the conservative worldview?
On December 13, 2023 Majority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the Senate floor to deliver remarks which can only be described as incredible. He was speaking about his amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Remarkably, the subject of this amendment was not Ukraine or China, nor Russia or Iran, but rather UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or what used to be called UFOs). Schumer lamented that
The United States government has gathered a great deal of information about UAPs over many decades but has refused to share it with the American people. That is wrong and additionally breeds mistrust. We have also been notified by multiple credible sources that information on UAPs has also been withheld from Congress, which, if true, is a violation of laws requiring full notification to the legislative branch.
These claims—that the executive branch of the government has gathered a “great deal of information” about UAP over “decades” but has refused to share it with the public and has even violated the law by withholding information from congress—are quite simply extraordinary.
(Excerpt) Read more at theimaginativeconservative.org ...
You don’t not speak of yourself as a Christian ...and that qualifies you to know what a Christian is and isn’t?
So, for those on this thread who call themselves a Christian who don’t believe there are demons and devils...who was Christ talking to when he went into the wilderness for 40 days to fast and was said to have been tempted by the devil is said devil never existed?
What was Legion then who was driven out of a man and into pigs? Space Aliens?
You can not call yourselves Christians and deny the central reason why Jesus died on the cross for us in the first place...so that we might not perish and be sent into the lake od Fire, the place “prepared for Satan and his Angels!”
You might as well say that Jesus did not rise again nor was Jesus ever God in flesh?
What parts do you take literally from the Bible and what parts don’t you?
I’m just not your type of Christian. Again, not every Christian takes everything in the Bible literally. I suspect there are many other Christians here who aren’t your type, too.
Yeah I’ve known freemasons and other sophist types that call themselves Christians that talk just like you, that liken small government fiscal conservatism as being next to godliness. Some just love the Jefferson Bible...all platitudes of Jesus but no miracles, many believing that all religions are paths to “god”.
We have the Holy Spirit by the cleansing means of the blood and resurrection that makes us new creatures, in us, or we don’t! It’s not the matter of being a “type’ of Christian. It is simply being given the power of BEING Christian, the power to become the children of God!
Oh my; is ‘Freemason’ now becoming another FR version of ‘Godwin’s Law’?
I’ll have to add it to the long list of others.
The sequel to When The Earth Stood Still would show how everyone went back to being an @$$hole within a week they left.
You can add “sophistry” to your Godwin’s list...
I looked at your home page...it was about what I had expected.
Paul’s treatise at Athens as written in Acts 17 shows he had people much like you in mind...
Acts 17:
22Then Paul stood in the midst of the [i]Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; 23for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription:
TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.
Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: 24God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26And He has made from one [j]blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ 29Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. 30Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
32And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.” 33So Paul departed from among them. 34However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
“In him we live and have our Being or as some of your poets have said...”We are his offspring”
This “Deity”(a word I saw used on your page) has appointed Jesus as the one we are to call on to be saved...and as Jesus himself says...In John 10
““Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” 6 Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.
7 Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. 8 All who ever came [a]before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. 9 I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
If you believe that God resurrected Jesus from the Grave then that is something of a good start...
But even the resurrected one says you have to enter in and leave out by the sheep gate, following the shepherd...
God leaves reminders of himself thru the whole universe. It is quite possible to gain a sense of light and wisdom by observing it and as Acts 17 asserts God wishes to be found. But you have to go thru Jesus Christ. That is what makes us Christian!
....but you can have the last word!
Have to create a new government agency...more government of/by/for the pee-pole you know.
The arrogance of some ‘religionists’ amuses me. Sometimes I’ve encountered proselytizers out in public. I try to tell them politely that I already have spiritual/religious beliefs, but thanks for stopping.
But they can’t just politely leave it at that. It seems imperative to them to engage me in a discussion, and to somehow prove that that their way is the only right way, and mine is wrong, I’m in danger of hellfire, etc.
I thank them again, and move on; and as I walk away I can’t help but think that they are not only arrogant, but very insecure.
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