Posted on 07/29/2021 8:17:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Ronald Reagan liked to tell stories. As president he told one to a convention of Protestant ministers, about a preacher and a politician who died on the same day and were greeted by St. Peter at the gates of heaven. Peter explained heaven's rules and escorted the newcomers to the homes they would occupy for all eternity. The preacher's proved to be a single room with a bed, table and chair. The politician's was a huge mansion with handsome furnishings. The politician was grateful but puzzled. "How do I deserve this grand place while that good man of the cloth has to live in a single room?" he asked. Peter replied, "Here in heaven we have plenty of preachers. You're the first politician to get in."
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We are not. The America of our youth is gone. Parasites are in its place, eating it alive, destroying all that was good and replacing it with rot - liberalism.
You’re nothing but a quitter.
Yep... and when you get sideways with the federal government on some technical bulls-—t, you get to pay for your own attorney while your taxes and fees pay for the ones doing a number on your livelihood... Pretty certain it wasn’t supposed to be like THIS.
“They were unable to create or to introduce the spirit and the sense which give it life.”
Exactly right. Our system can only work if people follow the law and abide by the guidlines laid down by our Founders.
If people who refuse to abide by our laws and get a free pass from the authorities they will become more and more violent.
Someone or some group needs to take a stand if the authorities now in charge refuse. It may take a few violent acts to send a wake up call to the thugs that their activity will no longer be accepted.
“Here in heaven we have plenty of preachers.”
“His story remains true...”
His story is likely no longer true even if it was true at the time, or was true at a certain point in time.
Presuming (please do not attack, it’s only a stated presumption) Catholic priests are the only ones capable of preaching properly and effectively leading souls more or less directly to heaven, the majority of such poor shepherds (hirelings, really) are certainly failing in this endeavor and are thus likely falling into perdition like snowflakes along with the millions of sheep they have served so poorly.
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