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If Your Response To Tragedy Is To Mock God, Repent
The Federalist ^ | 28 August A.D. 2025 | Elle Purnell

Posted on 08/28/2025 3:46:49 PM PDT by lightman

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The anti-Christian left revealed its true ugliness yesterday.
1 posted on 08/28/2025 3:46:49 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

While thoughts and prayers are significant I also don’t think they are enough. The demonic trans cult needs to be shut down. Even Europe (once at the forefront of the trans cult movement) is dialing things back and taking a long look at their affirming policies. We are seeing similar inroads in the United States regarding national and state laws.

Minnesota IIRC is a trans-safe state, where even teenagers can come in from other states to “escape” their conservative rules and get affirming transgender treatment.


2 posted on 08/28/2025 3:53:18 PM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
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To: lightman

What does prayer have to do with not getting shot by a demon possessed shooter?


3 posted on 08/28/2025 3:55:34 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: 21twelve

What I find most notable about this is the dim record regarding crime in general of which we have decades and decades of. Like they are the ones who are going to prevent and reduce it. Yeah right.


4 posted on 08/28/2025 4:07:05 PM PDT by xp38
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To: lightman

“The anti-Christian left revealed its true ugliness yesterday.”

I’m almost 70 and I’ve always sensed and as I got older,
then known, that leftists were evil.
Funny thing is that of all religions only Christians are taught to Love your enemies.
That doesn’t mean you let your enemies butcher you.


5 posted on 08/28/2025 4:17:54 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: rellic

Aye, and many a first through fourth century Christian Martyr smashed the Idols-—directly leading to their receiving the Crown.


6 posted on 08/28/2025 4:31:13 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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Yup, continuing to reject God.

Doubling down on their eternal fate.

God WILL give them what they want, an eternity without Him. But I doubt they’ll like it very much.

Because in the end EVERY knee WILL bow, either willingly or unwillingly. He’s giving us the choice to do it willingly now.

Later is too late.


7 posted on 08/28/2025 4:52:08 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: lightman

Pray Without Cessing...
Is the Way.
.
Corrie Ten Boome said;
“There’s No Pit that God’s
Reach is Not Deeper”
.
Prayers are Mortal speech
Reaching for The Immortal.
.
We are in a Spiritual War.


8 posted on 08/28/2025 4:55:31 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: bray

The assumption is that the children were praying at the time. The Left is mocking prayer and God for allowing the kids to be shot.


9 posted on 08/28/2025 4:55:48 PM PDT by madison10 (There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.)
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To: lightman

“The anti-Christian left revealed its true ugliness yesterday.”

Is there any other kind of left? They believe that by adopting laws they can solve all problems and reach perfection. They are gods in their eyes.


10 posted on 08/28/2025 5:11:58 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: metmom

https://theadventusproject.wordpress.com/resources/sermons-and-devotions/on-the-two-comings-of-christ-cyril-of-jerusalem/

On the Two Comings of Christ*
Cyril of Jerusalem

We do not preach only one coming of Christ, but a second as well, much more glorious than the first. The first coming was marked by patience; the second will bring the crown of a divine kingdom.

In general, whatever relates to our Lord Jesus Christ has two aspects. There is a birth** from God before the ages, and a birth from a virgin at the fullness of time. There is a hidden coming, like that of rain on fleece, and a coming before all eyes, still in the future.

At the first coming he was wrapped in swaddling clothes in a manger. At his second coming he will be clothed in light as in a garment. In the first coming he endured the cross, despising the shame; in the second coming he will be in glory, escorted by an army of angels.

We look then beyond the first coming and await the second. At the first coming we said: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. At the second we shall say it again; we shall go out with the angels to meet the Lord and cry out in adoration: Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. The Savior will not come to be judged again, but to judge those by whom he was judged. At his own judgement he was silent; then he will address those who committed the outrages against him when they crucified him and will remind them: You did these things, and I was silent.

His first coming was to fulfil his plan of love, to teach men by gentle persuasion. This time, whether men like it or not, they will be subjects of his kingdom by necessity.

The prophet Malachi speaks of the two comings. And the Lord whom you seek will come suddenly to his temple: that is one coming. Again he says of another coming: Look, the Lord almighty will come, and who will endure the day of his entry, or who will stand in his sight? Because he comes like a refiner’s fire, a fuller’s herb, and he will sit refining and cleansing.

These two comings are also referred to by Paul in writing to Titus: The grace of God the Saviour has appeared to all men, instructing us to put aside impiety and worldly desires and live temperately, uprightly, and religiously in this present age, waiting for the joyful hope, the appearance of the glory of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Notice how he speaks of a first coming for which he gives thanks, and a second, the one we still await.

That is why the faith we profess has been handed on to you in these words: He ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end.

Our Lord Jesus Christ will therefore come from heaven. He will come at the end of the world, in glory, at the last day. For there will be an end to this world, and the created world will be made new.”

– The Catechism, circa AD 360.


11 posted on 08/28/2025 5:31:26 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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I'll say a prayer for you Mr. Psaki...


12 posted on 08/28/2025 5:44:34 PM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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White liberal ‘elites’ want ‘action’?

Fine. Here’s my thoughts and prayers...

Thought: when a trans goes nuts and wants to kill innocent children, they should consider killing the doctor who sexually mutilated them instead of killing innocent children. Would God condemn an innocent young victim who killed Joseph Mengele?

Of course NOT killing anyone is the best thought... not killing ‘the doctor’ included...

And my prayer? That before killing anyone, if the plan is to kill themselves AFTER the slaughter of innocents, my prayer is that the trans kills himself/herself FIRST - - BEFORE. NOT AFTER. Or better?

Better? Better that the trans seeks help before any deaths and evil and pain - that’s ‘thoughts and prayers’...
And other action? More security for Christian and Jewish schools...


13 posted on 08/28/2025 5:52:11 PM PDT by GOPJ (DEMOCRAT HELLHOLE CITIES HAD 60 YEARS TO DEAL WITH THEIR CRIMINAL PROBLEMS. Why didn't they?)
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To: lightman

Jen psaki


14 posted on 08/28/2025 5:56:10 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (DONT DRINK & DRONE 🤓 HAVE A NICE DAY 😀 GATORS WITH LAZERS)
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To: madison10

God does not control men who are evil. Man is completely evil as this kid proved.


15 posted on 08/28/2025 6:11:59 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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Agree. I was posting the mayor’s belief


16 posted on 08/28/2025 6:32:28 PM PDT by madison10 (There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.)
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To: lightman

Really.

What would happen if an angry relative of someone killed by one of these freaks were to hunt down and kill everyone who affirmed their pathology beginning with the parents, then move onto the doctors, counselors and politicians....


17 posted on 08/28/2025 7:35:49 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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Yep.


18 posted on 08/28/2025 8:47:57 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: metmom
Because in the end EVERY knee WILL bow, either willingly or unwillingly. He’s giving us the choice to do it willingly now.

AMEN.

19 posted on 08/28/2025 9:00:14 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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“The anti-Christian left revealed its true ugliness yesterday.”
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Perhaps, but the knee-jerk response of “thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families” is nothing more than a lazy canard. God gave us intelligence to use in solving human problems.

“Thoughts and prayers” is a big show of doing nothing.


20 posted on 08/28/2025 11:18:04 PM PDT by Bob Wills is still the king
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