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It looks like John Kerry is considering running for president in 2028. It could be him, AlGore, and Hillary all running against each other. It would make for an interesting and terrifying primary!

Well, this is the best explanation I have heard for why Benjamin Netanyahu decided three weeks ago last Thursday that Israel couldn't wait another minute to attack Iran despite him later admitting that they were still 13 months away from developing a nuclear weapon.

Twenty years ago I would have responded to this story with a "There is no way that could be true!". Now however, my response is more of a "Yeah, that sounds about right."

Thank you for the excellent summary!

I hope this war helps Benjamin Netanyahu get a delay with his trial. Apparently he had tummy ache today and had to get a continuance.

Sure, let’s make America into Canada. All right or left issues would be watered down into a permanent bureaucratic middle-ground where the deep state picks and chooses our leaders. Taking governmental advice from a bitter South African who didn’t get his company’s tax credits isn’t going to end well.

You have posted five times to me on this thread in reply to only two posts. Your bigoted and disjointed ramblings are offensive and disruptive. As I have told you in the past, do not post to me.

As I wrote earlier, with a few exceptions it was the early councils of the Catholic Church which codified what books were included in the Bible that the Protestants now use. Then and now, other sects of Jews and other religions omit and add other books at their whim. The bible that Protestants revere so highly was bestowed on them by the same Catholic Church they all so diabolically hate.

Whatever credibility you have had just went out the window with that statement.

Not that you ever had any credibility on an anonymous discussion forum, but your comment adds nothing to the conversation and undermines your own credibility.

You do realize the ECFs are not in 100% agreement with Roman Catholicism on key issues like the Immaculate Conception, the Real Presence, etc.....you do know this right?? Or are you just parroting failed talking points from Catholic Answers.

Certainly many people within the Catholic Church, then and now, disagree over certain issues. This is how theology and Church teaching develop. However, unless a doctrine has previously been established that a validly baptized person knowingly disagrees with, they are welcome inside the Catholic Church.

(If Scripture were able to be easily and unambiguously interpreted, there wouldn't be 30,000 different Protestant denominations.) Dude....now you just embarrassing yourself with the so often debunked ridiculous claim.

As I wrote earlier, how many Protestant denominations are there? There certainly isn't just one Protestant church, and there could even be more than 30,000 different Protestant professions. In fact, your particular Protestant denomination likely has more in common with the Catholic Church than it does many of the other Protestant denominations that are out there. Being divorced from the church Christ Himself started and the first 1,500 years of the continuous living tradition of that Church, anyone can start any Protestant denomination with any wacky beliefs they want. It's always funny (and a little sad) to see Protestants stick up so valiantly for each other to attack the Catholic Church when they often have more in common with the Catholic Church than with each other. They only thing they all seem to share is hatred for the Church Christ founded.

Catholics certainly respect scripture, but we also have the traditions which have been continuously passed down by the Jews and through the 2,000 years of Christianity to better interpret and live them. The Protestant reformers largely truncated all that and were left with just the Bible to start their own new practices base entirely upon their novel and disparate interpretations.

And no they cannot take credit for Scripture. Scripture came through the Jews with the possible exception of Luke.

With a few exceptions, it was the early councils of the Catholic Church which codified what books were included in the Bible that the Protestants now use. Then and now, other sects of Jews and other religions omit and add other books at their whim. The bible that Protestants revere so highly was bestowed on them by the same Catholic Church they all so diabolically hate.

(If Scripture were able to be easily and unambiguously interpreted, there wouldn't be 30,000 different Protestant denominations.) Another thoroughly debunked claim that Catholics won't admit to.

OK, how many are there? There certainly isn't just one Protestant church, and there could even be more than 30,000 different Protestant professions. In fact, your particular Protestant denomination likely has more in common with the Catholic Church than it does many of the other Protestant denominations that are out there. Being divorced from the church Christ Himself started and the first 1,500 years of the continuous living tradition of that Church, anyone can start any Protestant denomination with any wacky beliefs they want. It's always funny (and a little sad) to see Protestants stick up so valiantly for each other to attack the Catholic Church when they often have more in common with the Catholic Church than with each other. They only thing they all seem to share is hatred for the Church Christ founded.

(Those traditions, practices, and customs continue uninterrupted from the life of Jesus.) Prove it, using something more than Catholic say so. Because otherwise, it's just a baseless claim that they're from Jesus' time.

Unlike the Protestant reformers who threw away everything they didn't like or found inconvenient, the Catholic Church has had largely the same structure for 1,500 years. Although it has grown and evolved over the centuries, there has never been a sharp break in its continuity like all of the Protestant denominations chose to make.

That proves nothing as wherever God works Satan is close behind with error and longevity does not equal guaranteed freedom from error.

Great point! Jesus Christ Himself said that He will build His Church, and that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. When exactly do you think that the Devil overcome Jesus's promise? Was there some kind of gap before he created your particular denomination? Was Jesus wrong?

What? Like the opinions of the clergy from a homosexual infested, pedophile laden marxist organization????

Of the twelve disciples Jesus Himself chose to start start His Church, ten fled at the first sign of trouble and one sold him out for money! I think that ratio has largely stayed the same throughout the ages. The graces in the Catholic Church don't come from the men inside and out that work so diligently to corrupt it, but instead from Jesus Christ Himself through the sacraments He instituted.

Still waiting for your response to the second and third points in post #113. You completely ignore how Jewish people then and now refer to God, as well as how Christians do then and now. Please don't respond to me until you respond to this. Everything else you have posted here is off-topic to this thread.

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Comey should not be convicted for attempted murder, he should be convicted of sedition and treason (and then hung).

That's an interesting opinion considering that the Catholic Church, under the Holy Spirit, vetted, compiled, and promulgated everything the Protestant denominations call Scripture.

What's to *interpret* when you go to the Greek and can get the direct translation of the Greek word.

If Scripture were able to be easily and unambiguously interpreted, there wouldn't be 30,000 different Protestant denominations.

Catholics hang so much on tradition, custom, practice, etc.

Those traditions, practices, and customs continue uninterrupted from the life of Jesus. Protestants have cut themselves off from that and rely on nothing more than their own faulty and conflicting interpretations.

It's especially ludicrous when so much of it is based on speculation of what people said, did, and meant instead of the unchanging fact of the inspired Word of God.

Christ didn't write a book like Mohammad did, he built an organization. The Bible, was produced as an output of His Church. Protestants tend to treat the Bible the same way Muslims treat the Koran, and go equally far astray.

So you'd rather depend on the opinion pieces of self-proclaimed *experts* because they declare themselves qualified to *properly* "interpret" Scripture?

Many of these "self-proclaimed experts" were the early Church fathers who lived concurrently with or shortly after when the New Testament was written. You would be far better off to trust their contemporaneous and far more qualified interpretations than a bunch of Protestants who cut themselves off from the organization Christ started and can't even agree on any aspect of His teaching.

So words in the bible are only synonyms when Protestants declare them to be so, and not when Protestants conveniently define them not to be. Got it. I have always found it to be funny how people who claim to believe in scripture alone go to such absurd lengths to justify their distorted interpretations of scripture rather than simply accept what the people who qualified and compiled the bible had to say about it.

By the way, you also neglected to respond to the second and third points in post #113. You completely ignore how Jewish people then and now refer to God, as well as how Christians do then and now. We'll see if you also end up refuting yourself with that too.

And yet it was your post that nit-picked the difference between the interchangeable uses of God and Lord...

Your statement doesn't in any way refute Campion's point. First, do you really think that Elizabeth and Mary were speaking Greek? You are now dealing with a translation of a translation with at least three different languages. Second, the words may be different, but they both can be used address God. Jews, then and now, often avoid invoking the name God in any language. Third, we do the same thing. Christians generally don't say Our God Jesus Christ. Instead, we say Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Banks generally won't negotiate on a sub-rate mortgage unless they are still holding the note. This is rare for conforming mortgages which are usually sold off by the bank days after the closing.

One of my occasional criticisms of the Ramseys...advising people to pay off their mortgage early.

In Dave Ramsey's defense, paying off a mortgage early is only recommended once all other debts are paid off and saving for retirement and child educations is well under way (Baby Step 6 of 7). However, Dave Ramsey was a realtor and this seems to occasionally cloud some of his otherwise good advice.

Muni’s can be excellent investments. However, for those who wouldn’t benefit from the deductions, there are many types of government agency bonds. Some of these carry the full faith and credit of the federal government. Many have been around six percent lately.

Your bank thanks you for getting them out of a bad investment and taking the loss for them. However, they won't return the favor if the situation is ever reversed.

It would be foolish to pay off a 3% fixed rate mortgage early instead of using that money to buy the 5.9% government bonds available right now. This woman is an idiot or a fraudster. Only the banks are better off whem these below market rate loans are paid off early.

This is a blog by the author and shouldn’t be in the religion forum.

Of the twelve disciples that Jesus Himself chose, ten completely abandoned him the first real moment they were in danger and another one outright sold him out for money! I think that ratio of good-versus-bad clergy has remained about the same for the last 2,000 years. Man has been corrupted by original sin, and anything run by man will share in his corruption. Frankly, I would be more concerned about a religion without any corruption. Why would Satan be giving them a "pass"? Satan has always hated the Church that Christ founded.