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Here’s the question : what kind of lives do most of the bottom earning 10% of Americans live?

Are their basic necessities — food, clothing, shelter, transportation, potable water, electricity, etc. being met or not?

I’m astronomically poorer than Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, but ALL of my basic necessities are being met in this country.

If the answer to the question is YES for the vast majority, why is that a bad thing? How is this situation compared to the bottom earning 10% in this Nobel Prize winner’s and other countries?

RE: ...you probably took the jab and multiple boosters.

You’re not a very good guesser.

I don’t know about “most people”. Unless you can show me a scientific survey of Evangelicals who say they believe this, your statement is anecdotal.

But be that as it may, I don’t see the relationship between this particular belief in the rapture and the left wing drift mentioned in this article. People can be wrong about eschatology without compromising their moral stance.

Teachings about abortion, homosexuality and gender identity ( all left wing issues ) are clear enough in the Bible without having to refer to eschatological differences.

Let’s take one of the articles you posted entitled:

Paul Didn’t believe in the Rapture. Neither did Jesus, Neither Should You.

[EXCERPT FROM THAT ARTICLE]

Paul does certainly believe that Christ will return. But as we see in other Pauline passages, including this one, Christ will return to render resurrection to humankind (of which Jesus is the first). Pulling other passages in Paul together the picture of what God will do when Christ comes back is more profound than escaping this planet.

God’s goal in Christ is to resurrect, purge, heal, and establish the eternal kingdom of God on this earth. Heaven and earth will unite like a bride and husband – for all eternity. That’s it.

[END EXCERPT]

I don’t see how ANY Christian ( Evangelicals included) disagree with this eventual state. The disagreement has always been THE TIMING of when this will occur or whether or not certain events must take place before this ultimate state will be established.

At any rate, I fail to see how SPECIFIC disagreements regarding this partIcular eschatological issue relates to the left wing drift of certain Evangelicals ( the topic of this thread). Maybe you can explain how they relate…

In your original post, you did not specify pre, mid or post tribulation rapture.

You simply used the word “rapture” as if believing in it were unbiblical.

Christians who believe the Bible ALL believe the rapture will occur someday as taught clearly in scripture.

The disagreement has always been WHEN ( the timing ) it will occur, NOT whether or not it will occur.

RE: The Evangelical movement was always attached to that non-biblical “rapture” nonsense

I find it bizarre ( unless you are a non-believer ) that you would call belief in the rapture non-biblical when the BIBLE itself clearly teaches it.

See : 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

It is CLEARLY BIBLICAL.

Is Gloria Allred in the picture anywhere?

The New York Post has a terrific editorial calling out Columbia for the incredible damage it has inflicted on the nation without any acknowledgment, much less apology or restitution.

See here :

https://nypost.com/2023/09/17/columbia-quietly-closes-down-teachers-college-project-that-ruined-countless-lives/

[EXCERPT]

Columbia University is trying to quietly walk away from a disaster it imposed on generations of American children.

The least we can do is call out the damage done.

Just before the Labor Day weekend, Columbia announcedthat it’s “dissolving” the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and sending its creator, Lucy Calkins, off on indefinite sabbatical.

For decades, Calkins and her colleagues pushed “literacy” programs based on ideology, not science; programs failed the children who most needed help.

Her “balanced literacy” approach gave short shrift to phonics — by teaching children to look at pictures and guess words, for example, instead of sounding them out — and failed to foster the building of knowledge and vocabulary vital to learning the love of reading.

RE: That information has been posted many times.

No it hasn’t. I’ve asked my question several times but I have thus far, gotten no response.

RE: The definition was a child born to an American citizen father

Ok, let me repost my question, maybe you can show me this time and I will hold my peace — can you show me a reliable link that shows that Vivek’s father was NOT an American citizen at the time of his birth?

RE: Vivek is not a natural born citizen

Can you provide us with a reliable link to this information? Thanks.

RE: When Kennedy’s security wanted to turn the guy and the case over to the FBI, the Bureau declined to take the case.

What??? That’s suspicious right there!

Where was this reported?

You don’t need to apologize.

I used the words “he’s not perfect” in response to those posters who instinctively want to defend everything Trump says even when he’s obviously wrong, and then on that basis, say I suffer from TDS or am a never Trumper.

Pointing out someone’s mistake does not necessarily mean one is against that person. In my case, it means there is always room for that person to IMPROVE.

RE: Sounds like Matt Margolis is coming down with a case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

How is a little criticism of Trump TDS? is Trump so perfect that pointing out a mistake he made now equivalent to being deranged?

RE: if you can not comprehend what you read, why are you here?

I’m here ( for decades) because like you, I have the right to voice my opinion. What’s wrong with my comprehension when I read that he referred to MEN like Bruce Jenner with female pronouns?

RE: Go back to your TV news

PJ Media is NOT your run of the mill TV News. I have nothing to go back to.

RE: Uh no, I think Trump was pretty clear. 🙄

Then call Bruce Jenner by his correct pronoun : HE.

RE: if you are as solid a Trump voter as you say you are,

I don’t need you to tell me how I voted in the past two Presidential elections. I know what I did.

RE: and truly want him to win, then stop letting yourself be used as a tool of his enemies - by repeating their straw-man narratives.

What I said his TRUE as far as his use of pronouns for men like Bruce Jenner and it is NOT a straw man. And his winning or losing is NOT contingent on a little mistake like this. It will be based on how much CHEATING there will be in 2024 as in 2020

RE: It’s fun to lance you pustulent twerps every now and then.

And it’s fun to annoy easily annoyed twerps like you 🤣😂

RE: You anti Trump ankle biters are annoying

You people WHO THINK that the mere act of posting an article unflattering to Trump makes one an ankle biter are annoying