JiminyCricket

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This pope aint too bright.

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The catholics don't seem to be too happy with our criticism of this pope brother. :lol:

This Pope is ate up with the Nirvana fallacy. Reminds me of a time when I had a discussion with a lefty and they claimed that humans beings are actually all inherently pretty good and evil is much more rare than we are led to believe. I laughed in his face.

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Dude would absolutely be hanging out with transgenders and immigrants if he were around today

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First off, Jesus transcends politics and it's a fool's errand to try to make him fit into a single political category. I noticed, however, that you convieniently left out the part of Jesus that also would call out those same people and call them to sin no more. Y'all make it out that Jesus was this softy that never stood on principle and frankly, if Jesus were here today and told people the truth about themselves, they'd hate and despise him and call him a bigot and a homophobe. Have you even tried to look at youtube videos of people preaching the gospel to the LGBTQ community recently? They absolutely HATE Jesus.

There was a time I probably would've but I got in a fight with a guy that had a knife one time when he played like he had been hit by a car. He was hunched over asking for help and when he was close enough to me, he threw a right hook and caught me under the eye. Luckily, I was able to eat it pretty well and throw shots back. I pretty much bailed when he started trying to pull his knife, which thank God got caught in his pants. Turns out he wanted to steal a car and had tried to steal someone else's earlier that night but she had her doors locked. Scariest thing that's ever happened to me.

Getting blown up is one thing. Burning cash like that day after day is going to be serious pressure.

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You're engaging a harder argument (copying El Salvador's policies specifically) by replacing it with a simpler one (undefined, hypothetical options)

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I dd nothing of the sort. I actually haven't made a prescriptive claim at all yet. I simply pointed out the flaw in your logic. Not sure how you could accuse me of that when I never actually made an argument, I only diagnosed yours.

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Yes if we become a totalitarian regime that ignores our basic rights, we can make our low crime rate even lower. We should shite on what it means to be American completely, however. It would also cost an absolutely unfathomable amount of public money to accomplish.

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That’s a false dilemma. There are absolutely ways to clean up our broken system that releases violent thugs back onto the streets over and over again without having to support totalitarianism. But I’m sure you know that.

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What's yall's go to seasoning blend? I've always liked the extra spicy zatarains personally.

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A fricking school shooting...

What a lovely date movie!!

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It's a dark comedy. It supposed to make you laugh but feel kinda bad about it. I thought it did a good job for what it set out to do.

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All of these cost next to nothing. You are paying for drums,geetars and them high-falutin headsets. Anyone who gives 10% in Baton Rouge doesn't recall the Swaggart years.

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That's not accurate and I know it's not accurate because I've seen the financials. They provide them to anyone who asks and also provide them at the budget meeting. Regarding the instruments, most of the musicians actually bring their own personal instruments to play on Sundays. What I do know about where the money has gone is hundreds of thousands to local mission partners that participate in rehabbing addicts, freeing those in sex trafficking, homeless outreach, etc. I've seen hundreds of thousands dispersed to out international mission partners in Central America & Haiti as well as domestically in places like Alaska, which has an unbelievable sexual abuse and rape issue. I've seen dozens and dozens of couples who have nursed their marriages back to health in part through professional counseling paid for by the church. I've seen electricity bills be paid. I've seen food drives and school supply drives multiple times a year. I've seen thousands of dollars worth of scholarships to pay for students to attend summer camps where many have been saved as a result. All in all, we have given away as a church more than 3 million dollars in the last 4 years and that doesn't account for the in-house sponsorships. By the way, we do all of this with only about 30% of people giving. 7/10 folks that attend don’t give a dime.



And frankly, that's what really ticks me off about all of this is there never seems to be a shortage of people who gripe about money around the church but VERY few even bother to show up to the budget meetings. Even fewer ever ask for an itemized report. People love seeing students get to go to camp, marriages restored, mission work done in our city............They just love letting others around them pay for it.