Posted on 10/11/2018 4:42:50 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
2 Thessalonians 3:10
Even when we were with you we were giving you this command: “If anyone doesn’t want to work, they shouldn’t eat.”
Would a Democrat Christian reject this verse? If so, how are they a Christian?
Depends upon what you mean by Christian. If you answer in the affirmative to the question “Can a Methodist or an Episcopalian be Christian?” then, certainly, a Democrat can be a Christian.
God knows. Glad it is not up to me.
Black Fundamentalists and Hispanic sixteenth century inquisitionist folk Catholics seem to think so.
He also gave us some good morsels of truth regarding how He knows:
Matthew 7:16-20
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
Only if they’re Catholic.
Romans 10:9-10 -
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Unfortunately “Christian” has become a pretty relative term too. And these days you can throw Baptists, and some “evangelicals” into that mix as well.
Somebody agrees with you! To #9
Meant #14
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Ephesians 4:28
He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
1 Thessalonians 4:11
and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,
NO!!
Can a Catholic be a Catholic under a Francis papacy?
Excellent question.
Not really. But here is a notable exception.
David Clark, former Milwaukee county sheriff won several terms as a Democrat because he wouldn’t stand a chance there as a Republican. He was a constitutionalist and conservative and the local media hates him with a passion. He was also a big Trump supporter early on.
In the USSR, work is a duty and a matter of honor for every able-bodied citizen, in accordance with the principle: “He who does not work, neither shall he eat.”So a Democrat would certainly continue to fool himself into thinking he is a practicing Christian on such a basis, while fighting God at the same time; after all, that scriptural principle is not being rejected per se. Same old doublethink, direct from the god of this world.
The principle applied in the USSR is that of socialism: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his work.”
A dem can consider themselves a Christian but that doesn’t mean they really are one.
We live in a world with fake news, fake accusations, and likely fake Christians. At least we have a real God and a real Satan. The proof is all around us of both.
In the 60’s militant leftists bombed police stations and government buildings. Today they wear masks and act like the South end of a North bound mule by attacking people. What’s old is new again. Nothing new under the sun. The faces change but the actions are washed, rinsed, and repeated in a similar if not exactly the same way. The human race doesn’t learn from its mistakes. Individuals do but not humanity in general.
This article got me to wondering something- How much money is there in the aborted baby chop-shop business? How many abortions does it take to buy a Lamborgini? Or how many Lamborginis does a baby’s organs buy? I searched for the answer to that question and I have excerpted part of an article from American Thinker below:
In one disturbing video and its appalling transcript, made by the non-profit group Center for Medical Progress, which describes itself as “dedicated to monitoring and reporting on medical ethics and advances,” it is made clear that the alleged noble crusade against unwanted children is a fraud, and that Planned Parenthood’s interest in abortion is a financial one and that human life is just a commodity to be bought and sold on the open market.
The video shows a doctor named Nucatola negotiating with two actors posing as agents of a fetal tissue procurement company and discussing the body parts of aborted babies as if she were a butcher at the local meat market. As Breitbart.com reports:
“We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part,” Nucatola coldly explains. “I’m gonna basically crush [the unborn child] below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact. ... And for that reason, most providers will do this case under ultrasound guidance, so they’ll know where they’re putting their forceps.”
Nucatola also goes into great detail to explain how Planned Parenthood is able to use its loose affiliates as a way to protect the parent company from potential legal fallout.
The video goes a long way to explain Planned Parenthood’s eternal devotion to legalizing late-term and partial-birth abortion.
Nucatola explains to the undercover reporters that the butchered body parts (hearts, livers, “lower extremities – probably for the muscle”) sell for $30 to $100 apiece.
Moreover, the more fully-formed the baby body parts, the more valuable those parts are.
Indeed, immature or improperly dismembered baby parts could dramatically impact Planned Parenthood’s and the abortion industry’s bottom line. The use of aborted fetuses and their tissues is justified by abortionists as the key to medical research, as using embryos for stem cell research was and is. Planned Parenthood’s operation strays perilously close to the territory of Dr. Joseph Mengele, the Nazi “doctor” who justified his ghastly practices in the name of research.
Planned Parenthood and its supporters got caught with their forceps down, so anything they can do to cloud the issue and cast doubt on the integrity of their accusers is in their interest. Planned Parenthood has already tried to discredit the videos by saying they were carefully edited and that the admissions of Planned Parenthood officials of conducting a for-profit baby body part flea market were taken out of context. It is hard to imagine in what “context” the discussion of the price of a fetal head versus the price of a new Lamborghini is okay. As LifeNews.com comments:
The video of the Houston Planned Parenthood makes it appear the Planned Parenthood abortion business may be selling the “fully intact” bodies of unborn babies purposefully born alive and left to die. The video shows the Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, advertising the Texas Planned Parenthood branch’s track record of fetal tissue sales, including its ability to deliver fully intact aborted babies[.] ...
Planned Parenthood could be breaking the federal law known as the Born Alive Infants Protection Act that requires abortion clinics, hospitals and other places that do abortions to provide appropriate medical care for a baby born alive after a failed abortion or purposefully birthed to “let die.” That would be one of the potential ways Planned Parenthood could produce a “fully intact” baby to sell to StemExpress for research. Most “crunchy” abortion methods would do damage to the baby’s body.
This is what our taxpayer dollars will continue to pay for – the death and dismemberment of human beings championed by those who worry about AR-15s killing children but not scalpels.
Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/03/funding_the_planned_parenthood_chop_shop.html
I invite anyone interested to search for this question - “How much money is there in the aborted baby chop-shop business?” I used Startpage, you might get entirely different results depending on your search engine.
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