7
   

What is Evangelism?

 
 
bulmabriefs144
 
  -1  
Reply Mon 21 Feb, 2022 11:35 pm
@izzythepush,
Yeah but if it's never been tested in practice, it's broken. This is why applied science is always better than pure theory.

Suppose I believe the Earth is round. As long as I don't explore anywhere, this remains a theory. However, if I chart a route from Argentina to Australia, I will quickly find out whether the Earth is flat or not, based on whether or not can cross over to the other side. Ditto for trying to dig to China.

(In fact, I checked. There are NO flights from Argentina to Australia)

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/816868397836926996/945546552452198431/unknown.png

This is consistent with what is mentioned here.

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zqNtaterql0/WkatvZAe8qI/AAAAAAAAA6U/J5_0p0089zo2e2Q_4wu1DXuOiBP9HUVXgCLcBGAs/s1600/antarctic-map.png

As long as I do not fly over the continent of Antarctica, I cannot verify that in fact it is not a Westeros-style wall
https://awoiaf.westeros.org/images/6/6b/The_wall_and_Castle_Black_by_Feliche.jpg
blocking all travel even from air because the Earth ends there. Or for that matter, part of a much larger Earth that is zoned off from the public.

So, GoFundMe time. Who will shell out millions so that I can fly straight over Antarctica and either make it to Australia, find a hidden zone, or suicide myself?
0 Replies
 
TheCobbler
 
  1  
Reply Thu 24 Feb, 2022 05:11 am
In my email today...

Under the subject heading

"Franklin Graham"

Dear Faithful America member,
It came as a big surprise this week when I learned: Franklin Graham blocked me on Facebook.
Perhaps it was something I said -- but while I'm sure I've posted critical comments on his page's posts before, I've certainly always tried to stay civil.
It's more likely that the ban was in retaliation for one of Faithful America's campaigns to hold Graham accountable -- whether for his anti-LGBTQ discrimination or his pro-Trump Christian nationalism.
Donate today to keep Faithful America's campaigns strong >>
When the evangelist Graham helped incite the January 6 attack by using religion to spread Trump's Big Lie about election results, more than 30,000 Faithful America members made international headlines calling for his removal as CEO of multiple charities.
Months later, thousands more Faithful America members reported Graham's anti-LGBTQ Facebook ads as hate speech.
Our campaigns to reclaim Christianity from the religious right for love and social justice are effective, and that scares the right. But what Graham doesn't understand is that Faithful America's strength isn't its staff. Faithful America's strength is you: the grassroots members who make this movement what it is.
Whether we're exposing Graham in the press, getting Tony Perkins and Jim Bakker removed from multiple TV networks, or assisting wrongfully detained migrants and fired LGBTQ Catholic teachers, when Faithful America members take action together, it makes a difference.
Unlike the religious right, Faithful America doesn't receive any money from big donors. Our entire budget is funded by individual grassroots members like you.
Graham isn't the only religious-right leader taking swipes at Faithful America. In the past year alone we've been targeted by the anti-LGBTQ hate group Family Research Council, the far-right Catholic League, and even the QAnon-embracing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
Twisting the Gospel and spreading misinformation in Jesus's name is key to the far right's success. That's why Faithful America, the largest online community of Christians acting for social justice, makes right-wing preachers and politicians so angry -- and why it's imperative we don't let up now.
• Prepare an aggressive plan to challenge white Christian nationalism. We're staffing up, reaching out to new partners, and deepening our strategic research in order to keep reducing the power of the religious right.
• Spread the word that being Christian doesn't have to equal being right-wing. Faithful America is making great progress with recent stories in outlets like Newsweek, the National Catholic Reporter, and the Associated Press -- but it's vital we keep putting our message in front of more Christians, voters, lawmakers, and reporters.
• Organize Christians for love, dignity, and social justice. We're adding our grassroots strength to the policy expertise of our coalition allies, pushing the Biden administration to accept its progressive mandate on LGBTQ equality, COVID-19, immigration, climate change, voting rights, and more.
• Reinforce our technical and legal systems to defend Faithful America from far-right attacks. In addition to hit pieces from Perkins' Family Research Council and Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting News, we've even had to face lawsuit threats from anti-vaccine evangelical pastors -- and we know even more of these attacks are coming.
Are you as tired as we are of seeing Christianity hijacked by Graham, Trump, Capitol rioters, and the right wing?
Thanks for everything you do to love your neighbor and reclaim the Gospel!
In peace,
The Rev. Nathan Empsall
Executive Director, Faithful America
bulmabriefs144
 
  0  
Reply Thu 24 Feb, 2022 08:11 am
@TheCobbler,
More of this bullshit.

"Helped incite the January 6 attack"

Conservatives didn't realize initially why liberals kept calling random people "traitors" for their involvement (or supposed involvement) in this event

Okay, first of all, nobody "helped incite the attack". The guy had just been elected, and it seemed unfair, and either it was a grassroots internet-inspired protest (I highly doubt that) where everyone got swept up in things, or more likely it was complete false flag bullshit so Biden could justify a fence and troops near the White House. I highly suspect the latter.

Second of all, the reason the word "traitor" keeps being invoked is by smearing people and declaring their involvement in this event (I wasn't involved, nobody I know was involved, so I don't really know whether it was a false flag or just something out of control; I asked the internet, "It's not like it was a false flag or anything!" It gave me a very biased denial, so yeah) , is to invoke the 14th Amendment clause against treason and attempt to bar legitimate candidates fron office. This happened with a North Carolina candidate.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/madison-cawthorn-tells-tucker-carlson-an-effort-to-keep-him-off-the-ballot-is-very-close-to-succeeding/
Over his "alleged" involvement, they're trying to ban him from the ballot. That's right, he doesn't even have to be involved, just loudly accuse him of being a traitor. Allege that he had something to do with this.

The 14th Amendment was not properly ratified. It was introduced under duress, in fact unlawfully stripping several states voting rights until they accepted it. In other words, they broke the rules and forced an unlawful Amendment through purely through coercion. A law defeated by several states, but because those states didn't count, they declare it ratified. From start to finish, the 14th Amendment itself is treason. Allowing anchor babies to be citizens? Stifling proper opposition to tyranny by saying traitors don't get rights? Sorry but citizens of this country, unless they run afoul of real treason (like selling Uranium to to Ukraine or Russia) not "treason" (talking to the leader of Russia) are citizens of this country. What about offering illegal aliens legal protection? Everything about this "Amendment" has been abused.
But if anyone questions it, they point out that because it technically gives slaves citizenship, questioning it is racist.
http://www.sweetliberty.org/fourteenth.amend.htm
No, it legit wasn't valid.
Quote:
Article 1, Section 3. "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State"

Article V provides: "No State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate."

The fact that twenty-three (23) Senators had been unlawfully excluded from the U.S. Senate, in order to secure a two-thirds vote for adoption of the Joint Resolution proposing the 14th Amendment is shown by Resolutions of protest adopted by the following state legislatures:

(And they show several states writing letters of protest)

Third of all, everything that Biden (and his oligarch globalist handlers) have done since this election has been treason. Treason! Treason!!! From his using COVID as a tool to attack small businesses. Economic abuse of private citizens is an attack on American prosperity, which is by definition treason. We have no duty to other countries, only our own. So it's treason to open our borders even for humanitarian reasons, and his reasons have clearly nothing to do with humanitarianism, and everything to do with destabilizing our great country. Trump is a patriot. These people are traitors. And it's treason to cut off our energy pipeline, and to disrupt the supply chain (if there were no mask or vaccine mandates, truckers would truck, he tried to do the same thing that Trudeau is doubling down on), and it's treason to try to push a spending bill that will impoverish most of the country just so you can be woke. All of this should strip him of power right where he stands, but he also has a treasonous media helping to call those who are actually patriots for standing against him when he is all too clearly invested against the interests of the US "traitors" simply because they oppose a (supposedly) elected president. No, 14th Amendment, even if it were valid, is not a weapon against questioning the leader. If that were so, then the Bill of Rights has been suspended, because we do have the right to ask the government to address grievances. The 14th Amendment is about treason, not opposition of the president. If it is believed that the president was not duly elected, the standing president has the right to protest the election. This is part of the Constitution. Biden since his "election" has not only behaved as a dictator, but actively opposed the sovereignty and military power of his own country. And let's talk about the criminal neglect in Afghanistan.

Okay, you want to use that against people? Well everything done against this country is treason, so there is a laundry list of liberal crimes.
Frank Apisa
 
  4  
Reply Thu 24 Feb, 2022 08:33 am
@bulmabriefs144,
bulmabriefs144 wrote:

More of this bullshit.


Gotta take this opportunity to agree with you here, Bulma. The opportunity does not present itself all that often...just about never, in fact.

But you were right on the button here. You did post more of the bullshit you have been posting right along.

Glad you finally realized...and acknowledged...it.

bulmabriefs144
 
  -1  
Reply Thu 24 Feb, 2022 08:58 am
@Frank Apisa,
You keep using ths word "bullshit."

http://www.thereturnedmissionary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Inigo-Montoya-WORD-MEANS.jpg

I think the word you're looking for is "the truth."
Frank Apisa
 
  3  
Reply Thu 24 Feb, 2022 11:51 am
@bulmabriefs144,
bulmabriefs144 wrote:

You keep using ths word "bullshit."

http://www.thereturnedmissionary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Inigo-Montoya-WORD-MEANS.jpg

I think the word you're looking for is "the truth."


The word means exactly what I think it means, Bulma. And it is the word that best describes most of your posts.

To use the words "the truth" for what you write would be ludicrous.
0 Replies
 
TheCobbler
 
  2  
Reply Thu 24 Feb, 2022 12:10 pm
He had a 'sinus infection,' but didn't need meds because Dr. Jesus was his doctor
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/2/19/1446894/-He-had-a-sinus-infection-but-didn-t-need-meds-because-Dr-Jesus-was-his-doctor

Yet again, 1 less republican voter.
izzythepush
 
  2  
Reply Thu 24 Feb, 2022 12:13 pm
@TheCobbler,
Good old Jesus.
0 Replies
 
bulmabriefs144
 
  -1  
Reply Thu 24 Feb, 2022 06:25 pm
@TheCobbler,
https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1343632886540013570/xlarge/

Hrmmmm.

https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1343630272003837967/xlarge/

Hrrrrrmmmmmmm.
TheCobbler
 
  1  
Reply Sun 27 Feb, 2022 07:06 am


This makes televangelism seem almost sane and rational.

Yes, I am definitely antigovernment, I am against any government these people are attempting to form... Vehemently antigovernment.

This is me praying these people are never elected into public office.

http://littlevillagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/patrobertson.jpg
TheCobbler
 
  2  
Reply Sun 27 Feb, 2022 07:09 am
@bulmabriefs144,
You do know the word, "gullible" is not in Google search don't you?
TheCobbler
 
  3  
Reply Sun 27 Feb, 2022 12:13 pm
Sen. Mitt Romney Slams GOP 'Morons' At 'Evil' White Nationalist Conference
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitt-romney-marjorie-taylor-greene-paul-gosar-white-nationalist_n_621b9726e4b0afc668c1d5f4

"Morons" on his team...

Deluded morons...
0 Replies
 
bulmabriefs144
 
  -1  
Reply Sun 27 Feb, 2022 10:22 pm
@TheCobbler,
It's not?!?

:goes to look it up:

You didn't seriously expect me to do that, did you?

Says people persuaded that a disease with no symptoms is "asymptomatic" instead of "not a thing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Un2WAq9_Pm8
0 Replies
 
bulmabriefs144
 
  0  
Reply Sun 27 Feb, 2022 10:43 pm
@TheCobbler,
Stop lying. You're pro-government.

I'm anti-government. I only vote for someone if I'm sure it will screw over existing establishment.
TheCobbler
 
  4  
Reply Mon 28 Feb, 2022 04:44 pm
@bulmabriefs144,
I am pro democracy and you are anti democracy and pro lunacy.

I am anti GOP government. Anti Trump, Putin, dictator and monarchy.

And I am also anti free press when certain parts of the free press are divisive and lying to try and bring about a Christian theocracy that I am also vehemently against. They don't really want anything Christian they are just using religion to gain power.

The press must have some ethical legitimacy in order to qualify as "free".

I am pro free speech as long as it is not slander and hate speech which is also not "free speech".

And, you are the one who lies constantly whether it be conscious or unconscious the end result is you spreading lies. Religious lies, political lies and I bet you even lie to your grandmother...

That is because you don't think... You are lazy and let others think for you. You just parrot what they say like a trained dog doing tricks.

Less intelligent than a dog.
Leadfoot
 
  -1  
Reply Mon 28 Feb, 2022 05:22 pm
@TheCobbler,
Oh ****.

I thought '1984' was a work of fiction.
And here it is.

War is Peace. Freedom is what the Cobbler says it should be.

bulmabriefs144
 
  -1  
Reply Tue 1 Mar, 2022 07:18 am
@Leadfoot,
Hahahaha!!!

I have a commercial around where we live, about beds or hammocks or something. It tells us something like, "Here in America we value freedom. We work hard, we play hard, and we've always been able to adapt to tough situations. So we know to stay indoors and stay safe. Happy (President's Day/4th of July/Memorial Day) everyone! And remember we're offering deep discounts on hammocks because it's the patriotic thing to do..." (paraphrase)

So ummm somewhere in this talk of freedom, she advised everyone to kinda willingly go into house arrest. I pointed out this commercial to my dad, who usually tunes out stuff, and he started breaking into laughter.
0 Replies
 
bulmabriefs144
 
  -1  
Reply Fri 4 Mar, 2022 11:26 am
@TheCobbler,
You are also pro-elitism. And anti-equality.

https://spectatorworld.com/topic/mask-caste-new-york/
https://brownstone.org/articles/a-caste-system-threatens-the-west/

The mask/vaccine system is a caste system. Those among the elite don't need no stinking papers. And don't need to cover our faces like goons. The help don't get to talk, or question, or reason like civilized people. They are second-class.

https://3tu97y2w9w35k69i31phftc4-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GettyImages-1340165811-730x475.jpg

They are dogs,
https://www.labradortraininghq.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Four-Paws-Walk-About-Quick-Fit-Dog-Muzzle.jpg
criminals,
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/102/314403741_d6e118b398_z.jpg?zz=1
and ultimately slaves. This is a caste system.
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MGkhb-VnrqU/VfUB77fDbzI/AAAAAAAAACM/cQgrRALPGbs/s1600/caste-system-3.jpg
And everyone not twiceborn gets to deal with the rules.

0 Replies
 
TheCobbler
 
  2  
Reply Mon 7 Mar, 2022 07:49 am
Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 6 Million As Pandemic Enters Its 3rd Year
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coronavirus-pandemic-death-toll_n_6225a890e4b042f866f0238f

And none of these deaths were necessary if they had just not gone out and ridden their motorcycles! (cynical)
Leadfoot
 
  -1  
Reply Mon 7 Mar, 2022 11:54 am
@TheCobbler,
It’s become a disease like all the others, only difference being probably 'man made'.
You will die of at least one of them.
It’s called 'being human'.
Get over it.

(Not cynical)

 

Related Topics

 
  1. Forums
  2. » What is Evangelism?
  3. » Page 78
Copyright © 2024 MadLab, LLC :: Terms of Service :: Privacy Policy :: Page generated in 0.52 seconds on 11/27/2024 at 01:31:28