Donald Trump is the most unpopular 100-day-mark president in modern American history.
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
Worry is a conversation
you have with yourself
about things you cannot change.
Prayer is a conversation
you have with God
about things He can change.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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I think about this question a lot:
If I were the only picture my kids had of what it was like to follow Jesus, what would they learn?
Could I say to them, follow me as I follow Christ? (see 1 Cor. 11:1)
It’s a sobering yet simplified guide for living.
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Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.
Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.
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Remember, Trump is calculating with a manipulative shrewdness. He did the pope pic to turn the media attention away from all the bad polls around his 100 day failure. He wants to turn us away from the terrible things in his budget. Trump’s position & Vance’s policies are diametrically opposed to Catholic social teaching, to Scripture, & to Jesus.
To media: don’t spend time on the pic. Religious leaders: don’t let interviews be about the pic. Pivot back to how his budget wil be deadly, destructiv…
sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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Meanwhile over here in Australia, you know, that big ole country down under…hello anyone? Can you hear us?
We, the Australian people, elected a Labor government for the second term yesterday.
This is BIG news!
It was a landslide vote against an increasingly scary, far-right Liberal party. A party that was set to act from Trumps playbook.
We said NO! We voted for us. And we voted for you too America. You’re welcome.
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I've often wondered why I and some others saw through all the BS but others did not.
Looking back to my childhood, I was never part of the 'cool kids' group and never really cared about that. I had friends and was fairly happy.
I think this made a difference. People like me sort of became immune to 'group think' and go-along-to-get-along.
I also think that having a strong faith life makes a huge difference.
I have been searching for some common thread among those who resisted, and haven't been able to find a single one. I believe that faith helps, but our denomination refused to support religious exemptions, and all my friends from church posted their vaccine cards to Facebook. The out-of-step culturally didn't do all that well, either. I got a lot of *tolerance* out of my community, genuinely, but we still referred to ourselves as the danger-kittens because everyone we knew thought we were crazy.
I appreciate your reply and all those below. I suppose it remains a mystery to a large extent. I agree with you regarding faith: my faith really did help me stay resolute (at one point I questioned my refusal) but most of the people at the 2 churches I attend took the juice and were so proud of it.
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