Clark Tucker @Astroranger

"I'm only doing this for one term. I am not a politician. I did not ever want to be a politician. I'm doing this because we need to do something now. We can't survive 32 more months of what we've seen for the past 16, full stop."

@CricketSurfing Govts don’t print money. They buy things. They pay existing market prices. Start again.

The polite term for this is “learned helplessness”. Most people would say utter (insert suitable expletive here) stupidity. The UK is a currency issuer. It can never run out of £ or go bust. Ever. It doesn’t need a IMF loan! Why not—see below. 👇

Ashley Osborne | PRSim | AngelBrics | LEXIT 🇦🇺 @proptechpioneer

17 hours ago

I think the economic situation in the UK is far worse than ppl think. #CostOfLivingCrisis #UKRecession

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Private Carlton Barrett was possibly the smallest man in his regiment. 5 feet 4 inches tall. 125 pounds. On the morning of June 6, 1944, he landed at Omaha Beach in neck-deep water, machine gun fire cutting the surface all around him. He made it to shore. Then he turned around and went back in. A soldier was drowning. Barrett pulled him out. Then another. Then another. For hours, under constant fire, this 125-pound man waded back into the surf again and again, pulling drowning men to safety and physically carrying the wounded to evacuation boats offshore. But he didn't stop there. He ran dispatches the full length of the fire-swept beach. He found soldiers paralyzed by shock and calmed them back into action. He appeared wherever the crisis was worst, doing whatever needed doing, treating rank and personal safety as irrelevant details. He did this for hours without stopping. His Medal of Honor citation says his courage had "an inestimable effect on his comrades." That is military understatement for: this small, anonymous man held that section of beach together through sheer force of will. He survived the war. His comrades later said his life darkened after he came home. He lived quietly and died in 1986 in California, largely unknown outside of military history circles. 5 feet 4 inches. 125 pounds. He went back in. Remember him.

26 year olds today: "my anxiety is high, I am overwhelmed by my email job" 26 year olds in 1944:

“If it has been demonstrated that I have been willing to die for a ‘Mormon,’ I am bold to declare before Heaven that I am just as ready to die in defending the rights of a Presbyterian, a Baptist, or a good man of any other denomination; for the same principle which would trample upon the rights of the Latter-day Saints would trample upon the rights of the Roman Catholics, or of any other denomination who may be unpopular and too weak to defend themselves.” — Joseph Smith, July 9, 1843

Listen, it's fine if you, as an individual, don't think Mormons are Christian. Or if you don't think Catholics are Christians. Or Protestants. But the GOVERNMENT should not be deciding who is and isn't Christian and THAT is the problem with what the Pentagon did.

"Those who govern their thoughts and actions solely by the principles of liberalism or conservatism or intellectualism cannot be expected to agree with all of the teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As for me, I find some wisdom in liberalism, some wisdom in conservatism, and much truth in intellectualism—but I find no salvation in any of them.” - @OaksDallinH

Infinitely interested in whether Jesus Christ considers me to be his follower and utterly uninterested in the opinions of anyone else on the matter.

I think it’s pretty clear that the religious right hates The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints more than the Left does. I wonder how far they want to take this thing against us. It’s making me reevaluate a whole lot of things.

Mike Lee is so close to figuring out why the government shouldn’t be weighing in on religion.

No tax imposed and collected by central government, whatever it is generated by, pays for anything. Taxes do not fund the UK gov. The only way the UK gov can spend is by money creation. Taxes just get deleted when returned to the issuer.

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

a day ago

Because that's not how tax works., .@Lord_Talbot64 Tax raised on cars doesn't have to be spent on roads, any more than tax raised on booze or tobacco has to be spent on pubs and smoking.

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This is exactly why we've warned for decades against mixing religion and government. Once the government decide which faiths count and which denominations are 'real' Christians, religious liberty is in trouble...

Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee

2 days ago

Can anyone tell me why The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was left out of the list of Christian churches?

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I’m off to my “non-Christian” church this morning to gather with other “non-Christians” while we take the Lord’s sacrament, bear our testimonies of His resurrection, and teach our kids about His infinite grace and atonement.

Your argument only works if you quietly smuggle the Nicene Creed into the definition of Christianity and then pretend you've proven something from the Bible. You say Latter-day Saints aren't Christian because they reject later creedal theology. Fine. Then stop pretending your standard is "the Bible." Your actual standard is fourth-century Greek metaphysics. Show me where the Bible teaches that God is "one being in three co-equal, co-eternal persons sharing one indivisible essence." Not a creed. Not a church council. A verse. You can't. You cite Deuteronomy 6:4 and Matthew 28:19, but neither passage teaches the Nicene doctrine of the Trinity. The Trinity is an inference constructed centuries later. Latter-day Saints reject that inference. That's not the same thing as rejecting Christ. You also claim Mormons believe in a "different Jesus." That's rhetoric, not an argument. Do Latter-day Saints believe Jesus is the divine Son of God? Yes. Do they believe He created the world? Yes. Do they believe He was born of Mary, performed miracles, atoned for sin, died on the cross, rose bodily from the dead, and will return in glory? Yes. Those are not minor details. Those are the central claims of Christianity. What you really mean is that Latter-day Saints reject later theological developments concerning the nature of God. That's a much narrower claim than "they worship a different Jesus." The "spirit brother of Lucifer" line is especially weak. It's usually deployed because critics know it sounds shocking, not because it proves anything. In LDS theology, Christ is the divine Son of God, Creator, Redeemer, and Lord. Repeating "spirit brother of Lucifer" doesn't refute any of that. It's just polemics. Your claim about salvation is equally misleading. Latter-day Saints do not believe they can earn salvation apart from Christ. They believe Christ's grace is necessary and indispensable. The disagreement concerns the relationship between faith, covenant, discipleship, and transformation—not whether Christ saves. As for Galatians 1 and 2 Corinthians 11, quoting "another gospel" doesn't magically settle the debate. Every Christian tradition has used those verses against rival traditions. The question is whether Joseph Smith restored authentic Christianity. Quoting Paul's warning simply assumes your conclusion. And the census argument is frankly irrelevant. Governments classify groups for demographic purposes, not theological ones. If tomorrow a census listed Baptists separately from evangelicals, that wouldn't determine who is or isn't Christian. At bottom, your position is not "Mormons aren't Christian because of the Bible." Your position is "Mormons aren't Christian because they reject post-biblical creeds that I consider authoritative." You're entitled to that definition. What you're not entitled to do is pretend that the definition came directly from Scripture when the very doctrines you're using as tests of Christianity were formulated centuries after the New Testament was written.

Happy Sabbath morning! 🙏🏻 Today I gave you perhaps the most Christian song sung by some of the most Christian children we have ever seen. 🥺

There is no better way to manifest love for God than to show an unselfish love for one’s fellowmen. - David O. McKay

President Holland put it perfectly. “Any criticism that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not hold the contemporary Christian view of God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost is not a comment about our commitment to Christ but rather a recognition (accurate, I might add) that our view of the Godhead breaks with post–New Testament Christian history and returns to the doctrine taught by Jesus Himself.”

Justin Hart @justin_hart

2 days ago

Is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a Christian church? Yes, indisputably

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We were given a planet that grows its own food, overflowing with trees, fruit, water, medicine, and sunlight, where life itself is abundant and generous. Yet we built systems of debt, competition, division, and war instead of learning to live in balance with it.

I love it when people call us “weird”. It’s like a beautiful echo of Peter’s pep talk to the early saints I thank you for fulfilling prophecy folks! We are indeed a peculiar people! 2. 1 Peter 2:9 “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Eric Stalorites @EricStalorites

2 days ago

@KyleSeraphin Mormonism is weird. That's putting it nicely.

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