Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

"Is the One True Church Roman Catholic?"

ADL wrote:
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•Among domestic extremist movements active in the United States, white supremacists are by far the most violent, committing about 83% of the extremist-related murders in the United States in the past 10 years and being involved in about 52% of the shootouts between extremists and police. White supremacists also regularly engage in a variety of terrorist plots, acts and conspiracies. However, white supremacists also have a high degree of involvement with traditional forms of criminal activity as well as ideologically-based criminal activity. Most of the murders committed by white supremacists are done for non-ideological reasons. However, even if such murders are ignored, white supremacists still commit the most lethal violence of any domestic extremist movement in the United States....

Nancy Tomes PhD wrote:
The Spanish influenza arrived in the United States at a time when new forms of mass transportation, mass media, mass consumption, and mass warfare had vastly expanded the public places in which communicable diseases could spread. Faced with a deadly “crowd” disease, public health authorities tried to implement social-distancing measures at an unprecedented level of intensity. Recent historical work suggests that the early and sustained imposition of gathering bans, school closures, and other social-distancing measures significantly reduced mortality rates during the 1918–1919 epidemics. This finding makes it all the more important to understand the sources of resistance to such measures, especially since social-distancing measures remain a vital tool... To that end, this historical analysis revisits the public health lessons learned during the 1918–1919 pandemic and reflects on their relevance for the present...

Philip Pullella wrote:
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“Pope Francis’ clear and public support for same-sex civil unions marks a new stage in the church’s relationship with LGBTQ people,” said Father James Martin, a Jesuit priest and author of “Building a Bridge,” a book about Catholic ministry to homosexuals.

“It shows his overall pastoral approach to LGBTQ people, including those who are Catholic, and sends a clear message to those bishops and Church leaders who have opposed such laws,” Martin told Reuters....

https://tinyurl.com/y2spdl69

"Mike Gendron: The True Gospel, Tradition, and Catholic Church History"

Stan Grant wrote:
Regardless of who wins the US election, one thing is certain: it will be a victory for the meritocracy.

The meritocracy are the elite, the richest, most privileged of Americans who have a stranglehold on power and wealth.

Like the aristocracy of old they are distant from the rest of the population, often looking down on them, mocking them or exploiting them.

Like the aristocrats they party together, live alongside each other in the same wealthy suburbs and attend the same weddings, even if they supposedly represent different sides of politics.

Remember, Bill and Hillary Clinton were guests at the wedding of Donald and Melania Trump...

https://tinyurl.com/yy3q6fun

https://tinyurl.com/yxsvdag6

Tony Romm wrote:
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But the Justice Department’s filing alone still serves as a stunning turn of events for Google, marking the first major salvo in decades to challenge Silicon Valley’s size. It also follows roughly seven years after the government last probed the company for potential antitrust violations — and opted against suing Google or seeking significant penalties. The inaction in Washington for years had stood in stark contrast with the antitrust scrutiny Google has faced in Europe,

https://tinyurl.com/y5lv3f8u

where competition regulators over the past decade have slapped the Mountain View, Calif.-based technology behemoth with $9 billion in fines....

https://tinyurl.com/y33poua9

Try:

https://duckduckgo.com/

Chris Megerian and Eli Stokols wrote:
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“Trump is his own worst enemy,” said Cornell Belcher, a Democratic pollster. “He is basically helping Biden make his case about his response to the pandemic. Dr. Fauci is one of the most popular figures in America, even if Trump’s base doesn’t like him.”
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In recent weeks, Trump has embraced fringe theories pushed by Scott Atlas, an increasingly influential member of his White House team who has no expertise on viruses, and continued to downplay the danger of COVID-19 as he barnstorms battleground states.

Over the weekend, Twitter deleted a tweet from Atlas falsely claiming that wearing masks doesn’t slow the spread of the virus, part of the social media company’s attempt to limit misinformation about the pandemic....

Nicholas Fandos wrote:
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Mr. Sasse, 48, began by saying that he had worked hard to develop a “working relationship” with Mr. Trump, and even prayed for the president because he is one of “our leaders.” He said he was pleased when Mr. Trump adopted traditionally conservative policy stances and nominated conservative judges. And, he added, he understood that some Nebraska voters were “frustrated” with his criticisms of the president.

But the compliments stopped there.

“I’m not at all apologetic for having fought for my values against his in places where I think his are deficient, not just for a Republican but for an American,” Mr. Sasse said.

https://tinyurl.com/yyjtvh34

I'm glad to see that the New York Times, resisted using any of the rough language that Senator Sasse used, not that there was much of it.

David Brooks wrote:
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...philosophical dispute is not new. There have always been some people who thought we need hierarchical structures to keep us safe and others who thought we need to be emancipated from oppressive structures so we can be free.

What is new is how cultish this dispute has become. The researchers asked a wide variety of questions, on everything from child-rearing to national anthem protests. In many cases, 97 to 99 percent of Progressive Activists said one thing and 93 to 95 percent of Dedicated Conservatives said the opposite. There’s little evidence of individual thought, just cult conformity. The current situation really does begin to look like the religious wars that ripped through Europe after the invention of the printing press, except that our religions now wear pagan political garb.

The good news is that once you get outside these two elite groups you find a lot more independent thinking and flexibility. This is not a 50-50 nation. It only appears that way when disenchanted voters are forced to choose between the two extreme cults....

https://tinyurl.com/y9d8ftd4

Peter Wehner wrote:
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I’ve had conversations with Trump supporters who believe the president is all that stands between them and cultural revolution. Trump and his advisers know it, which is why the through line of the RNC was portraying Joe Biden as a Jacobin.

Republicans chose that theme despite the fact that during his almost 50 years in politics, Biden hasn’t left any discernible ideological imprint on either the nation or his own party. Indeed, Biden is notable for his success over the course of his political career in forging alliances with many Republicans. I worked at the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the early 1990s when William Bennett was its director and George H. W. Bush was president. Biden was then chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee; he and his staff were supportive of our work, and not in the least ideological. There will be no remaking of the calendar if Joe Biden becomes president....

Randall Balmer wrote:
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Peter Wehner, an evangelical, attributes Trump’s popularity to evangelicals’ sense of powerlessness, while Michael Cromartie of the right-wing Ethics and Public Policy Center thinks that support for Trump represents a setback from what he characterizes as the more elevated tone of religious-right leaders in recent years. Jeff Sharlet suggests that Trump resembles a prosperity preacher.

These analyses, however, miss a crucial point: The religious right was never about the advancement of biblical values. The modern, politically conservative evangelical movement we know is a movement rooted in the perpetuation of racial segregation, and its affiliation with the hard-right fringes of the conservative movement in the late 1970s produced a mutant form of evangelicalism inconsistent with the best traditions of evangelicalism itself. Since then, evangelicals have embraced increasingly secular positions divorced from any biblical grounding, and supporting Donald Trump represents the logical conclusion of that tragic aberration....

https://tinyurl.com/y3fbdhhs

This is a fairly lengthy article with considerable Catholic input. So the topic is well covered. The article is definitely worth reading ❗👍

Not a bit desperate, Mike. Well, except for the voice recognition, which was doing an amazingly poor job.

Send Moderator Alpha seems to dislike when I put up you URLs on articles that are sharp observations of Mr. Trump, you still can find - -hit and miss-- some excellent ones if you Google in the following three phrases

General Kelly on Donald Trump

Ben Sasse on Donald Trump

Mary Trump on Donald Trump

Look at the URLs for the articles I gave , And look over the John McCarter particles

Again:

https://tinyurl.com/jko49r6

https://tinyurl.com/yapvm8uy

https://tinyurl.com/jko49r6 (Christians and Politics, Part 3)

John 18:36
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world. ---ESV

Or....

"The Deadly Dangers of Moralism"

https://tinyurl.com/yapvm8uy

A very good commentary by John MacArthur, not a recent one as can be noticed, though.