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You can’t comprehend this because you didn’t know or believe that your Texas K-12 system has been brainwashing your children to vote against Texas.
Everything I said here was about Texas schools because I was responding to the video of this Texas teacher.
But every single thing I said applies to all 50 states.
As you know, what's sadder and more dangerous than the loss of financial value is the loss of any sense of objective truth, beauty, goodness, and human dignity found in so many schools.
Parents, perform a reality check every day on what your kids are hearing in school!👇
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This is excellent, and the message needs to be spread far and wide. To that end, I have attempted to briefly summarize it as if I were Spencer Pratt. Here goes:
Okay, so here are some important facts about the way things are, and some guidelines for how people and the government should act.
First off, we don’t make up stuff about the way things are; we use our senses and our brains to discover how things are. Nobody, and certainly not the State, has the right to make stuff up and force us to swear by it. Everybody has the right to be their own person, regardless of their color or religion. And people are born with rights—like living free, speaking your mind, owning stuff, and protecting yourself. Those rights come from nature and God, not from government. So the government can’t just make some decree that changes who we are, or that takes our rights away. If they try, they’re overstepping big time and need to be slapped down.
Also, rights come with duties. We have discovered some fixed moral laws with our brains, and we have to obey them. Don’t murder, steal, or lie, for example. We have the right to free speech, but we have the duty to tell the truth. We have the right to own property, but we have to take care of it. We have the right to defend ourselves—with guns if needed—but we have to do it responsibly.
We need to be honest in our business dealings without trying to get the government to put its thumb on the scale. We need to be active in local groups like family and churches, without letting the government control too much. Make government stick with its core duties of national defense and safeguarding the rights that God already gave us. Choose elected leaders wisely and hold them accountable. Stand up for people when leaders try to boss them around. Keep your eye on them, don’t believe just anything they tell you without checking it out, and don’t let them violate our Constitution or they will go from being useful servants to terrible masters.
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Use your head and see if it makes sense. There are people out there who are going to try to take advantage of you, or to mislead you into adopting harmful beliefs.
When all is said and done, stand strong. Uphold objective truth, be a decent person and a good community member, train up your kids well, take care of your own life, and whatever you do, don’t ever let the communists take over.
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This is excellent, and the message needs to be spread far and wide. To that end, I have attempted to briefly summarize it as if I were Spencer Pratt. Here goes:
Okay, so here are some important facts about the way things are, and some guidelines for how people and the government should act.
First off, we don’t make up stuff about the way things are; we use our senses and our brains to discover how things are. Nobody, and certainly not the State, has the right to make stuff up and force us to swear by it. Everybody has the right to be their own person, regardless of their color or religion. And people are born with rights—like living free, speaking your mind, owning stuff, and protecting yourself. Those rights come from nature and God, not from government. So the government can’t just make some decree that changes who we are, or that takes our rights away. If they try, they’re overstepping big time and need to be slapped down.
Also, rights come with duties. We have discovered some fixed moral laws with our brains, and we have to obey them. Don’t murder, steal, or lie, for example. We have the right to free speech, but we have the duty to tell the truth. We have the right to own property, but we have to take care of it. We have the right to defend ourselves—with guns if needed—but we have to do it responsibly.
We need to be honest in our business dealings without trying to get the government to put its thumb on the scale. We need to be active in local groups like family and churches, without letting the government control too much. Make government stick with its core duties of national defense and safeguarding the rights that God already gave us. Choose elected leaders wisely and hold them accountable. Stand up for people when leaders try to boss them around. Keep your eye on them, don’t believe just anything they tell you without checking it out, and don’t let them violate our Constitution or they will go from being useful servants to terrible masters.
Don't believe everything you read on the Internet. Use your head and see if it makes sense. There are people out there who are going to try to take advantage of you, or to mislead you into adopting harmful beliefs.
When all is said and done, stand strong. Uphold objective truth, be a decent person and a good community member, train up your kids well, take care of your own life, and whatever you do, don’t ever let the communists take over.
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It is very understandable that art is not being respected for what it can be at its full potential. Sadly, the displays in the exhibit are atrocious and beyond low-culture. The term "low-culture" is totally inadequate to describe the "artwork." They are abominations.
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I think about the Father, the Son & the Holy Spirit daily. Today I wondered how He'd feel about creating us through sheer love, giving us free will, a way to come back to Him, following each of us every single second of every hour of our lives & so many of us ignoring Him anyway.
This is saying it plain. It is also said in charity. 🙏
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Since the West's judicial systems are now almost completely detached from objective truth & goodness, I no longer believe in their ability to find it. I am more inclined to believe they will find the opposite. This is a tragedy for the West, which needs judiciaries it can trust.
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Narrow is the path. Few find it. The way to what is objectively true & good can't be reduced to a political ideology.
@RealistGuild
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Stop saying 'trans'? ❌
Start using 'trans' (and 'gender' and 'cis') properly? ✅
Really excellent piece on why we should stop saying trans. By @LouiseGuinness for @TERF_Times terftimes.com/p/why-say-tran…
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Three weeks ago, I donated my kidney to one of my dear friends. My recovery has been remarkably speedy, and I am deeply grateful that God led me to this decision🙏
Giving the gift of life is the most meaningful thing I have ever done.
Congratulations to every living donor who has taken that leap of faith to save someone’s life. 💕
The first photo is the day after surgery, just after I rang the living donor bell. The others were taken ten days later from the 2026 Inova Center Celebration for Living Donors from 2020 to present: Dr. Piper, my surgeon; Kirsten Curtis, Living Donor Transplant Coordinator; and Heather Perez Saiz, Independent Living Donor Advocate.
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If everybody bears the divine image "except" the unborn, then nobody bears the divine image.
Abortion is lawlessness precisely because it is godlessness.
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Reality is discovered, not invented. Science is an important way to discover reality, but it’s not the only way. A close examination of the Bible shows a profound Design underlying human history. Scientific discoveries further illuminate this Design.👇
Reality has an intelligible order, but how much of it do we recognize? In Decoding Bible Messages, @mapp_john14664 examines remarkable patterns connecting the Old & New Testaments, showing how events centuries apart fit into God's providential order.
amazon.com/dp/1512710407?lv=…
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Friends, what is chastity—the second of the evangelical counsels?
Though the clergy and religious practice chastity through celibacy, the virtue itself is just as applicable to the laity.
Chastity simply means sexual uprightness or a rightly ordered sexuality—and this means bringing one’s sexual life under the aegis of love.
As Thomas Aquinas taught, love is not a feeling but rather an act of the will—more precisely, willing the good of the other. It is the ecstatic act by which we break free from the ego, whose gravitational pull wants to draw everything to itself.
Notice how the Church’s teaching that sex belongs within the context of marriage is meant to hold off this negative tendency. In saying that our sexuality should be subordinated to unity (the radical devotion to one’s spouse) and procreation (the radical devotion to one’s children), the Church is endeavoring to bring our sex lives completely under the umbrella of love.
What would our country look like if, starting today, every Catholic lived out the counsel of chastity? We would make an enormous dent in the pornography business; human trafficking would be dramatically reduced; abortions would appreciably decrease; and families would be significantly strengthened.
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Reality has an intelligible order, but how much of it do we recognize? In Decoding Bible Messages, @mapp_john14664 examines remarkable patterns connecting the Old & New Testaments, showing how events centuries apart fit into God's providential order.
amazon.com/dp/1512710407?lv=…
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What if America's election results are revealing something far more disturbing than who won or lost? What if they're revealing the spiritual condition of our nation? 🇺🇸⤵️
Americans are celebrating, complaining, arguing, and blaming one another over the elections. But there's a question almost nobody wants to ask: What if the leaders we elect are a reflection of the people we've become?
Fr. Chad Ripperger, a Catholic priest, exorcist, and theologian, issued this sobering warning:
“You get the leaders you deserve. The vast majority of Catholics are leading lives of grave sin.”
We demand honesty from politicians while tolerating dishonesty in ourselves. We demand courage from our leaders while remaining silent about our faith. We demand morality from those in power while making excuses for our own sins.
And Catholics aren't exempt.
We complain about weak bishops, compromised priests, and politicians who abandon Christian principles. But how can we expect holy leadership when we're unwilling to pursue holiness ourselves?
Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard warned in The Soul of the Apostolate that when a priest is a saint, his people become fervent. When he's fervent, they become pious. When he's merely pious, they become decent. But when he's only decent, his people risk becoming godless.
Sometimes the leaders a nation receives may even be a form of chastisement, calling its people back to repentance.
But regardless of who won these elections, our newly elected leaders desperately need our prayers.
Pray that God grants them wisdom, courage, humility, and the strength to defend truth, protect innocent life, and govern justly. Pray for their conversion where needed, and for the grace to resist corruption.
And pray for ourselves, because America's spiritual renewal will never begin with an election alone.
It begins with repentance, confession, prayer, and ordinary Catholics choosing holiness over compromise.
We spend so much time asking God to give us better leaders. But what if God is asking us to become better people?
💬 So here's the question: Is America's greatest problem really the people we're electing, or the people we've become?
Because elections can change who's in power, but only conversion can change hearts.
And if you know a Catholic who's praying for a better America, this is the reminder we all need: Before we ask God to change Washington, we must allow Him to change the person staring back at us in the mirror.
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"We just don’t like people saying no. We love people who say yes, and we adore people who can make it sound like Christianity."
The catechism of the Catholic Church states the spirit of the antichrist is present any time we accept easy answers at the price of the truth.
That’s exactly what happens here.
His Christianity is the type of Christianity where you don’t have to say no to anything, except the people who say no to things.
He’s the perfect example of the cancer at the heart of America Christianity. 3000 dead babies a day? Great. Who am I to judge?
It will not be until judgment day that he has to answer, because the American life certainly will never hold him accountable and the children whose murder he supports can’t.
I could go on and on, but this is the rot at a heart of it all.
We just don’t like people saying no. We love people who say yes, and we adore people who can make it sound like Christianity.
