It’s nearly impossible to beat an enemy who is unbound by the rules they try to impose on others with words alone.
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It’s just great hearing 250 million Americans who have barely played defense let alone fought back say “it’s impossible to beat these guys!”
Did you not finish reading their comment.
It's okay, he was drunk at the time /s
If that happened I guess it was His will /s.
maga Christianity:
What a rollercoaster
I am apparently VERY out of the loop, is there a source that isn't a tweet?
He said it during his confirmation hearing. I'm not going to go though the video for a timestamp, so here's part of it transcribed by The Times:
As Jenny and I pray every morning, all glory, regardless of the outcome, belongs to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. His grace and mercy abounds each day,
Regarding the marriages, cheating and divorces:
The Storybook Start—and Bitter End—of Pete Hegseth’s First Marriage
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/pete-hegseth-first-marriage
Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women for Years
Thank you!
This is a fundamental flaw with current Christianity and most religions as a whole.
If an arbitrary third party absolves your sins then you don't feel an emotional need to own your wrongs.
The above assuming the person isn't a psychopath in the first place.
Absolution requires to ask for forgiveness; to ask for forgiveness requires the owning of our wrongs; to Owen our wrongs require reparation and trying at best of our possibility to stop repeating our wrongs.
You guys be careful! You make Petey cry again and he’ll dump another fighter jet in the drink! Ah drink, could use another whiskey
This sounds exactly like the typical MAGA conservative. They love people like this.
Man, what a Christian.
Loudly wishing I'll to people You don't like, don't count as praying Pete.
The message of Jesus has been fucked with pretty much since his death, starting with Paul and the Council of Nicea all the way to today with the American (read: money worshipping) branches of Christianity/Catholicism. Love God more than you love anything else and love your neighbour, that was it, but Americans don't follow Jesus. Idk what they follow and I don't care what they call themselves but, just like the Zios, they don't fear nor love God and they certainly give no fucks about their neighbours. And if you don't believe me, wait til you see what happens post American collapse. There's a reason people in Gaza broke their fast together through genocide whilst the West can only see Mad Max as the result of collapse, lol.
The new pope will surely excommunicate those cucks, will be?