[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Some good news from Australia! Liberal President Jacinda Ardern has been forced out, after 6 years of failure and embarrassment. Very little improved during her reign of COVID-inspired communism. According to a reliable source, she will be swept aside by a born-again Christian conservative vowing to introduce boot camps for criminals. I will follow developments Down There with interest.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole

According to a reliable source, she will be swept aside by a born-again Christian conservative vowing to introduce boot camps for criminals. I will follow developments Down Under with interest.

I'm not so sure about his Christianity, Brother Dr. Toole, Sir. According to Wikipedia (not the most reliable source, but surely better than the Daily Telegraph):

Luxon had a Catholic upbringing, describes himself as a Christian or non-denominational Christian, and has been described as an evangelical Christian. He has attended a Baptist church in Auckland as a child, a Presbyterian church in Australia, an Anglican church in England, and non-denominational churches in the United States, Canada and New Zealand. After he returned to New Zealand in 2011 he attended the Upper Room church in Auckland. In 2021 he said he had not attended a church for five or six years.

He sounds like quite the flibbertigibbet to me.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

I'm not so sure about his Christianity, Brother Dr. Toole, Sir. According to Wikipedia (not the most reliable source, but surely better than the Daily Telegraph):
He sounds like quite the flibbertigibbet to me.

I guess you take what you can get in the boonies, Sister. Satan is strong in the Down Underworld and Mr. Luxon will have his work cut out to buck the trend, probably starting with mopping up the "Other" demographic with some strong policing of illegal immigration (aborigines, Maori, Hindaloos).

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole

The orange line is also disturbing. "Object," presumably objecting to the question itself, is declining. But is it feeding into "No religion" or "Other" or a third possibility: not knowing when a question is asked or an answer required?

Acts 16:29-30 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

Secular education demands that everyone gets to decide the right answer to any question, that no pupil should be marked down for a "wrong answer" if that's what they really believe, in short that there's no point asking questions at all. Or going to school. Or learning to read. What then is life?

Video games, hanging around disused buildings, the marihuana, none of these require reading or even language apart from slogans promoting exactly the world view emerging from that chart.
So sad.

[Johny Joe Hold]

What's amazing is so many people have not heard about hell and the misery they will suffer for eternity. When word gets out, the lines will reverse. We at Landover Baptist need to expand the seating in our sanctuary now to accommodate the big numbers soon to come.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold

What's amazing is so many people have not heard about hell and the misery they will suffer for eternity. When word gets out, the lines will reverse. We at Landover Baptist need to expand the seating in our sanctuary now to accommodate the big numbers soon to come.

I agree Mr. Mayor. It's hard to believe that even after 2000 years and Churches in every town, village and hamlet that people are still ignorant about the Savior of Mankind. Once they hear of His plan for them, they will come running - build, build, build!

[MitzaLizalor]

When so many people in so many lands are suffering the same growth of ignorance, how can there not be a single mind at work directing them all?

[Dennis Lukes]

A country with a major city named Christchurch and this is how low it has fallen. Might as well call it "Muhammadmosque" and then burn the whole damn country down. Not a single sheep unraped. Jesus is very displeased with New Zealand, land of the sodomite damned. Ever since that midget Peter Jackson made those awful films.

When a woman president can't even claim to be that country's first woman president, you just know that country is too far gone.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes

Ever since that midget Peter Jackson made those awful films.

Midget... porn? I think the correct term for them over there is hobbit.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes

A country with a major city named Christchurch and this is how low it has fallen. Might as well call it "Muhammadmosque" and then burn the whole damn country down.

It looks as though Our Beloved Lord has other plans. He has sent them around 10 inches of rain in 24 hours!

[Dennis Lukes]

Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole

Midget... porn? I think the correct term for them over there is hobbit.

Well I disdain political correctness and have zero interest in calling evil sinners by their preferred prounouns and descriptors. Call them by the terms that offend them so they know you don't approve of their wicked lifestyles. If you've never called a midget a "midget" to its face before, I highly recommend. The Biblical and therefore most correct term for them is "dwarf" (Leviticus 21:20).

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

It looks as though Our Beloved Lord has other plans. He has sent them around 10 inches of rain in 24 hours!

Glory! Muslims can't swim.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes

If you've never called a midget a "midget" to its face before, I highly recommend.

Heh heh, yes Brother. What are they gonna do about it? Nothing. Losers

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

One of my children has obviously been reading this thread, because the subject of calling a midget "a midget" to his face came up at TC supper. Simon (6 next month, and therefore old enough to know better) said you'd have to kneel down to do that. His twin, Andrew (same age, obviously, within a few minutes) said "Or pick him up."

It is so very difficult to chastise children when their father is laughing.

[Dennis Lukes]

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

One of my children has obviously been reading this thread, because the subject of calling a midget "a midget" to his face came up at TC supper. Simon (6 next month, and therefore old enough to know better) said you'd have to kneel down to do that. His twin, Andrew (same age, obviously, within a few minutes) said "Or pick him up."

It is so very difficult to chastise children when their father is laughing.

If Mr. (Lord?) Lytton-Vasey hasn't done so already I'd advise you to give Simon a whuppin' for that undignified suggestion. Kneel before a midget? No Christian should ever do such a thing. No, what you do is you tower over the dwarf and bend at the waist. Glare and get your face close to its face but not within biting distance, then shout "midget" or whatever at the top of your lungs. Andrew too, if you pick up a midget you're liable to get bit and scratched, I don't know if they're venomous or not.

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes

(Leviticus 21:20)

God is explaining who can serve Him in various capacities and in the process groups scurvy, the scab and dwarfism in a single category. There were also categories of service, preparing blood to pump out alive from some terrified animal, squirting it over the congregation Exodus 24:8, 9-10 or otherwise spraying it around, incinerating whatever was left and collecting gold, silver, copper Ezra 8:25, 26-27, 28 which were freewill offerings to preempt what would happen if anyone withheld their offering. That was the priesthood. Only those acceptable to God could approach God.

Well, the list of unacceptable persons is set out unmistakably with many more categories described. No room for guesswork here! False teachings are not like that; they require endless interpretation by a freak show unlike anything you could imagine (except in nightmares) with enigmatic abrogations called up to explain contradictions and on and on century after century, unbelievable. Certain wretched chancers claim that God is like that too, with Jesus abrogating what was commanded previously. Nothing could be farther from reality and nothing is more real than Jesus.

God still requires that blood. Now it's the Blood of Christ, drained out for us but unlike the blood of terrified animals, His blood cannot die. As a result I Peter 2:5 Christians are now that priesthood and just as God still requires blood, so He still requires perfection. That is why He heals infirmities, so He can bear to look at us at all.

[MitzaLizalor]

Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey

It looks as though Our Beloved Lord has other plans. He has sent them around 10 inches of rain in 24 hours!

I know assorted muftis and mullahs or even ayatollahs —— oh! there's also imams (I was looking up the differences)

anyway, they ask presidents and stuff if they'd like to convert the nation to islam? If "Yes" then all the joys of that creed ensue but if "No thank you, not today" then a state of jihad necessarily exists. Muftis determine that and apparently there is no alternative.

Koran 19:93-98 https://archive.org/details/englishtranslationoftheholyquranbymarmadukepicktha ll/page/n353/mode/2up
There is none in the heavens and the earth but cometh unto the Beneficent as a Slave. Verily He knoweth them and numbereth them with (right) numbering. And each one of them will come unto Him on the Day of Resurrection alone. Lo! Those who believe and do good works, the Beneficent will appoint for them love. And we make (this Scripture) easy in thy tongue, (O Muhammad) only that thou mayst bear good tidings therewith unto those who ward off (evil), and warn therewith the froward folk. And how many a generation before them have We destroyed! canst thou (Muhammad) see a single man of them, or hear from them the slightest sound?

Could it be Ardern had an inappropriate response?

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[James Hutchins]

Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole

Some good news from Australia! Liberal President Jacinda Ardern has been forced out, after 6 years of failure and embarrassment. Very little improved during her reign of COVID-inspired communism. According to a reliable source, she will be swept aside by a born-again Christian conservative vowing to introduce boot camps for criminals. I will follow developments Down There with interest.

I often question the commitment level of a so-called 'born again'. What took them so long to accept irrefutable existence and the promise of True Salvation ™ by Jesus? Why doubt Gods Magnificence? When a child can hold a HK 9mm, they can hold Jesus close to their bosom as well. There is no point in delay, nothing to be gained and everything to lose. Can you imagine the horror of dying and upon arriving at the intake center, you have to say that you had not completed your commitment? Procrastination is like masturbation and ends up everywhere but where it needed to be, on Gods Good Graces®.