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1 hour ago, Rebound said:
What other Christian Values did Jesus Christ himself teach us?
- Feed the poor
- Be modest and pray in private, not loudly on the street corner
- Be forgiving
- Be loving
- Love thy neighbor as thyself
- Pray (psst! Can you show us one picture of Trump going to church to pray? No)
- Serving people is equal to Serving the Lord
I've got a bridge to sell you. The cunning Democrats claim this is what they are all about but this is just a smokescreen to hide their real agenda. Some may actually believe these points you quoted, but they are over-ruled by the woke and progressives in the Democratic Party. Just listen to their new candidate talk about "reproductive rights". Nothing Christian about killing pre-born babies. Jesus would not be happy about that.
Socialism is another anti-Biblical ideology strongly pushed by the radical liberals / Democrats.
State-ordained wealth redistribution or Socialism has nothing to do with voluntary charity which you correctly quoted Jesus as teaching. Charity has to be voluntary by individuals or charitable organizations. That is totally different than Socialist government policies.
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Radicals have gradually pushed it further left, which has also been shifting the goalposts of society in a more secular direction ever since the Progressive Era of the late 19th century.
The Democratic Party has fully embraced feminism and its natural descendent, the LGBT movement. Both have propagated the idea that men and women are indistinguishable. This justifies the party’s attempts to mix and match the roles of the two sexes in society. They are opposed to the Christian idea that man and woman were made distinct from yet complementary to one another.
By destroying marriage and the distinctions of the sexes, the party helped craft sexual activity into a vital expression of choice and liberation. These are the party values over the Christian practices of restraint and modesty. It has removed the incentives to abstain from sex and promoted perverse sexual behavior. In doing so, it has helped to normalize sexual depravity. unquote
The Democratic party is all about pushing their secular humanist agenda on society and this is totally contrary to what Jesus and the Bible teach.
The Bible condemns any sexual relations outside marriage between a husband and wife.
Jesus is also called the word. The word refers to Holy Scripture or the Bible, in English the King James Bible. That means the Bible was written by Jesus who is God. So what the Bible teaches is what Jesus teaches even though it may not be a direct quote of Jesus' words as in the gospels.
" 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. " John 1:14 KJV
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"Because it has chosen narcissism as its foundation for faith, the Democratic Party has cast out whatever Christian elements it may have once had.
On Friday, former President Donald Trump spoke at the National Religious Broadcasters International Christian Media Convention, in which he said, “How any Christian can vote for a Democrat, Christian or person of faith, how you can vote for a Democrat is crazy.”
Given the values and beliefs held dearest by the Democratic Party, it is hard not to agree. Radicals have gradually pushed it further left, which has also been shifting the goalposts of society in a more secular direction ever since the Progressive Era of the late 19th century.
The Democratic Party has fully embraced feminism and its natural descendent, the LGBT movement. Both have propagated the idea that men and women are indistinguishable. This justifies the party’s attempts to mix and match the roles of the two sexes in society. They are opposed to the Christian idea that man and woman were made distinct from yet complementary to one another.
By destroying marriage and the distinctions of the sexes, the party helped craft sexual activity into a vital expression of choice and liberation. These are the party values over the Christian practices of restraint and modesty. It has removed the incentives to abstain from sex and promoted perverse sexual behavior. In doing so, it has helped to normalize sexual depravity.
The idol of abortion also affirms the desire of the Democratic Party to exempt society from taking responsibility for its actions. By dehumanizing children as “parasites” and framing abortion as a right, the party encourages people to blame others for their decisions to have sex. This is despite Christians asserting that all life is sacred and formed by God upon conception. "
Christianity is incompatible with the Democratic Party - Washington Examiner
The liberals and NDP are the equivalent of the Democratic party in the U.S. They hold pretty much the same belief systems.
Kamala Harris in her final DNC speech proudly boasts of her support for abortion as a national right or killing of pre-born babies as freely as possible. She was wildly cheered by the DNC. This is a complete rejection of Christian belief in the sanctity of human life.
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Because it has chosen narcissism as its foundation for faith, the Democratic Party has cast out whatever Christian elements it may have once had.
On Friday, former President Donald Trump spoke at the National Religious Broadcasters International Christian Media Convention, in which he said, “How any Christian can vote for a Democrat, Christian or person of faith, how you can vote for a Democrat is crazy.”
Given the values and beliefs held dearest by the Democratic Party, it is hard not to agree. Radicals have gradually pushed it further left, which has also been shifting the goalposts of society in a more secular direction ever since the Progressive Era of the late 19th century.
The Democratic Party has fully embraced feminism and its natural descendent, the LGBT movement. Both have propagated the idea that men and women are indistinguishable. This justifies the party’s attempts to mix and match the roles of the two sexes in society. They are opposed to the Christian idea that man and woman were made distinct from yet complementary to one another.
By destroying marriage and the distinctions of the sexes, the party helped craft sexual activity into a vital expression of choice and liberation. These are the party values over the Christian practices of restraint and modesty. It has removed the incentives to abstain from sex and promoted perverse sexual behavior. In doing so, it has helped to normalize sexual depravity.
The idol of abortion also affirms the desire of the Democratic Party to exempt society from taking responsibility for its actions. By dehumanizing children as “parasites” and framing abortion as a right, the party encourages people to blame others for their decisions to have sex. This is despite Christians asserting that all life is sacred and formed by God upon conception. "
Christianity is incompatible with the Democratic Party - Washington Examiner
The liberals and NDP are the equivalent of the Democratic party in the U.S. They hold pretty much the same belief systems.
This is how the western world which was once far more of a Judeo-Christian society is under attack.
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10 minutes ago, eyeball said:
The Canadian National Railway Company has been privately owned for decades.
What have you got against private companies paying such high wages? Better be careful next thing you know you'll be suggesting we raise their taxes.
I think Beelzebub might be messing with your thinking today.
Are you not aware the high wages of $62 or $63 an hour or $132,400 a year is passed down to the consumers? This is more than $10,000 a month. It is the Canadian public that pays for these high wages through the price of everything that is shipped by railway. Then you wonder why food prices, home prices, and everything else are so high. The union and the lunatic NDP think they can hold Canadians hostage for even more. Give your head a shake.
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2 hours ago, Five of swords said:
That's kinda the whole point of a strike. If you don't like the economic damage, then maybe you should consider the demands of the people striking. Or if you don't like that, maybe you could get Chinese people to build the railroad. It isnt like it would be the first time.
"See the latest salaries by department and job title. The average estimated annual salary, including base and bonus, at Canadian National Railway Company is $132,424, or $63 per hour, while the estimated median salary is $130,004, or $62 per hour."
Canadian National Railway Company Salaries | Comparably
They are already making a fortune on the backs of taxpayers..
I don't know anybody that makes that kind of money except perhaps doctors and professionals.
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39 minutes ago, Aristides said:
Hate to say it but I think the government did the right thing by not interfering until they actually shut down.
Why even have a shutdown of the national railway system? What purpose does it serve?
It is foolishness to allow the whole Canadian railway system to be able to be shut down either by a lockout or a strike.
Strikes and lockouts for something like that should be illegal and every contract should be by binding arbitration.
The same should go for doctors, nurses, police, fire fighters, and other essential services.
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1 hour ago, Queenmandy85 said:
So, you want the government to interfere in private enterprise.
This is not a normal situation. The article I just posted describes the problem. There is only these two railway companies and the union has the power to shut them down and hold the whole Canadian economy hostage. That is what is different in this labour dispute.
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So believe it or not, on a theoretical level, I agree with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh regarding the rail lockout/strike that began early Thursday morning. “CN and CPKC should still be bargaining with Teamsters Canada,” Singh said in a statement.
But Canada doesn’t have a free market for rail services. It has a duopoly in which two companies control all or most of a market.
And when those two companies are both dealing with the same union at the same time, that union can hold the entire economy hostage — and it knows it.
Canadian consumers, farmers, entrepreneurs and corporations are hostage to both the companies and the union.
The Teamsters’ timing is very strategic. The Prairie grain harvest will soon make railways maximum busy. Oil exports are rising (and despite the opening of the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline, a lot of Canadian oil still gets to market by train).
The federal Liberal government, which could propose legislation to end the work stoppage, is hanging on by a thread provided by the union-friendly NDP, who have vowed to cut the Liberals’ thread if the government proposes a back-to-work bill.
Then there is the simple logistical fact that Parliament is in recess until the middle of next month. Even if the Trudeau government worked up the gumption to introduce strike-ending legislation, it would have to recall MPs for an emergency session, which would take days or even a week.
At a cost to businesses and farmers of more than $1 billion per day, the strike threatens an already fragile, slow-growing economy. And manufacturers, exporters, farmers, small businesses, oil producers and consumers have no ability to switch to other railways."
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5 hours ago, eyeball said:
Of course I believe in law and order. There's nothing illegal going on here.
Technically, no, but economically, it is a potential disaster for Canada in many ways. Governments are responsible to maintain order as well as enforce the law. A strike of this nature would not be maintaining order and good government. It would be anarchy and destruction.
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41 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:
Give your head a shake and get the religious sh*t out
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3 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool’s back.
4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit."
Proverbs 26: 3, 4 KJV
"12 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him. " Proverbs 26:12
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Indigenous Services Canada (ISC), which currently vets applicants, and the departments that preceded it going back to 1996, did not always demand status cards or other documents from vendors until 2022, according to Piragasanathar’s statement.
“In years past,” he explained, “businesses were required to sign an attestation” that they were Indigenous. They also faced the possibility of an audit, he said.
In 2022, ISC tightened the requirements by demanding documentation from new applicants, Piragasanathar said. He did not explain why.
The Trudeau government has directed billions of dollars to Indigenous businesses over the past two years, but never addressed the PSIB’s underlying problems, according to a collaborative investigation between Global News and researchers at First Nations University of Canada. (Learn more about how the investigation unfolded.)
The program has recently come under fire from federal MPs for negligent auditing practices that potentially allow non-Indigenous businesses to exploit the system at the expense of Indigenous enterprises — and their communities."
This is just another example of how the Trudeau government throws Canadian taxpayer money around without serious safeguards and controls.
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Unfortunately the federal government acted a bit late. The Liberal cabinet minister only today directed the labour board to enact binding arbitration. That will take days, which means the railways system could be shut down for days costing the economy billions of dollars. We're still not sure when this will end although there is some light at the end of the tunnel. The effects of this shutdown could affect businesses for days or even weeks. All of this was unnecessary if the government had used some common sense and acted much sooner. But it appears they listened to the NDP and let it go this far before doing something.
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5 minutes ago, Queenmandy85 said:
So, you want the government to interfere in private enterprise. That sounds like socialism. Are you becoming a socialist, Blackbird?
Of course not. But I don't believe a union should be able to shut down the entire railway system for Canada. That is anarchy and could hurt many major industries in Canada as well as millions of Canadians. A government's job is to maintain law and order and prevent anarchy. Doing that is not Socialism. It is just protecting the country from serious harm and anarchy. Surely you must understand we need a certain amount of laws and authorities to protect a country from harm. There can be no free-for-all for unions or anyone else. This is just common sense.
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30 minutes ago, suds said:
Crash data that was downloaded from the vehicle (taken in the 5 second interval before the air bags deployed) shows the gas pedal 99% depressed and the brake pedal untouched. It certainly sounds like a mental issue.
Yes, I pressed the gas pedal once when I meant to press the brake, but only for a couple seconds and there was no danger as result. It can happen. If a person panics and presses the gas instead of the brake, I can see how a serious accident could happen.
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3 minutes ago, eyeball said:
So you want Trudeau to dictate how things are going to be.
Did you lose you halo this morning?
So you don't believe in law and order.
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Really. A few years ago, she supported the idea of more police in California when she was attorney general.
But not many years ago she believed police should not answer 911 calls and that their jobs should be re-defined.
Is she really of sound mind and reliable enough to hold the most powerful position in America or the world?
Kamala Harris dreamed of stopping cops responding to 911 calls (msn.com)
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11 minutes ago, ExFlyer said:
So, why will the union not sit down and negotiate???
You cry and whine abut government being in your shorts , now you want them there??
Did you lose your soother this morning little boy?
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The federal government says they are urging the companies and union to sit down to reach agreement. Nice words but they are empty and do nothing to protect Canadians. It is obvious the parties are far apart and no agreement is in sight. This lockout or strike should never be allowed. This will reportedly cost the economy a billion dollars a day. This will hurt many farmers as they cannot get their goods to market. This will affect many other businesses and the population of Canada.
The federal government allowing this to happen and not considering this as an essential service is a complete failure.
This is not like a strike by a chain store or a saw mill somewhere. This is a complete shutdown of the national rail system. This should never be allowed.
The federal government is completely at fault. This will do great harm to Canada in many ways.
Trudeau just made an announcement on the news as the shutdown just began. He says this will do damage to various industries, businesses, and to Canada.
Yes, he admits this. Yet what has he done to prevent it? He is the PM and the one person that could have done something to avoid it. In fact, the only person that could stop it from happening. Yet he is doing nothing to stop it and force the parties to binding arbitration. What is going on in our leader's heads? Does he think nice words is going to resolve this and stop the shutdown?
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We now see a report of a suspect that allegedly murdered several people as part of intimate partner violence.
He was banned by the court from going near his partner, but violated the order a number of times.
The police seized a number of weapons before the killings, but did not know he still had one gun hidden somewhere.
How is it he allegedly made a number of threatening acts, had weapons, violated court orders to stay away from the partner, but still was not locked up? So he was allegedly able to murder several people because he was allowed to be out free.
The answer is the justice system is a farce and is not protecting Canadians.
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2 hours ago, eyeball said:
which is a desire for vengeance as opposed to justice.
No, you are making a false assumption. Most rational people believe there should be appropriate justice which includes jail time for criminal acts. It appears there are lots of liberals or progressives that don't believe in justice. That's why we have ridiculous small sentences for serious crimes. The liberals also are so soft on crime that they let repeat offenders out on bail immediately in many or most cases. This has been in the news almost daily. The business owners are fed up and some even considering shutting down their businesses because it is costing them so much money.
Any normal, civilized person should be angry about the terrible justice system that lets repeat offenders and dangerous offenders out on bail constantly. This was raised last year by the premiers with the federal government and we all thought the government was going to do something about it. But they apparently did nothing. It also gives them small sentences or no jail time. That is the issue. We should be able to express our opinions about that in a free country.
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1 hour ago, eyeball said:
I think it's more reasonable for a secular judge to decide that. Pious holier than thou bible thumpers not so much.
Evading the question. You don't fool anyone. You obviously don't want to say so you can claim to be non judgmental of anything. You think that makes you look holier than thou.
According to you, nobody can have an opinion about whether the justice system is working correctly or not. You express your opinion on everything on here and judge me. So while you say you don't judge the justice system but you judge me? Isn't that hypocrisy at it's worse?
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4 hours ago, eyeball said:
I think what blackbird is pining for is giving greater consideration and weight to vengeance.
Do you think 4 to 6 years for a drunk driver who kills someone is reasonable? They also often get out after one-third of their sentence.
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"If an agreement is not reached, there is a growing likelihood that Tehran, which has been signaling its readiness to attack Israel for several weeks, will follow through on its threats. This could lead to a direct confrontation between Israel and Iran, which the United States and its allies have been trying to avoid since the conflict began on October 7."
There is the reason right there. Israel has reportedly already agreed to the cease fire deal, but Hamas has not. Hamas is hoping to bring Iran, Hezbollah, and others into a major war against Israel. That is the only logical reason I can see for Hamas refusing to sign a cease fire deal with Israel.
Gaza ceasefire deal on edge of collapse - Politico (msn.com)
Support for the Democratic Party is a complete rejection of Christian values in society.
in Federal Politics in the United States
Posted · Edited by blackbird
That is a lie. God speaks through the Bible where he recognizes the pre-born fetuses or whatever you want to call them as human beings or persons. Google it and you can find many verses that show God considers them as persons. God says thou shalt not kill in the Bible, and that includes everyone born or preborn. This has been part of the Holy Scripture (Holy Bible) for several thousand years since it was written. It may not have been a political issue in past centuries because abortion was not legitimized by the state or authorities. But there is nothing new about pre-born being persons.