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Really?? What gave you that idea? We are a country built on the European founding fathers. We have a King who is headquartered in the United Kingdom and speak the same language. When the British took over British North America the official state religion was Christianity, at least in name. Unfortunately we tried to absorb Quebec into British North America and after we formed Confederation (Canada), Quebec pretty well took over control. But Canada as a whole is still built on the settlement of the European founding people as much as liberals and left hate to admit that and have been working to change it ever since by mass immigration from the heathen third world.

It's not all doom and gloom. There is one persistent truth missed by most on here. "16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. " John 3:16 KJV

You know who lifted him to the top position of the land? The Papists or Laurentian Elite that live in Quebec, Ottawa and the 905 of Toronto. These goons keep voting for him no matter what he does. He can do no wrong. He and his Liberal Laurentian friends made Canada pay 35 million dollars to bring his false god the Pope to Canada for a public relations exercise to boost the Papal religion. After all, there's less time in the (non-existent) Purgatory for supporting the Papacy financially but they know most Canadians are as dumb as a dodo about these things and won't say boo. It was ostensibly a mission of Reconciliation to aboriginals but in reality a boost for the Papal church at the expense of the taxpayers. The Papal visit was one huge con job on aboriginals who fell for it.

I would give JT a very low grading on moral and ethical issues and would rate PP higher on some issues such as the economy, law and order, and certain rights, but a failing grade on the abortion issue. I think PP is less of a globalist and less of a Socialist than JT. I am suspicious about JT and Liberal's ties to Communist China and their opposition to the Canadian Forces and failure to properly fund them. But when it comes to voting, I would definitely vote for the Conservatives because there is no other choice. The Conservatives are the least undesirable. I don't trust JT (or liberals for that matter) on anything.

The King James Bible is full of the evidence of God. There is only one God, the God of the Bible and Jesus Christ his Son. Many eyewitnesses testify in the New Testament to the fact Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. If you examine the Bible, Jesus has everything to do with our lives. He is a personal God that is knowable personally. That's the kind of God he is. Every individual can come to know him personally and He will be part of our lives. So he is extremely relevant to society and what is happening in the world, which He created.

In the grand scheme of things, this incident is a trivial pile of manure. Trudeau and gov't squandered 35 million dollars on the Pope's PR visit and nobody says boo. This little incident with a Catholic schoolboy is nothing but a real diversion from the real issues of Trudeau squandering tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money almost every day. And nobody says beans about it. Is the Italian mafia running this country or the French papal puppets and their lapdogs across the country?

I wouldn't call it a state visit, although I'm sure Trudeau and Liberals would call it that. He is obviously primarily a religious leader and that is what he came for. But we the suckers must pay. This is worse than Trudeau's $6,000 a night hotel in London recently. 35 million dollars!!! What for exactly? I don't think Canada should be paying for Papal visits. That is a religious leader and religious visit. It's a huge scam. The media says quite a bit about the Trudeau $6,000 a night hotel for the Queen's funeral, but says absolutely nothing about 35 million dollars for the Pope's PR visit. Much like the Papal goons on here. Strangely silent. Seems like we are being run by the Italian mafia.

Wait a minute! This closing of Roxham Road is not stopping the flow of illegal migrants. All it is doing is telling them they have to go to a regular border crossing. So how is this going to stop the flow of thousands of migrants? I don't think it is.

The Papacy is a political-religious system and also has its own tiny state. The visit was both political/religious. He came to Canada as head of the Papal system as a public relations exercise to further the interests of the RC system. RC politicians likely believe if they pay for the Pope's visit with taxpayer money they will receive some time off in purgatory and if they opposed it they might burn in hell. Many RC people would likely think the same way because the Papal system has indoctrinated that way of thinking on them for 1,700 years. That's why the Vatican is the richest institution in the world, worth billions. After all Popes claim to be God on earth. What RC person would question the spending? The Vatican Billions : Two thousand years of wealth accumulation from Caesar to the Space Age , Avro Manhattan (1983), fullbook : Avro Manhattan : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Another aspect of Canadians being forced to pay $35 million dollars for the Pope's recent PR visit to Canada is this gives preferential treatment to one religion at the expense of all Canadians, millions of whom do not belong to this religion. Statistics I found show the percentage of Canadians as Catholic in 2021 was about 44%. In Quebec it is much higher. Montreal listed at about 78%, Quebec City and Sherbrooke about 95%. Is this also another way of placating Romanist Quebec where many of the Romanist liberal politicians and PMs come from? Of course they support billing the rest of Canada for this PR trip. They are the ones doing the billing. In forcing all Canadians to pay for the Pope's visit, I think this could be viewed as a form of religious discrimination against non-Catholics or people of other religions in Canada. It certainly is favouring one particular religion at the expense of the others. What is predicable is the silence of Catholics on this issue. Of course if they are bowing and obedient to their Pope, they will remain silent and question nothing. Just shows the lack of ethics of Romanism-supporting liberals.

Here is an article that goes into the subject of apparent discrepancies: Bible Contradictions Explained: 4 Reasons the… | Zondervan Academic

There is a reasonable explanations for seeming contradictions. If you want to not believe because you think there are contradictions, that is your choice. Everyone is free to believe what they wish. You may be able to find explanations for seeming differences if you do a search through Google or a search engine. This seems rather pointless. I'm not convinced you really want to know the answers.

I just gave you the explanation from the reputable Ungers' Bible Handbook. Not much further I can do.

I just found the explanation in Unger's Bible Handbook. Matthew is the gospel of the Son of David The Matthew genealogy shows His Royal Descent 1-17 Luke is the Gospel of the Son of Man "The Human Genealogy of Jesus, 23-38. quote In Luke we have Mary's genealogy in contrast to the one in Matthew where Joseph's genealogy is presented. ... In giving Mary's line Luke presented Jesus' blood descent. "the Son of David, according to the the flesh" (Rom. 1:3) In Mt 1:16 Joseph is called "the son of Jacob," in Luke "the son of Heli" (Lk 3:23), by which Luke means son-in-law of Heli, who like Joseph was a Davidic descendant. Cfr. for this usage 1 Sam 24:16. unquote -Unger's Bible Handbook Does that sound reasonable?

Only a contradiction if you are trying to create one or if you don't understand the context or meaning. It is obvious Matthew and Luke are not giving the same geneologies. There are things that can't be easily understood and sometimes require some investigation. The writers of the New Testament knew what they were doing and I'm sure they would not put an obvious contradiction of geneologies in there. There is a simple explanation why they are different.

It doesn't say that, but it says in Luke 3:23, that Joseph was the son of Heli. The Jews may have considered a son of the father-in-law as a son. That may be the explanation. I don't know any more than that right now. Why else are the two geneologies different?

There is no contradiction. Matthew and Luke are written by different prophets and may have been written with a different purpose. Matthew stresses Jesus was born the Messiah. So he gives the lineage through Joseph's which shows he was a descendant of King David and has legal title to the throne. Luke stresses Jesus was the perfect man and gives the lineage through Mary's father Heli to show he is the physical/blood descendant of King David and the descendant of Adam.

"The story of Joachim, his wife Anne (or Anna), and the miraculous birth of their child Mary, the mother of Jesus, was told for the first time in the 2nd-century apocryphal infancy-gospel the Gospel of James (also called Protoevangelium of James)." - Wikipedia That comes from a Roman Catholic apocryphal book which is not considered a part of inspired scripture and is not in the King James Bible. That is where the claim that Joachim was Mary's father came from. Not from Holy Scripture. It is also related to the Romanist false teaching of Mary's immaculate conception. Not found in the Bible. All that is part of Mary worship. Mary was not a perpetual virgin either. At least one gospel shows Jesus had brothers. Just a proper reading of the geneologies in Matthew and Luke and understanding that one is Joseph's geneology and the other one in Luke is Mary's geneology.

In Matthew's gospel, Jacob was his flesh and blood father and he is giving the throne line. Because Jacob was Joseph's father, he is showing that Jesus has legal title to the throne. Joseph was a legal descendent of the throne line. Because Joseph was Jesus' legal father, he gave Jesus legal right to the throne. The charge that was put over Jesus' head when he was crucified said "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews". In Luke's gospel, Heli was Joseph's father-in-law. Heli was Mary's father. Jews give the lineage through the males. The geneology in Luke is to show Jesus' blood descendancy through Mary. Luke's gospel geneology is to show Jesus was a blood line descendent of King David, which fulfills Old Testament prophecy that Jesus would be a descendent of King David. Purpose of Luke's geneology is to show Jesus' blood line descendency from King David, not Joseph's blood line lineage. Joseph was a descendent of David through the throne line in Matthew's gospel. There is no contradiction. Matthew is Joseph's geneology; Luke is Mary's geneology.

Places of worship have historically been exempt from property taxes. They would still pay for the utilities such as heat and water. Churches are in general considered a benefit and contribute to law and order in a civilized society.

Actually that is not factual at all. Churches are not profit-making businesses first of all. The money that churches receive come from the members when they put their donations in the collection plate. That money was donated by ordinary citizens who already paid income taxes on it. So the donations churches receive have already been taxed. When you go to buy something or donate to any cause, you don't pay income taxes on that money twice. You already paid income taxes on it. The money is not used for any nefarious purpose. The money is used to pay for the purchase of the church property, the upkeep of the building, the heat, and utilities and the salary of the minister. Part of the income might also go to charities in many cases. The accounting records are maintained, all regulations are followed, and in many churches, annual meetings are held with the financial statement given to every member. "Churches in Canada are generally exempt from federal, provincial and municipal taxes. This is due to the special status of churches in Canada as “place of public religious worship”. There are a few exceptions to this rule, including property taxes, which are levied on all non-residential properties. However, the vast majority of tax obligations for churches fall outside of these categories. This doesn’t mean that churches don’t pay taxes – they do. But it does mean that their tax burden is relatively minimal compared to other types of businesses. In fact, according to the 2017 Canadian Tax Profile report, the top five tax contributors to churches were income tax (27%), property tax (21%), sales tax (13%), GST/HST (10%) and import duties (5%)." Are Churches Taxed In Canada (churchreaders.com) Churches do not receive taxpayer subsidies. That is pure nonsense. An exemption from certain taxes is not the same as a subsidy which is a cash payment.

Considering that the Vatican is a political-religious corporation and possibly the wealthiest corporation in the world, why do Canadians have to foot the bill for the last Pope's visit to Canada? The book The Vatican Billions by Avro Manhattan, which is free to read online if you find the right website, describes how they accumulated massive wealth including real estate around the world. Yet when they travelled to Canada on a purely Roman church visit, the taxpayers of Canada are expected to pick up the tab of $35 million dollars. This was a visit for the business of the Catholic church and should have been paid for by them. It would have been an insignificant cost out of their finances. No other churches leadership or organizations that visit Canada get that kind of treatment. Considering their history I don't really think Canadians should be doing this. I would also say since many PMs and Canadian government members, particularly Liberals are metaphorically card-carrying members of the Roman church, it would appear there is an obvious conflict of interest involved in forcing Canadian taxpayers to pay for these trips. This fact plus the fact of the Vatican's enormous wealth would underline why it is outrageous that Canadian taxpayers should pay for this. This book online is a stunning exposition of Vatican's wealth and how it was achieved. The Vatican Billions : Two thousand years of wealth accumulation from Caesar to the Space Age , Avro Manhattan (1983), fullbook : Avro Manhattan : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Closing Roxham Road will make absolutely no difference because all the illegal migrants crossing there will simply be able to cross at regular border crossings and will be welcomed with open arms. Canada is a post national state and now belongs to the U.N. and the third world.

Former NDP leader Mulcair said Canada brought in one million immigrants and refugees last year and said that was a GOOD THING. No wonder our health care system is so badly strained. No wonder there is a housing crisis. It is a fact, Canada had a health care crisis for years now. This mass migration into Canada has just made the shortages that much worse. Governments like NDP and Liberal don't care because it just means more votes for their parties.

You actually think the leaks from CSIS are false? I guess you believe the whole story about Chinese interference is false.