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For the BC NDP and Federal NDP as well it's all about appeasing their brainwashed anti-industry, anti-oil base. Capitalism bad, Socialism good. They all drive cars and use as much oil as anyone else. Bunch of hypocrites. We could be selling lots of oil to Asia and creating lots of jobs and prosperity in Canada.

Actually the BC NDP did oppose the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline in court and fought it tooth and nail. Don't you remember? They lost. The BC NDP couldn't even support the only pipeline to the BC coast. Now they are opposing an important possible Northern Gateway Pipeline that would allow Canada to sell to Asian markets and create lots of jobs. " Disappointment, 'humiliation': B.C. politicians react to Trans Mountain court decision Supreme Court dismissed B.C.'s bid to save bill blocking Trans Mountain project" Disappointment, 'humiliation': B.C. politicians react to Trans Mountain court decision | CBC News

Now you are getting desperate.

You said "Christians must still repent, seek forgiveness, and strive to live a sin-free life. " That sounds very similar to Romanism in that you say it is a process depending on the individual. You must earn your way into heaven. I gave you a chance to explain and you refused to explain what you meant.

The experts say Trans Mountain is already 80% full which is considered maximum and that is about the most that it can carry. Pipelines require a little space to allow for variations in load. Eby opposed the Northern Gateway Pipeline and won't let us shift from selling oil to the U.S. to the rest of the world, especially Asia. Asia a potential big customer. He pretends to want to deal with Trump's tariffs but he is not serious about helping the Alberta energy industry. He is faking it when he says he wants to grow the economy but appears to oppose carbon. "Carbon bad". What is he doing using carbon products? Humanity is made of carbon and everything we need involves carbon. Yet Eby had adopted the carbon bad ideology. He is a real cult follower. The truth is the BC NDP still opposes pipelines and energy resource development. They want to stop the energy industry in Alberta. A news article just reported Eby was being coy and non-committal about a Northern Gateway pipeline being built from Alberta to Prince Rupert on the BC coast. Obviously he and the NDP oppose the pipeline which would allow Alberta to ship oil to Asian markets and significantly increase jobs and prosperity of Canada. It would be a major initiative to counter Trump's tariffs and ship oil to overseas markets instead of all to the U.S.

Where did I say that? You still didn't answer the question?

Why do you take the side of the anti-Semitic terrorists?

You still didn't answer the question. You are the one who said "Christians must still repent, seek forgiveness, and strive to live a sin-free life." How do you know when you have repented enough, seek forgiveness enough and striven enough to live a sin-free live"? How do you know when you have done enough?

You didn't answer the question. When have you done enough or loved your neighbour enough to go to heaven?

PM Carney and the Liberals demands on Israel to stop fighting Hamas and demanding a two-state solution 7is the same as the terrorist's comment that killed two Jews Washington the other day saying "free Palestine". The PMs of the UK, Canada and several other countries are now in effect backing the continued existence of Hamas in Gaza. These armchair critics don't know anything about the situation in the middle east and how Israel's enemies want to see Israel eliminated. "For these neo-Nazis, ‘Free Palestine’ is simply the modern version of ‘Heil Hitler,’” Netanyahu said, adding that the shooter “wanted to kill Jews—nothing more." Jews have a 2,000 year history of being the victims of anti-Semitism in Europe and the world. They know what is going on in the middle east. They also know that a so-called two state solution is nothing more than a scheme to destroy Israel because the Palestinians have no interest in peace and no interest in allowing Israel to exist. Netanyahu: “‘Free Palestine’ is simply the modern version of ‘Heil Hitler”

So have you loved your neighbour enough or repented of your sins enough for salvation? Can you honestly say you have done enough to be saved?

I didn't say we should adopt the system in the UK or France or Germany. I said the various systems in Europe should be studied. We should find out what makes the best systems. Also there are conflicting articles on the systems in different countries. You read about some problems in Germany. I read that Germany has some very good things about its health care. You need to read more than one article on a country. There are many different opinions. Some groups have their own agenda. The U.S. does have some government assistance to their system. I also never said we should follow the U.S. system. I specifically said to study the systems in various other countries such as Europe. Your idea that only government can provide medical care has proven to be a failure. Our system is worse than the U.S. in some ways. Millions of Canadians can't even get a doctor. ERs close in some places. People are put on long waiting lists for special care often and thousands have died on waiting lists. Many people in the U.S. actually get better health care than in Canada. In spite of that, I never said we should adopt the U.S. system. However, I don't believe people who can afford to pay something should be denied the privilege of obtaining health care. Everyone rich or poor in Canada suffers in a failing health care system. People who can afford it should be able to contribute to the health care system through insurance or a reasonable small fee when they see a doctor. Socialized medical care does not provide enough money to provide good service for everyone.

So you believe all that is necessary for salvation. How do you know when you have done enough to be saved?

Not really. They put their trust in Mary, the church, the Pope, the sacraments and they are taught that Jesus is in a piece of bread through their doctrine of the Mass and transubstantiation. They also worship the host. How can they believe that Jesus made a complete atonement for their sins if they are taught they must atone for their own sins through the sacraments, good works, the Mass, and purgatory? They are taught they must believe all these things. It is an unbiblical, false system.

I made a few phone calls to the medical clinics in several small towns and found that in most if one wants to find a doctor, they must go on a waiting list and it could take 1-1/2 or 2 years to find a doctor. The only alternative is in some places a walk-in clinic is open for a few hours a couple times a week or one could travel to the nearest hospital ER and wait hours there to see a doctor. The hours a walk-in clinic is open varies from one place to another. However, walk-in clinics and ERs do not provide the same level of care as one's own doctor. They generally do not know the patient as well as one's own personal doctor does. I do not feel the level of care is the same in a walk-in clinic or ER. It is more like an assembly line service or fast food service compared with a good quality restaurant service. Millions of Canadians do not have their own doctor and very little if anything seems to be changing. This results in many people in Canada who have medical problems or needs are being left behind. This results is a kind of two level system for the care of Canadians. Some get reasonable medical care while millions are not getting the care they should. This also becomes worse as people get older. Many people will live shorter live spans as a result. All of this is unnecessary if government took the proper steps to fix the system. One thing governments and political leaders should be doing is studying the health care systems in European countries. Some of them reportedly have fairly good systems. We should not be locked into a failing system because of left wing ideology that only government can take care of us. They can't; they are under too many other demands and are governed by politics as well. The only solution I see is having private care alongside the public system. If we found enough doctors in the world to come to Canada this could alleviate the doctor shortage. The private care part would allow people who could afford private insurance to pay for the insurance which would fund the private doctors. In conjunction with this perhaps clinics with nurse practitioners working with doctors could provide improved services. Remove all the administrative and paperwork from doctors for one thing. I know many people think any kind of private care is bad because they believe the ideology that Socialism or a government run health care system is better. Sadly it is not better. It has proven a failure for many years. It does not and can not fund the public system well enough to provide an acceptable level of care and provide everyone with their doctor. Perhaps some kind of clinics with nurse practioners and doctors together could improve the system. Doctors are also required because of the bureaucracy of the public system to complete all kinds of paperwork and administrative duties take up too much of their time. That needs to end. But the government seems unable to change that. The system seems to be set up to benefit bureaucrats and unions. That is one of the major problems of public systems. It is rigged to benefit certain groups at the expense of the general public.

"5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. " 1 Timothy 2:5 KJV "6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6 KJV Those who put their trust in Mary are putting their trust in a false hope. Only God through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, can save a person. None other.

Sure. You pasted a Catholic article. LOL. Means nothing. There are countless Catholic websites that defend Mariolatry. Simple fact is Romanism does not follow the Bible. I posted a long list of Catholic practices and beliefs they invented in the last 1,700 years that are not supported by the Bible.

quote Do Catholics worship idols / practice idolatry? Answer Sadly, our Catholic friends and family members have been indoctrinated to believe that the use of statues, relics, and other articles is acceptable and even necessary for worship. They have been taught by the Roman Catholic Church that the images and icons used in the church are not actually “worshiped” but are simply “visual aids” to worship. The Catholic Church long ago began making allowances for the idolatrous use of images by the way they reference the Ten Commandments. In the Catholic catechism and in most official Catholic documents, the first and second commandments are combined and then summarized with “I am the Lord your God. You shall not have other gods beside Me.” Suspiciously absent is what comprises the second commandment in the Protestant numbering of the Ten Commandments: “You shall not make any graven images.” While it is understandable for “you shall not make any graven images” to be considered an aspect of “you shall not have other gods beside me,” based on the history of idolatry involving graven images throughout biblical and extra-biblical history, it seems unwise to not include “you shall not make any graven images” in every listing of the Ten Commandments. The omission seems especially suspicious in light of the fact that the Roman Catholic Church has long been accused of the idolatrous use of graven images. There are good reasons for not using images in worship. First of all, the use of physical images to “aid” worship violates the command to worship God “in spirit and in truth” (John 4:23-24). Also, no one knows what God looks like, and John 1:18 is clear concerning this truth: “No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.” And, because God is Spirit (John 4:24a), it is irreverent to delineate Him as an iconic representation. No one alive knows what Jesus Christ looked like in the flesh, and, since there were no cameras when He walked the earth, the only description of His appearance is found in Isaiah 53:2-3, which says that He had “no stately form or majesty.” The lack of a physical description of Christ has not stopped the Catholic Church from depicting Him. Throughout Catholic churches, institutions, convents, monasteries, and every other Catholic-affiliated building and shrine, there are paintings of God the Father, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Mary, Joseph, and a myriad of canonized saints. There are statues in abundance; there are relics, such as bone fragments, said to have belonged to certain saints. Some shrines even contain pieces of wood purported to be part of Jesus’ cross. All of these things are held to be sacred objects worthy of high regard. The idolatry is rampant and fairly obvious to non-Catholics, yet Catholics do not believe they are committing idolatry. They have been cleverly taught to believe that they do not worship these idols; they simply “venerate” them. The problem is that “veneration” still gives honor and reverence to something and/or someone other than God; therefore, veneration is idolatry. Yes, Catholics do practice a form of idolatry, in violation of God’s command. The best way to reach our Catholic friends with the gospel of grace is to pray that the Holy Spirit will draw them and that they will respond to the Spirit’s leading. Their eyes and hearts are blinded by the false teaching they are continually hearing, and, until they begin to seek the truth, we must leave it in God’s capable hands. As we pray, we must keep loving them and trust that God will prepare the soil of their hearts (Luke 8:11-15). Never give up hope; the Holy Spirit does miracles every day. unquote Do Catholics worship idols / practice idolatry? | GotQuestions.org

No, not true. When they kneel in front of Mary, they are likely saying the Hail Mary. Do a search and read the prayer. They are worshiping Mary. The prayer is addressed to Mary. "They start each stanza holding a bead and saying "Hail Mary full of grace". That is worship.

You denied you were a Catholic, but why would anyone believe you? How much time do you spend kneeling before a statue of Mary?

"3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; " Exodus 20:4, 5 KJV People kneeling and praying in front of a statue of Mary are doing exactly what these verses in the Old Testament, ten commandments forbid.

Yes it is, because it is not deserving of praise or honour. People are free in this country to practice whatever religion they wish, but that does not mean we have to agree with it. We are free to criticize and expose it if we believe it is false. We do have a Charter of Rights and a Bill of rights that guarantees freedom of speech and religion. That means we are free to criticize and reject any religion or follow any religion. Apparently you haven't learned that yet. Respect basic freedoms. ____________________________________________________________________ Adoration is what they give Mary who they call the Mother of God. This website proves once and for all they do worship Mary. " Roman Catholics And Popes Worship Mary This Roman Catholic Beliefs study features images that show how Popes, priests and Catholics, revere and pray to Mary. I have people proclaim that Catholics don’t worship Mary, so this page will prove that is false. The Roman Catholic Church Catechism removed God’s second commandment which forbids idol worship, and split the tenth commandment in two, to fill the gap. “You shall not make idols for yourselves; neither a carved image nor a sacred pillar shall you rear up for yourselves; nor shall you set up an engraved stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.” Leviticus 26:1 “You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God.” Exodus 20:4,5 The Catholic Church has many graven images, idols; of baby Jesus, of Jesus on the cross, Mary, Peter, etc. And the Pope and Catholics bow to the statues and pray to them. A statue of the Holy Virgin Mary of Fatima is carried during a candlelight vigil at the holy shrine. Thousands of Catholics are clearly seen venerating this idol of Mary. A shrine is a holy or sacred place, which is dedicated to a specific deity, ancestor, hero, martyr, saint, daemon or similar figure of awe and respect, at which they are venerated or worshiped. (wiki) You might not do that, but your Pope and other Catholics most certainly do. Roman Catholics And Popes Worship Mary – Roman Catholic Beliefs These Catholics are clearly kneeling and praying before a statue of Mary.

"Roman Catholicism a Poor Defense against Communism We have no hesitation in saying that most of the Roman Catholic nations, had they been left to themselves, long ago would have fallen victims of Communism. In all probability both Italy and France would have turned Communist at the close of the Second World War had it not been for American aid and all of the political influence that our government could lawfully exert toward those nations, and even then the result was in doubt for some considerable time. The Vatican had supported Mussolini’s Fascist and military policies, including the conquest of Ethiopia (which conquest had been condemned by the League of Nations and by practically all of the civilized world), his open and extensive support of Franco in Spain with troops and arms, and his invasion of Albania and Greece. After Italy entered the war on the side of Nazi Germany the Roman Church supported the Italian war effort, which meant, of course, that our work of carrying the war to a successful conclusion was made just that much harder. During the war Pope Pius XII gave his blessing to large numbers of Italian and German troops who appeared before him in uniform. With the defeat of Germany and Italy those policies caused strong popular resentment. It is probable that, in the turmoil that followed the ignominious fall of Mussolini, the Roman Catholic Church would have been overthrown in much the same way that the Orthodox Catholic Church in Russia was overthrown when the Czarist regime fell at the end of the First World War, had not American military forces then in Italy preserved order. In Russia a dead, formalistic church had lost the respect of the people and had become identified with the despotic rule of the Czar since he was the head of both the state and the church. When the people rose up in anger and threw out the political government, they threw out the church with it and turned to the other extreme, atheism. That has often been the case where the people have known only one church. When that became corrupt they had no alternative but to turn against religion altogether." -from the book Roman Catholicism Be thankful we still have freedom of religion in Canada. That is probably the only thing that has prevented Canada becoming a totalitarian country and possibly Communist.

No, not really. The term is short for Roman Catholic. Everyone should be concerned with a devout Romanist as the PM. The last one was a Romanist as well as most PMs in Canada are. Take a look at the western countries with the most problems in the past, the most poverty and dictatorships. Examples are central and south America. Lots of poverty and crime. The most prosperous countries have been Protestant, like the UK and America. The UK and America have had a lot of freedom as well. Communist revolutions in Cuba, Venezuela, and other places that are Romanist. Reportedly one third of the people in Italy support Communism. Isn't it strange Italy was on the side of the Axis or Nazi powers in WW2. Why is it Canada gives billions of dollars of taxpayer money around the world supposedly for foreign aid? Much of it is not properly accounted for either. Much of it may have been wasted. But spreading taxpayer money around the world fits in well with the Vatican ideology of Socialism or wealth redistribution. Carney has a history of globalism including a position in the Vatican. So we can expect the same kind of spending of taxpayer money around the world.

It is a term for something that should not be praised or recognized as a good thing. You can't accept truth. You can't even accept the fact they worship Mary. That is obvious to anyone.