The Evangelical Universalist Forum

How To Live Under An Unqualified President by John Piper

I suggest water balloons at fifty paces, to settle this dispute. :crazy_face:

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Who could have expected this? (Answer: everyone)

Dems eye Friday court ruling, new probes, more subpoenas in never-ending anti-Trump drive

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lol Balloon fights would be a welcome respite :slight_smile:

I knew that a unique pursuit of presidential power had been launched when Trump mocked Carly Fiorina’s “face,” ripped male opponents’ smaller ‘hands,’ ridiculed Ted Cruz’ wife and accused his dad of killing Kennedy, and then threatened his conscientious Attorney General as “Mr. Magoo,” and his own Secretary of State as “dumb as a rock.”

I sensed this way of consolidating political power was bound to sow an especially vicious era of partisan recriminations. But like everyone, I need to resist the real temptations of reciprocating gracelessness.

One graph does not settle things, but you might want to read the supporting article before your TDS takes over :slight_smile:

And speaking of REAL news, folks! :crazy_face:

Let me quote a bit, from the article! :crazy_face:

“Then, I see the same story on a right-wing news station and Nancy Pelosi’s name was linked to it.”

And in the political news front! :crazy_face:


The economy is doing fantastic for those in Wall Street. Nothings changed much for the rest

We need a song, to emphasize this idea. :crazy_face:

The constitution is based on reason (laws of nature). Faith and Christ is nowhere in there. The principles are based on Darwinism and survival. Christ calls us to have faith and rise above reason to the Trans-rational. It’s a different way of knowing. We transcend the laws of nature (survival of the fittest) with miracle love. Remember Jesus broke the law by healing on the Sabbath. We must intervene and bring healing to the creation, poor, disabled, sick and suffering. This is the center of Christian virtue.

SOME TRUTHS ABOUT TRUMP AND JOBS

President Donald Trump says he is particularly pleased with the jobs created during his three years in office. “We’re producing jobs like you have never seen before in this country,” he said in Michigan.

But you don’t have to go back far to find three years of better job growth. Just to back to the previous three years under Barack Obama. During Trump’s first 36 months in office, the US economy has gained 6.6 million jobs. But during a comparable 36-month period at the end of Obama’s tenure, employers added 8.1 million jobs, or 23% more than what has been added since Trump took office. The average monthly gain so far under Trump is 182,000 jobs. During the last 36 months under Obama, employers were adding an average of 224,000 jobs a month.

On Friday, the Labor Department reported that employers added a fairly robust 225,000 jobs in January. But it also made some revisions to past data, which lowered many previous job growth estimates. While some of the revisions go all the way back to the last century, most of the changes to data took place during 2018 and 2019. So the revisions reduced the gains during Obama’s final three years by 47,000 jobs, but it reduced the gains during Trump’s tenure by a total of 354,000 jobs.

The job record under Trump is far better than the job record during Obama’s first 35 months in office, when the economy lost 805,000 jobs. But Obama took office in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. In the final job reading before Obama took office, the economy lost 784,000 jobs in that month alone. And it continued to lose jobs throughout the rest of 2009 as Obama’s economic policies went into effect.

By comparison, Trump took office with the labor market in relatively good shape, with unemployment at 4.7%, and a string of 76 straight months of job gains. The labor market has clearly continued to improve. Unemployment of 3.6% in January is nearly at a 50-year low now. But it is a continuation of an improving job market, not the turnaround that occurred in the early years of the Obama administration.

And Trump’s job record is not unique. A gain of more than 6.6 million jobs during a 35-month period has been common during the 80 years that the Labor Department has counted jobs. There are hundreds of overlapping 36-month periods of better growth on record.

At this point in his first and only term, Jimmy Carter had enjoyed a gain of about 10.1 million jobs. Employers added 8.5 million jobs during the first 36 months of Bill Clinton’s term and 7.8 million jobs during the first 36 months of Lyndon Johnson’s tenure, even though the labor force at that time was less than half the size of what it is today.

– This was updated from its original version to reflect the data from the January 2020 jobs report

Bob,

That’s because Obama operated under Christian principles just as FDR did. People who wrote the social security act said that it was unconstitutional.

" The ranks of President Trump’s supporters are swelling with former Democrats, with independents, with blacks and Hispanics, and with former nonvoters. He has earned their trust and their enthusiasm through bona fide real-life achievements."
https://amgreatness.com/2020/02/06/the-political-genius-behind-trumps-sotu-theatrics/

What’s happening on the political scene? :crazy_face:



This volume provides an explanation and defense of a view of faith and reason found in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and others that is often called fideism. Carefully distinguishing indefensible forms of fideism that involve a rejection of reason from responsible forms of fideism that require reason to become self-critical, C. Stephen Evans unfolds a Kierkegaardian view that genuine religious knowledge is grounded in faith beyond reason.

”If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” ~~ JFK

Here we see the Old Testament principles of the Jewish Bernie Sanders. These are also Christ principles. After all Christ was Jewish. I know of no other religions like these that is for the outsiders and helping poor. The three Monotheistic religions.

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It’s good to know the classy Dems were above the fray and were only interested in selflessly giving of themselves to dedicate everything toward the betterment of the lives of the American people. :rofl:

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“Classy” is not the first word, or indeed any of the first 500 words, that comes to mind describing Leftists.
They are, in the main, detestable, with a few exceptions - and those exceptions will never rise to the head of the class.

What’s from the BBC now? :crazy_face:

:frowning:

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This is a top story, from the BBC today. :crazy_face:

And on the political front. :crazy_face: