Poll: Majority of Americans Accuse Churches of Abandoning Basic Tenets of Christianity –

  RedState  "Question: Have you noticed over the last several years or longer how the more the left attacks the basic tenets of Christianity, the more some Christian churches seemingly rush to abandon or water down fundamental Christian doctrine in an attempt to placate the “Christian left”? Yeah—me, too.

"So, how’s that twisted symbiotic relationship working out?

"According to a recent Rassmussen poll, a majority of respondents believe America is losing “that old-time religion.” While more than 75 percent of online poll respondents said religious faith is important in their daily lives, adults who attend services at least weekly are most likely to strongly agree that too many religious institutions today are watering down or abandoning their traditional beliefs.

"That view is shared by 52 percent of evangelical Christians, as well as 34 percent of Catholics, 30 percent of Protestants, and 41 percent of Jews, Rasmussen found. Is it any wonder? Consider the following:

"The churches, which refer to themselves as “Reproductive Freedom Congregations” [how “clever”] are united in their public support of a woman’s “right” to an abortion and are determined to “take God back” from the religious right.

"God was unavailable for comment, although sources suggest He might weigh in, later.

"I’ll just leave this here:

No Biggie: Just a Church Hosting Drag Queen Prayer Time for Children

This is everybody’s first time they’ve ever seen a drag queen? Well, hello. I am also a boy most of the time when I’m here, but today I [tosses hair] am beautiful today.

More here...

 Methodist Church’s First Drag Queen Pastor: ‘God Is Nothing’ - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics    "In a new poem, a gender-bending minister for the nation’s third-largest denomination says that queerness is divine."

From what seminary did he come?

UPDATE: The Christian Left: How Liberal Thought Has Hijacked the Church: Lucas Miles   "The Christian Left unveils how liberal thought has entered America’s sanctuaries, exchanging the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit for the trinity of diversity, acceptance, and social justice. This in-depth look at church history, world politics, and pop culture masterfully exposes the rise and agenda of the Christian Left. Readers will learn how to:

• identify and refute the lies of the Christian Left
• uncover the meaning of love as Jesus defined it
• navigate controversial subjects such as abortion, gender identity, and the doctrine of hell
• gain confidence in upholding biblical values
• come face-to-face with the person of Jesus, who is neither left nor right but the embodiment of truth and grace

"Equip yourself with a firm understanding of issues facing the church today and become empowered to elevate God’s truth, justice, and wisdom."

Biden Returns From Vacation Overseas, Leaves on Another Vacation, and Insults His Interior Secretary

  RedState   

"Joe Biden embarrassed us before the world while he was on his vacation of Northern Ireland and Ireland.

"First, Biden got confused about where his office was and had a huge security breach while he was in Northern Ireland. Then he snapped at his son Hunter in a deli in Ireland and twisted the words of Pope John Paul II about the Catholic faith. He managed to insult the British by calling a rugby team the “Black and Tans.” He even ticked off the Irish president’s dog. He told a bunch of stories that couldn’t have happened in a speech to the Irish Parliament. He couldn’t even respond to a simple question from a child and had to have Hunter help him multiple times. Then he made up another story that he told the kids, which couldn’t possibly be true. Finally, his parting words were about how we’re all doomed by climate change, but we could “lick the world.”

"He’s spent 40 percent of his time in office on vacation. That is a ridiculous waste of our tax dollars. He claims that he’s only been to the Rehoboth home “10 times” — I’m guessing he means since he’s been occupying the White House. But we’re also having to pay for a wall being built around the beach home that costs more than half a million dollars. Because walls work for his security; we’re just not allowed to have them for the security of our nation.

"Biden also said that he’d made up his mind about running again, although he wasn’t ready to announce it just yet.". . .

BOOM! Conservatives Send Clear Message to Major US Companies; Get Woke, Go Broke!

 BOOM! Conservatives Send Clear Message to Major US Companies | The Kevin Jackson Network (theblacksphere.net)

“It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.” -Warren Buffett

Those marketing ploys cost their companies not only their fan base, but their bottom lines.

. . ."For nearly 80 years, soft drink giant Coca-Cola was the most powerful beverage force in the industry since its inception in 1886. WIth the exception of the newly formed Pepsi-Cola in 1898, Coca-Cola literally had no competition.

"However, in the mid 1980’s, that had all but changed. By 1985, they had continued to lose significant market shares to diet and non-drink alternatives. To make matters worse, blind taste tests proved that consumers preferred Pepsi by large margins. In response to those results, Coca-Cola made a bold move-‘New Coke’ was introduced. The backlash was ‘bold’, to say the least.

"'New Coke left a bitter taste in the mouths of the company’s loyal customers. Within weeks of the announcement, the company was fielding 5,000 angry phone calls a day. By June, that number grew to

"8,000 calls a day, a volume that forced the company to hire extra operators.

" 'I don’t think I’d be more upset if you were to burn the flag in our front yard,” one disgruntled drinker wrote to company headquarters. At protests staged by grassroots groups such as “Old Cola Drinkers of America,” consumers poured the contents of New Coke bottles into sewer drains.

"One Seattle consumer even filed suit against the company to force it to provide the old drink. The outrage caught Coca-Cola executives by surprise. They had hardly made a rash decision unsupported by data. After all, they had performed 190,000 blind taste tests on U.S. and Canadian consumers.". . .

Al Goodwyn - 

Whistleblowers: Female Inmates in Washington State Prison Forced to Bunk With Male Rapists and Murderers; Punished if They Object

  American Greatness (amgreatness.com) Female prison inmates inside the Washington Corrections Center For Women (WCCW) revealed in secret video footage this week how biological males are gaming the state’s Transgender Housing Program and victimizing vulnerable women.

"Washington State’s Department of Corrections (DOC) boasts that it has been “a leader in the nation working with incarcerated transgender individuals providing gender affirming care to include housing in gender appropriate facilities.”

"DOC officials, however, reportedly refuse to disclose how many genitally intact biological males have been incarcerated in state women’s prisons, and are not taking allegations of sexual abuse seriously, according to whistleblowers.

"An inmate at WCCW in Gig Harbor, whose voice was altered to protect her identity, explained to an O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) journalist how the state’s radical “gender-affirming” policies have victimized women.

" 'Rapists, murderers, child rapists, and men who have killed women get put in our rooms,” the woman said, adding that women have been sexually assaulted, but the state hasn’t reported the incidents.

" 'Imagine coming into your room one day and you’re in closed custody and you turn around, and there’s a man peeing in the toilet,” the woman, identified as “Inmate #1,” said. “There’s nothing you can do!”

" 'Somehow in this institution, they are adopting ways to apply these so-called mandated laws, that came out of nowhere to prohibit segregation for certain individuals,” a second whistleblower told OMG.  “Usually sex offenders are not in general population,” the woman noted.

“ 'Some of these men are not confused. They’re just manipulating the system,” Inmate #1 said. The woman complained that the policies appear to prioritize the “rights” of the self-identified trans inmates over the rights of biological women in the facility.

“ 'They kind of cater to the trans community,” she explained." . . . 

JAILHOUSE FOOTAGE: Male Inmates in Womens' Prison Claiming to be Transgender.

"Rapists, Murderers, Child Rapists, and Men Who Have Killed Women in Our Rooms"#MillionDollarBaby pic.twitter.com/l1QbZc4Snv

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) April 14, 2023

WATCH! Inmates of women's prison say men are faking transgenderism to get in (wnd.com)  . . ."A report from The Gateway Pundit said, "The footage shines light on male inmates inside the women's prison claiming to be transgender."

"One inmate, like others on the video with an identity that was concealed with camera blurring and voice alteration, said, "Imagine coming into your room one day and and you're in close custody and you turn around and there's a man standing there peeing in the toilet, because you have the bathroom in your room in CCU. … There's nothing you can do."

"The anonymous testimonies continued, "I know there's some having sex with women. There was some like, assaulting but no one reported it.' ". . .

Biden, the leader of U.S. foreign policy

Former CIA Officer Larry Johnson: This Is A Controlled Leak To Prepare The Public For "Crash Landing" Of U.S. Foreign Policy | Video | RealClearPolitics

. . ."LARRY JOHNSON: This is a coordinated media strategy, this is a disinformation campaign. The documents are real. I’m not saying the documents are fabrications, they are not. But this cover story that's been manufactured to explain how these documents came to be produced, it just falls apart. It simply falls apart based on one document, which is listed as "CIA Operations Center Report: Top Secret." I worked in the CIA operations center, and I helped prepare those reports, that's an internal CIA document. No one on a U.S. military base anywhere in the world will have access to that kind of document.

"ANDREW NAPOLITANO: Who or what is spreading the misinformation? Is this CIA feeding garbage to their friends in the American and British media?

"LARRY JOHNSON: I'd put it above the CIA. This is elements connected to the Director of National Intelligence.". . .

"Imagine being a dem?!? Trying to convince yourself and others that Bidens doing a great job and Trump was the moron?!!?!?"

DAVID MARCUS: Our declining president and Hunter parade around on their corrupt family vacation | Daily Mail Online   . . ."Look, we all accept and understand that Joe loves his son. And any father recognizes only too well the want to forgive and forget your child's misdeeds. But by publicly flaunting Hunter - who has flouted decency, very possibly the law, and above all else, potentially implicated the president – is a flat-out insult.

"Joe is either driven by disdain for the American people or stupidity. And it may be the latter.

"In one particularly bizarre moment on this increasingly pointless tour, Joe and Hunter were meeting with locals in Belfast when a young Irish lad, clearly using a regional phrase, asked Joe for his advice on the 'top step' to success.

"Nonetheless, our commander-in-chief couldn't handle the query. So, Hunter explained to his father that the boy was asking about, 'keys to success.' "

Hunter Biden Helps President Biden Answer Child’s Question on Key to Success | CNSNews

Will Latest Revelations Of Corruption Get Biden Impeached? – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)  "With each day, it seems, we hear something new about how President Joe Biden and his ever-eager son, Hunter, used the power of Biden’s various political offices to make money for the Biden family. If even half of the allegations are true, Biden’s in big trouble. Will that make him think twice about running for a second term in 2024?

"American voters are a thick-skinned lot, and know pretty much that many politicians are scoundrels. But Biden is a different breed.

"His family has, for years, received mysterious piles of money — we’re talking millions of dollars here — from questionable overseas sources, including Chinese Communist-linked executives, Russians with ties to Vladimir Putin and huge sums from Ukraine and its giant Burisma energy company.". . .

Turns out that Hunter, with no real experience at all in the energy business, was asked to join Ukraine-based Burisma’s board of directors on April 18, 2014 — the same month that President Barack Obama made Biden his “point man” on Ukraine, then in the midst of a growing conflict with Russia.

The latest revelation is just stunning.

REVEALED: Shadow Billionaire Funding Sexual Assault Suit Against Trump Is LinkedIn's Founder (trendingpoliticsnews.com)   "The mysterious billionaire funding a sexual assault lawsuit levied against former President Donald Trump by E. Jean Carroll has been revealed after years of speculation.

"Reid Hoffman, a billionaire co-founder of social media networking giant Linkedin and now a top donor for the Democrats, has been quietly bankrolling Carroll’s rape suit against Trump, according to court records revealed Thursday.

"Hoffman’s identity as the shadow funder for Carroll was disclosed in “last-minute” correspondence between lawyers for both sides.

"According to the Daily Beast, Hoffman is not just bankrolling Democrats but also dead set on weakening Trump’s position as the de facto leader of the Republican Party. . ."

'The only one they wanna prosecute is Donald Trump!': Ex-president tells NRA conference | Daily Mail Online  "Ex-President tells NRA conference crime is so bad under Biden people get shot when they 'go out for a loaf of bread'- and tears into prosecutors for going after HIM instead of 'thugs and hoodlums' ". . .

He promised he would direct the Department of Justice to investigate every 'radical' DA and attorney general, like Bragg and 'racist in reverse' James. 'They're either stupid or they hate our country ... I believe they hate our country.' . . .

Los Angeles DA George Gascón: Menace to Society

 Los Angeles DA George Gascón: Menace to Society – PJ Media

"What new evidence suggesting that the officers should bear criminal culpability in the Mitchell shooting has emerged in the years since Jackie Lacey cleared them? None. Yet George Gascón now relies on his own hindsight, distorted by racial grievance and an animus for police officers, to bring a case against them." 

"Los Angeles cannot be rid of district attorney George Gascón quickly enough. Two weeks after charging seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse with manslaughter in the case of a man who died from an overdose of methamphetamine, he now comes after two Torrance police officers for a shooting in which they had been cleared — with abundant justification — by his predecessor. Like the case involving the CHP, the one against the Torrance officers is unwinnable for the prosecution or would be in a just world.

"But it is not a just world, and nowhere is it more unjust than in those jurisdictions where so-called “progressive” prosecutors like Gascón have been installed. In these cities, the rights of criminals are prioritized above those of crime victims and far, far above those of police officers. An unethical prosecutor, especially when abetted by dishonest news reporting, can get a jury to believe almost anything.

"On Dec. 9, 2018, Torrance police officers Matthew Concannon and Anthony Chavez responded to a report of a stolen car being driven in that city. The car’s owner, who had reported it stolen to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, had the strange luck of seeing his own Honda Civic being driven down the street right in front of him.

"At the wheel of the stolen Honda was Christopher Mitchell, 23, who pulled into the parking lot of a supermarket and parked. The uniformed officers stopped their marked patrol car behind the Honda and approached, one on each side of the car.

"The Honda’s windows were tinted, preventing the officers from seeing inside. Officer Concannon opened the driver’s door, illuminated Mitchell with a flashlight, and ordered him to put his hands on the steering wheel.

"Both officers were able to see what appeared to be the butt of a firearm between Mitchell’s legs. Concannon ordered Mitchell to get out of the car, at which time Mitchell dropped his hands toward the weapon and leaned forward. Concannon fired one round from his service pistol, and Chavez fired two. There was a delay in rendering medical aid to Mitchell as it was determined that a SWAT team and an armored vehicle should be used to approach him. Paramedics declared him dead at the scene. The weapon between his legs was found to be a pellet rifle from which the stock had been removed.". . .

Government made of the likes of Gascon, AOC and the Squad, Joe Biden and his cabinet would not have stood a chance of governing America but for an ignorant, silly, and malleable voting public whose opinions are shaped by MSNBC, CNN, the ladies of "The View" and Hollywood. TD

HOT TAKES: Bud Light Twitter Account Face-Plants Into the Weekend, Gets Brutally Roasted on the Way Down

"There is an old saying "If you walk the middle of the fence you get shot on both sides" This is why you stay away from these topics in marketing. Its beer "We are Bud Light, we are for the people that like to have fun with their friends at a BBQ, a wedding, a brisk" See how hard is that and I don't even have a degree from Harvard." Joey - Master of Wit and Sarcasm

RedState  "Anheuser-Busch is starting to realize that its dive into the pool of wokeness was a major mistake. As RedState reported, sales of Bud Light have crashed since the beer brand decided to celebrate Dylan Mulvaney’s supposed “365th day of girlhood” by printing his face on the side of a can and making him a brand influencer.

Things have gotten so bad for Bud Light that all advertising for the beer has been suspended until top executives can evaluate what in the world happened here and how to move forward. Of course, we know what happened. A far-left vice president of advertising got hired and immediately nuked the company with its most loyal consumer base. Namely, white men who aren’t really into the whole “man pretending to be a young girl” thing.

First this: Anheuser-Busch Puts out a New Statement on Dylan Mulvaney That Will Make No One Happy – RedState

This should air NON STOP before 2024 election!!!!! https://t.co/yilvd5yOZP

— SF Conservative PATRIOT 🇺🇸 (@SF_Conservative) April 5, 2023

 Nike hands real women a real insult - American Thinker  "Dylan Mulvaney is a young man who wanted to be an actor.  He has five credits on his IMDB listing. Like many actors when they first start out, Dylan was having trouble making his dreams come true.  Rather than pay his dues as a man, he found a different way to achieve stardom.  He decided to market himself as a woman during the pandemic after a Broadway musical he was appearing in closed.  And a star was born, or perhaps I should say spawned.

"Dylan started a TikTok series called Days of Girlhood, where he documented all the strange things a man must do to superficially resemble a woman (or at least a stereotype of a very young woman, circa 1955).  He now has millions of adoring fans.

"He has scooped up endorsements for everything from cosmetics to light beer.  He's making a fortune with his claims that he really is a woman.  His latest achievement is marketing sportswear for Nike, including sports bras.  However, considering that a man does not have a need for the support that a sports bra provides, this may be the straw that broke the camel's back.". . .

UPDATE: #BoycottHersheys Campaign Goes Viral, Company Accused of Erasing Women (americanpigeon.org)

. . ."Shortly after, #BoycottHersheys began trending on Twitter, with notable accounts such as @LeftismForU encouraging its followers to get the hashtag trending to first place.

"Oli London, a British influencer who began his detransition from a “Korean woman” called the campaign a “disrespect to real women.” He also included a screenshot of a tweet by Johnstone that advocated for “trans-exclusionary radical feminists” to be “vilified” and “shut down.”

"A year ago, Hershey celebrated women’s day without pandering to transgenders, writing, “Girls rule. Who are the women and girls in your life you’re celebrating? CelebrateSHE.' ”. . .

Amish Farmer Threatened for Not Giving Up Traditional Farming

 The Epoch Times.com

"Rebel News calls this recent court-ordered armed threat “an attack on Amish religious freedom just 150 miles from Washington, D.C.”

"Armed federal agents were used to threaten a traditional Amish farmer just 150 miles outside Washington, D.C., who does not use pesticides, fertilizer, or gas to run his farm.

• Amos Miller, an Amish farmer and owner of Miller’s Organic Farm just 150 miles from Washington, D.C., has been under the USDA’s microscope since at least 2015.
• It was the National Organic Program from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that first launched an investigation in 2015, seeking all the food club’s purchase records and a list of members who pay a premium to get food from an independent farmer who doesn’t process meat and dairy at a USDA facility.
• Miller has helped organize private food clubs where individuals can purchase produce, dairy, and meat from traditional farmers; the Department of Justice (DOJ) seems intent on stamping them out.
• While Miller produces and sells organic meat, dairy, and eggs, “experts” are pushing fake junk food for billions in profits, including the current “sustainable, plant-based” consumables that resemble convenience store food more than whole food.
•  Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) meat, dairy, and eggs are also not the answer to a healthy society and environment. There is a better solution and Amos Miller is using it—regenerative farming has a lower carbon footprint than either CAFOs or plant-based products, protects human health, and improves the environment.

"Historically, experts believe that food cultivation has been widely established for roughly 7,000 years.[1] While many of today’s farmers have embraced the agribusiness evolution that took over U.S. farmland, there are some, like Amos Miller and his 4,000 customers, who believe the old ways are still the best ways. Unfortunately, as reported in this short video from Rebel News,[2] the U.S. government does not agree.". . .

Honor the rank, not the man. Will Latest Revelations Of Corruption Get Biden Impeached?

To think; back when in the Marines I and my unit would have had to draw up in ranks and present arms to honor this man. It wouldn't help to say "We honor the rank, not the man". TD

The Biden 10-Step Plan for Global Chaos › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)

"Our enemies do not fear us, our allies judge us unreliable, and neutrals assume America is in descent and too dangerous to join."  Victor Davis Hanson

 

AfterMath - Home (terrellaftermath.com)

Biden is the most amoral President in US history - American Thinker

Biden will go down in history as the most corrupt, the most nationally and globally disastrous and the dumbest President in American history.  If we are to prevail as a constitutional republic, the American people better wake-up and fight for everything they cherish – family, freedom and basic human and civil rights – or it will be gone in the blink of an eye.  It began with Obama and that crowd is determined to carry out their plan to transform America.  They’ve been remarkably successful to the detriment of us all. 

Bravery, Then and Now - American Thinker   . . ."Why aren’t Republicans demanding that their representative draw up articles of impeachment against Joe Biden?  The man has obviously committed not only an impeachable offense, but a treasonous one, if it can be demonstrated that he was “the big guy” getting 10% of profits from his son’s energy deal with the Chinese Communist Party.  But even if he wasn’t “the big guy,” the man sold oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the Chinse Government, which is and should be an impeachable offense.  No, it does not require one to be decorated with medals and have legendary war stories to tell in today’s woke world in order to be brave and make a change, in today’s world it just requires having a spine not made of Jell-O.  Having this basic qualification is necessary to protect and preserve the liberties, way of life, and government that the men of Easy Company, the band of brothers, fought, bled, and died for."

Will Latest Revelations Of Corruption Get Biden Impeached? – Issues & Insights (issuesinsights.com)

"American voters are a thick-skinned lot, and know pretty much that many politicians are scoundrels. But Biden is a different breed.

"His family has, for years, received mysterious piles of money — we’re talking millions of dollars here — from questionable overseas sources, including Chinese Communist-linked executives, Russians with ties to Vladimir Putin and huge sums from Ukraine and its giant Burisma energy company.

"The latest revelation is just stunning.". . .

What were they thinking at Bud Light?

UPDATE: Anheuser-Busch CEO Issues Statement After Dylan Mulvaney Beer Can Scandal (breitbart.com)

 What were they thinking at Bud Light? - American Thinker   . . ."If Bud Light decides to align its branding with the LGBT crowd, so be it.  I don't drink the stuff anyway, but if others decide to abandon it in favor of a label more aligned with themselves, that is, or should be, their choice.  But will it be?  Or is the left going to use this as leverage to divide us further by shaming all those who don't embrace the LGBT-endorsed products?. . ." 

Here Are All the Brands Owned by Bud Light's Parent Company Anheuser-Busch (resistthemainstream.com)

It's Not Just Bud Light: These 13 Major Brands Are Also Partnered with Transgender Dylan Mulvaney (westernjournal.com)  

The Only Way Out Is Through - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

"A decade ago, around the time liberals were boycotting Chick-fil-A en masse due to the devout Christian beliefs and strongly held views on marriage of the company’s founder and managers, many on the Right refused to countenance reciprocating with such “nasty” tactics, preferring instead to seize an illusory moral high ground. But concerted economic boycotts, it turns out, work: They are effectual punishments of one’s cultural enemies using the undoubtedly legitimate means of market pressure. The Right, it turns out, can mass-organize just like the Left can. Perhaps Anheuser-Busch will see the folly of its ham-fisted attempt to foist the transgender agenda down the throats of its disapproving — “fratty,” to use the Bud Light vice president of marketing’s now-infamous description — customer base. Or perhaps it won’t. Regardless, the dramatic and successful pushback, which continues almost two weeks later, underscores that the only way out is through.

"Consider also the recent drama in Tennessee, where the Republican-dominated state House of Representatives recently voted to expel two Democrats for their role in fomenting what the hyperpartisan corporate press, if the parties were reversed, would not hesitate to describe as an “insurrection.” Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson are both clearly seen on video ginning up a frothing pro-gun control mob that descended upon the legislative chamber to demand more Second Amendment restrictions after a transgender lunatic decided to shoot up a local Christian school. In the video, Jones and Pearson can be clearly seen shouting into a bullhorn, flying protest signs, and leading vapid chants for protesters in the gallery — all of which flouts Tennessee House rules.". . .

Riley Gaines rips Nike for partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney: ‘They can forget taking my money’ - Bistosh World  . . ." Gaines appeared on OutKick’s “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show” and joked that she has not been given an offer from Nike.

“And I don’t anticipate that happening. I don’t know if they can understand the mockery [Mulvaney’s deal] makes of women, especially the video of Dylan — I guess portraying what he thinks women look like when we work out — doing jumping jacks . . ."

"Hunter The Handler"

 Biden takes questions from kids in Ireland - and Hunter steps in to give instructions | Daily Mail Online  Now we know why Joe and Hunter seem joined at the hip. (As is Hunter with many working girls.) TD

'Any of you guys want to ask me any questions?' Biden asked the children.

 He then got distracted by a youngster holding a toy model of Air Force One. 

Then he turned his attention back to the crowd.

'In the back. He's got a question,' Hunter told his father. 

 The kid then asked the president to describe the 'top step' to success.

 Biden went into a long-winded answer about Senator Helms 'who was "not very crazy about African Americans.

" 'Oh, what's the key to success? 

You know what I found out is the key to success? 

And I'm not sure I'm the best guy to explain it; these guys can tell you,' he says. 

'The key to success is whenever you disagree with someone, it's okay to question their judgment — whether they're right or wrong — but it's never okay to question their motive. 

If you question their motive, then you never get to be able to agree. 

'For example, if you say to somebody, "The reason why you don't agree with me is because you are stupid, you are bad, you are — you just don't like the people I like."

You mean the people you spoke of here, Joe?

Vatican Apologizes to the ‘Infidel Enemies of the Christian Name’ –

 "That 'dialogue' only resumed, after al-Tayeb broke it off during the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI, when Francis agreed not to criticize Islam or speak out against Muslim persecution of Christians. Al-Tayeb, meanwhile, made no similar concessions. The 'dialogue' is entirely one-sided," Spencer noted.    Christians Slam Pope Francis' "Abomination of Desolation"

 Raymond Ibrahim; PJ Media . . .While the above sounds open-minded and “progressive,” the all-important context is, as usual, missing. The above-referenced bulls, or edicts, were primarily focused on neutralizing Muslim powers that were otherwise terrorizing virtually every corner of Christendom.

"For example, Dum Diversas was issued the same year (1452) that Sultan Muhammad II laid siege to Constantinople, leading to that ancient Christian city’s brutal fall in 1453.  At the same time, Muslims from North Africa were terrorizing Spain and the broader Mediterranean through constant and devastating slave raids. Whether in Christendom’s furthest east (Constantinople), then, or furthest west (Spain), Muslims were massacring and enslaving countless Christians.

"As such, these bulls, like so many before them, were designed to inspire Europeans to rise up and defend Christendom against Muslims — to “restrain the savage excesses of the Saracens and of other infidels, enemies of the Christian name,” to quote from the Romanus Pontifex.

"Because some of these bulls deal with Christians invading and seeking to conquer North Africa, modern-day “enemies of the Christian name” have sought to spin these as unprovoked wars of conquest and colonization.  For example, the Romanus Pontifex authorized King Alfonso V of Portugal (1432–1481) to “invade [North Africa], conquer, defeat and subjugate all Saracens and pagans and other enemies of Christ,” and to “enslave their persons perpetually” and seize their possessions for profit.". . .

Again, such ruthless language must not be read in a vacuum.  The atrocities Muslims were committing against nearby Christians, especially against the subjects of Spain and Portugal, make Islamic State (“ISIS”) atrocities seem like child’s play. It was all-out war to the death.

Moreover, while expeditions into North Africa were very similar to the Crusades, in that they featured Christians traveling to and seeking to conquer Muslim lands, often left out is that all of these “Muslim lands” — all of North Africa and the Middle East — were Christian first, centuries before Islam invaded and conquered them in the seventh century.

Raymond Ibrahim, an expert in Islamic history and doctrine, is the author of Defenders of the West: The Christian Heroes Who Stood Against Islam (2022); Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West (2018); Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (2013); and The Al Qaeda Reader . . .