Children Have Enough Confusion. Don't Add Sexual Uncertainty To It

No pain is funny. Emotional pain is as common as physical, just as painful and may even damage you more than bloody wounds and broken bones. It is especially not funny when it is a child who, at their young age is not man enough or woman enough to please an overbearing parent or bullies on the school yard. Many boys and girls, in early childhood, can't be visibly distinguished as male or female. That does not mean they are other than what they were born to be. And if they become confused as to whether they are a boy or a girl, it may either be a temporary confusion in their immature little minds or due to father or mother trying to live out their own fantasies in the child, or who have been brain-washed by Liberal News Media, Social Planners and sexually confused, adult activists. Fathers often try to make football heroes of their little sons who have other God given talents and interests. Some mothers do the same by trying to make sex idols, models or Hollywood actresses of their tiny daughters who would rather just be a little mommy to their doll. Children who don't yet know who they are can easily be swayed by intimidation from parents or bullying at school or in the neighborhood. If a child is encouraged to be what God gifted him/her to be and what he was born to be, and parents would help them cultivate their God given talents, and God given sex, most of the sexual confusion would be neutralized. RB

This from News.com.au
Patrick's Pain: 'I Didn't Know Who The Person Staring Back At Me Was

AT the age of 12, Patrick Mitchell began a two-year journey to realize his dream of becoming a girl. And then he changed his mind.

PATRICK Mitchell just wanted to change everything about himself.

Uncomfortable in his own skin, the young schoolboy felt like he didn’t quite fit.

He was just seven years old when he felt like he first heard the phrase “trans”.

It was the start of an emotional journey which, five years later, would see him diagnosed with gender dysphoria, and beg his mother to let him transition into a girl.

“You wish you could just change everything about you, you just see any girl and you say ‘I’d kill to be like that’,” Patrick tells reporter Ross Coulthart in an interview to air on 60 Minutes on Sunday night.

But two years after taking estrogen hormones and growing his hair long in an effort to address the condition which put him at odds between his biological gender and his own identity, Patrick has changed his mind.

He’s stopped taking the estrogen hormones which transformed his body and is preparing for surgery to remove the excess breast tissue to transition back into a boy, Woman’s Day reports.

Patrick was just 12 when he first voiced his mental torture to his parents.

It had been five years since he’d first heard the word ‘trans’, he says “and because I’d always identified with girls thought, well, this makes sense, I probably am a girl”.

As his conflict grew — both internally, and externally thanks to hitting puberty and being bullied at school — he’d stay up late at night researching trans people and what could be done to look more like a female.

His mother, Alison, tells 60 Minutes she could see her son struggling.

Finally, having seen a television story about transgender people, she gently broached the subject with her son.

“I hadn’t even finished the sentence and he had the biggest smile on his face. I hadn’t seen him smile for months,” she said.

With a doctor’s diagnosis, she gave the go-ahead for Patrick to begin his transformation.

“When he was young he would dress up in girls’ clothes and at one stage he did say to me could he be taken to the doctor to be made into a girl,” she said.

But at the start of this year, when teachers started referring to him as a girl, Patrick started feeling different.

“I began to realise I was actually comfortable in my body. Every day I just felt better,” he says.

He again turned to his supportive mum.

“He looked me in the eye and said ‘I’m just not sure that I am a girl’,” Alison says.

It was a massive twist in an emotional journey, and Alison has only admiration for her son.

“That moment ... when you know it’s taken every drop of courage for that child to speak up … I didn’t know what the coming days would bring, but I knew his thoughts had caught up with his body,” she says.

Here is an Op-Ed From Los Angeles Times 
(Not the paper's opinion) By Debra W. Soh

Are Gender Feminists And Transgender Activists Undermining Science?

In the world of radical identity politics, two groups with very different philosophies have been ignoring science in the name of advancing equality: gender feminists and transgender activists.

Gender feminists — who are distinct from traditional equity feminists — refuse to acknowledge of normal change in shaping the human brain, and instead promote the idea that sex differences are caused by a socialization process that begins at birth. Gender, according to them, is a construct; we are born as blank slates and it is parents and society at large that produce the differences we see between women and men in adulthood.

The idea that our brains are identical sounds lovely, but the scientific evidence suggests otherwise. Many studies, for instance, have documented the masculinizing effects of prenatal testosterone on the developing brain. And a recent study in the journal Nature’s Scientific Reports showed that testosterone exposure alters the programming of neural stem cells responsible for brain growth and sex differences. 

Gender feminists often point to a single study, published in 2015, which claimed it isn’t possible to tell apart male and female brains. But when a group of researchers reanalyzed the underlying data, they found that brains could be correctly identified as female or male with 69% to 77% accuracy. In another study, published in 2016, researchers used a larger sample in conjunction with higher-resolution neuroimaging and were able to successfully classify a brain by its sex 93% of the time.

Even if male and female brains were identical structurally, this would fail to say anything about differences in brain functionality. Indeed, studies have shown sex differences across a wide variety of cognitive domains, including verbal fluency (the ability to generate many different words starting with a given letter) and mental rotation (the ability to rotate three-dimensional shapes in the mind). In one study using functional MRI, women outperformed men on the former, while men outperformed women on the latter. 

In my experience, proponents touting the “blank slate” view are willing to agree, in private conversations, that neurological sex differences do exist, but they fear that acknowledging as much publicly will justify female oppression. This is backward. As it stands, female-typical traits are seen as inferior and less worthy of respect. This is the real issue the movement fails to address: Nobody wants to be female-typical, not even women.

Distortion of science hinders progress. When gender feminists start refuting basic biology, people stop listening, and the larger point about equality is lost.

Unlike gender feminists, transgender activists firmly believe that gender is a biological, rather than social, reality — but of course, they don’t believe that it’s necessarily tied to sex at birth. They also believe that gender identity is quite stable early on, warranting a transition not only for transgender adults but also young children who say they were born in the wrong body.

More Proof Of Voter Fraud Uncovered In New Hampshire

Voter Fraud Investigation Just Getting Started

Kris W. Kobach is the elected Secretary of State of Kansas.  An expert in immigration law and policy, he coauthored the Arizona SB-1070 immigration law and represented in federal court the 10 ICE agents who sued to stop Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty.  In 2017 President Trump named him Vice Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity.  He is currently a candidate for governor of Kansas.  His website is kriskobach.com.

This from BreitBart News concerning Kobach's investigation

Exclusive – Kobach: It Appears That Out-of-State Voters Changed the Outcome of the New Hampshire U.S. Senate Race

For years, the mainstream media has ignored the problem of voter fraud and belittled those of us who are trying to do something about it. And when secretaries of state like me identify cases of fraud, we are told that the number of incidents of voter fraud is too insignificant to matter.

Now, however, facts have come to light that indicate that a pivotal, close election was likely changed through voter fraud on November 8, 2016: New Hampshire’s U.S. Senate Seat, and perhaps also New Hampshire’s four electoral college votes in the presidential election.

New Hampshire is one of fifteen states that allow same-day voter registration. The benefit of same-day registration is that it allows a person who has procrastinated or has forgotten to register to nonetheless cast a ballot on election day. The downside of same-day registration is that it does not allow the state time to assess the eligibility of the voter. A volunteer poll worker simply accepts a modicum of identification and takes the voter at his word that he’s a U.S. citizen resident of the state who is eligible to vote.

New Hampshire is also a battleground state. Unlike neighboring Massachusetts and Vermont, which reliably vote for the Democrat in presidential elections, New Hampshire can swing either way. It has long been reported, anecdotally, that out-of-staters take advantage of New Hampshire’s same-day registration and head to the Granite State to cast fraudulent votes.

Now there’s proof.

According to statistics released by the Speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, on the date of the general election in November 2016, there were 6,540 same-day registrants who registered to vote in New Hampshire using an out-of-state driver’s license to prove their identity. In and of itself, that doesn’t prove that any fraud occurred – theoretically, each of those individuals could have been someone who recently moved to the State and had not yet had time to get a New Hampshire driver’s license. According to New Hampshire law, a new resident has 60 days to obtain a New Hampshire driver’s license.

So if those 6,540 voters were bona fide New Hampshire residents, they would get their driver’s license no later than January 7, 2017. However, the numbers tell a very different story. It turns out that, as of August 30, 2017 – nearly ten months after the election – only 1,014 of the 6,540 same-day registrants who registered with an out-of-state license had obtained a New Hampshire driver’s license. The other 5,526 individuals never obtained a New Hampshire driver’s license. And, of those 5,526, only 213 registered a vehicle in New Hampshire.

So 5,313 of those voters neither obtained a New Hampshire driver’s license nor registered a vehicle in New Hampshire. They have not followed the legal requirements for residents regarding driver’s licenses, and it appears that they are not actually residing in New Hampshire. It seems that they never were bona fide residents of the State.

5,513 is a big number – more than enough to swing two very important elections. The closest major election was the contest between incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte and challenger Maggie Hassan (D). Hassan won the election by a razor-thin margin of 1,017 votes. Those 5,313 fraudulent votes were more than enough to swing the election. If 59.2 percent or more of them went for Hassan, then the election was stolen through voter fraud. That’s likely since the surrounding states are Democrat strongholds.

It’s also possible that New Hampshire’s four electoral college votes were swung to Hillary Clinton through illegal voting by nonresidents. Clinton won New Hampshire by only 2,732 votes. If 74.8 percent of the 5,513 fraudulent votes were cast for Clinton, then the presidential election in New Hampshire was tipped as well.

If the presidential contest had been closer and had come down to a margin of three or four electoral college votes, then this voter fraud might have had extraordinary consequences. Regardless, in the Senate contest, it is highly likely that voting by nonresidents changed the result.

And that is already having consequences for the nation. If the 52-48 Republican-Democrat balance in the Senate were 53-47, it could change the balance in any number of votes – not the least of which would be the effort to repeal Obamacare.

But the mainstream media will tell us, “Move along, there’s nothing to see here.” Voter fraud virtually never occurs.

Don't Be Surprised If You Awaken One Morning To A New World Order Of Forced Unity

A world order where China is the World Economic and Military power and a religious world order of Catholic, Islamic and Liberal Protestant denominations uniting in a cooperative effort to maintain world peace and eliminate the conflict between individuals, religions, and nations. The best way to accomplish and enforce this is by way of tiny, universally implanted ID chips similar to those golden ones embedded on the new credit cards, printed on your skin, with all your information on it and which you must scan to buy or sell anything or obtain service.

China has risen from an agrarian nation of peasants to the world's strongest economy and near greatest military might in the short, but stunning forty years since Mao's death. Since then their Communist government has embraced the decoupling of the economy from government and created a market-based economy which has now reached global domination. If they are not yet the strongest military power, they soon will be, and they have an endless number of expendable soldiers.

In America's case, I read a study recently that 70% of our military aged young people were "unfit for military service" because of obesity, drug use or criminal records. this is also true in other western nations.

It seems that there is something worse than a Communist dictatorship moving toward free enterprise and increasing privilege.  That would be a free nation moving in the opposite direction from freedom toward a Communist dictatorship. The obvious conclusion here is that whether a nation is on top of the world or the bottom, there is only one way to go... down from the top and up for the bottom. They are moving up and we are moving down.

Triad Of China, Russia And North Korea Warn Us To Continue 66 Year Wasted Dialogue With N.K.

Which Is To Say, "Surrender To Communist Demands Or Else"

Don't miss the video at bottom of this page.

This from the U.K. Guardian
North Korean Nuclear Crisis; Putin  
Warns Of Planetary Catastrophe ...
As Kim Jong-Un Prepares Further Missile Launch

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has warned that the escalating North Korean crisis could cause a “planetary catastrophe” and huge loss of life, and described US proposals for further sanctions on Pyongyang as “useless”. 

Common Sense Commentary in blue is mine. RB

And they probably are "useless" since Russia and China have given and are giving North Korea everything they want to intimidate the United States into submission to the desires of Kim Jong-Un and his Communist partners China and Russia. This is their way of manipulating the U.S. and western world through a third party, North Korea, and avoiding the blame or repercussions upon themselves. 

Putin continued ... “Ramping up military hysteria in such conditions is senseless; it’s a dead-end,” he told reporters in China. “It could lead to a global, planetary catastrophe and a huge loss of human life. There is no other way to solve the North Korean nuclear issue, save that of peaceful dialogue.”

It is North Korea who is "ramping up military hysteria" and
so called "Peaceful dialogue" is the very thing which brought us to this inextricable dilemma. All these previous presidents, including Bill Clinton, the two Bushes and especially Obama, passed the buck or kicked the can down the road. We are
now at the end of the road with the present insane threat of destruction from Kim Jong-Un. Trump has been left holding the bag and a shipload of poisonous worms. Nothing he can do will untangle this 66-year mess our politicians have allowed, by cowardly appeasement, which they continue to call "peaceful dialogue". Previous administrations have begged, pleaded and paid off North Korea to "please leave us alone" while they continued to develop nuclear bombs and ICBMs with Chinese and Russian help. While our majority Left-wing, Socialist politicians paid the Communist ransom demands and tip-toed through the graveyard of the Korean War. Now the North Koreans could knock out our electric grid system with one small nuclear air burst 200 miles up and paralyze the nation.

The UK article continues... On Sunday, North Korea carried out its sixth and by far its most powerful nuclear test to date. The underground blast triggered a magnitude-6.3 earthquake and was more powerful than the bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the second world war.

Trump and Congress are now damned if they do and damned if they don't. If they again appease these Communists, it will be under duress and will only weaken our position like paying off the school bully to not eat your lunch. From then on your lunch is his along with anything else he wants from you. If our brave leaders decide to drop a small nuclear bomb over Pyongyang,  they would probably knock out Seoul's grid system as well, since Seoul and Pyongyang are only 121 air miles apart. Besides that, they no doubt have missile sites in other places, and maybe on submarines. It might also bring China and Russia into a war, which, at this point of weakness and disarray, we could not win ... with Muslims already eating our lunch and the nation divided. It would be impossible to knock out all of the enemy ICBMs coming our way. We may not even be able to stop North Korea's. But, there isn't much choice except to leave it in the hands of our military and nuclear experts and pray for God's intervention. One thing is sure; we don't want a ground war with those three nations. They have endless numbers of expendable soldiers. The best resolution to this crisis, since Kim Jong-Un is not likely to become a Christian, is for God to kill him or assign one of his body guards to do the job. Or maybe a swarm of hell-fire drones.

Dr. Peter Pryon of U.S. EMP Commission on Lou Dobbs 

 Dr. Peter Pry, chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission, on North Korea’s claim that they have successfully tested a ballistic missile that can carry a nuclear warhead.

It is also thought that there is an "Improved EMP" developed by the Russians which was given to the North Koreans.  Our hardened sites may not stand the "Improved" version.

The video of this interview 

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Lou+Dobbs+interview+with+Dr.+Peter+Pryon&view=detail&mid=1BE003A44325B10D4A8F1BE003A44325B10D4A8F&FORM=VIRE

New Evidence Illegals, Felons, And The Dead Are, In Fact, Voting In Our Country

So tell me again why Democrats don't want photo ID required to vote in our country. Unfair? To whom, illegals, felons and the dead? RB

This from The Daily Signal

A veteran Democrat chief election official in Florida has conceded in court that noncitizens and felons possibly voted, in a case that could have national implications for how localities clean up voter rolls.

Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes is defending her office against a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Rights Union, a conservative legal group that contends there are more voters registered on Broward’s rolls than there are eligible voters in the county.

Those rolls are said to be inflated with not only noncitizens and felons but also other ineligible people who have voted illegally.

On July 31, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported that, in court, “Snipes acknowledged the processes her office [has] been using aren’t perfect and that some noncitizens and felons have voted despite not being eligible—especially right before major elections when groups are actively registering new voters.”

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And this from The Miami Herald concerning last years presidential race between Hillary and Trump.

As early voters in Florida started casting votes, conservative websites buzzed about new evidence of crooked campaign tactics by Hillary Clinton to secure the crucial battleground state.

The alleged scheme centered on left-leaning Broward County, already in the news for distributing some mail-in ballots without Amendment 2, a proposal to legalize medical marijuana.

The claims originated from Roger Stone, a Donald Trump supporter and former campaign operative who spoke of a “secret” meeting in an interview to conspiracy theorist and radio show host Alex Jones on Oct. 26.

“Yesterday Hillary Clinton shows up in Broward County — slips into a private meeting with the woman who runs the board of elections,” said Stone, who lives in Fort Lauderdale.

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All veterans must present a photo ID when giving blood, seeing any and all VA doctors, picking up prescriptions and to be buried. RB______

This from US Message Board:

List Of Things Requiring Photo ID

Some are federal, but most are state laws or activities where I live.

1. Boarding an airplane
2. Writing a check
3. Cashing a check
4. Using a credit card
5. Driving a motor vehicle
6. Applying for a business license
7. Applying for permission to hold a protest or rally
8. Securing employment 
9. Purchasing a house or real estate
10. Renting a domicile
11. Renting a motor vehicle
12. Purchasing a firearm (Includes BB guns)
13. Applying for a hunting license (waived for 16 and 17 year olds when their legal guardian provides a photo ID)
14. Applying for a fishing license (waived for 16 and 17 year olds when their legal guardian provides a photo ID)
15. Purchasing alcoholic beverages
16. Purchasing tobacco or products that contain nicotine
17. Purchasing a motor vehicle
18. Initial registration of a motor vehicle 
19. Applying for a building permit
20. Receiving prescription medicine
21. Purchasing OTC medicine that contains pseudoephedrine 
22. Serving on jury duty
23. Getting a bank account
24. Cash transactions of $5000.00 or greater
25. Sales tax exemption for people aged 80 and above

Of the above, numbers 2, 3 and 4 are not state law but at a business owners discretion. By law, they can demand it. Numbers 15, 16 and 25 are usually applied using common sense, as in if you appear to be too young the business can demand proof and refuse to engage in the activity if one cannot provide proof of the required age law.

All of the above are things that occur on a daily basis but not necessarily to everybody.
Despite the above common actions that people engage in, some seem to think that asking for a photo ID for voting purposes is somehow a violation of civil liberties or an attempt to prevent people from voting. The really interesting part is that it is usually liberals claiming that it is conservatives attempting to prevent people from voting when a photo ID law would apply equally to both liberals and conservatives. Heck, they would apply equally regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, weight, sexual orientation, income, health, disability, race, wealth, intelligence, marital status, attractiveness, employment status and everything else. Is there something wrong with preventing the dead, the illegal aliens, the young (under the age of suffrage) and other non-qualified people from voting just as we prevent them from engaging in the activities listed above?

Abraham Lincoln Proclaimed A National Day Of Prayer And Fasting For National Healing

"If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 2 Cor. 7:14.

There was a day in America when Christians obeyed God's admonition and remedy for their sick nations healing and restoration. It was occasioned by a national Civil War, and designated by President Lincoln. Yesterday, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017, was similarly designated by President Trump and Texas Governor Abbott as a national day of prayer for God's mercy and healing for the tens of thousands of people affected by the floods of Hurricane Harvey.

Proclamation Appointing a National Day Of Prayer and Fasting 154 Years Ago Washington, D.C. March 30, 1863 Senator James Harlan of Iowa, whose daughter later married President Lincoln's son Robert, introduced this Resolution in the Senate on March 2, 1863. The Resolution asked President Lincoln to proclaim a national day of prayer and fasting. The Resolution was adopted on March 3, and signed by Lincoln on March 30, one month before the fast day was observed.

By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation. 
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation.
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!
It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday, the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby request all the People to abstain, on that day, from their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of public worship and their respective homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties proper to that solemn occasion.
All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former happy condition of unity and peace.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this thirtieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty seventh.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

Life Requires Just One "Eternal" Choice. ONE! Have You Made It?

Jesus Has Set That One Eternal Choice Before Each Of Us...

"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matt. 7:13-14.  

The only choice there is "Enter ye in". That is an invitation which calls for a decision, a choice ... our only choice which determines our eternity.

The "Broad Way" runs through the "Valley Of Decision"...

"Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision." Joel 3:14.

Each of us must "choose" to leave the "Broad Way" and enter the  "Narrow Way".

"...If it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve. ...." Josh.24:15.

The "broad way" is broader than I once thought. Its broadness is defined by the thousands of lanes and millions of people flowing down it... toward destruction. There is just one exit gate, the "narrow gate" off to the right, which leads to eternal life. One does not have to choose the broad way, we are born to it and all its lanes, though differing, run parallel to the same end ... destruction. All religions, beliefs, philosophies, lifestyles, and choices except that one "narrow gate" lead to the same destination ... away from God ... separation from God, which is absolute, eternal lostness. Our only eternal choice is when we see that "narrow gate", labeled "Jesus Way", to turn aside and exit the "broad way" onto the Jesus Way. The Jesus Way is narrow because it is just one lane, one way to heaven and forgiveness of sin ... Jesus.

"There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God ...." Eph.4:4-6. JESUS.

"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.

"Clarifying A Few Things" For The Pope

Francis, old Buddy, I recommend what the Bible calls "the holy scriptures" in 2Tim.3:15

It is common knowledge that the Pope's Official Titles are ... Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City, Servant of the Servants of God.
The basic meaning of a "Vicar", according to my dictionary is, "A person who acts in place of another. A person who is authorized to perform the functions of another." In the Pope's case, according to the title, he is vicar of  Jesus Christ. I think I'll just keep Jesus. The Pope scares me with his "God can't do everything" and "Cremated ashes must not be scattered" where God can't find them, comments. 

"Successor of the Prince of the Apostles" presumes that Simon Peter was, somehow, the first Pope, though the Bible never says Peter was a "Prince" or puts him in Rome, or gives him all those high sounding titles. Jesus built His church upon the confession of faith Peter gave in answer to the question,  "...Whom say ye that I am?"  To which Peter answered,  "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God."  Peter was not the subject of their conversation, but the answer to Christ's question as to who they believed He was. It was that confession of faith in Christ upon which He built His church, not upon Peter, as the Pope believes, but upon the Himself and the confession of faith in Him that Peter gave in Matt.16:15-18. The "Rock" in these verses is translated from the Greek word for foundational stone. Peter's name is translated from a word meaning a small, hand-sized stone. Christ's church is not built upon Peter but upon Christ.

As for "Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church", neither Jesus nor Peter ever spoke of themselves in such extravagant, superfluous terms, though Jesus could have and still be understating the fact. He was God in human flesh ... the Pope is flesh and no more or less than any other man. It is faith in Christ which makes all the eternal difference in people.

It is almost funny when you see the Pope all decorated, preened and bedecked in his royal robes, gold trinkets, and crown .... carried about in his golden, wheel-less carriage by his devotees through his peasant subjects. And then hear that he once found it necessary, as the Supreme Leader of all the Jesuit Order of Argentina, to seek advice from a secular, lady psychoanalyst for six months. Now he is running the entire Catholic world. Kinda dims the glitter doesn't it and exposes him as flesh. Momma used to "clarify" rancid butter in a pan on her old cook stove. I wonder how this lady "clarified a few things" for Pope Francis.... for six months.

Pope Francis reveals for the first time that he consulted a psychoanalyst to "clarify" a few things
By Nick Squires, in Rome
1 SEPTEMBER 2017

Pope Francis has revealed, for the first time, that he sought help from a psychoanalyst when he was younger. 

He is believed to be the first Pope in history to have visited a psychoanalyst – or at least to have admitted to it. 

In a new book, he says that at the age of 42 – decades before he was made Pope - he went to a psychiatrist in Buenos Aires in his native Argentina for six months.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, as the Pope was known then, was at the time the head of the Jesuit order in Argentina.

“At a certain point, I felt the need to consult an analyst. For six months, I went to her house once a week to clarify a few things,” he revealed in the book, Pope Francis: Politics and Society. 

He did not specify exactly what “things” he wanted to clarify or why he felt the need to seek psychiatric help but he did say the treatment was successful.

You Could Make A New Denomination Of This Incidental, But Interesting Truth

Call it The Right With God Church

The word "right" has two meanings. One, a condition of the heart, morality or correctness. The other use of "right" is referring to the, usually, stronger of two sides of the body. This latter has expanded to mean one particular side, the right side, as opposed to the left side of anything. 

Webster defines and relates the two meanings, one to the other. The first, the original, means "correctness", being right with God. The second, which derives from the first, refers to the, usually, stronger and more skillful side of the body. 

"Right" was first used by God in Gen. 7:1 when He said to Noah, "... Thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation." The derivative of that word, "right", relating to the, usually, stronger of the two sides of the body, was first used later, in Gen.13:9, by Abraham in giving his nephew, Lot, the choice of turning to the right hand or to the left hand, and Abraham would go in the opposite direction of Lot. Lot chose the direction toward Sodom were his incestuous descendants settled on the eastern shores of the Dead Sea, thought to be to the left of where the decision was made.

Webster deals first with the "right/correctness" meaning of "right" and then with the "right/stronger side", directional meaning, in this definition ... "Right is straight, not crooked, upright,
righteous, conformed to justice, fit, real, not mistaken, correct, well in body, mind, and spirit, Mentally sane." Then he gives the other meaning of "right", still as an adjective and derived from the other, the original word.... "The stronger side of most people on which the muscular action is usually, not always, more skilled and stronger than the other side."

It is interesting that the right-hand side or direction (not in the "correctness" sense) is used about 300 percent more times than the "left-hand" side or direction. That doesn't include the word "right" as in being right with God or righteous. That particular usage is found many hundreds more times than both the words left and right put together.

So, as I said, I will try not to go to seed on the subject but will agitate the left-wingers with the Scriptural superiority of the right-wing over the left-wing, with these verses....

"A wise man's heart turns him toward his right hand, but a fool's heart toward his left." 
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (Amplified Bible) Also in the other versions.

"And he (Jesus) shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left." Matt.25:33

"Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left." Matt.27:38. I am assuming the repentant thief was on the right side of Jesus.

"And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship...."  Gal.2:9

"Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high."  Heb.1:3

"The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches."  Rev.1:20

So, since I have a choice of standing on the right or left of important national, social, and Biblical issues, I chose to be on the right side of all issues. 

As I said earlier, I show these verses to agitate the left-wing Liberals. Actually there is only one "right" side of any issue, God's side, as revealed in His word.
And God's side is the righteous side. RB

Rev. Hillary? Stranger things have happened ... somewhere .... probably ... maybe

She would fit the title about as well as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton, or Pastor Jeremiah Wright. After all, Judas was an Apostle and look at all the things he accomplished.... lying, betrayal, accomplice to murder, suicide. Hillary might do as well as those four guys. Is This her dodge to escape prosecution? RB

Clinton the pastor? She doesn't have a prayer

From OneNewsNow

A future in politics didn't work out for Hillary Clinton last year but there might be a new title in her future: pastor.

According to The Atlantic, Clinton would like to replace the hoped-for title of "president" with "pastor" after her surprise loss to Donald Trump last November.

The sympathetic story, published Aug. 6, relies on her longtime Methodist pastor to relay the message that the famously cold and calculating former First Lady honestly longed to be an ordained minister all her adult life. 

Although she's not known to wear religion on her sleeve, she does keep it discretely tucked into a pocket of her pantsuit, ready to pull out her Methodist roots when the occasion calls for it. 

"First of all," she told the left-wing women of "The View" last year, "I'm a Christian and I take my faith very seriously."

Yet for every step toward people of faith, there seems to be two steps back, like when she was talking to a pro-abortion crowd last year. 

"Deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs, and structural biases have to be changed," she urged the crowd.

So you'll have to excuse United Methodist Pastor Ray Rooney for being a little skeptical as to her fitness for the pulpit.

"Considering the comments she's made publicly about half of America," he tells OneNewsNow, "it would be a very hard sell for her to stand behind a pulpit as a loving and caring person."

That's a reference to Clinton's "basket of deplorables" comment, which was said in front of friendly homosexual rights activists but predictably offended millions of Americans just weeks before they went to the polls.

The Atlantic story recalls that Clinton famously grew up in the United Methodist denomination, attending First United Methodist Church in the "conservative suburb" of Park Ridge, Illinois.

The story goes on to point out that the church's youth pastor exposed the teenage, middle-class Clinton to a life beyond the cozy suburbs, which included seeing figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr. in the gritty city of Chicago. Yet left unmentioned is that Clinton was also introduced by the youth minister to a radical leftist and agnostic named Saul Alinsky. 

When it was time for Clinton to write her thesis at Wellesley, she picked the life of King as her subject - just kidding. It was written about Alinsky, who offered Clinton a job as community organizer. But she declined the offer in order to pursue the ministry - just kidding. She went to law school at Yale and interned in the law office of communist attorney Robert Treuhaft.  

Then again, says Rooney, Clinton might do well in the United Methodist Church, which in some areas of the country has been a little squishy on issues like life and marriage.

"The general direction is headed in a place that would very much fit Hillary," he predicts.

In fact, Rooney adds, Clinton and the Methodist denomination seem a perfect match.

"Methodists like famous people. It helps fill the empty pews," he says sarcastically. "I have no doubt that there's plenty of Methodist churches, including the one that she supposedly attends, would love to have her stand up and speak. But speaking is not preaching."