I grew up “Catholic”, but to be honest I never bought into it. Mostly as a kid the last thing I wanted to do was spend 5 days in school and then another day at Sunday school. So I distanced myself for a long time from Faith in general. About as distanced as I was from politics. Politicians are less trustworthy than used car salesman, at least you know the motive for the salesman. I also voted third party in 2016 being sick of the 2 party system. I felt the same way about the church with their Priest situations. My views haven’t changed much since say 10 years ago. The biggest change was that I was indifferent on abortion until we had our first kid in 2018. When I saw the ultrasound and heartbeat for the first time at 9 weeks I knew that was my child immediately. Nothing can change that opinion. Then later that year I began to pay attention to politics after the blatant deception from the Kavanaugh BS. I found a lot of parallels with the people standing up for Kavanaugh/Trump as with the teachings from Christianity. In 2019 I bought my first Bible (King James version).
Skipping the rest of the journey to get to the point:
The efforts these people have taken to actively undermine the lessons of the Bible has lead me to exactly what they are trying to destroy.
I am just starting to build on my surface level knowledge from my childhood, but I’m determined to learn more.
I just wanted to share with this community of shit posters, memers, truthers, pedes, and most importantly Patriots that I feel there is much more going on than what we see.
Hey fren, this post warmed my heart. I am convinced God is working in our country and on our earth. There has been a groundswell of formerly 'non-religious' people who have had an awakening. It's just like God to use absurdities like 'awomen' to open people's eyes.
Since you are finding your way to Him, I'd like to make a recommendation. It's this. I highly, highly, recommend The New Testament Expanded Translation by Kenneth Wuest. As the title suggests, this does not include the Old Testament, but it is such a great version of the New Testament, I think it's worth having to supplement your full bible. What he did was use every English word necessary to convey the meaning of the Greek words and to use them in order as much as possible. So for instance, in my bibles you will find Hebrews 13:5b rendered as: ... God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." But the actual Greek text is more accurately translated as: "I will not, I will not cease to sustain and uphold you. I will not, I will not, I will not let you down." I find that immensely comforting, the fact that God emphasized His promise by repeating, I will not.
Good to have you with us. Take good care of your little patriot and please, make us some more!