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If I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I want to try and get to heaven if possible.

I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I hear I really get the bottom of the totem pole.

If I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons. Modern parenting has taken what is a gift,

which are children, they're a blessing, they're a heritage from the Lord, and turned them into a

nightmare. Modern parenting has created children that are now seen as a burden.

We've changed the purpose of society from protecting innocent life to

eliminating suffering. And if eliminating suffering becomes the prime purpose, that quickly mutates

into eliminating the sufferer. A dead church is not one that's small. It is the void of the

word in the sacraments. A dead church is one in which Christ is not present.

Confessional Lutheran missionary campus pastors, love issues, etc.

Well, it was no secret that the late Pope Francis was a darling of the media, for many reasons, but not the least of which,

was Francis's willingness to apparently crack open the door to the church's affirmation or welcoming of LGBTQ people,

going so far as to say that priests could bless, but not in a liturgical way, bless same-sex

unions.

They didn't know what to think about the new pope, Leo, but now many of them do think they

know what he's all about.

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