NEWS: With the Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-03-01 #30

NEWS: With the Eyes of Faith!™ 2025-03-01 #30
Thirtieth episode spectacular! College want to do a weekly comment show. CFM podcast, and adding news items
JT Revelation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_non-canonical_revelations_in_the_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints#Revelations_to_John_Taylor
Behold, Satan sought to take away the free agency of man in the beginning, for which he was thrust out of heaven, and has sought to introduce the same principles upon the earth, which principles are opposed to Me, to My institutions, and My laws, and to the freedom, the welfare, and happiness of man—and by which principles the government of the United States sought to deprive My people of their free agency. And because men have been under the influence and power and dominion of Lucifer, and because tyranny and oppression and evil have abounded by him, and not by Me, saith the Lord your God, shall righteousness and justice, and judgment, and truth, and virtue, and holiness be forever trampled under foot? And the principles of tyranny, oppression, and misrule, and anarchy, deception, and fraud forever prevail?
Verily I say unto you, Nay.
And for this cause have I introduced My church and My kingdom, that pure and righteous principles might be inculcated, and man by his free agency yield a willing obedience to My law.
Judge Thomas B. Griffith Perspective: Why it is important to support the federal judiciary as they wrestle with major issues
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/02/17/support-the-federal-judiciary/
Three points
He was my stake president
I recommend reading his articles and articles
I'm not disagreeing with him, but complimenting him, this not the other side of the coin, but another facet on the ruby.
Amid the flurry of executive orders emanating from the White House in recent weeks, some individuals, organizations and states have filed legal challenges in the federal courts. And as the judges of those courts have sought to weigh the important legal implications of these challenges, some have granted temporary stays. This is not unusual. It is commonplace for Republican interests to mount legal challenges to the executive orders of Democratic presidents and vice versa.
Yes both sides doing it, XO and Exterminating Order.
This is real issue, bypassing congress. Getting a Caeser
It’s fair game to criticize the decisions of judges in the public square and through the appeals process. In fact, such criticism is a hallmark of a healthy democracy. What is not fair game — what serves as a body blow to our democratic republic and the rule of law — is to question the good faith of the judges or claim that they are driven by partisan considerations simply because one disagrees with their rulings.
Question decisions but not good faith
Lawyers have oath, like Hippocratic Oath, goal of defending client without collapsing the system
Each justice or judge of the United States shall take the following oath or affirmation before performing the duties of his office: “I, ___ ___, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as ___ under the Constitution and laws of the United States. So help me God.”
BOM
Lawyers and Judges
Alma 10:26 And now behold, I say unto you, that the foundation of the destruction of this people is beginning to be laid by the unrighteousness of your lawyers and your judges.
3 N 6 Now there were many of the people who were exceedingly angry because of those who testified of these things; and those who were angry were chiefly the chief judges, and they who had been high priests and lawyers; yea, all those who were lawyers were angry with those who testified of these things.
Human Nature
They are all under curse of Adam, and fallible as everyone else
Federalist Papers, 12 and faction in nature, 51, men angels
TV show COPS
Bastiat, The Law: Leaders are narcissistic snobs
To all these persons, the relations between mankind and the legislator appear to be the same as those that exist between the clay and the potter. ...
Happily, according to these writers, there are some men, termed governors and legislators, upon whom Heaven has bestowed pposite tendencies, not for their own sake only, but for the sake of the rest of the world.
Whilst mankind tends to evil, they incline to good; whilst mankind is advancing towards darkness, they are aspiring to enlightenment; whilst mankind is drawn towards vice, they are attracted by virtue. And, this granted, they demand the assistance of force, by means of which they are to substitute their own tendencies for those of the human race.
But, oh! sublime writers, deign to remember sometimes that this clay, this sand, this manure, of which you are disposing in so arbitrary a manner, are men, your equals, intelligent and free beings like yourselves, who have received from God, as you have, the faculty of seeing, of foreseeing, of thinking, and of judging for themselves!
Men, therefore, are nothing but raw material. It is not for them to will their own improvement. They are not capable of it; according to Saint Just, it is only the legislator who is. Men are merely to be what he wills that they should be.
Dostoyevsky and Crime and Punishment
The Human Predicament: we're all fallen, manage falleness.
CS Leiws: I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that everyone deserved a share in the government. The danger of defending democracy on those grounds is that they’re not true. And whenever their weakness is exposed, the people who prefer tyranny make capital out of the exposure… The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.
DOGE
Musk:
Federal employees told to justify jobs in email or Musk says they face dismissal
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/federal-employees-told-to-justify-jobs-in-email-or-musk-says-they-face-dismissal/ar-AA1zAxas?ocid=BingNewsSerp
Um, that's like everyone. Everyone has to do that.
States setting up DOGE
https://www.newsweek.com/us-states-doge-committees-trump-2036632
Not Utah, because they don't need it
Not California--well, in denial.
After decades of change, the US religious landscape has stabilized.
Olders faithful, youngers unaffiliated
Critical mass
Social media
NewAtheists/scientism
religious failures and extremism
young scandals
9/11
Commandments and standard and autonomy and individualism
Model
Why so much talk of community, if not attending
Egalitarianism and autonomy
Feelings, fairness, friends is unstable model
New book on Joe Biden "exposes" massive cover up of declining health
"Original Sin" Alex Thompson & Jake Tapper
"large act of public deception that has had few precedents" publisher
We all saw it but were shadowboxed
Every conspiracy theory is actually true
FBI Documents
Trump documents, bathroom, and everyone thought selling nuclear secrets to Soviets? Returned to him.
Coverage:
CNN Trump Takes seized boxes back to Florida
NBC FBI returns records from Mar-A-Lago search
Slanted Language
Trump and Zelenski
https://x.com/i/status/1895535520836681851
It's going to be painful for Ukraine, unless willing to risk was with Russia
And it came to pass in the sixty and second year of the reign of the judges, that Moronihah could obtain no more possessions over the Lamanites.
19 Therefore they did abandon their design to obtain the remainder of their lands, for so numerous were the Lamanites that it became impossible for the Nephites to obtain more power over them; therefore Moronihah did employ all his armies in maintaining those parts which he had taken.
20 And it came to pass, because of the greatness of the number of the Lamanites the Nephites were in great fear, lest they should be overpowered, and trodden down, and slain, and destroyed.

(Book of Mormon | Helaman 4:18 - 20)
Ramaswami
Ohio Gov to Presidency
Bobby Jindle
Kathleen Keendey out at Lucasfilm?
Once of dancers in temple of Doom
DEI:
Force is Female, alienating me, and you too
Replace legacy white male character with svelte British brunette. Bait and switch
Boom of Mormon Musical: Christ in Americas
Revival of JC Superstar
Cynthia Erivo as Jesus Christ
1970 film had black Judas, Carl Anderson
Free market. No coercion
Passes, like the Last Temptation of Christ 1988
THBL, 624, Deseret News, 9 October 1971, p. A-1
"We feel it is our responsibility to warn our people against the present-day wave of musical performances which are aimed at the destruction of sacred principles which form the very foundation upon which we stand. One of these is the rock opera, 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' We consider this musical a profane and sacrilegious attack upon true Christianity. It strips Jesus Christ of His divine attributes. Its prevailing theme presents the falsehood that our Lord"-and this is quoting from a statement of one of the characters-"is ' just a man just the same as anyone I know,' " and picturing Him absolutely as consorting, as all other men, with women of questionable repute. "To the dismay of those who worship Him as the Savior of mankind, as the divine Son of God, He and His apostles are portrayed in earthly roles living below Christian standards. We encourage members of the Church and good men everywhere to oppose this kind of entertainment."
Gene Hackman
Weird Al's parents, Dr. Laura's mother
First Lex Luthor
Gateway into Superman. Later 44 had George Reeves, which I still like. Sense of heroism. Dean Cain, Kevin Sorbo, Arnold, channel energy for useful purposes
What's happened now--no longer Truth, Justice, American Way; No longer American; Son LGBTQ, during the riotous four years of DEI.
All fro free market: let consumer decide if like this.
DCU films get back to solid hero.
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