We all know that when the Rapture occurs, Jesus will return and lead the fight against both the godless and the wronggoddedness. That epic battle is promised in the Book of Revelation to be a massive bloodbath. But very few ask the question: Where will Jesus live while he is back on Earth and leading his troops?
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Almost exactly seven years ago, just after the 2008 election when Barack Obama surprised the nation and the word by becoming president, I wrote a series of posts that looked at the possible future of the Republican party. I felt that the party was at a watershed moment with a loss hastened by the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate. I said then that there were four groups vying for control of the Republican party.
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Over the Christmas break, while the strong El Nino brought us unseasonably warm weather, parts of the US bore the brunt of massive tornadoes and floods that created a wide swathe of death and destruction.
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Most people would think that if you earn more than $100,000 a year in the US, you should not have any money worries. But Jana Kasperkevic writes about people who earn much more than that who still live from paycheck to paycheck.
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If you visit Sri Lanka, you will find a society that, on the surface at least, is quite modern especially when it comes to the status of women. Women have access to education and occupy high levels of the government and private sectors and there are few restrictions on their movement. Women can and do go about alone, drive, and do pretty much anything that men do. You will see women everywhere, dressed in all manner of styles from the latest western fashions to traditional clothing.
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Michael Grunwald writes that the Republican debates were so off-the-wall that many things that would normally have caused a sensation were completely ignored because of all the attention paid to Donald Trump’s utterances and the sniping by the candidates at each other, and that the only reason he noticed them at all was because he read through the transcripts.
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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler host a game show where they can see into the future and introduce contestants to their future wives while their current wives are in the audience.
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… in a letter to Eugenio Scalfari, founder of La Repubblica newspaper, Pope Francis said that non-believers are not excluded from heaven as long as they listen to their consciences.
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I was agreeing with a friend that the canned laughter that is heard on TV comedies is an abomination The worst ones are the really canned ones, laughs that are pre-recorded and then played at the times when the writers think the audience should laugh. These annoying laughs become even worse if you yourself are not watching the program because the phoniness becomes more obvious. If people are watching a program while I am in the next room, the canned laughter becomes so annoying that I have to move to a distant room just to get out of earshot.
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