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HCH, thank you for the post that adds merriment to this day and a smile to my face. You do not typically write as well as you did in that post.

It's looking like most if not all of the Material came from Church Militant T.V., a conservative Catholic independent ministry I happen to agree with. So, it's primarily Catholic Lay People complaining about how this doesn't seem to be right NOT that "ROME" is forcing Pagan rituals onto unsuspecting Christians. https://www.churchmilitant.com/news/article/amazon-synods-stations-of-the-cross-fuse-politics-and-paganism-with-piety

adventmessenger is not hight on the list of credible sources. They lack proper research.

Rich in mercy Eph 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

? A new heart ? Eze 36:26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

5 Disturbing Facts You Didn't Know about Smoking On Jan 11, 1964, the United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reported that cigarettes cause lung cancer. Here are 5 shocking things you may not know about tobacco and smoking... Cigarettes Contain Thousands of Ingredients There are more than 4,000 chemical ingredients in cigarettes, which can convert to over 200 different compound chemicals when burned. Some of those compound ingredients include ammonia (often used for cleaning), arsenic (an ingredient in rat poison), and benzene, a chemical compound which is found in gasoline and rubber cement. Other ingredients found in cigarettes include formaldehyde, which is used for embalming, and naphthalene, which is an ingredient used in mothballs. Television Ads for Cigarettes Were Banned A requirement for cigarette warning labels was signed into law by President Nixon in April 1970, and a ban was instituted on television and radio advertising at that time. The date for the advertising ban was extended by one day to January 1, 1971. This extension was granted to allow the cigarette companies to have one final day of television advertising for the televised football games held on New Year’s Day. Smokers Die Many Years Earlier on Average The CDC estimates that adult male smokers lose an average of 13.2 years of life and female smokers lose 14.5 years of life because of smoking. About 41,000 deaths of people who have been exposed to second-hand smoke occur annually, while 480,000 smokers themselves die. Combined, around 1,300 people in the United States die each day from smoking or from exposure to cigarette smoke. Asbestos Was Used as an Ingredient in One Brand Kent cigarettes with micronite filters, which were produced by Lorillard Tobacco, contained asbestos between 1952 and 1956. By the 1980s, hundreds of injury claims were filed by smokers and workers for the company. These plaintiffs had developed mesothelioma, a deadly cancer that arises many years or even decades after exposure to asbestos. In 2013, one former Kent smoker who developed the disease was awarded $3.5 million by a jury in Florida. 198,000 Cigarettes Are Consumed Every Second According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 37.8 million smokers in the United States in 2016. The 6.2 trillion cigarettes they consume each year works out to 198,186 cigarettes smoked per second. Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.

In the early hours of the Sabbath, I have been reflecting on the posts that HCH has made: * HCH uses a method of understanding the Bible that can be called "presentism," [NOTE: You can look the word up . It is defined on the Internet.] This is a method of understanding the Bible that has a long history. * In early times Gnostics used this method to tell us that the baptism of Jesus at his age of 30 tells us that in Heaven, there are 30 Gods. * In more recent times, this method of Biblical understanding laid the foundation for the book: "88 Reasons the Rapture will Be In 1988." [NOTE: You can find this book listed on the Internet.] This book sold some 4,500,000 copies and an additional 300,000 copies were given away free. * That book was followed by one that acknowledged an error in counting the time and that the actual date would occur in 1989. * It should be noted that the above books did not predict the day and hour of the Rapture. Rather they only predicted the actual 7-day week of the Rapture. * NOTE: It might be of interest to give thought as to why the book that HCH has written has not sold millions of copies. I will suggest an answer. To sell that many, HCH may need to distribute free of all charges some 300,000 plus copies. The free distribution of the book that I mentioned is clearly related to the ultimate sales of that book. * Well, just my thoughts as I begin my thinking on this Sabbath day.

5 Facts You Should Know About John Rockefeller_2 On January 10, 1870, John D. Rockefeller and a handful of partners incorporated Standard Oil Company, he largest oil refinery in the world of its time. Here are 5 things you didn't know about America’s first billionaire... Rockefeller Was the First American Billionaire John D. Rockefeller was the first person in history to amass a personal fortunate of $1 billion. He didn’t stop there though; he continued to build on his already staggering wealth until it peaked at $1.5 billion after his retirement. When he died, in 1937, his net worth was estimated at around $1.4 billion, with the majority of the cash tied up in family trust funds. By the standards of the 21st century, that amounts to about $336 billion, which would earn Rockefeller a spot as the richest man in American history. That’s much higher net worth than Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon. He Hired Substitute Soldiers to Avoid The Civil War Rockefeller made it clear that he supported abolition but did not serve in the Civil War, and hired substitute soldiers to take his place, which was common in those days for people who had money. He said he wanted to serve in the military during the war but could not because his family was dependent on the money he made in his business. The business in question was commodities, from which Rockefeller made enough war profit that he was able to begin building his oil company. He Enjoyed Handing Out Dimes To Children Rockefeller carried around a bag of fresh, handing them out to everyone he met, especially children. Rockefeller loved seeing the happiness the dime brought to children and counseled them to put their money into savings. The gift served as a token and a good-luck piece. It’s estimated that John D. gave away about $35,000 in dimes over his lifetime. He even gave dimes as a playful gesture to men like tire mogul Harvey Firestone and President Herbert Hoover. He Celebrated His Own Personal Holiday .On September 26, 1855, a Cleveland merchant company, Hewitt and Tuttle, hired the teenaged Rockefeller as an assistant bookkeeper. From that year forward, the corporate tycoon celebrated “job day” every September 26 to commemorate his entrance into the business world, and he considered the date more important than his birthday. “All my future seemed to hinge on that day,” he reminisced later in his life, “and I often tremble when I ask myself the question: ‘What if I had not got the job?’” Spelman College Bears The Maiden Name of Rockefeller’s Wife In addition to giving millions to help found the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University, the industrialist in 1882 began to donate money to the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary. Two years later, the African-American women’s school changed its name to Spelman Seminary in honor of his wife, Laura, and her parents, Harvey Buel and Lucy Henry Spelman, who were longtime abolitionists. In 1924, the institution was renamed Spelman College.