You have a different method of counting than I do. From what I can see the winner of the caucuses failed to get the GOP nomination in 4 of the last 10 elections. (Yeah, 2012 was insanely close but Romeny still lost to Santorum.) Three others were uncontested so they really don’t have much meaning in this case.
The Iowa GOP has been hijacked by the religious right for some time. It is hardly representative of the state and tends to give a boost to the most extreme right candidates. The state itself is actually rather reliably on the Democratic side in the general election. Iowa has gone to the D’s in 6 of the last 7 Presidential elections. To me that means more than who wins under the bizarre caucus process. YMMV.
Well, that would be a lot easier if it weren’t for the fact that there’s not much respectable about the opinion that the United States of America is a business and should be operated according to business practices.
Or the opinion that the president’s salary is $250K (it’s $400k).
That’s fine and all and I think they have a point. But the SDAs act like it’s the cornerstone of theology and the most important thing on earth. Personally, I think things like loving your neighbor and helping the poor are a bit more important, but whatever floats your boat.
The story is that the Catholic Church (AKA the literal antichrist as described in Revelations) is and always has been in league with the pagans, and sun worshippers in particular. They changed the day of the Sabbath to the holy day for sun worshippers (Sunday) in order to gain acceptance from semi-converted pagans, lead the righteous astray, and generally spread their insidious paganism disguised as Christianity.
Some time in the near future, as in the next few years (maybe even months), they expect Sunday worship to become legally enforced, with Saturday worshippers being jailed and maybe even killed. This, of course, will mark the beginning of the end times. Sunday worshippers will be provided some kind of mark-- as in the Mark of the Beast.
Um, yeah, actually saying that you don’t know anything about a topic is exactly calling that topic into question. Why, what do you think a question is?
All of my work calendars are Monday-first b/c I work in media and we use broadcast calendars. Also, October ended on Sunday 10/25. It’s November now. Media-wise.
According to Bishop Ussher’s calculations, by modern reckoning, jehovallah commenced to creating the heavens and the earth on September 21[sup]st[/sup] 4003BC. It was a Sunday (for some reason, that assertion plays out in Frau Blücher’s voice).
wiki: 2012 - Rick Santorum (25%), Mitt Romney (25%), Ron Paul (21%), Newt Gingrich (13%), Rick Perry (10%), Michele Bachmann (5%), and Jon Huntsman (0.6%)[12]
2008 – Mike Huckabee (34%), Mitt Romney (25%), Fred Thompson (13%), John McCain (13%), Ron Paul (10%), Rudy Giuliani (4%), and Duncan Hunter (1%)
2004 – George W. Bush (unopposed)
2000 – George W. Bush (41%), Steve Forbes (31%), Alan Keyes (14%), Gary Bauer (9%), John McCain (5%), and Orrin Hatch (1%)
1996 – Bob Dole (26%), Pat Buchanan (23%), Lamar Alexander (18%), Steve Forbes (10%), Phil Gramm (9%), Alan Keyes (7%), Richard Lugar (4%), and Morry Taylor (1%)
1992 – George H. W. Bush (unopposed)
1988 – Bob Dole (37%), Pat Robertson (25%), George H. W. Bush (19%), Jack Kemp (11%), and Pete DuPont (7%)
1984 – Ronald Reagan (unopposed)
1980 – George H. W. Bush (32%), Ronald Reagan (30%), Howard Baker (15%), John Connally (9%), Phil Crane (7%), John B. Anderson (4%), and Bob Dole (2%)
1976 – Gerald Ford (45%) and Ronald Reagan (43%)
2012= tie, not wrong,not right. 2008 = wrong. 2004, 2000, 1996, 1992= right. 1988= wrong. 1984= right, 1980 almost a tie. 1976= right.
Trump will shout generalities with no substance to them. Carson will mumble generalities with no substance to them. Trump appeals to those without critical thinking abilities. Carson appeals to the religious right, but the Southern vote will likely stay home. Neither of them would be a good leader, and neither of them will be in the White House.
All true, but what’s their point? Did some of the same with the Norse gods. Then the Aztec gods. The Church knows its marketing, which is why it’s H-U-U-U-G-E while the SDA is piddly.
How were the Aztec gods incorporated into Church teaching?
ETA: or even the Norse? Do you mean the names for the weekdays, which AFAIK is a Germanic thing, not a Catholic thing, since the Roman gods are used for weekday names in, e.g., Spanish and Italian.
Not true at all.
wikwi: In Eastern Christianity and Catholicism, the Sabbath is considered still to be on Saturday, the seventh day, in remembrance of the Hebrew Sabbath. In most of Protestantism also, the “Lord’s Day” (Greek κυριακός) is considered to be on Sunday, the first day (and “eighth day”). Communal worship, including the Holy Mysteries, may take place on any day, but a weekly observance of the resurrection is made consistently on Sunday. Western Christianity sometimes refers to the Lord’s Day as a “Christian Sabbath”, distinct from the Hebrew Sabbath, but related in varying manner. Many Christians affirm commonly that communal worship is not limited to Sabbath (Acts 2:45), and that “Sabbath was made for man”, meaning all mankind (Mark 2:27).
Jews’ Sabbath is on what we call Saturday because that’s the way it’s always been. Jesus is said to have been resurrected on a we now call Sunday, so that’s when most Christians worship. SDA apparently care more about what day God is said to have told the Jews to rest than what day Christ became zombified, which makes them very strange for Christians. Most Christians just don’t care that the Jewish Sabbath is Saturday.
[QUOTE=the Vatican]
2174 Jesus rose from the dead “on the first day of the week”…
2175 Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath.
[/QUOTE]
