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			<title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most misquoted and misued verse in the Bible]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1032127.html</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:30:35 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[This may be the single most perfect example of how growing up with a single doctrinal mistake can harden people into stone from just reading and accepting the plain words and teaching of Jesus. If you grew up in a church that teaches salvation does not happen until water baptism, then there is a 90% chance you will TOTALLY REFUSE Jesus words on this. And I was one of those people who grew up in such a church as a child, but once I began to read the Bible for myself and actually became a genuine born again Christian I realized my and certain denominations error on this passage in John 3:<br />
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<blockquote><cite>Quote:</cite>3 Jesus answered and said unto him, <span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God</span></span>.<br />
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4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">second time</span></span> into his mother's womb, and be born?<br />
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5 Jesus answered, <span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water (#1) and of the Spirit (#2), he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</span></span></span><br />
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6 <span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">That which is born of the flesh is flesh #1</span>; and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. #2</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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Nicodemus asked Jesus how can this be, people being born a SECOND TIME? Jesus answers very directly and very specifically. <br />
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2 births you must have.......the first is a "water" birth (the birth into the flesh). Your flesh is 70% water, you are born into a sack of water in the womb, when you are about to be born what happens? You mothers water breaks and spills out everywhere. <br />
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The SECOND BIRTH is a spiritual birth. Already born once into the flesh, at the moment of conversion and salvation you are "born again" in the spirit.<br />
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2 births, one of the water (flesh) and one of the Spirit.<br />
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Its as plain and simple as 1+1=2.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This may be the single most perfect example of how growing up with a single doctrinal mistake can harden people into stone from just reading and accepting the plain words and teaching of Jesus. If you grew up in a church that teaches salvation does not happen until water baptism, then there is a 90% chance you will TOTALLY REFUSE Jesus words on this. And I was one of those people who grew up in such a church as a child, but once I began to read the Bible for myself and actually became a genuine born again Christian I realized my and certain denominations error on this passage in John 3:<br />
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<blockquote><cite>Quote:</cite>3 Jesus answered and said unto him, <span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God</span></span>.<br />
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4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">second time</span></span> into his mother's womb, and be born?<br />
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5 Jesus answered, <span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water (#1) and of the Spirit (#2), he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</span></span></span><br />
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6 <span style="color: #FF0000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">That which is born of the flesh is flesh #1</span>; and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. #2</span></span></span></span></blockquote>
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Nicodemus asked Jesus how can this be, people being born a SECOND TIME? Jesus answers very directly and very specifically. <br />
<br />
2 births you must have.......the first is a "water" birth (the birth into the flesh). Your flesh is 70% water, you are born into a sack of water in the womb, when you are about to be born what happens? You mothers water breaks and spills out everywhere. <br />
<br />
The SECOND BIRTH is a spiritual birth. Already born once into the flesh, at the moment of conversion and salvation you are "born again" in the spirit.<br />
<br />
2 births, one of the water (flesh) and one of the Spirit.<br />
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Its as plain and simple as 1+1=2.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[The thief on the cross]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1029948.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:04:40 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[And the Man on the middle one.<br />
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Such a great short clip<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[And the Man on the middle one.<br />
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Such a great short clip<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Cuba at the brink]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1026034.html</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:53:06 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Protests in Havana amid sustained large blackouts.<br />
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Rubio is purportedly in talks with Castro's grandson.  A deal may be reached soon.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Protests in Havana amid sustained large blackouts.<br />
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Rubio is purportedly in talks with Castro's grandson.  A deal may be reached soon.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[James Talarico]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1025900.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:13:36 -0500</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<span style="font-style: italic;">Who is James Talarico? By fusing progressive politics with unapologetic Christian faith, the 36-year-old Democratic star has garnered praise from both Barack Obama (“really talented young man”) and Joe Rogan (“you need to run for president")—and a chance to compete in November against the winner of Texas’s Republican runoff.<br />
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Talarico has been devoted to Christianity since childhood. His grandfather was a Baptist preacher in south Texas, and he still goes to the same church—St. Andrew’s Presbyterian in Austin—where he attended Bible camp as a kid.<br />
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 <span style="font-weight: bold;">“The biggest divide in our country is not left versus right; it’s top versus bottom,” Talarico likes to tell his 2 million Instagram followers. “Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other so that we’re not looking up at them.”</span><br />
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<img src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/YnFbjVyw47AaemkPkNP98w--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B_V4zBcBzPot2gDR8Zk7yg--~B/aD0yNjY3O3c9NDAwMDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net/images/user-uploaded/gettyimages-2264127831.jpg" border="0" alt="[Image: gettyimages-2264127831.jpg]" /><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Congressional reform:</span> Talarico supports term limits for members of Congress and a ban on congressional stock trading. He opposes partisan gerrymandering. He has said the Senate should eliminate its filibuster rule so laws can pass with a simple majority vote.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Health care:</span> Talarico calls his approach “Medicare for Y’all.” He favors letting nonseniors buy into Medicare or providing another “not-for-profit health care option for every American.”<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Immigration:</span> Talarico favors comprehensive immigration reform that would crack down on criminals; provide a pathway to citizenship for others; hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement accountable for abuses; and improve the asylum and guest worker systems. He likes to say that “our border should be like a front porch—it should have a welcome mat out front and a lock on the door.”<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Israeli-Palestinian conflict:</span> Talarico supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has condemned what he called Israel’s “war crimes” while describing the conflict itself as “the moral test of our time.” He opposes the sale of offensive weapons to Israel and has refused to take money from the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC. “I think God is screaming at us in Gaza right now,” he has said.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/who-is-james-talarico-a-guide-to-the-rising-democratic-star-who-just-won-the-texas-senate-primary-220106519.html" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/arti...06519.html</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span style="font-style: italic;">Who is James Talarico? By fusing progressive politics with unapologetic Christian faith, the 36-year-old Democratic star has garnered praise from both Barack Obama (“really talented young man”) and Joe Rogan (“you need to run for president")—and a chance to compete in November against the winner of Texas’s Republican runoff.<br />
....<br />
Talarico has been devoted to Christianity since childhood. His grandfather was a Baptist preacher in south Texas, and he still goes to the same church—St. Andrew’s Presbyterian in Austin—where he attended Bible camp as a kid.<br />
....<br />
 <span style="font-weight: bold;">“The biggest divide in our country is not left versus right; it’s top versus bottom,” Talarico likes to tell his 2 million Instagram followers. “Billionaires want us looking left and right at each other so that we’re not looking up at them.”</span><br />
....<br />
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<img src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/YnFbjVyw47AaemkPkNP98w--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg7Y2Y9d2VicA--/https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B_V4zBcBzPot2gDR8Zk7yg--~B/aD0yNjY3O3c9NDAwMDthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/https://d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net/images/user-uploaded/gettyimages-2264127831.jpg" border="0" alt="[Image: gettyimages-2264127831.jpg]" /><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Congressional reform:</span> Talarico supports term limits for members of Congress and a ban on congressional stock trading. He opposes partisan gerrymandering. He has said the Senate should eliminate its filibuster rule so laws can pass with a simple majority vote.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Health care:</span> Talarico calls his approach “Medicare for Y’all.” He favors letting nonseniors buy into Medicare or providing another “not-for-profit health care option for every American.”<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Immigration:</span> Talarico favors comprehensive immigration reform that would crack down on criminals; provide a pathway to citizenship for others; hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement accountable for abuses; and improve the asylum and guest worker systems. He likes to say that “our border should be like a front porch—it should have a welcome mat out front and a lock on the door.”<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Israeli-Palestinian conflict:</span> Talarico supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He has condemned what he called Israel’s “war crimes” while describing the conflict itself as “the moral test of our time.” He opposes the sale of offensive weapons to Israel and has refused to take money from the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC. “I think God is screaming at us in Gaza right now,” he has said.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/article/who-is-james-talarico-a-guide-to-the-rising-democratic-star-who-just-won-the-texas-senate-primary-220106519.html" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/arti...06519.html</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Active War:  Afghanistan vs Pakistan]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1025548.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:08:13 -0500</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Click link to see tweet translated, if I embed it will not be in English:  <a href="https://twitter.com/KhawajaMAsif/status/2027146237275672713" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/KhawajaMAsif/status/...7275672713</a><br />
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<blockquote><cite>Quote:</cite>Pakistan defence minister declares 'open war'<br />
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Pakistan's defence minister, Khawaja M Asif, has declared "open war" on the Afghan Taliban government in a strongly-worded post on X, external.<br />
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His declaration comes after a series of strikes on major Afghan cities after its forces attacked Pakistani troops.<br />
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Khawaja wrote: "Pakistan made every effort to keep the situation normal through direct means and through friendly countries. It engaged in full-fledged diplomacy."<br />
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"Our cup of patience has overflowed. Now it is open war between us and you."<br />
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The two sides had agreed a fragile ceasefire in October after a series of deadly clashes, though subsequent fighting has still taken place.</blockquote>
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The distance from Kabul to Islamabad is less than the distance from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia.  There is large swaths of rugged mountainous terrain flanking the north and south approaches from Kabul all the way to Islamabad, with the main highway between the ridges.<br />
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Pakistan has nukes.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Click link to see tweet translated, if I embed it will not be in English:  <a href="https://twitter.com/KhawajaMAsif/status/2027146237275672713" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/KhawajaMAsif/status/...7275672713</a><br />
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<blockquote><cite>Quote:</cite>Pakistan defence minister declares 'open war'<br />
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Pakistan's defence minister, Khawaja M Asif, has declared "open war" on the Afghan Taliban government in a strongly-worded post on X, external.<br />
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His declaration comes after a series of strikes on major Afghan cities after its forces attacked Pakistani troops.<br />
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Khawaja wrote: "Pakistan made every effort to keep the situation normal through direct means and through friendly countries. It engaged in full-fledged diplomacy."<br />
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"Our cup of patience has overflowed. Now it is open war between us and you."<br />
<br />
The two sides had agreed a fragile ceasefire in October after a series of deadly clashes, though subsequent fighting has still taken place.</blockquote>
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The distance from Kabul to Islamabad is less than the distance from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia.  There is large swaths of rugged mountainous terrain flanking the north and south approaches from Kabul all the way to Islamabad, with the main highway between the ridges.<br />
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Pakistan has nukes.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Breakup of Canada]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1025439.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:00:47 -0500</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bloc Quebecois has won in Quebec and promised an independence referendum immediately after forming government. That is now three provinces actively trying to secede from Canada. Two of them fit in beautifully as US states (Alberta, Saskatchewan). Alberta secession is on the ballot already for November. <br />
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Carney should be a man with his hair on fire. I think he is instead a man of unmatched hubris who presumes it will all fail and he just keep pumping his domestic numbers with the arms up routine while positioning his businesses to profit MASSIVELY from .ca.gov policy.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Bloc Quebecois has won in Quebec and promised an independence referendum immediately after forming government. That is now three provinces actively trying to secede from Canada. Two of them fit in beautifully as US states (Alberta, Saskatchewan). Alberta secession is on the ballot already for November. <br />
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Carney should be a man with his hair on fire. I think he is instead a man of unmatched hubris who presumes it will all fail and he just keep pumping his domestic numbers with the arms up routine while positioning his businesses to profit MASSIVELY from .ca.gov policy.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Meet Rupert Lowe and Restore Britain]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1025101.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:30:25 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why the Jews rejected Jesus]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1024240.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:46:35 -0500</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[As I have pointed out in other threads, the Jews rejecting their Messiah was very clearly foretold in the Old Testament prophets. Even though God warned them ahead of time through the prophets, they still did it and continue to this very day.<br />
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But what was the thinking of a 1st century Jews on this? Allan Parr gives a concise breakdown here.<br />
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There are 2 threads written in the prophets about the Messiah, one was the suffering servant and the other is the conquering King. The Jews all knew the scripture about the coming and conquering King and were looking for Him due to their suffering under Rome, but didn't give much attention to the suffering servant aspect. Most of them probably looked at those passages as more symbolic than literal (like many Christians mistakenly do with a lot of future prophecy today), or they just paid no attention at all. Some sects even thought 2 Messiahs were coming.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As I have pointed out in other threads, the Jews rejecting their Messiah was very clearly foretold in the Old Testament prophets. Even though God warned them ahead of time through the prophets, they still did it and continue to this very day.<br />
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But what was the thinking of a 1st century Jews on this? Allan Parr gives a concise breakdown here.<br />
<br />
There are 2 threads written in the prophets about the Messiah, one was the suffering servant and the other is the conquering King. The Jews all knew the scripture about the coming and conquering King and were looking for Him due to their suffering under Rome, but didn't give much attention to the suffering servant aspect. Most of them probably looked at those passages as more symbolic than literal (like many Christians mistakenly do with a lot of future prophecy today), or they just paid no attention at all. Some sects even thought 2 Messiahs were coming.<br />
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NZjnkHVYFS0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Why we know the Bible is not man made]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1023338.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:07:48 -0500</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[No other book or religion has anything even remotely like this. They do not even attempt to on any level because it would expose them as fake.<br />
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Anyone who tries to tell you the Bible is a man made book is speaking in ignorance and foolishness.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[No other book or religion has anything even remotely like this. They do not even attempt to on any level because it would expose them as fake.<br />
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Anyone who tries to tell you the Bible is a man made book is speaking in ignorance and foolishness.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[John MacArthur and Charlie Kirk video]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1015712.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:02:46 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Great clip of Charlie and John MacArthur. Both men are now with Christ in Heaven.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Great clip of Charlie and John MacArthur. Both men are now with Christ in Heaven.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[o.t. New pope is Villanova grad.]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1010055.html</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 23:55:15 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Congrats to the first Pope from the United States.<br />
<a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/newly-appointed-pope-robert-francis-prevost-is-a-villanova-grad/4180319/" target="_blank">https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/loc...d/4180319/</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Congrats to the first Pope from the United States.<br />
<a href="https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/newly-appointed-pope-robert-francis-prevost-is-a-villanova-grad/4180319/" target="_blank">https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/loc...d/4180319/</a>]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Somewhat OT: Pope Francis Dead at 88.]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1009404.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:06:58 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Updates on the story itself can be found <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/pope-francis-dead-at-88-vatican-camerlengo-says" target="_blank">here</a> as well as at other news outlets.<br />
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I'm making a thread about this because I know there are several Catholic colleges and universities that play sports, most notably, Notre Dame, Boston College, and the Catholic 7 of the Big East. (Okay, at least off the top of my head.) (Also, I'm a Southern Baptist, but I happen to be a big fan of a Catholic school, as mentioned in my "I Root For:" section so I find this somewhat relevant to me as well.)<br />
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This is meant to open discussion into what sort of impact the Roman Catholic Church has on collegiate athletics here in America. Please keep all negative comments (religion-bashing or even political) out. Thanks.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Updates on the story itself can be found <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/pope-francis-dead-at-88-vatican-camerlengo-says" target="_blank">here</a> as well as at other news outlets.<br />
<br />
I'm making a thread about this because I know there are several Catholic colleges and universities that play sports, most notably, Notre Dame, Boston College, and the Catholic 7 of the Big East. (Okay, at least off the top of my head.) (Also, I'm a Southern Baptist, but I happen to be a big fan of a Catholic school, as mentioned in my "I Root For:" section so I find this somewhat relevant to me as well.)<br />
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This is meant to open discussion into what sort of impact the Roman Catholic Church has on collegiate athletics here in America. Please keep all negative comments (religion-bashing or even political) out. Thanks.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[He is Risen!]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1009377.html</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 04:33:59 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Consequences of Choices]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1006228.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:01:13 -0500</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Seems to be happening to so many women these days. The siren call of feminism blinds them to the realities of nature, while many of the good men are now turning to MGTOW and stoicism. <br />
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<a href="https://gab.com/DesertWombat/posts/113977728855541729" target="_blank"><img src="https://m3.gab.com/media_attachments/e6/0b/93/e60b9387718d214032bb7874401c76bc.webp?width=568" border="0" alt="[Image: e60b9387718d214032bb7874401c76bc.webp?width=568]" /></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Seems to be happening to so many women these days. The siren call of feminism blinds them to the realities of nature, while many of the good men are now turning to MGTOW and stoicism. <br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Personal story I want to share]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1005803.html</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 08:50:36 -0500</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[I have a friend I've been close to for going on 24 years, we spent a lot of time together from 2003-2018. He was a very hard core atheist who generally had hatred for Christians and Christianity, though it wasn't a frequent topic of discussion. But it increasingly became an issue around 2015 as I became very serious about my faith and study of it, and combined with the fact that I felt he and his wife were into a lot of very spiritually destructive lifestyles and things. It became difficult for me to visit and spend time together anymore for various reasons. I still maintained the friendship but it gradually shifted to more about texting and not spending time together in person. But we still communicated multiple times a week until about 2019 when we talked very little and things got more tense. He had started trucking and his wife started nursing school about that time. We didn't talk at all in 2020 and I moved away in 2021. So we didn't talk at all for almost 4 years.<br />
<br />
January of 2024 while visiting my family I reached out and we started to talk again. We cleared the air about some things and spent countless hours talking on the phone and texting while he was on the road. He had planned to retie from trucking by the summer/fall and transition to Uber driving. Because he was on the road we spent a lot of late nights really reconnecting in a way that I though was wonderful. He was clear he felt the same way. Like any genuine Christian I felt a strong need to share the gospel and the reason for my faith since I am now in a small joint ministry with another friend where we teach and argue the reasons and evidences for our faith. I told him what I did now but did not push any of it on him over the phone, I wanted to reconnect for a while and then try to in person once I came back down to visit.<br />
<br />
Well he did retire from trucking in August, he and his wife bought a really nice home this summer, he bought a new car for the uber stuff, he bought a lot of stuff for a new man cave, music system, game stuff, new big screen TV. He basically cashed in on all his hard work and was now ready to enjoy the well earned fruits of his labor.  We talked about it all summer, and I told him how happy I was for him that after years of struggle they were doing so well and now its time to enjoy it. I had a planned visit for mutiple weeks with my family so we are making plans to spend some time hanging out (we had not seen each other in some 5 years).<br />
<br />
So did come down as planned in November but did have any free time at first as I was talking care of my mother post surgery. As she got better I got a short flu bug so that further delayed me coming over to his house. I still had a week left so it was no big deal, hey we have all the time in the world. Its a new day, we're friends again and I'm going to be coming down a lot, plus he is going to come and spend some time at my place in WV.<br />
<br />
That last week I get a text from his wife telling me he was in the hospital and in ICU. He had taken some new medication that gave him a bad pancreatitis attack. While there he also had a bad attack of ketoacidosis which is deadly. Now he was on a ventilator and they were keeping him out to give his system and kidneys time to heal. They were also doing dialysis because the ketoacedosis damaged his kidneys. I went up to see him immediately and this is the first time I have seen him in 5 years and he is in ICU on a ventilator fighting for his life out of nowhere. Based on everything his wife had told me I am not expecting him to live, and all I want to do is have the chance to tell him the gospel one more time and tell him how easy it is to change his mind and be saved. I just wanted to tell him I loved him and if he changed his mind all he had to do is repent and believe in Christ. Even now after a lifetime of rejecting it he can change his mind if he wanted to.<br />
<br />
But he was unconscious from the drugs they were giving him. I visited twice more and he was out for some 10 straight days by design from his doctor. I had a disability hearing with a judge back in WV that I could not miss so I had to go home even though he was still in ICU and not yet awake. Shortly after I got home he began to improve and wake up. He was half awake one day and fully awake the next and the doctors were now expecting a near full recovery. He was on the lowest level of the vent and they were going to begin to take him off it completely the next day. That night though he developed a fever, went septic and died within 36 hours.<br />
<br />
I had nearly a whole year to talk about the gospel and the faith with him but I waited for us to get together in person before I ever brought it up. And then right when the time comes for us to get together, he has a massive medical breakdown out of nowhere and dies. He was just 48 years old and perfectly fine 3 weeks before. I thought we had all the time in the world and now I'll never see or talk to him again. <br />
<br />
I don't know what was in his heart that final day he was lucid and awake, he was still on the vent and mostly unable to talk. The day before when he was becoming lucid his wife said he had cried a lot. I know I prayed for years for God to open his heart and ears to the truth, and while he was sick I had many people pray for him to have one last chance to hear the Gospel and consider his cosmic views.<br />
<br />
I know his heart was hard set against it most of his life as bad as anyone I ever knew. And its seemed to me after not talking for so long and then reconnecting and talking so much this past year that it was meant to be and was leading somehwhere. I had so looked forward to the time when we could talk about it face to face again and share all the things I learned the last several years. But its never going to happen now. I'm never going to get a text from him again, I'll never get a call from him again, all the things we talked about doing in the coming months and years is gone now.<br />
<br />
I've had to deal with a lot of close family deaths the last 3 years, most were from much older people who I knew were close to the end. This sudden loss is very hard to cope with though. It just doesn't seem real somehow, though I know it is. Its really hard to accept as reality. He was perfectly fine and now out of nowhere he is gone. And at just 48 years old.<br />
<br />
There is so much left I wanted to say and talk about with him. But now I'll never get the chance. I had just told him a few weeks prior that I loved him and was thankful we had reconnected and he said the same. As broken hearted as I am I'm thankful for the last year we had. I'm also broken hearted for his poor wife who has very little family and now has to pick up the pieces and try to carry on. <br />
<br />
It just doesn't seem real, but it is.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[I have a friend I've been close to for going on 24 years, we spent a lot of time together from 2003-2018. He was a very hard core atheist who generally had hatred for Christians and Christianity, though it wasn't a frequent topic of discussion. But it increasingly became an issue around 2015 as I became very serious about my faith and study of it, and combined with the fact that I felt he and his wife were into a lot of very spiritually destructive lifestyles and things. It became difficult for me to visit and spend time together anymore for various reasons. I still maintained the friendship but it gradually shifted to more about texting and not spending time together in person. But we still communicated multiple times a week until about 2019 when we talked very little and things got more tense. He had started trucking and his wife started nursing school about that time. We didn't talk at all in 2020 and I moved away in 2021. So we didn't talk at all for almost 4 years.<br />
<br />
January of 2024 while visiting my family I reached out and we started to talk again. We cleared the air about some things and spent countless hours talking on the phone and texting while he was on the road. He had planned to retie from trucking by the summer/fall and transition to Uber driving. Because he was on the road we spent a lot of late nights really reconnecting in a way that I though was wonderful. He was clear he felt the same way. Like any genuine Christian I felt a strong need to share the gospel and the reason for my faith since I am now in a small joint ministry with another friend where we teach and argue the reasons and evidences for our faith. I told him what I did now but did not push any of it on him over the phone, I wanted to reconnect for a while and then try to in person once I came back down to visit.<br />
<br />
Well he did retire from trucking in August, he and his wife bought a really nice home this summer, he bought a new car for the uber stuff, he bought a lot of stuff for a new man cave, music system, game stuff, new big screen TV. He basically cashed in on all his hard work and was now ready to enjoy the well earned fruits of his labor.  We talked about it all summer, and I told him how happy I was for him that after years of struggle they were doing so well and now its time to enjoy it. I had a planned visit for mutiple weeks with my family so we are making plans to spend some time hanging out (we had not seen each other in some 5 years).<br />
<br />
So did come down as planned in November but did have any free time at first as I was talking care of my mother post surgery. As she got better I got a short flu bug so that further delayed me coming over to his house. I still had a week left so it was no big deal, hey we have all the time in the world. Its a new day, we're friends again and I'm going to be coming down a lot, plus he is going to come and spend some time at my place in WV.<br />
<br />
That last week I get a text from his wife telling me he was in the hospital and in ICU. He had taken some new medication that gave him a bad pancreatitis attack. While there he also had a bad attack of ketoacidosis which is deadly. Now he was on a ventilator and they were keeping him out to give his system and kidneys time to heal. They were also doing dialysis because the ketoacedosis damaged his kidneys. I went up to see him immediately and this is the first time I have seen him in 5 years and he is in ICU on a ventilator fighting for his life out of nowhere. Based on everything his wife had told me I am not expecting him to live, and all I want to do is have the chance to tell him the gospel one more time and tell him how easy it is to change his mind and be saved. I just wanted to tell him I loved him and if he changed his mind all he had to do is repent and believe in Christ. Even now after a lifetime of rejecting it he can change his mind if he wanted to.<br />
<br />
But he was unconscious from the drugs they were giving him. I visited twice more and he was out for some 10 straight days by design from his doctor. I had a disability hearing with a judge back in WV that I could not miss so I had to go home even though he was still in ICU and not yet awake. Shortly after I got home he began to improve and wake up. He was half awake one day and fully awake the next and the doctors were now expecting a near full recovery. He was on the lowest level of the vent and they were going to begin to take him off it completely the next day. That night though he developed a fever, went septic and died within 36 hours.<br />
<br />
I had nearly a whole year to talk about the gospel and the faith with him but I waited for us to get together in person before I ever brought it up. And then right when the time comes for us to get together, he has a massive medical breakdown out of nowhere and dies. He was just 48 years old and perfectly fine 3 weeks before. I thought we had all the time in the world and now I'll never see or talk to him again. <br />
<br />
I don't know what was in his heart that final day he was lucid and awake, he was still on the vent and mostly unable to talk. The day before when he was becoming lucid his wife said he had cried a lot. I know I prayed for years for God to open his heart and ears to the truth, and while he was sick I had many people pray for him to have one last chance to hear the Gospel and consider his cosmic views.<br />
<br />
I know his heart was hard set against it most of his life as bad as anyone I ever knew. And its seemed to me after not talking for so long and then reconnecting and talking so much this past year that it was meant to be and was leading somehwhere. I had so looked forward to the time when we could talk about it face to face again and share all the things I learned the last several years. But its never going to happen now. I'm never going to get a text from him again, I'll never get a call from him again, all the things we talked about doing in the coming months and years is gone now.<br />
<br />
I've had to deal with a lot of close family deaths the last 3 years, most were from much older people who I knew were close to the end. This sudden loss is very hard to cope with though. It just doesn't seem real somehow, though I know it is. Its really hard to accept as reality. He was perfectly fine and now out of nowhere he is gone. And at just 48 years old.<br />
<br />
There is so much left I wanted to say and talk about with him. But now I'll never get the chance. I had just told him a few weeks prior that I loved him and was thankful we had reconnected and he said the same. As broken hearted as I am I'm thankful for the last year we had. I'm also broken hearted for his poor wife who has very little family and now has to pick up the pieces and try to carry on. <br />
<br />
It just doesn't seem real, but it is.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Frank Turek "Is the NT true?"]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-1005114.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2025 01:51:03 -0500</pubDate>
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Frank is one of the top Christian and Biblical apologists out there today. His youtube channel is Cross Examined. He wrote the book "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist".<br />
<br />
If you need evidence, reasons and understanding of why you should have faith in Christ and the Bible, he is one of several people today who knock it out of the park.<br />
<br />
If you waffle or struggle with belief and faith in God and the Bible, Christian apologetics where to look to make a more informed decision on it.<br />
<br />
For those new to the word "apologetics", its does not mean to apologize, it come from the Greek and means a study of the reason and evidence for the faith. As Paul wrote in the NT, "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have."]]></description>
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<br />
Frank is one of the top Christian and Biblical apologists out there today. His youtube channel is Cross Examined. He wrote the book "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist".<br />
<br />
If you need evidence, reasons and understanding of why you should have faith in Christ and the Bible, he is one of several people today who knock it out of the park.<br />
<br />
If you waffle or struggle with belief and faith in God and the Bible, Christian apologetics where to look to make a more informed decision on it.<br />
<br />
For those new to the word "apologetics", its does not mean to apologize, it come from the Greek and means a study of the reason and evidence for the faith. As Paul wrote in the NT, "Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have."]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[MTV VMA's occultism on full display]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-997190.html</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:22:45 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nothing is remotely hidden anymore. I don't have the words, nor do I need them at this point. Just see it for yourself.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nothing is remotely hidden anymore. I don't have the words, nor do I need them at this point. Just see it for yourself.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Yamnaya and Corded Ware Creation Myth]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-993664.html</link>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jul 2024 02:24:32 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA["At the beginning of time there were two brothers, twins, one named Man (*Manu, in Proto-Indo-European) and the other Twin (*Yemo). They traveled through the cosmos accompanied by a great cow. Eventually Man and Twin decided to create the world we now inhabit. To do this, Man had to sacrifice Twin (or in some versions the cow). From the parts of this sacrificed body, with the help of the sky gods (Sky Father, Storm God of War, Divine Twins), Man made the wind, the sun, the moon, the sea, earth, fire, and finally all the various kinds of people. Man became the first priest, the creator of the ritual of sacrifice that was the root of world order.<br />
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After the world was made, the sky-gods gave cattle to "Third man" (*Trito). But the cattle were treacherously stolen by a three-headed, six-eyed serpent (*Ng hi, the Proto-Indo-European root for negation). w Third man entreated the storm god to help get the cattle back. Together they went to the cave (or mountain) of the monster, killed it (or the storm god killed it alone), and freed the cattle. *Trito became the first warrior. He recovered the wealth of the people, and his gift of cattle to the priests insured that the sky gods received their share in the rising smoke of sacrificial fires. This insured that the cycle of giving between gods and humans continued."<br />
<br />
Think it's a fascinating myth and can see how the Roman myth of its twin brothers comes into play. They reconfigured the myth from cognates and comparable mythology amongst the languages that rooted from Proto Indo European. Doesn't mean it's exact, but their reconstruction of Hittite language was closely accurate once they cracked their alphabet.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA["At the beginning of time there were two brothers, twins, one named Man (*Manu, in Proto-Indo-European) and the other Twin (*Yemo). They traveled through the cosmos accompanied by a great cow. Eventually Man and Twin decided to create the world we now inhabit. To do this, Man had to sacrifice Twin (or in some versions the cow). From the parts of this sacrificed body, with the help of the sky gods (Sky Father, Storm God of War, Divine Twins), Man made the wind, the sun, the moon, the sea, earth, fire, and finally all the various kinds of people. Man became the first priest, the creator of the ritual of sacrifice that was the root of world order.<br />
<br />
After the world was made, the sky-gods gave cattle to "Third man" (*Trito). But the cattle were treacherously stolen by a three-headed, six-eyed serpent (*Ng hi, the Proto-Indo-European root for negation). w Third man entreated the storm god to help get the cattle back. Together they went to the cave (or mountain) of the monster, killed it (or the storm god killed it alone), and freed the cattle. *Trito became the first warrior. He recovered the wealth of the people, and his gift of cattle to the priests insured that the sky gods received their share in the rising smoke of sacrificial fires. This insured that the cycle of giving between gods and humans continued."<br />
<br />
Think it's a fascinating myth and can see how the Roman myth of its twin brothers comes into play. They reconfigured the myth from cognates and comparable mythology amongst the languages that rooted from Proto Indo European. Doesn't mean it's exact, but their reconstruction of Hittite language was closely accurate once they cracked their alphabet.]]></content:encoded>
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			<title><![CDATA[Was Jesus copied from Horus and Mithra?]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-992367.html</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:36:49 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[This is claimed in the movies Zeitgeist, Religiosity and a few other sources. A lot of people who have seen these have no idea how laughable and made up these claims are. It all sounds groundbreaking and mindblowing when you hear it, until you actually begin to FACT CHECK the claims.<br />
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is claimed in the movies Zeitgeist, Religiosity and a few other sources. A lot of people who have seen these have no idea how laughable and made up these claims are. It all sounds groundbreaking and mindblowing when you hear it, until you actually begin to FACT CHECK the claims.<br />
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			<title><![CDATA[Countries that bar US convicted felons from entry]]></title>
			<link>https://csnbbs.com/thread-991683.html</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 01:00:08 -0400</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[Countries with laws that bar US convicted felons from entry include:<br />
<br />
Argentina <br />
Brazil<br />
Canada<br />
Chile<br />
China<br />
Egypt<br />
Hong Kong<br />
India<br />
Ireland<br />
Israel<br />
Japan<br />
Kenya<br />
Mexico<br />
Morocco<br />
New Zealand<br />
Peru<br />
Philippines <br />
Russia<br />
Singapore<br />
South Africa<br />
South Korea<br />
Taiwan<br />
Turkey<br />
Ukraine<br />
United Arab Emirates (UAE)<br />
United Kingdom<br />
• England<br />
• Northern Ireland <br />
• Scotland <br />
• Wales<br />
<br />
The above list is not exhaustive. It's worth adding that convicted felons in other countries are likewise barred from entering the United States.<br />
<br />
US convicted felons face considerable challenges in running international businesses.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Countries with laws that bar US convicted felons from entry include:<br />
<br />
Argentina <br />
Brazil<br />
Canada<br />
Chile<br />
China<br />
Egypt<br />
Hong Kong<br />
India<br />
Ireland<br />
Israel<br />
Japan<br />
Kenya<br />
Mexico<br />
Morocco<br />
New Zealand<br />
Peru<br />
Philippines <br />
Russia<br />
Singapore<br />
South Africa<br />
South Korea<br />
Taiwan<br />
Turkey<br />
Ukraine<br />
United Arab Emirates (UAE)<br />
United Kingdom<br />
• England<br />
• Northern Ireland <br />
• Scotland <br />
• Wales<br />
<br />
The above list is not exhaustive. It's worth adding that convicted felons in other countries are likewise barred from entering the United States.<br />
<br />
US convicted felons face considerable challenges in running international businesses.]]></content:encoded>
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