Clinical-death survivor who died an atheist and came out alive a Jesus Follower …Muslim ❌Christian 👍🏻 Dem ❌ Rep ❌
Mars, Texas
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If you see people claiming that electing Muslims to public office will lead to "Sharia law," take a breath.
Under the U.S. legal system, that is legally and structurally impossible.
The U.S. Constitution has ironclad safeguards that protect all of us against any religious legal code taking over…whether Christian canon law, Jewish Halakha, or Islamic Sharia:
1️⃣ The Supremacy Clause (Art. VI): The Constitution and federal statutes are the supreme law of the land. No foreign code, religious dogma, or private rule can override secular law.
2️⃣ The Establishment Clause (1st Amendment): The government is strictly barred from establishing a religion or enacting laws based on religious mandates. Any religious statute passed by a legislature would be struck down in court immediately.
3️⃣ The 14th Amendment: Applies equal protection and due process across all states, guaranteeing that personal civil liberties can’t be stripped by religious doctrine.
4️⃣ No Religious Tests (Art. VI, Cl. 3): The Founders made sure any American can serve in public office regardless of their personal faith, because our officials swear an oath to uphold the Constitution…not their private theology.
Our legal system is deliberately built to withstand theological takeovers.
The Constitution protects everyone's freedom to believe and everyone's freedom from religious rule.
#USConstitution #FirstAmendment #RuleOfLaw #Civics #ReligiousFreedom #ConstitutionalLaw
The Constitution is the quiet, immovable ground under all of us who live in the United States.
It does not care who wins an election or which faith holds the seat. It simply remains the highest law of the land, and nothing…Sharia or any other code…can rise above it.
Those who speak in fear of religious takeover have not yet grasped this. Those who imagine an opening for another legal system to take root eventually meet the same wall.
In practice, the framework that already exists would stop it, as it stops every claim that tries to stand outside it.
True freedom does not require panic. It requires remembering what already governs us.
The Check Doesn’t Cast the Ballot
All that money still didn’t close the gap…and that alone cuts right through the idea that any donor can just buy whatever outcome they want.
Yet the broader principle still stands: massive wealth and special interests shouldn’t get to buy elections, or even come close.
When one person can flood a race with more cash than most candidates raise in an entire lifetime, the temptation is obvious and it looks terrible.
A check doesn’t cast a ballot, but it definitely shapes what voters see, hear, and think about before heading to the polls.
The answer isn’t to ignore the spending, or to celebrate its failure only when our own side wins. The real takeaway is that voters still decide and no billionaire, union, foundation, or political party should ever get to make that choice for them.
Texas showed where money runs into a wall…the rest of the country still has to decide if that’s enough.
#TexasPolitics
#CampaignFinance
#MoneyInPolitics
#VotersFirst
#EveryVoteCounts
#DemocracyMatters
I share your conviction that Sharia law must be firmly and completely prevented from gaining any foothold in American society.
Its framework stands in fundamental tension with the equal rights, individual liberty, and secular rule of law that define our constitutional order.
Yet this necessary resistance cannot succeed while corruption and self-interest continue to compromise politicians on both sides of the aisle.
In Texas, Governor Abbott’s single largest donor is a prominent Muslim oil executive who has contributed well over $15 million to his political efforts.
That fact raises an unavoidable question of conflicting priorities.
Too many Republicans appear more invested in protecting the flow of campaign money than in mounting a consistent, principled defense against the gradual introduction of parallel legal and social norms rooted in Sharia.
The limited steps Abbott has taken may generate favorable headlines, but they function more as political theater than as a serious, sustained commitment to the principle that American law alone governs Texas.
I am an Iranian-American who cast my vote for the Republican Party.
Unfortunately, Democratic candidates are either anti-American in their positions or politically naive. They don’t know the danger of the Islamists and their Sharia laws.
Sharia law is not only about the Hijab. It’s much much worse!
For instance, in Sharia law a non-Muslim man’s Diya (blood money, wergild, compensation) is less than a Muslim man’s left testicle’s Diya!
Crazy but true!
Deported to where? He was born in Michigan. We don't overcome bad ideas or political division with hate…we overcome them with truth, prayer, and genuine love for our neighbors.
If we really want to make a difference as Christians, we have to know how to reach out and evangelize to people of other faiths.
Once the American-hating jihadi @AbdulElSayed loses tomorrow night, he needs to be immediately deported.
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I’m not saying Democrats aren’t without stain but these guys are bought politicians and don’t want to lose their power and money and would make up all kinds of spin stories to remain in power.
If change hasn’t happened all those years they’ve been in power what makes you think another 30 will make a difference.
#politics
I feel this is what every Christian should be doing: gently sharing the hope of Jesus.
Really learn what Jesus came to do and then carry that love to every person you meet along the way.
It matters so deeply that even our Muslim brothers and sisters come to know the truth.
They are God’s children too…not our enemies, even if some treat us as such.
Speak about our God the way 1 Peter 3:15 says:
“But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.”
Don’t waste your time with hate. Some of the greatest Christian apologists are ex-Muslims. All eyes on God. All glory to Him. ❤️❤️❤️
You ask very good questions and I want to answer all of them.
You ask what happens to a Muslim’s past sins upon coming to Christ, and further down the thread you ask: "If both religions teach forgiveness through conversion, what makes you certain Christianity is the only way?"
The answer lies in the difference between an unbacked promise and a settled debt.
What happens to past sins in Christ?
In Christianity, past sins aren’t merely "ignored" or swept under a rug…they are atoned for. When anyone comes to Christ, their entire history of sin is nailed to the Cross (Colossians 2:14), and they are made a completely new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17). God doesn't just clear the ledger…He changes the nature of the debtor.
Why Christianity provides certainty while Islam only offers hope?
You claim both faiths offer the same assurance. They do not. If a human judge lets a guilty criminal walk free simply because the criminal says "I’m sorry," that judge is corrupt…he has shown mercy at the expense of justice.
In Islam, forgiveness relies on Allah arbitrarily waiving the penalty of sin without the price of justice ever being paid. Even then, you have zero assurance of salvation until the scales are weighed on the Day of Judgment (Surah 23:102–103) and according to Sahih Bukhari 6524, Allah even hands over Jews and Christians to take the place of Muslims in Hellfire to clear their sins.
In Christianity, God is both Perfectly Just and Perfectly Merciful. Justice demands that sin be paid for…Mercy means God stepped down in the person of Jesus Christ to pay that penalty Himself. My certainty doesn't rest on hoping my good deeds outweigh my bad ones on a scale. My certainty rests on a finished, historical transaction where God said, "It is finished."
Let me explain the "No Middleman" Illusion.
You mocked another commenter by saying Islam has "no middleman, no membership fee." Yet Christ is not a "human middleman" handing out permission slips…He is God incarnate bridging the infinite chasm between a holy Creator and fallen humanity.
Ironically, while you claim to have no middleman, a Muslim’s eternal hope on the Day of Judgment relies heavily on seeking the intercession (Shafa'ah) of Muhammad, a mortal man who admitted in the Quran (Surah 46:9) that he didn't even know what would happen to himself. Why reject a sinless Savior who conquered the grave, only to rely on a mortal intercessor who is still in his?
Finally, you told a commenter that bringing up the death penalty for leaving Islam was "speed-running to conclusions." Yet it was Muhammad himself who commanded in Sahih Bukhari 3017: "Whoever changes his religion, kill him."
Think about the contrast: To enter Islam, a Christian only has to recite a sentence. To enter Christianity, a Muslim often has to risk their family, their freedom, and their life…yet millions are still doing it. Why? Because once you realize the difference between a system that demands your life if you leave, and a Savior who gave His life so you could live, there is no comparison left to make.
I hope that answers your questions. 😊
The real concern shouldn’t be private family choices… it should be if whether a candidate has ulterior motives to undermine the U.S. Constitution in favor of instituting Sharia law.
Halloween and Día de los Muertos land in the same week, sharing a lot of the same imagery and that old idea that the line between the living and the dead gets thinner this time of year. But they move in completely opposite directions.
Halloween comes from the Celtic festival of Samhain. People used to dress up and leave food outside so wandering spirits would leave them alone. Día de los Muertos comes from Indigenous Mesoamerican traditions. Families build altars, lay out marigold petals to guide their loved ones home, and sit with candles and photos waiting for them.
The Catholic Church eventually put both on the same weekend. In Europe it lined up All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days with Samhain.
Later, in Mexico, it blended the older Indigenous practices into those same November dates.
So now we have two traditions that look related but come from very different desires…one trying to keep spirits away, the other inviting them back.
Once I understood that history, the choice got clearer for me. Following Jesus has always meant taking a narrower path, and protecting my closeness with Him matters more to me than fitting in with whatever’s happening around me.
Even when something feels deeply rooted, nostalgic, or completely harmless, I don’t want to take part in anything that blurs my focus or creates any distance between my heart and the One who gave me life.
My peace isn’t in seasonal rituals. It’s in staying anchored to Him.
I’d rather stand a little apart in His light than blend in with things that don’t honor Him.
#Halloween #DiaDeLosMuertos #Jesus #Christianity
No, Muslims are welcome here. What cannot be welcomed is any ideology that places itself above the laws of this country, and Sharia does exactly that.
The people are free to come, live, work, raise their families, and seek a better life. The seventh-century political-religious system that demands parallel courts, restricts speech, treats women as subordinates, and punishes apostasy is not free to do any of those things.
That distinction is not cruelty…it is the bare minimum required to keep a free society free.
We can say this clearly without hatred. In fact, we should say it with love. America’s doors have always been open to people from everywhere, including the Muslim world.
What we have never agreed to import is a system that rejects the basic premises of our own Constitution…equal protection under the law, freedom of conscience, and the right to leave a religion without fear.
Those principles are non-negotiable. Anyone who arrives here and accepts them is a neighbor. Anyone who arrives intending to replace them is a problem.
That is not a racial test or a religious test…it is a test of whether a person intends to live under the same rules as everyone else.
For Christians, this is also a moment of responsibility, not just policy. The command has never been to hate the people who do not yet know Christ. It has always been to love them, speak to them, and tell them the truth. That truth is not a slogan. It is the person of Jesus..His life, His death, His resurrection, and the freedom He offers from every other system that claims ultimate authority over a human soul.
Muslims, like every other person on earth, are image-bearers who can hear that message. Treating them as enemies to be expelled rather than people to be loved and reasoned with abandons the gospel for something smaller and meaner. We can reject incompatible ideas while still extending ordinary human kindness and clear speech. The two are not opposites.
They worshiped the same God we do. The difference is that He had not yet finished showing them who He is.
Adam, Abraham, and Moses knew the one true God. They did not have the full picture of His inner life because He had not yet revealed it. That is not a problem for Christians, it is how revelation works.
God speaks in history, and He speaks more clearly as the story moves toward its center. The center is Jesus.
“No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known” (John 1:18).
When the Son arrives, the Father is no longer a distant voice. He is seen, touched, and known in a human face.
Jesus Himself makes this clear. He says, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father” (John 14:9).
He accepts the worship due to God alone. He claims the divine name: “Before Abraham was, I am” (John 8:58).
He says the Spirit is another Person (not Muhammad but God in Spirit) who will come in His place and be with them forever (John 14:16-17).
After the resurrection He tells His followers to baptize in one name…the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). That is not a later invention. It is the God of Israel finishing the sentence He began.
So when Christians worship the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, we are not inventing a new god. We are responding to the God who has always been there and has now told us His name more fully.
That is how He defined Himself in Scripture. And by that definition, anyone who rejects the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit must say the Scriptures that reveal Him are corrupted.
There is no middle ground once the words are on the page.
The earlier saints did not have less of God. They simply had less light. Now the light has come, and we walk in it.
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I’m not a Republican or a Democrat, but I am done watching the same person hold the governor’s office for more than a decade.
Greg Abbott has had his time. At a certain point, tenure stops looking like continuity and starts looking like entitlement.
Power that never has to step aside stops answering to people and starts answering to itself.
Texas should impose term limits on the governor. Without them, the office quietly transforms from a temporary trust into something closer to a personal domain.
Leaders become emperors not because they seize the throne, but because no one ever makes them leave it.
Rotation isn’t a partisan idea. It’s how a free people keep their government from forgetting who it belongs to.
#Government #GinaHinojosa #GregAbbott #TrueLeadership #Democrats #Republicans #Texas #TexasPolitics #USPolitics
There is a particular stillness that settles when a person decides another man is the last word on everything that matters. To follow a man, and to follow him blindly, is both strangely compelling and quietly devastating. It is better, in the end, simply to follow God.
The pull is real. A restless heart wants a finished map, a living voice that no longer needs interrogation, a figure whose life can be treated as the final measure of goodness itself.
In that complete surrender there can be fierce tenderness, a loyalty that feels almost like love. The one who follows gains a sense of belonging so total that doubt itself begins to feel like betrayal. The orbit becomes sacred…the man at its center is declared the best who ever lived, the only one who may be trusted without remainder.
Yet the cost is the gradual surrender of one’s own capacity to see. Judgment is handed over. History is flattened into legend. The ordinary, contradictory, imperfect texture of any human life is polished until only the polished surface remains.
What was once a man becomes a fixed point around which everything else must revolve, and the revolution itself is called obedience. In that narrowing, the follower stops being a full participant in the search for what is true or right. The eyes close, and the world grows smaller.
God, if God is to be followed at all, does not require that intermediate idolatry. The divine is not exhausted by any single biography, nor is it improved by the demand that one particular life be treated as beyond question. To turn toward God is to remain open to a reality larger than any human example, a reality that continues to address the conscience directly rather than only through the sealed account of one man.
It leaves room for the living mind to weigh, to test, to remain unfinished. That openness is not disloyalty…it is the refusal to mistake a human being, however revered, for the final word.
The interesting sadness of blind following is that it offers certainty at the price of sight. The clearer path is the one that keeps the eyes open, that loves without surrendering judgment, and that seeks God without first enthroning a man.
It’s a beautiful miracle when Muslims find their way to Christ…what feels completely impossible for us becomes wonderfully possible with God.
When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran DOESN'T have.
Namely, exact dates, exact places or exact titles or names you can check.
Bro, when you read the Quran’s stories there is literally zero chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year. It is incredibly vague.
You cannot get answers to questions like: Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it, which conveniently means you can’t check it.
Now, contrast that to the Bible, read the opening of Luke 3:
“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”
SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.
An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.
And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…
UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.
Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.
Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”
Certainty. That’s the offer of the Bible.
The Quran floats above history where nothing can touch it.
The Bible planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.
I dug. It’s still standing.
Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.