“Freedom of belief is pernicious, It is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.”

Basically I am in a state of mortal sin and unable to go to confession until Saturday. I really feel like I need to rely upon Jesus because my life has been extremely terrible recently (really serious familial issues that I don't want to go into detail about) but I am scared that since I'm a state of mortal sin He won't help me or listen to me, any advice?

Considering that two other presidents have been posthumously given the rank (Grant and Washington) and the other person to have it was Pershing I feel like Eisenhower should also receive the rank for his role in WW2. Out of the four most major/famous wars America has fought in (Revolution, civil war and the world wars) three of them have a general of the armies so I think American involvement in WW2 should likewise be honoured by giving Eisenhower the title posthumously

OTHER THAN JESUS I think that Moses is the greatest example of a public leader, like Plato's idea of a philosopher king. He was capable of great anger at injustices but he only used his anger when it was a series issue (like the golden calf or when the other nations attacked the Israelites and tempted them into idolatry), he was humble, listened to the complaints of his people, was forgiving of them when they rebelled against Him and God and he was constantly making intercessions to God on behalf of his people. On top of that he was a good teacher and despite being a good leader he was humble and doubted his own ability, constantly relying on God's support.

I feel like someone like him would be the ideal Christian leader

I could not see Pascha anywhere, I'm only on the Egypt episode again but I've hardly seen her, maybe twice. Am I right in saying that she didn't really do much in this show or I'm just blind or not paying attention?

I recently had a debate with my father and brother about abortion (they are both pro choice, I am pro life) they immediately went to incredibly emotionally charged arguments about child rape, I tried to steer the conversation back to the key issue which is "what are the unborn?" by asking if it would be fine to kill a new born who is conceived in the same way, they said no so I asked why its not fine to kill the unborn but fine to kill the born in the same circumstances but every time they just kept saying "its just a fetus" when I tried to show how unborn babies are human beings and therefore human persons they kept just saying that they are not humans, I asked why and the answer was always "it's just a fetus."

I now see how it was so easy for Nazis to justify killing jews or how slave owners justified having slaves, it's incredibly easy to justify inhumane and unjust treatment of people when you label then "parasites" (as the nazis did for jews) or label them as "3/5ths people" (as American slave owners did) or in this case to label them "fetuses".

It is an argument that proves nothing and achieves nothing over than dehumanising unborn babies and making the murder of them more justifiable in your mind since "they aren't people, they're just fetuses."