Comments by "AWResistance" (@AlanWattResistance) on "Two US senators have clashed over the wearing of face masks in the chamber - BBC News" video.

The Left's scapegoat for anything bad that happens in the world.
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Masks don't work.
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Jesus is Lord.
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@aethellstan No, the Lord of salvation. Only through Jesus can we be saved and enter heaven.
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@aethellstan The spiritual intuition, or mystical knowledge of God, is revealed to those who have gain self-mastery over the passions and the chaotic warfare of the mind. I never said i could prove this, and that's the beauty of it: only those with faith gain entry. Jesus said: "Knock and the door will be opened to you". The great banquet inside is accessible to all, but few are willing to knock.
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@aethellstan As Saint Anselm once wrote: "I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but rather, I believe in order that I may understand". God is very much a reality, but you can only know that through personal experience by first believing by faith. Jesus said: "Those who wish for a sign will receive nothing". God reveals himself only to those who are truly humble and pure of heart, as Jesus said: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will SEE God." The only thing barring your way is your own hard-heartedness. Knock my friend, only then will the door be opened to you.
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@aethellstan For you to suggest that there is no door, when it is at least a possibility (and which you yourself have never experienced), reveals that you've closed yourself off to other perspectives. You claim to want evidence, but won't even accept the possiblity of being wrong. If you follow the method I described earlier, you will 'see' God, just as Jesus preached, it's as simple as that. Only you can discover this, alone.
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@aethellstan The door is a simple metaphor. It's to show that there is a barrier between what we can perceive with the five senses and what we cannot. It's about taking a leap into the unknown and finding the unexpected. And there very well could be an 'invisible rabbit', it's not for me to say what form a spiritual entity may manifest itself, but it's not in my experience. I certainly haven't closed my mind off from the possibility of there being nothing after death, I use to believe such a thing, and I still question it even now, but far less often as i've experienced the spiritual sweetness of the divine. And those souls which have been reformed back into pure innocence, and where the spark of the divine has been fanned into a bright flame, can never die, but live on eternally after the death of the body.
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@aethellstan You don't make things up solely in your head. You make things up in your head from things you've experienced through the five senses. And that's why the divine is different: it's something experienced outside of anything experienced within nature. It's the absense of any thing conceivable: Via Negativa. "Those who wish for a sign won't recieve one". Your pride is barring the way to the evidence. And holy men have written about the divine for almost all of human history. It is factual, but has to experienced before being proven. But of course this won't be enough for the rationalist who lacks self-knowlodge. People can feel 'spiritual', while denying where it came from, but a personal God is necessary for salvation. The world had a beginning: a Creator created a creation. That Creator put the spark of himself within nature and within mankind. Mankind has to recognise and then reignite that spark, turning us once again back into that glorious image of God through faith and ascetic practise. God is the first mover in this process; by loving us before we came to any self-awareness. He loved us when He died on the cross, offering us a way to salvation through him, rather than through our own perceieved sense of goodness or our failed attempts at fighting the three enemies of the soul: the world, the flesh and the devil.
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@aethellstan We're in Plato's cave. We perceive only the shadows on the wall. We humans are limited in our capacity to truly experience this reality. The role of the spiritual is to open us up to a higher state of awareness through ascetic practise. We're all staring at dancing shadows on the wall, while the true light of day is just beyond our grasp. We must look beyond the created sun of sense perception, to the uncreated son of righteousness (Jesus) dwelling in our hearts. We can perceive reality in it's fullness when we free ourselves from wickedness, and when we silence the mind in meditation. The only thing stopping us is our ego. So the evidence is inside you, you're just not willing to make the necessary sacrifice in order to know. There is a whole other world waiting to be re-discovered my friend. There, is true peace, true love, and all that is blissful and beautiful. The garden of Eden.
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@aethellstan Thanks. Jesus said to 'be in the world but not of the world.' I hope one day to become a monk. I also wish you well and hope you find everlasting peace.
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@1998ichigokurosaki98 Our body our choice.
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