All heathen, philosophic, Muslim, and Mormon religions are false because according to all of them, man must do this or that in order to earn salvation. Only the Christian religion says the contrary, stands in opposition to all other religions in the world, and has human nature as its enemy. This nature is blind in its understanding, an enemy of God in its will, and a rebel against God in its desires. People listen approvingly when they are told the following: By nature you are good, your inner being is good. Follow the basic principles of good conduct, love and help your neighbor, in order to become acceptable before God. We Christians do not believe that. Only hypocrites believe, for example, that they attend church in order to be pious. We attend church not really to serve God, but rather that He may serve us there; not to create righteousness but to receive it from God.
Walther, C.F.W.. Walther's Works: All Glory to God (pp. 33-34). Concordia Publishing House. Kindle Edition.
All heathen, philosophic, Muslim, and Mormon religions are false because according to all of them, man must do this or that in order to earn salvation. Only the Christian religion says the contrary, stands in opposition to all other religions in the world, and has human nature as its enemy. This nature is blind in its understanding, an enemy of God in its will, and a rebel against God in its desires. People listen approvingly when they are told the following: By nature you are good, your inner being is good. Follow the basic principles of good conduct, love and help your neighbor, in order to become acceptable before God. We Christians do not believe that. Only hypocrites believe, for example, that they attend church in order to be pious. We attend church not really to serve God, but rather that He may serve us there; not to create righteousness but to receive it from God.
Walther, C.F.W.. Walther's Works: All Glory to God (pp. 33-34). Concordia Publishing House. Kindle Edition.
BY Diet of Worms
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At the start of 2018, the company attempted to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which would enable it to enable payments (and earn the cash that comes from doing so). The initial signals were promising, especially given Telegram’s user base is already fairly crypto-savvy. It raised an initial tranche of cash – worth more than a billion dollars – to help develop the coin before opening sales to the public. Unfortunately, third-party sales of coins bought in those initial fundraising rounds raised the ire of the SEC, which brought the hammer down on the whole operation. In 2020, officials ordered Telegram to pay a fine of $18.5 million and hand back much of the cash that it had raised. After fleeing Russia, the brothers founded Telegram as a way to communicate outside the Kremlin's orbit. They now run it from Dubai, and Pavel Durov says it has more than 500 million monthly active users. The company maintains that it cannot act against individual or group chats, which are “private amongst their participants,” but it will respond to requests in relation to sticker sets, channels and bots which are publicly available. During the invasion of Ukraine, Pavel Durov has wrestled with this issue a lot more prominently than he has before. Channels like Donbass Insider and Bellum Acta, as reported by Foreign Policy, started pumping out pro-Russian propaganda as the invasion began. So much so that the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council issued a statement labeling which accounts are Russian-backed. Ukrainian officials, in potential violation of the Geneva Convention, have shared imagery of dead and captured Russian soldiers on the platform. A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts. The next bit isn’t clear, but Durov reportedly claimed that his resignation, dated March 21st, was an April Fools’ prank. TechCrunch implies that it was a matter of principle, but it’s hard to be clear on the wheres, whos and whys. Similarly, on April 17th, the Moscow Times quoted Durov as saying that he quit the company after being pressured to reveal account details about Ukrainians protesting the then-president Viktor Yanukovych.
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