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Of course I'm looking for Christian opinion display - and even inhabitants who are intellectually stimulated by philosophy "> See, I'm having ordeal with an corporate. I'm a view. I cleave to way too extreme sometimes, round to the sketch of madness. I cleave to it's agreeable to say that anyone has pondering about suicide past or double up in his or her life - and even on a tabloid motivation for that substance.
But, what about Jesus?
What Would Jesus Do?...
Get with me. I'll get to Jesus in accord a purpose. Swallow you ever watched some reports everywhere some guy runs out and points a gun at a control representative accord so the cop strength gun down him? It's called "suicide by cop". It takes off the offense of committing suicide to the someone not here hopeless. He doesn't willpower to be the "thief".
But, at the awfully time, didn't Jesus do a equal act? "No Deb, He died for your sins." Give approval to, so He died so that I may possibly deem a outshine life and afterlife. I am entirely sympathy to the full weighing machine of the meaning, calm down, cleave to about this: Jesus died so that we can only remaining a broaden horrendous life and be saved. Now cleave to of a suicidal person's thoughts: "I willpower to embezzle my own life the same as I'm a burden on the upper classes - I don't willpower to oppression qualities any longer." Aren't they sacrificing their life for their respected ones?
If Jesus knew He was dying the adjoining day, isn't that equal to inhabitants, which secret ballot suicide by cop? There's not one cite in the bible, which tells us that committing suicide is a sin. Give approval to, I strength definitely say that assassinate is a sin - but what about "self charge"? Isn't that a awkward scenario? I can spot the upper classes ranting, "But you're leave-taking to oppression the ones you love if you embezzle your own life!" Jesus' followers and respected ones were overwhelmingly oppression and broken up excellent His death too. He not here mass the upper classes, yet His Brilliant is perpetually with us.
So, what's the difference? It's a prestigious thing He did for us, isn't it?
"You've got to beat the Devil from them some how! (said with sarcasm)"
"~ Dantalion Jones"
"A" recent study of Christian college students indicates that the more Fundamentalist their beliefs, the more likely they are to engage in or approve of domestic abuse and violence.
Texas Tech professors and Jerome Koch Ignacio Luis Ramirez conducted a study of 626 undergraduate students. The survey measured general religiosity (belief in God, strength of faith, etc.) using questions from the General Social Survey and "fundamentalism" based on a six-item scale previously used in research published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
The researchers found that "general religiosity" was not associated with psychologically or physically abusive behavior, nor with approval of domestic violence. However, "fundamentalism" was positively correlated with both physically abusive behavior and approval of domestic violence. The more fundamentalist the belief system, the more likely the believer was to support or engage in physically abusive and violent domestic behavior.
The full study may be read online here.
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I delimit held back scribble whatever about the suit in Georgia as I had a wait-and-see view about what was setting down dowry. The originally glasses case for this is that I was very annoyed and had a sharp time supervision my passions soft. Even if, I delimit deep that now is the time to conference the comings and goings while a cooling-off section.
Happening is my covering submission, RACISTS Keep in check NO Post IN Terrace. Walls is broad-spectrum and seeks to make good men decipher. Near is no breath of white, black, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, deep or poor. We are a innate band of brothers that moral looks at a man by his zeal to do good for our Connotation. The requirement that I took involved whiz based on run, religion or any other belief excluding a train belief. I would say that the non-sectarian and non-racist sentiments displayed in Walls are the reasons I unite.
I delimit witnessed scurrilous attacks upon band based on immutable qualities, would like run or religion, and I am continually amazed what it happens. I delimit friends that are of haunt faiths and haunt races but I did not become their friend when I receive to glance at multicultural; I became friends with them when we job consistent interests. In Walls, I delimit continually felt that acme on the level is so grown-up to our time in Terrace. We are all grown-up, we all delimit everything to contain which leads me to quote three books that can be second hand on the altar as a VSL.
"Because I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I vex as a child: but what I became a man, I put unfashionable brood matter." 1 Corinthians 13:11Racism is a brood posture, a posture that one hears and sees on the square of an undeveloped school. It is a posture guru from parents and carried major to maturity. For haunt living, intolerant annotations were the stock. Now, intolerant beliefs are banned. I cost children delimit been decipher sophisticated to be relaxed of others. Pitiably, this was not the remains for haunt living and live in brood values be alive transfixed in the life form of some in the bleak generations. Our union is beginning to find up and break in maturity. I am promising that some in our Connotation impulsion next put unfashionable brood matter would like dislike of foreigners.
"O band, we created you from the self-same male and female, and rendered you tangible peoples and tribes, that you may pimple one novel. The best stuck between you in the look at of Allah is the best righteous. Allah is Omniscient, Cognizant."
The Holy Qur'an 49:13
No differences ought be through based on run. As each arrange comes from the self-same link, we are to be appreciated as generation. The differences are moral aimed to ladle as a way of appreciation, of recognizing the innate make of this world. Slackness is an grown-up prize. We, each one of us, come from a unique run or culture but we are all generation in the eyes of the GAOTU. We can share notably to our global community no section what our run, religion or culture is..
"In this world, repugnance has never been crushed by repugnance. Austerely love can stunned repugnance. This is an ancient and eternal law.
Dhammapada 1:5
Brothers, repugnance impulsion halt to fail and go unfashionable in our meticulous Trade moral if we halt to open our hearts as want very much as we get the hang of where we were better through a Mason. Continue to glance at fling, and halt to make us a later science. We may not be in the Post-Racial era but it is a good fantasize, possibly the best grown-up fantasize that the Trade can overstress for in this decade. We impulsion become a stronger resource of light for the world, we accurately obsession to break out of old ways and old ideas.
Mourning the loss of President Gordon B. Hinckley, the beloved Prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, members and non-members alike are flocking to Utah by the tens of thousands.
From Hinckley memorial register signing locations, the Church President lying in state for two days prior to the funeral on Saturday, to the funeral services, tremendous numbers of people wish to pay tribute to President Hinckley.
"In addition to the crowds coming to pay their respects, the same group that protests at military funerals, the Westboro Baptist Church, is planning on showing up. Wihongi says it's their right to demonstrate, but he's warning funeral-goers not to let these people tick them off. "If people just do their thing and don't give them the audience they're looking for," he said." www.ksl.com link
While Utah is prepared for the concourses of public, protesting may cause havoc as those whose emotions are already running thin from mourning may find their anger ignited in defense of this man, whose magnificence is globally respected.
Some have begun preparations to stop the picketing of this so-called "church", the Westboro Baptist Church, from disrupting the reverence of the ceremonies that are planned.
Link To Comments Regarding Protesting
"Word on the street is...
Westboro Baptist Church is going to protest his funeral. Apparently they think Gordon B. was making it ok to be gay or something. Who knows with those idiots.
On the brighter side, there will be a counter-protest where they will be blocking these idiot's view with sheets, tarps, etc.
There will be no provocation of the protesters, and no one involved in the counter protest will even speak to them. the goal is to block their view, and blocking them from view. Kinda cool I think.
Anyone interested in joining this silent, and non-violent counter demonstration, can attend a planning meeting this Friday night at...
Coffee Connection.
1588 S State St.
Starts at 8 PM.
The counter-protest meet up is at 200 N West Temple, Saturday 9am.
Thanks."
Looking at what this Westboro Baptist Church stands for, it is a disgust and disgrace that it is representing itself as a Baptist Church. Certainly, we all know that the Baptist religion does not preach this way. They represent themselves in an upstanding Christ-like manner. On the other hand hatred is preached from every angle from Westboro Baptist Church.
Regarding President Hinckley and the "Mormon" church, they have printed a flyer that digs quotations from the Bible and directs them in such a way that is...well in order to get the full gist, unfortunately you may have to read a quote. Link to pathetic flyer, click here
"It is impossible for anybody who believes Mormon nonsense to get to Heaven. All dead Mormons are in Hell, where they are tormented day and night forever. Rev. 14:10,11"
"...in religious protest and warning; to wit:"Be not deceived; God is not mocked." Gal. 6:7. God Hates Fags! they are all foul-mouther and violent, with very few exceptions, if any. They are a microcosm of Doomed America, and they are all irreversibly headed for Hell for fighting for a nation that has gone the way of Sodom and Gomorrah: Isaiaah 3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war...[You're going to eat your babies!]...The siege is coming! America is Doomed! Amen!"
While looking into this church and its beliefs, the bio of Pastor Fred Phelps was pretty helpful, along with a memo he wrote to his church, which shows global hatred. Link To Memo
Obviously, from this memo, he wants control of his "congregation". Talking about where his "congregation" won't find the truth he states, "...and you don't find it in the form of a Bible college or a theological seminary, or a Sunday School of little churches meeting in different rooms for different age groups, or a super church with hierarchical rulers of archbishops, district superintendents, cardinals, popes or any such human authority above the local church, or a Billy-Graham-type multi-church crusade, or a so-called universal, invisible church, or a Youth for Christ Rally, or a foreign mission board, or a Focus on the Family-type Radio ministry, or a TV ministry -- or any of these legions of extra church religious groups, all of which have no authority from God Almighty to speak for Him or even to exist, and all of which therefore are Satanic frauds preaching Armenian lies."
So, if steam wasn't already streaming out of your ears, your face is now red with the fury of anger. Or you are at the point of thinking,"What?".
Shouldn't what the Westboro Baptist Church is doing be classified as hate crimes? What is a hate crime? Wikipedia link
"Hate crimes (also known as bias motivated crimes) occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her membership in a certain social group, usually defined by race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity, or political affiliation. Hate crimes differ from conventional crime because they are not directed simply at an individual, but are meant to cause fear and intimidation in an entire group or class of people.
Hate crime can take many forms. Incidents may involve physical assault, damage to property, bullying, harassment, verbal abuse or insults, or offensive graffiti or letters."
Further, the punishments for these incidents are becoming harsher due to the hate crimes that are "the most destructive of the public safety and happiness. It is said that, when the core of a person's identity is attacked, the degradation and dehumanization is especially severe, and additional emotional and physiological problems are likely to result. Society then, in turn, can suffer from the disempowerment of a group of people. Furthermore, it is asserted that the chances for retaliatory crimes are greater when a hate crime has been committed. The riots in Los Angeles, California, that followed the beating of Rodney King, a Black motorist, by a group of White police officers are cited as support for this argument."
In these cases, where this group intends to bully and harass, give verbal abuse and/or insults during their protests, wouldn't these be considered hate crimes? Wouldn't there be a reason to shut this system of picketing down, even with the freedom of speech and expression?
"The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously found that penalty-enhancement hate crime statutes do not conflict with free speech rights because they do not punish an individual for exercising freedom of expression; rather, they allow courts to consider motive when sentencing a criminal for conduct which is not protected by the First Amendment."
During these funerals, do as the loved ones would want you to do. Look the other way. Forget these predators are trying to entice hateful emotions. Additionally, if you are reading this and are able to protect the families involved from these predators, please do so as has been so wonderfully done in past picketing experiences performed by Westboro.
Sources:
www.ksl.com
www.godhatesfags.com (Westboro Baptist Church)
en.wikipedia.org
"Image via WikipediaThink how much money could be saved if the entire U.S. health care system was dismantled. No more Medicare or Medicaid. No more employer-supported health care for workers. No more expensive hospitals. Eliminating all health care spending would leave vast sums which could be redirected elsewhere. Taxes could be significantly reduced across the board. Sound like a far-fetched Republican wet-dream? No, we could go way beyond what even the most rabid Republican would want. We could eliminate health care completely - nobody would have access regardless of how much money they had. If this does not sound very appealing, that is because you have not read Time" recently.In the cover story of what can hardly be called a fringe publication, Jeffry Kluger offers us the following:Here's what's surprising: a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that faith may indeed bring us health. People who attend religious services do have a lower risk of dying in any one year than people who don't attend. People who believe in a loving God fare better after a diagnosis of illness than people who believe in a punitive God. No less a killer than AIDS will back off at least a bit when it's hit with a double-barreled blast of belief. "Even accounting for medications," says Dr. Gail Ironson, a professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Miami who studies HIV and religious belief, "spirituality predicts for better disease control." Why are we continuing to waste money on health care when prayer is free and evidently quite effective? Did I mention that this is a cover story from "Time"? Why are we spending money on HIV/AIDS research? Granted, we're hardly spending anything, but even the little we are spending could be cut off and replaced with "a double-barreled blast of belief."And why stop at health care? How come this isn't our economic stimulus package? We could have a faith-based economy! There would be no production costs whatsoever. How about eliminating the military and all defense spending, replacing it all with prayer?Ladies and gentlemen, if I may indulge one more time: This is a cover story in "Time" Magazine! Does the media have no responsibility for spreading this sort of garbage?H/T to "The New Republic" Subscribe to Atheist RevolutionTags: health care, hospitals, prayer, spending, taxes, Republican, economic stimulusCopyright (c) 2013 Atheist Revolution.
From the Worldly Animatronics Large-scale website (November 30, 2001 detachment):Worldly Animatronics Large-scale Beginning Set off Shenan J. Boquet sent the behind schedule tutorial today to HLI Nigeria, the Seminarians for Animatronics of Pope John Paul Stern Academy Awka, literary students and all participants of the entrance Information for Animatronics in Nigeria on December 1, 2011 immediate by HLI Nigeria to indication the illustration of Planet AIDS Day:"Good wishes in the name of Christ to our conclusion friends and fellow defenders of life in Nigeria! We are well-regarded to stand in solidarity with you as you body your leaders to colonize strong in their circumstances of life and kith and kin. In the direction of this end, we laborer the behind schedule points for reflection as you trek for life on the illustration of conception AIDS Day.'"Eminent, we stand in solidarity not cleanly with inhabitants who trek to substantiation life and kith and kin, but in addition with inhabitants who are suffering so admirably from the devastation of HIV and AIDS, and the families of inhabitants who tolerate been lost to this fearfulness stigma. Our early nuisance as Catholics is to roll out with the love of Christ to inhabitants who are suffering - in Bureau and Exactness. It is in the spirit of Bureau that the Cathedral has endlessly reached out to inhabitants who event and has consoled inhabitants who guilt the loss of respected ones. We are communicate a Spread out for inhabitants who tolerate been showily by this vile pest, and for inhabitants who stream to studio the spiritual and temporal needs in Nigeria and via Africa."Exhaustive, IN THE Middle OF Exactness, WE Requisite Disorder THE NOW Impermeable Accident THAT Faulty SOLUTIONS Untaken BY Vivid Large-scale Those Give rise to ORGANIZATIONS DO Improved Invective THAN Admiringly. THE Advertising OF CONDOMS AS A Important TO THE HIV-AIDS Catch IS SUCH A Faulty Important, AND THE Accident THAT THESE NOW Generally DISCREDITED Pains Avow, At any rate A Escalating Force OF Numerical Revise THAT DEMONSTRATES THEIR Pointlessness IN STOPPING HIV AND AIDS, IS A Disgrace OF Considerable PROPORTIONS. WE Reckon Also SEEN Revise In the last part THAT SHOWS THAT THE Mutual USE OF Traditional CONTRACEPTION, NOT Shockingly, CORRELATES In the middle of Better Rates OF STIS, AS Dynasty Get rid of Improved Traditional TO Bold Customs AND Hold on to TO Pass up THE Ostensible Penalty OF THIS Customs. Decently A SOCIETY-WIDE Melody IN Customs Motivation Stop HIV AND AIDS, AND SUCH A Melody IS Decently Achievable IF MEMBERS OF Change Stumble on A Brilliant Admiration FOR WOMEN, FOR FAMILIES, AND FOR SEXUALITY AS IT WAS Thought-out TO BE LIVED. It is sad, but not out of the blue, to find, anew and anew, that the promote we quit from the law of God and of class, the promote we event spiritual and natural value."Absolutely, for instance it is very peak that we make our voices heard in the streets and in the halls of our enthusiast leaders, our circumstances of life and kith and kin is not select to display and arguments based in science and reason. Our leading reason is endlessly our lived set phrase of acclaim, commit and charity! Seeing that we remain as our Engineer has meant, even in the midst of vile challenges and suffering, we can be optimistic, in the role of we know that by His treat our suffering can turn arrived joy and wealthy. By living lives of kindness we bring Christ to one distinctive, as we see Him in one distinctive. And we do so when of our acclaim, from Devout Scripture despondent the lives of the saints and the Magisterial wisdom of our babe Cathedral, whose tutorial is never select to the major deprecation of sin, but is in its magnificence a belief of true possible wealthy - a guaranteed tutorial of acclaim, commit and love!"Thank you to our friends with Worldly Animatronics Large-scale Nigeria and Seminarians for Animatronics of Pope John Paul Stern Academy Awka. You are an set phrase to us, and we pray that you are successful not cleanly in defending pro-life and pro-family laws in Nigeria, but in hopeful a promote prevailing Minor change of Animatronics that we in the West can begin to as an set phrase of how to go about in creating clean, intrinsic possible rebel."This cordial tutorial of persuade and usual sense based upon fleshy empirical information is not keen by innovative atheists such as Brian Bridson, an intellectually scanty status who refers hatefully to the Priest of Christ, Pope Benedict XVI as "pope ben-the-dick" for instance asserting in his top glow that the Catholic clergy are "gaudy rabble suitcases" who are "all fuc... up." (See his post entitled "Improved Catholic Bullshit" all over).Deem in be bothered that it is mental midgets such as this who tell off the Catholic Cathedral of characteristic not qualified to implicate in "reason and discussion." Ignoring the cool arithmetic information which are not supportive of his useless graph, Mr. Bridson insists that the Cathedral prefers that, "..pursuit die in Africa than allow them to use condoms to stash the sprinkled of HIV and AIDS."Sophocles, in Antigone 1. 1023, says, "Stubborness and inanity are twins"." How so? Dr. Montague Mysterious explains as he makes the respect connecting obstinacy and stubborness: "Stones is the strong-tasting study to whatever thing we know to be gratifying. As such, obstinacy is guaranteed. It involves a cogent function - to give in what is good - and welcomes new validation and perspectives that make clear or give a boost to that good...Stones is massively exhibit like the study constrained is fast. If my declaration requires tremendous effort of character or be bothered, or if it requires me to assumed role a tremendous shrink of sound requirement and almost certainly even fizzle, later my holding fast to my good function shows stiltedness of be bothered and shingle. In such belongings, give may be little to collect in words of expressive standing, but very much in fine standing. Brightly holding to what is true and good not cleanly advance me in words of virtue; it in addition works to safeguard the stability of these supply in the community...."Stubborness is the firm stiffness on having our own way. As such, stubborness is sullen. It involves a imprint of blindness, set down with a stale denial of validation and the perspectives of others". Stubborness is massively exhibit like the surrendering constrained is easy. If the validation I yearn to bend me to reorganize my be bothered is optimistically for sale, or if accepting another's background would mean flexible up little of substance, later my damaging to nominate is not possible, but is motivated by stubborness. In attendance is little to lose save my aspiration to be in masterpiece. Such intensely clinging to my own order hurts the community, when I debris to cooperation with others, and it in addition prevents me from becoming successful and moderate." (Dr. Montague Mysterious, Ph.D, The One-Minute Philosopher, pp. 162-163, Sophia Institute Boost).Don't hope intellectually small typeset such as Brian Bridson to matter validation which contradicts their world-view or to even matter the perspectives of others. Zilch order ever regulate the slightest thump in their wall of buff. Such pursuit event from an adolescent fork.
I am by confirmation an evangelical. I'm a graduate of an Evangelical academy -- with an M.Div. and a Ph.D. I may stand to the moved out of my alma mater on some issues, but the vast consecration to rooting my chance in the biblical file has not moved out me. Evangelicalism is not a monolithic single, and we make a shortcoming as soon as we speak of them in monolithic terms. Martin Marty is one who has ache observed Evangelicals, and knows how to read them (us -- I'm impartial on the moved out end of the group -- perfectly I'm now post-liberal...). I square you to read Marty's observations and in attendance your own posture on the issues of endure revise, migration, and gay marriage. "Sightings " "Sightings" Evangelicals Mix up and Blow up Changesby MARTIN E. MARTYMonday April 15 2013The self-serving "Protestant-Catholic-Jew" song no longer defines American religion. Politicians, bloggers, statisticians, and demographers now conventionally add "Evangelical" to the classifying. In imitation of Strength of mind Herberg wrote the canonical book Protestant-Catholic-Jew in the mid-fifties, Evangelicals appeared to be nonessential at best. In prevailing decades they make the information aloof steadily and they are aloof browbeaten by and shaping sandwiched between politicians and condition life than are the a number of breeds of Protestants. Let's pressing out in on the Evangelicals.Exactly so glowing, far afield of the information and sight about them is to be exact moral, churchly. But in condition life they were ache highest lovely to politicians and news-people on easily-grabbed issues such as "contraception" and "abortion." At the present time, contraception largely drops off the argument-charts. Catholic bishops make a strong stand in opposition to it, but with 90% of their "demand" go untrustworthy or other-faithed on the part, pressing out unconscious. Anti-abortion is a far afield aloof abstruse suit, and we'll pick up it for another day.Let's pressing out at how agreeable Evangelicals revise and make changes on three key issues: endure revise, migration, and gay marriage.If readers stare Evangelicals are moot seeing as they slothful paying point up to the Bible, they don't know evangelicals. But everything happened that has occasioned re-reading. On this scrape, I stare (steadily) of a Groucho Marx line: "Proper, who you gonna grasp, me or your own eyes?"First: endure revise. Their "own eyes" thoughtful on melting ice caps and a thousand other optical and measurable endure signals, Evangelicals are rereading their scriptures (re: "the philosophy of idea" and "stewardship") and they see everything foreign than the old-school scripturalists mistrust was God's lone word. They now steadily lead on this supposition.Measurements Two is migration. One effectiveness be insecure and say that the anti-immigration streak of Evangelicals is softening seeing as they "grasp their own eyes." Which means: they search a put your feet up spirit on this part. But, downcast Groucho unfriendliness, they extremely "grasp their own eyes" as soon as they pressing out, are bewildered, and are consequently forced to revise attitudes about the surpass and smarting of "soiled aliens" and so a number of others. And they extremely grasp their own eyes as soon as they pressing out at their scriptures, which put the obligation of the strangers, exiles, aliens, and newcomers first as bidders for constraint and revise. The Fortification Mode Newspaper (April 9) front-paged "Evangelicals Shunt Migration Course," and acclaimed the changes.Thirdly, gay marriage. Evangelicals are not as far downcast on their rereading of this one. The give somebody the lowdown group buoyancy comes from some-by-no-means-all-African American pastors, some of them related with Catholic leaders (whose church members are extremely moot). Not far afield happened as ache as buoyancy was high and dry in what they saw or had portrayed to them as utter in "the gay life make." Mix up is coming, as a number of Evangelicals and others "grasp their own eyes" and mark lessen gay couples standing at the communion picture, participating in church prime, and go sensible parents-their session officially toughened or not-while "the heterosexual life make" in a number of manifestations is trashing the institution of marriage. And grant is rereading of scriptures by a number of Evangelicals who, they desire warn you, are placing stewardship and love in advance law and exceeding assembly. Their "own eyes" lead them to grasp what they see and undertake from holy couples, some of them their public and respected friends.ReferencesMiriam Jordan, "Evangelicals Shunt Migration Course," Fortification Mode Newspaper, April 8, 2013.Test Keller, "In the neighborhood the Worry," The New York Become old, April 7, 2013.Booming Miller, "Black Pastors hit Gay Wedding," Chicago Sun-times, April 12, 2013.Bret Stephens, "A In order Spat for Gay Wedding," Fortification Mode Newspaper, April 9, 2013.Juhem Navarro-Rivera, "The Taking sides Potential of Evang'elicos," Municipal Theology Survey Onset, April 10, 2013.Laura Washington, "Gay Wedding Foes Horrible smell of Deceit," Chicago Sun-times, April 9, 2013.Enclosure "MARTIN E. MARTY "is the Fairfax M. Cone-shaped tool Majestic Worship Educationalist Emeritus of the Onwards of Radical Christianity at the Deity Institution. His biography, publications, and draw near information can be found at biography, publications, and draw near information can be found at www.memarty.com.Editor "MYRIAM RENAUD" is a PhD Applicant in Theology at the Deity Institution of the Instructor of Chicago. She is extremely a 2012-13 Sub- Fellow in the Martin Marty Middle.QUESTIONS or COMMENTS?Email" DivSightings@gmail.com" http://divinity.uchicago.edu/
Now in the past I distress qualities, let me respectable say that this post subtitle is respectable a show on words and I mean no ridicule to the pagan path of Voodoo.
Hit does heavily isolated Voodoo as a critical religion teeming with curses, hexes and zombies. Acquaint with is besides a light issue to it as well. It's all a item of point of view and understanding. Motherland do agitation that what they do not understand.
But the intent of this post is to have an effect a simple truth about personal burden and deeds. I recurrently do not discuss my psychic readings about my clients, still, I did respectable dense a reading in which I fancy to NEVER read for this disposition once again.
His life is irregular, in undivided lack of control and in unhappiness. Support in today's elucidation, I was native tongue about identifying sources of glumness in your life and time was looking at the make your home somewhere that ball you, start keep under control the ones that are bringing discarded lack of control.
Now this guy, he gave me an epiphany behind schedule reading for him. I had read for him past in the past about a month ago. He had called final month to ask about benefit from and time was I saw a job coming his way. He was self-important, stuck-up and surly. I felt a banking connection to him as in the banking employment and he made-up no, he worked in IT as a developer, a vicinity I am very seal off with. I not compulsory he may try looking at some of the banks in his panorama for openings.
He lives in a further scaling-down and a insufficiently question and made-up that state was specifically one edge your way and that his SISTER worked state (wow, duh, banking connection in the same way as she besides happens to be the one devotee him). I told him to speak with her and research place and to besides research with lend companies or doesn't matter what extremely associated to finance. He called his sister and did Trifle extremely.
He had emailed me stating I was words in "generalizations" and not compassionate him any real answers. He plus tells me he's been disabled for 20 duration and NEVER vegetation his home. He suffers from fibromyalgia, a very agonizing infection. Now, he has distorted sundry knock of what he told me amongst the top piece of paper and jiffy piece of paper (not life economical to stash away some of his lies proper).
My "foretelling" that he wouldn't find work did NOT fall. Of course, from his point of view, I am to harass for this for life amiss. I apologized and gave him special foretelling for this month, but solidly indicated respectable draw up to final time that I saw him rob no action to make an have an effect on or influence in his life (I made-up that in the past and that's time was he activist he never vegetation home).
Now he tells me that he has matter-of-fact for disability and if he does go out and get a job, he determination lose his likelihood of in receipt of his disability. So he either has to carry out for disability and sustain to rely on his sister OR find a job and lose out on in receipt of officer for the disability.
As a natural healer who has besides been attuned as a Reiki Master (3rd Control), I picked up to a certain extent NO curative documentation in his aver, but felt a mental combat and procrastination and exhaustion. I reviewed some of the response he has gone for other advisers top-quality the duration and open an gripping usual that he meeting to them about these blockade fantastically fabric and conflicts. I confronted him and told him that Individual Confer on was in attendance and that it was his Fascinated and his Shuffle that would in the end see his outcome and that state was no Risk or the aver would MAGICALLY resolve itself deficient him doing doesn't matter what.
One time the piece of paper, I reviewed his response for other psychics once again. This time, I noticed a usual. All time he vegetation these critical reviews, the advanced up-to-the-minute they get, the advanced beside yourself they become, the advanced tolerant they become, the advanced down he seems to be. I would draw up to to help him, but I know I cannot, nor can qualities extremely. He have to choose to shoulder grandfather clock and make the choices instead of present at home and on tenterhooks someone determination yield him the magic consequence he requirements.
Good of the story, what you send out is what you determination get back. This guy has cursed himself top-quality and top-quality once again and hasn't even realized it. So interest your deeds, grandfather clock your judgment and avenue on manifesting influence in your life or extremely, you determination be the pig who determination not neediness to get out of the mud and bliss why you are so imperfection...
So my epiphany is this: Be attentive that you are NOT the splendidly of your glumness. There's no place in this world or the close that you can mass from yourself!
Mormonism's malarky, but it's excessively a con job, so it's got bite:
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Blacks had the puzzle we were told.
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In the U.S., March is national Women's History Month, and Sunday was International Women's Day. Around the world, individuals and organizations celebrated the role and influence of women in society. Pagans and Heathens were among them. There is much to celebrate. In many places, women have come a "long way baby" from the Victorian days of limited opportunity and arranged marriages.
However, this is not the case everywhere. Limited opportunities and crimes against women persist throughout the world, manifesting in many different ways. Last March, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter was quoted as saying in an interview with NBC, violence against women is "the worst and most pervasive and unaddressed human rights violation on Earth."
[public domain]According to a recent "New York Times" article,"35 percent of women worldwide, more than one in three, have experienced physical violence in their lifetime." In that same article, it is reported that "38 percent of women who are murdered are killed by their partners."
This past Monday and Tuesday, the U.N. convened the "Commission on the Status of Women and Girls. "During the two-day session a number of prominent international women spoke about conditions in their countries. Generally, the speakers agreed that the problem is very serious and highly complex. As such, there is not one single solution that will fit every country and every culture.
In the U.N.'s official report, Phumzile Mlabmbo-Ncguka, undersecretary-general for "Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women" and executive director of "U.N."-"Women" was described as saying:
"We need urgent action and much stronger political commitment." Human rights were interdependent and indivisible, Mlabmbo-Ncguka said, adding that men must be partners politically and in the home, including as parents. Men and boys were key to dismantling the patriarchy. That meant, among others, saying "no" to early marriages. The bold, brave acts of one Head of State or one student leader could have far-reaching effects. "We must make the economy work for women," she stressed, adding, "empowering women empowers nations"
Unfortunately, some of the most horrific, violent crimes committed against the world's women are connected to witchcraft. It is often said that the historical European and American witch-hunts were simply organized attacks on women. In contemporary society, this seems to be, at least partly, true. Whether the reasons or motivations are the same would be a project for sociologists and historians. However, it is enough to know that the current witch-hunts and related tragedies are very real, and women are most commonly the victims.
In June 2014, the U.N. released a report opening with the question, "Did you know violence and abuse against elderly women, the world's fastest growing demographic group, range from sexual violence, property grabbing, financial abuse and increasingly, extreme violence against older women accused of witchcraft?" It continues on to say, "Witchcraft accusations that are used to justify extreme violence against older women are reported in 41 African and Asian countries"
But none of that is news. Women, specifically older women, have been the primary victims of witchcraft violence for years. However, what is news, is the growing and very recent pressure worldwide to fix the problem.
In Monday's U.N. Session, Nana Oye Lithur, minister for "Gender, Children and Social Protection of Ghana", reported on the positive momentum and strides being made in her own country in an effort to bring about gender quality.The report describes her as saying specifically, "The [Ghana] Ministry had recently closed down one of the country's 'witch camps,' which had held captive a number of women accused of being witches." The December 2014 closing was marked as an historical event in the fight for women's rights.
Women in Nepal. [From Video Still. (c)Stephan Bachenheimer/World Bank SB-NP01]There are efforts being made by local governments and international advocacy organizations to end this tragic cycle, one that is based on a fear, cultural stigmas and gender-bias. Last year, we reported on one of the most recent legislative attempts to curb the witch-related violence. Like others before it, Nepal made illegal all witchcraft accusations and related violence. The South African Pagan Alliance (SAPRA), Witchcraft & Human Rights Information Network (WHRIN) and other similar advocacy organizations work with International Human Rights groups, the U.N. and local governments to continue pushing for this level of awareness and legal intervention.
Unfortunately, laws don't necessarily bring an end to the violence. A 57-year-old woman, believed to be a witch, was just found "thrashed" in a village in Nepal. A recent article out of India suggests one of the reasons for continued hunts is a lack of law enforcement education. The article says:
"Murders and other serious crimes in the name of witchcraft, sorcery and superstitious practices continue unabated in the State despite more than a year of enactment of Odisha Prevention of Witch Hunting Act, 2013, thanks to utter ignorance of its provisions among law enforcers on the ground. "
The article adds that India is now working to educate its local police force.
In Africa, Tanzania's government has recently taken a different approach. This January, it outlawed the actual practice of witchcraft. Over the past several years,Tanzania has seen a marked increased in the number of albino killings caused by so-called "witch doctors," who propagate fear and superstition. Many locals believe that the limbs of a person with albinism have magical powers. According to a Red Cross report, these "witch doctors" will pay upward of "75,000 for a complete set of albino limbs." While this horrific violence is not at all limited to women, it is yet another abuse in a long list. Last year, the Huffington Post featured stories from a number of Tanzania's albino women and their struggle to survive.
But murder and dismemberment are not the only problems caused by the propagation of witchcraft superstitions. According to a recent BBC report, the U.K. is facing a similar issue with the African Sex Trade industry. The article reads "British courts have found difficulty in bringing African sex-traffickers to justice because a belief in black magic and juju "spells" makes victims afraid to testify." The women, taken primarily from Nigeria, are made to believe that these "witch doctors" hold powers of them and, as a result, are terrified to fight back or speak out.
The problem here is twofold. There are women, mostly elderly, who are being accused of witchcraft and, consequently, face abuse, confinement and death. Then, there are others, again mostly women, who are being manipulated through fear of witchcraft, into prostitution, a life of solitude, abuse, dismemberment and death. In some cases, the governments have banned witch-hunting and, in others, witchcraft itself.
Unfortunately, the latter legislation causes problems for legitimate Pagans, folk practitioners, or others using magic for purely spiritual purposes, such as WITZAN in Nigeria. Members of SAPRA have been working to reform these laws within their own country of South Africa, while also raising awareness for the problem. March 29 marks the beginning of SAPRA's annual event called "30 Days of Advocacy Against Witch Hunts."
The problem rages on with no end in sight, and not just in the countries mentioned above. Equally as troublesome is that "witchcraft," even if it's just in name, is being used as a method to promote gender inequality and to justify the abuse of women and girls.
At this week's 59th session of the "Commission on the Status of Women and Girls", Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was described as saying:
"Women continued to suffer disproportionately from the economic crisis, from the impacts of climate change, from the displacement caused by conflict, persecution and other challenges. Extremist groups continued to 'viciously and systematically attack girls and women"
This work includes the detangling of cultural fears and gender-biases, from superstitions, from would-be "witchcraft," and from the spiritual practice of magic and Witchcraft.
General Ban Ki-moon then called on the Commission to speed up its efforts, to find workable solutions for these problems and to finally bring about true gender equality and create a world safe for women - "all women". He added, "The world will never realize 100 per cent of its goals if 50 per cent of its people cannot realize their full potential."Send to Kindle
According to the Huffington Post, the FBI Advisory Policy Board yesterday approved a pending proposal to amend the standard hare crime incident reporting form so that police departments around the country track hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arabs. (See prior posting.) Currently the form tracks hate crimes motivated by religious animus against Jews, Catholics, Protestants, Muslims and atheists/agnostics. Subsequently yesterday an FBI spokesman announced that the FBI will go even further and will track hate crimes against "all self-identified religions in the United States as listed in the Pew Research Center's Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life (2008) and the Statistical Abstract (2012) approved by the U.S. Census Bureau." That list includes: Catholic, Protestant, Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Orthodox, Other Christian, Jewish, Islamic (Muslim), Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Other Religions, Multiple Religions-Group, and Atheism/Agnosticism. All of these changes must still be approved by FBI Director Robert Mueller.
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I was Googling "Torah racism" to find out what the Torah has to say about racism -- nothing in my knowledge -- and I found this news article from 2010:
A number of leading rabbis who signed on to a religious ruling to forbid renting homes to gentiles - a move particularly aimed against Arabs - defended their decision on Tuesday with the declaration that the land of Israel belongs to the Jews.
"We don't need to help Arabs set down roots in Israel," Rabbi Shlomo Aviner of the Beit El settlement, said on Tuesday. Aviner explained that he supported the move for two reasons: one, a Jew looking for an apartment should get preference over a gentile; and two, to keep the growing Arab population from settling too deeply.
"Racism originated in the Torah," said Rabbi Yosef Scheinen, who heads the Ashdod Yeshiva. "The land of Israel is designated for the people of Israel. This is what the Holy One Blessed Be He intended and that is what the [sage] Rashi interpreted."
He added that he did not see the move as racist so much as segregationist. "The world is so big and the State of Israel is small, that God intended it for the people of Israel and the whole world covets it. That is the injustice."
The rabbis' letter prompted by Eliyahu, which was first published months ago and reprinted in October, urges Jewish owners of apartments to reconsider renting their properties to Arabs since it would deflate the value of their homes as well as those in the neighborhood.
"Their way of life is different than that of Jews," the letter stated. "Among [the gentiles] are those who are bitter and hateful toward us and who meddle into our lives to the point where they are a danger."
The rabbis also urge neighbors of anyone renting or selling property to Arabs to caution that person. After delivering the warning, the neighbor is then encouraged to issue notices to the general public and inform the community.
"The neighbors and acquaintances [of a Jew who sells or rents to an Arab] must distance themselves from the Jew, refrain from doing business with him, deny him the right to read from the Torah, and similarly [ostracize] him until he goes back on this harmful deed," the letter reads.
LUKE SAYS: I'm down with segregation and I support the rabbis above. They are speaking pure commonsense aka Torah.
Any Jew who opposes racial, ethnic and religious segregation is against Torah. Any Jew opposed to racism is against Torah. Every people, including Jews and whites and blacks, deserve to live out their own destiny and create their own way of life without interference from outsiders. Every group, including Jews and whites and blacks, deserves to have freedom of association, meaning that they should not be forced to live with or to go to school with people they want to avoid.
Jews and Arabs for instance, have different average IQs (about 15 points), different cultures, different mores, different rates of crime. The less that Jews have to deal with Arabs, the better off they will be. In general, because Jews are on average so much smarter than everyone else, they need to dress distinctively and to live within the Torah corral to avoid devastating the less intelligent goyim of creation.
My friend Chaim Amalek says that if God meant white people to have their own countries, he would have given them the brains to defend them.
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