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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/27/tennessee-school-board-bans-pulitzer-prize-winning-holocaust-novel-maus The decision comes as conservative groups across the country are stepping up campaigns to ban books from school libraries, often focused on works that address race, LGBTQ issues or marginalized communities. The board did have some supporters with Julie Goodin, an instructi
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bradley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Virgin births and miracles are elements of > mythological figures older than Christ. Unless you > believe in reincarnation and they are all the same > guy, they would have to be made-up. > > The possibility that Jesus is real is intriguing. > Maybe he comes every few thousand years just to >
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Is Alan Smithee a real person? I've seen several of his films. He isn't, but only because we know he's a pseudonym. What about William Shakespeare, William Tell, King Arthur or Robin Hood? People accept the possibility that they may not be real. This only comes up when supernatural claims are involved. It's actually not easy to totally fabricate someone, and there's usually
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We've seen this before: "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer." Same old story. Only this time, we know how the story will end -- if we don't do anything. I like this story better :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovwHkb1wEfU&t=180 What is America to me? A name, a map, or a flag I see? A certain word, "democracy"? What is America to me? The hous
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elderolddog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Morris Albert Wrote: > ----------------------- > > > > Is racism ‘science’, or > > is it an ‘emotion’? > > > > > Whenever people feel the need to offer excuses for > their behavior, they get their pet boffins to come > up with an clever > explanation
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Hate is hate. You can't dress it up with faith. If you are going to hate, just hate. Stop pretending that it's something else. Don't claim that "sky daddy" is "making" you hate. You hate because you want to, not because someome or something told you to. It's all on you. *YOU* are throwing out your own child. *YOU* are denying rights to people you don't
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State funded religious intolerance and discrimination -- what century are we living in now? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/22/tennessee-jewish-couple-sues-state-christian-adoption-agency-denies-them-services A Jewish couple from Tennessee has filed a lawsuit against the state’s Department of Children’s Services after a state-funded Christian program denied them foster care
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After reading all the comments, I'd like to mention a few things. The white / non-white racial is so embedded in American society that many find it difficult to believe that it is not natural. I know people from the UK and Europe who are astonished at the level of racial polarization in the USA. It's not that they don't know about racism -- it's that it is so prevalent and pervasive that i
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caffiend Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Anybody said, > > "She was 57 years old, singer of a Czech folk > group specializing in Irish and Scottish music. > She decided to catch Covid intentionally, in order > to avoid the vaccine, and now is unfortunately > dead." > > I'm a 74-year-old who unintentionally caught Co
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Here's a picture of a couple of cats. https://media-be.chewy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/29140851/orange-calico-cats-main.jpg One cat is a calico cat and the other is an orange tabby cat. You notice the cats are different, but to you, they are just both cats. Now here’s another picture of a couple of dogs: https://petkeen.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Doodleman-Pinscher-Doberman-
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COVID denial is a cult. The virus is real, it is deadly, and the risk of severe illness and death is significantly reduced by being vaccinated and following basic, common sense practices like wearing a mask, social distancing, and personal hygiene. Or, in other words... ******************************************* ** "If you play with fire, you'll get burnt." ** **************
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COVID-19 is an airborne respiratory illness caused by a virus. Wearing a mask, washing your hands, and avoiding contact with people in confined spaces and crowds will help prevent you from getting infected and infecting others. COVID vaccines keep you from being infected or becoming seriously ill if you do become infected, and the vast majority of people who are now becoming infected and ho
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You've probably seen a scene like this: A grandmother and her granddaughter are in a store, and Grandma asks the granddaughter "to tell the coloured sales girl" to come help her. The granddaughter cringes and tells her, "Grandma, we don't use that word any more. That's a bad word" and the grandmother doesn't understand what's wrong. The words "black" and "
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"I still exist..."
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Fixed it for ya. Discrimination has existed in some form or another in just about all human societies throughout history. In the ancient world, class was the barrier in society, not "race." The Romans didn't care about what you looked like, where you came from, or your ethnic background — if you became "Roman." What mattered was your social class. There's a famous
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Listen, children, and you shall hear Great tales of people who were not here And stories of places that never appeared. Sorry, Mormons. There were no horses, no mules, no draft animals at all in pre-Columbian North America. Nothing to make real the fantasy of a Greco-Roman old world style civilization in the Americas of which you nightly dream. No mighty men in magic underwear except t
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Quilted boiled cotton, not bronze or steel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichcahuipilli#/media/File:Codex_Mendoza_folio_67r.jpg
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This isn't like religion where you can just make up stuff. This is reality. Why are all the people who are not vaccinated and taking such "alternative" treatments sick and dying by the thousands? Think! https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/08/13/fact-check-ivermectin-not-proven-covid-19-treatment/5566216001/ https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why
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Ivermectin, in whatever form, will not kill the virus and prevent or cure COVID-19. That's a fact. Wear a mask and wash your hands, reduce your risk of exposure, and get vaccinated and boosted. That's what is going to save your life :)
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Samuel Clemens Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have been here for years without posting... used > to post many years ago (wish I could remember my > old name, been so long ago). The fact that I > post on a current hot topic (that is related to > Mormonism via Glen Beck) makes me a troll? OK > > It's interesting that sometimes when
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There's no "both sides" or alternative reality here. This is mother nature and science. Worms are parasites that live inside another animal and feed off of them. Worms and bacteria are living organisms. A virus is not really alive. Worms and bacteria can reproduce on their own. A virus cannot. A virus is just a collection of molecules that floats around and doesn't do a
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