and work very hard and are not recognised for it. You seem to think that if someone stands up for themselves or someone else and demands fair and equal treatment that means they want something for nothing. Not true at all. How would you like it if someone told you that no matter how much talent you had or how hard you were willing to work or how much in demand your skills were you would nev
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when it was totally illegal and contraception was still thirty years in the future. He saw active service in WW I and many of his patients were the daughters of wealthy families from all over the state. By 1940 he had enough money to start his own small hospital for needy patients in the community. He also had a mansion with an eight car garage. Not bad for the depression era. As l
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Dance
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Yes, humans originally came from equatorial Africa and then spread to other parts of the world but I'd say since Native Americans were the first humans to arrive and have been in the Americas for over fifteen thousand years that gives them fist dibs.
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Urban and educated America is younger(under 35), progressive, secular, multi-cultural, multi-racial, urbane, environmentally conscious, technologically oriented, indifferent or accepting of LGBT people, and forward looking. Rural and ex-urban America is older (45+), religious, white, conservative, mono-cultural, anti-Muslim, anti-LGBT, anti-feminist, anti-science, regressive, and looks towar
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These are the most important and most critical issues facing America in decades. Freedom, democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and civil discourse are at stake.
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If evangelical Christians were a persecuted minority I would argue for tolerance for them -- even though I don't share their beliefs. We are now at state where reality and facts are no longer universal. That's new. Suppression of scientific truth is something out of the Middle Ages but we are confronted with this in the here and now of the twenty-first century. You can have difference
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and ears that hear and a mind that thinks and what used to be the extremist fringe of the religious right is now everyday occurrence. I didn't write the book or create the map. This isn't about the election or a candidate or who won or who lost. It's about reality, perception, culture and society and long term trends. Remember the "Kansas biology teacher jokes?" Religion u
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mortal_Storm http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032811/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGU_trhNuOs Think, learn, and enjoy http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x376huu
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https://www.sundayassembly.com/
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I didn't mention any of that. You did. I didn't mention anything about political parties or the military. I do hope you had basic history at school. You do know that America is an artificial, made up country of immigrants from all over the world, don't you? Some came yesterday, some came today, and more will come tomorrow. The only NATIVE Americans are descendants of people who arr
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And America is a strong, productive and vibrant nation because of immigration. Diversity is strength.
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The original colonies were only Christian in the social sense insomuch as they were founded by people from Europe. The majority of the population were Anglican with a few Catholics in Maryland and Puritans in New England and various other dissenting groups. After America became an independent nation, things changed very quickly. That's how the world got stuck with Mormonism. Today's "
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Joseph Smith, like Stalin, is a remote, god-like (or in the Mormon pantheon, an actual "god") figure unlike The Brethren or the Politburo. http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2013/05/if-only-stalin-knew.html People in thrall of a powerful leader are tempted to believe that all the bad things that happen to them are the fault of the leader’s underlings. For years after the Terror be
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It's impossible to have a logical discussion with someone who doesn't even understand the basics of the situation. You still don't get it. Your bias prevents that. Do some more research then come back. Kids in middle and high school now don't worry about a person's status now -- even in the Bible Belt South. A British officer who can "always spot Jews from a mile away" from &qu
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Right now America is a deeply divided, polarised nation on the brink of mass unrest and social upheaval. Given the situation, a sane adult President wouldn't try to exacerbate the situation by opening a rally with a prayer -- even if he was legally able to do so. Trump is a narcissist megalomaniac with an inflated sense of self importance and he needs cheering crowds to assuage his ego. Th
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Trump isn't neutral. Think of the context. And North Korea has a state religion.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/america-democracy-crisis-poland_us_5899eb34e4b09bd304bd9d42 Trump's closest advisor, Steve Bannon, is a KNOWN white supremacist with links to neo-Nazis Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer (and others) and he belongs to a far-right Catholic group called the "Church Militant" that envisions some kind of pan-white, pan-European empire of "Christendo
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesusland_map I've worked with a lot of people from India. The younger ones who are more my age tend to view the partition of India into a Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India as an unfortunate mistake of history. Now America is on the brink of another major social upheaval if not outright civil war. The last time it was slavery. This time it's religion.
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I was bullied and I don't want to see anyone bullied again, "Popular discomfort" is just polite discrimination. Hate is not a civil right.
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The issue is "popular discomfort." Here's a commonly expressed sentiment: "If some girl gets a buzz cut and puts a sock down her pants and wants to pretend she's a guy, so what. But I don't want my wife or daughter to have to see some man in a dress pretending they are a woman." Again, HOW WOULD YOU EVEN KNOW? The problem here is the rejection of the conce
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https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/26489-ffrf-sues-congress-for-banning-atheist-from-delivering-house-invocation They might be able to legally but it's still exclusionary. It's a clear signal to Trump's far-right evangelical and white nationalist supporters that's he's in their camp. See the Trump "Merry Christmas" debate. And it tells me that non-religious, non-believers
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You do realise that neither trans men or trans women wear clothing of the opposite biological sex for erotic purposes? I'm done trying to argue with fools for tonight. I have better things to do.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4C7IAmiUgs
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