https://www.kuow.org/stories/chief-seattle-was-secretly-baptized-mormon-church-after-his-death-leak-shows/ The website MormonLeaks says Chief Seattle was baptized posthumously in the Mormon church. The website released purported baptism documents for 17 long-dead people. One set of documents says the famous Native American for whom the City of Seattle was named was baptized in 1991.
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nor do they follow the teachings of Jesus Christ. https://www.salon.com/2022/06/04/so-are-evangelicals-and-how-did-they-become-such-massive-hypocrites/ So who, what, why and how is an "evangelical"? I often forget after all my years of growing up in the church, going to an evangelical seminary and my work in ministry, that many or perhaps most Americans have little knowledge and
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Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It is exactly what Maca, basking > in his factual ignorance, actually believes. > > And that is why the country is in trouble. Agreed. And yes, it's dangerous. Very dangerous.
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I don't wake up in the morning thinking of hating, oppressing, and killing people to please imaginary friends.
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and that the fundies do not want.
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I am a scientist and mathematician. I use observation, logic, and reason to solve problems and to explain the world. But they don't. You can't have a "meeting of the minds," compromise, or negotiation. It's either their way or the highway, or no way at all. They don't care if people die. They don't care if a woman dies getting an underground abortion or of sep
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They Lied. They lied under oath during their confirmation hearings. It was their plan all along. But we knew they were lying, and they knew they were lying.
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I can't find it now, but Thomas seems to have some perverse form of black nationalism where he thinks African Americans would be better off living in a segregated society and blames Great Society social programs for destroying families and poverty instead of economic things like loss of jobs in cities, poverty concentration, redlining, etc. Going back in time won't solve those things either.
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I don't see any point in trying to keep the USA united now. I've been to Andersonville. I've been to Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Antietam. I've seen the graves. Those men died to keep the United States a free, united nation. But the divide is too great now. Religious fundamentalists just don't want to live in the 21st Century. They don't believe in "equal justice for all" or any f
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Unlike Mormons who control Utah and parts of the intermountain West, Evangelical extremists want to make what they call "god's law" the law of the United States Of America -- which they think is their "promised land" that was given to them and them alone by "divine providence."
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The Evangelicals want (white) Christian Dominionism. They will not stop. They will use any means necessary. They have sown the wind, now they will reap the whirlwind.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/20/britain-female-freemasons-women-grand-lodge-photo-essay The roots of women’s Freemasonry can be traced to France in 1882, when Maria Deraismes became the first woman initiated, at the Lodge of Free Thinkers. Co-masonry (Freemasonry that admits both men and women) was brought from France to the UK in 1902 by Dr Annie Besant, who became its leade
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You are right in guessing that I've read Herodotus -- and Thucydides -- and Xenophon. "The History" is one of my favourite books. I just hope that when our crisis comes -- and that is just a few decades off now -- that we will be able to withstand it...unlike Ancient Rome. Western Civilization has already collapsed twice. We might not survive a third.
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and was left unable to withstand the external events that ended the classical world.
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The destruction of the "daughter" library in the Serapeon of the Museon of Alexandria at the turn of the fifth century from the film "Agora" (2009). https://youtu.be/f5lTRa_ZJn8 Seventeen hundred years ago, "Christians" destroyed anything they deemed to be against their religion and plunged the entire western world into the Dark Ages. Today, they are once agai
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Let's burn everything! No more books! No more cities! No more schools! No more society! Why ban books when you can just burn them? Isn't that more fun? In just two generations, no one will be able to read. Without reading, knowledge, science, and civilization will end. No need to take over school boards when there aren't any schools and no teachers to teach kids! No
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Nor were the Founding Fathers demigods. They were flawed mortals – just like us. But you know that.
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"This now — this time — it's not ours..." Digital Orgasm — "Running Out Of Time" (1991) https://youtu.be/DlUciGU_Y9k
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The secret history of black Santas https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38231159 America's biggest shopping mall grabbed headlines this week by hiring its first African-American Father Christmas. But black Santas have been around for a lot longer than you might think - and even played a role in the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. "Everything that Santa represents has to be you. Th
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I thought this was a country song title.
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Apart from being myths or legends partially based on real people that is. Popular depictions of both are commercial creations. https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/06/25/how-an-iconic-painting-jesus-white-man-was-distributed-around-world/ The “Head of Christ” has been called the “best-known American artwork of the 20th century.” The New York Times once labeled Sallman
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A "Zambo" was a Spanish colonial term for a mixed race African and Indigenous American "wild" person. I once saw a seventeenth century illustration at an art museum that depicted all the "categories" of mixed races in the colonial slang terms of that era: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambo%27s#:~:text=A%20petition%20drive%20asked%20the,officially%20renamed%2
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