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> But being able to not worry about something is a > form of privilege That is the sort of arrogance--"everyone must share not only my views but my priorities--that alienates potential allies.
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That's absurd. Kentish is not out there hurting people. Disagreement on one or several points with you does not make him the enemy.
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Wire Haired Pointer
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Wow. Let me get this straight. If you're on a train moving away from Chicago at 100 mph and then a strong wind comes from the front and reduces your speed to 90 mph, you're still moving away from Chicago? Who would have thought?!
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Oooooommmmm. . . Oooooommmmm. . . . . . --Rig Veda, Book I, Verse 164
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They were constantly looking for confirmation, like many people then and today. Sadly today. . .
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> . . . yet another > example of performative cruelty by the right . . --Soft Machine, https://www.exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,2514454,2514479#msg-2514479
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> . . . yet another > example of performative cruelty by the right . . Damn. I get tired of replacing all those microphones.
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Alas, BoJ is quite shy and stays in the shadows.
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Having refreshed my memory, I was a too critical of anonynon's post. The Quran does describe Jesus as a "messiah," but that term is used in the Jewish sense of the word meaning a human who will do important secular things for God and humanity but not a returning God per se. Jesus in fact did not die 2000 years ago but was lifted up into heaven, where he will remain until just befo
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I agree strongly with your treatment of Christianity and Islam as related phenomena. That's why I have on several occasions written here about of the Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Their basic mythology is identical and their values are 80% the same--and maybe more than that. I will quibble, however, with your description of Jesus's status in Islam. Islam has no mess
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Native-born Palestinian Jews outnumbered European Jews right up until the birth of the state of Israel and probably beyond.* In 1922, 78% of the occupants of Palestine were Muslims, 11% were Jews, and 10% were Christians. Of the Jewish 11%, European Jews were a very small minority. In 1935, the numbers were 67% Muslim, 27% Jewish, and 8% Christian. The reason for the surge in the Jewish
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> For Muslims, the penalty for conversion is death. Wild exaggeration. There are countries where that is true but equally as many in which it is not.
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> I don't know the history well enough (or much at > all, my bad) so this sentence in the article, that > mentioned Jews/African Americans, surprised me: > "...to a certain extent, Jews felt pressure to > distinguish themselves from African-Americans, a > pressure also felt by other immigrant groups". There is a tribe in South Africa called the Lemba. They hav
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Patten's experience is also recorded in Parley P. Pratt's autobiography.
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There are African Jews, too, and that should make us realize yet again that language, culture, and religion do not align with the (itself ridiculous) category of race. Recall, for instance, Operation Solomon in 1991, when Yitzak Shamir's cabinet in Tel Aviv airlifted 14,000 Ethiopian Jews out of their homes lest they fall prey to rebels who were on the verge of toppling the government in Addis
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"I've come so far since then. Look at me now!" --MTG, Washington, 2024
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That is so Jesus of you, NG. Christianity has moved so much farther. . .
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> Not one to defend Ballard, but I find some of > these claims hard to believe. I'd say the same about Russell Ballard. The idea that he is using a psychic seems me to be almost as ridiculous as the notion that he'd share one with Tim Ballard.
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What article? Can you provide a link?
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> They're meant to attract the eye and raise the > pulse, and their owners love them and fawn over > them. Jesus, are you talking about temples or the women who owe you money?
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That's what I feared.
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John D. Rockefeller's aggressive capitalism was legal in the 19th century and ended well over a century again when the Big Bad Government (BBG) rightly changed the laws and prohibited his excesses. So what exactly are you suggesting? Are Rockefeller's desiccated bones benefiting from charitable tax deductions? How exactly does that work? And are we to believe that you now support BBG and
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Was he in a Dubliners mood when he said that or did it take him 800 pages?
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> My God, I am cool!! Indeed.
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3) Polyandry
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Well, I just had another zapped for saying that organizations that support abortion rights, women's enfranchisement, a barrier between church and state, and vaccine distribution are not comparable to the LDS church. God's ways are mysterious.
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As a general principle, there should be nothing controversial about the proposition that leaders, religious or political, are responsible for the predictable results of their exercise of power. A rule that discourages such elementary logic is ridiculous.
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Be careful. Replying to a post of mine is likely to get you vaporized, especially when you draw the inescapable political conclusion.
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