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This is a very short and simple diary. Any even moderately educated person knows that any defendant has the right to testify in their own defense if they choose to do so. , If a person paid attention in high school, but lacked the opportunity to go...
by Dem
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on Fri May 10, 2024 at 09:29 AM PDT
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Pat Kahnke is a former pastor and an evangelical but who has never voted for Donald Trump for president and has been putting out many videos in a systematic way that explain why it is so bad and dangerous for the Christian community to vote for the...
by Dem
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on Sun May 05, 2024 at 06:59 AM PDT
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Well, this guy, and I don’t know who he is calls out Trump’s bible and mixing politics and religion. I was reading and came across this on another site and felt it was sure worth sharing. I have been saying this for years. Separation of Church and...
by Vetwife
246 comments
on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 01:05 PM PDT
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by PresidentOso
26 comments
on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 05:05 AM PDT
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Niemöller’s urgent message to Americans – speak out against the evils of Trump and the MAGA movement The striking parallels between Germany in the 1930s and the United States today keep piling up. In January a movement called Faithful America began to mobilize Christians in opposition to presidential candidate Donald Trump. These American Catholics...
by Alan Austin
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on Tue Mar 26, 2024 at 04:38 AM PDT
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This is why I started going to church: for the joy of singing. I’ve now spent almost 25 years singing in the choir since my then-wife persuaded me to join. On Sunday we sang a Mozart mass — most of it, anyway. Each part of the mass was sung in its...
by necturus
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 05:44 AM PST
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This is an excerpt from my book Why You Matter: Finding Meaning and Joy in Life through Gnosis available on Amazon and badly in need of reviews. Gnostic Christianity is different than orthodoxy in very critical ways, and one of the most important is...
by Haj
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on Mon Feb 26, 2024 at 07:26 AM PST
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“There’s been a tectonic shift in how the leadership of the religious right operates. These folks aren’t as interested in democracy or working through democratic systems as in the old religious right because their theology is one of Christian warfare.”...
by RickElia
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 05:39 AM PST
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I just learned within an hour of writing these very words that my previous fundamentalist church and its elders failed to protect young girls and despite bright warning lights chose not to act. There are many victims in this story. Denton Bible Church...
by Dem
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on Fri Feb 23, 2024 at 06:56 AM PST
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I just read this brief article “Ohio pastor charged for opening church to homeless people in freezing weather” by Julia Conley from Common Dreams, 20 January 2024, on Alternet. www.alternet.org/… Full disclosure: I am an atheist. I was raised Nazarene...
by Obiwan711
105 comments
on Sun Jan 21, 2024 at 06:04 AM PST
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So today I lost a friend. A friend of 40 years. Someone with whom I roomed in college. We played music together. We were in each other’s weddings and were godmothers to one another’s children. We were both in the same mostly male program of business...
by ENG2018
249 comments
on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 06:26 PM PST
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After a rollicking ride, Pope Francis finally kicks open the doors of the church to same-sex couples Former boss of the Jesuit Catholic order in Argentina, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, has been taking Roman Catholics worldwide on an extraordinary journey. Now Pope Francis, the head of the world’s largest Christian denomination has been striving to balance...
by Alan Austin
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on Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 04:28 AM PDT
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Briefly, from J IMENA * email: Resources on how to talk with children during times of crisis �
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Oct 09, 2023 at 04:05 PM PDT
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The thesis of our book today, Woke Church, is An Urgent Call for Christians in America to Confront Racism and Injustice. This is what Evangelical Christianity could, and often does, look like when not mired in greed, hatred, and delusion. The Black...
by Mokurai
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on Sat Sep 23, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Plano, Texas was firebombed overnight on July 23, 2023. According to the church, a hate group has been targeting it since at least June 25. Their statement: On Sunday, July 23, 2023, between 12:00 am and 12:30...
by DemSign
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on Sun Jul 23, 2023 at 12:28 PM PDT
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To quote Lizzo. It’s gonna have to be us. I try and drill that into the heads of this FB group I’m a part of. It’s basically 500 left-leaning folks from a 65% red county in Pennsylvania. It’s a warm blanket, a forum folks can post their memes of how...
by MattJ570
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on Wed Jun 14, 2023 at 07:15 PM PDT
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As a country, America was founded on the principle of religious freedom. The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." At its core, this is a declaration of...
by msouza
70 comments
on Wed May 24, 2023 at 10:51 AM PDT
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For a while now as I see children, teachers, parents, all kinds of people killed by guns held by people who should not have guns day after day after week after week for months and months through years on end. Adults and children are killed with the...
by JDWolverton
10 comments
on Sun May 07, 2023 at 11:39 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Wednesday, May 3, 2023 · 2:44:12 PM +00:00 · Denise Oliver Velez He announced: Ya gotta be in it — to win it! Commentary by Black Kos Editor Denise Oliver-Velez I’m sick and tired of seeing the faces of white supremacist racists like TX Gov....
by Black Kos
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on Tue May 02, 2023 at 02:00 PM PDT
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I once heard a priest say that the Roman Catholic Church was the largest denomination in the world and that those who’ve left the church was the second largest. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but a recent report by the Washington Post about a...
by RickElia
28 comments
on Mon Mar 13, 2023 at 03:48 PM PDT
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