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"We didn’t see a former president, who had just rallied the mob to attack — sitting in the private dining room off the Oval Office in the White House, watching it all on television and doing nothing for hours as police were assaulted, lives at risk, and the nation’s capital under siege.

This wasn’t a group of tourists.  This was an armed insurrection.

They weren’t looking to uphold the will of the people.  They were looking to deny the will of the people...

Side note: Religion is vague about "Thou shalt not kill" hence the right to life and right to die arguments.

"Gaming with Charlie

2 May, 2020

In my opinion, life in prison is way worse than death penalty. If one of my family members were to be killed, I would want the murderer to suffer in prison for the rest of their lives, rather than have their suffering ended painlessly...

"Signs your love language is physical touch:

1. You love being in a relationship that's very "touchy"—lots of cuddling, sitting on each other's laps, putting your arms around each other randomly, that kind of thing.
2. Receiving spontaneous or random kisses (on the lips, forehead, or elsewhere) makes you feel loved.
3. You find it very sweet and meaningful when a new partner wants to cuddle with you...

I adore these perspectives of Jesus:

"Did Jesus express views about government?  The Politics of Jesus, a book by Dr. Obery Hendricks says yes:  Jesus wanted to alleviate “systematic causes” of suffering.  He wanted to change the power structures to benefit the most vulnerable in society, the ones “whose welfare concerned Jesus the most...

Link: "https://secularhumanism.org/2019/12/the-united-states-is-not-a-christian-nation-%e2%80%a8-it-never-has-been-and-it-never-will-be/"Summary

Each of the eight sections of this review produced a definitive conclusion about one of the dominant issues in the Christian-nation allegation:

1. Twenty-one specific claims made by Christian-nation proponents are shown to be false or irrelevant...

"What is the history of Unitarian Universalism? While both Unitarianism and Universalism grew out of the left wing of the Protestant Reformation in Europe during the 16th century, both took on an American flavor when they were introduced in the United States...

"Saartjie (Sara) Baartman was one of the first black women known to be subjugated to human sexual trafficking. She was derisively named the “Hottentot Venus” by Europeans as her body would be publicly examined and exposed inhumanly throughout the duration of her young life.  Moreover. her experience reinforced the already existing and extremely negative sexual fascination with African women bodies by the people of Europe...

"Excerpted fromBirthing a Slave: Motherhood and Medicine in the Antebellum South by Marie Jenkins Schwartz. Published by Harvard University Press.

By the 1820s planters and would-be planters were moving in large numbers to places previously unavailable for settlement and growing the fiber for sale in Europe and New England, where a textile industry was beginning to thrive. The extension of the so-called Cotton Kingdom required new laborers...

"We’ve all watched movies, seen pictures, and heard stories of how terribly slaves were treated. But, the story of how sexual violence was weaponized and used by slaveowners against slaves is often forgotten. Yet, slaves — including men — were often sexually violated to keep them in line or as punishment against those that dared to rebel...

"In 1972, I heard Michael Ramsey, while talking to a group of clergy at Windsor, describe himself as “a Christian agnostic”. He explained it by saying that he did not have a ready answer to all our theological questions. 

I have often used the expression  myself in a similar context. Surely we all walk by faith, and not by sight. And I have heard it said: “Faith is living with uncertainty.”
(The Revd) David Platt
Oxford...