So everyone is aware that you can, currently, like right now in 2015, sue people/companies for money for killing someone else in the United States? Right?
Leaving Aztec religion would be another good thread![]()
Well, apparently not that difficult then. Christianity has some rather coo-coo interpretations as well. Perhaps you should worry about that.
Ridiculous I know
Christianity has some rather
Are you still having that public human excrement problem in California? You ought to leave your State sometime there's a big world outside it you know...and btw when I say world outside I don't mean Portland either
Have the human poop maps been updated for 2016 yet?
There's a lot of thread necroing going on lately...
The Totalitarian Doctrine of ‘Social Justice Warriors’
http://observer.com/2016/02/the-totalitarian-doctrine-of-social-justice-warriors/
Their anti-Islamophobia trashes feminist critics of conservative Islamism and victim-blames journalists murdered for publishing Mohammed cartoons.
Yep, and too much militantism ...
On the power of intellectual revolutions
An insight, once lodged in the imagination, is a lit stick of dynamite with power to rearrange the landscape.
Like most 10-year-olds, I had no idea what adults did at work. Work meant Dr. Jim picked up his black bag and headed out the door, and when he returned, it was placed under the desk and declared untouchable because it contained dangerous items like scalpels and morphine.
One of his patients was a prominent person. When I peppered dad with questions about the local celebrity, he rocked my world, "Son, when they're naked, they're all the same." It took a minute, but then hit me: people are taking their clothes off in his examining rooms! After the shock wore off, I snickered when to came to mind. Medicine is about bodies, having respect for them and doing what you can to relieve misery through science.
A second insight came one Sunday summer afternoon in 1966 when I was 13. When we crested the hill headed back into town, I saw flames, and as we got closer I saw it was a cross burning. All around were men on horseback wearing colored robes and pointy hoods. I'd heard snippets of family history regarding my great grandfather Hampton's redshirts, but this scared me to death. It was a teachable moment, "Don't worry, Son, it's just a bunch of scared red necks trying to keep hatred alive." I cannot ride by that spot on Highway 52 without recalling the moment. It was an insight into human nature. Life is about wisdom, and wisdom seeks justice.
There have been several other revolutions, none more momentous than my rediscovery of a living faith in Christ at age 19 after a conventional religious upbringing. I remember walking into church the next Sunday and laughing out loud as we sang the Methodist National Anthem, "O for a thousand tongues to sing, my great Redeemer's praise...." I got it!
This was followed by a revolution offered me at Wake Forest. Dr. Talbert was at the board, chalk in hand, and when he laid out the structure of Mark 2:1-3:6, a light turned on. I now had a way to map the New Testament, and I've been working out that insight for 40 years. Jesus is still calling a few good ole boys as followers, and I'm glad to be among the stragglers.
I am now in the midst of a new intellectual revolution, and where it will lead I do not know. We've been at war in the Middle East for 25 years. Both my younger brothers were involved -- one a tank commander, the other on a Navy cruiser -- and both bear the wounds of war. Several hundred lives were taken because their fingers were on the triggers of a 120mm cannon or the launch buttons of cruise missiles. As Christians and fathers both, I know they wonder about the widows and orphans that resulted from their difficult duties. So what's going on over there?
And insight came a year ago when I discovered the lectures of Dr. Modecai Kedar on YouTube. As a lieutenant colonel in the IDF and a professor of Arabic literature at Bar-Ilan University, he knows the turf. I assumed, because of my ignorance, that the nation states of the Middle East (Jordan, Iraq, etc.) had a long history. How surprised I was to learn the lines were drawn only a hundred years ago after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World War I and that underneath the boundaries on colored maps is a tribal reality with its own cultures and norms. No wonder it's so difficult to import Western democracy.
They are not us, and the lines the European powers drew a century ago are coming apart at the seams. Have we, at great cost, been on a fool's errand because we did not pay attention to culture and the reality that some tribes hate each other as much as they hate us? Kedar recommends we follow the British model of the early 1960s when they gave each dominant tribe along the gulf its own Emirate, and how they have prospered. Why not do the same with the West Bank which we see as a unity but in reality is at least four separate Arab tribes? I'm not a diplomat, but since this part of the world has changed my family forever, I seek to understand.
As a Christian, I am a world citizen. I'm currently teaching a short course on Islam to keep my mind turning over these matters. For a revolutionary read from a former Muslin and true radical, try out Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Heretic: Why Islam Needs A Reformation Now (Harper, 2015). I am learning from an atheist, ex-Muslim, feminist from Somalia. Ideas really matter.
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Germany will need to change their policy, families only with an emphasis on women and their children
unfortunately its the single young men most likely to make the journey while others are left behind
Give it to a real butcher, they know how to do it properly.
They're private schools, more moderate girls can be sent to other schools if they want to - It's not like they HAVE to go to these private schools.