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October 20, 2024 at 11:27 am
Non-Christians Banned From Tennessee Xmas Parade
The 2024 Cookeville-Putnam County Christmas Parade in Tennessee is going to be a huge event. Huge enough that the local PBS affiliate will carry the parade live on December 14 because, as one of its leaders previously explained, it’s “one of the community’s most beloved traditions.”
If there are local groups interested in participating in the parade, whether walking in it or creating a float, all they have to do is fill out the application before November 29. It’s just basic stuff. You have to describe your entry, provide contact information, agree not to throw candy from your float (because it might cause injury!), and promise not to dress up as Santa Claus (because he’ll already be making an appearance).
Oh. And you have to agree that trans people don’t exist, that same-sex marriage is an abomination, and that human life begins at conception. It’s all part of the application’s Statement of Faith.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/church...keville-tn
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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November 10, 2024 at 1:14 am
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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November 10, 2024 at 4:42 am
(November 10, 2024 at 1:14 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: ![[Image: Tex.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/kXsCR672/Tex.jpg)
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November 22, 2024 at 10:50 am
Texas Jews are ‘deeply concerned’ about Christian material in proposed public school curriculum
Texas is poised to adopt a public school curriculum that refers to Jesus as “the Messiah,” asks kindergartners to study the Sermon on the Mount and presents the Crusades in a positive light.
The critics, who include Jewish parents and organizations as well as interfaith and education advocacy groups, say Bluebonnet — which will be optional but which schools would be paid to adopt — inappropriately centers on Christian theology and ideas. They have been lobbying for revisions since it was first proposed in May, offering detailed feedback.
“The first round of the curriculum that we saw honestly had a lot of offensive content in it, and was proselytizing, and did not represent Jewish people well,” said Lisa Epstein, the director of San Antonio’s Jewish Community Relations Council.
Now those critics say most of their specific suggestions have been accepted but they remain concerned.
“Looking at the revision, we still feel that the curriculum is not balanced and it introduces a lot of Christian concepts at a very young age, like resurrection and the blood of Christ and the Messiah, when kids are just really too young to understand and they don’t really have a grasp yet completely of their own religion,” she added.
The Texas vote comes as advocates of inserting Christianity into public education are ascendant across the country. Political conservatives are in power at the national level and the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority has demonstrated openness to blurring church-state separation.
https://www.jta.org/2024/11/22/united-st...curriculum
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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November 22, 2024 at 4:16 pm
How do the Crusades fit in with "Thou shall not kill"?? Maybe it was a typo and should read "Thou shall not kill except for foreigners who worship a different invisible friend"
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November 22, 2024 at 4:19 pm
Worse- it's the same invisible friend.
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Irish cleric who preached that Israel has Nazi-style policies ‘has family link to Hitler’
Canon David Oxley, who accused Israel of deploying a “master race” theory in a speech to senior Irish politicians at St Patrick’s Cathedral last week, was said to have admitted that his wife’s family were Nazis during the Second World War in his address at the same event five years ago.
According to a report of the 2019 service in the Irish Independent, he told the cathedral that the mother of his wife, Amalia Oxley, was German, and he had relatives who fought for the Third Reich.
He also said, according to the article: “It’s not everyone who can boast that their mother-in-law had Adolf Hitler as a godfather. It’s not everyone who would want to.”
https://www.thejc.com/news/world/irish-c...r-c3cttl1k
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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(November 22, 2024 at 4:16 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: How do the Crusades fit in with "Thou shall not kill"?? Maybe it was a typo and should read "Thou shall not kill except for foreigners who worship a different invisible friend"
Easily.
"Lo tirsah" does not translate directly to kill and allows for self-defense, and the Crusades were in response to hundreds of years of Islamic aggression and taking of slaves across the Mediterranean, with the original specific goal of reclaiming cities with century old Christian communities - many founded by Europeans - that had been occupied by the Caliphates.
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