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guillaumeb's JournalAfter Las Vegas, who says prayer doesnt work?
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As a person who both prays and writes about people who pray, I found these comments naive, arrogant and misinformed. First of all, how is prayer supposed to “work”? What does “success” even look like when we’re talking about prayer?...
But I don’t know many religious people who think of prayer this way. Instead, many of us see prayer the same way that St. Therese of Lisieux sees it: It’s “a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven...........
To read more:
http://religionnews.com/2017/10/04/after-las-vegas-who-says-prayer-doesnt-work/
'Economic Pain for Tens of Millions': Watch Sanders Destroy Trump Tax Plan on Senate Floor
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Highlighting the fact that wealth and income inequality in the United States have reached levels unseen since the 1920s, Sanders cited a Tax Policy Center analysis published last week that found the Trump tax plan would overwhelmingly benefit those in the top one percent—who already own over 38 percent of America's wealth.
To read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/10/03/economic-pain-tens-millions-watch-sanders-destroy-trump-tax-plan-senate-floor
Every iteration of supply side economics inspires GOP rhetoric about how this particular version will succeed in stimulating the economy and increasing incomes and tax revenues. But, as history shows, the deficit will increase tremendously and jobs will continue to be outsourced.
Guns and Profit: Why we will do Absolutely Nothing New After This Las Vegas Shooting
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We are not the land of the brave or the home of the free.
We are the land of the gun and the home of the free market.
Stephen Paddock’s killing spree last night in Las Vegas will not change anything – except the bottom line for numerous gun manufacturers.
To read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/10/03/guns-and-profit-why-well-do-absolutely-nothing-new-after-las-vegas-shooting
Important news: A wedding cake for the Supreme Court
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In its new term, which began Monday (Oct. 2), the Supreme Court, will hear Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a.k.a. “the cake case.” It stems from 2012, when two gay men visited a Lakewood, Colo., bakery in search of a wedding cake. The owner-baker, who is Christian, turned them away. The case has been in court ever since.
To read more:
http://religionnews.com/2017/10/03/the-splainer-a-wedding-cake-for-the-supreme-court/
We do not need any gun control. We simply need a time machine.
After the latest mass killing, the corporate media is, of course, obsessed with the possible motivation(s) of the killer. "Why did he do it is the constant theme", and the "why" question generally marks the limits of the questioning by the corporate media celebrities who pass for serious reporters and commenters.
And the NRA is, of course, conspicuous by their silence, as they wait for the echoes of the gunfire to quiet and they wait for the latest group of victims to be literally buried and forgotten by a media that has the attention span of a fruit fly.
Some will suggest that, of course we cannot ban guns, or regulate them in any meaningful way, thus framing and limiting the debate to NRA approved limits.
So we need to think out of the box, in a way that satisfies the merchants of death, and the NRA, the unofficial apologists and enablers for the merchants of death.
We need......................a time machine. That way, when the next massacre happens, the time police can enter the machine, armed with the knowledge of who did the killing, and go back and stop the future killer.
NOTE: This is an attempt at very dark humor on a subject that is the antithesis of a fit subject for humor, but in a country where serious discussion of a national plague is almost never admitted or entertained on a national stage, US citizens should expect these gun massacres to increase in frequency.
Turning back the clock with Roy Moore
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Most white Alabamans aren’t yellow-dog Democrats anymore but yellow-dog Republicans. And where George Wallace’s raison d’être was racial segregation, Moore’s is Christian nationalism.
To read more:
http://religionnews.com/2017/09/29/turning-back-the-clock-with-roy-moore/
Did the US civil war ever really end, or was it channeled into endless iterations of the states rights and heritage arguments?
Good news: President Trump, this is no time for prayer
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Except, President Trump did not exactly sound presidential.
He sounded pastoral. He delivered a sermon, complete with phrases from the Psalms — calling upon God who is the “healer of broken hearts.”
And also:
To read more:
http://religionnews.com/2017/10/02/las-vegas-trump/
In the aftermath of a mass shooting, why does the corporate media focus on the "why"?
They always ask: "what led the shooter to kill all of these people"? As if knowing why any random individual was motivated to kill numerous people can in any way be predictive.
What should be the focus, but rarely is, is the unavoidable fact:
1) that in a nation where it is so easy to purchase weapons, and
2) where social stress is so high as a result of income inequality and other factors, and
3) where any attempt at regulation is seen as an attack on "core values", and
4) where state sanctioned violence in the form of war and the actual history of the country is literally endless,
the likelihood of more mass shootings is guaranteed.
The only commonality linking all of these mass shooting is the obvious one, that easy access to weapons makes mass shootings easy.
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