Larson decided to report the attack to the Savage Police Department after she said the district did not.
“My daughter hadn’t done anything to initiate this or create what had happened. This was just because of her race and her religion. So that was a big thing. Just the lack of action the school was taking, which I do understand to a point that the school has their own rules and their own laws that they have to follow. But the fact that because this was race and religion fueled, the fact that they were never suspended or expelled from school or redirected to distance learning instead of continuing to stay in the classroom, which two of them were in the same classroom as my daughter, is alarming, regardless of their age,” Larson said.
…Larson also believes the circumstances would be different if it were Christian students who attacked a Muslim student at an elementary school.
“This would be all over national news. You know, and it shouldn’t be that way. Our children shouldn’t even be in the media for stuff like this in the first place,” she said. “The same outrage should be there for every child because no child should be attacked on a playground and made to feel unsafe at school because her attackers are still there.”
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith will publish its new norms for the discernment of apparitions and other supernatural phenomena May 17, the Vatican press office said.
The last time the Vatican’s doctrinal office issued norms for evaluating alleged apparitions and reports of supernatural events was in February 1978.
At the time, the prefect, Cardinal Franjo Seper, said the norms were necessary given how news of alleged apparitions spreads rapidly thanks to the mass media. “Moreover, the ease of going from one place to another fosters frequent pilgrimages, so that Ecclesiastical Authority should discern quickly about the merits of such matters,” he wrote.
…The Vatican’s 1978 rules entrust to the local bishop the initial evaluation of alleged apparitions of Mary or weeping statues or supposed messages from God, Mary or the saints.
The first things to look for, it said, are “true theological and spiritual doctrine” free of error and that the person reporting the phenomenon is psychologically balanced, honest, leads a morally upstanding life and is obedient to church authority.
‘…and is obedient to church authority.’ This phrase is from the 1978 rules. The flaw in the Abrahamic religions is God is the absolute, His word is absolute, and clergy are the absolute deciders of what God means. Yet all branches and denominations disagree on almost all other points and often condemn you to hell if you disagree with them. How can this tradition, in any of its forms, be a stable or worthy basis for Western civilization, or any civilization for that matter? People who want to preserve Western civilization must face this insurmountable roadblock. That said, I would rather live under a Catholic theocracy than a communist one. If any of the Abrahamics want to survive they will have to either adapt dynamically to the ways most reasonable people think or become cults. ABN
In Thailand, Cambodia and Sri Lanka, Buddhists see strong links between their religion and country, as do Muslims in Malaysia and Indonesia
As some practices and philosophies related to Buddhism have become more commonplace in the United States and other Western countries, many Americans may associate Buddhism with mindfulness or meditation. In other parts of the world, however, Buddhism is not just a philosophy about mind and body – it is a central part of national identity.
In Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Thailand – countries where at least 70% of adults are Buddhist – upward of nine-in-ten Buddhists say being Buddhist is important to being truly part of their nation, according to a 2022 Pew Research Center survey of six countries in South and Southeast Asia.
For instance, 95% of Sri Lankan Buddhists say being Buddhist is important to be truly Sri Lankan – including 87% who say Buddhism is very important to be a true Sri Lankan.
Although most people in these countries identify as Buddhist religiously, there is widespread agreement that Buddhism is more than a religion.1 The vast majority of Buddhists in Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Thailand not only describe Buddhism as “a religion one chooses to follow” but also say Buddhism is “a culture one is part of” and “a family tradition one must follow.”
Most Buddhists in these countries additionally see Buddhism as “an ethnicity one is born into” – 76% of Cambodian Buddhists hold this view, for example.
Antisemitism used to mean “someone who doesn’t like Jews,” but nowadays it means “someone that Jews don’t like for some reason or another.” The deliberate trick here is to make you think there is something wrong not with the Jewish baby killers, liars, or scum who are doing bad things but with the person noticing and reacting to the bad things these miscreants are doing.
So, what are the bad things that most people notice about Jews? Before naming and defining the most important ones, let’s first find out what Jews themselves say about antisemitism. Is it a rational and logical reaction to Jewish behaviour? Or is it, as most Jews claim, an irrational hatred of a totally harmless people who have been the innocent victims of human jealousy, vindictiveness, and persecution since the beginning of time?
Theodore Herzl, the Jewish father of Zionism, believed that hostility towards Jews was a natural consequence of their behaviour:
This perfectly understandable reaction follows from the defects of the Jews… The Jews are a people distinct and separate from others, whose interests are different, and often in conflict with those of the peoples among whom they live.[1]
A fact shared by Chaim Weizmann, the first president of the State of Israel:
Whenever in a country the number of Jews reaches a certain level of saturation, that country reacts against them… Now, this reaction is not antisemitism in the ordinary or vulgar sense of the word, but a universal social and economic consequence of Jewish immigration; it is impossible to ignore it.[2]
“It seemed to me,” writes Bernard Lazare, the Jewish author of the book Antisemitism, its History and Causes,
that an opinion as universal as antisemitism, having flourished in all places and at all times, before the Christian era and after, in Alexandria, Rome, Antioch, Arabia, and Persia, in medieval and modern Europe, in a word, in all parts of the world where there have been and where there are Jews, it seemed to me that such an opinion could not be the result of a whim and a perpetual caprice, and that there must be deep and serious reasons for its blossoming and its permanence.[3]
America’s low-technology Amish sect has doubled in size since 2000 and will hit 1 million members this century as it spreads far beyond its Pennsylvania heartland, new research shows.
Steven Nolt, an expert on the Amish, told DailyMail.com that its 378,000-strong US population was doubling every 20 years, thanks to families with lots of children who most often stick to the faith.
Amish communities have spread beyond their traditional areas of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, with fledgling outposts as far afield as Maine, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, and Idaho, said Nolt.
The expansion underscores the tightness of a group that eschews technology to focus on family time, even as modern America grapples with cell phones and social media that may harm kids’ mental health
Here’s what we know so far about the latest mass stabbing in Sydney.
A bishop and several worshippers were reportedly attacked during a mass stabbing at The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, located in Sydney’s western suburbs.
The attack occurred on Monday evening while Bishop Mari Emmanuel was delivering a sermon, and the horrifying incident was captured on the church’s live social media broadcast.
– Bishop Mari Emmanuel was preaching at The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, Sydney’s west, when the attack took place. – An attacker approached the altar and stabbed the bishop multiple times, targeting his face and head. – Several worshippers were also reportedly attacked during the incident. – The shocking attack was captured on the church’s live social media broadcast, which showed Bishop Emmanuel’s astonishment as the attacker unleashed a series of blows.
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Monday declared gender-affirming surgery and surrogacy as grave violations of human dignity, putting them on par with abortion and euthanasia as practices that it said reject God’s plan for human life.
The Vatican’s doctrine office issued “Infinite Dignity,” a 20-page declaration that has been in the works for five years. After substantial revision in recent months, it was approved March 25 by Pope Francis, who ordered its publication.
From a pope who has made outreach to the LGBTQ+ community a hallmark of his papacy, the document was received as a setback, albeit predictable, by trans Catholics. But its message was also consistent with the Argentine Jesuit’s long-standing belief that while trans people should be welcomed in the church, so-called “gender ideologies” should not.
In its most eagerly anticipated section, the Vatican repeated its rejection of “gender theory,” or the idea that one’s biological sex can change. It said God created man and woman as biologically different, separate beings, and said people must not tinker with that or try to “make oneself God.”
“It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person has received from the moment of conception,” the document said.
Lithuanian mythology underwent its formation at the time when the active and belligerent tribes who were the ancestors of modern Lithuanians were distinguishing themselves from the bulk of the Baltic protonation, circa 500 AD. At this time the Lithuanian tradition acquired its specific character. The mythologies of Lithuanians and other Balts are versions of the common Indo-European field of mythological images, but the Lithuanian and Baltic traditions preserved archaic Indo-European images, which disappeared from other European regions before the early Middle Ages. Since the most important characters of the Lithuanian pantheon were common to all Balts, we will begin by describing their common elements.
GODS AND HEROES
The highest figure in the Baltic pantheon is Dievas, in Prussian Deywis or Deyws, and in Latvian Dievs. This god is of Indo-European origin, and his name, as in some religions of the Near East, has been expanded to embrace all gods (God — the name of the highest of gods, god — the name applied to all gods). Earlier Dievas or Deivas simply denoted the shining dome of the sky, cf. ancient Indian deva ‘god’ and dyazts ‘sky’, Latin deus and dies, originating from the Indo-European root deiuo-s, which means both God and sky. Dievas, Dievs, Deivs is also related to the Greek Zeus. In Lithuanian dialects his name is sometimes Pondzejis, Avestian Daeva, Luvian Tiwat, Lidian Tiyaz, as the German Tiwaz. The Finns took the name of Dievas from the Balts, cf. Finnish taivas and Estonian taevas ‘sky’ .
In the mythology of the Balts, Dangaus Dievas (God of the Sky) retains quite a few original Indo-European characteristics — he lives in heaven, is related to shining celestial bodies and is imagined as a light, radiant person deciding fates. For Prussians and Lithuanians, however, Dangaus Dievas becomes an inactive god, deus otiosus. In some lists of Prussian gods he does not figure at all, while in Lithuanian tales he takes part in the creation of the world and its aftermath. In Latvian songs Dievas is much more active — he goes down the hill on which he lives and walks around a field of rye carrying bliss and fertility to the earth. And although traditionally it was possible to rely upon him when striking a contract, making a vow, or in times of crises, his cult among the Balts was doubtful. In any case, sacred places devoted to Dangaus Dievas are not even mentioned in Baltic mythology.
If Dievas was the highest character in the pantheon, then Perkunas, Latvian Perkons, Prussian Perkuns, Perkztno, the god of storm and thunder, master of the atmosphere and all celestial matters, and evidently Dievas’ son, was the most important and prominent. The name of this god is believed to have originated either from words denoting oak, cf. Latin quercus (from perkwus), Celtic herc, or a related root meaning a mountain, like in Hittite parunas ‘a rock’ or Sanskrit parvatas ‘The top of a hill’. In Baltic mythology Perkunas is linked both to a mountain — in Lithuanian mythology Perkunas lives on the top of a hill reaching the sky — and to oaks, growing in sacral places, or to sacred oak woods. Related to Perkunas are such Indo-European gods as Slavonic Perun, Parjanya who is mentioned in the Rigveda, the Germanic goddess Fjorgyn, the gods Donar, Thor, etc. Perkunas’s functions coincide with thunder gods of the Near East; with Baal, for instance, he is related by his care of fertility.
Perkunas is pictured as middle-aged, armed with an axe and arrows, riding a two-wheeled chariot harnessed with goats, like Thor. As is obvious, Perkunas enters the common field of Indo-European and Near Eastern thunder gods, just like Dievas, corresponding to deities of these religions — from An, or Anu, of the Sumerians and Babylonians, to Germanic Tiwaz.
Consider this a very serious warning both to the Medical Freedom Movement (MFM) and to the world in general.
This is the first article and will serve as a living summary of my writings about the Remote Viewing program that was pulled into military intelligence from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), and eventually rebranded as the core piece of Project Stargate.
I might as well begin with my primary thesis:
Remote Viewing (RV) is a fiction that emerged from Scientology, piggybacking off the general fictions of paranormal powers seeded more broadly into public consciousness by Theosophy and Neo-Theosophy groups. These Theosophy groups were themselves formed by military intelligence—primarily the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence. Ultimately, RV was a continuation of mind control programs such as MKULTRA. The appearance of RV as a study of paranormal phenomena is a cover for trauma-based mind control experimentation. Such mind control programs exist in service of a global cybernetic model essential to the plan of erecting a New World Order.
Put simply, RV is science fiction meant to fool people into immanentizing the eschaton. Many people have already been hurt in the process, but billions could suffer or die if the next few years go the wrong way.
This may be a lot for many people to swallow, but it makes a heck of a lot more sense than, “Interdimensional aliens are taking over the planet,” in my mind as I examine the evidence. Also, I’m willing to be wrong about any aspect of my thesis, but this is where I stand after decades of trying to understand why I was told as a child that I needed to train to be a remote viewer in the Neo-Theosophicalcult that I grew up in where I was told that it was necessary to defeat the commies at the end of the world.
What do you do when every organization has been infiltrated by a several million person global cult when the members of that cult are generally indistinguishable from other people?
I’m aware dating isn’t allowed in Islam, but I’ve been dating a Muslim guy for a year now. He’s talking about marriage and trying to convince me to convert. I just have to vent.
I wish islam was more open minded. Why would it ever be a good idea to follow a book word for word from thousands of years ago when people still believed the earth was flat? Why would people want to reject modernization?
I’m not religious myself but if I did accept a higher power he wouldn’t send people to hell for eating pork or not covering your hair. He wouldn’t make people gay and then expect them to deny themselves of any romance for their entire lives as a “test” It just seems so outdated and controlling and man made. My boyfriend although he calls himself Muslim he tells me he believe in evolution and is okay with me not wearing hijab, he has had premarital sex and occasionally smokes weed but says he has stopped. But when I try to convince him to have a more open mind when it comes to religion it’s like he reverts back to a close minded person.
I don’t mind my future kids being religious but I can’t have them learning that being gay is wrong and that my daughter has to cover her hair to protect herself from men… I don’t want them to be afraid of their loving god sending them to hell for simple things even my boyfriend has done.
I love him but sometimes the religion aspect is so frustrating. And I feel like when I question it too much he gets offended and I worry he starts thinking I’m not worth all this trouble.
Is anyone else here in a relationship with a Muslim? I hope I’m not alone.
I am posting this because I find religion and culture almost always interesting. Judge the comments at the link above as you like. Religion can be a strong form of culture, and as such extremely rigid, impenetrable, impossible to join in from outside. Each culture and religion has different gradations of this.
My experience with Buddhism is the religion is very mild toward non-Buddhists, even open and accepting, but when the religion is deeply imbued with a historical culture, problems may occur as Buddhists who are doubly-bound by culture and religion very often believe or act as if they believe that their culture and Buddhism are ‘the same’ or ‘one thing’.
In cases like that, you might encounter irreconcilable difficulties if you are from a different culture. For example, some old-school Buddhists might believe that you cannot possibly understand the Dharma if you do not speak their language, even when the Buddha said precisely the opposite. ABN
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