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Quote: 1nickelmiracle

https://news.yahoo.com/isis-women-accused-turning-teen-093206828.html

Makes no sense, guess children were allowed to mingle with the women and not adult men. I'd like that job now, forget about asking hypothetical questions about pretending to get me laid at 13. I didn't even know what sex was at 13 quite likely.

I thought it was scandalous to see a classmate kissing a girl at 13. Sadly, I am still naive.

I don't remember what age these things happened at, but I know I found out what sex was about at one point, but it was later on when I realized my parents must have engaged in it! Those two?

What do non-Christians think about this data?

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The changing face of Congress in 8 charts

FEBRUARY 7, 2023
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Still, Christians’ share in Congress is greater than their proportion of the broader American public. Nearly nine-in-ten congressional members (88%) are Christian as of Jan. 3, 2023, compared with 63% of U.S. adults overall.

By contrast, religiously unaffiliated adults’ share on Capitol Hill is far below their share of the overall U.S. population: While 29% of Americans say they are atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular,” just one lawmaker – independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona – identifies as religiously unaffiliated. (Democratic Rep. Jared Huffman of California describes himself as humanist, and 20 lawmakers’ religious affiliations are categorized as unknown. Most of those 20 declined to state a religious affiliation when they were asked by CQ Roll Call, which served as the primary data source for the Center’s analysis.)
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https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2023/02/07/the-changing-face-of-congress/

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And this one (see previous post).

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Joe Biden's very Catholic Cabinet

January 19, 2021
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"There never has been a more Catholic administration in U.S. history," Steven Millies, director of the Bernardin Center at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, tweeted when Biden first began announcing Cabinet positions in December
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As Biden is set to become the second Catholic president in American history, he will be joined by more coreligionists than any other faith group in his Cabinet.
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https://www.ncronline.org/news/joe-bidens-very-catholic-cabinet

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A counter view of religion as being the opium of the people.

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Opium of the people
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The opium of the people or opium of the masses (German: Opium des Volkes) is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased statement of German sociologist and economic theorist Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people."
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The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people [bold added].

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_of_the_people

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Evenbob’s hero, Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy), went on a racist rant and now Dilbert is getting dropped from a bunch of newspapers.

Cancel culture strikes again! Why can’t a racist white dude speak his mind without fear of consequences?!

Quote: ams288

Evenbob’s hero, Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy), went on a racist rant and now Dilbert is getting dropped from a bunch of newspapers.

Cancel culture strikes again! Why can’t a racist white dude speak his mind without fear of consequences?!

You sow what you reap
Good riddance
I used to read the comics as a kid
Used to follow Doonesbury as a young adult
I dont even consider comics now
Is Doonesbury still around?

Adams went off "in response to a conservative organization's poll purporting to show that many African Americans do not think it's OK to be white". Nearly half. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/its-ok-to-be-white-agree-72-including-53-of-blacks

Appears to be this poll https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/january_2023/not_woke_yet_most_voters_reject_anti_white_beliefs

The pollsters put a different spin on it than Adams did. I agree with Adams that it is shocking, though I don't come to the same conclusions he did. Actually I suspect it's a poll that does not reflect well the attitude of Af/Ams ... to put together half that would say it's not OK to be white? that has to be hard to do, either that or the Black people I know now and used to work with over the years held beliefs they hid from me. Or, things have really changed.

Quote: odiousgambit

Adams went off "in response to a conservative organization's poll purporting to show that many African Americans do not think it's OK to be white". Nearly half. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/its-ok-to-be-white-agree-72-including-53-of-blacks

Appears to be this poll https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/january_2023/not_woke_yet_most_voters_reject_anti_white_beliefs

The pollsters put a different spin on it than Adams did. I agree with Adams that it is shocking, though I don't come to the same conclusions he did. Actually I suspect it's a poll that does not reflect well the attitude of Af/Ams ... to put together half that would say it's not OK to be white? that has to be hard to do, either that or the Black people I know now and used to work with over the years held beliefs they hid from me. Or, things have really changed.

The best thing for him to have done would be just ignoring a stupid poll put out there by one of the worst pollsters (Rasmussen).

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny took a stand against Putin and the Russian Government even though he surely knew that he would get beaten down one way or another.

He has been imprisoned since 2021 and has claimed that he has been tortured.

Opposition leaders and protesters in Russia must accept the risk of imprisonment or worse.

In the link, which is from 2021, it describes Navalny in a court hearing calling Putin "a naked thieving king."


https://www.npr.org/2021/04/29/991971716/in-court-hearing-navalny-calls-putin-a-naked-thieving-king