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Episcopal Church considers using gender-neutral language to describe God in its book of prayers

Jana J. Pruet
The Blaze
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 09:56 UTC

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The Episcopal Church will consider adding gender-neutral language to its Book of Common Prayer at its convention in Austin.

The Episcopal Church will consider whether to add gender-neutral language regarding God to its Book of Common Prayer at its 79th General Convention, which starts Thursday in Austin, Texas.

The debate is centered on making sure that the faith's prayer book is clear that God, the supreme being, is genderless. The proposed changes will be considered at the eight-day convention, the Washington Post reported.

The church has always addressed God through the use of masculine terms such as Him, Father, and King, among others.

In the New Testament, Jesus taught his disciples to pray using male pronouns.

"And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth," Jesus said in Luke 11:2.

Comment: See also:

Iraq war veteran: Prevent suicides by stopping US immoral, illegal wars across the globe

RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 10:03 UTC

Moral injury is the real reason why US veterans are committing suicide, as they realize all the horrors of war and innocent people killed were for nothing but US corporate interests, US Iraq war veteran Vince Emanuele told RT.

Dozens of US veterans gathered for a march in front of the New Orleans VA hospital on July 1, to raise awareness for the high rates of veteran suicides across the nation. The demonstrators were wearing 'dead masks' to represent the high cost of war.

Last month, US Department of Veterans Affairs released a report stating that the average number of veterans who die by suicide daily is 20.

RT spoke to US Iraq war veteran and activist Vince Emanuele who shared his view on the matter. He believes that the US government is not doing everything possible to prevent more veteran suicides.

Comment: Twenty veterans committing suicide every day is an outrageous number.

Senator Bob Corker: Trump supporters are like cultists

Cal Thomas
Townhall
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 09:35 UTC

Bob Corker, the outgoing Republican senator from Tennessee, recently compared supporters of President Trump to members of a cult. The Washington Post quoted Corker as saying: "It's becoming a cultish thing, isn't it? It's not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that happens to be of -- purportedly -- of the same party."

Purportedly? It would be nice to know what the Republican Party stands for these days, especially when it comes to spending and debt, but I will leave that for another day.

The Post story says "...the Republican Party appears united now not by fealty to ideas or policies but to a man, who defied the odds to win the presidency and who has magnetically drawn the party's power base to himself."

Doesn't that reasoning also describe the rise to power of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton -- the former this country's first African-American president, the latter the former governor of a Southern state with a great gift of gab, though personally flawed in ways similar to President Trump? Why did the media not label Clinton followers cultists? Why weren't people who appeared to worship President Obama regarded as blind followers of a cult-like leader? Answer: because they are Democrats, and the standards are different for Democrats.

Corker is right about how the GOP focused less on ideas and more on winning, but that could describe both parties at varying points in history.

Comment: Pretty much everything the left goes around accusing everyone of they are guilty of themselves. Either you end up having enough and #WalkAway or become ideologically possessed. There is no middle ground... that would be too 'rational' and you'd probably be called a Nazi for it.

Deadly 'zombie' poison stolen from safety vault in Dutch museum

RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 14:13 UTC

Dutch police are trying to trace a powerful paralyzing poison stolen from the vault of a museum of medicine in the Netherlands.

A jar of curare, a plant extract sometimes used in blow dart guns and on arrows, went missing on Wednesday morning from Leiden's Boerhaave Museum, according to Omroep West news.

The stolen glass case contained a small dark block of the poison about the size of a sugar cube, reports Holland's The Post Online.

"We are now urgently looking for the poison," a Leiden police spokesperson said. "It should not be on the street where people can come into contact with it."

Comment: The topic of poison is often in the headlines these days:

Illegal Immigration has become a lawless Frankenstein in the 'Land of Is'

Will Alexander
Townhall
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 07:44 UTC

When the first bud sprouted that made light of illegal immigration a few decades ago, it was hard to be alarmed because such sentiments strayed so far from basic common sense. "The law is the law," we thought. Simple.

Democrats thought so, too:

Chuck Schumer: "Illegal immigration is wrong; plain and simple." (2009)

Hillary Clinton: "... I am adamantly against illegal immigration." (2003)

Harry Reid: "If making it easy to be an illegal alien is not enough, how about offering a reward for being an illegal immigrant? No sane country would do that, right? Guess again. If you break our laws by entering this country without permission and give birth to a child, we reward that child with U.S. citizenship ..." (1993)

Dianne Feinstein: "Mexico must do its share because the day when America could be the welfare system for Mexico is gone. We simply can't afford it." (1993)

Bill Clinton: "... we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace... We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws." (1995)

Back then, illegal meant illegal.

Comment: With the makings of what potentially could turn into a civil war, Lincoln's warning is quite relevant for today.

Deluded: Israeli lawmaker thinks recent quake was linked with plans for Western Wall mixed-gender prayer area

RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:18 UTC

"The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo

An ultra-Orthodox MP has said the less-strict adherents of Judaism are "not Jews" and claimed a recent earthquake in Israel was a divine warning not to establish a mixed-gender prayer area at the Western Wall.

During a heated debate at the Knesset on Wednesday, Yinon Azoulay, from the ultra-Orthodox party Shas, alluded to higher powers to support his position: "Today we heard there was some sort of earthquake. Perhaps we should consider that this earthquake was because someone is trying to get at what is holy to us."

He was referring to a series of minor tremors in the Haifa area on Wednesday, the Times of Israel reported. The issue on the line is a thorny one, as often happens with religious views.

Comment: As if God has nothing more important to think about. It really does provide insight into the narcissistic and delusional mind set of many in the Israeli parliament. Instead, here are some issues that are much more likely to bring about divine retribution:

River turns blood red in south-west China - Authorities blame nickel pollution from factory spill

Yahoo
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:00 UTC

A river has been filmed flowing blood-red much to the shock of residents.

Footage taken of the Xiangbi River in Yibin city in China's south-western Sichuan province shows the river turned a bright red.

The video was filmed on June 28, with residents complaining to local officials about the pollutant appearing in the stream, which was confirmed not to be a source of potable water.

The man filming claims the pollution is "very widespread".

On July 1, Cuiping district environment bureau officials confirmed that the pollutant came from the Heshun Packing Company plant further upstream.

An investigation revealed that workers there had accidentally spilt large quantities of enamel paint into the river during a cleaning operation.

Comment: Are all these rivers that turn blood red due to the same criminal negligence, or is there perhaps, for some at least, another cause?

Tech insiders say social media was designed to be 'behavioral cocaine'

Andy Meek
BGR
Wed, 04 Jul 2018 22:32 UTC

One of the recurring quotes often delivered with humorous resignation by a member of the Bluth family on Arrested Development was the perennially meme-able line, "I've made a huge mistake."

That's the kind of thing that pops into the mind of a cynic when listening to some of the engineers and technologists interviewed for a new edition of the BBC program Panorama, in which a selection of Silicon Valley insiders walk through the myriad ways they addict users to products and services to make money.

They talk about the purposeful engineering of those products and services to keep us hooked as if they were a digital form of white powder - virtual cocaine that makes us not fans of the product, but in extreme cases almost unable to go without it.

And then now, confronted with the full scope of what they helped bring into the world - you can almost hear Gob Bluth's apology, "I've made a huge mistake."

Comment: Its' even worse than the above article suggests:

Greenpeace crash Superman-like drone into French nuclear plant to highlight security flaws

RT
Tue, 03 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC

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A view of the EDF nuclear plant at Cattenom, site of a Greenpeace break-in last October

While it may not have been moving faster than a speeding bullet, Greenpeace activists successfully crashed a Superman-shaped drone into a French nuclear plant as part of their efforts to highlight the site's security flaws.

Video of the incident released Tuesday was taken at the state-controlled EDF's Bugey nuclear plant near Lyon, where a member of the environmental activist group successfully piloted the drone through the facility's no-fly zone. The drone crashed against the wall of the plant's spent-fuel pool building and plummeted to the ground like a kryptonite balloon.

According to Greenpeace: "This action highlights the extreme vulnerability of this type of buildings, which contain the highest amount of radioactivity in nuclear plants."

Russian pilot accuses US special services of abduction and torture

RT
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:00 UTC

© Andrey Lyubimov, Moskva news agency / Sputnik
Rally for immediate release of Konstantin Yaroshenko held near the US embassy in Moscow

In a letter to the Russian Human Rights ombudsman, pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko has described the details of his abduction by the US special forces and tortures that he had endured in the US prison.

Yaroshenko is currently serving a 20-year sentence in the United States after being convicted of conspiracy to smuggle illegal drugs as a result of the US DEA sting operation. The Russian citizen has always denied the charges and stated that his detention in Liberia and transportation to the US were parts of a plan to make him testify against another Russian citizen.

In the latest attempt to achieve justice Yaroshenko sent a letter to Russian Human Rights ombudsman, Tatyana Moskalkova, in which he said that during the 2011 trial he was forbidden from mentioning the abduction and torture by US special forces agents, but decided to tell about these violations now in hope for justice for himself and those who wronged him.

Ehret an idiot beyond belief

smertzasmert

.. .. are wheel barrel sales are up too?

Jibrish

I doubt any pureblood would object to the "vaccinated" being masked, but if they (the "vaccinated") still feel unsafe then maybe their problem is...

HashAttack2

I said this would happen...now they are looking to mandate companies with less that 100 employees...shits getting real, people[Link]

Bezel Bub

it's all a lie ! :O

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Society's Child

Episcopal Church considers using gender-neutral language to describe God in its book of prayers

Iraq war veteran: Prevent suicides by stopping US immoral, illegal wars across the globe

Senator Bob Corker: Trump supporters are like cultists

Deadly 'zombie' poison stolen from safety vault in Dutch museum

Illegal Immigration has become a lawless Frankenstein in the 'Land of Is'

Deluded: Israeli lawmaker thinks recent quake was linked with plans for Western Wall mixed-gender prayer area

River turns blood red in south-west China - Authorities blame nickel pollution from factory spill

Tech insiders say social media was designed to be 'behavioral cocaine'

Greenpeace crash Superman-like drone into French nuclear plant to highlight security flaws

Russian pilot accuses US special services of abduction and torture

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