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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. There Will Be No Beauty Left

carcat74
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No churches with their glowing stained glass windows, no murals, no paintings of Christ with the children, no depictions of Mary being touched by God—all these will disappear if Shaun King has his way. He told his 1.1 million followers that all images of a white Jesus and his ‘European’ mother should be destroyed. White Jesus is a symbol of ‘white supremacy,’ and has been used over the centuries to oppress anyone not white.

How many of his followers will take his pronouncement and follow through with destroying churches, statues of Jesus and Mary, paintings, etc.? Should armed guards be stationed 24/7 to protect “The Last Supper?” What about the statue of Mary and Jesus, “The Pieta?” Wasn’t there an attempt years ago to damage that? How many paintings and murals with a white Jesus also show people of other races? In many of those, Jesus is seated among the people. Would an oppressor feel comfortable enough to sit with those he is supposedly oppressing?

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Hank Rhody, Badgeless Bandito
By Hank Rhody, Badgeless Bandito
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In a world gone mad, only one man had the courage to cover himself in bees. These are his stories.
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This starts with a joke. Not a particularly good one, but perhaps the novelty will save the humor. It’s been a long time since I’ve heard it told.

An atheist is arguing with a priest as they walk through a grove of trees. “How can you believe in a God who created such a disordered universe? Look at these mighty oak trees. See the tiny acorns they produce. And yet the massive pumpkin grows on a feeble vine. If I had designed the world that situation would be corrected, let me tell you.”

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Post of the Week Created with Sketch. Can we stop saying “God-damn”?

Bob Baima
By Bob Baima
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On this week’s podcast, Rob felt it necessary to say, “God-damn.” Last week, James was similarly compelled to say, “God-damn.”

My recollection is that Ricochet has a code of conduct which supports civility and prohibits vulgarity. Does this phrase not violate that code?

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. QOTD: God Does Notice Us

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By ShaunaHunt
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I'm a devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I love meeting new people. I love history, reading, cooking, the Olympics, food, a-ha, music and lots of other things. Politics is something I stumbled into. I enjoy good writing. Humor is always welcome! I'm also a fan of Law & Order, M*A*S*H, Leverage, The Mentalist, Psych, and Relative Race. As a bibliophile, reading is a pleasure. History, historical fiction, mystery, suspense, true crime, etc. Reading political comm… [more]
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God does notice us, and He watches over us. But it is usually through another person that He meets our needs. Therefore, it is vital that we serve each other.

Spencer W. Kimball

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Walk-Ins Welcome w/ Bridget Phetasy #60

Coach Tea Believes the Gifts We Are Given Should Be Used to Serve Others Explicit

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Coach Tea is a DJ, producer, podcast personality, and sound engineer for Comedy Central’s Roast Battle. He is also a counselor focusing on the rehabilitation and treatment of young men who have committed crimes. He and Bridget have a fascinating conversation about anarchy, “wokeism,” how unpopular a message of personal responsibility is in 2019, why happiness doesn’t exist without accountability, and how careful you need to be about creating the values systems by which you structure your life. They cover how religion has been hijacked, why trying to impose your moral authority on someone never works, living in a culture that rewards being a victim, how sometimes of “acts of service” are actually self-serving, and have an honest conversation about race, the criminal justice system, interactions with police, and freedom of speech.

Full transcript available here: WiW60-CoachTea-Transcript

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HeavyWater
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Richard Dawkins has a new book out, guaranteed to continue the debate going on in the western world, and even the entire world, over the value of religious belief. Some think that religious belief is essential to healthy societies and happy lives. There is also the debate over whether a particular religious claim is, in […]
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Front Seat Cat
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Summer is trying to turn to Fall here in Northwest Florida without much luck. It’s Hot, Dry – no rain for 35 days. I watch the birds, bees, and butterflies take turns sipping from the bird bath and fluttering through the cold water spray from natural springs below ground when I turn on the sprinkler. […]
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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. For the Love of God!

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I have to write this while it’s fresh in my mind. Where do you stand in this world, in your life? As a property manager, I am responsible for checking on second homes (three and four story luxury beach homes) in a tourist area. My clients are mostly wealthy, very wealthy, and some are average. I love my job. I’m self-employed and I make my own hours. The idea for the job was my husband’s, a landscape designer and manager. I created this job because I have scoliosis and needed to bow out of my 35-40+ hour admin life because sitting and standing for long periods became intolerable. It was a great idea and I love my clients – but not for the reasons you think. While I treat each property as if it were my own, I have come to know very successful people on a different level.

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Hartmann von Aue
By Hartmann von Aue
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A former academic in the field of Dead Northwest European Languages and Medieval Literature, now entrepreneur running a translating agency in Central Texas, Hartmann von Aue is the sobriquet of Dr. John D. Martin
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And it’s even translated from German: “If God had wanted man to explore the universe, he would have given us a moon….TADA!”  More
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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. On the Nature of Reality

Hank Rhody, Badgeless Bandito
By Hank Rhody, Badgeless Bandito
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In a world gone mad, only one man had the courage to cover himself in bees. These are his stories.
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It’s digital. And not fancy digital like your modern computers. Sort of like an old Atari game, where you only get one color, and life is defined by the spaces between. Only compressing it to a two dimensional screen loses so much. You’re not just looking at three dimensions, you’re looking at the angles between dimensions.

Somewhere, in a lower, unimportant corner of my consciousness I knew there existed a hospital bed. There was stuff going on there, a buncha doctor types working around it. I could understand it was important, in a theoretical sense, I just couldn’t muster up the energy to care. Never mind that it’s me down in that hospital bed; I was getting the straight dope on the nature of reality here.

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MWilcox
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Mackenzie grew up in the Philippines and then attended Biola University where she received her B.S. in Kinesiology and met her husband, Daniel. They live with their son in Las Vegas.
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I recently read the book “Decision Making and the Will of God (25th Anniversary Edition)” by Garry Friesen. I enjoyed this book very much and I think that it is an important book that all Christians should read. Here is a summary of a few of the major points made in the book, and my thoughts […]
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Unwoke Caveman Lawyer
By Unwoke Caveman Lawyer
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Once I was out hunting on the frozen wastes when I slipped and fell into a crevasse. Later I was discovered by some scientists and thawed out. I then went to law school and became . . .
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Recently my readings brought me to 1 Samuel 11, which I thought offered some fascinating reflections on government and political power. Humility in Leadership More
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Ben Howe Explains the Folly of Trying to Determine God’s Purposes Explicit

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Ben Howe, author of The Immoral Majority: Christian Evangelicals and the Role they Play in the Era of Trump (due out this year) discusses his journey from the Tea Party to the Center, his favorite Marvel character, and why he doesn’t trust anyone who isn’t honest about their failures – especially politicians. Ben takes issue with using the Bible to pretend that you are pursuing your self-interests nobly and explains the problem with combining ideology with partisanship. Don’t miss a fascinating breakdown of how evangelical leaders have recast all of Trump’s sins as virtues and the danger of convincing a narcissist that his narcissism is virtuous. And stick around for Ben’s epic Christian Retreat Dad joke.

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Mike Rapkoch
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“As soon as a man comes to life,” wrote Martin Heidegger, “he is at once old enough to die.” That’s not exactly a new insight, but it does have the virtue of clarity, which wasn’t Heidegger’s long suit. Being and Time is so incoherent that it makes Hegel look breezy in comparison. Still, statements like Heidegger’s do […]
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Hank Rhody, Badgeless Bandito
By Hank Rhody, Badgeless Bandito
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In a world gone mad, only one man had the courage to cover himself in bees. These are his stories.
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As far as Christmas Carols go I’m mostly a fan of the old hymns. The older poetry had to conform to a stricter set of rules. You have to spend a lot more effort on your word choices when you’re constrained like that, and the effort shows in the quality of your writing. They also […]
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HeavyWater
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One topic that is being talked about often among the intellectual dark web is the relationship between religion and morality. Ben Shapiro argues that non-religious morality can only be developed to a limited extent. Sam Harris argues that we can derive our morality without reference to a deity or a Holy book. The discussion of […]
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Mike Rapkoch
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There is something going on among the Catholic faithful that, from a worldly perspective, seems exceedingly odd given the wide-ranging lay response to the recent Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report on child sexual abuse and the cover-up by the Church hierarchy. The Catholic laity is appalled, furious, and unyielding in demanding that each and every bishop […]
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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. Discerning God’s Will

Hartmann von Aue
By Hartmann von Aue
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A former academic in the field of Dead Northwest European Languages and Medieval Literature, now entrepreneur running a translating agency in Central Texas, Hartmann von Aue is the sobriquet of Dr. John D. Martin
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Judging by my Duck-search results, nearly every single preacher, pastor, rabbi and priest in the country has at one time or another written a study guide or given a spoken teaching — either a sermon of the classical type or a podcast — addressing the discerning God’s will in our lives and the world. John Piper, Tony Evans, J.I. Packer, Henry Blackaby, Benjamin Nunez… the list is gigantic.

I’m quite sure that a lot of the material is both insightful and written with the most benevolent intentions, and some of these entries I have even read, watched or listened to. But, it seems to me they might just be overthinking the question. A couple of more important authorities stated it more succinctly. From the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 12:

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HeavyWater
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William F. Buckley Jr. was a strong Catholic and probably the most influential conservative of his generation. Recently, Dennis Prager wrote a column titled, Conservatives, too, undergo secular indoctrination. In that column Prager wrote in American terms, the American conservative I most admired, William F. Buckley Jr., the founder and publisher of National Review, was […]
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