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Justice Department Investigates Southern Baptist Convention Over Abuse| AUGUST 2022
Via: CB • Christian State of Mind • 11 Comments • 1 Like • 2 years ago
“the DOJ has looked into church abuse before. It began investigating abusive Catholic priests in Pennsylvania in 2018, following a state grand jury....”
Southern Baptists Refused to Act on Abuse, Despite Secret Lists of Pastors| Christianity Today
Via: CB • Christian State of Mind • 12 Comments • 4 Likes • 2 years ago
“Investigation: SBC Executive Committee staff saw advocates' cries for help as a distraction from evangelism and a legal liability, stonewalling...”
Ravi Zacharias Hid Hundreds of Pictures of Women, Abuse During Massages, and a Rape Allegation
Via: CB • Christian State of Mind • 105 Comments • 4 Likes • 2 years ago
“His ministry, preparing to downsize in the wake of a new investigation, expresses regret for "misplaced trust" in a leader who used his esteem to...”
I have known of Ravi Zacharias' ministry to the world since the early 90's. Perhaps some or many of you all have as well. First and sadly I did not know Mr. Zacharias had passed away. Lastly, I did not hear anything about these sexual scandals involving him and his enterprises. Personal note:...
Christian Couples Engaging in Kinky Sex, Including 'Anal Play,' Say It's OK if It's in Heterosexual Marriage, Researcher Finds | Living News
Via: CB • Christian State of Mind • 123 Comments • 8 Likes • 2 years ago
“In her new book, Christians Under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet, University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Kelsy Burke...”
Sen. Mike Braun says interracial marriage legalization should be up to states, not federal gov't
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 38 Comments • 5 Likes • 2 years ago
“Leaving the question of interracial marriage to the states,” Braun responded, “Yes.””
Was Senator Braun saying the quiet part out loud then, or is he LYING now? You decide. And what is wrong with his reply? Anything, in your opinion?
A White Supremacist Group Is Fighting For Ukraine, Can We Trust Them? | by Rebecca Stevens A. | ILLUMINATION-Curated | Medium
Via: CB • Christian State of Mind • 34 Comments • 2 years ago
“When they learned about the fate of Black African people stuck in Ukraine and at borders to neighboring countries, like Poland and Romania, two...”
JAMESTOWN How America Invented Race | The History of White People in America
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 207 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 years ago
“Race: A social construction like Sant(a) Claus. Back in the day y'all were English or Scot, Protestant or Catholic, land-owning or not!”
Image credit: https://medium.com/black-history-month-365/the-origins-of-whiteness-8e4b5916096f This will be a new series on the 'history' of race in the U.S.
The Doctrine of Discovery: Why it still Matters Today - United Church of Christ
Via: CB • Christian State of Mind • 34 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 years ago
“As they reached new shores, the sailors would plant the standards of the Catholic Monarchs, . . . and would read the following notice to the...”
Within fifteen years of Columbus' first voyage, the Spaniards who continued to cross the Atlantic in search of new lands to subdue had worked out to their own satisfaction a little ritual for assuaging whatever dim objection their strangled consciences might have voiced about adventures in...
The need to protect the internet from 'astroturfing' grows ever more urgent | Internet | The Guardian
Via: CB • Doubting Thomas' Lazaretto • 30 Comments • 1 Like • 2 years ago
“George Monbiot: The tobacco industry does it, the US Air Force clearly wants to ... astroturfing - the use of sophisticated software to drown out...”
This is an old concept that is still very real today and going on onlline! Watch out!!! You may be exhausted talking to phantoms, bots, and more.