#Sec/Secular

[secularworship]

Call me Sec, or Secular. Age: 26 Currently into: Homestuck Kins: Kanaya, Porrim, Dolorosa, etc. Blog: Mostly Reblogs some art. Aesthetic sometimes. Dms: Open. Trades: Open.

[kazimirovich]

all i can say forever

i'm jewish. as a child i moved from a rural town where my family saw acts of rage and hate, emigrated from a country with a horrifying history with jews. you know the one, though there are many. i'm 31 now and i have seen and experienced antisemitism my whole life, in the many places i've lived, to varying degrees. not that i should need to qualify this before everything i have to say - but i know what that looks and feels like. in my life there have been times at which i have been in danger. i choose to stay out of danger in all the ways i was taught. (part of that is not moving into someone else's house uninvited (more in a sec))

(well-meaning?) people want me to have a relationship with israel. they are very invested in assuming i have some connection to this shifting space, this project. they associate my german jewishness with a place i have never been and never felt. home, for me, is the uncle i haven't seen in too long, the ailing brother of my mother, the same red nose. it's fresh sheets hung over dry summer grass, it's bavarian farmland, it's thick liptauer on pumpernickel bread warmed over the wood stove. it's my grandmother's dining room and rough fenceposts, borders we disrespected as kids. home is also here and there and where my family is, where my friends are, where i've built myself.

in a geopolitical sense, it is clear that the antisemitic position is to sequester jews into a partitioned state conceived of by non-jews after the sunset of our most recent attempted decimation. antisemitic, to tell jews "move here, be at home in this space of constant war. impose war on others. fight for a tenuous link to an ancestry you've never seen or studied." in a religious sense, sort of a key feature of judaism since the second exile is that - we're in exile. this is an orthodox argument, but i have to admit that rabbinical discourse is pretty convincing. the secular establishment of the israeli state in an attempt to accelerate any so-called redemption has left us at a point where i really don't know what hope we have for that to occur. if you believe in god, how can you believe they are looking down at us, impressed

because beyond theoretical or spiritual reasons, the bloodlust, the vengefulness, the racism, the violation of law (i know that laws are agreed upon, are broken all the time by those who grant themselves impunity), the evil of this continuance, the evil which grinds babies and text and memory, gnashes it all in its droning machinery, its cold horror and inhumane (unhuman) practice, seemingly perfected... it is obvious to anyone with a single thought that it is an ethnic cleansing. the forcible "movement" (murder) of people of one group from land people of another group want. is ethnic cleansing. we are watching it in real time, and the world stands by and in many cases, it endorses, it beats and imprisons those who are brave enough to stand up to it, it rewards cowardly men in war rooms who having read fukuyama and arendt and maybe even voegelin conveniently forget themselves, because they can afford to, and wave their hands and make calls and decimate entire families cities sovereignties. and liberalism - that fickle ideology whose sole search is for the justification of atrocity - sends its thoughts and prayers, and emphasizes how just horrible both sides are, and conveniently forgets the histories that have led each "side" to this. convenient.

and i can't do anything about it. i can perfectly articulate every well-thought-out argument, i can cry the most frustrated tears from the well of my chest and i can scream that this isn't right, because it isn't, but nobody fucking cares. those who matter have decided for those who don't.

if you align yourself with israel, or feel any sympathy toward the supposed plight of active settlers (not a neutral spot to be in, by the way - another rational argument), i hope you know how thoroughly you've been manipulated. how successful the project of those with the power to decide we don't matter has been. you and i don't matter. so-called free thinkers meme. you fucking idiot. you genocidal maniac.

not putting this under a cut. fuck you. read it all and remember my jewish name and keep it far out of your mouth the next time you tell someone why the people you've told me are my neighbors deserve a flattening.

[thethirdromana]

The droughtula is lasting forever so here are some headcanons about Dracula's characters' politics.

Arthur Holmwood (Lord Godalming) Let's get the difficult one out of the way first. Arthur is nobility, a hereditary peer in the House of Lords, in the 1890s. He's literally entitled to a say on legislation solely because of who his ancestors were. So he's unlikely to have views that we'd find sympathetic in 2023, and is probably a Tory.

He's well-travelled and outward-looking, so I think his greatest political concern is empire. He's eager to ensure that Britain is victorious in the Scramble for Africa, concerned about growing tensions with the Boers in South Africa, and admires the leadership of Lord Salisbury.

(sorry about this)

Jonathan Harker I think Jonathan is and always will be aware of how lucky he's been, as an orphan who's then catapulted into vast wealth thanks to the generosity of Mr Hawkins. As a result, I think he would be very keen to support others and generally vote for a government that's focused on the eradication of poverty. At the same time, I don't think he would be particularly radical; I think he would shy away from revolutionary thinking.

I see him finding reasonably a happy home in the 1890s Liberals, and supporting the beginnings of the welfare state in the early 1900s. He might even join the Fabian Society. By the 1920s, his sympathies would shift to the Labour Party.

Mina Harker I've written a bit about Mina's politics already. The obvious question is what she thinks of women's suffrage, and I'm inclined to say that her view is that women should have the vote one day, but not yet. At least, not at a national level; I think she'd support the move in the 1890s to allow women to vote in local elections. She would be more focused on women's access to education, so that when the time came for them to get the vote, they would be educated enough to use it wisely.

Unfortunately one other thing we know about Mina is that she's interested in physiognomy, a pseudoscience that's connected to eugenics. So it's depressingly plausible that a real-life Mina would have an interest in eugenics as well.

Lucy Westenra I think Lucy is probably less politically aware than Mina is, but also quite possibly more radical in her views. After all, we see more of Lucy chafing against her social role than we do Mina (though Lucy's life is also a lot more restricted than Mina's). As an upper-middle or upper-class woman, doing charitable works is a big part of her role. That would bring her into contact with poverty, and I think she would want to do whatever she could to help.

I don't think she would be formally a member of any campaigning organisations, but I suspect she might be sympathetic to the temperance movement. That would be her route to women's suffrage, as the two causes were connected in the 1890s. Where Mina might worry that women lacked the education to use their vote wisely, Lucy would feel that in a good marriage, a husband would help his wife to make the right choices.

Abraham Van Helsing One sec, just need to give myself a crash course in Dutch politics of the 1890s.

OK I'm back. Dutch society at this time was divided based mostly on religion: Protestant, Catholic and a secular socialist grouping. This was called 'Verzuiling' ("pillarisation") and it meant that each of the sections of society were effectively segregated: separate schools, separate institutions, separate newspapers and little intermarriage between the "pillars".

By rights that puts Van Helsing into the Catholic pillar, but I can't see it - this is a man whose close friend is an English Protestant who's half his age. The group most likely to oppose the notion of Verzuiling were the Liberals, sometimes treated as a pillar of their own. And I think that's where Van Helsing would most naturally fit.

People who learned about this bit of Dutch history more than five minutes ago should feel free to chime in.

Quincey Morris I know about as much about US politics in the 1890s as I do Dutch politics, but that's not going to stop me.

I instinctively feel that Quincey Morris has strong views on something relatively niche, like the adoption of the gold standard. So I'm pleased to learn that the adoption of the gold standard was in fact a live political debate in the US in the 1890s. Quincey is in favour. He supports hard money policies and - as a wealthy landowner - particularly worries about the rise of the People's Party back home.

Jack Seward The biggest wildcard of the lot. Other than Van Helsing, I think Jack is the character most likely to have read widely and to be open to unexpected ideas. But ultimately I think his attitude to politics is driven by his interest in and desire for technological progress, which would lead him towards the Liberal Party.

He would be horrified by Tory prime minister Lord Salisbury's repeated opposition to change (e.g. his 1879 statement that "Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible"). If he lives long enough, he'll be delighted by Wilson's "white heat of technology" speech in the early 1960s.

[uncreative-user-name]

Omg funny story

I go to a nondenominational church. Every once in a while, the church band will play a secular song for fun before worship actually begins. I was running late, but as soon as I open my car door I hear our anthem: Carry On My Wayward Son 😂🤣😂🤣

Omg I was DYING! All I could think of was Supernatural and DEMONS 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I had to stop for a sec in the parking lot to catch my breath! Meanwhile I’m freezing my tits off bc the windchill was -3°F

Worth it tho 😂

[girlactionfigure]

🔅Tuesday morning - ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

🔻Air attacks on Israeli civilians… 

Hamas rockets at Sderot, Ibim, Nir Am, Netiv HaAssara, Gavim, Sapir College

Hezbollah rockets at Betzet, Shlomi 

.. SINCE the UN Resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire there have been 3 rocket launches out of Gaza.

..  The IDF says it struck a Hamas rocket launching position used in a barrage earlier today on Ashdod. The launchers were located adjacent to a civilian shelter in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah.

▪️CEASEFIRE.. following the UN Sec Council resolution of ceasefire, Hamas's appetite increases against the background of international developments: it rejected the American proposal for the hostage deal.  An American delegation is still in Qatar to continue talks.

▪️US RECOMMENDS MAGIC?  US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken emphasized in his meeting with Defense Minister Yoav Galant that there are alternatives to a ground operation in Rafah - ones that will better ensure Israel's security and also protect Palestinian citizens, according to the US State Department. 

(( While the US has been repeatedly stating this, we have yet to hear a SINGLE suggestion on how. In the meantime, the hostages ROT. ))

▪️MAJOR ATTACK ON IRANIAN SITES IN SYRIA.. attack in the Syrian-Iraqi border town of Albu Kamal. According to the reports, senior members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have been eliminated.

Targets:  Ayash warehouses in the western area of ​​Deir Ezzor, warehouses for storing Iranian weapons. The headquarters of the Iranian militias in the villa neighborhood in Deir Ezor. Several sites near the El Hari crossing on the Syria-Iraq border.  The headquarters on Al-Taz Hagana street in Albu Kamal city includes a security office in the area of ​​Badar Hospital, which is itself an Iranian base. The headquarters of the Iranian militias in the El Tamo neighborhood in the city of Al Mayadin, east of Deir Ezzor.  The communications headquarters of the Iranian militias and the Alawite security headquarters on the University's President Street in the city of Deir ez-Zor.

Unknown if the attack was by Israel or the U.S.  Syria blames Israel.

🔸SUMMARY - Israel internal politics is reaching a crescendo due to the “Movement for Quality Govt”’s High Court case, in the midst of the war, over draft law and charedi low participation in the IDF.  

On one hand the IDF is manpower stressed due to the war, on the other hand the IDF has taken only minor steps to accommodate this population segment and the political class has not pressed or improved the issue over the past 15 years. Sometimes the opposite, demonizing the charedim and driving them away.

The possibility of the war coalition dissolving over this issue is growing, while the core coalition is attempting to build a recruitment law with incentives and disincentives that the charedim can accept, the attorney general will defend, the High Court will not overturn, the IDF can actually implement, and secular society won’t protest… and do so within a month.  The good news is Israel is a place of miracles.  The bad news is they need it.

[leonsleftbicep]

you guys remember my ghoulsona Secular? well i redesigned them.

i also convinced @randomfandomsoup to create a ghoulsona. now Secular has a platonic boyfriend.

new secular!!

•they are a water & quintessence hybrid/multi ghoul. •uses it/its/they/them pronouns but also enjoys the occasional masc terms since it dresses more feminine in their free time. •wears knee braces because it has really bad knee pain. •has known their partner since he was summoned, sec loves their partner. •their mustache is fake, its just mascara on its peach fuzz

Pyrocumulus created by @randomfandomsoup! (portrait drawing also done by soup)

•is a fire & air hybrid/multi ghoul •uses he/they pronouns •gets called Smokey or Smokey Babes by Secular •has narcolepsy and RBF. but not angry just sleepy and doesn’t know how to control their features Sec gets confused every time even though it has been close with pyro since he was summoned •after rituals Smokey and Sec lay down together in comfy clothes as pyro lays on top of Secular to ease their mind and help its knee aches. they are a big heap of purring mush when they finally fall asleep together.

i love these goofs and im so excited to soon gets some art together and draw pyro since i didnt get time today.

[jgmail]

Los filósofos rusos piden la descolonización de nuestra mente

Varios autores

Traducción de Juan Gabriel Caro Rivera

Occidente se ha autoproclamado como la civilización por excelencia e intenta imponer sus valores sobre el resto del mundo. Sin embargo, Rusia al ser un país con una historia milenaria alternativa a la occidental desempeña una especie de contrapeso a favor de las distintas civilizaciones que existen en el mundo multipolar actual. Lo anterior es la conclusión a la que llegaron los participantes de la mesa redonda «Civilización-Rusia: papel histórico e imagen del futuro» del Instituto de Expertos en la Investigación Social.

Vladimir Shapovalov, miembro de la junta directiva de la Asociación Rusa de Ciencias Políticas, responsable de varios proyectos de la EISI, declaro en el foro que: «La concertación y la cooperación son un principio fundamental dentro del Estado-civilización ruso. Rusia es una potencia milenaria que ha pasado por crisis y auges, habiendo desarrollado principios fundamentales como la unidad y diversidad de los pueblos que habitan nuestro país, el carácter abierto de la sociedad rusa, la unidad del poder y la sociedad, del poder secular y espiritual, la unidad de los pueblos y los estamentos conforme a un principio variado extremadamente complejo».

Según Shapovalov Rusia desempeña un papel clave en el desarrollo histórico mundial: «Este papel consiste no sólo en logros culturales, científicos y tecnológicos, que son de los más importantes a nivel mundial, sino también de la importancia de la lengua rusa, así como en la contribución que Rusia ha hecho a la creación del sistema de seguridad mundial y de las normas del derecho internacional».

Sin embargo, Occidente se autoproclamó como «la única civilización existente», dice el filósofo Alexander Dugin, «y, en este sentido, todo lo que han aportado Rusia, el islam o China se percibe como una especie de imitación, viendo a estas civilizaciones como provincias minúsculas que se rebelan contra el imperio global. De hecho, ellos consideran que Occidente es la única forma de comprender el mundo».

Dugin explica que la cultura occidental actual ya no tiene nada que ver con la cultura occidental clásica. Aunque esta última tampoco puede considerarse como un estándar para todas las civilizaciones. «Es aquí donde debe comenzar nuestro giro civilizacional hacia nosotros mismos y la construcción de un mundo multipolar. Hay que devolver sus derechos a la episteme rusa, que ahora debemos introducir en todas las disciplinas de las humanidades. Es necesario construir un mundo rusocéntrico en el que se reconozca la existencia de otros mundos y donde no pretendamos imponernos o sustituir a nadie».

Dugin dice: «Ahora luchamos contra el nazismo ucraniano y nos oponemos al Occidente colectivo, pero nuestro principal enemigo es nuestra conciencia, porque nuestra educación, nuestra ciencia, nuestro sistema político... todo está construido sobre los principios del universalismo occidental. Nuestra tarea es descolonizar la conciencia rusa».

Dusan Prorokovic, investigador del Instituto de Política y Economía Internacionales de Belgrado y ex diputado de la Asamblea Nacional serbia, comentó que Rusia es capaz de crear una alternativa a los valores occidentales y preservar los valores tradicionales en todo el mundo: «En los países ortodoxos de los Balcanes la influencia de Occidente es muy fuerte. Las estructuras formales de nuestros Estados se encuentran bajo ocupación y tienen una soberanía limitada».

Prorokovic agregó lo siguiente: «El papel de Rusia en los Balcanes es muy importante. El neoliberalismo posmoderno aboga por desmantelar los valores tradicionales y transformarnos. Se están desmantelando los Estados, la religión, la familia e incluso el concepto de hombre. Sólo Rusia puede oponerse a ello».

Vardan Baghdasaryan, profesor del Departamento de Políticas Públicas de la Universidad Estatal de Moscú, recordó las palabras de «nuestro adversario», el asesor especial del Secretario General de la ONU para la reducción de la pobreza, Jeffrey Sachs: «Pusimos a una Rusia enferma en la mesa de operaciones, le abrimos el pecho y resultó tener una anatomía diferente».

Según Baghdasaryan, el concepto de Estado-civilización implica la prohibición de extrapolar principios de una civilización a otra: «De ello se deduce que nuestra soberanía se basa en la identidad y los valores. Además, el enfoque civilizatorio estudia constantes. La historia rusa es comprensible únicamente como una civilización: la antigua Rus, el zarismo moscovita, el Imperio ruso, la Unión Soviética, la resurrección de la actual Rusia... todo ello constituye la esencia de Rusia. Rusia es un arca que une a todos».

Oleg Matveichev, vicepresidente del Comité de Política de Información, Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones de la Duma Estatal, declaró: «Cuando Rusia enarboló la bandera de los valores tradicionales, distintas naciones y representantes culturales empezaron a unirse en torno a ella. Muchos han empezado a buscar contactos con nosotros desde África, América Latina, Asia y otras regiones. Estos países no pueden desafiar a Occidente solos».

El diputado concluyó: «Vemos que el mundo entero está conmocionado por el lugar al que el llamado Occidente intenta llevarlos. Es importante que nuestras humanidades, filósofos, científicos e investigadores averigüen con qué poder y voluntad podemos desempeñar el papel de vínculo entre las diferentes civilizaciones y reivindicar un universalismo nuevo. Este universalismo debe permitir el dialogo y no subordinar a los demás».

[ignitingthesky]

Valentine's Day Bonus

Long text post + accompanying art.

Alternative ending to the umbrella comic.

The sky darkens with rain but the streets are bright. Today, shop fronts like the one behind you are the same everywhere — pink or red, in hearts or lungs, and light that glows warm through the glitter.

Even though you bought the sunflower umbrella just this morning, drawn to it by a feeling beyond explanation... You think about the heart patterned umbrella you found just now, waiting for you in the empty trash can. You look around you and experience something like déjà vu. What is it? What's with the hearts? What's different about today?

Kim is looking out into the rain from where you both stand beneath the shelter. No, he's looking at you now. Did you say something?

-> "You didn't happen to bring an umbrella, did you?"

"I don't know, did I?"

You see something like a twitch in the corner of his mouth. He didn't. He doesn't. He's walked in the rain with you so many times, in that thin, stylish jacket of his. He doesn't bring umbrellas, not in any weather. If he does, you wouldn't be bringing any.

"Give me a sec..."

"...Take your time."

You consider your choices.

-> Offer to share the umbrella covered in hearts.

"...No," you hear after a pause. Though you can hear the hesitation in his voice, it is a no that brokers no compromise.

That familiar, sinking feeling is back again. Something about today... What's today? Why today?

Encyclopedia [Trivial: Success] Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on the 14th of February each year. A Dolorian celebration of martyrdom in origin, the festival has long since evolved in the secular world into a celebration of love, romance and passion. Though many celebrate Valentine's Day platonically, your offer to share a heart patterned umbrella could be read by Kim and the public gaze as undisguisably romantic.

You pull the umbrella back to yourself and sink a little to the ground.

Authority [Medium: Success] He is still in uniform. Look at how he stands: spine straightened, feet apart, hands behind his back. This is Lieutenant Kim Kitsuragi. These are his defenses against the world.

Esprit de Corps [Challenging: Success] To walk down the streets of Jamrock sharing a heart patterned umbrella with you on Valentine's day would make him vulnerable. The world is safer for the Lieutenant than it would ever be for Kim, or for Kim and Harry. You're asking much more of him than you realise.

Empathy [Easy: Failure] Why would he walk with you? Why would he ever follow you into the rain? You should've given him another umbrella. He hates you now. Valentine's Day was never for you. It's never been for someone like you. It's a consumeristic holiday for the middle class.

[Damaged Morale -1]

True love isn't possible after all.

"Detective. Detective— Harry, can you hear me?"

Your heart patterned heartbreak umbrella, cold metal resting against your neck, pink nylon covering your face, is lifted from where it slumps. Kim is pulling at it. You keep it lifted to look at Kim.

"...Come on. I know you have other umbrellas," he says. You can't make out the tone of his voice but he seems almost frustrated.

Empathy [Medium: Success] No, he's embarrassed. He's embarrassed to admit that he'd known about your other umbrellas from the start. Don't point this out.

Suggestion [Medium: Success] Trust me on this one — choose the smallest umbrella.

-> "I have Froggy."

You close the heartbreak umbrella and retrieve the frog umbrella, opening it up to barely cover one of you. It's in the brightest, cheapest plastic green.

"One frog, two frogs... are they all 'Froggy'? No, don't answer that— Froggy's fine. Let's move." Out into the rain, under the tiniest, worst umbrella for sharing, he doesn't say.

You turn your gaze to the shifting colours of light on his orange jacket.

"Kim... do you still like green?"

Congratulations if you've reached the end! I've never written anything nice about Valentine's Day but this can be a little break from cynicism, okay? Happy Valentine's to you 🫰💕

[pix4japan]

Sacred Spaces and Cultural Grace: Navigating Japanese Shrine Etiquette

Location: Shirahama, Shimoda, Shizuoka, Japan Timestamp: 07:40 on January 3, 2024

Fujifilm X100V with 5% diffusion filter ISO 3200 for 1/90 sec. at ƒ/8.0 Film simulation: Velvia/Vivid

Ancient documents dating over 2,400 years reference this shrine, suggesting an age surpassing 2,400 years. Like many Japanese temples and shrines, some structures are reconstructed due to earthquakes, fire, or periodic disassembly for inspection and improvement, ensuring both longevity and the preservation of traditional Japanese building techniques.

The worship hall seen in my photo was last rebuilt in 1860, and the sanctuary on the hill behind the worship hall and housing the deity was reconstructed in 1922.

Visitors during New Year's adhere to traditional steps followed at any time of the year. Regional customs may vary, but general worship practices and etiquettes apply to every shrine.

It is appropriate to dress in a way that is slightly conservative. Just avoid wearing revealing or tight-fitting clothes (such as tank tops, sweats, or workout clothes) out of respect for the cultural setting. Remember, these are sacred sites—not a shopping mall or an amusement park.

When you pass under the torii gate, which marks where the realm of Shinto kami (deity) begins and separates it from the secular world, prepare your mind and your heart, calm yourself, and appreciate everything around you, be it visible or not.

At the torii gate, show your respect by taking your hat off if you wear one and bowing once before passing through.

Be mindful to walk on the left side of the way, as the center of the approach is said to be the “place where the kami pass.”

At the water basin (temizuya or chozuya), purify yourself by scooping water to wash your free hand and then switch the ladle to wash your other hand. Pour some water in your empty hand and rinse out your mouth. Follow the actions of the Japanese around you and will be fine.

Proceed to the main hall for worship. The customary routine involves bowing twice, clapping twice, and bowing once. Make a monetary offering, often a 5-yen coin is used as it symbolizes luck.

Shinto shrines cater to common needs, managing centuries-old traditions and festivals. Japanese embrace diverse traditions without strict religious adherence, enjoying aesthetics like Christian weddings and festivities, and follow Buddhism for matters of the afterlife. These cultural adoptions allow appreciation without religious affiliation.

For those with a keen interest in Japanese approach to religious traditions, I have provided links to useful sources at my latest pix4japan blog post: https://www.pix4japan.com/blog/20240103-shirahama

[beaniegender]

Btw now that I've slightly calmed down from losing it about the insane genocidal arguments in that last post, let me take a sec to address this part of it:

"I've often seen it written on this site that there's no problem with Jewish people being atheists, that atheist Jews still count as Jews. If this is the case then the religious aspect is clearly not necessary for Jewish culture to exist."

Now I'm NOT going to get into how our culture actually DOES include religious practices as a fundamental component, holy shit, but if you don't know much about Judaism and don't see the faulty logic here, let me just point out that atheism isnt the same as being secular! There can be, and are, SO many religious Jews who are atheists! There are also many non-practicing Jews who believe in God!There are two different dimensions here! Please learn about orthopraxy vs orthodoxy if you want to say anything informed about religion 😭

[yanzinator]

You’d be surprised how many religions ask people to endanger themselves, how many y people died of dehydration on the way to Mecca? I think Jahova’s witnesses don’t allow blood transfusions. Currently in America, the Amish are allowed to ignore regulations and dump their dirty water into the ground even though it poisons the groundwater potentially harming others, megachurches make billions off their followers but pay zero taxes, the Catholic Church continues to cover up child sec abuse, a mentally ill girl was fucking killed by an exorcism and they made a movie retelling it but acting like she really was possessed.

These groups, like the Amish and the Catholics, hide behind the fact that governments can’t regulate them to shield themselves from scrutiny or regulation

I don’t believe a government should be allowed to ban a religion, but any practice that can harm people, even the religions own followers, should be curtailed, because the right to religious freedom doesn’t supersede the right to life or bodily autonomy.

Another example is religious pro life institutions that pretend to be abortion clinics in order to trick people looking for abortions so they can try to convert them, and that’s entirely legal to do,

We don’t allow child abuse even if it’s part of a sincerely held religious or cultural belief, as you said these religious groups don’t exist separate from secular societies, why should they be exempt from the same rules and regulations?

ok, great. that's a valid political position. You're against separating church and state.

now why is your praxis going after a minority so small it has no effect on anyone else, while they do something that they've done for 3000 years, in an environment where there are no risks over doing it with goyish approval because we already have a system that works for it, instead of going for, all that...

[nijjhar]

5 were beheaded publicly on Stage and Revived through "His Word" for Sec... The 5 were beheaded publicly on the Stage and Revived through "His Word" for the Second Birth in Eternal Akal Purakh. https://youtu.be/rr4dWzPeY0E Punjabi - https://youtu.be/ywIwpr2fcE8 The Five were beheaded on stage and NOT taken into a Tent as propagated by the satanic Khatris:- Then, the head of one was sown with the torso of the other. They were revived with Bani and they lived in Jungles, Wilderness. Such Khalsas seek not this secular Khalistan of the Lala Madho Dass (Banda Bahadur), a Sodhi Khatri of the order of Lala Prithvi Chand and Chandu Sodhi Khatris. Thus, the Tatt Khalsas are the Fauj of Akal Purakh and they seek not secular rule as they were offered Kapurthala State (Riyast) but they refused to accept it. Thus, the Khalsa was created for the spiritual rule of philanthropy and righteousness. Thus, the hired Brar Jatt soldiers who wanted money were refused the Baptism. Only the tribal men, sons of Shiv, were chosen into this Khalsa Panth – DAEH SHIVA VAR MOHAE ……… Mai Bhago was not given the Baptism but later on some Munnmukh Tarkhan, Khatri, etc. extended Amrit to women and children. Amrit is taken at Kes Garh Sahib, the Takht for the political affairs. As the people of the third Khashtri Ashram, wise men suitable for politics, Khashtri Varn, look after the political affairs, so they keep their hair intact to prove that they are the sons of Brahma, Lord of the visible creation called Sarishhtti, the tribal people – BRAHM KAE BAETTE SHABD PAHSHAATA. Also, the story of Samson and Dalaela supports this too.     Punjabi - The Five were beheaded on Stage and the head of one was sown with the Torso of the other. Revived with Amrit Bani. https://youtu.be/9sIqXvp-SDU "Singh" is the honourable surname of the Khalsas. Another Video:- https://youtu.be/Bg15W3P4Tuc Punjabi - Bhindranwala was neither a Sikh that carried weapons in the Holiest of Holy Complex in the world nor a Khalsa. Sachae Patshah Gobind Singh Ji never entered this Complex because Khalsas and Sikhs are not compatible - Bhai Kahniyia Ji. https://youtu.be/Iy3qXU6tI88 Vaisakhi celebration:- http://www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/vaisakhi.htm Playlist on Sikhism:- https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PL0C8AFaJhsWxjV7C_Do6gXcQY5GVOI9hY/edit A YouTube video by Channel Punjab Sian is worth watching:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beg6CzchoNc Easter Playlist:- https://studio.youtube.com/playlist/PL0C8AFaJhsWylziOpNWyWaLauSjMOeudK/edit Taste of Easter:- Reincarnation through works under Yahweh, Dharm Rai whilst Resurrection by Grace of Elohim. https://youtu.be/x3BD1z0Buq0 Allah is NOOR and you cannot apply Sharia Laws that bind you on NOOR that sets you FREE. This Islam is not of Allah called INSHALLAH but of Mullahs called Inshmullah. Our Khokhar Jatt Chaudhry Saddam Hussein Khokhar Jatt was executed by the American Jews. JEWS THEMSELVES ARE ANTISEMITIC “SALTLESS” SHANKAR VARNIYAE – “SUKKOT”. Living Islam of Living Allah is of the “Al-Kitab” that gets written over your own heart through "Logical Reasoning" by the Grace of our Supernatural Father of our supernatural “Soul” Al-Ilah = Allah. No son of your tribal father, Qom, "Ilah" no son of Supernatural Father Allah = INSHALLAH ISLAM. Only “fools” will believe in me and not in Allah. http://www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/JattIslam.htm NANAK HOSI BHI SACH. ASK, SEEK AND KNOCK. REAL SHARIAH-FREE ISLAM OF ALLAH - NOOR IN HONOUR OF ROYAL SHAH SHAMS TABRIZI. HUKUM RAZIAN CHALNA; NANAK LIKHYA NAAL. Sants of the Fourth Panth = Millatt are “Dass” and the Khalsas of the Third Panth are of the “Singh” surnames, Gotras. And Nanak was the Second Coming of Jesus, the “Christ = Satguru” and not a Brahmin “Guru”. The greedy Khatris messed up the devotees so much that they did not know the First and the Second Panths. http://www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/tenlights.htm For the full article, visit:- http://www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/JattIslam.htm Real Islam is the knowledge of our spiritual Supernatural Father Allah (Pakka Peo) for the twice-born "Seekers" of age 20 to 25 years who are faithful to and have the knowledge of their natural tribal father or Qom, Kabeela, Ilah, etc. that they can see or have “Surti” of the natural world. https://youtu.be/gSwPvK3B4rg The Sons of Allah "Sufi Muslims" go by the Al-Kitab of Allah and enjoy the Shariah-Free Inshallah Islam whilst the spiritually blind Disciples of Shia, Sunni, Ahmadiyya, etc. Mullah's Inshmullah Islams, suffer under Satan Al-Djmar Al-Aksa. Allah is "NOOR", Spirit, you cannot apply Shariah on Noor. https://youtu.be/LyAx7F6GeuQ MUSSALLMAN = GURMUKH SIKH. https://youtu.be/7VmQG3ew19E My ebook by Kindle. ASIN: B01AVLC9WO www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/JOHN 8V44.htm My Books:- ONE GOD ONE FAITH www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/bookfin.pdf and in Punjabi KAKHH OHLAE LAKHH:-  www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/pdbook.pdf EXPOSES the CROOK KHATRIS:- Punjab Siyan. John's baptism www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/johnsig.pdf Trinity www.gnosticgospel.co.uk/trinity.pdf

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EnergyX - RVA - Video 02 - copy 01 - WS - 18 sec - 10/03/2023

COMMENTARY:

Here's the thing about any Elon Musk investment opportunity is that it requires Trump's fiscal policies to work. Trump's fiscal policies are based on the white supremacist economics described in George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty, the so-called Supply Side economics of William F. Buckley's Sharon Statement, which is a marketing strategy for the Ivy League socialism of the John Birch Society Here's the thing: we are a cunt hair away from the Star Wars economics of 2001: A Space Odyssey and have been since 19 January 1981, If Carter had been re-elected, or Reagan have been able to fully implement his New Federalism, and kept his promise to Gorbachev, if you replace the Pan Am logo with SpaceX, that is where would have been at or before 2001, The cunt hair standing in the way of Starship America projected by Eisenhower's 1956 Presidential Platform and Starship Troopers of any lunar base is the economics, business model and politics of Elon Musk and all the anti-DEI CEOs who are doubling down on Trump with billion dollar bailouts, just like his daddy taught him Reagan's New Federalism was the final piece to the completion of Stage 2 of Eisenhower's process for the transformation of the Manhattan Project of the global Military Industrial Complex to the Aerospace Entrepreneurial Matrix of Eisenhower's Star Wars economics, we be using the Moon in our campaing to colonize Mars the way Britain was the launching pad for D-Day across the Channel. Stage 1 produced Apollo 11 and Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan created the legislation that authorized the reconfiguration of the New Frontier and Great Society into the core of the social fusion engine of DEI economics, going back to the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence is 4 Square with the universe like Jesus's version of the Shema: Heart, Soul, Mind, Strength and the City on the Hill in Revelation, The Edmund Burke social contract of the syndication is a DEI culture. The secular rule of law of Socrates is the ethical foundation, the Thomas Paine Rights of Man the foundation of the I, a Person democracy and the Benjamin Franklin's Pursuit of Happiness is the structure that unleashes entrepreneurial impulse  of the Elan Vitale of the Self-Actualizing person's will to win in a Free Society Nixon and Daniel Patrick  Moynihan launched Stage 2 with Affirmative Acition, a complex DEI performance technology that will provide the economic basis for Stage 3, the final paradigm shift from the dialectical wilderness of the Boomer Food Fight to the organic performance structures of Eisenhower's Starship Capitalism of 2001: A Space Odyssey, In 1981, we were a cunt hair away from launching the final paradigm  shift but the reactionary nature of the Hollywood John Birch Society around Reagan stopped it cold, where we have been stalled for the last 43 years. And as I say we remain a cunt hair away from the Starship Capitalism of 2001: A Spce Odyssey by the economics, business model, social philosophy and MAGA Conservative politics of Elon Musk and the January 6 insurgency legacy of William F. Buckley, Elon Cusk's performance model was state of the art when women began to blay half court basketball, The anti-DEI MAGA Conservatives like Musk want to restore that social milieu,

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Why are a lot of Black People Christian despite the Bible and Christianity being used to justify their enslavement and oppression? via /r/atheism

Why are a lot of Black People Christian despite the Bible and Christianity being used to justify their enslavement and oppression? Disclaimer: I'm not Black (though I am mixed-race, white, and Cambodian) and have never personally experienced racism. I am not one to speak or tell people what to do or how to think, especially regarding the movement for liberation and combating injustice. Those are their struggles, the least I could do is to educate myself, empathize, and advocate for those whose voices have been silenced. Whenever I watch videos about slavery during the Antebellum era and the Civil Rights movement, there's always at least one person who quotes a Bible verse or says "Praise the Lord" or "God will set us free." I am not the kind of person to talk down to people, especially black people but for me, when I see a contradiction/inconsistency, I have to call it out. The contradiction that I must call out is why do some African-American people still practice Christianity and base the struggle for their freedom and liberation on the Bible despite it being forced upon them by slave owners and being used to justify their enslavement. Sure, some will claim that "Actually, the slave owners weren't real Christians and were merely using the Bible to justify enslaving people." But theologically, the Bible is PRO-Slavery! There's no denying it. As much as I hate to say it, the Confederacy was more consistent theologically than the Union as the Bible tells you how to own slaves. Also, how can you have on one side Martin Luther King Jr who advocates for freedom and civil rights, and the KKK on the other side who wants to lynch black people?! Both read the same book and believe in the same God. And sure, I know there's a gazillion different secs and they split on social and political issues all the time but still. The contradictions are making my head hurt. Rather than trying to shift through all of the nonsense of the Bible to find one verse that's anti-slavery, I think it's best to close the book (not like Christians ever read the book in the first place). I'll give MLK credit, he was able to make his points clear through non-theological, secular talking points. And Malcolm X said, "Let's keep our religious beliefs in the closet, or else we'll be here all day." I do apologize if my tone comes off the wrong way, but for black atheists out there, how do you contend with some folks still using the Bible as a basis for freedom and civil rights despite it being used to justify your enslavement and oppression and that theologically the Bible is pro-slavery. I think Lil Nas X knew what was going on and just said "Screw it" and made his song Call Me By Your Name, embracing his "sinful" sexuality. Submitted December 23, 2023 at 11:23AM by CreatureXXII (From Reddit https://ift.tt/B0dxV4j)

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Secular spirituality: What should we know according to Denny Ja

Introduction    Secular spirituality is a concept that is popular in the modern world today. Many people look for alternative ways to find the meaning of their lives without the need to follow traditional religion. In this article, we will explore what we should know about secular spirituality in the view of Denny JA, a famous figure in Indonesia.    Definition of secular spirituality    Before we enter Denny JA’s understanding of secular spirituality, it is important for us to understand what is meant by secular spirituality itself. Simply put, secular spirituality is an individual’s effort to recognize and connect with something bigger than themselves, while maintaining a world view that does not depend on certain religious beliefs.    According to Denny JA, secular spirituality emphasizes human experience and thought in finding the meaning of life, without ignoring the needs of individual spirituality. He believes that humans have a deep need to find the meaning of life, but not everyone finds answers in traditional religion. Therefore, Denny Ja proposes the concept of secular spirituality as an alternative that can meet the needs of modern humans.    Similarity and differences with traditional religion    In Denny Ja’s view, secular spirituality has similarities with traditional religion in several ways. Both pursue an understanding of the meaning of life and efforts to achieve inner peace. However, the main difference lies in the way to achieve that goal.    Traditional religion often involves belief in supernatural entities and follows the rules set by the religious authority. Meanwhile, secular spirituality emphasizes the experience and reflection of individuals in finding the meaning of life. Denny Ja believes that humans can find wisdom and knowledge through their own life experiences, without having to depend on religious dogma.    The principles of secular spirituality    Denny Ja proposed some basic principles that we must know about secular spirituality. First, he emphasizes the importance of respecting life and finding meaning in every moment we experience. In his view, life is an invaluable gift and we must appreciate it in the most meaningful way for us.    Second, Denny Ja teaches the importance of developing wisdom and knowledge through life experiences and self -reflection. He believes that true wisdom is not only based on theoretical knowledge, but also experience and deep reflection.    Furthermore, Denny Ja stressed the importance of living in harmony with himself and the natural surroundings. He believes that humans are a part of a bigger universe and we must live by respecting and maintaining the balance of nature.    Benefits of secular spirituality    There are several benefits that can be obtained from adopting secular spirituality in our lives. First, secular spirituality can give meaning and purpose in our lives that can motivate and inspire us to achieve the best in everything we do.    Second, secular spirituality can help us develop a deeper understanding of ourselves and strengthen our relationship with others. Through reflection and life experiences, we can learn more about values that are important for us and how we can live authenticly in accordance with these values.    Conclusion    Secular spirituality is an interesting concept to be explored in the modern world today. Denny Ja has contributed his view of secular spirituality by providing a different and alternative understanding for those who seek the meaning of living outside of traditional religion. In this article, we have explored what we should know about secular spirituality according to Denny Ja, including understanding, differences with traditional religion, basic principles, and benefits that can be obtained from adopting it. Hopefully this article can provide a deeper insight and understanding of secular spirituality and how it can affect our lives.

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Grassroots peace: on the local body elections in West Bengal

Local body elections in West Bengal scheduled for July 8 have yet again brought political violence in the State to the forefront. Seven persons — they include supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress and Opposition parties such as the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Congress and Indian Secular Front — have died since the notification of the polls on June 8. The State Election Commission (SEC) and…