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Many of our religious friends believe religion is a force for good. Others disagree: "There is no such source and cause of strife, quarrel, fights, malignant opposition, persecution, and war, and all evil in the state, as religion.  Let it once enter our civil affairs, our government [and] our common schools, they would be destroyed." Weiss v. District Board, 1890 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

Here are twelve biblical statements about unborn children and their pregnant mothers-to-be. • A pregnant woman who is injured and aborts the fetus warrants financial compensation only, suggesting that the fetus is property, not a person (Exodus 21:22-25). • God promised the Israelites that if they worshipped him alone, he would not cause their women to miscarry (Exodus 23:24-26). • The gruesome priestly purity test to which a wife accused of adultery must submit  will cause her to abort the fetus if she is guilty, indicating that the fetus does not possess a right to life (Numbers 5: 11-31). • God enumerated his punishments for disobedience, including “cursed shall be the fruit of your womb” and “you will eat the fruit of your womb,” directly contradicting sanctity of life claims (Deuteronomy 28:18, 53). • Elisha’s prophecy for soon-to-be King Hazael was that he  would attack the Israelites, burn their cities, crush the heads of their babies, and rip open their pregnant wome

And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out  the inhabitants of   the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. Judges 1:19 King James Bible

Many of our religious friends believe that education helps reduce the harmful effects of Islam. While this seems to have some truth to it based on this Pew survey, it is alarming to see how many Islamic folks still support practices like stoning of apostates (leaving Islam) and people committing adultery. Link to Graphic https://goo.gl/iCjjh2 majority_of_educated_muslims_abroad_still_favor_imposition_of_sharia_law.html Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

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Annapurna is the Hindu goddess of food and cooking. Annapurna is empowered with the ability to supply food to an unlimited amount of people.   Annapurna is an incarnation of the Hindu Goddess Parvati, the wife of Shiva.   Temple art depicts Lord Shiva with his begging bowl (a skull), asking Annapurna to provide him food that gives the energy (Shakti)  to achieve knowledge and enlightenment. As such, Annapurna also symbolizes the divine aspect of nourishing care. The cook provides his guests with the energy to best follow their destiny. When food is cooked with a spirit of holiness, it becomes alchemy. Images of Annapurna are also found in kitchens, near dinner tables and in restaurants.

"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. Today, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grow