Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "ABC News"
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Judaism is a religion. Jews that practice the religion of Judaism can be of any color. Whoopi was correct. Antisemitism is not the same as belittling and killing others for the color of their skin. The new testament is a book of antisemitism, that was compiled by men who wanted to start a new religion foreign to, and offensive to Judaism … and the Jews. However, it is common sense, (within theology) that even had Jesus lived as a real Jewish Rabbi, he would not have preached any other doctrine than Judaism. And again (within theology) Mary would be insulted to be referred to as being a Catholic saint, as she, also, would have stayed faithful only to Judaism.
In contrast ... THIS is biblical racism … from the book ... The Arrogance of Faith, by Forrest G. Wood … Despite his best intentions, Jones, like virtually every southern clergyman, never doubted the innate inferiority of the black race.
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Jews, in ancient times, were the cause of antisemitism. Back when Jews and devotees of all other religions believed in many gods, there wasn't any reason to fight over the subject of salvation, because all devotees of all religions were united in the idea that they all had gods that would reward them with salvation and eternal bliss. When the Jews invented the story that there was only one god in existence, and that they were the chosen few by that one god, that was when the wars over religion began. Every religious group that followed, such as Catholics, Muslims, and Protestants lusted to be favorites of that one supposed god, as they did not, and would not believe that the one god in existence would favor only the Jews. How unfortunate, that by creating that one god dogma, the Jews brought the envy and hatred of others back to their selves, which resulted in the word antisemitism. I suggest we should all understand that it was not the modern Jews that created that one god dogma, and that they are not in any way responsible for what took place in the mentalities of those Jews that lived back in ancient times. Another tragedy is, that the one god dogma continues all these centuries later, to keep dividing devotees into right fighters over whose souls will be saved and whose souls will be shunned by that one god for eternity.
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What sort of man, other than a want to be leader of a cult, would claim to be a savior of all humanity? The supposed savior of souls of Christians, was just the most "recent" savior-myth story. Example as follows, from the book, and please note how Chrishna was spelled, before the Christians came up with the word Christ, and how the Hindus then changed the spelling of their supposed savior to "Krishna."
The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors … Christianity before Christ, by Kersey Graves … first published in 1875.
and finally these twenty Jesus Christs (accepting their character for the name) laid the foundation for the salvation of the world, and ascended back to heaven.
1. Chrishna of Hindostan.
2. Budha Sakia of India.
3. Salivahana of Bermuda
4. Zulis, or Zhule, also Osiris and Orus, of Egypt.
5. Odin of the Scandinavians.
6. Crite of Chaldea.
7. Zoroaster and Mithra of Persia.
8. Baal and Taut, “the only Begotten of God,” of Phenicia.
9. Indra of Thibet.
10. Bali of Afghanistan.
11. Jao of Nepaul.
12. Wittoa of the Bilingonese.
13. Thammuz of Syria.
14. Atys of Phrygia.
15. Xamolxis of Thrace.
16. Zoar of the Bonzes.
17. Adad of Assyria.
18. Deva Tat,aud Sammonocadam of Siam.
19. Alcides of Thebes.
20. Mikado of the Sintoos.
21. Beddru of Japan.
22. Hesus or Eros, and Bremrillah, of the Druids.
23. Thor, son of Odin, of the Gauls.
24. Cadmus of Greece.
25. Hil and Feta of the Mandaites.
26. Gentaut and Quexalcote of Mexico.
27. Universal Monarch of the Sibyls.
28. Ischy of the Island of Formosa.
29. Divine teacher of Plato.
30. Holy One of xaca.
31. Fohi and Tien of China.
32. Adonis, son of the virgin Io of Greece.
33. Ision and Quirinus of Rome.
34. Prometheus of Caucasus.
35. Mohammud, or Mahomet, of Arabia.
These have all received divine honors, have nearly all been worshiped as Gods, or sons of Gods; were mostly incarnated as Christs, Saviors, Messiahs, or Mediators; not a few of them were reputedly born of virgins; some of them filling a character almost identical with that ascribed by the Christian’s bible to Jesus Christ; many of them like him, are reported crucified; and all of them, taken together, furnish a prototype and parallel for nearly every important incident and wonder-inciting miracle, doctrine and precept recorded in the New Testament, of the Christian’s Savior. Surely, with so many Saviors the world cannot, or should not, be lost.
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From the book … Made in America … author … bill Bryson
By this time, however, immigrants everywhere were proving the iniquity of the prejudice against them. Eastern European Jews in particular showed a model regard for education and self-improvement. By 1927, two-thirds of New York’s twenty thousand lawyers were Jewish, and thousands more had built distinguished careers as academics, musicians, playwrights, journalists, doctors, composers, entertainers—in almost every field of human endeavor not barred to them. Having faced four decades of complaints that they did not work hard enough, Jews now found themselves accused of working too hard.
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I suggest that a lot of women feel the same way this woman felt, when “put on the spot” by the judges of “morality.”
From the book The Abortion Monologues ... author ... Jane Cawthorne
Monologue 8
There are these ads on the buses. They say they help women like me, women who are pregnant and don't know what to do next. I didn't want to go see my doctor about it. I don't like her much and I didn't want her to know. So I called them and I told them I wanted an abortion and they said I should come into the office and see a counsellor.
This counsellor, she kept talking to me about my "other options." I thought, well okay, they're counsellors, doing what counsellor's do, trying to make sure I've thought it through. I go along with it all, try to be polite. And then I say again that I want to have an abortion and could they help me set that up. They tell me to come back in a month. I say that I don't want to wait a month. I want to do it now., and are they going to help me or not? They say okay then, they're going to show me this movie, to help me know what to expect. I'm thinking, I don’t really want to see a movie, that if I was having my appendix out I wouldn't want to see a movie of it before the fact. I'm starting to think I've got to get out of there, but then the thought of starting the whole thing over or going to my doctor I don't like or the walk in clinic doesn't thrill me either. So, against my better judgment, I stayed. I'm in this dark room with the TV and this counsellor and they show me this film of all these ripped up fetuses and these women talking about how they're so sorry they had an abortion. It's disgusting. I ran out of there so fast.
It should be illegal, what they do.
They said they were non-judgmental and confidential in the ad. (laughs.) They phoned me at my house. (Getting increasingly agitated.) What if I lived with other people? They left me messages about keeping the baby, about how families would love to adopt my baby. It was insane. I phoned them back and threatened them with a lawyer, like I even have one, told them to stop harassing me.
They said lots of single women have babies now and in time, I would find a husband. Find a husband? Welcome to 19-fucking-50.
And don't try and tell me I should have given it up for adoption. It's not my job to give a baby to some couple who can't have one of their own. Fine, if that's what I want to do, but I don't. And I won't be guilted into it. It's nine months of my life too. Good for those who want to. But don't tell me I have to.
Besides, I'd always wonder about it. I can't live like that.
I was never someone who felt strongly about abortion before. Now I practically barf when I pass those stupid religious billboards and hear people talk their pro-life bullshit. Television preachers, morons in letters to the editor, men mouthing off about murder, I've got news for you. You haven't got a fucking clue. You'll stand with your stupid posters and block my way to the clinic, call me a murderer, but what actual good are you doing for all the little babies out there already that nobody wants? Talk to me about the sanctity of human life. There are seven billion of us on the planet. Seven billion. They figure nine billion by the time I'm fifty. Let's look after the ones already here, make sure all those kids are fed, have a roof over their heads, an education, a future instead of protecting a bunch of cells. With their logic, we should be saving every drop of sperm. We should be collecting our menstrual blood and fining the discarded egg and burying it with a solemn service. It makes no sense.
We've got real problems to deal with, climate change, a planet in crisis. We are so full of our self-importance. But we're like locusts, destroying our host, shitting where we eat. One less of us can only be a good thing.
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While being certain that they were following “God’s” will, the judge-mental god depicted in the bibles gave devout readers the self-righteous right, to in turn use the words in their books to judge, shun, torture and murder others.
From the book … The Death Penalty: An American History … author … Stuart Banner. “If Moses is our lawgiver at this time,” smirked John Edwards, “Let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer, to death.”
If the god of the bible was depicted as a god of pure and unconditional love … what purpose would that book serve for the self-righteous ones, who used and still use the words in those books, to in turn judge, shun, torture and murder others?
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The neurosurgeon Eben Alexander, (who was raised in a religious household) believed that his positive thoughts of heaven during his near-death experiences were “real” … but that his negative experiences were fantasy and hallucination. By the way, his brain had puss in it, so it was little wonder that he was hallucinating. From his book … Proof of Heaven, by Eben Alexander, M. D. come the following words … “The most interesting thing about this session of nightmares and paranoid fantasies, in retrospect, is that all of it was indeed that: a fantasy.” And more, from the same book … Proof of Heaven, by Eben Alexander, M. D. … “I was going through something called “ICU psychosis.” It’s normal, even expected, for patients whose brains are coming back online after being inactive for a long period. I’d seen it many a time, but never from the inside. And from the inside it was very, very different indeed.”
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Thank you for honoring free speech.
In 2020, when Donald Trump encouraged his angry renegades to attack the very Capitol that as President Donald vowed to Protect … he undid all the centuries of peaceful and considerate behavior put forth by previous men … when they were leaving the office of President.
Donald’s self-serving … erratic … spoiled … behavior was the exact opposite of the very first President George Washington … whose heroic behavior “caused the loss of his chance at becoming the President again.”
From the book … Washington: The Indispensable Man … author … James Thomas Flexner
“During the election, however, Washington adhered to his highest principles. The stakes, he felt, were much higher than any partisanship, so high that risks would have to be taken concerning what would happen after the hand was played. He saw the election as a potential demonstration to all the world that republican institutions were, in their purity, viable.
He was, indeed, personally establishing a precedent that extended the Constitution. Despite much discussion of the issue, that document had not limited the number of terms a President could serve. The establishment of the Vice Presidency permitted succession in the monarchical manner: the President, again and again re-elected if he pleased the people, would be, on his death, succeeded by his preestablished heir. Even Jefferson, during his period of closeness with Washington, had been content with the thought that the first President would serve out his lifetime. But Washington wished the succession to be determined, in an absolutely republican manner, by the ballot box. This would be the culmination of his own career, his final gift to the world.
Perhaps it was Washington’s realization of his own tremendous power that made him feel that if he intervened in an election he would prevent the people from making their own choice. In any case, he adhered to the resolution he had made when lesser offices were in the balance that he would play absolutely no role in the election. He had no intention of being publicly identified with either the Republicans or the Federalists. Although he believed that Jefferson had betrayed him personally and might well betray the nation of France, the old hero made absolutely no move to block Jefferson’s road to the Presidency.
The Federalist candidate, John Adams, won, but, owing to a confusion in the Federalist vote for Vice President, Jefferson came into that office. Washington made no recorded comment.
The precedent Washington established, that a President should retire after two terms, held until it was breached by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was then formally written into the Constitution.”
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Having been raised in a Christian culture, I never could understand how those who believed in Jesus, would want to believe that Jesus, while preaching at followers how to love one another, would support the death penalty.
From the book … The Death Penalty: An American History … author … Stuart Banner.
In Pennsylvania, where murder had been the only capital crime for over three decades, pressure from the imperial government resulted in 1718 in the introduction of the death penalty for manslaughter, rape, highway robbery, maiming, burglary, arson, witchcraft, and sodomy. Later in the century the colony would add counterfeiting, squatting on Indian land, and prison-break to the list.
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They are not strangers to you. These are your sisters, your cousins, your mothers, your daughters, your friends, and even your grandmas. You see them every day, in your places of worship, in your places of work, in your religious schools, and most of all, in your homes. These are the women that are having abortions. Do you still want to make abortion illegal, so that these women that you love, go back to the old clandestine methods, and die agonizing deaths at the hands of back-street butchers? You do love these women, don’t you?
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