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I watched a silent online, The Stolen Play from 1917, starring Ruth Roland, who was mostly known for serials. This thing runs 59 minutes, and the print quality is near perfect. It is also unusually foolish, even for 1917. All about hypnosis, murder, and a Broadway agent who has a dungeon...

GOD GUNS AND TRUMP (Bumper sticker on cars owned by people with whom I don't wish to strike up a conversation, at any time, on any subject.)

"Usually"? Are you conceding something? Are you willing to admit that Leviticus 25:44-6 is a description of chattel slavery, and that Israelites are taught they may engage in it? Please read Exodus 21:20-1 and state honestly if this teaches harm-minimization. By Exodus 21 standards, the most...

He thinks that you can extrapolate abolitionism from the Bible. Funny that Christians didn't do that for most of their movement's history. No one in the Bible says slaves should be freed. Bondage is accepted in the Bible as a viable part of human society. The Bible will tell you what to eat...

I think it's implying that what we call reality could all be in Trump's mind and gut after he consumed an extra large Trump Tower taco bowl (yes, he actually likes something Mexican) with extra guac, extra cotija cheese, extra peppers, extra black beans, extra avocado ranch, and extra extra sour...

Wait...did he just say the Confederate Army's heart "really wasn't in it"....or was that a contrary rhetorical flourish? Whew.

Chattel slavery = total ownership of a human, as property, including their offspring, with the power to sell them at will and force them to work without wages. Leviticus begins by stating that the laws presented come from God. Leviticus 25:35-43 describes limited servitude that one can impose...

The Christian God specifically allows chattel slavery and the beating of slaves to the point of death. Nobody in the entire Bible contradicts this and calls for an end of slavery and the liberation of the slaves. Slave owners understood this and buttressed their position with this...

I get the same impression from my reading on Lincoln. He kept many of his thoughts private. From the reading he did, including controversial material like Leaves of Grass, it is hard to believe he was an orthodox Christian of the time. ( Whatever had occurred to estrange him from his father...

Not to brag, but I helped an old gentleman with impaired vision across a busy street today -- held on to his arm and guided him on his way, on the other side. Maybe that'll teach him to guard his wallet better.

No doubt about it. Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, and Creflo Dollar agree.

Can you imagine the procrastination that would be fostered if the lifespan increased sixfold or tenfold??? I still have issues of National Geographic that plunked in my mailbox in 2010...copies of The Week from 2016...I still haven't read the whole Bible, because who can read dense...

I know there's overlap. Just like Batman appears in Superman stories. Still fiction.

Ha! Same with the Quran, right?

I think God tried it as a reset on humanity -- drowning all the wicked folks plus their kids, babies, and unborn. And if he effed up...