Atheism

So for the rest of this day, I'll be getting texts from 17 other people responding to this prayer request.

Edit: Other than the initial flurry of hearts and replies pictured below, it's actually been pretty quiet, thank goodness.

A federal abortion ban won’t pass Congress. But activists hope a 19th Century law could be enforced to halt the procedure.

After a morning lesson on multiplying fractions, about half of the students in a fifth-grade class at Etna Road Elementary School packed up their work and headed to the campus library.

The other half, all wearing matching red T-shirts, put on their coats, lined up single-file and boarded a red bus with the words “LifeWise Academy” painted on the side.

While their classmates back at school browsed shelves of books, the children on the bus sang praise to Jesus.

“For there is no other name ... by which we must be saved.”

The students soon arrived at a church a half-mile away where, for the next 30 minutes, they would pray, read the Bible and sing worship songs — activities that have become a routine part of their week thanks to an Ohio-based nonprofit on a mission to put God back in the public school day.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/13633704

Extra bonus points if you were a kid in a 'book study' that went through the Revelations book all those times, actually remember the whole religion is based on people from 1914 that "will never die", and still have to dance this dance to keep the peace with someone that has no fundamental logic skills.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13451787

The malnourished and badly bruised son of a parenting advice YouTuber politely asks a neighbor to take him to the nearest police station in newly released video from the day his mother and her business partner were arrested on child abuse charges in southern Utah.

The 12-year-old son of Ruby Franke, a mother of six who dispensed advice to millions via a popular YouTube channel, had escaped through a window and approached several nearby homes until someone answered the door, according to documents released Friday by the Washington County Attorney’s office. 

Crime scene photos, body camera video and interrogation tapes were released a month after Franke and business partner Jodi Hildebrandt, a mental health counselor, were each sentenced to up to 30 years in prison. A police investigation determined religious extremism motivated the women to inflict horrific abuse on Franke’s children, Washington County Attorney Eric Clarke announced Friday.

“The women appeared to fully believe that the abuse they inflicted was necessary to teach the children how to properly repent for imagined ‘sins’ and to cast the evil spirits out of their bodies,” Clarke said.

Who needs theology when you have Trump?

At first, I thought this was satire. It wasn't. He's seriously asserting this as a response to The Problem of Evil.

Saw that on a bumper sticker today. How do people reconcile the idea that God, or Jesus, would support gun ownership and that being awful to people is okay?

I read this book many, many years ago. I found the proposed theory interesting. I am not saying that I believe it.

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A grim murder story illustrates why it's so incredibly easy for predators to fool evangelicals into thinking they're good Christians.

In some of those images, Fautz allegedly used yearbook photos of two female students whose faces were then "transposed by means of Photoshop or morphing technology onto a different nude female’s body," according to a criminal complaint.

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/9981212