Where humility is the greatest of the virtues.
No indeed – God wasn’t mistaken when he willed four little girls to die agonizing deaths at the hands of a lunatic with a gun. Pastor Lange admonishes us not to think for a second that God’s hand wasn’t in Olivia’s tortured last days with a big bullet in her brain. We would be fools to think that God’s plan for this family didn’t involve the mother going mad and ripping four bullets directly into the heads of two girls and two babies sleeping in cribs, and then plugging herself. Faith means knowing that some day an event that looks like hell will turn out to be heaven.
It’s been a hell of a long slog, but New York is finally beginning to defund private schools that fail to teach basic literacy and that say fuck you to state education staffers who try to work with them. Three ultraorthodox Brooklyn Yeshivas
will be cut off from all public funds — for child nutrition programs, transportation, textbooks and other services — in what advocates suggested was a new phase of a yearslong effort to ensure all students graduate with basic skills in core subjects, such as English and math.
Schools that guarantee to produce idjits who go right onto the welfare rolls is not what the state has in mind, and it’s a really old scandal getting older by the day.
Here’s another Canadian woman who has totally fucked up her career as a teacher because wearing a religious veil is not an option for her. Nuns have the option not to wear habits. But not this woman, a member of no religious order. She’s being asked to take it off only during public-facing public-sector working hours, because she lives in a secular state. But her commitment to expressing her identity – every single non-negotiable hour of the day – is so overwhelming that she’d rather be unemployed.
I mean, UD has to respect her obstinacy. Presumably many women in Quebec who might prefer to display their piety decide not to do it while engaged in public sector work. They are less obstinate. Perhaps they appreciate the appropriateness of sensitivity to prevailing values in the region in which they have chosen to live. This woman has chosen to have no choice in the matter: She MUST veil herself every waking hour of the day.
Her only hope is the Canadian Supreme Court’s incipient review of Quebec’s secularism laws.
The reason why the state got involved [in hasidic education] is because of the extraordinarily high [number] of welfare recipients in the hasidic community. This is [partly] a result of large families, but mostly [a] lack of basic education… [This is] about communities that refuse to give their children any secular education that will prepare them to enter the workforce, receive higher education needed to achieve and contribute economically, or even to interact with the wider population… [As a] result, [the hasidic community denies] their children basic social and economic opportunities and condemns many of them to living on welfare.
Background here.
If you don’t get off on fascism, poor you! It’s the coming thing, here and plenty of elsewhere in the world, its hour come round at last yada yada don’t be last in line c’mon in the water’s fine.
Not asking you to have the courage of Rector Father Calvin Robinson at that right to life thing, where the crowd went wild at his nazi salute… Not asking you to out yourself to that extent —
That started the whole room clapping —
I mean, there are consequences… Robinson’s Grand Rapids church – and hey the whole Anglican Catholic confession – has dropped him like a hot McMosley, setting off the twentieth or so iteration of the Father’s Faith Journey … Dude’s been all over the map and I’m wondering what’s next and I’m thinking Romanian Orthodox (“A scandal erupted in 2011 when nuns at the Petru Vodă Monastery in Piatra Neamţ were filmed singing a fascist hymn to celebrate their abbot’s birthday.” OOOH les girls!)…
And yes there’s a gaping hole next to the word “Rector” at the bottom of the St Paul welcome page and Father R is out in the cold again. But don’t worry about him! Don’t you worry about little Calvin Robinson! In a world bristling with black shirts, he’ll be fine.
That comfortable majority supports Quebec’s secularism laws, about to be reviewed by the Canadian Supreme Court cuz ain’t it unfair to be secular? Shouldn’t all Canadian provinces be compelled to have identical laws governing things like the wearing of hijabs by public sector employees? “Last year, three judges from Quebec’s Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the [secularism] law,” and it’s “rare for the [Canadian] Supreme Court to take on cases when a lower court of appeal has come to a unanimous decision,” but allons-y! Let’s see if we can go against the will of Quebeckers.
Yeah. Well. UD ain’t no expert, but the two highly dangerous pathetic idiot killers stopped at our northern border last week sure sound like Al Qaeda or similar jihadists. After the 21 year old female killed a border patrol agent, and her bf died trying to kill others, police found all manner of terror equipment in their car.
Plus her story, to the extent we know it, jibes well with other mentally challenged squirts seduced by thoughts of sugarplum fairies and carrying out their very own beheadings.
The idiots were too excited by dressing all in black and brandishing huge guns to hide what they were on about, so every Vermonter who got a load of them called the authorities.
UD figures officials aren’t saying anything because they’re trying like hell to get some worthwhile intelligence out of the surviving idiot. Good luck to them.
Whatever happens on Monday, Jan. 20, is not akin to the redemption offered by Jesus Christ.
In 2022, the church began to require that clergy vouch for new [Brigham Young University] hires’ agreement with [church] leaders [on all faith matters] and affirm the candidate hasn’t used pornography recently.
What’s the procedure for proving to a clergyman you haven’t used porn recently?
UD thanks Frances for the link.
D.E.I. Official at University of Michigan Is Fired Over Antisemitism Claim
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She’s gonna sue all those rich fucking Jews.
Gevalt. When the concept of personal liberty makes its way into the mullah population, you can bend over and kiss your theocracy goodbye. All self-respecting religious states want to lead people to paradise by force — it’s what they do. Going to paradise isn’t, like, a travel choice, one destination among others, in theocracies… It’s not like people in theocracies read Conde Nash Traveler and say hm Bali yes Melbourne no Paradise maybe… It’s more like Gershwin —
I’ll build a stairway to Paradise
With a new step ev’ry day!
I’m gonna get there at any price;
Stand aside, I’m on my way!
Any price! Which definitely includes the price of your basic freedoms. It’s an effing theocracy!
But now it begins to look as though the Iranian government is losing its commitment to forcing paradise down peoples’ throats, which means among other things it’s actively considering not beating non-hijabis to death.
[S]cam culture thrives amid the insecurity our health care system creates! One thing alternative medicine does is make people feel like their needs are being seen and addressed, even if they’re being addressed in bogus ways. There’s a direct link between people’s disgust with the health care system and the dangerous rise of R.F.K. Jr.
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[S]ince when did a troubled young American man need a coherent political theory to start shooting?