🎊31st wedding anniversary🎊. Our recipe for a long and happy marriage?
Marry someone for whom God is the center of their life.
Who shares your vision of family.
With God's help, have many children!
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Under the caste system in India, things like this occur. Upper caste villagers drained an entire water tank & ‘purified’ it with cow urine after a Dalit woman drank from it. It’s so bizarre. They think the urine of a cow purifies the “impurity” of another human.
https://t.co/KFOIhbUgOk
It was the Brahmins who created the caste system inside India to exploit the labor of others and to create a slave class. The Brahmin system is also one of immense fraud committed by this caste. It teaches them that “work” is for all other castes but their own, and that others exist to serve them. Therefore, it’s ludicrous for Americans to believe that the importation of the upper caste Brahmins into our country will result in them behaving in a different manner.
There’s a Hindutva movement that’s trying to position itself within the MAGA and Republican Party, that’s angling itself as a “natural ally against Islam.” Don’t be fooled. Hindus are just as against Christians. Here’s how they treat Christians in India.
A reminder that in the 1960s counterculture movement, Hinduism was used to create the New Age religious movement, and LSD was promoted as the gateway drug to get Americans to fall for it. People like Timothy Leary, the Hindu guru-trained men who created the Esalen Institute in California (Michael Murphy & Richard Price), MKUltra was also said to be linked to Esalen Institute, etc, all promoted LSD usage to introduce Americans to Hinduism.
Stop Praying for Gaza!
By Rev Dr Mitri Raheb
A pastor in the West Bank recounts a phone call with a Catholic nun in Gaza moments after the Israeli airstrike on St. Porphyrios in Gaza City:
“Suddenly, we heard someone shouting and crying aloud. “What’s the matter, sister?” my friend asked. “The assembly hall of the Greek-Orthodox Church is totally destroyed; they believe all 40 people who were staying there are killed.” She added, “if they bombed the Greek-Orthodox Church, then nothing will deter them for bombing our church here. We are next!” My friend gave his mobile to the sister, saying, “here is Rev. Mitri Raheb, talk to him.” “I can’t talk, this is terrifying, I can’t believe what is happening,” she said. Then she took the phone, she was still crying. At that moment, I wished that he did not ask her to talk with me. This was one of the few moments in my entire life when I was speechless; I did not know what to say, what to tell her. Every word will be out of place. Yet, I had to say something. The only words that came to mind were: “We pray for you all.” I thought that these words would calm a sister who dedicated her life for Christ and for a life in prayer. To my surprise, she shouted while crying “We don’t need prayers!” and handed the mobile back to my friend. Her words are still ringing in my ears.
“We do not need prayers.” I was meditating on her words for hours. Why would a sister say something like this. We all appreciate hearing friends telling us that they keep us in their thoughts and prayers. During these last days, I received hundreds of emails from friends who wanted to reach out to tell us that they are thinking of us now, and that they are praying for our safety. I appreciate all these messages. So, why was the sister annoyed when I told her that we are praying for them in Gaza. I am sure that at that critical moment my words sounded like a clichéd, “cheap” answer that does not correspond to the gravity of the situation. Yet, the more I thought about it, the more I started understanding her answer. In this context of a war crime, committed against the civilian population in Gaza, what is needed is more than prayer; what is needed is advocacy, what is needed is political action, what is needed is for people to go on the streets demanding an end to this aggression. She knew that without an immediate ceasefire, without swift access to food, water, and medicine, and without a just and lasting peace, neither she nor her community would survive this war. Yet, her words were not just about fearing for her life and for the people in Gaza. Her words, in that moment, had something prophetic in them. “Stop praying for Gaza, while allowing your government to sanction war. Stop thinking you are doing the people in Gaza a favor by praying without working vehemently for justice.” Her prophetic words reminded me of the words of the prophet Amos: ...”