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It is not uncommon for scientists to be Christians and for Christians to be interested in astrology. Religion, science and spirituality work hand in hand.

Spirituality : We are made in the image of the universe Christianity: We are made in the image of God The Universe = God

Science will help us understand both, and ourselves.

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4 paragraphs that mean everything to Africans in America

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“…they plant pills on us! they strip search us! they do whatever they want! you can’t do whatever you want! we can’t do what we want, so why can they do what they want? just cuz they got a badge?!”

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part of my growth is/was realizing that crossing paths with people you genuinely connect with only happens once in a blue moon. so i've taken all the energy i used to spend on people i don't vibe with deeply and repurposed it to give everything i can to the people i love instead.

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i fucking vibe with this so much jay. blessings!

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White terrorism is real.

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These attacks in Charleston is exactly why I don’t like and will never accept Nu Atheist critiques of religion that are devoid of contextualization.

Besides the fact that killing people in a place and time of worship is about the most reprehensible thing you can do, Emanuel AME church is the oldest Black church in the South and its history is entrenched in the struggle against Jim Crow terrorism. There’s absolutely no convenience or coincidence in the attacker’s choice of location.

In case it hasn’t been made resoundingly clear already, a vast majority of political organizing and radical coalition building was/is done in the context of Christianity with black resistance in the US. Everything from the Montgomery Boycotts to the Million Man March. Yes without question, black people have been colonized in warped white supremacist renditions of Christianity, but the fact that it was malleable enough to be reclaimed in Black politics proves how theology, like most things, is essentially a blank slate and its impact is wholly up to individual intention.

You think religion is useless and a primitive aspect of the human condition that has no place in your life? Cool, good for you. I respect your right to that believe that (or disbelieve that). But for many people around the world, it is a respite, pillar of hope, cultural focal point and an integral facet of day-to-day life. To suggest ripping that away for a faux intellectual talking point is profoundly cruel and absurdly unfeasible.

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from in a silent way, 1969

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1. What’s happening, as we speak, in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.

Beginning today, the Dominican Republic is planning to deport more than 100,000 people to Haiti. These people were born in the Dominican Republic, and are being asked to leave on the basis that they are the descendants of undocumented migrant workers whose forbearers came into the country in the early 1900s to work in sugar plantations. They are almost all poor workers who never legalized their residency status.

Critics of the government say that this is an anti-black policy rooted in the desire to preserve a non-Black national identity, couched under the pretense of immigration policy change. Further, many of those deported will become stateless migrants, having no family or connections in Haiti, and would not be eligible for Haitian citizenship. Currently, the Dominican government (having come under considerable fire for it’s xenophobia and racist treatment of Haitians) is leveraging their military to pick up anyone who looks Haitian (read: dark-skinned/Black) and drop them off on the Haitian side of the border.

2. Texas’ Detention Centers

Not that racist, anti-immigrant policies are solely the purview of other countries.

Six women, new mothers who are undocumented immigrants not born in the United States, have filed a lawsuit against Texas Department of State Health Services alleging that the department has an undeclared policy preventing its employees from issuing birth certificates to their children because of their own documentation status. This, despite the fact that children born on American soil to undocumented immigrants are indeed legal U.S. citizens.

3. Kenlissia Jones

On the topic of violence against women and children, last week in Georgia, 23-year-old Kenlissia Jones was arrested and held without bond, facing a possible charge of “malice murder,” a crime punishable by the death penalty. Her “crime?” That she allegedly used misoprostol, a medication that induces uterine contractions and cervical dilation, to end her own pregnancy.

On the heels of cases like Purvi Patel’s and Bei Bei Shuai’s in Indiana, this case brings up some crucial questions about prosecuting women, thus far only women of color, for having a miscarriage, self-terminating their pregnancies, or in the case of Shuai, attempting suicide while pregnant. The race of the women targeted by feticide legislation is noteworthy in light of a study conducted by National Advocates for Pregnant Women which found that low-income women and women of color are disproportionately arrested under feticide laws. Notably, Black women are significantly more likely to be reported to authorities by hospital staff under suspicion that they harmed their unborn children.

4. McKinney, Texas. Remember McKinney?

On Monday, the Texas Rangers were asked to perform an independent investigationinto the Craig Ranch pool party incident that occurred on June 5 in McKinney, Texas. Recorded by an onlooker, a video shows that the officer violently threw a black teenager to the ground, sat down on her and then drew his firearm on two young men in the area.

Greg Willis, the county DA stated, “I have full confidence in the good men and women of the McKinney Police Department and their ability to fully investigate this matter. At the same time, an independent investigation of this incident will add an important layer of transparency to the process.”

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