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New Orleans Schools Reject Texas-Style Lying to Kids in the Name of Religion

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Guns may save your life but at the cost of your soul; Jesus will save your soul, but it may cost your life.

He will defend the afflicted among the people and save the children of the needy; he will crush the oppressor.

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Looking back, she says she wouldn’t change a thing: “I don’t think any kid should be hungry. I don’t. And it’s my belief that some of these kids who go to school and get meals, that may be the only meal they eat that day.”

“Sometimes I would like to ask God why He allows poverty, suffering, and injustice when He could do something about it. But I’m afraid He would ask me the same question.”

– Anonymous (via The Christian Left)

Disarming the Church

For 400 years (until Augustine), the Church believed that, when Jesus told Peter to put down his weapon on the night of his arrest, he disarmed all Christians for all time.

There is nothing Christian about owning a gun, using violence to defend oneself betrays our lack of faith in the One who will one day raise all the dead.

Why?

“Newtown is a quiet town. I’d never expect this to happen here. It’s so scary. Your kids are not safe anywhere.” —Lisa Bailey, a Newtown resident with three children in Newtown schools to CBSNewYork.com today.

This is what we heard in Aurora, Colo.
In Tuscon, Ariz.
At the University of Alabama
In Littleton, Colo.
At Virginia Tech.
In Oak Creek, Wis.
At Fort Hood., Texas
In Binghamton, New York.
In Minneapolis, Minn.
In Parkland, Wash.
In Manchester, Conn.

In too many towns and cities. How many more?