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• Record-High Teen Pregnancies, Drug Overdoses, Imprisoned Parents, Illiteracy: You Won’t Believe What ‘War’ W. VA Schools Are Facing

  May 10, 2013 at 10:51am

  In reply to Libertyluvnmomma.

  QualityRKC,

  Superstition is one thing, true religion is another. Yes, superstition has snuck into probably every church. It’s also rampant in those with no church. Church and religion are not synonymous. Everyone has a religion; it’s nothing more than your belief system, whether that involves God or not.

  ‘True religion’ is loving and serving God above all other concerns. The best way to serve God is to love your neighbor- those you cross paths with- as yourself. (Not more than yourself, ‘as’ yourself. How does the other person feel, what do they really need, down deep? What would do the most good for all involved?) Simple words, millions of applications.
  God is love: real, constructive, encouraging, hopeful, helpful love.

  The trick in serving, though, is to do it in a way that contributes to the other’s internal self-respect and helps them become personally empowered, not in a way that makes the other person feel they have no control over the situation except to take.

• Record-High Teen Pregnancies, Drug Overdoses, Imprisoned Parents, Illiteracy: You Won’t Believe What ‘War’ W. VA Schools Are Facing

  May 10, 2013 at 10:38am

  In reply to ComingUnglued.

  ComingUnglued:

  I agree with you. God- whether people recognize his hand or not- is the creator of all true hope, all real love, all valid hope. What I see is a community without hope, a group of adults and children who feel powerless over their situation. The proposed changes could (but don’t have to) actually make things worse: if the people receiving services don’t have a meaningful way to contribute to what they receive, then the lesson is reinforced that they have no control over their lives but have to rely on others. It’s no wonder they turn to alcohol, drugs, and sex to medicate their pain away.

  Jamestown comes to mind. Let them create- get rid of the myriad state and federal regulations- and then let them keep the results of their efforts.

  What they need is a way to fulfill their responsibilities to themselves and their families, a vision of being able to work and accomplish things, to have hope for the future, tangible results from their own efforts. Yes, we & others can help- but it must be in a way that builds and strengthens hearts.

• Shaolin Warriors’ Kung Fu Skills Are Even Better in Slow Motion

  May 4, 2013 at 12:48am

  “what sets us apart from other primates”? “the most successful animal on earth”? Give me a break. Anybody see the GB show a week ago Friday with Rabbi Lapin?

• Is Belief in Jesus’ Second Coming and the Biblical End Times Impacting Climate Change?

  May 3, 2013 at 6:12pm

  “researchers apparently found that a belief in Jesus Christ’s Second Coming reduced the probability that respondents would strongly support government policies addressing climate change.”
  Hmmm… way to find a new way to label Christians as unreasonable and extremists.
  Or how about this: belief in Jesus Christ’s 2nd Coming first requires a belief in Christ. Those who believe in Christ- which literally means ‘The Anointed’ believe in a God who is both all-powerful and all-knowing, one who oversees the affairs of mankind. As a Christian, I believe that man-made global warming IS a hoax, one meant to gain power and control over us. I believe that climate change has occurred throughout the lifespan of the earth; look at the Little Ice Age for one of the more recent dramatic ones.

  “[I]t stands to reason that most nonbelievers would support preserving the Earth for future generations, but that end-times believers would rationally perceive such efforts to be ultimately futile, and hence ill-advised,” the researchers explain.

  The Second Coming is not my focus nor my source of reasoning. Sure, I think climate change actions are pretty much futile, but not because of the Second Coming.

  You can make a survey say whatever you want it to.

• Melissa Harris-Perry: ‘I Stand By’ ‘Kids Belong to Whole Communities’ MSNBC Promo

  April 14, 2013 at 1:25am

  She said, “the nerve that I hit is connected to the central nervous system of our democracy, at the synapses of civic engagement is the electrical current that forges our more perfect union.”

  First, we are not a democracy.

  Second, she is claiming that civic engagement is what creates our ‘more perfect union’, her definition of civic engagement being “expressing our collective will through our public institutions, including our government…to impinge on individual freedoms in order to advance a common good.”

  Wrong again. The phrase ‘more perfect union’ comes from the Preamble to the Constitution. If she would read it, she’d see that what enables that more perfect union is the Constitution itself along with its attached Bill of Rights. Our individual freedoms are what enable us to be great, good, and strong as a nation, when we exercise our responsibilities along with them. Voting to take away someone’s individual rights will not—can not—forge a more perfect union.

• Dad Furious After Finding This Crayon-Written Paper in Florida 4th-Grader’s Backpack: ‘I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights…to Be Safer’

  April 12, 2013 at 4:49pm

  We’re upset because of the indoctrination in the schools.

  Here’s the first problem: there is no way to avoid “indoctrination”; the word literally means to teach and impress some kind of doctrine or principles. There’s no avoiding it.
  The liberals accuse us of indoctrinating our children, which we do. Any time you teach something, you ‘indoctrinate’. Now, there’s the argument that the negative connotation of the word is only associated with the kind of teaching that stifles critical thinking… but if you go there, I think that liberals qualify completely. But I digress.

  What we’re really upset with, then, is WHO is teaching WHAT to our children. That leads to the main problem- our school system and its curriculum is set up with little to no local input, answerable to officials in varying levels of government. Common Core makes this issue increase dramatically. A solution to the issue is to (1) return to local control of schools- and by this I mean the principal and the teachers of any one particular school, who will now answer directly to the children’s parents instead of government, and (2) allow parents to have their child attend whatever school they wish to attend; since each school will develop its own flavor of ‘indoctrination’, the parents can choose what is closest to their own beliefs. And/or homeschool.
  Recognize that the parents will answer to God for how they teach, train, and treat their children, and quit replacing God with gov

• Over 100,000 Gather in Salt Lake City for Semiannual Mormon Conference — and How Did It Make History?

  April 6, 2013 at 11:30pm

  In reply to JUSTANOTHEROPINION.

  …”church spokesman Eric Hawkins said Mormon leaders late last year decided who would be leading the conference prayers, which is before the women’s prayer campaign was launched in January.”

  Women pray in the individual congregations all the time; have as far back as I know.

  And the church’s organization for women, the Relief Society, was started in 1842 and now has more than 6 million members. http://mormon.org/faq/relief-society

• Elusive ‘Survivalist’ Arrested After Spending More Than 5 Years Burglarizing Dozens of Mountain Cabins Across Utah

  April 3, 2013 at 1:17am

  You can read a longer article, from KSL in Utah, at http://www.ksl.com/?sid=24632284&nid=148&title=mountain-man-arrested-after-allegedly-firing-at-police&fm=home_page&s_cid=featured-1

• Want to See What CSCOPE and Common Core (Even Homeschooling) Lessons Look Like? These Parents Opened Up to TheBlaze

  April 2, 2013 at 12:36pm

  In reply to thechristianrepublic.com.

  JRX-
  A teacher is someone who instructs or teaches. If you have a love of learning, or at least a willingness to learn, you can teach your children.
  I started homeschooling a daughter right after Christmas this year. It was rather terrifying to take that leap, but I’m very happy with the progress I see in her and the stronger family bond we have.

  If you think you can’t teach, you’ve swallowed “their” lies. Who better to teach a child than the one who loves and knows him best?

  I have a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education, but my 18 years of being a mom has qualified me much more than that college degree. Trust yourself, and trust that God will help you in whatever is best.

• Mia Love Joins ‘Wilkow!’ to Discuss State vs. Federal Spending and Reseting for 2014

  April 2, 2013 at 1:27am

  The results of the race between Matheson and Love are what helped convince me that the Presidential election was not stolen.
  The local races reflected the same inability of voters to see long-term cause and effect, and showed an eagerness on their part to have government provide as much as possible for them.