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Well that didn't take long. "A sea of protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court Friday, one of many rallies planned across the country after a historically consequential ruling from the high court ended the constitutional right to abortion. " "Elsewhere, abortion-rights advocates in cities including Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and New York City planned protests for Friday evening. There were also protests planned in Florida, Missouri, Georgia and Texas." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/06/24/roe-v-wade-abortion-rights-protests/7723620001/

Can't wait to see it! This sounds like a lot of work. Anyone know how long the expect the project to take?

I wonder why this is such a thing here in the US. It does happen in other countries, but not very often. They are in single digits while we are at 288. Here is a chart if anyone is interested. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/school-shootings-by-country

Here we go again. 🙄 At least there is a known vaccine for this one though.

Very old brother prayed for protection from Satan and his whores. Pretty sure that should have been hoards.

If they do any of this extra stuff with gay marriage and contraception people will lose their minds over here. Anyone want to go half on an uninhabited island? 😄 "President Joe Biden predicted Wednesday that if the Supreme Court officially overturns Roe v. Wade's holding of a federal constitutional right to abortion, the court will next look to strike down other landmark cases guaranteeing Americans' rights, from same-sex marriage to contraception access." https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/politics/joe-biden-supreme-court-abortion-same-sex-marriage/index.html

This is what I thought too. I appreciate knowing that there is potential for churches being attacked for a different reason. Where I live I'm surrounded by more churches than I can even count, some close to my house. It's a one lane in and out kind of town, so there could be safety issues under the right circumstances.

I was just chatting with a friend about this the other night. This is so big that the potential for wild protests would have been there anyway, but people are already riled up anyway due to their "rights" being violated by mask mandates. Recent events have demonstrated what people can get away with during protests/riots. It's like a powder keg over here. Protests or not, the end result will be more people hating religion. I'm curious about something though. Have they been working on this for a while now? With all that's going on at the moment, it seems like a strange time to add on an additional issue.

More religious news. Their stuff is just non-stop. "Violating Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem means a regional, religious war,” he said. "Whoever makes the decision to allow this photo to be repeated, the violation of Al-Aqsa — he has decided to allow the violation of thousands of synagogues all across the world,” Sinwar said. https://www.timesofisrael.com/sinwar-warns-israel-hamas-wont-hesitate-to-take-any-steps-if-al-aqsa-is-violated/

I once heard someone say to a group of people that they did not bother to watch the monthly broadcasts, adding that it wasn't a sin to skip them either. Alrighty then. It's still a tad bit surprising to hear that there are people who don't routinely check the website. I check, but don't do it all day like I used to. I already know that if it's anything super interesting, someone here will have a whole thread going within minutes of it being posted. 😅

"With the Eastern Orthodox Easter approaching this Sunday, similar tensions are rippling through the church’s more than 200 million faithful, concentrated in eastern and southern Europe. Around the world, the war is dividing national churches, parishes and even families as they reassess relations with Patriarch..." Religion is in the news every single day now. And not just one. They are fighting over there every day in Jerusalem over that religious site they are always fighting about, Muslims are violently protesting in Sweeden because someone threatened to burn a Koran, there's all this stuff between the Russian and Ukraine church leaders, then the Pope keeps popping up.. saw some news report yesterday where Ukraine was asking him directly to do something. "Prayers are not enough." Maybe someone older than me knows otherwise, but I have never seen religion and all the problems it causes on the front page of the news like this before. It feels like the world is a shaken 2 liter with the cap loosening up.

You are so right about this. One of my friends gets to thinking way too much when a brother starts talking to her. It's not that he's doing anything wrong, she just reads way too much into the conversation. I tell her over and over not to get too carried away, he could just be friendly. But she mentally buys her wedding dress and imagines their future together, only to be totally crushed when he ends up with someone else. It's sad. Me on the other hand. I'm dense. There was a brother who was a socializing routinely within our group. After some time he started making more of an effort to initiate interactions with me. I'm friendly, chatty, thought nothing of it. In the very end when I had to let him know that I would not be getting married on this side of Armageddon, he looked like I punched him. To say that I felt horrible would be an understatement. He really didn't want anything to do with me after that, which was painful but understandable. I am A LOT more careful while socializing with brothers now.

How about this?? "Many Canadians now believe Catholicism, evangelical Christianity and Islam are more damaging to society than beneficial, a new survey shows, as people across the country continue to turn their backs on religion." “Broader society still is not fully comfortable and fully clear about what to do with religion, and therefore they show some signs of discomfort,” Abdie Kazemipur, a University of Calgary sociologist and the chair in ethnic studies, explains." https://globalnews.ca/news/8759564/canada-religion-society-perceptions/

Did you see this?? This is the weirdest thing ever. I do not understand at all what Putin has to do with a church in Jerusalem. Other than this, yes, I saw where there were clashes at some religious site that got pretty ugly. This seems to happen a lot, unfortunately. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-704490

The waters are drying up everywhere but Sweeden, apparently. Have you all seen the news about some politician saying he was going to burn a Koran? People have lost their minds over there. Watching video clips of them setting cars on fire, throwing rocks at police ect. made me think of the GT. If they are doing all of this over someone threatening to burn a book, what will they be acting like when BTG goes down?