And here we are

I left a couple of decades ago after taking the local council candidate training - which was dedicated to convincing you that doing what was politically expedient but clearly wrong was the correct thing to do. I wasn't convinced.

6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

"4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.

2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Bishop Mariann's sermon followed the spirit of 1 Corinthians 13, 1-7:

"1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’ "

"21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

4) Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, thank you for saying what every Christian should be saying, and using the platform you had to say loudly, clearly and in public.

The fundamentalists supporting Trump? Earlier today a friend posted a gospel passage relevant to them: Matthew 7, 21-23.

3) The moves against immigrants, legal and otherwise, and the pardoning of insurrectionists are equally vile. And equally expected.

2) The level of ignorance shown by declaring all Americans legally female would be amusing if it weren't for the fact that it doesn't matter to the far-right regime now in power in the US. It's the opening move in a campaign against the highly vulnerable trans gender community.

I am content to know that if a thing looks and smells like pigshit, it's pigshit, and I leave the study of the components of the pig's diet to the forensic archaeologists. Anyone trying to tell you it wasn't a Nazi/Fascist salute is an apologist at best.

1) Yes, it was a Nazi salute. You want to claim it was a Roman one? All right, call it a Fascist salute. The distinctions between Nazi and Fascist may be of interest to political science graduates.

Hiya!

Aren't we all?

The question is, does it not recognise then as swears, or was no one using them at the time?

My inner 14 year old has found a brother. ;)

I usually get audiobooks of books I've already read so they I can enjoy them again on the road. Rarely do I get a work of fiction I don't bave a dead-tree or books version of. Though I do get Great Courses lectures, which aren't in print/ebook.