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Thought For the Day: The Constitution Does Not Require Complete Separation of Church and State; It Affirmatively Mandates Accommodation
“The concept of a ‘wall’ of separation between church and state is a … figure of speech. … The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Accommodation, Affirmatively Mandates, All Religions, Callous Indifference, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Church and State, Concept, Establishment Clause, Figure of Speech, First Amendment, Forbids Hostility, Free Exercise of Religion, Guaranty, Hostility, National Tradition, Observe, The Constitution, Thought For the Day, Tolerance, Wall of Separation, War, Zorach v. Clauson
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The New Tolerance
The New Toleranceby Michael Doyle A little something about toleranceIt’s not by majority or in ignoranceTruth is absolute and not up for voteThe new intolerance needs an antidote This the antidote or speaking truthSomething we should from our youthTruth spoken … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Antidote, Day by Day, Equal In Worth, Ignorance, Intolerance, Majoirty, New, North, Objective, One Way, Opinion, Poetry and Poems, Saving Grace, Speaking Truth, Subjective, Tolerance, Truth, Vote, Youth
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Thought For the Day: Freedom of Thought, Tolerance and Inclusion, Once the Foundational Principles of Liberalism, Have Been Replaced By Social Conditioning and Disdain For and Suppression of Opposing Views
“Freedom of thought, tolerance, and inclusion, once foundational principles of liberalism, have been replaced by social conditioning and disdain for, and suppression of, opposing views.” – The Heritage Foundation
The Rise and Fall of Boethius
The Rise and Fall of Boethiusby Michael DoyleGraven images are made and meant to saveWhen Christianity met Plato’s caveOffering more than shadows on the wallA philosophical bend had come to callChrist was both the Father and the SonJoined with Wisdom … Continue reading
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Tagged Anger, Beleived, Belief, Blasphemy, Boethius, Brave Hearts, Call, Christ, Christianity, Constantine, Constantinople, Control, Convert, Created, Creator, Cruelty, Decency, Different, Dignity, Diocletian, Dispute, Divinity, Doing Good, East, Enemy, Fabricated, Fall, False Cries, Fatal Suppression, Father, Fight, Forbearance, Good Heart, Good Man, Good Measure, Goths, Grace, Graven Image, Hands, Heritage, Ill Repute, Justice, Legacy, Loss, Miracle, Nation, Patronage, Philosophy, Photograph, Plato's Cave, Poem, Poetry, Propserity, Quest, Reformation, Repression, Rise and Fall, Roman Empire, Romans, Save, Shadow, Sign of the Cross, Sonic Gems, Surrender, Temper, Testimony, Theodoric, Tolerance, Treason, Trinity, Triune, Understood, Victory, Wall, Western Roman Empire, Wisdom, Works
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Thought For the Day: Tolerance Is A Better Guarantee of Freedom Than Brotherly Love
“Tolerance is a better guarantee of freedom than brotherly love; for a man may love his brother so much that he feels himself thereby appointed his brother’s keeper.” – Everett Dean Martin (1880-1941)
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Tagged Appointed, Brother, Brother's Keeper, Brotherly Love, Everett Dean Martin, Freedom, Guarantee, Love, Man, Thought For the Day, Tolerance
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Twelve Hands of Humility
In a spirit of gratitude toward all the good that surrounds my life with grace, poem #8 for this season: Twelve Hands of Humility by Michael Romani There are 12 hands on the clock of humility Each having its own … Continue reading
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Tagged Answer, Authenticity, Being, Bliss, Child, Clear, Clock, Creative, Cultivate, Curiosity, Demand, Detachment, Discern, Distance, Door, Ego, Family, Find, First Step, Flow, God, Good, Grace, Gratitude, Grow, Hands, Heart, Humility, Infinite, Innocence, Integrity, Invite, Journey, Know, Lesson, Letting Go, Love, Meaning, Moment, Necessity, Openness, Pain, Patience, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Resistance, Self, Spirit, Spirituality, Spontaneity, Tolerance, Truth, Twelve
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The Path of Kindness
Based in part on Proverbs 3:3-4 The Path of Kindness by Michael Romani Stretched patience gives its opportunity As a choice of kindness felt in empathy God has given His shine into this darkness That would otherwise know not but … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolution, Actions, Acts, Angry, Answer, Attention, Blindness, Calm, Capability, Children, Christ, Command, Community, Compassion, Consideration, Darkness, Day of Judgment, Deeds, Do, Empathy, Enemy, Focus, Fruit of the Spirit, Gentle, Gift, God, God's Will, Grace, Gracious, Harshness, Head, Hear, Heart, Importance, Inner, Inscribe, Kindness, Light, Love, Mankind, Natural, Needs, Opportunity, Outer Beauty, Path, Patience, Peace, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Pride, Proverbs, Quality, Reflection, Relationship, Repentance, Responsibility, Retribution, Righteous, Said, Salvation, Sensitivity, Shadow, Shine, Sight, Sin, Society, Soft, Soul, Steeple, Tolerance, Treat, True, Truth, Understand, Ungrateful, Ways, Worship, Wrath
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Thought For the Day: Make the World A World A Little Better For Our Presence Through Tolerance, Charity, Temperance, Peace and Kindliness
“I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one’s weight on the scale of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Beast, Better, Breadth, Charity, Count, Kindliness, Man, Peace, Presence, Small Stage, Temperance, Thought For the Day, Tolerance, World
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Article 19 (The Burden of Secularism)
I have been reading through a series of works by Yuval Noah Harai that seems topical and a historian’s blend of philosophy and history projecting into humanity’s future. It’s been challenging and is spawning a few poems that are often … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Article 19, Ashes, Bad Impression, Billions, Blindspot, Capable, Catechism, Citizens, Compassion, Constraint, Creed, Dictatorship of the Majority, Dignity, Dissent, Dogma, Drag, Earth, Echo, Elite, Enslave, Equality, Ethics, Extermination, Failure, Fragments of Faith, Fraud, Free Thought, Freedom, Future, Global, God's Law, Godless, Gulag, Hierarchy, History, Hypocrisy, Ideals, Ignorance, Industrialiization, Legacy, Liberty, Lies, Marxism, Masses, Mercy, Misery, Modernization, Moral Compass, Oppression, Optimism, Pessimism, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Progressive, Reality, Responsibility, Seculariism, Self Expression, Self Righteous, Shadow, Slogan, Society, The Fall, Tolerance, Truth, Truth Seeking, Vanity, Youth, Yuval N Harai
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