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Pamela's avatar

And as Angela Davis so aptly portrays: freedom IS a constant struggle

We’re just here doing our part at this time in history. The US has indoctrinated most with the idea of freedom struggles being relegated to the past. “Solved issues” per se.

What we are witnessing now is a continuation of a fight that never ended.

The culmination of these powers and the World Wide Web give me hope that we may be witnessing a glorious extinction burst from the oppressive forces of the earth. One can dream!

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Pamela's avatar

From Wikipedia:

In 1873, Comstock created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, an institution dedicated to moral supervision of the American public.[6] Later that year, Comstock successfully influenced the United States Congress to pass the Comstock Laws, which made illegal the delivery by U.S. mail, or by other modes of transportation, of "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" material, as well as prohibiting any methods of production or publication of information pertaining to the procurement of abortion, the prevention of conception and the prevention of venereal disease.[9]

Some of Comstock's ideas of what were "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" could be seen by many modern Westerners as quite broad; during his time of greatest power, some anatomy textbooks were prohibited from being sent to medical students by the United States Postal Service.[5][6]

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Pamela's avatar

Things are coming to a head with the Christofascist movement. The current organizations may have culminated in the 80’s but the puritans have been forcing their dullness on this society since the inception of our country.

Emma Goldman was an anarchist feminist writer in the late 1800’s who wrote of the same struggle being wrought today. She particularly hated Anthony Comstock an “anti vice activist” who banned mailing obscenities through the mail like birth control advertisements.

Funnily enough the pro life faction of the Christian nationalist movement is trying to implement the Comstock Act to ban abortifacients and birth control being mailed. An 1800’s law making its way into legislation today.

History rhymes.

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Robert Landbeck's avatar

The teachings of Jesus remain unknown. The teaching of church are weak because they have nothing to do with God and are nothing more than an all to human theological counterfeit; Founded upon an incomplete scriptural record. And theology only exists because nothing has been revealed. That is the purpose of the second coming, to not only reinstate the original revelation of the first Incarnation but to expose the folly and abject failure of two thousand years of human self deception and fraud in the name of Christ. That should make for an interesting 'judgement'.

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Doug Sooley's avatar

It's astronomical, based on the precession of the Equinox. The next "savior" is due 2160/2200 AD when it moves into Aquarius. The next "savior" will be a water savior.

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Doug Sooley's avatar

Read Talia Lavin's Bad Faith where she talks about the abused women in the Evangelical community.

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