Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: The True Meaning Of Christianity

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The True Meaning Of Christianity

The religious-right is backing Trump, they are anti-LGBTQ and especially trans, anti-abortion, anti-divorce, and they are the only true religion.

They call themselves Christians but to paraphrase Sen Lloyd Bentsen: I know Christians, prayed with them, I was confirmed in a Christian church and these people do not walk in the way of Christians. And we just lost a true Christian, this is what true Christian looks like.

Some of his Achievements: (Perplexity AI)

Granted amnesty to Vietnam War draft evaders on his first day in office
Increased jobs by nearly eight million during his administration
Decontrolled domestic petroleum prices to stimulate production
Pursued civil service reform and deregulation of trucking and airline industries
Bolstered the Social Security system
Appointed record numbers of women, blacks, and Hispanics to government jobs
Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Then there was the Habitat for Humanity. Also what he did for our community,

Presidential Accomplishments: (Perplexity AI)

During his presidency (1977-1981), Carter took several groundbreaking steps:
Lifted the foreign service's ban on gay and lesbian personnel in 19773.
His administration was the first to meet with gay and lesbian activists at the White House in 19773.
Advocated for pro-LGBTQ legislation and openly supported LGBTQ advocates.
Encouraged California voters to reject Proposition 6 (Briggs Initiative) in 1978, which sought to ban gay and lesbian teachers from public schools.

He was a true Christian.

1 comment:

Richard Nelson1/1/25, 5:52 PM
He also in 1980 re-instated the draft so poor and working-class folks could go off and fight in new wars being planned by the Capitalist class of greedy warmongers. Real Christians, such as Bayard Rustin, Dorothy Day, Barbara Demming, Igal Roodenko, David Mc Reynolds and Roberta Dickinson would never do that. Sometimes a cup cake is frosted sometimes it isn't. This BS of we got our rights always seems to forget that many do not and that we have no right to punish others around the world for amerikkkas woes.
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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers