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A quotation from Lyman Beecher

It was as dark a day as ever I saw. The injury done to the cause of Christ [by disestablishment], as we then supposed, was irreparable. For several days I suffered what no tongue can tell for the best thing that ever happened to the State of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God.

Lyman Beecher (1775-1863) American minister, preacher, abolitionist
Autobiography, Vol. 1, ch. 51 “Downfall of the Standing Order” (1864) [ed. Charles Beecher

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Beecher, Lyman - Autobiography, Vol. 1, ch. 51 "Downfall of the Standing Order" (1864) [ed. Charles Beecher] | WIST Quotations

It was as dark a day as ever I saw. The injury done to the cause of Christ [by disestablishment], as we then supposed, was irreparable. For several days I suffered what no tongue can tell for the best thing that ever happened to the State of Connecticut. It cut…

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officerripley4d ago

Ok, who's gonna come up with the "equal time" rebuttal to the 10 Commandments & the suit to get Texas to put it in classrooms too?

#Texas #religion #1stAmendment #FreedomofReligion #ComedyWriters

Paul Arnheim-ProjektApr 19
#FreedomOfReligion includes freedom from a #religion in which kindergartners are regarded as sexually attractive and older women as unattractive. The practice of veiling robs children of their childhood! Civilised people reject such repugnant behaviour. #StopSexism, #stopMisogyny, #resist! #ALText

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On Monday, #PopeLeo said he would continue to publicly oppose #war, while downplaying the idea that he was engaged in a direct dispute with #Trump.

“The things I say are not meant as attacks on anyone,” Leo told reporters.

He added: “I do not look at my role as being political, a politician. I don’t want to get into a debate with him. I don’t think that the message of the Gospel is meant to be abused in the way that some people are doing.”

#law #ChurchAndState #FreedomOfReligion #TrumpIsUnfit

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One senior #Vatican official familiar with internal assessments of the meeting called it “unusual” & not “a walk in the park.” It was “a frank & direct dialogue on issues where the distance between the Vatican & the #US is evident & clear,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal assessments.

#law #Trump #Hegseth #Republicans #Constitution #FreedomOfReligion #Evangelism #NewApostolicReformation #military #war #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #USpol

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During the discussion, the small group of #Pentagon & #Vatican officials discussed their differing views of current events, according to people on both sides with knowledge of the conversation.

What is less clear is how adversarial the meeting was.

#law #Trump #Hegseth #Republicans #Constitution #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState #Christianity #Evangelism #NewApostolicReformation #NAR #military #war #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #USpol

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Cardinal’s meeting at #Pentagon was ‘unusual,’ #Vatican official says

Through the first year of Trump’s 2nd term, tensions between his admin & the Vatican — with the first #US born #pope — have simmered.

#law #Trump #Hegseth #Republicans #Constitution #FreedomOfReligion #ChurchAndState #Christianity #Evangelism #NewApostolicReformation #NAR #military #war #NationalSecurity #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/10/trump-vatican-pentagon-meeting/

Cardinal’s meeting at Pentagon was ‘unusual,’ Vatican official says

U.S. and Vatican officials have sought to downplay accounts of a strained relationship, but there have been tensions between the Trump administration and the Catholic Church.

The Washington Post
Susan VilleApr 6

📌 Israeli authorities’ restrictions on #freedomofreligion in #jerusalem are not only a grave violation of religious freedom and #internationallaw, but also part of a systematic apparatus of repression within a broader structure of #settlercolonialism and #apartheid

These measures are used to subjugate Palestinians and reshape the city’s demography along discriminatory religious and ethnic lines -

EuroMed #humanrights Monitor

#palestine #westbank #press
#news #ihl

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/7016/Israel-exploits-state-of-emergency-to-dismantle-Jerusalem%E2%80%99s-religious-status-quo,-imposing-a-discriminatory-reality

Israel exploits state of emergency to dismantle Jerusalem’s religious status quo, imposing a discriminatory reality

Israeli authorities have maintained the full closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque for the 37th consecutive day since 28 February 2026, completely preventing religious rituals

Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
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But without naming #Hegseth, #PopeLeo has also pointed out the ways in which #Christianity has been marshaled for purposes that the pope says do not align with Catholic teaching.

“We tend to consider ourselves powerful when we dominate, victorious when we destroy our equals, great when we are feared,” the pope said in the homily…. “God has given us an example — not of how to dominate, but of how to liberate; not of how to destroy life, but of how to give it.”

#law #Trump #FreedomOfReligion

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In a homily during a Mass on Thursday morning before #Easter, #PopeLeo said that the #Christian mission has often been “distorted by a desire for domination, entirely foreign to the way of Jesus Christ.”

Since the #US & #Israel began bombing #Iran in late February, the pope has consistently called for an end to the violence & a return to dialogue to resolve the conflict.

https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2026/04/02/260402a.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#law #Trump #Hegseth #Republicans #Constitution #FreedomOfReligion #Christianity #military #IranWar

Holy Chrism Mass in the Vatican Basilica