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History wants so badly for Cleopatra to be beautiful. Like they can’t conceive of Rome being intimidated by anything less

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its not democracy if there’s only two choices both being neoliberal and anything else is seen as a threat to democracy lmao.

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Genesis 1:27 So God created human beings in his own image.     In the image of God he created them;     male and female he created them.

Acts 10:28 Peter addressed them, “You know, I’m sure that this is highly irregular. Jews just don’t do this - visit and relax with people of another race. But God has just shown me that no race is better than any other.

Racism makes no sense whatsoever from a Christian point of view. No true Christian can ever support the idea of one race being “superior” to another. The only people that could’ve possibly had a legit claim at being the “better people” would’ve been the Jewish people because of their standing as God’s people back in the Old Testament days, but because of our Lord Jesus Christ’s death at the cross, we are now all equals in the eyes of God.

I find it particularly interesting when I see someone saying “kill the Jews!” and they wear a cross around the neck to show that they are “Christians”. Don’t those people realize that Jesus was a Jew? Are those people screaming to “kill the Jews”, are they saying they wish they could’ve been born 2,000 years ago and perhaps be one of the Roman soldiers that spat on Jesus’ face, flogged Him, mocked Him and finally killed Him? I honestly don’t understand how can anyone be against the Jews and the nation of Israel.

Psalm 122:6 Pray for peace in Jerusalem.     May all who love this city prosper.

The Lord wasn’t white like the movies portrait Him, and when Jesus returns He will rule the world from Jerusalem. Scripture tells us that there was nothing special about how He looked and He completely blended in with the people. Mary was a descendant of King David (through the bloodline of Nathan) and Jews back in those days didn’t really intermarry with other races, so He would most likely be just a normal-looking Middle Easterner for that time (the type that would be “randomly” selected by the TSA). But the truth is the color of His skin really doesn’t matter, as Martin Luther King Jr once wrote, “The color of Jesus’ skin is of little or no consequence because what made Jesus exceptional was His willingness to surrender His will to God’s will.”

Supporting racism means you don’t believe in God, because racism implies you don’t believe God created Adam and Eve, therefore you don’t believe in the Bible; or perhaps you are picking and choosing what parts of the Bible you are choosing to believe. By accepting God’s Word as truth, you are also accepting the fact that we are all descendants of Adam and Eve, and subsequently of Noah after the global flood.

I read something that really caught me by surprise the other day. What it seems to be a pretty nice blog, lots of religious images and all that good stuff, but then some posts about how whites are “superior” to blacks. That’s just some sad stuff. I’m white but I surely don’t think of myself better than anyone based off my skin color. I’m not even better than anyone because of my faith in the Lord. We are all equals, in every aspect of the way, in the eyes of the Lord while we are alive on this Earth, the only difference will be after our deaths when Christians will be allowed into Heaven and the lost (non-believers) will be cast into Hell. There is absolutely nothing that makes you better than anyone else while on this Earth. Beauty fades (Proverbs 31:30), family doesn’t matter (Matthew 10:35-37), wealth is a snare (Matthew 19:24), being physically fit doesn’t matter (1 Timothy 4:8), being good looking doesn’t matter (1 Samuel 16:7) and nationalities don’t matter (Acts 10:28). The only aspect in our lives that actually matter is our devotion to the Lord.

Romans 15:7 Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory.

We are a whole new nationality. We are new creatures in Christ Jesus. We are a new creation, a new race of people. You are no longer simply North American, South American, European, and so on, you are now part of God’s people when you embrace the Lord Jesus as your Savior and decide to follow His perfect rules and regulations. We’re not related to whatever ethnic group we came from anymore. We now relate to a new source. You are now part of a new race of peoples in our Lord Jesus Christ. Who you were will never compare to who you are in Christ.

There is only one race, the human race. God does not show partiality or favoritism (Deuteronomy 10:17; Acts 10:34; Romans 2:11; Ephesians 6:9), and neither should we. James 2:4 describes those who discriminate as “judges with evil thoughts.” Instead, we are to love our neighbors as ourselves (James 2:8). In the Old Testament, God divided humanity into two “racial” groups: Jews and Gentiles. God’s intent was for the Jews to be a kingdom of priests, ministering to the Gentile nations. Instead, for the most part, the Jews became proud of their status and despised the Gentiles. Jesus Christ put an end to this, destroying the dividing wall of hostility (Ephesians 2:14). All forms of racism, prejudice, and discrimination are affronts to the work of Christ on the cross.

All human beings are created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis 1:26-27). God loved the world so much that He sent Jesus to lay down His life for us (John 3:16). The “world” obviously includes all ethnic groups. Galatians 3:28 tells us, “There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.” We are all one in Christ.

Being a racist simply means you haven’t accepted our Lord Jesus into your heart. If you are unable to love your neighbor (whether it be someone across the street or someone in another part of the world) because they have a different skin color than yours or because they come from a different ethnic group, how can you really expect to think Christ resides in your heart? God is love and by discriminating someone based on their skin color shows God isn’t a part of your life, yet.

1 John 4:8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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how was John Lennon an awful person?

He wrote a song called “Woman is the N**ger of the World” in which he completely erases women of colour - he wanted the song to symbolise patriarchy but he completely ignores the fact that white women are much more privileged than women of colour. Not to mention a white man using the N word is horrendously racist. He appropriated Indian culture. He stole music from artists of colour. He made ignorant and racist comments about people of colour - “And then someone said: It’s a n**ger singing.’ I didn’t know Negroes sang.” He wrote a song about anti-immigration, called “No Pakistanis”, a favourite of the Neo-Nazi group, Stormfront…

He very often made offensive and cruel comments about disabled people and often mimicked them as a joke. He called disabled people “cripples.” He once exclaimed that disabled people touching him was “horrifying” -  “Wherever we went there’s always a few seats laid aside for cripples and people in wheelchairs… they’re pushing them at you like you’re Christ or something. You’d open up every night, and instead of seeing kids there you’d just see a row full of cripples on the front… It seemed like (we were) just surrounded by cripples and blind people all the time. And when we’d go through corridors, everybody would be – they’d be all touching us. It got horrifying.” He wrote a song called “crippled inside.”

Additionally, he would physically and emotionally abuse his children and wife. The following are quotes from Cynthia Lennon, in her book “John”:

“Before I could speak he raised his arm and hit me across the face, knocking my head into the pipes that ran down the wall behind me. Without a word he waked away, leaving me dazed, shaky, and with a very sore head.”

“John’s erratic behaviour around Julian continued - fun one moment and violent anger the next. And he could be like this with Sean too, reducing the little boy to tears of terror.”

“The whole family had been having fun, making Mickey Mouse pancakes and fooling around, when Julian giggled. John turned on him and screamed, ‘I can’t stand the way you fucking laugh! Never let me hear your fucking horrible laugh again.’ He continued with a tirade of abuse until Julian fled once again to his room in tears. It was monstrously cruel and has affected him ever since. To this day he seldom laughs.”

Below is a quote from John Lennon:

“I used to be cruel to my woman, I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved. I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically — any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn’t express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women.”

Below is a quote from Sean Lennon, his son:

[He was] teaching me how to cut and eat steak, which was a mystery to me at age 4; how to stick the fork in and cut behind it, and that was how you got a piece in your mouth. I think it was that night when he got very upset with me, I think because of something I did very cheekily with the steak. He did wind up yelling at me very, very loudly to the point where he damaged my ear, and I had to go to the hospital.”

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so hey you know when you’re like “people suck!” or “why don’t people ever listen?” or “people need to start checking sources” or “people who do X thing need to fucking stop” or even “I hate people”

you know you’re not talking about literally every person, yeah? like, you might even think the person you’re complaining to is pretty great! you don’t mean every single person in the history of being a person.

and if you interrupted a friend’s rant with “okay but I’m a person and I don’t do that thing you’re really pissed off about and I’m offended that you hate me now” you’d be a fucking asshole right? you’re completely ignoring the context and making it all about you when your friend is upset

guess what: you’re still being an asshole if someone specifies which group of people do X shitty thing most! and you’re like “not all men!” “not all white people!” “not all cis people!” “not all het people!” “not all abled people!” “not all neurotyp–”

you know what maybe try shutting the fuck up and not making it about you this time lol

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I hope that in 2017 you will not let anyone make you feel worthless and that you’ll take care of yourself even when you struggle to love yourself.

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Destroy the idea that you have to be constantly working or grinding in order to be successful. Embrace the concept that rest, recovery, and reflection are essential parts of the progress towards a successful and ultimately happy life.

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Make 2017 the year we stop demanding that trauma survivors disclose their entire Tragic Backstory for others to decide whether or not their fears, triggers, and boundaries are valid.

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Destroy the idea that it’s humble to hate yourself. Destroy the idea that loving yourself is conceited.

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Shia LaBeouf, who is a jewish man was arrested for shoving a man who said “Hitler was right” to his face. I looked at the date on my phone and it says 2017, but for some reason it feels like 1945. People have actually been sympathizing with literal Nazis. What the fuck is going on?

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I like the culture of telling girls they can have as much sex as guys. But I think this culture really lacks the consequences of being sexual. There should be more posts about the emotional affects of sleeping with so many people; what to do if you find yourself being taken advantage of, how to deal with these boys treating you like garbage, what to do if you’re slut shamed, rather than the posts like “suck 10 dicks u bad bitch 👅👀🍆”

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Need to learn that happiness is an emotion, which come and go, and not a life goal

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Life in Donald Trump’s America. 

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The real glo up is when you stop waiting to turn into some perfect hypothetical version of yourself and consciously enjoy being who you are in the present moment.

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You have survived every moment of your life, even the ones you swore you wouldn’t. This time is no different; you will last.

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I’m gonna invest in myself like I never have before. I am the best lover I know, and I deserve me. I have so much tenderness to turn inward. I can, and I will.

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