#sanctity of human life

[jameslmartellojr]

[pharosproject]

January 22 is National Sanctity of Human Life Day

[craigtowens]

Links & Quotes

Some links and quotes that caught my eye this week.

Stop praying to yourself! God isn’t impressed with your “powerful” prayer! Jesus tells an interesting story about two men: one thought very highly of his spiritual status and the only could barely lift his eyes. Jesus said that the proud man’s prayer received no help from God, but only the humble man’s prayer was heard. This is a short clip from my series called Kingdom Praying. I have lots of…

[pastorkevinc]

Watching Humanity as We Pray for Damar Hamlin

Watching Humanity as We Pray for Damar Hamlin

  Watching Humanity as We Pray for Damar Hamlin As I watched the ESPN coverage of Damar Hamlin’s collapse on the field in the Buffalo Bills versus Cincinnati Bengals game, I sat stunned. As a father of several young football players, as a coach in a local youth league, and as a person, I could not hold back the tears. Our family and friends who were together eating, talking, and watching…

[flickeringflame216]

so anyway all human life is sacred from conception until natural death. this is not a topic that should be up for debate.

[kittykatninja321]

batjokes is one of those “I don’t like or ship this but I’d be lying if I said I don’t see where it comes from” situations for me. Like the Joker is definitely in love with Bruce I think that’s borderline canon at this point. And at some point Bruce’s insistence on keeping him alive becomes kinda sus

[dionysus-complex]

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[rpfisfine]

Man it's no wonder you tell all these bigoted groups to die, you can't even value the sanctity of your own life. Guess you shouldn't be expected to value the potential of bigoted lives either. Then again, wishing death on people isn't exactly stellar either so.

?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? im losing my mind from this fucking ask are you kidding me? "the potential of bigoted lives" are you legitimately and actually hearing yourself so it's okay if bigots don't value the lives of the ppl they're bigoted against but i should still value the bigots' lives just in case they might want to reflect on their choices and reconsider their opinions in some made-up hypothetical distant totally real future? zionist lives have zero potential to me they're a waste of space i will always wish the most horrible and painful death on anyone who supports the starvation and indiscriminate massacring of palestinian children get off my blog you fucking loser

[hauntedwoman]

just so u know: the government is purposefully trying to exhaust you and overwork you and make it so difficult to even live because they don't want you to have the energy to protest or boycott or stand up for what's actually humane and right.

[talentforlying]

thinking today about how i initially wanted to title this blog "sin-eater" instead of "sinnerman" because that is, fundamentally, what constantine is: a consumer of other people's sins, absorber of blame, voyeur of the lowest moments in peoples' lives. except his goal isn't the bestowal of absolution or redemption, it's exposure.

those who see him approach the feast know he's there for a reason — they know what he eats, and why, and he wants them to know what you've done. moreso, he wants everyone to know that you owe him. he'll take up your consequences, he'll eat your just desserts and swallow, but you and everyone else will always see them in his eyes when you look on him. he is not your redeemer, he is consequential. he's a fucking testimony. you might forget when you're dead, your family's eulogy might come out squeaky clean, but it doesn't matter. the sin-eater keeps the score.

most recorded tales of sin-eaters describe that they're paid for their services; the act is his payment. to taste of sin freely and without shame, and be judged not for the dishes at his own table but for his apathy towards the size of the platters he's offered. the chance to establish himself as perennial guest at the banquet rather than host. who knows — maybe if he borrows enough from those worse than he is, when the time comes to partake of his soul, the sins of his own may disappear amidst the heap; unwitnessed, forgotten, and inconsequential. after all, who in their right mind would take up the burden from the most prolific of sin-eaters?

[jameslmartellojr]

[genspiel]

not my parents' church talking about the "atrocity" and "holocaust" against unborn children while completely ignoring the genocide of actual living people around the world... (:

[collieii]

vash protecting humans bc rem sacrificed her life to save them and he didn't want it to be in vain... following in her footsteps...vash killing legato to save livio bc he doesn't want wolfwoods sacrifice to be in vain...following in his footsteps...hmm

[persimmontartkisses]

Me, in a conversation: What's going on in Gaza is genocide and objectively abhorrent.

Them: Well, ya know the Palestinians *random bullshit justifications for the slaughter of thousands of innocent people*

Me:

[voidartisan]

a recurring theme i keep seeing in a lot of fox-centric fics and posts is palpatine having fox do a lot of administrative work and forge his signature etc. but i don't necessarily think that would happen????? palpatine likes to be in control. when his minions begin to become too powerful, or disobey him too often, he gets rid of them. that's what happened to savage, and ventress, and dooku, and vader, and even maul to some extent. i think he would want all the high-level government stuff to go through either his or mas amedda's hands. he definitely wouldn't give someone the power of forging his signature. it's also so very unsubtle. sheev is a manipulator. he's not outright cruel to the people who know him as supreme chancellor, lest he tip them off. he plays the "my hands are tied" card. he works through subterfuge and five layers of assassins. he's deeply unhinged but he's careful. he's a planner, always five steps ahead. it just seems out of character to me.

on the other hand, do i think that he uses dark side tactics and the inhibitor chips to override the coruscant guard's free will whenever he needs to? absolutely.

[dramoor]

“Sanctity  is not giving up the world.  It is exchanging the world.  It is a  continuation of that sublime transaction of the Incarnation in which  Christ said to man: You give me your humanity, I will give you my  divinity.  You give me your time, I will give you my eternity.  You give  me your slavery, I will give you my freedom.  You give me your death, I  will give you my life.  You give me your nothingness, I will give you  my all.  And the consoling thought throughout this whole transforming  process is that it does not require much time to make us saints; it  requires only much love.”  

~Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen  

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