More at Think Progress!
Then there is wack job Mr. Robertson! It is estimated that Mr. Robertson and his "700 Club" on the Christian Broadcast Network (CBN) may have up to 1 million viewers!
But the few of you that follow my rant here on the blog-o-sphere already know that!
One form of racial privilege in this country that we don't pay attention to is:
To be white in this country is to have access to the privilege of innocence. To have your right to say I'm a human being.
To be black is to have to prove it. You have the burden of proof that you have a right to your innocence. And there is something fundamentally wrong with that."
Source: Dr. Kahlil Gibran Muhammad commenting on the Trayvon Martin case as broadcasted on the local ABC program "Here and Now".
Dr. Muhammad is Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. He is a former professor of African-American history at Indiana University.
“We, the undersigned jurors, understand there is a great deal of interest in this case. But we ask you to remember that we are not public officials and we did not invite this type of attention into our lives," the jurors wrote.
"We also wish to point out that the opinions of Juror B37, expressed on the Anderson Cooper show, were her own, and not in any way representative of the jurors listed below."
Self-defense? Self-defense assumes there was an aggressor present. There was and his name is George Zimmermann...NOT Trayvon Martin. O.J. got out of the car and pursued Trayvon. The police told O.J. to stay in the car. He didn't!
"F*cking punks! These assholes, they always get away"! The details of what actually happened after that, no one knows, except Trayvon Martin and he is dead!
Tithing is an Old Testament concept. The tithe was a requirement of the law in which all Israelites were to give 10 percent of everything they earned and grew to the Tabernacle/Temple.
In fact, the Old Testament Law required multiple tithes which would have pushed the total to around 23.3 percent, not the 10 percent which is generally considered the tithe amount today. Some understand the Old Testament tithe as a method of taxation to provide for the needs of the priests and Levites in the sacrificial system. The New Testament nowhere commands, or even recommends, that Christians submit to a legalistic tithe system.
The New Testament nowhere designates a percentage of income a person should set aside, but only says it is to be “in keeping with income” (1 Corinthians 16:2). Some in the Christian church have taken the 10 percent figure from the Old Testament tithe and applied it as a “recommended minimum” for Christians in their giving.
More details here for you 10 percenters!
ps. Some "Christian" groups are already urging a boycott!
Then again...there's this old saying, "if you don't have anything nice to say...don't say anything at all!" Again...just shut the f*ck up!
