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“The Methodist Discipline provides for 'separate Colored Conferences.' The Episcopal church shuts out some of its own most worthy ministers from clerical recognition, on account of their color. Nearly all denominations of religionists have either a written or unwritten law to the same effect. In Boston, even, there are Evangelical churches whose pews are positively forbidden by corporate mandate from being sold to any but 'respectable white persons.' Our incorporated cemeteries are often, if not always, deeded in the same manner. Even our humblest village grave yards generally have either a 'negro corner,' or refuse colored corpses altogether; and did our power extend to heaven or hell, we should have complexional salvation and colored damnation.” Parker Pillsbury  letter, The North Star, Dec. 5, 1850 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

"Indeed Christianity passes. Passes — it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits." H.G. Wells, "Experiment in Autobiography" (1934), cited by Ira D. Cardiff, "What Great Men Think of Religion" (1945) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

The Tomb Mark 16 (NIV)   8 Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone , because they were afraid. Matthew 28 (NIV) 8 So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples . Luke 24 (NIV) 9 When they came back from the tomb, they told all these things to the Eleven and to all the others .  John 20 (NIV) 20 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple , the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

1 Chronicles 16:30: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable.”  Psalm 93:1: “Thou hast fixed the earth immovable and firm ...”  Psalm 96:10: “He has fixed the earth firm, immovable ...” Psalm 104:5: “Thou didst fix the earth on its foundation so that it never can be shaken.” Isaiah 45:18: “...who made the earth and fashioned it, and himself fixed it fast...” https://twitter.com/sandboxtactics/status/1070135904382140418 The Earth DOES NOT MOVE Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black, the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.” Xenophanes (5-6th century BCE), Greek philosopher who lived to 105, from James E. Haught, ed., "2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt" (1996) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

The words  “under God”  were added to the US pledge of allegiance in 1954, and “In God we trust” first printed on US currency in 1956 – so as to differentiate the US from the godless communists.  Promoting Unders tanding of Religious Suffering

1 Samuel 15 King James Version (KJV) 15 Samuel also said unto Saul, The Lord sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words of the Lord. 2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. 3 Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass. Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“If you believe in god and no god exists, then your belief is an even greater wonder. Then it is really something inconceivably great. Why should a being lie down there in the darkness crying to someone who does not exist? Why should that be? There is no one who hears when someone cries in the darkness.  But why does that cry exist?” Pär Lagerkvist in “Om du tror på gud och någon gud inte finns,” "Aftonland," 1953, translated by W. H. Auden and Leif Sjöberg in "Evening Land" 1975 Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering

“For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. The earth has been drenched with blood shed in this cause, the face of day darkened with the blackness of the crimes perpetrated in its name. There have been no dirtier wars than religious wars, no bitterer hates than religious hates, no fiendish cruelty like religious cruelty, no baser baseness than religious baseness. It has destroyed the peace of families, turned the father against the son, the brother against the brother." Felix Adler, founding address of New York Society for Ethical Culture (May 15, 1876) Promoting Understanding of Religious Suffering