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21 hours ago by Bev

Check out the interview with the director of the movie The Stoning of Soraya M. This independent film is about the the true story of the stoning of an Iranian women. The family dynamic when it comes to the barbaric punishment of women based on "he said/she said" is definitely something to ponder. Oh ...

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1 day ago by serendipity hopeful

A kid was caught for stealing bread and what do you think was the punishment melted out to him? How can a adult do this to a child??? How can other adults stand by and let this hideous act be perpetrated??? Hearts will ache for this child, tears will roll. Where is compasiion? Can’t those [...]

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6 days ago by metzler

Playing armchair chess with technical terms - what the mathematical monkeys and theology wonks consider precisely defined natural language - just might reveal a tension between Faith and Reason. Or it might not. Either way, it does not matter. We are after a real tension between faith as it is in th ...

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15 days ago by Antievil

Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. They have long embodied this struggle. It is we who need to be taught. It was Washington that orchestrated the 1953 coup to topple Iran’s democratically elected government, the first in the Middle East, and in ...

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16 days ago

Last week I posted an interview by Director Cyrus Nowrasteh about his film The Stoning of Soraya M which tells the true story of a woman falsely accused of adultery and stoned to death. The film raises awareness of the harsh castigations that exist as law in Iran. These punishments are barbaric and ...

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18 days ago by erikatobin123

Lately I feel barbaric! I want to go live in the woods. I want to hunt. I want to fish. I want to live off the land! I want to cook my hunted meals over a fire. I want to explore the outdoors. I don’t want a life of luxury. I want to struggle with nature. I want to earn something. I can’t explain it ...

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22 days ago by simondavo

The Spanish do some crazy things, one of them being bull fighting which I think is a appalling sport that shouldn’t really be legal. Why on earth would you want to watch something like that, it’s just barbaric. I have seen some photographs and video footage of bull fighters getting it dealt back to ...

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23 days ago by St. Marys

Today, June 16th, is the feast day of Blessed William Greenwood, one of the Carthusian martyrs murdered by King Henry VIII. Because the monks and priests refused to show approval for the king's divorce and remarriage, and subsequent break with the One True Church, they died horrible deaths. Blessed ...

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30 days ago by jonsan

In 1855, when the Makahs ceded thousands of acres of land to the USA, they ensured that the right to

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31 days ago by WarriorXFit Trainer

Having been in 99 countries worldwide and with almost 5,000 registered users, many of you have asked what distinguishes Warrior X-Fit from other fitness programs and makes it unique. Here are just a few of the characteristics that set it apart from other programs: 31 Unique all body workouts The des ...

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