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Is this accurate to the stories, though? I thought Sherlock wasn’t particularly interested in politics because it wasn’t relevant to the work. Don’t get me wrong,, I understand the point of the line. But Sherlock Holmes, unlike the police at the time, often took cases for impoverished people at no charge. He tended to listen to people most of his status otherwise wouldn’t because class was something he saw through. And Mycroft, who was interested in politics, wasn’t trying to change the world for the better.

It’s a good point to make but I don’t know that Sherlock Holmes is the right character to make it with, since he was one of the few rich white men of the time trying to make a difference. He just didn’t do it in Parliament. Sherlock Holmes was a scientist so, frankly, no, the world as it was didn’t suit him. And he wrote books about cigarette ash in order to induce the police at the time to use actual forensic science to solve crimes rather than the classic methodology of beating up and throwing in jail whoever was at the scene when they showed up. Especially now, most people should be able to see the social justice in that.

Because the NRA isn’t encouraging, applauding, or training their members or members of the public to commit school shootings, and no school shooter has ever been a member of the NRA.

Protesting is a FELONY in Tennessee now…Facism at it’s finest (x)

I’m sorry, but people need to know this. This is LITERALLY the most blatant telltale sign of totalitarianism and this needs to be spread like wildfire. DO NOT LOOK AWAY.

Y'all, I live here, and this is not a fucking joke.

Peaceful protesters had been at the People’s Plaza/Ida B. Wells Plaza for 61 days. The state and the police repeatedly tried to silence them, strip them of their resources, create and enact laws against them, and demonize them. I’ve stood face to face with the cops at this plaza for hours, and the entire time, everyone was peaceful. I’ve been surrounded by cops in riot gear on all four sides with these protesters, and still, everyone was peaceful. No matter what, they remain peaceful. Yet I’ve seen and read so many stories about how these protesters have been arrested on bullshit, made-up charges and have witnessed them be brutalized over and over again. I’ve seen so many people with chipped teeth, lung problems, scars, gashes, head trauma, bruises, sprains and fractures, concussions, and more all because of these pigs. I’ve read stories from protesters about how their experiences at the Plaza have triggered panic attacks, PTSD, psychosis, dissociation, and more and how some had been forcibly medicated/tranquilized by police without their consent. I’ve seen people get robbed of their personal items by these pigs, one cop going so far as to rob a man of his medications that he needed to live. I’ve seen and read about cops ripping masks off protesters and sexually harassing them. I’ve seen the cops speed down the road and almost hit protesters multiple times. I’ve read stories from protesters about how they’d been detained for hours and hours with several other people and without masks or how they, especially Black female protesters, had been detained in solitary for hours. And most of those people required medical attention, which they didn’t receive. A GIRL WITH ASTHMA ALMOST DIED BECAUSE THE COPS RELEASED A GAS SIMILAR TO TEAR GAS NEXT TO HER CELL AND IGNORED HER CRIES FOR HELP AND RESPONDED BY PUTTING HER IN SOLITARY AND TAUNTING HER INSTEAD OF PROVIDING MEDICAL ATTENTION, FFS!!

Over 200 arrests had been made during this 61-day occupation. The state tried to get a judge to allow 24/7 GPS-monitoring of a lead activist of the movement. Officers have kicked, punched, sexually harassed, dragged, hospitalized, tear-gassed, zip-tied, arrested, taunted, and brutalized protesters during this occupation. Protesters have held countless vigils and peaceful marches and have literally put their blood, sweat, and tears into this cause. All we wanted was for the governor to meet with the people to discuss removing Confederate monuments and addressing police violence, and this is what protesters were met with instead. And now they’ve made it illegal for us to even fight against their brutality and for our rights to freely exist while Black and brown.

This is not okay. This is totally and completely unconstitutional. Do not ignore this. Do not let this slip by. Do not let them win. Please help us fight all of this injustice. Our lives matter. Black lives fucking matter.

Hell state.

I cannot speak to the veracity of the claims above, but I sincerely recommend people read the bloody article before taking Tumblr’s verdict on the matter. And I say that noting that there just happens to be no goddamn sources cited. It links to a Reddit thread that itself contains no sources. (And was also deleted by the moderators) The only thing being criminalized is camping on the capitol hill, requiring that all gatherings be concluded before 10PM, well after dusk. You could argue that a protest that only lies within the law is useless, but the simple fact is that there needs to be a level of organization. Law must still exist. Just because you are upset at police brutality does not mean that all other laws and restrictions on public gatherings suddenly disappeared. The act of protest is still just as legally valid as it was before this was instituted. The only other changes were enforcing stricter punishments on vandalism and assaulting first responders. https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-news/protesters-leave-tennessee-capitol-area-after-bill-affecting-them-passes/ If you want to protest, you very much still can. The only stipulation is you can’t set up shop at the capitol building. TN legislators, businesses, and citizens don’t want to deal with a CHOP/CHAZ scenario, because that turned into an utter disaster that improved nothing for anyone.

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this is why I love this joke:

Jesus was fond of telling his followers not to worry about how they’d afford food tomorrow because God would provide. But Jesus told them this while handing out free bread and encouraging them to help people who were in need, making them the outlet through which God would provide for others

My mother was a waitress, we live in an area that has a lot of Christians and people would often stiff her on tips. Instead they’d leave a pamphlet with quotes from Jesus saying not to worry because God would provide

Jesus’ message was never that God would magically put food on people’s tables. God would provide opportunities to help each other, like the boat captains offering to help the dying man. That only works if people actually help each other

When I first heard this joke as a teenager I laughed at the guy who didn’t take the help that was offered to him. As an adult, I think of all the Christian politicians who vote against food stamps and I want to tell them “You were the boat captain but you steered away from the man in need instead of offering him help. Is that really what God wanted you to do?”

I’m not very religious but this is important.

WOW! This joke says it all! It portays a serious message that we shouldn’t overlook.

It makes me so upset when I see/hear people who CLAIM to be Christians who don’t help others who are hungry and need to be sheltered and clothed and provided for when Jesus CLEARLY commanded us to. It’s because of the cushy living that we’ve been living in. We’re so used to having jobs, having homes, having money, having food, having clothes, having everything provided for us since birth, and instead of being grateful and trying to use our blessings to bless others, as God commanded us, we decide to hoard it for ourselves and lazily think that God will take care of those in need because He’s God, when WE are the vessels He’s wanted to work through. We have been brainwashed into thinking that talking and thinking is the same as action. We have been brainwashed to ignoring our fellow man under the assumption that other people will do it so we’re not needed.

James 2:14-17 says: “14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can such a faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.”

Also, just because somebody calls themselves a Christian, doesn’t make them a Christian. Even the demons believe in God and Jesus… and SHUDDER in fear! A Christian is someone who proves his faith by his actions, by helping other people and providing for them as Jesus had done as He gave food to the multitude as he chatted with His disciples. 

Also, remember the Pharisees? They were the wealthiest people in Israel and were considering, in that time, to have the favor of God because of their wealth (though they got their wealth through corrupt means). One of Jesus’s chief accusations against the Pharisees was in not doing good on the Sabbath, and in placing their own laws and traditions of men above serving and providing for their own people with the wealth that they had been blessed with. What was Jesus’s entire ministry? Healing the sick, bringing sight to the blind, and hearing to the deaf, raising the dead, feeding the hungry, giving water to the thirsty…. HELPING PEOPLE. 

So if Jesus was like that with the Pharisees, what would He think of US, who sit around eating and drinking and going on vacations like Kings and Queens, but ignore our fellow human beings who are waiting on God to provide for them, but can’t, because He’s waiting for US to notice? If all that Jesus was doing in His ministry was helping people and providing for their needs, then why aren’t WE doing the same thing? Just seems contradictory to me.

Also, one more thing: It GALLS me to see my fellow Christians say “Go in peace; keep warm and well-fed,” to those who are in need of help but ignore the Spirit’s urging for them to help, only for them (the Christians) to whine and blame God when they’re the ones in need and nothing happens. And God’s like, “Why should I help you when you failed to do the same for your brethren?”

Matthew 25:40 tells us that whatever we do to even the least of our brethren, we do to the Father and His Son — for good or for ill. Also, what we don’t do will be taken into account as well. So beware!

If you wish God to show mercy and come to your aid when you’re in serious need, then do the same for your brethren who suffer around you every day and are waiting for you to be God’s instrument and vessel through which provision and even healing can be given. God works through His people; if his people can’t be bothered to become the conductor through which light and healing can be administered, then God cannot move. For He has elected to work only through His people in order to bring light into this dark and cold and miserable world. If Jesus had not moved to help those in need, there would’ve been no miracles, and there definitely would NOT have been the cross. If the disciples had not done the things they did to help those in need, there would’ve been no miracles, and Christianity would not have been spread, and there would’ve been no Book of Acts. 

Hint: It’s called ACTS for a reason. It wasn’t called the Book of Plans, or the Book of Blessing or Encouragement, or the Book of Talking. It was called the Book of ACTS, because the Disciples took action and saw the needs of those around them and saw to those needs. THEN they told the Gospel. Same with what Jesus did.

I don’t mean to preach, but this has been ruffling my feathers for years.

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I’ve always latched onto that passage in James 2 because it hits the message so unashamedly hard in the head. Christianity is a faith of servitude and sacrifice. 

S A C R I F I C E.

It’s not missions trips that are more vacation and white savior gloating than actual service, going to the other side of the world where at “best” you make people *more* dependent on you, rather than doing the dirty and hard work with the communities struggling at home (those communities you conveniently forget about, you mmmmaybe toss some cans of food their way, or you outright criticize and hate them because they’re poor/foreign/alcoholics/etc.). 

It’s not giving a few dollar donations, blinking, then going back to the life of ultimate comfort and selfishness and accumulating your crap in a consumer-based culture.

It’s not intentionally refusing assistance to certain people, making them suffer because “they didn’t work hard enough” to “merit” help.

It’s not going to church services for an hour comfortably sitting coffee while you listen to amateur bands playing good music and the pastor making you laugh with funny jokes, to go home in your squishy suburban life and live like everyone else and forget about what was said the rest of the week.

It’s! about! service! and! sacrifice! It’s repeated over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over in Scriptures. HELP THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUFFERING! HELP THE POOR! HELP THE SICK! HELP THE PEOPLE OUTCAST BY THE REST OF SOCIETY! God repeated this over and over and over and over again… probably because… IT WAS IMPORTANT TO HIM. It’s important for us to do this!

Matthew 19:24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.  

Yes, exactly. Also, I did a couple of mission trips here in the States and we did actual service and labor. It was really inspiring and really helped with my faith.

But I agree, Christianity is all about SACRIFICE — a concept that is strange and foreign to today’s generation of believers. Many of them haven’t even read James or much of the Bible to begin with. They just sit back and listen to the preacher preach. Their faith isn’t real for them.

I also forgot to add Proverbs 21:13, which says: “Whoever shuts their ears to the cry of the poor will also cry out and not be answered.” Just read that yesterday during devotions and that hit me in the gut. (Proverbs is one of my most favorite books along with James.)

And let us not forget Paul’s Epistles and those written by John, as well as the Old Testament — ALL of them talk about how to HELP people and SACRIFICE and PROVIDE for the poor, the widows, and the orphans. (Paul commends the Philippians for their going above and beyond the call of duty in their offerings and SACRIFICING so that other churches can be blessed and so the Gospel can grow.) They even go as far as to say that the summing up of the faith, according to James, is to look after the poor, widows, and the orphans. God clearly says multiple times in Scripture that He will bless those who hear the cries of the poor, the widows, and the orphans, and will punish severely those who close their ears and eyes towards them. I mean, that’s heavy stuff. Even going so far as to say that He will make the offender’s wife and children become widows and orphans if we ignore the cries of those in need and continue indulging ourselves. The Father HATES those who do nothing for those in need, because God intentionally placed them there to test our faith and so that we can be a light for the world.

“The poor you will always have with you” (Matthew 26:11). Always… meaning that there’ll never come a time until Jesus returns when there’ll cease to be any poor, needy, widows and/or orphans. Why? Because every generation of FOLLOWERS need to have the opportunity to become Lights of God. Without them, it would be impossible for us to be able to prove that our faith is the real deal and there’d be no anvil to hammer us into refined gold.

Okay, I need to stop before I get ahead of myself. lol XD

(And thanks for commenting. Made my day seeing your post. ^_^)

<3 Your discussion of faith made my day in turn. Thank you so much for sharing.

Goodness, the concept of caring for the poor and the weak is such a refrain in Scripture, it gets encoded into everything down to the OT civil law.

It’s heartening to connect with another believer whose heart sings out this way. I’ve felt endless frustration - fury and unbridled disgust, honestly - with the state of institutionalized Christianity in the United States. Often I feel swarmed by the hateful language, selfish actions, vapid obliviousness, and more with which this religion has become associated with in the country. It’s become a blight that has harmed countless people and people groups; there’s a reason Christianity is hated, and that hate is deserved. I do not mean to tear down or divide, but to heal: to acknowledge all the harms people have experienced through this institution, to apologize and seek reparation for what’s been done - from our generations and all our generations before - and, to call for a change in our behavior, that we might treat others with limitless love and do what we can to help our communities.

I’ve been seeking out a few close friends with whom we share a common desire to bring faith back to knowledge, back to action, back to service, back to humility, back to God. It’s encouraging to feel not alone.

God bless and have a good one. <3 Thank you again for what you wrote.

Philippians 2:3-5, 7 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of others. In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant.

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