Heresy and Hearsay

“Family is God’s way of teaching you how to talk to someone that you would normally cross the street to avoid” – Unknown 

Rev. Barney have a discussion about how to engage in civil discourse when engaging with folks you disagree with, and why it’s worth it.

Carrot: Stacey Abrams https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/08/13/stacey-abrams-launch-voter-protection-program-battleground-states-ahead-election/?fbclid=IwAR01Nc4M30_MXJaU-3C3580lo1-S0L-MWdPiure4biSmr4DqELmPHZUmKJ0

Stick: This little shit:https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-detained-walking-missouri-walmart-armed-rifle-wearing/story?id=64870120

Rev. Barney talks about the idea that it’s good to be rich because that means you’re blessed.

Stick: Lindsey Graham for ripping up the rules of governess to shove a billing to lock up kids forever in cages. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/455847-leningradlindsey-trends-after-graham-forces-controversial

Carrot: Shane Helms @Shanehelmscom for being willing to speak out against the GOP while being in a conservative business that of Pro Wrestling. 

“An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.”

Plutarch

Whoever oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God. — Proverbs 14:31

“History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.” — Jeffrey D. Sachs

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:17

“Nothing that you have not given away will ever truly be yours.” C.S. Lewis,

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? Isaiah 10:1-3

Rev. Barney talks about shaming children over not having lunch money.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/20/us/pennsylvania-school-lunch-debt-trnd/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/08/us/rhode-island-lunch-warwick-schools-trnd/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/16/us/lunchroom-employee-fired-trnd/index.html

http://www.startribune.com/schools-can-t-withhold-diplomas-because-of-unpaid-lunch-debt-minnesota-ag-says/509980132/

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/politics/ilhan-omar-school-lunch-shaming/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/12/politics/school-lunch-shaming-children-debt/index.html​

http://home.snu.edu/~hculbert/poor.htm List of the Bible Ver talking about the Poor

Carrot: https://people.com/politics/senate-passes-911-responder-funding-bill/

Stick: https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/indian-catholic-priest-who-claims-parents-sins-cause-autism-in-children-cancels-australia-tour/ar-AAEtq8d?li=AAgfIYZ&ocid=ientp&%253Bocid=UE01DHP

Catholic Priest Claims Autistic Children Are ‘Like Animals’ Caused By Porn, Masturbation, Adultery

NineOf12 is still out, recovering from surgery. Rev. Barney ruminates on the moral and religious imperative involved in standing up for what is right.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Frederick Douglass

Ephesians 6:13

“Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ― Edmund Burke

Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me. MARTIN NIEMÖLLER

Nancy Pelosi speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsAt6N7eqwA

Trump’s History of Racism: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/president-donald-trump-racist-examples_n_584f2ccae4b0bd9c3dfe5566?ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__071619

Jeffery Epstein: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/13/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-new-york-elite.html

https://www.salon.com/2019/07/14/jeffrey-epstein-is-exhibit-a-for-capitalisms-moral-bankruptcy

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article220097825.html

Carrot: Jews against ICE reminding us we have to learn from history so we don’t repeat it. https://www.thedailybeast.com/never-again-action-1000-protesters-with-jewish-group-block-entrance-to-ice-headquarters

Stick: The GOP party standing and showing their true Racism by backing Trump ICE raid and Racist tweets. Especially you Kellyann https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/07/16/kellyanne-conway-asks-reporter-ethnicity-trump-racist-tweets-vpx.cnn

“War, whoa, lord What is it good for Absolutely nothing,” War Edwin Starr

“Now I’ve been crying lately, thinking about the world as it is Why must we go on hating, why can’t we live in bliss” Peace Train Cat Stevens

“Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. ”  Archbishop Desmond Tutu 

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.”  William Tecumseh Sherman 

Rachel Maddow book Drift https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005BUG6T8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Carrot: The Women’s US Soccer team for a) winning the 4th world cup and their second in a row and b) for Megan Rapinoe being a bad ass https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1149064501192470528

Stick: Tucker Carlson showing his true racist side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdhhz8F7Rq0

Carrots: Highlights Magazine and David Gilmore 

Highlights: https://www.cbr.com/highlights-magazine-statement-trump-detention-centers/?utm_content=buffer0c5c2&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=CBR-FB-P&utm_campaign=CBR-FB-P&fbclid=IwAR3Vmdr7qscJpOddDO5CKRVh7uPpv4Tk05esfrwJkpQuFVSo2SaD67IrksE

David Gilmore: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/06/recharge-59-climate-change-guitar-auction-pink-floyd/?fbclid=IwAR0v5NgvuNRyqOmMWpWc58LVv0sM0tjZDmfhbniBoehMf1vY_qHq4enFpOc

Stick: This shit also what the hell Harvard? 

https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2019/06/woman-indicted-in-shooting-death-of-her-unborn-child-charges-against-shooter-dismissed.html

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/03/738531267/charge-against-woman-indicted-in-death-of-her-own-fetus-has-been-dropped

https://www.newsweek.com/pride-month-2019-stonewall-50th-anniversary-history-lgbtq-america-history-1440491

Rev. Barney and NineOf12 try to stay positive today, in this challenging world.

This episode dedicated to Adrian Phillips. “The measure of a man is not how he handles victory but how he rises from defeat!” Rest In Peace.

“So I be written in the Book of Love. I do not care about that Book Above. Erase my name, or write it as you will. So I be written in the Book of Love.”  Omar Khayyam

Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury. it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 14 4:8

Inspired by Dad’s Viral Photo, John Legend Helps Pampers Install 5,000 Changing Tables in Men’s Restrooms

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/17/733389132/supreme-court-hands-democrats-a-win-on-racial-gerrymandering-in-virginia

https://kindling.xyz/?s=lgbtq&id=m

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michelle-obama-dodgeball-james-corden_n_5d088b52e4b0ea7c4a4ec321

Carrot: Dr. Rev William J Barber II The poor peoples congress: www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/congress 

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Carrot: Jon Stewart

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-jon-stewart-says-congress-should-be-ashamed-over-inaction-on-helping-9-11-first-responders?fbclid=IwAR2RXaCzRCem4qDHwgzlPXBy5c_sBlmeTJfa9XQrpwgO2ASGvOUjG8f0wbw

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek,for they will inherit the land. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers,for they will be called children of God. Matthews Chapter 5 3-9

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America” the preamble to the constitution