As a new mom, the decision had more to
do with the birth of my son than anything else.
Truth be told, I gamed a fewer number of hours this year than any other in memory, and that all had to
do with the birth of my son.
Not exact matches
But perhaps the most heartening part
of the piece is the beginning, which kicks off
with a look at recent science
of what giving
birth does to the brains
of female rats.
On the other hand, 71 percent favor the law's Medicaid expansion, 66 percent
of young adults favor the prohibition on denying people coverage because
of a person's medical history, 65 percent favor requiring insurance plans to cover the full cost
of birth control, 63 percent favor requiring most employers to pay a fine if they don't offer insurance and 53 percent favor paying for benefit increases
with higher payroll taxes for higher earners.
Independent films don't typically rake in money at the box office,
with the occasional exception, but the Oscar - buzz was sure to help The
Birth of a Nation financially.
The New York Times cited anonymous sources involved
with The
Birth of a Nation as saying that Fox Searchlight
does not plan to change course on its promotion
of the film, which includes plans to have Parker tour U.S. universities and churches as the public face
of the movie.
From the late 1960s, when software was decoupled from hardware, to the
birth of bitcoin nearly a decade ago, what have we learned that can help us deal
with this asset and its uses as we encounter even more new forms
of technology, uses and ways
of doing business?
But this could still open the company up to identical hazards if that insurance company provided other customers
with plans that
did extend to those forms
of birth control.
However, I see nothing wrong
with encouraging women to carry to term then put the child up for adoption, just like I don't think it is bad to encourage them to use condoms, as well as other forms
of birth control.
when your mother / sister / cousin / daughter gets r / a / p / ed by some ass, remember you want her to give
birth to that child because «GOD» made that baby and don't expect a dime from the governement to help
with that «love child» seeing you want the governement to «stay out
of your life»... but it's ok if they mess
with everyone else based on your idea
of «GOD» and what you think is right and just in fairy land.
I
do not wish to overstate my relationship
with Dr. Polk (after I graduated we exchanged emails every few years) but his influence over me, a fellow Mississippi Baptist by
birth and a devotee
of literature by choice, was significant.
In fact, most American Catholics disagree
with some
of the Vatican doctrines (
birth control, for example); there are Baptist Churches that don't treat women as less than men in God's eye, etc..
And so there's no reason to believe that
doing away
with entitlements, by itself, would produce a new
birth of births.
The old alliance between sensible LIBERTARIANISM and SOCIAL CONSERVATISM can't hold in the face
of the vanishing middle class, the
birth dearth combined
with increasing longevity, the depoliticizing challenges
of the 21st competitive marketplace, the irresponsibility
of our techno - meritocracy, our inability to keep Locke in the Locke box on issues having to
do with families and our erotic lives, and the connection between increasing individualism and growing dependency on the state summed up in the phrase «single mom.»
O Mary, great beauteous diadem, who
didst free our race; O Light most beauteous, O Garden
of Kings, O lustrous one, O shining one,
with deed
of white chastity, O fair bright Ark
of gold, O holy
birth from heaven, O Mother
of Righteousness, who
didst excel all...
One
of the Synod's clergy — admittedly one who was no theological scholar — once explained to me why he sided
with the faculty majority: «I don't believe in the virgin
birth; I believe in the One who was born
of the Virgin.»
I am a protestant, and I
do not have a problem
with (some) methods
of birth control (not abortifacents).
You are faced
with the really strange fact (attested in the Bible) that a woman who supposedly had a virgin
birth of the Son
of God and was visited by the three wise men
did not believe that Jesus was divine.
How
does the lack
of evidence
with Noah's Ark, the
birth of Christ, the creation story and so forth actually prove that there is no God who wants us to rely on faith instead
of assured knowledge.
The Archbishop
of Baltimore
did docu - ment that if a married couple had good reason to use
birth control (ie on gets HI - V from tainted blood) and the discuss their si - tu - ation
with their priest and pray to God for guidance and they come to the con - clu - sion the should use
birth control the can rest a-s-su-re-d they are making a moral decision.
Albeit, they didn't «need» to fire her, but I
do not believe her religious lines were crossed, she was not celebrating the
birth of Jesus, nor any other religious observances connected
with that day.
Because we
do... it has to
do with what December 23 - 25 was before the
birth of Christ was attached to it.
historical Jesus, lmfao... show me any historical evidence
of jesus... let's start
with his remains... they don't exist - your explanation, he rose to the heavens... historical evidence - no remains, no proof
of existence (not a disproof either, just not a proof)... then let's start
with other historians writing about the life
of Jesus around his time or shortly after, as outside neutral observers... that doesn't exist either (not a disproof again, just not a proof)... we can go on and on... the fact is, there is not a single proving evidence
of Jesus's life in an historical context... there is no existence
of Jesus in a scientific context either (virgin
birth... riiiiiight)... it is just written in a book, and stuck in your head... you have a right to believe in what you must... just don't base it on history or science... you believe because you
do... it is your right... but try not to put reason into your faith; that's when you start sounding unreasonable, borderline crazy...
The bible was actually written 300 years after Jesus possible
birth if he was he was born on the continent
of Asia at Asia minor he was not a european white guy, he
did not wear 3.000.00 outfits
with a limo out back like ministers
do today.
Some
of us were not bathed from
birth in a sea
of bible stories or threatened
with hellfire forever if we
do nt believe or shamed into believing.
And then that moment
of birth being one
of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead
of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core
of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God -
with - us; it was the most human and most sacred thing I'd ever
done in my life, it felt like a glimpse
of Incarnation.
In the guise
of a tiny baby in its mother's arms, obeying the great laws
of birth and infancy, you came, Lord Jesus, to dwell in my infant - soul; and then, as you re-enacted in me — and in so
doing extended the range
of — your growth through the Church, that same humanity which once was born and dwelt in Palestine began now to spread out gradually everywhere like an iridescence
of unnumbered hues through which, without destroying anything, your presence penetrated — and endued
with supervitality — every other presence about me.
... Except the pill is made from the same hormones found naturally in a woman's body, same
with the patch, same
with Deprovera, and the RCC certainly
DOES frown upon any and ALL forms
of birth control.
In Indonesia, persons who
do not identify
with one
of the six official religions (Islam, Cathoilc, Protestant, Confucian, Buddhism, Hindu), including people
with no religion, to experience official discrimination in the context ofcivil registration
of marriages and
births and other situation involving family law.
Of course, the difference is that our first
birth had nothing to
do with our will, whereas the second
birth does.
At the beginning
of Advent it is as well to say that the truth concerning the Virgin
Birth of Christ
does matter, and the truth concerning the physical resurrection
of Christ as well, and that
with all deference to the Archbishop
of York and the Bishop
of Durham.
We each
do ever labour togetherly
with oud body's Godliness families who were there and
with us before our being conceived and even at ones
birth and even till ones death and eventual returning back to the Godly kingdom domains
of our bodies!
Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing
with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no
birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should
do, how God blesses and is happy
with you if you
do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight
of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some
of the children
of this regime became athiests.
The atheist professor
with docorate degree
of course who claims he can change our belief in God on our first class meeting by the end
of semester challenged Jesus»
birth date, but didn't challenge the use
of our year from the time Jesus» death which probably wasn't January 1st either, lol.
Then, their retelling
of the story
of Jesus
does not conclude
with the end
of the Gospels, but carries on into the
birth of the church as the Body
of Christ (chapter 15) before concluding
with a study
of the return
of Jesus (chapter 16).
This system
of belief and social interpretation generally
does not reflect the diversity
of social reality there is within the society, but is consistent more
with the economic or ideological system which has given it
birth and its corporate managers who hold power within the system and benefit from it.
hinduism, absurdity
of follower's
of hindu Mitra sim, pagan savior ism labeled as Christianity, Word, GOD, means nothing else but truth absolute, having nothing to
do with hinduism, absurdity
of birth.
By contrast, a class system, while it
does not
do away
with the advantages or disadvantages
of birth, leaves enormously more room for achievement.
They go on to say, «Nor have we seen a political platform
with a consistent ethic
of life — and by that we mean not simply being pro-
birth but being pro-life, and recognizing that life doesn't begin at conception and end at
birth.»
sounds more like «corporate brainstorming», but what I was trying to suggest is that it appears that we're witnessing (not intentionally) an evolving understanding
of what wd become more central to the narrative and eventually orthodox.That is, if you cdn't believe it, you were out the door.A good example wd be the higher Christology that the fourth gospel reflects and more specifically, the virgin
birth which it (like Mark and Paul) doesn't mention.If the
birth narratives that we're familiar
with are absent from the earliest gospel and the most theological gospel that came decades later, and can only be found in the other two gospels that we know used the first, it at least suggests a growing and evolving understanding
of who Jesus «was» and «is».
Soloists and choruses practice for hours so that when they sing the story
of Jesus»
birth, it is
done with dignity and joy!
if humans had just fell in line
with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god
did it»... then people would still be dying in child
birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator
of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value
of our achievements as a species.
The Apostles asked Jesus why he
does not speak so all could understand and Jesus said the words
of God are for those who can hear and see them... yet you continue your attack on talking serpents, big boats stuffed
with animals finally resting on a virgin
birth.
If they truly want to be a witness, they should be taking care
of their employees by [1] paying them a living wage and [2] supporting them
with health care, not trying to run their lives by denying it because they personally don't believe in
birth control *** AHEM HOBBY LOBBY, all you had to
do was voice your objection and step aside, and the provider would absorb the cost, but NOOOOOOOOOO, you thought you knew better & said I FORBID YOU TO HAVE IT so your employees lost out on ALL health care, nice work in the name
of the Great Physician *** or firing them because they get pregnant BECAUSE you didn't let them have
birth control...
The fall
of Adam and Eve, the covenants
with Israel and its deliverance from bondage, its falling away and punishment through new sufferings, the speaking
of the divine word through the prophets, the
birth of Christ in human flesh, the life and death
of Jesus, the experience
of the resurrection, and the history
of the Church, the expectation
of the final events and the established reign
of God in love and peace — all this is the Biblical understanding
of what God has
done, is
doing, and will continue to
do for the judgment and redemption
of the world.
So it is that in the Preface to the Phenomenology
of Spirit (paragraph 11), Hegel can declare that ours is a
birth - time and a period
of transition to a new era, for Spirit has broken
with the world it has previously imagined and inhabited, and is now submerging it in the past, and
doing so in the very labor
of its own transformation.
@jf well your information about the New Testament is about as accurate as your Old Testament knowledge, The prophecies
of the Old testament concerning Christ could not have been written after the fact because we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls,
with an almost complete Old Testament dated 100 - 200 years before the
birth of Christ, Your interpretation
of God at His worst shows a complete lack
of understanding as to what was being communicated.We don't know what the original texts
of the New Testament were written in as to date there are no original copies available.Greek was the common language
of the day.Most
of the gospels were reported written somewhere in the 30 year after Christs resurrection time frame, not the unspecified «long after «you reference and three
of the authors knew Jesus personally in His earthly ministry, the other Knew Jesus as his savior and was in the company
of many who also knew Jesus.You keep referencing changes, «gazillion «was the word used but you never referenced one change, so it is assumed we are to take your word for it.What may we ask are your credentials?Try reading Job your own self, particularly the section were Job says «My ears had heard
of you but now my eyes have seen you.Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes»
Although it
does not deal explicitly
with the
birth of Jesus, one would gather from it that Jesus was born in Nazareth
of Galilee, (See Mark 1:9; 6:1.
Prosecutor Korb observes, «People will want to look at it as a woman's right to
do with her body as she pleases prior to the
birth of the child.
1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1
of private economic activity; furthermore, much
of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from
birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact
with the needy, breaking down stereotypes