Participants seem to be Black, which may give the story legs. Riverside is a university town, University of California Riverside. Very diverse city. School is named Martin Luther King. City is in inland empire, that is a more conservative area, about an hour East of LA.
As an example, the AGs said the National Committee for Religious Freedom (NCRF) was “de-banked” last year without explanation.
NCRF is a “nonpartisan, faith-based nonprofit organization dedicated to defending the right of everyone in America to live one’s faith freely.” According to the letter, NCRF’s National Advisory Board includes Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim members.
Three weeks after NCRF opened a Chase checking account last year, Chase sent NCRF a letter indicating that the bank had “end[ed] their relationship.” When NCRF inquired about the closure,
***Chase never gave an explanation but eventually said it would reopen the account but only if NCRF provided the bank a list of its donors, political candidates they intended to support and criteria for its endorsements.***
“The bank’s brazen attempt to condition critical services on a customer passing some unarticulated religious or political litmus test flies in the face of Chase’s anti- discrimination policies,” the AGs wrote.
The AGs also said a credit card processor owned by Chase shut down the account of a conservative pro-life organization for being “high risk.” That same year,
***a company called WePay, which is also owned by Chase, refused service to a conservative group because WePay equated conservative views with “hate, violence, racial intolerance, [and] terrorism[.]”***
We need to know who the corporations are that are discriminating against people of religion. Stop doing business with them and look at holding them accountable for blatant discrimination. Until more of us take action the religious in this country and other common sense minded people will continue to find "their rights" have been eroded and when unprotected you are targets for the violence of the left who know they are fully protected from accountability and the law.
This is 100% correct. I recall David Horowitz over at Frontpage Magazine began warning of the anti-Christian agenda that was building and to be concerned with a crack down on all things Christian. This surprise me not at all especially when you become aware of who is behind this agenda, yes, you guessed it, the revenge-minded NEOCONs and the Leninist Democratic Party with the help of CINOs (Catholics in name only) whose god is GAIA and they are looking more pagan than Christian. I weep for true "committed" Catholics. My mother was a deeply devout Catholic and was upset when I became Greek Orthodox over 30 years ago. Any Catholic who has doubts about the direction of the church under Francis should look at Orthodoxy.
"including among “committed Catholics” like Zhou and Becerra. We also see that in the disappearance of the Nashville religious school massacre."
I chuckled when you used quotes around committed Catholics. I do not see how either Biden or Becerra can claim any commitment to Catholicism given their full embrace of the policies of perversion and death which contradict the teachings of this ancient faith.
It seems the Catholic Biden is targeting Catholics far more than any other Christian denomination. The U.S. under the early Puritan and Calvinist sects of Protestantism has never let go of their hatred of Catholics and we are living through counter-counter reformation this time it's paganism and satanism that is the Huguenots of the 21st century. So much for separation of church and state under a fascist totalitarian state.
For all the Catholics who voted for Obama because they wanted single-payer healthcare, extinguishing a chapel candle is what single-payer healthcare looks like.
Not that we weren't already far down that road, what with the government funding Medicare and Medicaid.
You might appreciate this essay by David Carlin, adding his eloquent voice to so many others pointing out that America DOES have an established religion:
Yes, very good. Of course, there's a prehistory to Comte, too. This has been a long time building, but it involves the turn from God to the human self.
Humanism in some form has been around and in some instances intertwined with Christianity for centuries. It was once said, "That the most inhumane people are often the humanists." I forget who this quote is attributed to, but I suspect it was a recent philosopher and he (or she) was right of course.
@Tamsin, thanks for the link to Carlin's essay. I found it enlightening. I don't think communism is dead, but finding itself a comfortable home, as one would expect, in the Democratic party and that is not to say there no communist defenders among our GOPe. Among the secular humanists you will find a majority of the NEOCONs or perhaps Penthouse Bolsheviks, if you will.. "Wealth and happiness for me and poverty and enslavement for thee" seems to be the mind set of those who feel a culling of the herd is necessary. Those secular humanists who are "The People Cheering for Humanity’s End" as written by Adam Kirsch in the Atlantic this past Dec. `22 ( https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/anthropocene-anti-humanism-transhumanism-apocalypse-predictions/672230/) may also be referred to as anti-humanists. but whatever the description they tend to be the thinkers look forward to the extinction of our species, while others predict that even if some people survive the coming environmental apocalypse, civilization as a whole is doomed. It all often comes back to the fraudulent notion we are doomed because of climate change. An idea now so deeply inculcated in the GenX and Z that no amount of evidence can deter their sense of doom. What is the way out of this? I don't have the answer, but like all radical movements they come to an end, but will that end be the end of the human species? I recall reading Charles Van Doren's book "A History of Knowledge" and in the final pages of the last chapter he suggested the next great civil/human rights battles would be the rights for robots.
I myself have had recourse to our Providence St. Vincent chapel and found the answer to a problem in the Bible on the page to which someone else had opened it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/05/report_unprecedented_rise_in_hate_crimes_against_american_churches.html
https://thefederalist.com/2023/05/04/report-anti-catholic-hate-crimes-have-nearly-tripled-in-canada/
... and which will not be un-dominated without force.
Participants seem to be Black, which may give the story legs. Riverside is a university town, University of California Riverside. Very diverse city. School is named Martin Luther King. City is in inland empire, that is a more conservative area, about an hour East of LA.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/04/high-schooler-slams-california-school-district-over-trans-policy/
An example of corporate involvement:
https://ussanews.com/2023/05/02/chase-bank-warned-on-religious-discrimination-by-19-gop-attorneys-general/
As an example, the AGs said the National Committee for Religious Freedom (NCRF) was “de-banked” last year without explanation.
NCRF is a “nonpartisan, faith-based nonprofit organization dedicated to defending the right of everyone in America to live one’s faith freely.” According to the letter, NCRF’s National Advisory Board includes Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim members.
Three weeks after NCRF opened a Chase checking account last year, Chase sent NCRF a letter indicating that the bank had “end[ed] their relationship.” When NCRF inquired about the closure,
***Chase never gave an explanation but eventually said it would reopen the account but only if NCRF provided the bank a list of its donors, political candidates they intended to support and criteria for its endorsements.***
“The bank’s brazen attempt to condition critical services on a customer passing some unarticulated religious or political litmus test flies in the face of Chase’s anti- discrimination policies,” the AGs wrote.
The AGs also said a credit card processor owned by Chase shut down the account of a conservative pro-life organization for being “high risk.” That same year,
***a company called WePay, which is also owned by Chase, refused service to a conservative group because WePay equated conservative views with “hate, violence, racial intolerance, [and] terrorism[.]”***
We need to know who the corporations are that are discriminating against people of religion. Stop doing business with them and look at holding them accountable for blatant discrimination. Until more of us take action the religious in this country and other common sense minded people will continue to find "their rights" have been eroded and when unprotected you are targets for the violence of the left who know they are fully protected from accountability and the law.
And where is the gop, sigh.
"Clearly organized religion is a key enemy,"
This is 100% correct. I recall David Horowitz over at Frontpage Magazine began warning of the anti-Christian agenda that was building and to be concerned with a crack down on all things Christian. This surprise me not at all especially when you become aware of who is behind this agenda, yes, you guessed it, the revenge-minded NEOCONs and the Leninist Democratic Party with the help of CINOs (Catholics in name only) whose god is GAIA and they are looking more pagan than Christian. I weep for true "committed" Catholics. My mother was a deeply devout Catholic and was upset when I became Greek Orthodox over 30 years ago. Any Catholic who has doubts about the direction of the church under Francis should look at Orthodoxy.
"including among “committed Catholics” like Zhou and Becerra. We also see that in the disappearance of the Nashville religious school massacre."
I chuckled when you used quotes around committed Catholics. I do not see how either Biden or Becerra can claim any commitment to Catholicism given their full embrace of the policies of perversion and death which contradict the teachings of this ancient faith.
It seems the Catholic Biden is targeting Catholics far more than any other Christian denomination. The U.S. under the early Puritan and Calvinist sects of Protestantism has never let go of their hatred of Catholics and we are living through counter-counter reformation this time it's paganism and satanism that is the Huguenots of the 21st century. So much for separation of church and state under a fascist totalitarian state.
For all the Catholics who voted for Obama because they wanted single-payer healthcare, extinguishing a chapel candle is what single-payer healthcare looks like.
Not that we weren't already far down that road, what with the government funding Medicare and Medicaid.
You might appreciate this essay by David Carlin, adding his eloquent voice to so many others pointing out that America DOES have an established religion:
https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2023/04/28/our-very-inhuman-humanism/
Yes, very good. Of course, there's a prehistory to Comte, too. This has been a long time building, but it involves the turn from God to the human self.
Humanism in some form has been around and in some instances intertwined with Christianity for centuries. It was once said, "That the most inhumane people are often the humanists." I forget who this quote is attributed to, but I suspect it was a recent philosopher and he (or she) was right of course.
@Tamsin, thanks for the link to Carlin's essay. I found it enlightening. I don't think communism is dead, but finding itself a comfortable home, as one would expect, in the Democratic party and that is not to say there no communist defenders among our GOPe. Among the secular humanists you will find a majority of the NEOCONs or perhaps Penthouse Bolsheviks, if you will.. "Wealth and happiness for me and poverty and enslavement for thee" seems to be the mind set of those who feel a culling of the herd is necessary. Those secular humanists who are "The People Cheering for Humanity’s End" as written by Adam Kirsch in the Atlantic this past Dec. `22 ( https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/01/anthropocene-anti-humanism-transhumanism-apocalypse-predictions/672230/) may also be referred to as anti-humanists. but whatever the description they tend to be the thinkers look forward to the extinction of our species, while others predict that even if some people survive the coming environmental apocalypse, civilization as a whole is doomed. It all often comes back to the fraudulent notion we are doomed because of climate change. An idea now so deeply inculcated in the GenX and Z that no amount of evidence can deter their sense of doom. What is the way out of this? I don't have the answer, but like all radical movements they come to an end, but will that end be the end of the human species? I recall reading Charles Van Doren's book "A History of Knowledge" and in the final pages of the last chapter he suggested the next great civil/human rights battles would be the rights for robots.
I hate to dox myself, but I live in the Tulsa area.
The best hospitals are St Francis and St John's.
Both have chapels.
I myself have had recourse to our Providence St. Vincent chapel and found the answer to a problem in the Bible on the page to which someone else had opened it.
My Catholic wife is a nurse at a Catholic hospital. They currently have a chapel. We will see if this becomes a nationwide phenomenon.