Zachary, 20, Black, Pansexual, He/him, Youtuber, Loves Martial Arts, Aspiring Film Maker, Current Film student who wants to make show actual diversity, Loves Social Justice and people getting basic Human Rights and respect, For women's rights. ALL women's rights.
There is much talk about Toph’s inventing metalbending, and she is clearly an absolute genius, but you know what I love about her even more?
Toph’s response to not being able to control sand absolutely perfectly (as in hold up a sinking tower with one hand and fight off a gang of sandbenders with the other) is to work on her sandbending until she’s fully in control of every speck of dirt.
She is so wonderfully stubborn - she pursues bending not as a tool to defeat someone or gain power, but just to prove that she can do it. She’s the basic researcher of earthbending - just keeps pushing the limits of what can be done with no mind to the practical application.
this…this is what i get angry and rant about when im super drunk
The red lighting really makes this
thank u lighting design is my passion
Captions:
A girl in the backseat of a car is drunkenly ranting. The lighting is unintentionally dramatic and dim with a red hue.
Girl in the backseat: ASK someone who has been in musical theatre since I was like, eight FUCKING years old! I can go ahead and tell you, that TROY and GABRIELLA can go to FUCKING HELL with their acoustic ass BULLSHIT versions beCAUSE! …Sharpay and Ryan deserved those parts.
The person videoing: You’re damn right!
Girl in the backseat, still continuing: They tried! They sang! They danced! Troy and Gabriella can ROT!
The person videoing:[laughs as she zooms in dramatic on her friend’s genuinely angry face]
“Oh sweet, poetic justice. Kyrsten Sinema, the first openly bisexual Senator in U.S. history, has been sworn into office using a law book instead of a bible by Mike Pence today. #116thCongress #swearinginday”
If she ever did read the Bible she would know that the Law about same-sex sex only applies to males. Bi-sexual women are perfectly acceptable under Biblical Law.
Consider: some people think the actual laws of our country might be more important for politicians to follow than any one interpretation of “biblical law.”
Laws are made by Men. Rights are given by God (like most of the things in the Bill of Rights). The pledge is not so much to uphold the Laws of Men but to uphold the Rights Given by God, The Creator.
If you take God out of the equation then you are saying that Man’s Law is all that matters which means that a person no longer has the Inalienable Right to themselves, their own life, much less their own property. Instead the State who makes the Laws has the power to dispose of an individual’s Rights, Life and Property as it sees fit.
This is against everything our nation was founded on.
See, this is why the constitution is so important. SOME people literally don’t know we have a separation of church and state.
Do you even know what the oath says?
The oath used today has not changed since 1966 and is prescribed in Title 5, Section 3331 of the United States Code. It reads: “I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Where in there does it talk about “upholding the rights given by God”?
There is not one phrase anywhere in either the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence or the Federalist Papers that mentions a “Separation of Church and State”. What is mentioned is “Freedom of Religion” which is much different than “Freedom from Religion”.
In fact God is invoked many times throughout the Declaration of Independence as well as in the Federalist Papers (which explained what our Founders were thinking when they created the Second Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights).
In fact God is also invoked at the end of the Oath of Office.
There are a couple of reasons for the Freedom of Religion in the Bill of Rights.
One is to establish a Tribunal with the Press (and individual voices) to counter act the power of the State. Each on is to look out for each other, to keep any of the other two from gaining too much power over the individual and society.
The reason this was so important and a big reason the Second Continental Congress was called in the first place was the Union was breaking down under the prior Constitution which was more of a Confederacy than a Federation. In fact there were actual fighting and killing breaking out between several States. Some of this had to do with Religion. A few States had made ‘official religions’ and if you weren’t part of that religious sect you could not run for office and in a couple of States you could not own a business or any property. All of these religions were sects of Christianity.
So no, when people say that ‘Freedom of Religion’ was about the Church of England they are completely wrong. It was about Puritans, Anglicans, Quakers, and Presbyterians.
It was about the Freedom of Thought, but based upon the idea that there is indeed a Creator and Christ was His messenger (if not Him incarnate).
Not everyone, in fact many of the Founders themselves, were Deists whose thoughts on the Trinity were far from what mainstream and Fundamentalist religious sects believe today. Think Unitarian, not Southern Baptist. But everyone of them believed in a Christian God, a Christian Creator, who gave us Freewill and Free Thought and the freedom to disobey Him, but who tasked us to make a better world for ourselves and our loved ones, and to love one another and to help one another. And these tasks were given to every individual person to carry out. The Government was merely to defend the collective ‘us’ from those who would try to force their will on the individual. It’s purpose was never to be the caretaker of the people, to protect the individual from themselves or to aide in anyone to live. All of that was the domain of those who followed Christ, for it was Christ that said to take care of one another as a mandate from God. Christ also said give unto Caesar what Caesar’s and give unto God what is God’s. Welfare is undeniably God’s domain, not the government’s.
So yes, I know what the Oath says. I know what our Founding Fathers said. I know what the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Federalist Papers also say, four documents that cannot be separated and understood. I also know a period of history that everyone misses because it is not taught outside of rare college courses, the history of the USA between the Revolutionary War and the seating of the Second Continental Congress.
Here’s a hint of what you probably missed in your history education: NH, VT, Maine. Even though they were created after the present Constitution was ratified their history of their creation were motivating factors in the seating of the Second Continental Congress.
Separation of church and state“ is paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson and used by others in expressing an understanding of the intent and function of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution which reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
The phrase “separation between church & state” is generally traced to a January 1, 1802, letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper. Jefferson wrote,
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.“
Article Six of the United States Constitutionalso specifies that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
Jefferson’s metaphor of a wall of separation has been cited repeatedly by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Reynolds v. United States(1879) the Court wrote that Jefferson’s comments “may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the [First] Amendment.” In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Justice Hugo Blackwrote: “In the words of Thomas Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect a wall of separation between church and state.”
“Oh sweet, poetic justice. Kyrsten Sinema, the first openly bisexual Senator in U.S. history, has been sworn into office using a law book instead of a bible by Mike Pence today. #116thCongress #swearinginday”
If she ever did read the Bible she would know that the Law about same-sex sex only applies to males. Bi-sexual women are perfectly acceptable under Biblical Law.
Consider: some people think the actual laws of our country might be more important for politicians to follow than any one interpretation of “biblical law.”
Laws are made by Men. Rights are given by God (like most of the things in the Bill of Rights). The pledge is not so much to uphold the Laws of Men but to uphold the Rights Given by God, The Creator.
If you take God out of the equation then you are saying that Man’s Law is all that matters which means that a person no longer has the Inalienable Right to themselves, their own life, much less their own property. Instead the State who makes the Laws has the power to dispose of an individual’s Rights, Life and Property as it sees fit.
This is against everything our nation was founded on.
See, this is why the constitution is so important. SOME people literally don’t know we have a separation of church and state.
Do you even know what the oath says?
The oath used today has not changed since 1966 and is prescribed in Title 5, Section 3331 of the United States Code. It reads: “I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
Where in there does it talk about “upholding the rights given by God”?
There is not one phrase anywhere in either the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence or the Federalist Papers that mentions a “Separation of Church and State”. What is mentioned is “Freedom of Religion” which is much different than “Freedom from Religion”.
In fact God is invoked many times throughout the Declaration of Independence as well as in the Federalist Papers (which explained what our Founders were thinking when they created the Second Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights).
In fact God is also invoked at the end of the Oath of Office.
There are a couple of reasons for the Freedom of Religion in the Bill of Rights.
One is to establish a Tribunal with the Press (and individual voices) to counter act the power of the State. Each on is to look out for each other, to keep any of the other two from gaining too much power over the individual and society.
The reason this was so important and a big reason the Second Continental Congress was called in the first place was the Union was breaking down under the prior Constitution which was more of a Confederacy than a Federation. In fact there were actual fighting and killing breaking out between several States. Some of this had to do with Religion. A few States had made ‘official religions’ and if you weren’t part of that religious sect you could not run for office and in a couple of States you could not own a business or any property. All of these religions were sects of Christianity.
So no, when people say that ‘Freedom of Religion’ was about the Church of England they are completely wrong. It was about Puritans, Anglicans, Quakers, and Presbyterians.
It was about the Freedom of Thought, but based upon the idea that there is indeed a Creator and Christ was His messenger (if not Him incarnate).
Not everyone, in fact many of the Founders themselves, were Deists whose thoughts on the Trinity were far from what mainstream and Fundamentalist religious sects believe today. Think Unitarian, not Southern Baptist. But everyone of them believed in a Christian God, a Christian Creator, who gave us Freewill and Free Thought and the freedom to disobey Him, but who tasked us to make a better world for ourselves and our loved ones, and to love one another and to help one another. And these tasks were given to every individual person to carry out. The Government was merely to defend the collective ‘us’ from those who would try to force their will on the individual. It’s purpose was never to be the caretaker of the people, to protect the individual from themselves or to aide in anyone to live. All of that was the domain of those who followed Christ, for it was Christ that said to take care of one another as a mandate from God. Christ also said give unto Caesar what Caesar’s and give unto God what is God’s. Welfare is undeniably God’s domain, not the government’s.
So yes, I know what the Oath says. I know what our Founding Fathers said. I know what the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Federalist Papers also say, four documents that cannot be separated and understood. I also know a period of history that everyone misses because it is not taught outside of rare college courses, the history of the USA between the Revolutionary War and the seating of the Second Continental Congress.
Here’s a hint of what you probably missed in your history education: NH, VT, Maine. Even though they were created after the present Constitution was ratified their history of their creation were motivating factors in the seating of the Second Continental Congress.
Separation of church and state“ is paraphrased from Thomas Jefferson and used by others in expressing an understanding of the intent and function of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution which reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
The phrase “separation between church & state” is generally traced to a January 1, 1802, letter by Thomas Jefferson, addressed to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper. Jefferson wrote,
“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.“
Article Six of the United States Constitutionalso specifies that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”
Jefferson’s metaphor of a wall of separation has been cited repeatedly by the U.S. Supreme Court. In Reynolds v. United States(1879) the Court wrote that Jefferson’s comments “may be accepted almost as an authoritative declaration of the scope and effect of the [First] Amendment.” In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Justice Hugo Blackwrote: “In the words of Thomas Jefferson, the clause against establishment of religion by law was intended to erect a wall of separation between church and state.”
THANK YOU! This is exactly what Black Women mean when we discuss intersectional civil rights and the fact that a lot of people don’t actually want equality. They just want the same privileges as White Men and everyone knows in order for White People as a whole to have those privileges someone has to suffer.
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and you should be too, because they’re just as great as anyone else and they put up with more shit ☺
