Blog Heap of Links for the day 8 December 2017

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Raising Ourselves

The Justice Department has launched a federal investigation into Planned Parenthood’s practices and the sale of fetal tissue. … Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd formally requested unredacted documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee, the same panel that led the congressional probe into the women’s health organization.…

11:55am CST Fri 2017 Dec 8 :MW

Spiritual Matters

Star Bright

Pope Francis has suggested he wants to make a change to The Lord's Prayer… he would prefer to adjust the phrase “lead us not into temptation,” saying that it too strongly suggested that God leads people to sin.…

Much as I dislike most of what I've heard from this Pope, on this one, I'm in agreement. This one bothered me as a little kid, for just these reasons. When I got older, I assumed it was something distorted in translation.

One of several reasons I appreciate the "original" version as allegedly revealed in the Urantia papers.

Our Father who is in heaven,
Hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come; your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our bread for tomorrow;
Refresh our souls with the water of life.
And forgive us every one our debts
As we also have forgiven our debtors.
Save us in temptation, deliver us from evil,
And increasingly make us perfect like yourself.

12:08pm CST Fri 2017 Dec 8 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

John Lennon

…On this day in 1980 John Lennon was murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City. He was murdered by Mark David Chapman who got a plea bargain for 2nd degree murder. He shot Lennon with an illegal (in NYC) .38 special revolver.…

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11:39am CST Fri 2017 Dec 8 :MW