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** FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2023
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There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few went to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.
– Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience ([link removed]) [1849]
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** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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October 13, 2023
The Christian Perversion of Christianity ([link removed])
The website Sojourners recently published an article entitled “Who Would Jesus Cut from Medicaid?” by the organization’s political director Lauren W. Reliford. According to its website, Soujourners is “an ecumenical Christian media and advocacy organization that works towards social and racial justice…. Sojourners are Christians who follow Jesus, but who also sojourn with others in different faith traditions and all those ...
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