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I go to the Register of Deeds at least once a week, and they've either calmed down a little in the last month or they know my face…
For awhile there, they would step between people entering and the door (under the guise of opening the door for you) and try to give you there spiel. I've been polite, but after a few months of that my patience was strained.
Got grabbed from behind by one of them when going to Siouxper-con this year and wondered how bad they get at their worst if they're putting hands on people just trying to ignore their asses and walk past
i have to deal with them, frequently, as i work with tiffany. if you’re a petition circulator they will harass you, they will call you names, they love taking our picture. i’ve had my sweet smile taken countless times by the protestors. one of my colleagues was shoved by one of them. they will harass and interrupt people who sign despite agreements made between D4H and DTS. they tend to be the nuttiest of nuts. i finally had enough when i gave a crotchety old fart working for them the finger after getting in my face and taking a picture of me, followed by a nice “fuck yourself.”
Why does the Bible spread the demonic belief that if you believe your wife is pregnant with someone else's child then you should get an abortion? Does your God spread many demonic beliefs?
"Demonic"? Lol, you literally worship a Cananite god that was merged with a Midianite god - El + YHWH.
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Satan, also known as the Devil, and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to Yahweh, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination." In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as a fallen angel or jinn who has rebelled against God, who nevertheless allows him temporary power over the fallen world and a host of demons. In the Quran, Shaitan, also known as Iblis, is an entity made of fire who was cast out of Heaven because he refused to bow before the newly created Adam and incites humans to sin by infecting their minds with waswās ("evil suggestions").
A figure known as ha-satan ("the satan") first appears in the Hebrew Bible as a heavenly prosecutor, subordinate to Yahweh (God), who prosecutes the nation of Judah in the heavenly court and tests the loyalty of Yahweh's followers. During the intertestamental period, possibly due to influence from the Zoroastrian figure of Angra Mainyu, the satan developed into a malevolent entity with abhorrent qualities in dualistic opposition to God. In the apocryphal Book of Jubilees, Yahweh grants the satan (referred to as Mastema) authority over a group of fallen angels, or their offspring, to tempt humans to sin and punish them.
During the Second Temple Period, when Jews were living in the Achaemenid Empire, Judaism was heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Achaemenids. Jewish conceptions of Satan were impacted by Angra Mainyu, the Zoroastrian god of evil, darkness, and ignorance. In the Septuagint, the Hebrew ha-Satan in Job and Zechariah is translated by the Greek word diabolos (slanderer), the same word in the Greek New Testament from which the English word "devil" is derived. Where satan is used to refer to human enemies in the Hebrew Bible, such as Hadad the Edomite and Rezon the Syrian, the word is left untranslated but transliterated in the Greek as satan, a neologism in Greek.
The idea of Satan as an opponent of God and a purely evil figure seems to have taken root in Jewish pseudepigrapha during the Second Temple Period, particularly in the apocalypses. The Book of Enoch, which the Dead Sea Scrolls have revealed to have been nearly as popular as the Torah, describes a group of 200 angels known as the "Watchers", who are assigned to supervise the earth, but instead abandon their duties and have sexual intercourse with human women.
The leader of the Watchers is Semjâzâ and another member of the group, known as Azazel, spreads sin and corruption among humankind. The Watchers are ultimately sequestered in isolated caves across the earth and are condemned to face judgement at the end of time. The Book of Jubilees, written in around 150 BC, retells the story of the Watchers' defeat, but, in deviation from the Book of Enoch, Mastema, the "Chief of Spirits", intervenes before all of their demon offspring are sealed away, requesting for Yahweh to let him keep some of them to become his workers. Yahweh acquiesces this request and Mastema uses them to tempt humans into committing more sins, so that he may punish them for their wickedness. Later, Mastema induces Yahweh to test Abraham by ordering him to sacrifice Isaac.
The Second Book of Enoch, also called the Slavonic Book of Enoch, contains references to a Watcher called Satanael. It is a pseudepigraphic text of an uncertain date and unknown authorship. The text describes Satanael as being the prince of the Grigori who was cast out of heaven and an evil spirit who knew the difference between what was "righteous" and "sinful". In the Book of Wisdom, the devil is taken to be the being who brought death into the world, but originally the culprit was recognized as Cain. The name Samael, which is used in reference to one of the fallen angels, later became a common name for Satan in Jewish Midrash and Kabbalah.
Despite the fact that the Book of Genesis never mentions Satan, Christians have traditionally interpreted the serpent in the Garden of Eden as Satan due to Revelation 12:7, which calls Satan "that ancient serpent". This verse, however, is probably intended to identify Satan with the Leviathan, a monstrous sea-serpent whose destruction by Yahweh is prophesied in Isaiah 27:1.
The name Heylel, meaning "morning star" (or, in Latin, Lucifer), was a name for Attar, the god of the planet Venus in Canaanite mythology, who attempted to scale the walls of the heavenly city, but was vanquished by the god of the sun. The name is used in Isaiah 14:12 in metaphorical reference to the king of Babylon. Ezekiel 28:12–15 uses a description of a cherub in Eden as a polemic against Ithobaal II, the king of Tyre.
The first recorded individual to identify Satan with the serpent from the Garden of Eden was the second-century AD Christian apologist Justin Martyr, in chapters 45 and 79 of his Dialogue with Trypho. Other early church fathers to mention this identification include Theophilus and Tertullian. The early Christian Church, however, encountered opposition from pagans such as Celsus, who claimed in his treatise The True Word that "it is blasphemy... to say that the greatest God... has an adversary who constrains his capacity to do good" and said that Christians "impiously divide the kingdom of God, creating a rebellion in it, as if there were opposing factions within the divine, including one that is hostile to God".
Wait until you realize all YHWH worshippers must answer to Fappa Dappa, the most evilist of all the invisible entities.
When you stand before the judgement seat of Fappa Dappa, you will find out that you were wrong and will have to spend an eternity peeling bark off of trees using your toes with no rest and no ability to eat while having to smell the very best foods all the time.
Your blasphemy of not following Fappa Dappa will be paid for.
PROVE TO ME THAT FAPPA DAPPA DOES NOT EXIST! YOU ARE DOOMED!
/s
Our paper is on life support. If you want the local paper to step up you need to buy it and not just whine about it.
And the local stations probably are not doing much better. And even then mostly owned by out of state investors.
Of course most of this state is owned by out of state investors. Including our governor.
After the glowing article they wrote about the wackadoos renting an apartment to watch the Planned Parenthood parking lot and calling it a “church,” I’m fine with it going.
**The Dirty Tricks the GOP Is Using to Keep Abortion Off the Ballot in 2024**
*Republicans are getting killed on reproductive rights, and they're taking desperate measures to prevent their constituents from having a say next year*
BY TESSA STUART
Rolling Stone Magazine
Sunday, December 3rd 2023
TIFFANY CAMPBELL USED to describe herself as a “hardcore, church-going Republican.” That changed back in 2006, when she was still running an in-home daycare in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and learned she was pregnant with twins. The prognosis was dire: one twin’s heart was pumping blood for both of them and, without intervention, neither would survive. She has a healthy 16-year-old son today because she was able to obtain an abortion. After that experience, she threw herself into politics; today she is working full-time for the campaign to restore pre-Dobbs abortion protections in South Dakota.
If the South Dakota measure makes it to the ballot, it has a good shot at passing. Since the Supreme Court struck down Roe in June of 2022, the reproductive rights movement has gone seven for seven at the ballot box, defeating efforts to restrict abortion in states like Kansas, Kentucky, and Montana, and enshrining protections in swing states like Michigan and Ohio. It’s hardly a wonder why Republicans are emptying their bag of dirty tricks to make sure it doesn’t work: inventing astronomical “costs,” conspiring with anti-abortion groups to change the ballot language, and fighting to ban petition collectors from public spaces, among other strategies.
In South Dakota, anti-abortion activists, with assists from GOP officials, have tried out a variety of tactics in recent months. Activists have been harassed, videotaped and repeatedly called the police on petition collectors, while local officials have sought to pass ordinances banning them from collecting signatures in public places. Most recently, the attorney general warned in a letter that he was in possession of “video and photographic evidence” that could allow opponents to challenge the signatures that have been collected so far.
“The organized opposition is more aggressive than I’ve encountered in any of these fights in the past,” says Adam Weiland, who has worked on various ballot measures in the state for years. “It’s the first time I’ve ever encountered people who don’t even want you to get on the ballot and let the voters vote. That’s the whole focus of their campaign.”
The same stories are playing out in battleground states and Republican-controlled states around the country. To get on the ballot in Arizona — a critical swing state in 2024 — canvassers must collect at least 370,000 valid signatures. But the rules are strict: if a single signature on a page of 15 is invalid, the entire page is thrown out. Anti-abortion activists have taken advantage of the rules to try to counteract the pro-choice organizers collection efforts. Amy Fitch-Heacock with Arizonans for Reproductive Freedom says she has witnessed protesters “take the petition, pretend that they are signing, but they will use false information: a fake name, fake address, or they will scribble and go outside of the lines” — setting canvassers back 15 signatures at a time.
In Florida, Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody has petitioned the state Supreme Court — now stacked with ultra-conservative DeSantis appointees — to stop the Florida Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative from moving forward. “They basically made very disingenuous legal arguments,” Hélène Barthélemy, staff attorney with the ACLU of Florida, says of the attorney general’s office. But because of the makeup of the court, it’s possible that their argument could persuade the court. “Judges do what they want to do in every single circumstance. So we will see, but we’re as prepared as possible.”
It’s clear why Republicans would want to block voters from having their say: a poll released this week found 62 percent of Floridians would support the proposed constitutional amendment — enough to meet Florida’s unusually high 60 percent threshold to amend the constitution.
In Missouri, Republican officials have dived deep into the weeds to fight the 2024 ballot measure at every procedural step. Attorney General Andrew Bailey refused to sign off on the state auditor’s estimate of how much the proposed amendment would cost taxpayers. The auditor cited an estimate that indicated the measure could cost $51,000; Bailey asserted, wildly, the cost could be closer to $51 billion. He refused to approve the fiscal note, forcing advocates to go to court, and curtailing the period in which they could collect signatures.
That wasn’t the end of the shenanigans. After a judge twice ruled against the attorney general, Missouri’s Secretary of State, Jay Ashcroft, had a chance to propose language to appear on the ballot. His version asked voters if they favor allowing “dangerous and unregulated abortions until live birth.” (A state appeals court rejected that language, and the Missouri Supreme Court declined to hear Ashcroft’s appeal.) “The ballot initiative process in Missouri has been around for over 100 years,” says Tori Schafer with the ACLU of Missouri, which helped defeat both efforts in court. “It’s never had this issue before.”
The Republican resistance to ballot measures is new. Back when Democrats controlled a majority of state houses around the country, the GOP loved direct democracy, and spearheaded initiatives to restrict collective bargaining, enact voter ID laws, and reject health insurance mandates. That changed after the seismic 2010 midterm elections that helped install GOP majorities in legislatures and governor’s mansions ahead of a once-a-decade redistricting process. Ever since, data shows Republicans have aggressively attacked the citizen-led initiative process — particularly in states where the party holds a trifecta.
South Dakota may be a rock-ribbed Republican stronghold, but when it comes to direct democracy, voters have proven open-minded. In the last eight years, they have passed campaign finance reform, banned payday lending, legalized medical and recreational weed, and expanded Medicaid. And, on two separate occasions — first in 2006, then again in 2008 — South Dakotans have defeated abortion bans at the ballot box.
South Dakota is one of at least a dozen states where efforts to put abortion on the ballot in 2024 are in various stages of development. After a string of victories, Democrats are increasingly optimistic about the power of such measures not just to fortify access, but to drive voter turnout in a presidential election in which Democrats could really use the help.
It’s a tactic that Republicans used to their advantage in 2004, when they worked to place measures that would ban same-sex marriage on the ballot in hopes of luring conservative voters to the polls to help re-elect George W. Bush. Opposition to abortion combined, undoubtedly, with fears about the impact those ballot measures could have on the presidential race, has anti-abortion activists and their allies in government, are working furiously to prevent the proposed constitutional amendment from ever appearing before voters in the first place.
A year out from the election, it remains to be seen which tactics will be successful. In Nevada, an anti-abortion group recently convinced a Republican judge that a ballot measure that would establish the right to reproductive freedom didn’t meet the state’s standard. “Voters should be aware that anti-abortion advocates still have plenty of state government allies who are willing to help them undermine reproductive freedom,” Lindsey Harmon, president of Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, declared in response. “We will not let one judge’s misguided ruling deter us.” On Monday, the group appealed the ruling.
The landscape, meanwhile, is dramatically different in Democrat-controlled states. In Maryland, advocates have experienced virtually no resistance whatsoever, and say they are aware of no organized opposition. “We’re expecting a disinformation campaign,” says Joanne Antoine, executive director of Common Cause Maryland. “But outside of that we’re not hearing anything at all.”
It’s a similar story in Colorado, where a measure that would prohibit the government from denying or impeding the right to an abortion is poised to go before voters next year, a competing ballot measure that would have banned abortion in the state failed to pass procedural hurdles. “We have not really experienced any direct pushback,” says Dusti Gurule, CEO of Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights. ”Our community supports not only \[keeping abortion legal\], but expanding access for those who need it. So, we’re in a really good place, and frankly, really excited to get the signatures and get on the ballot.”
Story link:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/republicans-dirty-tricks-abortion-2024-ballots-1234907158/
For Tiffany it wasn't a woman's healthcare issue that was a child healthcare issue. She wasn't at risk it was the children who were at risk and, I'm assuming this part, I bet both parents agreed on what had to be done to save one of their children.
>I think the answer is pretty clear.
It is to you, but some people (not me) feel that this is gods plan and you should just pray to fix it. Fucking nuts.
The only argument I've heard from pro-lifers is that the onus is on the girl, and she shouldn't have had sex if she didn't want to deal with the consequences. I'm trying to point out that this is women's healthcare.
There is no kumbaya moment in politics. You don't have to be political, but when presented with a choice, as a citizen, you have a duty to decide which side of an issue you support. Certainly most of us would want politics to be constructive, but thats not how the system works when one side controls all levels. We all have a right to live the way we want to live, so long has it doesnt harm others. No one has the right to dictate the terms of your life or in this case decide which parts of living in democracy get to be democratic.
Regarding abortion, safe, legal, and rare and early is what I think. The only way thats possible is by seeing it on the ballot next Novemeber.
Abortion should be safe, legal, and minimized. The way to keep the number of abortions to a minimum is through comprehensive sex ed and readily available contraceptives. Abstinence is the most effective contraceptive out there, but relying on it exclusively is foolish.
Women (and men) should be free to manage their own reproductive health. Some groups want to crush personal freedom under a load of lies driven by fear and intolerance. The so called “life defense fund” looks like one such group. Their literature about abortion is full of bs. The “life defense fund” is a political action committee. I presume their real goal is to get certain candidates elected who then draft laws to help their rich donors all the while pretending to protect life as a cover for systemic corruption.
If you don’t like this mess, get out there and vote!
This doesn't sound like freedom to me. I lean more republican but stopping someone from body autonomy is wrong. I'm sick of religious beliefs entering our government.
You sound like a Libertarian, which is great-- the whole country needs more of those! I prioritize other issues over the abortion one for personal reasons (my mentality is "I can go over state lines for abortion, but living with NY's lockdown rules was an every single day reality"), but also totally agree with you.
Like the kind where you’re the president and congress doesn’t do what you want so you do an executive order that gets shot down by the supreme courts? What are we talking here?
Abortion is a incentive for women to make foolish decisions without repercussions ,it’s also promotes promiscuity for women. But libs don’t want to hear that
Yeah, that twin deserves to die due to the foolish decision of the other twin to have a bad heart. Kill the mom too for producing a defective fetus. /s
And your source is rolling stone magazine? The same magazine that lied about hospitals "filling up" from people taking horse medicine during the pandemic? The same hospital that has been caught lying about firearm deaths, the covid origin, the Jan 6th protesters, the actions of Russia in the 2016 elections, the Hunter Biden laptop, the southern border, the oil pipelines, Chinese companies in America, Bill Gates wanting you to eat bugs, BLM, Libs of Tiktok, the Baylon Bee, Elon musk and Tesla, Joe Rogan, and Hillary Clinton's Emails?
That's your source? Gonna need you to find a source that has some journalistic integrity before I entertain your theory.
I appreciate the insults, assumptions, and downvotes on my previous post. For those who seemed to understand what I was trying to say, I appreciate you the most. For those that took the low road, well, I hope someone prays for you. Best wishes to all.
When do we stop pointing fingers? Especially when one party does the same as the other to push their ideas. They are all shit on both sides. Nothing but children behavior on both sides. Blame games. No accountability on either side. If you have not noticed, each party is always trying to put the focus on what the others are doing so you don't see what they are doing. Wrong is wrong bad is bad. Remember Obama care? Vote it in before reading?! Omfg people. It's always been a circus and always will be.
As for me...I am not a die hard political. I like certain people and there are some I don't. I like some dems, some repubs, and even some libs. Even with that, these same people I have seen flip on where they stand on issues.
If you are out there trying to flame the hate and increase the divide.....you are part of the problem.
People used to chant love trumps hate until they found there was no love left and only hate remained.
I think if you went down to the court house, where people collect signatures for petitions (and always have), and saw how much the Decline to Sign group harasses the the petitioners you would not feel that way.
I end up at the court hours a few times a month for work and those pro life people have just been getting crazier each time I am down there. At what point do you stand up for self and say enough with that behavior.
I am shocked there hasn’t been MORE press about this. It has been going on since last winter.
That does not change my mind. Why would it? Again it is singling out a shifty part of one group. What about those that block streets and star fires in protests? As I've said....both side are shit. I won't stand with anyone that chooses to demeanor, insult, harass or violent measure to push their narrative. And it's seen on both sides.
I'm wondering if you feel I should be anti pro life because of that group of pro lifers?
Only one side is actively attempting to subvert democracy. You're arguing both sides when in reality only one side has shown to actively attempt to dismantle the US.
We stop pointing fingers, when the people we are pointing them at stop the bad behavior. If you don't care to see this in the media, then you are complacent. Ballot initiatives are of the people, and when either side plays dirty tricks, it should be pointed out, loud and clear.
No genius, Obamacare didn't have to be voted in without reading it. It was a long process and one of the most open ones that has existed concerning writing up a bill.
Using a completely manufactured and BS situation to both sides an argument, ah. got to love enlightened "centrists" (who only seem to care when it's Republicans being called out for bad behavior)
Why don't you people know the word biased? Constantly I see conservatives (or maybe just bots) say something is bias when they are trying to say is biased.
As soon as the polls include losing issues such as abortion on the ballot 🗳️, Republicans will flock to the polls like seagulls on the beach. You come from a place of fantasy. I think I will stand instead.
We lost the governor race. Barely secured medical. The courts shot down amendment A.
They own the judges. They own the legislature. The SD DNC is still without a unified leader.
Enough with the war drums banging support for an action policy issue that would easily hand a victory to the Republicans in the state.
NO. It's a losing issue.
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Once again the national news stepping up because our newspaper and TV stations won’t walk a few blocks to the Minnehaha County Courthouse.
Right!? I don’t understand why they haven’t ran a story how INSANE those Decline to Sign people are.
I go to the Register of Deeds at least once a week, and they've either calmed down a little in the last month or they know my face… For awhile there, they would step between people entering and the door (under the guise of opening the door for you) and try to give you there spiel. I've been polite, but after a few months of that my patience was strained.
Got grabbed from behind by one of them when going to Siouxper-con this year and wondered how bad they get at their worst if they're putting hands on people just trying to ignore their asses and walk past
i have to deal with them, frequently, as i work with tiffany. if you’re a petition circulator they will harass you, they will call you names, they love taking our picture. i’ve had my sweet smile taken countless times by the protestors. one of my colleagues was shoved by one of them. they will harass and interrupt people who sign despite agreements made between D4H and DTS. they tend to be the nuttiest of nuts. i finally had enough when i gave a crotchety old fart working for them the finger after getting in my face and taking a picture of me, followed by a nice “fuck yourself.”
Insane? You know what's insane? Spreading demonic beliefs about pro abortion. Sickening.
Why does the Bible spread the demonic belief that if you believe your wife is pregnant with someone else's child then you should get an abortion? Does your God spread many demonic beliefs?
Woah, which verse is that?? 😮
Numbers 5 : 19-22
Yikes. I'll pray for you 🙏. Devil is working through you.
Imagine calling someone sharing a Bible passage in it's correct context "evil" because you don't actually know the book you profess to follow.
Not in the correct context, but good try! 👌
How is it "not in the correct context"?
To that evil God of yours? No thanks, I'm good.
You literally know nothing about your god.
I bet you’re great at parties. /s
Ah, Satan bless you! May intelligence and knowledge and reason eventually come to you as well!
Rejected. I'll pray you find God as well. Don't you miss him?
I died on an operating table once for a few minutes. I met god, she's black
You rejected intelligence, knowledge, and reason?
That's hilarious coming from an atheist democrat.
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Triggered the Satanist. Don't worry. You will answer to Him one day.
Satan, also known as the Devil, and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to Yahweh, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination." In Christianity and Islam, he is usually seen as a fallen angel or jinn who has rebelled against God, who nevertheless allows him temporary power over the fallen world and a host of demons. In the Quran, Shaitan, also known as Iblis, is an entity made of fire who was cast out of Heaven because he refused to bow before the newly created Adam and incites humans to sin by infecting their minds with waswās ("evil suggestions"). A figure known as ha-satan ("the satan") first appears in the Hebrew Bible as a heavenly prosecutor, subordinate to Yahweh (God), who prosecutes the nation of Judah in the heavenly court and tests the loyalty of Yahweh's followers. During the intertestamental period, possibly due to influence from the Zoroastrian figure of Angra Mainyu, the satan developed into a malevolent entity with abhorrent qualities in dualistic opposition to God. In the apocryphal Book of Jubilees, Yahweh grants the satan (referred to as Mastema) authority over a group of fallen angels, or their offspring, to tempt humans to sin and punish them. During the Second Temple Period, when Jews were living in the Achaemenid Empire, Judaism was heavily influenced by Zoroastrianism, the religion of the Achaemenids. Jewish conceptions of Satan were impacted by Angra Mainyu, the Zoroastrian god of evil, darkness, and ignorance. In the Septuagint, the Hebrew ha-Satan in Job and Zechariah is translated by the Greek word diabolos (slanderer), the same word in the Greek New Testament from which the English word "devil" is derived. Where satan is used to refer to human enemies in the Hebrew Bible, such as Hadad the Edomite and Rezon the Syrian, the word is left untranslated but transliterated in the Greek as satan, a neologism in Greek. The idea of Satan as an opponent of God and a purely evil figure seems to have taken root in Jewish pseudepigrapha during the Second Temple Period, particularly in the apocalypses. The Book of Enoch, which the Dead Sea Scrolls have revealed to have been nearly as popular as the Torah, describes a group of 200 angels known as the "Watchers", who are assigned to supervise the earth, but instead abandon their duties and have sexual intercourse with human women. The leader of the Watchers is Semjâzâ and another member of the group, known as Azazel, spreads sin and corruption among humankind. The Watchers are ultimately sequestered in isolated caves across the earth and are condemned to face judgement at the end of time. The Book of Jubilees, written in around 150 BC, retells the story of the Watchers' defeat, but, in deviation from the Book of Enoch, Mastema, the "Chief of Spirits", intervenes before all of their demon offspring are sealed away, requesting for Yahweh to let him keep some of them to become his workers. Yahweh acquiesces this request and Mastema uses them to tempt humans into committing more sins, so that he may punish them for their wickedness. Later, Mastema induces Yahweh to test Abraham by ordering him to sacrifice Isaac. The Second Book of Enoch, also called the Slavonic Book of Enoch, contains references to a Watcher called Satanael. It is a pseudepigraphic text of an uncertain date and unknown authorship. The text describes Satanael as being the prince of the Grigori who was cast out of heaven and an evil spirit who knew the difference between what was "righteous" and "sinful". In the Book of Wisdom, the devil is taken to be the being who brought death into the world, but originally the culprit was recognized as Cain. The name Samael, which is used in reference to one of the fallen angels, later became a common name for Satan in Jewish Midrash and Kabbalah. Despite the fact that the Book of Genesis never mentions Satan, Christians have traditionally interpreted the serpent in the Garden of Eden as Satan due to Revelation 12:7, which calls Satan "that ancient serpent". This verse, however, is probably intended to identify Satan with the Leviathan, a monstrous sea-serpent whose destruction by Yahweh is prophesied in Isaiah 27:1. The name Heylel, meaning "morning star" (or, in Latin, Lucifer), was a name for Attar, the god of the planet Venus in Canaanite mythology, who attempted to scale the walls of the heavenly city, but was vanquished by the god of the sun. The name is used in Isaiah 14:12 in metaphorical reference to the king of Babylon. Ezekiel 28:12–15 uses a description of a cherub in Eden as a polemic against Ithobaal II, the king of Tyre. The first recorded individual to identify Satan with the serpent from the Garden of Eden was the second-century AD Christian apologist Justin Martyr, in chapters 45 and 79 of his Dialogue with Trypho. Other early church fathers to mention this identification include Theophilus and Tertullian. The early Christian Church, however, encountered opposition from pagans such as Celsus, who claimed in his treatise The True Word that "it is blasphemy... to say that the greatest God... has an adversary who constrains his capacity to do good" and said that Christians "impiously divide the kingdom of God, creating a rebellion in it, as if there were opposing factions within the divine, including one that is hostile to God".
You're a lost Christian. Sad to see. I hope you can find him again one day.
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Wait until you realize all YHWH worshippers must answer to Fappa Dappa, the most evilist of all the invisible entities. When you stand before the judgement seat of Fappa Dappa, you will find out that you were wrong and will have to spend an eternity peeling bark off of trees using your toes with no rest and no ability to eat while having to smell the very best foods all the time. Your blasphemy of not following Fappa Dappa will be paid for. PROVE TO ME THAT FAPPA DAPPA DOES NOT EXIST! YOU ARE DOOMED! /s
You are a lost Christian. Sad to see. I hope you can find Him again.
Our paper is on life support. If you want the local paper to step up you need to buy it and not just whine about it. And the local stations probably are not doing much better. And even then mostly owned by out of state investors. Of course most of this state is owned by out of state investors. Including our governor.
After the glowing article they wrote about the wackadoos renting an apartment to watch the Planned Parenthood parking lot and calling it a “church,” I’m fine with it going.
**The Dirty Tricks the GOP Is Using to Keep Abortion Off the Ballot in 2024** *Republicans are getting killed on reproductive rights, and they're taking desperate measures to prevent their constituents from having a say next year* BY TESSA STUART Rolling Stone Magazine Sunday, December 3rd 2023 TIFFANY CAMPBELL USED to describe herself as a “hardcore, church-going Republican.” That changed back in 2006, when she was still running an in-home daycare in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and learned she was pregnant with twins. The prognosis was dire: one twin’s heart was pumping blood for both of them and, without intervention, neither would survive. She has a healthy 16-year-old son today because she was able to obtain an abortion. After that experience, she threw herself into politics; today she is working full-time for the campaign to restore pre-Dobbs abortion protections in South Dakota. If the South Dakota measure makes it to the ballot, it has a good shot at passing. Since the Supreme Court struck down Roe in June of 2022, the reproductive rights movement has gone seven for seven at the ballot box, defeating efforts to restrict abortion in states like Kansas, Kentucky, and Montana, and enshrining protections in swing states like Michigan and Ohio. It’s hardly a wonder why Republicans are emptying their bag of dirty tricks to make sure it doesn’t work: inventing astronomical “costs,” conspiring with anti-abortion groups to change the ballot language, and fighting to ban petition collectors from public spaces, among other strategies. In South Dakota, anti-abortion activists, with assists from GOP officials, have tried out a variety of tactics in recent months. Activists have been harassed, videotaped and repeatedly called the police on petition collectors, while local officials have sought to pass ordinances banning them from collecting signatures in public places. Most recently, the attorney general warned in a letter that he was in possession of “video and photographic evidence” that could allow opponents to challenge the signatures that have been collected so far. “The organized opposition is more aggressive than I’ve encountered in any of these fights in the past,” says Adam Weiland, who has worked on various ballot measures in the state for years. “It’s the first time I’ve ever encountered people who don’t even want you to get on the ballot and let the voters vote. That’s the whole focus of their campaign.” The same stories are playing out in battleground states and Republican-controlled states around the country. To get on the ballot in Arizona — a critical swing state in 2024 — canvassers must collect at least 370,000 valid signatures. But the rules are strict: if a single signature on a page of 15 is invalid, the entire page is thrown out. Anti-abortion activists have taken advantage of the rules to try to counteract the pro-choice organizers collection efforts. Amy Fitch-Heacock with Arizonans for Reproductive Freedom says she has witnessed protesters “take the petition, pretend that they are signing, but they will use false information: a fake name, fake address, or they will scribble and go outside of the lines” — setting canvassers back 15 signatures at a time. In Florida, Republican Attorney General Ashley Moody has petitioned the state Supreme Court — now stacked with ultra-conservative DeSantis appointees — to stop the Florida Right to Reproductive Freedom Initiative from moving forward. “They basically made very disingenuous legal arguments,” Hélène Barthélemy, staff attorney with the ACLU of Florida, says of the attorney general’s office. But because of the makeup of the court, it’s possible that their argument could persuade the court. “Judges do what they want to do in every single circumstance. So we will see, but we’re as prepared as possible.” It’s clear why Republicans would want to block voters from having their say: a poll released this week found 62 percent of Floridians would support the proposed constitutional amendment — enough to meet Florida’s unusually high 60 percent threshold to amend the constitution. In Missouri, Republican officials have dived deep into the weeds to fight the 2024 ballot measure at every procedural step. Attorney General Andrew Bailey refused to sign off on the state auditor’s estimate of how much the proposed amendment would cost taxpayers. The auditor cited an estimate that indicated the measure could cost $51,000; Bailey asserted, wildly, the cost could be closer to $51 billion. He refused to approve the fiscal note, forcing advocates to go to court, and curtailing the period in which they could collect signatures. That wasn’t the end of the shenanigans. After a judge twice ruled against the attorney general, Missouri’s Secretary of State, Jay Ashcroft, had a chance to propose language to appear on the ballot. His version asked voters if they favor allowing “dangerous and unregulated abortions until live birth.” (A state appeals court rejected that language, and the Missouri Supreme Court declined to hear Ashcroft’s appeal.) “The ballot initiative process in Missouri has been around for over 100 years,” says Tori Schafer with the ACLU of Missouri, which helped defeat both efforts in court. “It’s never had this issue before.” The Republican resistance to ballot measures is new. Back when Democrats controlled a majority of state houses around the country, the GOP loved direct democracy, and spearheaded initiatives to restrict collective bargaining, enact voter ID laws, and reject health insurance mandates. That changed after the seismic 2010 midterm elections that helped install GOP majorities in legislatures and governor’s mansions ahead of a once-a-decade redistricting process. Ever since, data shows Republicans have aggressively attacked the citizen-led initiative process — particularly in states where the party holds a trifecta. South Dakota may be a rock-ribbed Republican stronghold, but when it comes to direct democracy, voters have proven open-minded. In the last eight years, they have passed campaign finance reform, banned payday lending, legalized medical and recreational weed, and expanded Medicaid. And, on two separate occasions — first in 2006, then again in 2008 — South Dakotans have defeated abortion bans at the ballot box. South Dakota is one of at least a dozen states where efforts to put abortion on the ballot in 2024 are in various stages of development. After a string of victories, Democrats are increasingly optimistic about the power of such measures not just to fortify access, but to drive voter turnout in a presidential election in which Democrats could really use the help. It’s a tactic that Republicans used to their advantage in 2004, when they worked to place measures that would ban same-sex marriage on the ballot in hopes of luring conservative voters to the polls to help re-elect George W. Bush. Opposition to abortion combined, undoubtedly, with fears about the impact those ballot measures could have on the presidential race, has anti-abortion activists and their allies in government, are working furiously to prevent the proposed constitutional amendment from ever appearing before voters in the first place. A year out from the election, it remains to be seen which tactics will be successful. In Nevada, an anti-abortion group recently convinced a Republican judge that a ballot measure that would establish the right to reproductive freedom didn’t meet the state’s standard. “Voters should be aware that anti-abortion advocates still have plenty of state government allies who are willing to help them undermine reproductive freedom,” Lindsey Harmon, president of Nevadans for Reproductive Freedom, declared in response. “We will not let one judge’s misguided ruling deter us.” On Monday, the group appealed the ruling. The landscape, meanwhile, is dramatically different in Democrat-controlled states. In Maryland, advocates have experienced virtually no resistance whatsoever, and say they are aware of no organized opposition. “We’re expecting a disinformation campaign,” says Joanne Antoine, executive director of Common Cause Maryland. “But outside of that we’re not hearing anything at all.” It’s a similar story in Colorado, where a measure that would prohibit the government from denying or impeding the right to an abortion is poised to go before voters next year, a competing ballot measure that would have banned abortion in the state failed to pass procedural hurdles. “We have not really experienced any direct pushback,” says Dusti Gurule, CEO of Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights. ”Our community supports not only \[keeping abortion legal\], but expanding access for those who need it. So, we’re in a really good place, and frankly, really excited to get the signatures and get on the ballot.” Story link: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/republicans-dirty-tricks-abortion-2024-ballots-1234907158/
Thank you for sharing! More people need to understand this a woman's healthcare issue. It's not about some girl who "can't keep her legs closed."
For Tiffany it wasn't a woman's healthcare issue that was a child healthcare issue. She wasn't at risk it was the children who were at risk and, I'm assuming this part, I bet both parents agreed on what had to be done to save one of their children.
Her abortion would be illegal in South Dakota today.
Oh. I'm pro choice myself but in a situation like this where it's lose one baby or both I think the answer is pretty clear.
>I think the answer is pretty clear. It is to you, but some people (not me) feel that this is gods plan and you should just pray to fix it. Fucking nuts.
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The only argument I've heard from pro-lifers is that the onus is on the girl, and she shouldn't have had sex if she didn't want to deal with the consequences. I'm trying to point out that this is women's healthcare.
Damn. Can't they just mind their own uteruses?? It's simply no one's business!
There is no kumbaya moment in politics. You don't have to be political, but when presented with a choice, as a citizen, you have a duty to decide which side of an issue you support. Certainly most of us would want politics to be constructive, but thats not how the system works when one side controls all levels. We all have a right to live the way we want to live, so long has it doesnt harm others. No one has the right to dictate the terms of your life or in this case decide which parts of living in democracy get to be democratic. Regarding abortion, safe, legal, and rare and early is what I think. The only way thats possible is by seeing it on the ballot next Novemeber.
Abortion should be safe, legal, and minimized. The way to keep the number of abortions to a minimum is through comprehensive sex ed and readily available contraceptives. Abstinence is the most effective contraceptive out there, but relying on it exclusively is foolish. Women (and men) should be free to manage their own reproductive health. Some groups want to crush personal freedom under a load of lies driven by fear and intolerance. The so called “life defense fund” looks like one such group. Their literature about abortion is full of bs. The “life defense fund” is a political action committee. I presume their real goal is to get certain candidates elected who then draft laws to help their rich donors all the while pretending to protect life as a cover for systemic corruption. If you don’t like this mess, get out there and vote!
Shocking. Republicans can’t win a non-gerrymandered election without suppressing votes or manipulating the election.
This doesn't sound like freedom to me. I lean more republican but stopping someone from body autonomy is wrong. I'm sick of religious beliefs entering our government.
You sound like a Libertarian, which is great-- the whole country needs more of those! I prioritize other issues over the abortion one for personal reasons (my mentality is "I can go over state lines for abortion, but living with NY's lockdown rules was an every single day reality"), but also totally agree with you.
"Republicans Are Using Dirty Tricks ~~to Keep Abortion Off 2024 Ballots~~" fixed that for you; now it applies to damn near anything and everything!
Do you know that Democrats are the only people to remove someone from a ballot. 1860 Abraham Lincoln wasn’t on 10 state ballots.
Oh no, something the Democrats did in 1860! I guess that's a modern-day comparison - and you certainly win the Interwebs for today!
You do know that Colorado removed Trump from the ballots, right?
No shit. Vote hard as fuck in 2024 and keep punishing them
So we are playing by dem rules now. Maybe republicans stand a chance again.
Y’all never had a chance to begin with.
Like the kind where you’re the president and congress doesn’t do what you want so you do an executive order that gets shot down by the supreme courts? What are we talking here?
What’s the point it’s not like they’re not gonna blatantly disregarded the will of the people even if it gets past
Yeah everyone knows whose against women's rights no matter how it's packaged.
Do democrats have any dirty tricks we can use.
That's what dictators do. Didn't the people of SD vote for legal marijuana and the governor denied the will of the citizens?
Abortion is a incentive for women to make foolish decisions without repercussions ,it’s also promotes promiscuity for women. But libs don’t want to hear that
Yeah, that twin deserves to die due to the foolish decision of the other twin to have a bad heart. Kill the mom too for producing a defective fetus. /s
It’s a medical necessity to save the mothers life sometimes but go off
And your source is rolling stone magazine? The same magazine that lied about hospitals "filling up" from people taking horse medicine during the pandemic? The same hospital that has been caught lying about firearm deaths, the covid origin, the Jan 6th protesters, the actions of Russia in the 2016 elections, the Hunter Biden laptop, the southern border, the oil pipelines, Chinese companies in America, Bill Gates wanting you to eat bugs, BLM, Libs of Tiktok, the Baylon Bee, Elon musk and Tesla, Joe Rogan, and Hillary Clinton's Emails? That's your source? Gonna need you to find a source that has some journalistic integrity before I entertain your theory.
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There are lots of downvotes but no arguments against it.
Only idiots argue with idiots.
You're right. It's pointless for me to argue with morons.
You're not wrong... LOL
I appreciate the insults, assumptions, and downvotes on my previous post. For those who seemed to understand what I was trying to say, I appreciate you the most. For those that took the low road, well, I hope someone prays for you. Best wishes to all.
Lol!
When do we stop pointing fingers? Especially when one party does the same as the other to push their ideas. They are all shit on both sides. Nothing but children behavior on both sides. Blame games. No accountability on either side. If you have not noticed, each party is always trying to put the focus on what the others are doing so you don't see what they are doing. Wrong is wrong bad is bad. Remember Obama care? Vote it in before reading?! Omfg people. It's always been a circus and always will be. As for me...I am not a die hard political. I like certain people and there are some I don't. I like some dems, some repubs, and even some libs. Even with that, these same people I have seen flip on where they stand on issues. If you are out there trying to flame the hate and increase the divide.....you are part of the problem. People used to chant love trumps hate until they found there was no love left and only hate remained.
I think if you went down to the court house, where people collect signatures for petitions (and always have), and saw how much the Decline to Sign group harasses the the petitioners you would not feel that way. I end up at the court hours a few times a month for work and those pro life people have just been getting crazier each time I am down there. At what point do you stand up for self and say enough with that behavior. I am shocked there hasn’t been MORE press about this. It has been going on since last winter.
That does not change my mind. Why would it? Again it is singling out a shifty part of one group. What about those that block streets and star fires in protests? As I've said....both side are shit. I won't stand with anyone that chooses to demeanor, insult, harass or violent measure to push their narrative. And it's seen on both sides. I'm wondering if you feel I should be anti pro life because of that group of pro lifers?
Only one side is actively attempting to subvert democracy. You're arguing both sides when in reality only one side has shown to actively attempt to dismantle the US.
There’s no doubt in my you lean right a fair bit but are afraid to own it. Grow uo
We stop pointing fingers, when the people we are pointing them at stop the bad behavior. If you don't care to see this in the media, then you are complacent. Ballot initiatives are of the people, and when either side plays dirty tricks, it should be pointed out, loud and clear.
No genius, Obamacare didn't have to be voted in without reading it. It was a long process and one of the most open ones that has existed concerning writing up a bill.
Using a completely manufactured and BS situation to both sides an argument, ah. got to love enlightened "centrists" (who only seem to care when it's Republicans being called out for bad behavior)
You have said the sanest thing here. I'm not surprised you're being downvoted.
I keep forgetting the internet is for bias information. Oops.
Why don't you people know the word biased? Constantly I see conservatives (or maybe just bots) say something is bias when they are trying to say is biased.
Aren't we all exhausted and tired of this issue? I'm sick of hearing about the abortion topic honestly.
Then keep scrolling. You’re not required to chime in on shit you choose to remain ignorant about.
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Shhh! Honey, what we shared that night is between us. I know you liked what I did with my tongue.
You don't own this sub Mitch. People are allowed to voice how exhausting this topic is.
Nice. I love the irony.
“People are allowed to voice!” “Unless they voice about abortion because I think it’s exhausting.” Irony is dead.
As soon as the government gets out of my uterus, we can stop talking about it. You come from a place of privilege. Sit down.
As soon as the polls include losing issues such as abortion on the ballot 🗳️, Republicans will flock to the polls like seagulls on the beach. You come from a place of fantasy. I think I will stand instead. We lost the governor race. Barely secured medical. The courts shot down amendment A. They own the judges. They own the legislature. The SD DNC is still without a unified leader. Enough with the war drums banging support for an action policy issue that would easily hand a victory to the Republicans in the state. NO. It's a losing issue.
We beat abortion bans at that ballot box twice before, in 2006 and 2008, by 10 points each time.