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beckychandler

31-35, F

United States

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Mom, recovering attorney, Catholic

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I Love the South

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“The notion of the perfectibility of man came about at the time of the Enlightenment in the 18th century. This is what the South has traditionally opposed…The South…still believes that man has fallen and that he is perfectible by God’s grace, not by ...

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I Am A Strict Mom

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Summer rules....

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I Love The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy

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“Indeed, as with St Augustine as the barbarians tore through Rome’s gate on August 24, 410, at midnight -- at the end of World War II J.R.R. Tolkien looked out over a ruined world: a world on one side controlled by ideologues, and, consequently, a...

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Why did Tim Farron resign as leader of the Liberal Democrats?

“Part of the disastrous campaign for the Lib Dems was the fact that its leader [Tim Farron] was constantly interrogated for his religious beliefs, beliefs that had little to do with his public leadership. Farron had a long record of supporting gay ri...

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I Love the Blessed Virgin Mary

Today is the hundredth anniversary of the second appearance of the “beautiful lady about sixteen years of age” in Fatima, Portugal. Although dated, this is an extraordinarily good documentary, hosted by Ricardo Montalban, about the timeless events of...

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I Am A Strict Mom

And you wonder why Asians get all the good jobs. A few weeks ago, outside the Alexander School of Science in Singapore, this child got it from her Tiger Mom with a little assistance from Dad....

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I Like Quotes and Sayings

"If you will read my “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres” [http://bit.ly/1PC7Ned – free download] — the last chapter is the only thing I ever wrote that I almost think good." ~ Henry Adams (J. C. Levinson et al. eds., “The Letters of Henry Adam...

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I Am Against Feminism

“Killary Clinton represents, to me, the triumph of second wave feminism. If first wave feminism was about legal and political equality (a woman should be able to sign contracts, own land, vote), then second wave feminism was more about a Machiavellia...

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"Moralists always have a sense of justice, but it may be a completely fanciful justice. Disney has his Pinocchio’s nose grow whenever he lies. In the book, however, while Pinocchio lies all the time, and while his lies never go unpunished, the...

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I Have Something to Say

Don't confuse the return of Ariana Grande to Manchester with the corporal or spiritual Works of Mercy http://bit.ly/2se8Uxb; nor with the triumph of Western liberal debauchery over radical Islam. http://bit.ly/2rUiDM0

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Wouldn't it be a good time for the imams & mullahs of the world to clarify what happened to the soul of the Manchester bomber?

It seems well past time to press for an answer to this troubling question. If Islam really is a force for peace, then Muslim leaders could prove it by uniting to warn potential jihadists that God is not pleased with the murder of innocents, and that ...

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I Like Quotes and Sayings

“I love my family. My grandparents were and are Catholic. My mom is ‘spiritual but not religious.' My dad is nothing, I guess. I actually don't see the point to living as my parents have lived without hope, without traditions. They are both...

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Hey Bill Nye.....

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I Love the Blessed Virgin Mary

St. John Cantius in Chicago is holding a number of events in their observance of the 100th anniversary of the appearances of the Virgin Mary at Fatima. This included a procession which stretched for at least a mile......

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I Love Salvador Dali's Paintings

Another Secret of Fatima.....In 1959 Salvador Dali was a celebrated atheist when he was commissioned by the World Apostlate of Fatima to portray the the first part of the secret witnessed in 1917 by the three shepherd children -- a vision of Hell. It...

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I Like Quotes and Sayings

“It is difficult to fear death if one is very pious. It is difficult not to worship health if one fears death. It is difficult to enforce general health without large-scale state intervention and it is equally difficult to imagine increased state int...

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Will a Boomer ever apologize for the mess they left us?

This one did....

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I Love the Blessed Virgin Mary

During the next couple weeks a great deal of hoopla will begin, and continue in a crescendo to October 13, in the Catholic orbit over the hundredth anniversary of the Marian apparitions at Fatima, Portugal. It was such an unworldly and shocking even...

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I Am Roman Catholic

Today the Church celebrates St. Joseph the Worker, established in 1955 by Pope Pius XII to emphasize the Christian concept of labor as opposed to that of Marx and the socialists who have endeavored to make May 1 their own http://bit.ly/2oQEqmU

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