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The United States At 250 - Day 4

The Holy Stones Lie Scattered 4  How the gold has grown dim,      how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered      at the head of every street. 2  The precious sons of Zion,      worth their weight in fine gold, how they are regarded as earthen pots,      the work of a potter's hands! 3  Even jackals offer the breast;      they nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel,      like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4  The tongue of the nursing infant sticks      to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food,      but no one gives to them. 5  Those who once feasted on delicacies      perish in the streets; those who were brought up in purple      embrace ash heaps. 6  For the chastisement [ a ]...
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Why People Are Destroyed For Lack Of Knowledge

From Religion News Service  WASHINGTON (RNS) — When Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia walked into Speaker Mike Johnson’s office last month, the two men already held starkly different political views. By the time the meeting ended 30 minutes later, it was clear they also sit on different ends of the Christian spectrum. Warnock, a Democrat and pastor of a prominent Black church, had raised questions in an  interview with The New York Times  a few days prior about whether the speaker’s Republican politics reflected his professed faith. The senator described himself as a “Matthew 25 Christian,” referring to a biblical passage that features Jesus telling his followers a parable in which “all the nations” are judged by how they care for the “least of these” — described as the hungry, the stranger and the imprisoned, among others. How, Warnock had told the Times, do you “say a long prayer, hold hands with your fellow legislators and then cut a trillion dollars out of Medicaid?” In...
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