3,700-Year-Old Babylonian Stone Tablet, and other links

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• 3,700-Year-Old Babylonian Stone Tablet Gets Translated, Changes History -- “Most historians have credited the Greeks with creating the study of triangles' sides and angles, but this tablet presents indisputable evidence that the Babylonians were using the technique 1,500 years before the Greeks ever were.”
• Child molester released from prison because ‘he’ now identifies as a ‘she’ -- “Smith has just been released and is preparing to rejoin society. State prosecutors say this is because Smith is undergoing a gender transition to become a woman.”
• Chris Coons: Why I pray for Donald Trump -- “I know that many Americans see Trump as a two-dimensional villain, a person beyond reaching or saving, and I know that publicly praying for him — as I will once again at this year’s prayer breakfast — will invite criticism of me. Like anyone else, I don’t enjoy that or seek that out, but I believe that the most important expressions of faith are the most difficult ones.”
• ILC concerned over investigation of Finnish Lutherans, urges prayer -- “The ELMDF is under investigation by Finland’s Prosecutor General for the publication of a booklet upholding historic Christian teachings on human sexuality.”
• Michael Guillen: Why is Pluto no longer a planet? -- “It’s because they know it does matter what we call things. Science is all about classifying nature.”
• Missionary died thinking he was a failure; 84 years later thriving churches found hidden in the jungle -- “When we got in there, we found a network of reproducing churches throughout the jungle.”
• New Alabama poll shows tight race for U.S. Senate -- “Under Alabama law, if no candidate earns more than 50% of the vote in a primary election, the contest goes to a runoff between the candidates with the top two vote totals.”
• Planned Parenthood Bribes City Council to Silence a Church -- “Upon further inspection of the Spokane City Council members and Planned Parenthood it has been revealed that five of the seven city council members have received large cash donations from the abortion giant’s PAC.”
• Teen Sentenced for ‘Crime’ of Asking ‘Transgender’ Cop if They were Man or Woman -- “This is what the left does. They demand you ask for their pronouns and call them by whatever gender they want, contrary to reality, and if you comply they’ll fine you and attack you for hate speech, even if you’re a teenager with Aspergers.”
• The Great (?) Uncials -- “J. J. Griesbach identified three New Testament text-types calling them the Alexandrian, Western and Byzantine. He first published his findings in 1775.”
• “Transgender Woman” Kidnaps Three Women, Tortures Them, Stabs One with HIV-Infected Needle -- “A Corrections spokesperson revealed that a man who recently confessed to the kidnappings and severe torture of three women, and whose background includes over 200 criminal convictions, may be transferred to a women’s prison.”
• Walter Williams: America Isn’t a Democracy. In Fact, the Founders Feared Democracy -- “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”