As divisions threaten America, and other links

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• As divisions threaten America, the pressure to cancel presidents is dangerous -- “John Kennedy praised Lee as well as pro-slavery Sen. John C. Calhoun — recently scrubbed from a Yale college — whom Kennedy included in his Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Profiles in Courage’.”
• Black Lives Matter Needs To Care About All Black Lives, Not Just Those Ended By Police -- “If BLM leaders care about black lives, they ought to focus on what can improve the quality of life for black Americans.”
• Brother Against Brother: The Akune Brothers in World War II -- “In 1918, many immigrants were coming to the United States in search of the American Dream. Among these immigrants were Ichiro and Yukiye Akune, who came to California.”
• Church window illuminates complexity of past -- “Not slavery, nor war. Not segregation, nor civil rights. Not even fire could destroy the bonds forged more than 150 years ago between a group of Virginia slaves and a Confederate general.”
• Companies Firing Innocent Employees Over Alleged Racial Offenses To Save Face, Report Finds -- “Companies across the country, desperate to show that they are not racist, have been firing employees after they have been publicly accused of racism – whether the evidence supports the accusation or not.”
• Cuomo, de Blasio wrong to limit worship services, condone mass protests: federal judge -- “Thomas More Society Special Counsel Christopher Ferrara celebrated the decision and called Cuomo's executive orders a ‘sham’ that ‘went right out the window as soon as he and Mayor de Blasio saw a mass protest movement they favored taking to the streets by the thousands’.”
• Discipleship: More Than Data Transmission -- “A child who is terrified of dogs will not pet one no matter how many statistics you give her about the docile nature of domesticated canines.”
• Liberals Are Creating A Nation Of Spoiled Brats -- “It's not the police who need to be retrained, it's the public. We have grown into a mouthy, cell phone-wielding, vulgar, uncivil society with no personal responsibility...”
• More evidence that most coronavirus cases are now weaker than the flu -- “...much of the increase is superficial and illusory because of mass testing, multiple tests to return to work, and people coming back to the hospitals for normal care that was previously suspended.”
• Our Homeschool Curriculum (I Bought a Whole Program!) -- “I’m going to tell you what I love, what parts I don’t use, and how we implement it in our home.”
• Slavery Is Detroit's Big, Bad Secret. Why Don't We Know Anything About It? -- “Not surprisingly, Detroit’s slaveholders came from the wealthiest segment of French society and produced a disproportionate amount of the village’s grain and livestock.”
• Stop Firing the Innocent -- “...those of us who want to build a better society should defend the innocent because movements willing to sacrifice justice in the pursuit of noble goals have, again and again, built societies characterized by pervasive injustice.”
• The “Golden Chain” of Salvation in Romans 8:29–30 -- “Knowing that we love God and that our salvation is secure from eternity past to future, we are encouraged that nothing can ever separate us from the saving love of God in Christ to us.”
• The Media is Lying About the ‘Second Wave’ -- “...from the peak in April, deaths had decreased by 90 percent and were continuing to crash. That was not terrifying enough so the media pretended this good news did not exist.”
• This Is Not About Statues. It Is a War on Civilization! -- “The criteria for toppling historical figures is ever-broadening. Rioters aim to throw down all that was once revered...Even figures that support the rioter’s cause might be attacked.”
• What’s More Risky, Going to a Bar or Opening the Mail? -- “The levels are based on input from the physician members of the task force and the committee, who worked from the assumption that – no matter the activity – participants were taking as many safety precautions as they can.”