Rosemary Mahoney Quotes
One of the most persistent misconceptions about blindness is that it is a curse from God for misdeeds perpetrated in a past life, which cloaks the blind person in spiritual darkness and makes him not just dangerous, but evil.
Mahoney, Rosemary. For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind. Little, Brown and Company, 2014.
Tenskwatawa, though an Indian, used the same claims and approach that messiahs and prophets have in many different religions, times and places.
President Bush, who in 6 years had only pardoned or commuted the sentence of 2 people before, commuted the criminal jail sentence of Scooter Libby, the White House Vice Presidential Chief of Staff who had lied to the FBI and the Grand Jury in order to protect the role of White House officials in the illegally leaking the identity of a CIA covert operator to punish her husband—a critic of the administration.
The King Outlawed Protestant Worship.
People of this era not only saw epidemics as the wrath of God, but also saw military catastrophe, invasion and raids as a punishment of God for the sins of the people of the area.
Head of the Sikh Religion. None of his predecessors had used arms, but he not only did so but often wore two swords representing the spiritual and civil domains.
These kinds of inflammatory sermons are delivered with the approval of the king and royal family who crack down on any cleric who preaches what they do not approve of.
Both Puritans and Quakers were persecuted and physically abused in England by the Anglican Church. The Puritans as soon as they became dominant in part of the American colonies began persecuting Quakers. The Quakers who were the majority in the Pennsylvania colony, however were tolerant of other religions. This history was another of the many reasons the Founding Fathers wanted no established church. A “scorpion” was a type of whip that was particularly painful.
The interesting thing about this quotation is that he himself was a drug addict who illegally used drugs. However, when he finally got caught, the judge didn’t follow is “law and order” ranting. He got off without serving any jail time.
This moral statement from a New jersey Quaker abolitionist is not particularly noteworthy, However what makes this quote important is that Woolman traveled throughout the South preaching this as his main theme. At that time — before the American Revolution — he did so and was not attacked or intimidated; he was mostly ignored by the Southern authorities. At the time, the South was very confident of its ability to continue slavery. Years later, when the abolition movement grew larger and stronger, a Northern Quaker Preacher doing this not not escape with his life.
[This was the first Abolition appeal written by a Black Man. It was published in Boston and despite the fact that it was very critical of whites, was very popular going through two more printings within the next two years.]
This title of his essay shocked his fellow politicians and may churches that a Congressman would attack churches. Few abolitionists were that outspoken over the disgraceful role that most American Churches had in refraining to oppose slavery. At the time, most Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish clerics either supported slavery or were reluctant to publicly criticize slavery. At the same time the Quakers and many other congregations and clergymen were among the most outspoken and fervent abolitionists. They were very much in the minority,
ISISm or Daesh as teh Syrians called it had occupied Mosul and had brutalized and murdered many of the residents enforcing their own extreme version i=of Islamic fundamentalism. The Iraq and Kurdish armies were trying to take Mosul back, but the ISIS fighters were deeply embedded in the large inner city. Dislodging them was very difficult and they took many casualties. The United States provided logistical, tactical, and air support. The Iraqui military had asked for an airstrike on a target and unfortunately about 200 Mosul mcivillians were killrf in the aitstrike. Thisd was one resident's question oif the U. S. Military Advisors. The investigation verified that the strike had inadvertantly killed all those civillians.
Rosemary Mahoney is an American writer. She has published six books of narrative non-fiction and numerous magazine articles. For the American Spectator, Christopher Caldwell wrote, "Mahoney has an effortlessly pretty prose style and an uncanny eye . . . . a literary talent that amounts to brilliance."
