#humandignity — Public Fediverse posts

On the International Day of Indigenous Women and Girls, Qur’an 33:35 offers a specific Islamic reflection: believing women and men are named together in faith, character, worship, and reward. It is not a substitute for listening to the distinct histories, cultures, and concerns of Indigenous women themselves.

#IndigenousWomen #HumanDignity

It’s in the Blood

In 1539, a fugitive former-priest-turned-Anabaptist, in his seminal work “The Foundation,” penned the following words:

“Christ is our fortress; patience our weapon of defense; the Word of God our sword. …Iron and metal spears and swords we leave to those who, alas, regard human blood and swine’s blood of well-nigh equal value.”

So said Menno Simons, principal leader of the Protestant sect which then became known as the Mennonites.

More than 500 years later, his words still resound with a mighty truth.

At the risk of sounding morbid, it has to do with blood.

While Menno specifically refers to the difference between human blood and that of an animal, his larger point is the “value” we place on the blood of another.

My point is quite simple.

Killing will not end through education, conflict resolution, or disarmament, though all of these are important and can help. Killing will end only when there is a fundamental shift in the mind and heart of those who kill.

For how can you kill someone if you believe that their blood is just as valuable as your own?

Let’s call it – for lack of a better term – bloodism.

The other – their humanity, life, blood – is somehow less than I, and therefore, their humanity, life, blood, is not as valuable as my own. It becomes quite easy then to justify killing the other, ie. spilling his/her blood.

The directors of death throughout history from every nation, tribe and religion have understood and disseminated this concept quite well. A person (and those like him/her) is described as having the wrong beliefs, the wrong skin color, the wrong gender, the wrong age, the wrong station in life, the wrong land, the wrong possessions, the wrong clothing, the wrong language —- the wrong blood. These others are not as valued as you are, the leaders of the macabre scream, though they couch their speech in terms such as vigilance, freedom, history, security, and truth.

Then the killing begins.

The Nazis did it to the Jews. Israelis do it to the Palestinians. Hutus did it to the Tutsis. Shiite do it to the Sunni. Palestinians do it to the Israelis. Sunni do it to the Shiite. Muslims do it to the Christians. Christians do it to the Muslims. This country does it to that country. That neighborhood does it to this neighborhood. This race does it to that race. That religion does it to this religion.

And any one of a million other combinations.

STOP!

Do not allow your mind and heart to be filled with bloodism.

We are made in the image of God.

ALL of us.

And that divine DNA resides in the very marrow of our bones and flows through our veins.

It’s in the blood.

July 28, 2014

Broken Chair

I rescued the chair from outside someone’s apartment with the hope of fixing it and having it become a welcome member of our family.

But, as often happens, it sat around in various places waiting for me to find the time to repair it.

Finally, I decided it was one more project I did not have time for, and so yesterday I put it out on the sidewalk in the hopes that someone would take it home.

It sat out there all through yesterday in the rain and the sun, lonely, awaiting a new friend. A few people paused to look but then drove away. Periodically I would look out my window to see it still sitting forlornly there.

Then this morning I noticed an older gentleman walking past who began to inspect the chair. He picked it up, put it on his back and walked away.

It is a beautiful chair. It just needs to be repaired, and I am sure its new owner will do just that.

I don’t know about you, but I feel a lot like that broken chair, waiting for the gentle hands of someone to put me back together again.

I wait, broken, with the hope that those hands will touch me, I will be healed, and I can have a purpose again.

July 10, 2015

If Acts Happened Today, Would We Call It Communism?

https://polymathchristian.wordpress.com/2026/07/12/if-acts-happened-today-would-we-call-it-communism-4/

The Loveliest

The woman 
with a 
double chin 
and fat fingers
around plastic bags 
plops down 
in the seat
across the aisle 
and blocks 
my view of the
goddess 
whose magazine 
is filled with 
clothes
she'd fill out 
quite nicely.

The pretty 
and the ugly 
sit side by side
and I wonder 
who is 
the loveliest 
in God's eyes.

February 22, 2002

World Day Against Child Labour 2026

Lo scorso anno, su Perfettamente Chic, abbiamo approfondito il significato della Giornata Mondiale contro il Lavoro Minorile e le sfide ancora aperte nella tutela dei più piccoli. Se vi siete persi l’articolo, potete leggerlo qui:

https://perfettamentechic.com/2025/06/12/giornata-mondiale-contro-il-lavoro-minorile/

Anche nel 2026, oggi, il 12 giugno torna la World Day Against Child Labour, promossa dall’International Labour Organization, con un messaggio forte e immediato: “Red Card to Child Labour: Fair Play for Children, Decent Work for Adults”. In altre parole? Un vero e proprio cartellino rosso contro lo sfruttamento dei bambini.

La scelta del linguaggio sportivo non è casuale. Nel 2026 la campagna internazionale invita governi, aziende e cittadini a “espellere” il lavoro minorile dal campo di gioco della società, garantendo ai bambini ciò che dovrebbe essere normale: scuola, gioco, sicurezza e opportunità per il futuro.

Le nuove stime diffuse a livello internazionale mostrano che i progressi continuano, ma la partita è tutt’altro che vinta. Nel mondo sono ancora circa 138 milioni i bambini coinvolti nel lavoro minorile, di cui oltre 54 milioni impegnati in attività pericolose per la loro salute e il loro sviluppo.

Tra le novità più importanti del 2026 c’è il richiamo agli impegni assunti durante la Sesta Conferenza Globale sull’Eliminazione del Lavoro Minorile tenutasi a Marrakech, che ha portato alla definizione di un nuovo quadro d’azione internazionale per accelerare gli interventi nei prossimi anni.

La Giornata Mondiale contro il Lavoro Minorile ci ricorda che ogni bambino dovrebbe avere tra le mani un libro, un pallone o una matita, non strumenti di lavoro. E se il tema 2026 parla di cartellini rossi, allora l’augurio è che il mondo intero giochi finalmente dalla parte dell’infanzia.

Autore: Lynda Di Natale
Fonte: web
Immagine: AI

Friday, May 22, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/05/friday-may-22-2026/

When wealth hoards power and poverty pays the price, I can’t stop asking: how do they sleep at night?
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@marleenstikker @roeldobbe @dmugge Het probleem met „publieke waarden“ is dat het hele #extreemrechtse blok en hun kiezers hun morele compas compleet kwijt zijn. Ik zie maar weinig initiatief in de openbare ruimte om fundamentele waarden überhaupt nog te benoemen. #AI #techconcerns #digitalisering #innovatie #nofascism #humandignity #personalfreedom #sustainability #privacy

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prioritize your thoughts, simplify your life…

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My Email to my County Commissioner about public restrooms for the unhoused that I sent recently (I originally addressed this to my old Commissioner and not the new/ current one.):

Mr. [Baca],

I'm a recent transplant to ABQ and live in [District 2]. I am curious if the County has any plans to install public restrooms and/ or port-a-potties near where the unhoused frequently congregate.

I was prompted to write you about that this evening because of an incident I witnessed yesterday. I was on Central near Atrisco and witnessed an unhoused person defecating against a building.

When you take into account the fact that literally every... single... business... has a sign that either says "No Public Restrooms" or "Restrooms Are For Customers Only" then it truly has to make someone wonder where does a society expect its unhoused to relieve themselves?

Certainly having the unhoused urinate and defecate in public spaces is not only unsanitary, but with no water to wash their hands this leads to an unhygienic situation as well. Not to mention the waste brings with it a slew of pathogens that could be exposed to the public.

At the very least I think the County should be providing port-a-potties maybe as part of the County's solid waste removal services.

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

My Email to my County Commissioner about public restrooms for the unhoused that I sent recently (I originally addressed this to my old Commissioner and not the new/ current one.):

Mr. [Baca],

I'm a recent transplant to ABQ and live in [District 2]. I am curious if the County has any plans to install public restrooms and/ or port-a-potties near where the unhoused frequently congregate.

I was prompted to write you about that this evening because of an incident I witnessed yesterday. I was on Central near Atrisco and witnessed an unhoused person defecating against a building.

When you take into account the fact that literally every... single... business... has a sign that either says "No Public Restrooms" or "Restrooms Are For Customers Only" then it truly has to make someone wonder where does a society expect its unhoused to relieve themselves?

Certainly having the unhoused urinate and defecate in public spaces is not only unsanitary, but with no water to wash their hands this leads to an unhygienic situation as well. Not to mention the waste brings with it a slew of pathogens that could be exposed to the public.

At the very least I think the County should be providing port-a-potties maybe as part of the County's solid waste removal services.

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

My Email to my County Commissioner about public restrooms for the unhoused that I sent recently (I originally addressed this to my old Commissioner and not the new/ current one.):

Mr. [Baca],

I'm a recent transplant to ABQ and live in [District 2]. I am curious if the County has any plans to install public restrooms and/ or port-a-potties near where the unhoused frequently congregate.

I was prompted to write you about that this evening because of an incident I witnessed yesterday. I was on Central near Atrisco and witnessed an unhoused person defecating against a building.

When you take into account the fact that literally every... single... business... has a sign that either says "No Public Restrooms" or "Restrooms Are For Customers Only" then it truly has to make someone wonder where does a society expect its unhoused to relieve themselves?

Certainly having the unhoused urinate and defecate in public spaces is not only unsanitary, but with no water to wash their hands this leads to an unhygienic situation as well. Not to mention the waste brings with it a slew of pathogens that could be exposed to the public.

At the very least I think the County should be providing port-a-potties maybe as part of the County's solid waste removal services.

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

My Email to my County Commissioner about public restrooms for the unhoused that I sent recently (I originally addressed this to my old Commissioner and not the new/ current one.):

Mr. [Baca],

I'm a recent transplant to ABQ and live in [District 2]. I am curious if the County has any plans to install public restrooms and/ or port-a-potties near where the unhoused frequently congregate.

I was prompted to write you about that this evening because of an incident I witnessed yesterday. I was on Central near Atrisco and witnessed an unhoused person defecating against a building.

When you take into account the fact that literally every... single... business... has a sign that either says "No Public Restrooms" or "Restrooms Are For Customers Only" then it truly has to make someone wonder where does a society expect its unhoused to relieve themselves?

Certainly having the unhoused urinate and defecate in public spaces is not only unsanitary, but with no water to wash their hands this leads to an unhygienic situation as well. Not to mention the waste brings with it a slew of pathogens that could be exposed to the public.

At the very least I think the County should be providing port-a-potties maybe as part of the County's solid waste removal services.

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

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Dear brothers and sisters! Because she was Jewish, Edith Stein was taken with her sister Rosa and many other Catholic Jews from the Netherlands to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, where she died with them in the gas chambers. Today we remember them all with deep respect. A few days before her deportation, the woman religious had dismissed the question about a possible rescue: “Do not do it! Why should I be spared? Is it not right that I should gain no advantage from my Baptism? If I cannot share the lot of my brothers and sisters, my life, in a certain sense, is destroyed”.

From now on, as we celebrate the memory of this new saint from year to year, we must also remember the Shoah, that cruel plan to exterminate a people — a plan to which millions of our Jewish brothers and sisters fell victim. May the Lord let his face shine upon them and grant them peace (cf. Nm 6:25f.).

For the love of God and man, once again I raise an anguished cry: May such criminal deeds never be repeated against any ethnic group, against any race, in any corner of this world! It is a cry to everyone: to all people of goodwill; to all who believe in the Just and Eternal God; to all who know they are joined to Christ, the Word of God made man. We must all stand together: human dignity is at stake. There is only one human family. The new saint also insisted on this: “Our love of neighbour is the measure of our love of God. For Christians — and not only for them — no one is a ‘stranger’. The love of Christ knows no borders”.

Saint John Paul II

Homily for the Canonization of Edith Stein
11 October 1998

Featured image: Repairs in anticipation of the Jubilee Year were underway at St. Peter’s Basilica on the day of St. Edith Stein’s canonization. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/10/10/jp2-11oct98hom/

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Dear brothers and sisters! Because she was Jewish, Edith Stein was taken with her sister Rosa and many other Catholic Jews from the Netherlands to the concentration camp in Auschwitz, where she died with them in the gas chambers. Today we remember them all with deep respect. A few days before her deportation, the woman religious had dismissed the question about a possible rescue: “Do not do it! Why should I be spared? Is it not right that I should gain no advantage from my Baptism? If I cannot share the lot of my brothers and sisters, my life, in a certain sense, is destroyed”.

From now on, as we celebrate the memory of this new saint from year to year, we must also remember the Shoah, that cruel plan to exterminate a people — a plan to which millions of our Jewish brothers and sisters fell victim. May the Lord let his face shine upon them and grant them peace (cf. Nm 6:25f.).

For the love of God and man, once again I raise an anguished cry: May such criminal deeds never be repeated against any ethnic group, against any race, in any corner of this world! It is a cry to everyone: to all people of goodwill; to all who believe in the Just and Eternal God; to all who know they are joined to Christ, the Word of God made man. We must all stand together: human dignity is at stake. There is only one human family. The new saint also insisted on this: “Our love of neighbour is the measure of our love of God. For Christians — and not only for them — no one is a ‘stranger’. The love of Christ knows no borders”.

Saint John Paul II

Homily for the Canonization of Edith Stein
11 October 1998

Featured image: Repairs in anticipation of the Jubilee Year were underway at St. Peter’s Basilica on the day of St. Edith Stein’s canonization. Image credit: Discalced Carmelites

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