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  1. A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

    All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, — never the correctness of his thought. Things are true or false in themselves. Truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. An error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
    Lecture (1881-05-01) “The Great Infidels,” Booth’s Theater, New York

    More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #zeal #belief #correctness #devotion #earnestness #martyr #martyrdom #opinion #reality #sacrifice #sincerity #truth

  2. #CatchOfTheDay
    #OpenAccess
    on #MENAdoc:

    "Rauḍat aš-šuhadāʾ-i türkī - روضة الشهداء ترکی" [by Kāšifī] ed. by Mullā Yaʿqūb Ḫwāǧa

    [Taškent : Lit. arend. I. Kostelova, 1898]

    dx.doi.org/10.25673/123196

    #Chagatai #Shia #Martyrdom

  3. Biblioteca

    Verse 1
    You can keep hunting for a reason
    In between the lines
    I'm going to write my epitaph
    On a bullet-broken spine

    Look under number 16
    See who you will find
    Rip another page out
    Until the clock ticks 49.

    Verse 2
    No, this isn't ketchup
    You're not going blind
    Who's the soft boy now?
    And now we're out of time.

    Despair is on the menu
    Hate is the wine
    The table's set for 16
    Here is where we'll dine

    Bridge
    Shame me
    Name me
    Call me what you will
    Fame me
    Game me
    It's time to pay the bill

    Outro
    I'm not your anti-hero
    I'm not the martyr kind
    I'm just another lost boy
    Who stepped over the line

    No more power-ups
    No more petty crime
    Checked out at 1208
    Out of sight
    Out of mind
    #Columbine #copycats #grief #hopelessness #Lament #martyrdom #Masculinity #Rage #ritesOfPassage #schoolShooting #shame #SongLyrics
  4. Who Will Be Romero Today?

    Romero Rally Flyer 1990

    On this day we remember Archbishop Óscar Romero, murdered on March 24, 1980, while celebrating Mass. The church remembers him not simply as a tragic victim, but as a martyr whose blood was joined to the blood of the people he refused to abandon. Vatican sources still name him what so many already knew him to be in life: a “voice of the voiceless,” assassinated at the altar because he would not stop speaking for the poor.

    Romero was killed soon after one of the most fearless sermons of the twentieth century. Addressing soldiers and police, he said that they were killing their own campesino brothers and sisters, and that God’s law stood above the commands of violent men: “Thou shalt not kill.” He declared that no soldier is obliged to obey an order against the law of God, and he ended with that thunderous plea: “In the name of God… cease the repression!”

    That is why Romero remains dangerous. He did not speak in abstractions. He did not bless power from a safe distance. He did not soothe the conscience of empire. He named the sin directly. He named the victims directly. He named the moral responsibility of those ordered to carry out injustice. And for that, he was silenced by a bullet at the altar. Yet even in death he was not silenced, because martyrdom is a form of speech the powers of this world do not know how to answer.

    Ten years later, in 1990, his name was still summoning people into the streets. The flyer for the Washington march commemorating Romero’s assassination called for an end to U.S. war in Central America, a march from the Capitol to the White House, and even nonviolent civil disobedience after the rally. It named the demands plainly: end U.S. aid to El Salvador, withdraw U.S. advisers, stop repressing the people, end the war against Nicaragua, lift the trade embargo, normalize relations. That call was real, and it was public. It survives in archival collections even now.

    And I remember that day not as a line in a history book but as something lived in the body. Ten years after Romero’s assassination, I was arrested outside the White House after I and other activists built a miniature Central American village there. We were trying, in our small and vulnerable way, to make visible what policy papers and patriotic speeches tried to hide: villages, families, campesinos, the poor, the disappeared, the threatened, the dead. We were insisting that Central America was not a chessboard for Washington, but a place of human beings made in the image of God.

    Read the rest of the essay at PeaceGrooves.

    #AntiWar #ArchbishopRomero #assassination #ÓscarRomero #campesinos #CentralAmerica #ChristianPeacemaking #ChurchAndState #civilDisobedience #ElSalvador #ElSalvadorCivilWar #faithAndPolitics #humanRights #immigrantJustice #Immigration #Justice #LiberationTheology #Martyr #martyrdom #Mercy #Nicaragua #Nonviolence #peaceWitness #propheticWitness #Refugees #remembrance #Romero #Sermon #solidarity #USForeignPolicy #USIntervention #WhiteHouseProtest
  5. It is terrifying reading the political speeches of #IRI officials and military.

    The same, sad, arrogance of those in late 1980s when #Khomeini said he would slap Saddam so hard, he would never be able to get up, leading 10s of thousands of young people to their death against US, France, UK, Italy, German, Saudi, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Morroco backed army of #Saddam

    These lunatics grow up dreaming of #martyrdom, they don't give a shit how many 1000s die fighting yet another war!
    #WarOnIran #tRump

  6. "These swamps were also crawling with renegades 125 years ago, poachers seeking their treasure at “Cuthbert Rookery,” an isolated, secret spot that was bejeweled with countless egrets, ibises, herons, wood storks, roseate spoonbills, and other wading birds." —Mike Kane for The Bitter Southerner

    bittersoutherner.com/issue-no1

    #Florida #Murder #Martyrdom #Birds

  7. #DeSantis announces partnership with #TurningPointUSA while threatening #Florida schools The "governor" is moving to solve a nonexistent crisis of “discrimination” against HIGH SCHOOLERS who might want to start #TurningPoint chapters, capitalizing of Kirk's #martyrdom www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

    DeSantis announces partnership...

  8. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    He that dies a martyr proves that he is not a knave, but by no means that he is not a fool.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 410 (1820)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #cause #folly #fool #hero #knave #martyr #martyrdom #virtue

  9. @Nonilex

    #USpol #Fascism

    (1/2)

    "#Trump was posthumously awarding #CharlieKirk America’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom."

    👉I report on the recurrence of #Totalitarianism👈

    “#Totalitarian movements... make use of mass loneliness and isolation, transform the mass of people into a crowd capable of acting in concert, and 👉foster the #Idolization of leaders and the glorification of #Martyrdom as instruments of collective identity👈.”

    — #HannahArendt,...

  10. Btw, that #idea that #privilege makes you #morally evil and #suffering makes you morally good is just repackaged versions of the #Christian concepts of the evils of #luxury and the holiness of #martyrdom. Hope this helps!

  11. America's far right now has a #martyr: Charlie Kirk.

    Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the martyr's cause.

    Chris Hedges is both a Pullitzer-winning journalist and a theology graduate. He writes of how the assassination of Charlie Kirk presages a new, deadly stage in the disintegration of the polsrized United States.

    Read his article at chrishedges.substack.com/p/the

    #FarRight #Martyrdom

  12. "The whole idea of #compassion is based on a keen awareness of the #interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another and all involved in one another." #ThomasMerton, from his final talk delivered 2 hrs before his #martyrdom. #panentheism, #deepecology bit.ly/4kxtIcG

  13. #Christian #Apologist Folds to Friendly #Skeptic (#FrankTurek response)

    youtube.com/watch?v=u6eEUaLGR4

    What happens when a calm, well-informed skeptic challenges a top Christian apologist? We break down the moment Frank Turek gets caught off guard by sharp questions about the #resurrection and #martyrdom... maybe with my Minimal Witnesses hypothesis with an assist?

    #atheist #atheism #christianity #myths #god

  14. News about the burial place of Hazrat Usman Ghani (RA) before his martyrdom.

    حضرت عثمان غنی رضی اللہ عنہ کی شہادت سے پہلے دفن ہونے کی جگہ کی خبر۔

    For more updates: dawateislami.net

    #news #burial #place #hazratusmanganiradiallahutaaalaanhu #martyrdom #dua #namaz #Tasbeeh #astaghfirullah

  15. To see #Kyiv & to die? The final farewell of archbishop Bruno of Querfurt before his #martyrdom : His bitter letter to king Henry II in 1009.

    The scholarship report of Oleksandr Fylypchuk: dhip.hypotheses.org/4577

    #MedievalStudies #MissionaryHistory #LatinLetters #Christianization #Hagiography #Rus

    @histodons

  16. ⬆️ @Nazani

    >> Perhaps the obsession with sacred #martyrdom precludes "what if we end up worse off" reflection.

    Yes, exactly! As the author of the original essay wrote:

    "A people on the cusp of #liberation instead suffered war deaths and the moral rot caused by the veneration of suicide and murder."

    #EcstasyAndAmnesia #VenerationOfSuicide #InTheirName #Palestine #Israel.

  17. MLKJr: "Join w/ the Earth & each other to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, "...to recreate the human community, to promote justice & peace, to love our children & one another, to join together as many & diverse expressions of 1 loving mystery, for the healing of Earth & the renewal of all life." Honoring #SrDorothyStang on the 20th anniv of her #martyrdom. bit.ly/3QctPwO

  18. Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time

    Today’s readings

    In our Gospel today, we hear about the end of Saint John the Baptist’s life. Herod’s wife, Herodias, held a grudge against John because he opposed their marriage. So she schemed to end his life, as if snuffing out the messenger could ever possibly snuff out the Truth. Saint John the Baptist was one who lived his entire life pointing the way to the Lord. With every fiber of his being, and until his last breath, he gave praise to God.

    Pointing others to the Lord, even at great personal cost, is the role of disciples, which includes you and me. We should always give praise to God and point others to him. At our best, we should be an Assembly of holy people, helping all the world to find our God. Whatever we do, and wherever we are, people should see Jesus in us. In fact, we might be the only Jesus someone sees. Let’s never get in the way of that.

    In the quiet times of Mass and of our day, let’s spend some time thinking about how we might point to Jesus for the people God puts in our path today, and ask God to give us the grace to do it.

    #martyrdom #StJohnTheBaptist #Truth