Just over 2,000 years ago, the disciples were advised by Jesus to wait in Jerusalem for The Comforter, the Holy Spirit. Similarly, modern Christians know that "where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." -Matthew 18:20. I've moved from Boston but continue to add stories as the Spirit moves me.
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two
signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water
of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou
takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.
-Exodus 4:9
There were giants in the earth in those days (antediluvian); and also after that (postdiluvian), when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, menofrenown.
“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in
any declaration I have ever read.
If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things
offend lots of people.
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find
very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn
the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you
start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling
you to finish it."
― Salman Rushdie
"Being offended provides no objective indication of 'right' &
'wrong'. It's nothing more than a barometer of your own emotional
control."
― Ricky Gervais
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people
what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell
“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to
make an ass of yourself.”
― Oscar Wilde
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led,
like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice
of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of
increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to
all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United
States, August 8, 1950]”
― Harry Truman
