> "India’s tragedy is not primarily economic or political but spiritual and moral. What haunts the country is not poverty but the normalization of vice: the ability to witness cruelty without protest, to steal without guilt, to obey without reflection, and to worship without love. > > There is no shortage of temples, rituals, or gods, but the inner life is absent. Without a concept of sin, there is no redemption. Without truth, no justice. Without the courage to stand alone, no conscience. In such a society, neither reform nor revolution is possible—only repetition." Jayant Bhandari, [India: Idols Without Conscience](https://w3.do/uzsCZoX-)

> ".. love, as an individual or moral sentiment, does not exist in #India. Relationships are shaped not by emotional truth or duty but by transaction, hierarchy, and the pursuit of advantage. Devotion, in such a society, is not love but submission, driven by fear, conformity, and peer pressure." Jayant Bhandari, [India: Idols Without Conscience](https://w3.do/TSFBDFnG)

Abraham Lincoln's changes to the US Constitution: "1. No state may ever secede from the Union for any reason. "2. If any state attempts to secede, the federal government shall invade such a state with sufficient military force to suppress the secession. "3. The federal government may require all states to raise militias to be used to suppress the seceding state (or states). "4. After suppressing the secession, the federal government may rule by martial law until such time as the state accepts permanent federal supremacy. "5. After the secession is suppressed, the federal government may force the states to adopt new state constitutions imposed upon them by federal military authorities. "6. The president may, on his own authority and without consulting any other branch of government, suspend the Bill of Rights and the writ of Habeas Corpus."

LewRockwell

America’s Forgotten Independence Movement - LewRockwell

There were three independence movements in America prior to the War to Prevent Southern Independence (1861-1865).  The American Revolution was a w...

> "Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless power, and He needs all the resources of His strength in order to convert sinners, more than when He was about to make heaven and earth, which He made with His own power without help from any creature. But when He is about to convert a sinner, He always needs the sinner's help. "He converts thee not without thy help," as [St Augustine says](https://www.perplexity.ai/search/he-converts-thee-not-without-t-JSJ.8a00Qtai.oIlejobPg#0)." –Meister Eckhart, [Sermon I : The Attractive Power of God](

Sermons (Meister Eckhart)/The Attractive Power of God - Wikisource, the free online library

"So, if it is indeed the burial cloth of Christ, then the Turin Shroud is probably the most extraordinary artefact in the world..."

Fountain

Unbelievable? • Classic: Is the Turin Shroud the burial cloth of Christ? Alan Whanger vs Hugh Farey • Listen on Fountain

More than a decade ago, Unbelievable? brought together two experts with very different conclusions about the Shroud of Turin—one of the most myst...