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COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
When I was traveling through Arkansas with a business partner, our host pointed out a burned-out establishment and proclaimed it was “Jew fire,” implying it was arson for profit, set to collect insurance proceeds.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
If bigotry were simple, we would have already solved it. But it isn’t and we haven’t. So here’s a look at the roots of bigotry from a Scientology point of view.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
While the world’s Jewish community came together to celebrate the Festival of Lights this week, three anti-Semitic attacks occurred in New York City in the span of 24 hours.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Then there have been a slew of high-profile tragedies including the New Zealand mosque attacks, the Easter Sunday bombing of Christian churches in Sri Lanka and several synagogue shootings in the United States and Europe. We seem to be living in a time of increased bigotry and even violence against people who are “different” whether of the “wrong” religion, skin color, gender or whatever.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
On August 3, 2013, Kayla Mueller was kidnapped by ISIS fighters outside of a hospital in Northern Syria. She had traveled from her home in Prescott, Arizona to help Syrians displaced by that country’s civil war.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Nearly a thousand years ago a great army besieged a castle. Day after day, the army bombarded it with great boulders and flaming arrows. All roads and footpaths into and out from the castle were cut off, and the hidden underground tunnel had been found and filled with mortar and tar.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
Religion has been in an international statistical decline. The religiously unaffiliated, otherwise known as "nones," are growing significantly.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
We’re living in a time when it might be easy to lose faith in your fellow man. For centuries, the fearmongers have crowed about the latest wars and conquests and savagery on a global scale, but it’s only been in the last few decades that a plague of individuals committing mass murder has become so prevalent.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
There is nothing more personal—and, for many of us, there is nothing more precious—than the right to live as we believe and worship God as we choose.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
As a stakeholder, I’d like to know that Amazon’s Corporate Social Responsibility reaches far beyond just utilizing recycled cardboard for shipping containers.
