Caesar, Kaiser, Czar… they’re all the same word in different languages. Persia conquered Babylon. The Greeks conquered the Persians. The Romans conquered the Greeks. Who conquered the Romans? No one. The Roman Empire just broke apart, with different nations being in charge at different times throughout the years. If you haven’t read it in a while, or if you’ve never read it, check out Daniel chapter 2.
Yes! Tax hike, not “increased revenue”
Willful destruction of an innocent human life, not “reproductive health care”
Gender dysphoria, not “gender fluid”
Pro life, not “anti choice”
The list goes on. We absolutely need to take terminology more seriously. The other side has, and they’ve been great at it.
NM has a hardcore dem governor. If they need him to, the senator will just resign and the governor will appoint another dem. Unless NM has different rules for such things and has to hold a special election or something?
It’s a power projection thing- it’s called “steeple-ing.” It goes with the long tie, the pump and shoulder squeeze on a handshake, etc. He probably learned to do that kind of thing so early on in his career that it is completely subconscious. Let’s not make ourselves look silly by assuming every little thing is an intentional display of evil symbolism. No different than so many comments on here where people get accused of making devil horns when they are obviously doing sign language for “I love you.“ That kind of thing makes us look like exactly what the enemy wants us to look like.
You’re not asking for a religious exemption. The US Constitution does not have a clause stating, “you can have free exercise of religion just as long as we approve of it.” Simply tell them you are INVOKING your First Amendment right to free exercise of religion and your deeply held religious beliefs are in conflict with the cvid shot. If they ask for a religious leader’s certification or something, explain (assuming you’re Christian) your religious leader is Jesus Christ whose certifying statement was penned in sixty-six books by forty different authors more than two thousand years ago. What you do need to request are reasonable accommodations in lieu of the shot- if you’ve been working all along with certain adjustments (distancing, mask, remote work, etc.,) your employer would be pretty hard-pressed to say they can’t accommodate you. If those mitigations are suddenly no longer acceptable to them, then they shouldn’t have allowed you to work in the first place. We have these tyrants over a barrel if we’d just stand up and refuse to be beaten down any longer.
The late, great Chuck Missler had a lot of good stuff on this topic. A couple brief comments: The truest translation of Gen 6:9 states Noah was “perfect in his generations.” Read that as his bloodline had not been corrupted by Satan and his crew mating with human women. I believe all the Nephalim business was directly related to Satan trying to subvert God’s plan of salvation through the offspring of Eve (Gen 3:15). Also, I take behemoth and leviathan to be dinosaurs. I know that’s controversial, but I believe it has merit.
About your first sentence… you didn’t receive a religious exemption from your employer; you invoked your First Amendment right to free exercise of religion and your employer wisely did not fight you on it. I think it’s a fair debate as to whether or not the weekly testing is a reasonable accommodation, but they didn’t “give” you anything by not forcing the shot on you. I don’t want to sound like one of “those guys,” but if we’re going to win this fight we need to use the right terminology.
They have to grant reasonable accommodations. Wouldn’t it be a reasonable to let you just keep doing whatever you’ve been doing since March 2020? Working remotely, wearing a stupid mask, keeping your distance, etc. If whatever you’ve been doing is so dangerous that you can no longer do it when a shot mandate deadline kicks in, your employer should have put you on leave a year and a half ago until it was safe to bring you back. If they had done that, they’d have a solid argument that you can only come back if you get the shot. Otherwise, it seems to be a slam dunk reasonable accommodation to simply be allowed to take the safety precautions your employer had in place before the shot became available.
Excellent. But our side needs to start winning the word war. We aren’t “asking our employers to accept our religious objections,” we are “invoking our 1st Amendment Right to free exercise of religion.” Words are important and the left has been destroying us at it for years. Abortion is not “reproductive healthcare,” it’s “the willful destruction of an innocent human life.” “Increasing revenues” means “tax hikes.” “Undocumented workers” are “illegal aliens.” A semi-automatic rifle is not an “assault rifle” or a “weapon of war.” We can’t continue to let them decide how things are defined.
Amazing how 2500+ year old history so accurately describes what’s happening today. Particularly Daniel and Ezekiel when it comes to stuff playing out on the world stage. That’s why I cringe whenever I see Russian cheerleaders on here. Yes, Ukraine is as corrupt as corrupt can get, yes, we should stay out of it and worry about ourselves, but Russia (Russian government) is evil.