Input: Priests were expected to wear elaborate robes

Output: Puritans did not believe in elaborate clothing

Protestants / Puritans Religion and Beliefs


Input: Catholics believed that Priests and the Pope were able to forgive sins - at a price. Gifts, or indulgences, were given to the Catholic church in return for absolution

Output: Puritans believed that only God could forgive sins

Protestants / Puritans Religion and Beliefs


Input: Catholics believed that Churches celebrated God and should be elaborately decorated with statues and shrines

Output: Puritans believed in total simplicity, that everything should be plain allowing the congregation to concentrate on the sermons

Protestants / Puritans Religion and Beliefs


Input: Roman Catholic Religion and Beliefs

Output: Protestants / Puritans Religion and Beliefs

Protestants / Puritans Religion and Beliefs


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Agate, Crazy Lace

Output: A Crazy lace agate balances physical energies and can be used to reach high physical levels… Swirls or yellow, red and brownish black in a lacy pattern.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Agate, Silver Leaf

Output: Silver Leaf agates are very grounding and balancing, they open the wearer for acceptance, protection and abundance. Brown, gray and creamy white with interesting patterns.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Amazonite

Output: Eliminates worries and fears. With an energy like taking a deep breath, this stone helps us to speak our personal truth. A soothing and calming stone, it aids us in releasing worries and fears so that we may communicate from the heart and break through our boundaries. Bringing clarity of thought, it helps us to deal with chaos and find a place of centered harmony.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Amber

Output: Amber is said to be a very strong healing stone allowing the body to heal itself. It takes negative energy and turns it into positive energy and releases the energy giving a bright and sunny feeling. It helps one in the art of manifestation; helping you realize your desires into reality. Amber has said to bring good luck.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Amethyst

Output: Amethyst helps you attain wisdom. It can help you let go of all that is old and all that holds you back - on every level and in every aspect of life - so that you may fully embrace your spiritual destiny. It stirs the intuition. Amethyst can also help you understand and let go of anything that keeps you attached to a condition. When worn as a necklace of spheres, Amethyst affects all your inner aspects, bringing the perspective needed to let go of attachments.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Aquamarine

Output: Evokes the sea in both its name and its color. Helps to stabilize unsettled surroundings, reduces fear, aids sensitive & mystical people. The ancients saw this as a stone of courage and felt that carrying it would help them return safe and prosperous from sea voyages. It aids in compassion, and tolerance, and facilitates communication both with others and with the deeper self.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Bloodstone

Output: Bloodstone is an intense healing stone, the "Stone of courage". It revitalizes love, relationships and friendships. It brings purification, orderliness, prosperity, and instills wisdom, enhances creativity, and supports decision making. It is also useful for blood disorders. Translucent or opaque green with blood red splashes. Bloodstone strengthens your immune system and keeps it alert and responsive to your body's needs. Bloodstone also facilitates the removal of toxins from your body and enhances your cells' absorption of nutrients.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Blue Goldstone

Output: A stone of wisdom and science, teaching us to reach for the stars, and reminding us of the light within darkness. It is infused with copper sparkles, a powerful energy generator.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Carnelian

Output: Carnelian carries the orange color ray. The orange ray nourishes and vitalizes your entire being, bestowing optimism and enthusiasm for life. At the cellular level, this life energy motivates cells to achieve greater health. On the whole-person level, it inspires you to make the changes that will move you towards your life's goal or dream.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Catseye

Output: This stone offers a feeling of serene happiness. Cat’s Eye stimulates awareness and intuition, allowing the wearer to gain insight and thus find balance in the evolutions and transformations that life brings.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Citrine

Output: Citrine prepares your body, emotions, and mind to accept a greater flow of the yellow color ray. The yellow ray is the aspect of the life force that helps us release what no longer serves and to accept what we need in order to move to the next higher state. This aspect of Citrine also has a greater overall purpose - to help you fulfill your spiritual potential by encouraging you to embrace ever-greater states of consciousness.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Coral

Output: Pink coral increases sensitivity, caring & compassions....Red or orange coral stimulates & energizes emotions, and can be used for fertility, metabolism, thyroid, muscles, & heart.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Fluorite

Output: Purple- intuition. Green - cleansing. Fluorite brings order from chaos. It is the "stone of discernment and aptitude" that acts as a protective, psychic shield and auric cleanser. It also helps relationships and encourages and sustains the flawless ideal of health, intellect and emotional well-being. Both are good balancers, & healers.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Garnet

Output: Is said to be the "stone of health". It helps dissolve negative energy. It is a sacred stone in the Native American Indians and speeds up manifestation by bring your creative energies to the forefront. Garnets have a loving energy and monitors the flow of energy to the psychic centers so that you will be balanced in your physical, emotional and spiritual bodies. Garnets are very cleansing and purifying. Stimulates creativity, passion, & the circulatory system.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Goldstone

Output: This is a human made stone, comprised of glass infused with flecks of Copper. It is believed to store the energy of those who touch it, making it an excellent gift for loved ones who are far away. It also contains the properties of copper; uplifting, helpful for stomach tension, and for protection of the center of the body. It is said to be a good 'conductor' of energies from the higher realms to our world. Perhaps this is why Copper has long been used as a healing talisman, as in the Copper bracelets worn to treat arthritis.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Hematite

Output: Is called the "stone of the mind". It helps with memory, with intellectual knowledge and the realizations of limitations. It is a calming stone and balances the nervous system or brings balance between the body, mind and spirit. It helps in attaining a meditative state and to feel more grounded - it gets rid of fuzzy-headedness or that light headed feeling. One of the most grounding stones among all.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Howlite

Output: Absorbs and uplifts tension, anxiety, stress. Is a loving, calming stone.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Iolite

Output: Spiritual growth, awakens inner knowledge. Good for truth, simplicity, imagery, & peace. Is a good stone for detoxifying from addictions.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Jade

Output: Aids in remembering dreams, helps in realization of potential. It helps provide confidence and self-sufficiency. In ancient times it was viewed as a sacred stone and aids in attaining a meditation state quickly. Helps balance male and female energies, is a talisman of protection against the visible (illness) and the invisible. In China it is said to bless those who have this stone.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Jasper (Poppy)

Output: Brings joy and protects. Poppy Jasper enlivens your body by throwing vortices of uplifting energy toward areas where energy flow is blocked. These vortices help to break up the physical impediments, encrusted patterns, and energetic blockages that prevent life force from entering certain parts of your physical body. Poppy Jasper's energy is positive, happy, and joyful. It inspires, invigorates, and energizes your entire being. Poppy Jasper's energy acts somewhat like adrenaline. When your adrenaline flows, you work harder and faster, and you feel a joy that keeps you going. Like adrenaline, Poppy Jasper gives you the motivation, inspiration, and energy to act. Poppy Jasper can give you the extra energy you sometimes need in order to get through challenging situations.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Jasper (Leopard Skin)

Output: Leopardskin Jasper helps draw into your life whatever you need for physical healing.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Jet

Output: Is grounding and balancing, and as it also carries a negative electrical charge, is good for drawing power and knowledge to the bearer. It is also helpful in stabilizing finances, and is said to soothe migraines. A very protective stone, feminine, good for mourning.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Labradorite

Output: Labradorite is said to bring clarity of inner sight and progression. It helps protect the aura keeping it clear, balanced protected and free from energy leaks. It helps transform intuition to the intellect helping you to use inner messages. Labradorite is said to help you realize and achieve your destiny in this life while enhancing faith and reliance in your self.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [Agate, Blue Lace] Lapis

Output: Helps you to access the unknown universal knowledge and have the wisdom to understand it. It helps expand awareness and intellect. When there are emotional issues that cause disease, Lapis helps diminish the external symptoms and release problems related to the disease. This stone eases depression and balances male and female energies. It is also a protective stone. Lapis Lazuli harmonizes your heart and mind as it forges stronger bonds between them. The energy radiated by Lapis can help you experience the energy and power you possess within. A powerful thought amplifyer.

Said to help you reach "extremely high spiritual spaces". It has a high inspirational influence. It helps activate the third eye center. Physically it helps the nervous system and the digestive system.


Input: [RACE.] 1. The race at first glance is visible in the sameness of the human frame. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: 1. One's special individuality is, as a peculiar faculty of the mind, concealed in the body.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [RACE.] 2. The race is, however, not mere corporeal matter; the organs of the body are at the same time psychic organs. There are also universal instincts of the race, as for instance, the instinct for nourishment, the sexual instinct, the universal moral faculties, conscience, the universal intellectual faculties, human intellect; therefore, in a word, in the race there is also a common spirit. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: 2. The hidden nature of the mind of the individual strives to become visible, and becomes most clearly so in words and deeds. In exalted and excited moments it is radiated visibly from the body, and its finer or coarser lines impress lasting traces on the body.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [RACE.] 3. The human race is originally the work of the creation, but since then has been transmitted from parents to children. The human race rests, therefore, upon propagation through human beings. It preserves its coherence through ancestors and descendants, under the generations, which follow one another. Natural right of inheritance is an effect of race. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: 3. The individual mind is not the continuation of the parents'. Its production is a new act of creation. Talents and the particular spirit are not transmitted, and an individual may have an entirely different disposition from his parents or his family. Individuals create the new in the world.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [RACE.] 4. Race is necessarily bound to the surface of the earth, which nourishes and supports it. It is essentially earthly. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: 4. The individual mind is not bound to the earth. The whole terrestrial globe is a plaything for it, and it translates itself without trouble to the most distant stars.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [RACE.] 5. Race undergoes necessarily a series of transformations. In regular order the different steps of age succeed each other. After youth follows old age, as death follows birth. No one, who lives long, can avoid this evolution, which is independent of him as a power of nature. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: 5. The individual mind remains essentially the same from childhood to old age. A youthful individual mind remains young, although the hair may be white; while an oldish mind is old, even in childhood. The individual develops himself by his work. His works are like himself.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [RACE.] 6. In the external nature of man, in the human race, a complete system of faculties in perfect order is visible. Man is created in relative perfection, a microcosmic picture of the perfection of God. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: 6. Individual minds are endowed, for the most part, only deficiently and incompletely. They are generally only incomplete thoughts of God; single living words, not a complete language. But, with the help of the race, they work themselves up to perfection.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [RACE.] 7. Race is similarity. In all essential relations the thousands of millions of men, who have already lived or shall yet live, are endowed with the same physical organs in the same order, and the same psychic powers; and all are subject to the same development with age. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: 7. Difference is the characteristic quality of the individual. Talents and all special gifts are distributed unequally. Achilles and Thersites, Cæsar and Lucullus, were infinitely different, although as belonging to the same race of people and living in the same period they were classed together.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [RACE.] 8. Race unites its members in a necessary community. Whoever tries to withdraw himself from this community revolts against nature and breaks the faith which he owes his kind. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: 8. The individual is first of all interested in himself and has his own life, distinct from other individuals. With free choice he seeks his own companions, and extends his hand of his own free will to them for common work.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [RACE.] 9. The human race means the unity of the human kind. The history of the world is the record of the fulfillment of its destiny. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: 9. Individuals are multiformity. The tasks of individual life promote, but sometimes impede, the progress of human society.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [RACE.] 10. The aggregate will has its natural foundation in the community and unity of the race. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: 10. The individual will is the expression of the individual mind.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [RACE.] 11. When the aggregate will rules one-sidedly, the freedom of the individual is lost, and the despotism of the whole prevails: the reciprocal action between the freedom of the individual and the despotism of the whole is unavoidable. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: 11. When individual will asserts itself, without regard to the aggregate will, then we have anarchy.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [RACE.] In the repose of man the life of the race predominates. [INDIVIDUAL.]

Output: In the work of man the life of the individual is heightened.

Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 178, INDIVIDUAL AND THE RACE | Library of Economics and Liberty


Input: [#] 1 [In Other Words, Notes] The state does not compel any religion, nor does it prohibit any religion. The right of the people to speak, write, and publish is absolute. As is their right to publicly associate with one another and petition without government approval. [Amendment Text]

Output: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

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Input: [#] 2 [In Other Words, Notes] You have the right of self-protection from criminals and the state, by use of firearms. No federal law. No BATF. [Amendment Text]

Output: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

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Input: [#] 3 [In Other Words, Notes] Not often an issue yet, but soldiers of the government cannot appropriate private property, nor use it without due process. Might have helped in Waco. [Amendment Text]

Output: No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

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Input: [#] 4 [In Other Words, Notes] People have absolute dominion over their own property and persons, and these rights cannot be abridged unless they themselves have violated the property or persons of others—committed a crime. Even in that case, due process must be observed. [Amendment Text]

Output: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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Input: [#] 5 [In Other Words, Notes] A crime is generally an aggression on the persons or property of others. There are very few crimes against the state: essentially treason and breach of trust. An "infamous crime" is what we generally call a felony. The states deal with crimes. This amendment protects those accused of crimes against the state and has later been federalized to protect all citizens against state abuses. Eminent domain requires public use and just compensation. [Amendment Text]

Output: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

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Input: [#] 6 [In Other Words, Notes] More rights of people accused of crimes, especially jury of one's peers. The intent of the jury is to provide final protection against enforcement of tyrannical laws. Juries have the right to judge law and fact, and can throw out bad law—most statutory law is aggressive bad law. You have the presumption of innocence, the state must prove guilt. See FIJA. [Amendment Text]

Output: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

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Input: [#] 7 [In Other Words, Notes] Not being a Constitutional scholar (yet), my sense of the 7th amendment is common law outranks statutory law and the nonaggression principle trumps any state rules. You have a right to jury trial for relatively small crimes. [Amendment Text]

Output: In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

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Input: [#] 8 [In Other Words, Notes] Any felonious punishment for a victimless crime shall be considered a violation of this amendment. [Amendment Text]

Output: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

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Input: [#] 9 [In Other Words, Notes] Just because we didn't state the right here doesn't mean you don't have the right. You have the unspecified right. [Amendment Text]

Output: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

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Input: [#] 10 [In Other Words, Notes] The state has no powers not specifically identified in this document. You have every freedom not specifically denied by this document. [Amendment Text]

Output: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

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Input: [Sun in House] One [Moon in House] Seven

Output: You are in a position of choosing the outcome, particularly in a relationship situation – Keep a partner; snag a new partner; or release a partner. Legal matters could also be at issue. This is an excellent time for resolution to your benefit, even if you don’t end up winning the lawsuit. Enemies are likely to leave you alone at this point if you tell them to. Peace is at hand with this transit, if you choose.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Sun in House] Two [Moon in House] Eight

Output: An excellent period for matters involving material goods. It tends to be a transformative period involving sex, death, and/or taxes. Sex does not necessarily mean “the act” but could involve sexual organs or an awareness of a sexual concept. Death also does not necessarily mean “literal death” but could involve the death of an outdated idea or situation so that you can begin anew. Taxes, on the other hand, mean taxes and tax debt. No pseudonym for that one.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Sun in House] Three [Moon in House] Nine

Output: New cultural awareness (or differences) without leaving your neighborhood. Or, in the alternative, traveling a long distance in a very short period of time. Both are possibilities with the Third and Ninth houses are involved. Religion, spiritual philosophies, or education are also possibilities. Using education as an example, this is likely a time to let go of some work obligations so that you can return to school or, in the alternative, a time to finish up the education to return to the work force.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Sun in House] Four [Moon in House] Ten

Output: An awakening of the family to public scrutiny because of one’s career is one possibility. Another might involve a new sense of familial power or authority within a family situation that did not exist in the past. The emphasis is on family and career priorities. The home in the form of real estate may also become the issue demanding your attention.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Sun in House] Five [Moon in House] Eleven

Output: There may be an emotional need to join an organization as a means to satisfy the feeling of “belonging.” This is frequently a time when we step up to take on leadership roles within organizations that we already belong to. Another possible focus is children or pleasure derived from your creative side. It is not uncommon for the individual to discover that he/she is soon going to become a parent around the time of this Lunar event occurring in the 5th or 11th houses.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Sun in House] Six [Moon in House] Twelve

Output: There is a likely to be an emotional need to turn inward for a period of time to listen to the inner messages. Others may also be drawn to you in an effort to be heard as they may feel your ability to truly understand their current situation. This is a period of heightened empathy. Be careful not to become too worn out in trying to help others solve their problems, lest it become your problem too. It is a time where we need to listen to our body’s physical and emotional needs. Remember to exercise sensibly, get plenty of fresh air, eat with your health in mind and make sure to get plenty of rest.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Sun in House] Seven [Moon in House] One

Output: The Lunar event in the first house can be one where you virtually wear your emotions on your sleeve. You may feel unable to contain or constrain your emotions. Everyone and their neighbor will likely know exactly how you are feeling. You may not feel like you have much control within relationships, either. The events may move so quickly that the situation with your partner is “said and done” before you even had a chance to sort out what you really want.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Sun in House] Eight [Moon in House] Two

Output: Discovering a need to receive something from someone else. A sense of self-security may be an issue highlighted at this time. Values based on self-worth and how that relates to others as the most basic level might become an issue. Your code of ethics – the rules that govern your sense of right and wrong – may be questioned or validated by others.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Sun in House] Nine [Moon in House] Three

Output: Education and belief systems are sometimes at odds at this time. One could call this the eclipse of wisdom and knowledge given and received. Grandparents and grandchildren tend to learn something from each other. A sibling or neighbor may also have an emotional pull. This could be a time of learning the importance of basic and higher education regardless of whether than means actually attending school or graduating from the school of hard knocks.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Sun in House] Ten [Moon in House] Four

Output: There might be a change in residence soon as a result of your job. It could indicate a form of retirement from your work or a need/desire to spend more time at home. A common theme is the emotional need redecorate or reconstruct the “home” or the ideal of home. Can be also bring a new awareness of balancing your time between home and career in the most productive manner without sacrificing one for the other. Childhood memories are frequently the underlying emotional base for change or conflict.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Sun in House] Eleven [Moon in House] Five

Output: While there is the possibility that you might become more involved in social organizations, it is more likely that you will only do so, if you have the extra time already available to you. More likely, you look for emotional pleasures from creative projects or envision the potentials from taking a risk. Love can blossom or a new baby might be just around the corner. If you have children, you may find that they take center stage by needing you more now, or that you are feeling torn as they grow up and move away so quickly. While this may be a “lucky” period for you, do not get drawn into the gambling mode that can ultimately take away all your pleasure in the game.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Sun in House] Twelve [Moon in House] Six

Output: The Sun in the 12th house can indicate a time of self-awareness about restrictions. Health could be the subject that we focus on, but the overall outcome is typically positive. It could feel like a release from the chains that were binding you. A new outlet or a new perspective is on the horizon. You may find a new sense of empowerment by helping others in new ways.

Astrology of Lunar Eclipses through the houses


Input: [Topic] Apostolic Succession [Orthodox] This is an important part of Orthodox belief and ensures continuity with the church that Christ founded. [Roman Catholic] As in Orthodoxy, this is of vital importance to the church. There is also some degree of mutual recognition of the validity of Orthodox ordinations. [Protestant]

Output: With the exception of the Anglicans and some Lutherans, this idea is rejected. Rather it is important to emphasise continuity of teaching with that of the apostles, rather than a direct line of succession.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Bible - Composition of [Orthodox] Accept the 39 Old Testament and 27 New Testament books, but also a collection of books not found in the original Hebrew Bible. These are known as Deuterocanonicals i.e. a second canon of scripture. [Roman Catholic] Agrees with Orthodoxy as to the validity of these books. [Protestant]

Output: Protestants reject the deuterocanonicals as not being inspired scripture and term them Apocrypha (Greek: 'Hidden Things').

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Clergy - Qualification for [Orthodox] Priests and Bishops must be male, but deaconesses are permitted, though the order is dormant. Priests and deacons may marry before ordination but not after. Bishops, on the other hand, must be celibate. [Roman Catholic] All clergy are required to be male. Priests and Bishops must also be celibate, with the exception of Eastern Rite Catholics and Anglican married clergy who subsequently convert to Catholicism. These groups are allowed to have married priests. [Protestant]

Output: The majority of Protestants do not require celibacy as a condition of election to the clergy. Many churches practice female ordination, including those within the Anglican communion, where the issue of female episcopacy is currently being discussed.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Eucharist - Significance of [Orthodox] Commonly termed the 'Mystic Supper' or 'Divine Liturgy' - This makes present Christ's sacrifice and therefore forgiveness of sins is obtained through it. It is also an encounter with the Risen Christ. [Roman Catholic] The position is similar to the Orthodox. The Eucharist is also known as the 'Holy sacrifice of the Mass'. [Protestant]

Output: The Eucharist, like Baptism is only a symbol of grace. The sacrificial nature of the Eucharist is also rejected.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Eucharist - Presence of Christ in [Orthodox] During the Eucharist, the Priest calls down the Holy Spirit (in Greek: epiklesis) upon the gifts (the bread and the wine). They then change into the actual body and blood of Christ. The precise way in which this happens is a divine mystery. [Roman Catholic] As in Orthodoxy, the Priest invokes the Holy Spirit during the Mass. However, the consecration becomes effective through the Priest, who acts in the person of Christ. The gifts change completely into Christ's body and blood and this change is termed 'Transubstantiation' i.e. the outward appearance remains the same, but the substance changes. [Protestant]

Output: The bread and wine, being symbols, do not change substance. There are however, a wide variety of views held within Protestantism on this subject (e.g. some Anglicans accept the Catholic view, whereas Baptists deny it).

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Eucharist - Distribution of [Orthodox] The consecrated elements can only be received by members. Orthodox policy is to have communion in both kinds (i.e. both the bread and wine are given to those present). [Roman Catholic] As with Orthodoxy, only members of the church may receive. In some Catholic Churches, the bread alone is given to the congregation, the Priest receiving the wine. However, it is becoming common for churches to have communion in both kinds. [Protestant]

Output: The elements are usually offered to all Christians who feel able to partake of them. The vast majority of Protestant churches have communion in both kinds.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Holy Spirit [Orthodox] The third person of the Trinity, proceeding from the Father alone as in the original Nicene Creed. The Father sends the Spirit at the intercession of the Son. The Son is therefore an agent only in the procession of the Spirit. [Roman Catholic] Agrees with the Protestant view. Ambrose of Milan (340-397) wrote: 'When the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, He is not separated from the Father, He is not separated from the Son'. [Protestant]

Output: The Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father and the Son. The Nicene creed includes the filioque (Latin: 'and the son').

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Marriage and Divorce [Orthodox] Marriage is a mystical union between a man and a woman. Divorce is generally only allowed in cases of adultery, though there are exceptions. [Roman Catholic] Marriage is seen as an unbreakable contract & a type of Christ and the church. Remarriage after divorce is not permitted unless there is some canonical impediment to the marriage. In this situation, an annulment may be granted. [Protestant]

Output: Marriage is a contract, but is not unbreakable. Divorce is discouraged, but permitted as evidence of human weakness. Some denominations permit remarriage in church.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Mary - Assumption and Immaculate conception of [Orthodox] The Assumption is accepted and it is agreed that Mary experienced physical death, but the Immaculate conception is rejected. Orthodox belief is that the guilt of original sin is not transmitted from one generation to the next, thus obviating the need for Mary to be sinless. [Roman Catholic] Both are dogmas of the church. The church has not as yet decided whether Mary actually experienced Physical death. The dogma of the Immaculate Conception states that Mary, was at conception 'preserved immaculate from all stain of original sin' and should not be confused with the virgin birth. [Protestant]

Output: Both are denied. The claim that Mary was sinless is rejected - only Christ was sinless.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Mary - Position of [Orthodox] Mary is venerated as Theotokos (Greek: 'God-bearer'). By this is meant that the son she bore was God in human form. She is first amongst the saints and 'ever-virgin'. [Roman Catholic] The view is similar to the Orthodox church - the title 'Mother of God' being used more commonly than Theotokos. This title forms one of the 'Marian Dogmas' of the Church. The others are Mary's perpetual virginity, assumption and immaculate conception. [Protestant]

Output: Mary was a holy woman who was chosen to bear the Son of God. Her perpetual virginity and intercession are denied.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Pope - Authority of [Orthodox] As the Bishop of Rome, he has a primacy of honour when Orthodox, not of jurisdiction. At present, his primacy is not effective as the papacy needs to be reformed in accordance with Orthodoxy. His authority is thus no greater or lesser than any of his fellow Bishops in the church. [Roman Catholic] The Pope is the 'Vicar of Christ' i.e. the visible head of the church on earth and spiritual successor of St. Peter. He has supreme authority (including that over church councils) within Christendom (The Power of the keys). [Protestant]

Output: The Pope is the leader of the Catholic church, having no authority to speak for the church as a whole.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Pope - Infallibility of [Orthodox] Papal Infallibility is rejected. The Holy Spirit acts to guide the church into truth through (for example) ecumenical councils. This Orthodoxy recognises the first seven ecumenical councils (325-787) as being infallible. [Roman Catholic] The Pope is infallible when, through the Holy Spirit, he defines a doctrine on faith and morals that is to be held by the whole church. This is a dogma and is therefore a required belief within Catholicism. [Protestant]

Output: Protestants also reject Papal infallibility. The only source of infallible teaching is that found in the Bible.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Purgatory [Orthodox] An intermediate state between earth and heaven is recognised, but cleansing and purification occur in this life, not the next. [Roman Catholic] A place of cleansing and preparation for heaven. Also a place where the punishment due to unremitted venial sins may be expiated. [Protestant]

Output: Purgatory is rejected - Christ's death on the cross is sufficient to remove the penalty for all our sins.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Sacraments [Orthodox] There are at least seven Sacraments (known as 'Mysteries' in Orthodoxy): Baptism, Chrismation, Eucharist, Holy Orders, Holy Unction, Marriage (Holy Matrimony) and Penance (Confession). The list is not fixed. [Roman Catholic] The number of Sacraments is fixed at seven and is the same list as that in Orthodoxy, with the exception of Chrismation, which is generally known as 'Confirmation'. [Protestant]

Output: Generally, only two sacraments (also known as Ordinances) are recognised: Baptism and the Eucharist (often called 'Holy Communion' or the 'Lord's Supper').

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Sacraments - Effect of [Orthodox] The Mysteries convey grace to those who participate in them worthily. [Roman Catholic] Agrees with the Orthodox position. The Sacraments are signs that effect that which they signify. [Protestant]

Output: There is a diverse range of opinions, but many Protestants regard the Sacraments as symbols or reminders of Grace already given.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Saints [Orthodox] A special group of holy people, who are venerated. They may act as intercessors between God and Man and may be invoked in prayer. [Roman Catholic] The position is very similar to Orthodoxy. For sainthood, it is also required that at least two verifiable miracles have occured as a result of the intercession of that person. [Protestant]

Output: All Christians are saints, called to imitate Christ. Only Christ may mediate between God and Man.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Salvation [Orthodox] Salvation is "faith working through love" and should be seen as a life long process. The Ultimate aim of every Orthodox Christian is to obtain Theosis or union with God. This is done through living a holy life and seeking to draw closer to God. [Roman Catholic] Salvation is by grace, specifically sanctifying grace, which is given initially through Baptismal regeneration and then maintained through the Sacraments, which are 'channels of grace'. [Protestant]

Output: Salvation is the free and unmerited gift of God to man. It is obtained by grace through faith in Christ alone. Through Christ's atoning sacrifice, we are rendered acceptable to God and judged righteous (justified) in his sight.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Scripture - Importance of [Orthodox] There is one source of divine revelation: Tradition. Scripture forms the oral part, and the writings of saints, decisions of ecumenical councils etc. are also part of it. [Roman Catholic] Alongside Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition (i.e. teachings handed down from Christ and the apostles to the present) are to be considered sources of divine revelation. Tradition and scripture are interpreted by the magisterium or teaching authority of the church. [Protestant]

Output: Scripture alone is the only infallible guide and the final authority on matters of Christian faith and practice (One of the foundational principles of Protestantism).

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Worship and Liturgy [Orthodox] The 'Divine Liturgy' is the centre of Orthodox spirituality. Worship is usually in the vernacular, though Greek is also used. [Roman Catholic] Worship is centred around the Mass. Following the Vatican II council (1962-5), greater emphasis was placed on worship in the vernacular, though the traditional Latin ('Tridentine') Mass is also used. [Protestant]

Output: There are a wide variety of worship styles. Examples include the spontaneity of the Pentecostal churches, and the more traditional worship of the Anglican churches in the Catholic tradition.

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Topic] Topic [Orthodox] Orthodox [Roman Catholic] Roman Catholic [Protestant]

Output: Protestant

Comparison between Orthodoxy, Protestantism & Roman Catholicism


Input: [Reference] Matthew 8:1-4 [Miracles of the Lord] Leprosy was cured from a man. [Who Demonstrated Faith]

Output: The leper. He approached the Savior and requested that He heal him "If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean"


Input: [Reference] Matthew 8:5-13 [Miracles of the Lord] The centurion's servant was healed from a distance. [Who Demonstrated Faith]

Output: The centurion demonstrated compassion for his servant, and he also demonstrated faith. He knew that Jesus did not even had to be present for the servant to be healed. "...but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed"


Input: [Reference] Matthew 8:14-15 [Miracles of the Lord] Peter's mother-in-law was healed. [Who Demonstrated Faith]

Output: The scripture does not mention much detail on this story, but it is safe to say that Peter, his wife, and his mother-in-law showed faith. Matthew does mention that after her fever left her she immediately started to minister to Jesus and those in the house. This to me shows her faith that her fever was cure because of the Savior.


Input: [Reference] Matthew 8:16 [Miracles of the Lord] Devils were cast out, the sick were healed. [Who Demonstrated Faith]

Output: The scripture states that those who were healed were brought to the Savior to be healed. It seems that those who brought them exercised great faith by bringing them to Jesus, even if it was late in the day and they could have waited until morning, except that their faith could not let them wait any longer.


Input: [Reference] Matthew 8:23-27 [Miracles of the Lord] Jesus calmed the storm. [Who Demonstrated Faith]

Output: Jesus had faith that His power was such that he could calm the storm.


Input: [Reference] Matthew 8:28-34 [Miracles of the Lord] More devils are cast out. [Who Demonstrated Faith]

Output: The two people possessed with devils.


Input: [Reference] Matthew 9:20-22; Mark 5:25-34 [Miracles of the Lord] The woman with an issue of blood was healed. [Who Demonstrated Faith]

Output: This poor woman had had a health problem for the past 12 years, and when she had heard that Jesus was nearby, knew that by simply touching him that she would be healed. She sought the Savior and did the best that she could to receive the miracle she needed.


Input: [Reference] Matthew 9:27-31 [Miracles of the Lord] Two blind men receive sight. [Who Demonstrated Faith]

Output: The blind men sought Jesus out, which demonstrated great faith. Also, after the miracle was performed they could not help but go about and share the wonderful thing that had happened to them.


Input: [Reference] Mark 2:1-12 [Miracles of the Lord] Jesus healed a man sick of palsy [Who Demonstrated Faith]

Output: Jesus was in a house preaching, and there were so many people wanting to hear Him that the house was full. So full that two men could not bring their sick friend in, so they climbed to the roof of the house, broke part of the ceiling, and lowered their friend to Jesus. They went to great trouble because they knew in their hearts that the Savior was able to heal their friend.


Input: [0] View of the Poor [2] Key Biblical Texts [3] Expressions [4] Why the Poor are Poor [5] Christian Response [1]

Output: Theological Frame

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Input: [0] Poor made in the image of God [2] Genesis 1-2 [3] Poor as Creative. Poor as work of art. See God’s hidden glory. [4] The poor lack skills, knowledge, and opportunity. [5] Enable the poor to be fruitful and productive. [1]

Output: Creation

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Input: [0] Poor as people in rebellion [2] Genesis 3 Proverbs [3] Poor as lazy. Poor make bad choices. God helps those who help themselves. [4] The poor are in rebellion and their culture keeps them poor. [5] Challenge the poor with the gospel and encourage them to make better choices. [1]

Output: Fall

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Input: [0] Poor as Christ incarnate [2] Gospels [3] Christ in the distressing guise of the poor. What you did for the least of these… [4] The poor lack love. [5] Accompany the poor and relieve suffering as possible. [1]

Output: Incarnation

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Input: [0] Poor as God’s favorites [2] Exodus Prophets [3] Blessed are the poor for theirs will be the kingdom. Liberation theology [4] The poor are oppressed by the non-poor. Poverty is structural. [5] Work for justice. Help the poor find their voice and place in socio-political-economic system. [1]

Output: Prophetic Eschatological

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Input: [0] Poor as lost souls [2] Matthew 28 Acts [3] The better future lies in eternity. Save as many as we can. The poor will always be with you. [4] The poor are lost from God, and the kingdom if coming soon. [5] Proclaim the gospel and encourage the poor to respond. [1]

Output: Salvation Soteriological

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Input: [The Latter-day Saint] During a stake disciplinary council, there are 16 men. The stake presidency and a clerk are present, in addition to 12 high councilors. Six of the high councilors are assigned to defense and the other six are assigned to present evidence. The Bishop is not part of the council. The only reason that the Bishop would be allowed to be there would be as a witness. He would not be speaking or participating in the running of the proceedings. The "sister wife" would only be allowed to be there if she were a witness. Typically, the witnesses would wait outside until they are called. They would not be allowed to take notes. [The Big Love"Mormon"]

Output: A woman and one of her "sister wives" are sitting in a room. The Bishop and Stake President are sitting alone at the head of the table. There are six other men in the room (eight men total), and the two women.

Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple - FairMormon


Input: [The Latter-day Saint] This appears to be simply a plot device to tie in with the mysterious letter that has been driving the plot. [The Big Love"Mormon"]

Output: The following odd exchange occurs between the woman and the Stake President: Stake President: Well, let's begin. Are you taping this hearing? Woman: No. SP: Let me ask you again, are you taping this hearing. Woman: No, I am not. SP: Nothing in your purse? On your phone? Would you mind if we removed your bag from the room? Following this exchange, both of the women's purses are then taken out of the room.

Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple - FairMormon


Input: [The Latter-day Saint] As mentioned before, the Bishop should not be a participant. He should not be asking questions. [The Big Love"Mormon"]

Output: The Bishop says "Have you had some time to pray and reflect upon your situation since we spoke?"

Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple - FairMormon


Input: [The Latter-day Saint] The question about wearing garments is standard in any temple recommend interview. If the woman were actually LDS, she wouldn't even be surprised by the question. Perhaps the answer that the woman gives to this question is how Latter-day Saints ought to respond when they are accused by critics of wearing "magic underwear." It is ironic that this response was given. [The Big Love"Mormon"]

Output: This exchange occurs between the woman and the Stake President: SP: Are you still upholding your temple covenants? Woman: Yes, but my interpretation might conflict with yours. SP: Well, for example, are you wearing your garments? Woman: President Davis, are you asking me to tell you what kind of underwear I have on?

Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple - FairMormon


Input: [The Latter-day Saint] Once again, the Bishop is not allowed to speak. He does not have authority in this proceeding. [The Big Love"Mormon"]

Output: The Bishop speaks up yet again, saying "there's still an opportunity for you to find your way back to the Church. Will you repent?"

Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple - FairMormon


Input: [The Latter-day Saint] It is highly unlikely that any real LDS Stake President would consider a past practice of the Church that we consider to have been sanctioned by the Lord Himself as a "misguided abomination." Nor would it be regarded as a "shameful practice." The only somewhat accurate part of this statement is that is has no place in the modern Church. [The Big Love"Mormon"]

Output: The Stake President says: "You know that polygamy is a misguided abomination. It's a shameful practice that has no place in the modern Church."

Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple - FairMormon


Input: [The Latter-day Saint] This exchange is actually an allusion to what happened with the so-called "September Six." Church critics charge that the excommunication of what the media referred to as "LDS scholars" was in reality ordered by President Boyd K. Packer. [The Big Love"Mormon"]

Output: The following exchange is present simply to advance the plot regarding a mysterious letter which the Church wants. The woman asks the Stake President if "this hearing [was] requested directly from Church headquarters" and if he "receive[d] instruction." The Stake President acts guilty and responds that he doesn't see "how that's relevant" to the proceeding. The woman then claims that she is being punished because of a "certain letter" that her husband helped to purchase for the Church which is claimed to expose that the Church never intended to cease the practice of polygamy. The existence of the letter has been a plot device throughout the entire third season.

Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple - FairMormon


Input: [The Latter-day Saint] This is another allusion to the critics' assertion that the Church disciplines scholars and attempts to hide the truth. The phrase from Elder Packer was taken from a talk called "The Mantle is Far, Far Greater than the Intellect." The phrase "some thing that are true are not very useful" is a favorite of critics of the Church. It is used by them to support the idea that the Church excommunicates intellectuals and historians. See: Boyd K. Packer on the truth [The Big Love"Mormon"]

Output: The Stake President then actually mentions President Packer by name: "...as our Elder Packer has said before, we all know that there's the temptation to tell everything, whether its worthy, or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful."

Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple - FairMormon


Input: [The Latter-day Saint] This is the third time that the Bishop, who is not allowed on the council, has talked of repentance. It seems implied that repentance is simply a matter of admitting that you are wrong. In reality, it is much more complex than that. [The Big Love"Mormon"]

Output: The Bishop provides yet another appeal to repentance: "...we sincerely want to help you escape this life. Don't turn against us. Will you repent?" The Bishop also implies that if the disciplinary council follows through, that her "eternal salvation" will be lost.

Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple - FairMormon


Input: [The Latter-day Saint] This formal statement appears to have been added as a bit of Hollywood drama. "Ancestors" and "progenitors" (literally 'those who were born before you') are the same thing—the expression is redundant. [The Big Love"Mormon"]

Output: The Stake President portentously declares: "...henceforth your name shall be removed from the records of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You will not be allowed to partake of the sacrament. The sacred ordinances that bind you to your family, your ancestors, and your progenitors for all eternity are severed."

Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple - FairMormon


Input: [s] 1 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: Having assembled to consult upon the interests of religion within this commonwealth, we would now, as Pastors and Teachers, in accordance with the custom of this Association, address you on some of the subjects which at the present time appear to us to have an important bearing upon the cause of Christ.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 2 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: The first topic upon which we would speak, has respect to the perplexed and agitating subjects which are now common amongst us.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 3 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: All that we would say at present with regard to these subjects, is this: They should not be forced on any church as matters for debate, at the hazard of alienation and division.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 4.1 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: Once it would have seemed strange even to hint that members of churches could wish to force a subject for debate upon their Pastor and their brethren of the same church.

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Input: [s] 4.2 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: But we are compelled to mourn over the loss, in a degree, of that deference to the pastoral office, which no minister would arrogate, but which is at once a mark of christian urbanity, and a uniform attendant of the full influence of religion upon individual character.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 4.3 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: If there be a tendency in zeal upon these subjects to violate the principles and rules of christian intercourse, to interfere with the proper pastoral influence, and to make the church into which we flee from a troubled world for peace, a scene of "doubtful disputations," there must be something wrong in that zeal or in the principles which excite it.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 4.4 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: If any are constrained to adopt those principles, and to use that zeal, we would affectionately and solemnly caution them not to disturb the influence of those ministers who think that the promotion of personal religion among their people, and the establishment of Christians in the faith and comfort of the Gospel, is the proper object of their ministry.

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Input: [s] 5 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: II. We would call your attention to the importance of maintaining that respect and deference to the Pastoral office which is enjoined in Scripture, and which is essential to the best influence of the ministry on you and your children.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 6 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: One way in which this respect has been in some cases violated, is in encouraging lecturers or preachers on certain topics of reform to present their subjects within the parochial limits of settled pastors without their consent.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 7.1 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: Your minister is ordained of God to be your teacher, and is commanded to feed that flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made him overseer.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 7.2 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: If there are certain topics upon which he does not preach with the frequency, or in the manner that would please you, it is a violation of sacred and important rights to encourage a stranger to present them.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 7.3 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: Deference and subordination are essential to the happiness of society, and peculiarly so in the relation of a people to their pastor.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 7.4 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: Let them despise or slight him, and he ceases to do them good, and they cease to respect those things of which he is at once the minister and the symbol.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 7.5 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: There is great solemnity in those words: "Obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves; for they watch for your souls as they that must give account."

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 7.6 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: It is because we desire the highest influence of the ministry upon you and your children, that we now exhort you to reverence that office which the ascending Redeemer selected from all his gifts as the highest token of his love and care for his people.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 8 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: III. We invite your attention to the dangers which at present seem to threaten the female character with wide spread and permanent injury.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 9.1 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: The appropriate duties and influence of women, are clearly stated in the New Testament. Those duties and that influence are unobtrusive and private, but the sources of mighty power.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 9.2 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: When the mild, dependent, softening influence of woman upon the sternness of man's opinions is fully exercised, society feels the effects of it in a thousand forms.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 9.3 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: The power of woman is in her dependence, flowing from the consciousness of that weakness which God has given her for her protection and which keeps her in those departments of life that form the character of individuals and of the nation.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 9.4 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: There are social influences which females use in promoting piety and the great objects of christian benevolence, which we cannot too highly commend.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 9.5 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: We appreciate the unostentatious prayers and efforts of woman, in advancing the cause of religion at home and abroad:--in Sabbath schools, in leading religious inquirers to their pastor for instruction, and in all such associated effort as becomes the modesty of her sex; and earnestly hope that she may abound more and more in these labours of piety and love.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 9.6 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: But when she assumes the place and tone of a man as a public reformer, our care and protection of her seem unnecessary, we put ourselves in self defence against her, she yields the power which God has given her for protection, and her character becomes unnatural.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 9.7 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: If the vine, whose strength and beauty is to lean upon the trellis work and half conceal its clusters, thinks to assume the independence and the overshadowing nature of the elm, it will not only cease to bear fruit, but fall in shame and dishonour into the dust.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 10 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: We cannot, therefore, but regret the mistaken conduct of those who encourage females to bear an obtrusive and ostentatious part in measures of reform, and countenance any of that sex who so far forget themselves as to itinerate in the character of public lecturers and teachers.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 11.1 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: We especially deplore the intimate acquaintance and promiscuous conversation of females with regard to things "which ought not to be named;" by which that modesty and delicacy which is the charm of domestic life, and which constitute the true influence of women in society are consumed, and the way opened, as we apprehend, for degeneracy and ruin.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 11.2 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: We say these things, not to discourage proper influences against sin, but to secure such reformation as we believe is scriptural and will be permanent.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 12 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: IV. We would set before you, as specially important in the present times, the cultivation of private christian character, and private efforts for the spiritual good of individuals.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 13.1 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: If every Christian will faithfully endeavor so to live and act, so to discipline his natural disposition, and to make such attainments in goodness as to receive a testimony like that which Enoch had before his translation, that he pleases God, true piety will be universal, and pure religion will prevent the incursions of doctrinal and practical errors.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 13.2 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: We should remember that while we strive to do good, it is of the first importance that we be good.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 13.3 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: The improvement of his individual christian character, should be the first and great object with every one.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 13.4 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: To exercise the feelings of which the Savior has set us an example, to be like Him in the spirit and temper of our minds, is the surest way to secure the approbation and love of God.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 13.5 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: Without this, our public efforts in the cause of God and man, however extensive and successful, will profit us nothing.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 14.1 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: If Christians will labor privately to form individual minds, especially those of the young, to virtue and religion, they will hasten the universal prevalence of religion by the most effectual means.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 14.2 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: We commend the Sabbath School, and the Bible Class to the members of our churches as opportunities of extensive and enduring influence.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 15.1 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: The regular, uniform discharge of the duties of our stations in the fear of God, the influence of faith, hope, and charity, upon the heart and conduct, a growing acquaintance with the Bible as a means of true and safe zeal, an increasing knowledge of the way of salvation by Christ, as a matter of personal experience and hope, should be the aim and end of every member of our churches.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 15.2 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: That we may be examples to you in these things, pray for us continually.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [s] 15.3 [Brethren and Friends,]

Output: And may grace, mercy, and peace be upon you and yours, and upon the whole Israel of God, Amen.

Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837


Input: [In Sparta…] The government’s main goal was the protection of the state, and the two kings led the army in war. […whereas in Athens…] The government was more well-rounded. [0]

Output: Government


Input: [In Sparta…] The government started training boys at a very early age, with emphasis on military training and physical education. […whereas in Athens…] Boys learned poetry, reading, writing, and music as well as physical education. [0]

Output: Education


Input: [In Sparta…] Things were run very strictly and everyone worked for the good of the state; all citizens had to be soldiers and helots (slaves) worked the land. […whereas in Athens…] Read more in History « 10 Forecasts Nostradamus Most Horrendous! Why Do Called Black Friday? » People were given more freedom and were allowed to pursue any career that they wanted. [0]

Output: Social roles and responsibilities


Input: [In Sparta…] Foreigners were never allowed inside, and only the perioikoi were allowed to make contact with them (for trading). […whereas in Athens…] Trade and travel were encouraged and foreigners were welcome, although they usually couldn’t become citizens. [0]

Output: Foreigners


Input: [In Sparta…] Slaves called helots greatly outnumbered the Spartans, so they had to be prepared for slave revolts. […whereas in Athens…] Slaves were treated fairly, could earn their freedom, and could appeal to mistreatment. [0]

Output: Views on freedom


Input: [In Sparta…] During the Archaic period, they traded with other Greek states, and their craftsmen produced high quality products. […whereas in Athens…] The economy was based on slaves, who ran factories, worked in homes and on farms, and in other professions. Most people wanted to own one or two. [0]

Output: Economy


Input: [In Sparta…] All Spartan citizens were soldiers and spent their lives training and fighting, which made Sparta the strongest Greek military power by the Classical period. Women kept fit, too. […whereas in Athens…] At the age of 18, all boys went to military school for two years, and serving in the army gave citizens their freedom. [0]

Output: Military