favorite mode is sitting in the dark reading online stuff with my phone flashlight on, battery at >7%

my dad died a few years back, from cancer most likely caused by Round Up and Monsanto’s failure to disclose the dangers and proper safety instructions for using it. This administration pushing glyphosate back into our farms and communities is continuing a cycle of poisoning our food supply, ecology and loved ones. Of all the weeks to do it, they picked the same week that Bayer finally agreed to a 7.5b settlement for cancer caused by Round Up.

Every one who honors and serves the human government and relies upon it, for good, more than he does upon the Divine government, worships and serves the creature more than he does the Creator.
- David Lipscomb, in Civil Government : Its Origin, Mission, and Destiny, and the Christian's Relation To It (1889)

The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.
- Nikolai Berdyaev Slavery and Freedom (1939)

The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. Romans 8:6

Anarchism can teach Christian thinkers to see the realities of our societies from a different standpoint than the dominant one of the state. - Jacques Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity [Anarchie et Christianisme] 1988

the only truth you can seek in an era of deceit