{"id":794,"date":"2015-05-21T15:31:15","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T22:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2015-05-21T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T22:31:15","slug":"vegas-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"
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International Peace Education Center – Las Vegas, NV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Since I\u2019m heading to Las Vegas for the grand opening celebration of the International Peace Education Center and I\u2019ll also be receiving some spiritual education at a retreat, I won\u2019t have much time to write. So I\u2019d simply like to post a letter I recently wrote to the Appeal-Democrat newspaper in Marysville, California. Thankfully the Appeal-Democrat always prints my letters, no matter how controversial, and for that I am extremely grateful.<\/p>\n

Letter to the Editor. Appeal-Democrat, May 18, 2015:<\/p>\n

Well over twenty years ago, while living in St. Louis, I tuned in to a Christian radio station and I still remember the amazing testimony I heard that day, of faith, perseverance and ultimate triumph from Vietnam Veteran David Roever. In fact, I was so inspired I would often share his story with others. Years later, after moving back to the Yuba\/Sutter area, I read in The Appeal-Democrat that Roever would be speaking at the Calvary Christian Center in Yuba City, and I convinced both of my then teen-aged daughters to join me to hear him speak.<\/em><\/p>\n

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David Roever (1.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Although I had already heard most of his stories, I still found them humorous and deeply inspirational, as did my daughters. However as Roever\u2019s presentation was coming to a close, he started spewing out anti-Muslim rhetoric and proclaimed, \u201cOur God is better than their God!\u201d Not wanting to hear more of his vitriolic speech, my daughters and I walked out of the sanctuary.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fortunately, as I visit and write about places of worship throughout the Yuba\/Sutter area, I rarely find such backward-thinking attitudes in our diverse community. Hopefully, we are, as Father George Foxworth stated in a recent sermon at Grace Episcopal Church in Wheatland, \u201c\u2026looking to find what we have in common instead of focusing upon things that divide.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you for visiting my blog and please continue to do so. I\u2019ll have a lot of material to write about once I get back from Vegas. Heck, I even plan to visit a Temple of Goddess Spirituality at Indian Springs, Nevada on my way there. (A certain extreme faction of the Unification movement has been calling my wife and others \u201cpost-modern secular goddess-worshiping feminists on a power trip to hell\u201d, so I thought I should do some research. ) Wish me luck.<\/p>\n

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Temple of Goddess Spirituality. (2.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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(1.) David Roever
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(2.) Temple of Goddess Spirituality
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Since I\u2019m heading to Las Vegas for the grand opening celebration of the International Peace Education Center and I\u2019ll also be receiving some spiritual education at a retreat, I won\u2019t have much time to write. So I\u2019d simply like to post a letter I recently wrote to the Appeal-Democrat newspaper in Marysville, California. Thankfully the … Continue reading Vegas Bound<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ReYP-cO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leavinglinda.starthistlemedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}