Kate Beckinsale has finally revealed the reason for her mysterious weeks-long hospital stay earlier this year and admitted that she lost “a lot of weight from stress and grief.” In a post on Instagram, the 50-year-old actress hit back at comments from trolls about her body after one person wrote, “Go do some squats [katebeckinsale] I think [your] a** ran away,” US Weekly reported. “No, actually. I watched my stepfather [British TV director Roy Battersby] die quite shockingly, my mother has stage 4 cancer, and I lost a lot of weight from stress and grief, quite quickly,” she responded to the commenter. Beckinsale said she was “in the hospital for six weeks because the grief had ‘burned a hole’ in my esophagus, which made me vomit copious amounts of blood.” Kate Beckinsale Says She Had Health Crisis That Made Her Vomit 'Copious Amounts of Blood' amid 'Stress and Grief' https://t.co/7EG0aJcqV3 — People (@people) July 9, 2024 “I found eating very hard and I just worked very very hard on a movie that was actually quite triggering because it also involved the theme of the death of my father so I’m not really concerned about what you think about my a**,” the “Serendipity” star wrote. “Maybe you should worry about your own f**king a**,” the actress added. “I suggest shoving something up it — like a large pineapple or a brick.” In May, Beckinsale slammed plastic surgery rumors following her hospital stay after she posted several teary-eyed “no context hospital” pictures months earlier on social media that honored her mom Judy Loe, as previously reported. “Every time I post anything — and by the way, this has been the case since I was about 30 — I am accused of having had unrecognizable surgery/using Botox using fillers/being obsessed with looking younger, and it’s really such a tiresome and subtly vicious way to bully a person,” Beckinsale wrote on Instagram. “I don’t actually do any of those things — I’ve even gone to the trouble of having a plastic surgeon categorically state that I don’t and haven’t, and still, every time there’s a chorus of ‘my God, you’re unrecognizable,’” she added. “‘Oh my God PLASTIC, oh my God, you don’t even look like yourself anymore,’ it happens constantly and it’s usually women that are doing it.” She closed out her post noting that she’s fully aware that even saying all this “will have absolutely no effect” on those bullying her. The “Click” star’s post comes after her family’s loss of her stepfather. He died in January of a “massive stroke” while battling cancer, Page Six noted. He was 87. At the time, Beckinsale shared a video of her stepfather and wrote on social media, “I have no words yet . Thank you [katebeckinsale_slovakia2] for making this beautiful thing. I fought for you with everything I had. Oh Roy, I am so sorry I lost.” Related: Kate Beckinsale’s ‘No Context Hospital’ Photos Sound Alarm Bells From Fans

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Almost anyone who has graduated from college in the last 50 years has repeatedly heard the statement, “More people have been killed in the name of God than in the name of anything else.” And most of them believe it. It would take a long essay to respond to this claim. I will therefore only note here that if by “God” the people who make this statement are referring to the God of the Bible, and therefore to Christians (Jews rarely had enough numbers or power to persecute anyone), the statement is simply not true. Yes, Christians killed Jews (though it was never official church doctrine to do so). For example, whole communities of Jews were slaughtered by Christians on their way to fight in the Crusades. And tens of millions of Indigenous people in the Americas were killed as a result of Christian invasion and settlement—though most of those deaths were caused by European diseases to which people in the Americas had no immunity. And Christians killed fellow Christians who had a different theology. Between 1618 and 1648, in what became known as the Thirty Years’ War—a war between Europe’s Catholics and Protestants—somewhere between 5 and 8 million people were killed. But there are few other examples of largescale killings by Christians as Christians (as opposed to people who happened to be Christian killing people, as in the two world wars). For example, during one of the most widely cited examples of Christian killing, the Inquisition, no more than 5,000 people were killed—a number both Jewish and non-Jewish historians agree upon. The number of people killed by Christians in the 2,000-year history of Christianity is far exceeded by the number of people killed in the Mongol invasions of Europe and China in the 13th century alone—approximately 40 million and 60 million, respectively. It is also dwarfed by the number of people killed by Muslims, mostly Arabs, from the advent of Islam in the seventh century. During the thousand-year Muslim rule in India alone, at least 100 million Hindus were killed. (The Indian government rarely speaks of this for fear of introducing civil strife between its Hindu and Muslim populations.) With regard to the staggering number of Hindus killed by Muslims, historian Will Durant, in his magisterial 11-volume “The Story of Civilization” (co-authored with Ariel Durant), wrote: “The Mohammedan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history.” Given that those who say, “More people have been killed in the name of God than in the name of anything else,” are referring to Christians, it is not intellectually honest to include the Muslim murder of Hindus as those who have killed “in the name of God” without specifying that most of that killing was done by Muslims. Finally, and most importantly, there is something in whose name more people have been killed—in the last century alone—than in the name of anything (except Allah). And that thing is “equality.” Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and other communist tyrants killed at least 100 million noncombatants and enslaved a billion others. All in the name of “equality.” And that is inevitable. While “all men are created equal,” as the American Declaration of Independence put it, based upon the biblical, Judeo-Christian origins of the American Revolution, it is not possible to achieve equality without violence. That is why the French Revolution, rooted in “equality,” led to the guillotine, while the American Revolution, which was not rooted in equality, led to the freest country ever created. Why egalitarianism is a monstrous ideology is the subject of my next column. COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Were More People Killed in the Name of God or in the Name of Equality? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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