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Why is Christ our Passover?

Democracy as I said is shorthand for liberal democracy or liberalism. Absolute or pure democracy is not the issue. The idea, existence, of human rights, you can thank liberalism for. The idea isn't clear in history until Locke, before then you had rights if you were a citizen of, for example...

Merchant ships were outfitted with cannon. The more cannon, the safer the investment. Merchant ships were privately owned and operated. They could lay waste to the buildings near a harbor.

Yeah I didn't think so. Thank you sir for your service!

Yes, the thornier issue that remains to this day, all throughout the world, concerns just who is a man, when we say that all men are created equal. It is those men who we believe possess the rights, and so while it is not without merit, to accuse a polity who is racist in their perception of...

Separation of powers, rule of law, constitutionalism, civilian control of the military. If we could without serious carnage sweep through all the terrible regimes of the world and force them to be liberals we should do it. We would need to occupy until we fixed their polity though, it's not...

I'm not opposed to experimenting with this. Incidentally it's not universal right now, there's an age limit, and many ex-cons can't vote either. There are probably other people who are denied too. I'm just not convinced at the moment that electing better politicians would make much material...

Liberal democracy, or just liberalism, is the opposite of evil, everything but liberalism is evil, by comparison, and I include constitutional monarchism as a type of liberalism.

Mass is our chore. It's an easy yoke and a light burden. We've gone to Mass since the very beginning Acts 2:42. It's one of the distinguishing things about us, is weekly Mass, sort of like the weekly Sabbath for practicing Jews, except Mass isn't all day long, more like an hour. There is...

The one thing we know about international relations is that liberal regimes do not go to war with each other. That means it's the only idea going that might establish world peace. Nothing stomps out regimes deleterious to human rights like an overwhelming military. That's because you don't...

More like the cure.

To spread democracy. Because you believe in human rights. Because you believe in protecting morals. To secure our freedoms, liberties and rights. For the love of mankind. For the exercise, adventure, as a career.

Who is harmed by my belt-fed even though I have it left out openly as I go about my business? It's there in case I need it. You never know when you're going to need a belt-fed, simple plain fact. I argue incontrovertible. I'd get argument opposed to that argument, but I'd argue it's...

Our rights are an illusion. We live in the freest country in the world, because of our democratic institutions, and our founders' grasp upon our rights is secure, because they wrote the right laws, but right now we don't believe in our fundamental rights, so they are being protected in spite of...

In 2012, he wasn't living in the world where Australian and Kiwi style confiscation of AR-type semiautos was within the Overton window. It hadn't got there yet in 2012, they were talking about magazine capacity restrictions. When he got into "The gun culture", "the Tennessee culture". "If I...

So typical. Like almost everywhere else in this country except Texas, the cities are populated by Democrats. They're stuffed with them. And they tell us, living in the exurbs and rural, how we should have laws. Like they know.

Don't be an idiot! That's like me saying Paul was a Catholic. It's BEGGING THE QUESTION. Just tell me which one it is, if you get around to it---or any of you Dispensationalists, just anyone, just chime in and let us all know. One of the covenants Paul means in Gal4:24 ("THE TWO COVENANTS"...

When are we going to annex that great big parcel of land (with only a tenth of our population)?

It's only a lie if Dispensationalism is true. You certainly don't demonstrate its truth, so this is all just begging the question. NO ONE AGREES until like 1800. Not at all. The language in Hebrews 12:22-24 and the language in Galatians 4 is connected through "heavenly Jerusalem" and...

This consists largely in agreeing with the Niceno-Constantinopolitan and Apostles' creeds, going to Mass once a week, and maintaining full communion with the Church (which means avoid grave matter). It's really easy. It's not nothing, but it is an easy yoke and a light burden, just as the Lord...