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I'm interested if he'll convert. And if he does convert, to which tradition will he convert? Even if it's evangelical that's still a tradition by now, even though it's younger than Lutheran, Church of England, and Holy Orthodox, evangelical church is its own tradition by now. This is a...

Those are not hard to come by. It's completely well within his public character. If you're suggesting that he "turns on the water works" as a rhetorical device OK, but so do actors and actresses, for a living. Are you suggesting that their pursuit of career success is nefarious, just because...

Pretty awesome.

Are you defending, going to church weekly, and chastity, or not? Are you, iow, OK with people freely promoting not going to church, and not being chaste, as absolute values?

Wow. I've never heard of desiccated liver pills, and idk why raw eggs would be better than cooking them. Hard core. :cool: I mean, we're very similar in our way of thinking about things, the only slight difference between your view and mine is that "free markets" are not the primary concern...

Apparently I'm not the only one who enjoys watching Trailer Park Boys.

Logic makes things easy to see. Is the Flood literal? The whole idea that you can learn to be a Christian from studying the Scripture alone is like thinking you can become a Mason by studying their lodge manuals. At some point you do have to enter the fray, and meet people. Catholicism, and...

You can't use logic to talk Christians out of our faith. Logic's on our side. The most successful way to talk Christians out of their faith is through ethics. It's through persuasively arguing to the Christians, and typically to Christian youngsters, the children of Christians, "Hey...

Isn't it k-o-h-h-o-g? ;) Where did you learn the concept of 'contraries' as compared to 'contradictories?' I ran into that reading a book by a nun. I know it wasn't her original invented work, she was just interpreting an older tradition, do you know where you first found that? I'm asking...

Of course you do: You are basically a good guy.

He either doesn't think passive aggression is a sin, or he doesn't think he's passive aggressive. I haven't figured out which one yet, but cf. the following thread where he comes in on the first page and we discuss it...

The New Covenant was made with all Israel, represented by the 12 Apostles. There were zero Gentile representatives in the deal. They were all Jews. The 12 Jews represented all Israel. (12 tribes, descended from Jacob, aka Israel.) They also represented all the Gentiles. The Gentiles are...

He's never going to shut up, and he's never going to change his tune.

The United States Constitution is right in God's eyes.

Some part of me understands that. I just doubt that the gratification in making someone mad (which I know is technically impossible) is worth it, even if they have no justification to get mad, just because you for example utter the R-word. I know that's infuriating. I just don't know that...

That's mechanically because you live post-Reformation. It's an accident that you think that. If your exact same person instead was born in AD 1 you would think corporate sacrifice to deity of some variety is a permanent requirement and you'd think political ideology should reflect this...

It's good to see these set out plainly. Regarding point 1: 100 km ~62 miles if my math's right. It seems like too much granite. Like, we're missing a lot of granite, if that's how it all started. Maybe lost to space? Regarding point 2: idk what I think about the pillars, idk that they're...

Thanks to @Jefferson for providing a really helpful link which sets out "three initial conditions" for the theory. 1. The created Earth was encapsulated by a granite crust nearly 100 km thick. 2. This crust was supported by downwarps in the granite crust creating pillars on a solid basalt...

Russia: STOP IT. KNOCK IT OFF. ENOUGH!

Catholicism doesn't just pretend to worship God the Father, like how so many paganisms wound up eventually, slowly but surely, pretending to worship their deities. Those paganisms died because of this phenomenon. You just seem to not get this. We actually believe in God the Father, we believe...