Search found 24172 matches

by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 12:54 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 33
Views: 747

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

I don’t think pointing out someone is of poor character is “as hominem”. Basically. I don’t think people of poor character and with a fundamentally anti-Christian worldview are the right place to go for either the truth or facts. Of course, some people want to divorce their poor character from their...
by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 12:52 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: A great analogy for Anabaptist church/state understanding
Replies: 1
Views: 52

Re: A great analogy for Anabaptist church/state understanding

Putting aside the political figures discussed or this former pastor's Nov vote choice, I thought his analogy of ambassadorship was very good... I'm not sure what branch of Christianity he comes from, but he almost sounds like an Anabaptist. The ambassador for Christ analogy occupies about the middl...
by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 12:15 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 417
Views: 77992

Re: War in Gaza

America loves doing that. Iraq, Afghanistan. “Hearts and minds.” It is called the Three Block something or other. The first block is the fighting, The next block is the securing the infrastructure and the third block is humanitarian, if I am remembering it right. The US military used this in all th...
by Josh
Mon May 06, 2024 10:24 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: War in Gaza
Replies: 417
Views: 77992

Re: War in Gaza

I would be rather surprised if George Soros were paying anyone to engage in anti-Israeli protesting, given that Soros has a long history of promoting pro-Israeli policy. I guess I could see him conducting a “false flag”?
by Josh
Sun May 05, 2024 9:03 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?
Replies: 630
Views: 40568

Re: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?

For example, here on this forum it took me only a couple of minutes to find these examples of posters here using the term to describe people who have not yet been convicted of felonies in a court of law. Josh and Grace have objected to Trump being described as a criminal because he has not yet been...
by Josh
Sun May 05, 2024 8:59 pm
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Morals & ethics behind supporting certain mission efforts?
Replies: 12
Views: 458

Re: Morals & ethics behind supporting certain mission efforts?

We have a variety of folks here that like to think through things and I hope this subject can be discussed in a mature manner and not get political more than it has to be. I was recently made aware of most likely the biggest drug problem we have in American in Kensington Philidelphia, which is clos...
by Josh
Sun May 05, 2024 8:58 pm
Forum: Written Word
Topic: Paul Graham - How to Disagree
Replies: 33
Views: 747

Re: Paul Graham - How to Disagree

But I think there's a deep skepticism that facts exist at all. I think absolute truth exists and is embodied in Jesus, the Logos. I also think “facts” exist as a subset of this. I am sceptical of fact gatekeepers - people like Paul Graham, who inform me that a man can turn into a woman and two men ...
by Josh
Sat May 04, 2024 8:56 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?
Replies: 630
Views: 40568

Re: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?

The simple fact is that neither Biden nor Trump are “criminals”.
by Josh
Sat May 04, 2024 8:56 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills
Replies: 69
Views: 2272

Re: Distinguishing Mountains from Molehills

Al Mohler is a Reformed theologian; needless to say he has a very different perspective than Anabaptists do.
by Josh
Sat May 04, 2024 5:44 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?
Replies: 630
Views: 40568

Re: Is Trump legally qualified to be a presidential candidate?

Ken,

None of those were crimes. They were civil actions, most of them private.