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I'm open to baptizing someone the same day, or take 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, whatever it takes to get a person ready for baptism. I've never understood why churches feel a need to have a set period of time for baptism preparation such as, no shorter than _____ and not longer than ________. I think...

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Thanks for the replies. I am aware of the filtered wikipedia file. I guess I'm old school enough that I'd rather see my children sitting on a chair with a book instead of looking at a screen. Maybe censorship wasn't the best word to use in an unqualified sense. I'm not too concerned about reading a...

Arguing against S&T for “reformed” and “Protestant” influence is equivalent to arguing against FotW for “Stone-Campbell” influence. The allegation might be true, but I don’t like how it’s some kind of automatic trump card, and if it is, we should be able to immediately write off a group that app...

Put another way, a poor Black kid in the inner city may live exactly the same life as a middle class white kid in the suburbs but will have many many more interactions with the police and criminal justice system growing up simply due to his race and socioeconomic status. And, is therefore, much mor...

I'm not sure God fits in your box. But it is a question that will surely be asked. If you refuse to give a direct answer, the question arises,why? Are you try to obscure what you really believe? I'll ask again. No weasel words please. Have you stopped beating your wife yet? Why not simply answer th...

What difference does NATO membership make? Declaring hot war on Russia means declaring war on the entire unaligned world. Countries like China, India, Brazil, and other major powers are not aligned with Western European/American hegemony and anti-western politicians will gain significant power by t...

Most these problems could be fixed with simple regulation. We’ve had a climate now for decades that any regulation is bad. The harsh truth is that big huge companies need to be regulated and need to be under the sharp eye of antitrust enforcers.

Globally, people are much less religious than they used to be. Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist / Taoist / Shinto / Confucianism, Christian, Judaism, miscellaneous animist tribal religions - all of these faiths are in sharp decline. Every day, fewer people practice these faiths. Children of adherents are les...

The “caesaropapism” is probably what turns me off to EO the most.