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by Josh
Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:57 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
Replies: 711
Views: 200955

Re: Sattler College Turmoil

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...
by Josh
Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:51 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sheetz hit with federal discrimination lawsuit
Replies: 22
Views: 271

Re: Sheetz hit with federal discrimination lawsuit

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...
by Josh
Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:48 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
Replies: 711
Views: 200955

Re: Sattler College Turmoil

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...
by Josh
Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Russia Invades Ukraine 2022
Replies: 2843
Views: 151721

Re: Russia Invades Ukraine 2022

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...
by Josh
Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:18 pm
Forum: Politics
Topic: A letter I sent my senators, please consider similar.
Replies: 124
Views: 2228

Re: A letter I sent my senators, please consider similar.

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.
by Josh
Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:16 pm
Forum: General Theology
Topic: The Great Dechurching
Replies: 13
Views: 272

Re: The Great Dechurching

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...
by Josh
Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:00 pm
Forum: History
Topic: Worldbook Encyclopedia Censorship Topics
Replies: 35
Views: 619

Re: Worldbook Encyclopedia Censorship Topics

The simple fact is, if he’s telling people not to copy it freely, he’s violating the licence that allows him to distribute or alter Wikipedia text in the first place and has no right to do so. Windows and what you do is different. You aren’t altering the OS and redistributing it and you also are pay...
by Josh
Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:34 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: The Great Dechurching
Replies: 13
Views: 272

Re: The Great Dechurching

Pray, hope and do not worry. St. Pio of Pietrelcina. Social media does enjoy bleeding headlines. If every faithful Christian believer were to spend more time serving the Lord in real time and less time doom scrolling, a substantial change would continue: revival will continue to grow and the mass m...
by Josh
Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:29 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Gender confusion
Replies: 805
Views: 177996

Re: Gender confusion

steve-in-kville wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 10:36 am I'd like to know, when a gay couple gets engaged, who wears the ring?
I sold an engagement ring to a lesbian couple once. The “butch” partner proposed to the “femme” partner who wore the ring.