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by Josh
Fri May 17, 2024 11:45 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?
Replies: 20
Views: 505

Re: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?

The key demographic for single parent households is actually DIVORCED people not white or black teenagers. According to the most recent Pew research on the topic there are more single parent families resulting from divorce or separation than from unmarried teenagers of all races. As I pointed out a...
by Josh
Fri May 17, 2024 11:44 am
Forum: Politics
Topic: Poll: Daniel Perry - Should he have been pardoned?
Replies: 17
Views: 281

Re: Poll: Daniel Perry - Should he have been pardoned?

The is not actually the world we live in Josh. In the actual world that we live in we are dominated by RIGHT-WING violence not left wing violence. Over the past decade, incidents of right-wing violence outnumber left-wing violence on the order of 10-1. There are a variety of studies that track this...
by Josh
Fri May 17, 2024 11:42 am
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Mennonite Girl ,3, swept over waterfalls,2 years ago,parents now charged
Replies: 95
Views: 2129

Re: Mennonite Girl ,3, swept over waterfalls,2 years ago,parents now charged

Pointless warning signs are everywhere, and as a society we have become accustomed to ignoring them. It seems virtually everything comes with a Prop. 65 warning these days. "Warning: this could cause cancer." Perhaps that is the real problem - not the fact that this particular warning sign...
by Josh
Fri May 17, 2024 9:56 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?
Replies: 20
Views: 505

Re: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?

I wasn't going to bring up race since it's not relevant to the discussion, but since that door is opened, here are some of the relevant statistics. I think you opened that door when you used euphemisms like "key demographic." Would it make you feel better if the key demographic was white ...
by Josh
Fri May 17, 2024 9:52 am
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Mennonite Girl ,3, swept over waterfalls,2 years ago,parents now charged
Replies: 95
Views: 2129

Re: Mennonite Girl ,3, swept over waterfalls,2 years ago,parents now charged

I will admit I can be somewhat liberal in my perspectives on criminal justice. For example, I think drug-diversion courts are a great idea that put habitual low level drug offenders into mandatory rehab/treatment programs and probate them instead of just putting them in prison. A lot of offences are...
by Josh
Fri May 17, 2024 9:09 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Church Government Models
Replies: 28
Views: 603

Re: Church Government Models

It should be noted that different personality types, different cultures, people from different backgrounds, etc. may indeed prefer differing governance models. Our church in Nigeria seems to prefer a more authoritarian way of doing things than is the norm in our church. The membership and leaders th...
by Josh
Fri May 17, 2024 9:07 am
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Mennonite Girl ,3, swept over waterfalls,2 years ago,parents now charged
Replies: 95
Views: 2129

Re: Mennonite Girl ,3, swept over waterfalls,2 years ago,parents now charged

I would expect, The parents will get some well deserved jail time ,less then a year, so they can serve it in the local county jail, not for rehab, but for punishment Your desire for vengeance is disturbing. Why do they need punished more? In my opinion prison should be for dangerous people who have...
by Josh
Fri May 17, 2024 8:59 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?
Replies: 20
Views: 505

Re: Should negligent parents be punished by the law?

I wasn't going to bring up race since it's not relevant to the discussion, but since that door is opened, here are some of the relevant statistics. (Current data in the 2020s is even higher than the 2016 data below.) https://cms.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Nonmarital-births-figure-3-2...
by Josh
Fri May 17, 2024 7:35 am
Forum: General Theology
Topic: Political party - demands?
Replies: 35
Views: 3143

Re: Political party - demands?

and the Biden administration finds political allies in Israel.
and they call this news
by Josh
Fri May 17, 2024 7:35 am
Forum: Anabaptist Theology and Practice
Topic: Mennonite Girl ,3, swept over waterfalls,2 years ago,parents now charged
Replies: 95
Views: 2129

Re: Mennonite Girl ,3, swept over waterfalls,2 years ago,parents now charged

Words have meanings. How exactly were the SAR team negligent? Well, one of them died in this apparently dangerous waterfall, and we just got done hearing a lecture about how if your child dies in this waterfall it's obviously your fault. Don't see how the SAR team is fundamentally different. (I'm n...