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by Josh
Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Russia Invades Ukraine 2022
Replies: 2836
Views: 150918

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: 123
Views: 2137

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: 10
Views: 139

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: 34
Views: 557

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: 10
Views: 139

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: 176340

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.
by Josh
Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:28 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Russia Invades Ukraine 2022
Replies: 2836
Views: 150918

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 tr...
by Josh
Thu Apr 18, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
Replies: 688
Views: 198933

Re: Sattler College Turmoil

You've said it before, but I think it's worth highlighting again here: I think there's one central reason Josh and Judas and other Protestant Fundamentalists often find it so difficult to comprehend pre-Reformation views, like this one, that that are both straightforward and squarely within histori...
by Josh
Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:46 am
Forum: Current Events
Topic: Sattler College Turmoil
Replies: 688
Views: 198933

Re: Sattler College Turmoil

Is someone saved as headed to heaven before baptism or not?

This is a simple yes/no question.