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Ultimately, stopping using drugs isn't that hard. When someone truly hits rock bottom, they'll stop using and get clean. My spirit disagrees with this statement. It could be correct, somehow. It is also unhelpful and in my opinion barely passes the test of Christian charity. Let’s try another examp...

UN revises Gaza death toll, almost 50% less women and children killed than previously reported https://www.foxnews.com/world/un-revises-gaza-death-toll-50-less-women-children-killed-previously-reported Before anyone jumps in to say that this can't be trusted because it's Fox News, I did confirm thi...

This discussion is degrading into “the candidate and policies I don’t like are an evil autocrat”. Not a very useful discussion.

Last I checked, Trump hasn’t been in power for 4 years and isn’t in charge of much of anything, other than some golf courses. The institutions to control immigration have existed for a while. The point is, those institutions have been basically disabled, because an authoritarian approach has appeare...

The law and the prophets were quite clear - Jesus’ message to the Pharisees was that they weren’t actually obeying what the OT taught. Jesus was calling them to repentance and to actual obedience to the law, instead of doing lip service like turning mint and cumin yet also plundering widow’s houses.

I disagree. A big part of Trump's appeal to his base is his autocratic tendences. That he will round up millions of immigrants and detain/deport them. That he will crack down on protests on college campuses and crime in the cities. And that he will advantage evangelical Christians and business cons...

I’d agree with US’s perspective. We’re not supposed to be a “one size fits all” nation. Some states and cities can choose to be authoritarian (the corrupt cities like Chicago come to mind), others institutionalist, and yet others can choose a third way. Where I live, people mostly self govern, and s...

temporal1 wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 8:27 am

Josh wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 8:14 am temporal1, this forum is intended for discussion of specific Christian denominations / groups etc

Did you have one in mind?

i did.
i’ve also asked mods to move it to the general Christian Theology category, if they’d like to.

What denomination is that?

Ken, I’m speaking of the present, not 200 years ago. Democrats frequently talk about how terrible the electoral college. America wouldn’t exist without the electoral college because smaller states (most of which weren’t slave states) wouldn’t have joined the Union. They wanted representation instead...

temporal1, this forum is intended for discussion of specific Christian denominations / groups etc

Did you have one in mind?