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  1. Unfettered

    Should Christians support progressive tax systems?

    God wouldn't allow any of them to leave? And where did God say that the government of the Israelites was the ideal government?
  2. Unfettered

    Should Christians support progressive tax systems?

    My position doesn't have to seem very Christian to others in order for me to stand firmly on it. If folks want to worship a Christian god who enslaves, they are free to do so. That doesn't mean I don't know different. :)
  3. Unfettered

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    It doesn't to me. Well, honest atheists (agnostics) don't have an opinion about the character of the god they don't know exists (or not). :)
  4. Unfettered

    What is your short story or one sentence, Why Do You love God?

    The strange thing about that is that human beings defy all of it, both existentially and in evolutionary terms. I'd survive more flourishingly with my neighbor's goods, but human society won't let me survive at all if I kill him to obtain them. I mean, I can't even have a piece of the earth on...
  5. Unfettered

    Should Christians support progressive tax systems?

    Right, but no one is compelled to be a part of that kingdom. And no one in his kingdom is poor. I'll support that government gladly. Man doesn't get it right by even a long shot. Man's governments force people to give, but the poor just keep increasing in number. Why on earth would a...
  6. Unfettered

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    I understand. I'll say he's good, then. :blush:
  7. Unfettered

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    I hope you didn't think I was suggesting that you couldn't believe that. :) :thumbsup:
  8. Unfettered

    Should Christians support progressive tax systems?

    God made us free and intends us to remain free. So any system of man that makes men less than free is an affront to both man and God. I can't think of a reason a Christian with a choice would support such a system.
  9. Unfettered

    Should Christians support progressive tax systems?

    If a Christian has a choice, I would think that he would only support voluntary taxation, regardless of whether the system is progressive or not.
  10. Unfettered

    What is your short story or one sentence, Why Do You love God?

    Among the numberless reasons I could go into, I love God most because he gave me the ability to choose, provided a way for me to repent, and offers me eternal progression and joy with my love (my wife).
  11. Unfettered

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    If one believes that joy and fulfillment are only, ever to be found in mortality, and that absent God one would live forever, then if God is responsible for death, that person would conclude that God is bad. For clarity, I understand God and Jesus to be one in purpose, so if I'm speaking of...
  12. Unfettered

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    Can you speak adequately for your daughter? Meaning, do you know what she understands well enough to represent her here? EDIT: No need to involve your daughter. Faith is a promise of something real whose realization is in the future (ie, the thing promised is unseen at the time the promise...
  13. Unfettered

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    OK? ? Understood. I think I've offered what I have to offer. Perhaps others will have what you're looking for. Using "you" was just a manner of speaking. Sloppy use of passive voice. I didn't think you, personally, were upset, and didn't intend to convey that you were. No, he doesn't. But...
  14. Unfettered

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    We come to earth to die as much as we come to earth to live. They are equal in importance; neither is more important than the other. When a person dies matters little in the framework of eternity (I didn't say it doesn't matter at all), which is the framework to which Jesus spent his ministry...
  15. Unfettered

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    Is it possible that your daughter misunderstands what it means to have faith? That is actually quite common, and arguably contributes more to disillusionment with God than any other thing.
  16. Unfettered

    Are you vaccinated?

    Not as much as most people think. Federal agencies make policy, but they don't oversee what goes on. As long as problems don't manifest in the population, the agencies' attention is not on the food being produced. Either way, I was speaking to the difference between junk food and nutritious...
  17. Unfettered

    How many vaccinations are too many?

    I don't understand what you're saying. Whether or not there was a pandemic was not Pres Trump's decision. In human societies, decisions based on science yield to the limits placed on government by law. Else people are abused in the name of science. Apart from that, I agree. I'm sorry. Could...
  18. Unfettered

    Challenge: I'm willing to convert if.......

    That's understandable. I trust that you are sincere in wanting to know what miracles I'm talking about. But I must ask why you want to know? Not because I'm unwilling to share; but because if what you're really after is evidence that they happened and that they're real, I may not be able to...
  19. Unfettered

    Are you vaccinated?

    I personally and really knew three—one family member and two friends (one in 60s, the other two were older and not in good health)—and knew of others through friends. And I had a good friend about five years younger than me who just about died after getting the vaccine. Got it on a Friday, was...
  20. Unfettered

    Are you vaccinated?

    LOL, right. I do pretty well there. I used to eat a lot of garbage, but I've gotten wiser as I've aged.
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