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    Women should keep silent in the assembly?

    I address this. (If anything my post was harsher on men than it was on women). Marriage is a team effort and no women should suffer herself to marry an incompetent man. And a good captain will take full account of the skills of his quartermaster. If I were married and I had a wife who had a...
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    Women should keep silent in the assembly?

    The Christian ideal of marriage rests on the belief in the complementary of the sexes. Men and women have distinct but indispensable roles. The husband is the head and as such possesses a degree of authority over his family. The flip side is that he is responsible for the material and spiritual...
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    Catholic bishops advance effort to deny Biden communion

    My view is that Mr. Biden should be denied communion. His support for abortion denies the Church's emphatic teaching on the sanctity of human life. You cannot deny that teaching and pretend to be a Catholic in good standing. This is not about politics. This is about fundamental convictions of...
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    Mustafa al-Darwish: Saudi Arabia executes man over teen protests

    Unlikely. If you are like most people would you would do what most who live in dictatorships do. You would keep your head down and do as you are told. The romantic image of the people rising up and overthrowing the authoritarian regime which oppresses them is (for the most part) a fantasy. In...
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    Aliens and theism

    There's nothing in Christian doctrine that I see as positively precluding the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. And yet, if such life were confirmed to exist I think it would make Christianity positively unlikely. Human souls and their eternal destinies is the purpose of this...
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    Mustafa al-Darwish: Saudi Arabia executes man over teen protests

    If I were the absolute monarch of a theocratic dictatorship, I would most likely answer in the affirmative. To protest the government is to protest the king, which is treason.
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    Atheists are more pro-life than Christians

    It's a common pro-choice argument that you see quite often. To oppose abortion (or even fail to grant it anything less than full unquestioning support) is misogyny. The sincere belief that a viable fetus has moral value is just a cover for what is really a desire to punish sexually liberated...
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    Atheists are more pro-life than Christians

    It's easy to understand. To oppose the death penalty demands nothing from the liberal/leftist. There's no personal responsibility to be taken as a direct result of that opposition. (And opposing the death penalty is fashionable to boot). On the other hand, to recognize that a fetus in the womb...
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    A second contradiction in the Qur'an

    It does not say that at all. It says that the sins of gambling and drinking exceed whatever profit is gained. Then that same verse goes on to say that you should spend only what you can spare. These are two distinct, unconnected statements. The translation you quote is unclear in that you have...
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    A second contradiction in the Qur'an

    I am not a Muslim so I have no dog in this fight but I stumbled on this thread and I cannot help but think your claim of a contradiction is rather weak OP. Note that I am working only on what is presented by the original post. I do not think it follows that the spending clause concerns money...
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    A Russian Jehovah’s Witness Vows to Keep Worshipping Despite Crackdown

    If I had to speculate. Russia is hostile to the U.S. and the Jehovah's Witnesses are an outgrowth of a specifically American brand of Protestantism. Secondly, the Jehovah's Witnesses are perceived (even in the West) as particularly obnoxious. From the point of the view of the Russian Orthodox...
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    Jesus based on earlier deities?

    Zeitgeist is nonsense. Its claims are based on a combination of thin air, new age lies and long defunct theories of hack scholars from the 19th century.
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    Arizona makes plans to use Zyklon B gas for executions

    Maybe, but I'm not so sure of that. Especially if there's remuneration involved.
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    Arizona makes plans to use Zyklon B gas for executions

    I agree with you. If a state insists on having the death penalty then a bullet or noose will do the job just fine. This notion that executions should be 'humane' seems a rather bizarre concern. You're either committed the justice of the death penalty or you're not. And if you are committed to it...
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    Should Christians participate in wars ?

    That's a disingenuous reading of that verse. The verse is a repudiation of Judaism's claims of ethnic exclusivity. One has no standing before God simply by being Jewish. To have a good standing before God baptism in Christ is necessary and this baptism is open to all without distinction. Here's...
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    Should Christians participate in wars ?

    A nation has the right and duty to protect the legitimate and just interests of its citizens. Therefore Christians can take up arms without sin when abjuring war would result in greater evil.
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    Does God Care What You Look Like?

    Not that long ago I was empaneled on a jury. I was offended by the utter lack of occasion displayed by most of the panel. I wore black trousers, black shoes, a long sleeve dress shirt and a blazer. The others, all but one were in everyday casual wear. The one exception (excluding me) at least...
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    Getting hooked on The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch

    I have not watched any of the programmes listed in the original post. But I have been thinking about the paranormal a lot as of late. I believe our reality is stranger than what the currently prevailing materialist paradigm will accept. Nonetheless, I think genuine glimpses into the hidden...
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    Extraterrestrials as Ultraterrestrials

    The fourth kind would be that movie wherein a woman gets possessed in the hypnosis session right? It had the whole owl imagery thing going as well. If we're thinking of the same film then I agree, that was a rather chilling one. That's the thing not just with the UFO subject but about our times...
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    Immaculate conception 2.0

    Because God is holy. Therefore it was fitting that the one person destined to carry the incarnate Word in her womb be free from all stain from sin. Mary was free from original sin. She was still fully human. After all, Adam and Eve were created without original sin, yet no one denies their...
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