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"I wonder about the trees. / Why do we wish to bear / Forever the noise of these / More than another noise / So close to our dwelling place?" — Robert Frost, "The Sound of Trees"
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostIn terms of governmental difference. Both areas were part of the Roman Empire."I wonder about the trees. / Why do we wish to bear / Forever the noise of these / More than another noise / So close to our dwelling place?" — Robert Frost, "The Sound of Trees"
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Originally posted by Sam View PostAren't Trump and Pence ostensibly Christians?
Don't they have strong support from white Christians, especially Evangelicals?That's what
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Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
- Stephen R. Donaldson
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostA personal faith does not mandate federal policy. It can influence it, but can not dictate it. That's the point I have been making.
Irrelevant.
--Sam"I wonder about the trees. / Why do we wish to bear / Forever the noise of these / More than another noise / So close to our dwelling place?" — Robert Frost, "The Sound of Trees"
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Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Postfunny how we are always more eager to follow the commands that ostensibly give us an excuse condemn and destroy others, whereas we tend to downplay or flat out ignore those command that require sacrifice in one form or another from us.
JimAtheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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Originally posted by Sam View PostThey have not been so interpreted on this forum at any point I've been here.
A total disregard for "decrees" in the Hebrew Scriptures in relation to US policy has most definitely not been common.That's what
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Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
- Stephen R. Donaldson
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostYes they have. I've been here since a few days after the site was created. I've been on staff for all but 2 months. I was in the top 10 posters for most of that time. I was even active in the rescue forum when the TWeb server had gone belly up. Nearly 20 years worth of active posting. I've seen many, many people come and go. I can count on one hand the amount of people who say that we should implement the OT laws as policy in the US.
I never said totally disregard them. They can teach us - as individuals - some important lessons. But trying to use them as the law itself has never been pushed here in my almost 20 years of membership.
And, I'm sorry, but the idea that Christian values can inform us as individuals but play little to no role in directing US policy is the standard opinion of most of folks posting here is not only wrong but obviously so.
--Sam"I wonder about the trees. / Why do we wish to bear / Forever the noise of these / More than another noise / So close to our dwelling place?" — Robert Frost, "The Sound of Trees"
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Originally posted by Sam View PostI find it extremely relevant, given many Christians' insistence (here and elsewhere) that Christian beliefs make it impossible or immoral to support certain parties and politicians.
It is, indeed, such a widely-expressed view, here and elsewhere, that I have to wonder why the allowance is cropping up here.
--SamThat's what
- She
Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
- Stephen R. Donaldson
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Originally posted by Sam View PostWhat law from the Hebrew Scriptures has been proposed?
And, I'm sorry, but the idea that Christian values can inform us as individuals but play little to no role in directing US policy is the standard opinion of most of folks posting here is not only wrong but obviously so.
--SamThat's what
- She
Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
- Stephen R. Donaldson
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostNo. Theocratic decrees directly to the nation of Israel have nothing to do with the US.
I'm always still in trouble again
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Originally posted by Sam View PostSo a refugee from Palestine travelling to northern Britannia would be like "moving from Pennsylvania to Vermont" in the 1st century?Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostWhat does Britannia have to do with anything?That's what
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Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
- Stephen R. Donaldson
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostAnd that is policy-based. When a party or politician espouses policies that are blatantly anti-Christian, only THEN does it become relevant. But that wasn't what you were asking. You were implying that a decree from God to Israel should be implemented by a non-theocratic nation.
Then perhaps you are not explaining your objections very well.
--Sam"I wonder about the trees. / Why do we wish to bear / Forever the noise of these / More than another noise / So close to our dwelling place?" — Robert Frost, "The Sound of Trees"
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostWhat does Britannia have to do with anything?
--Sam"I wonder about the trees. / Why do we wish to bear / Forever the noise of these / More than another noise / So close to our dwelling place?" — Robert Frost, "The Sound of Trees"
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Originally posted by Sam View PostYou don't find refusing welcome to asylum-seekers and refugees -- to the point of zeroing-out refugee admissions blatantly anti-Christian?
--SamAtheism is the cult of death, the death of hope. The universe is doomed, you are doomed, the only thing that remains is to await your execution...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbnueb2OI4o&t=3s
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