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  • #16
    Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
    When you understand that the US is not Israel, it clears up pretty quickly.

    Yes
    They 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.
    "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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    • #17
      Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
      In terms of governmental difference. Both areas were part of the Roman Empire.
      So a refugee from Palestine travelling to northern Britannia would be like "moving from Pennsylvania to Vermont" in the 1st century?
      "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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      • #18
        Originally posted by Sam View Post
        Aren't Trump and Pence ostensibly Christians?
        A personal faith does not mandate federal policy. It can influence it, but can not dictate it. That's the point I have been making.

        Don't they have strong support from white Christians, especially Evangelicals?
        Irrelevant.
        That'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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        • #19
          Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
          A 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.
          I 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.

          --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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          • #20
            Originally posted by oxmixmudd View Post
            funny 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.


            Jim
            Right Jim, if you want to follow the rules of a Theocracy don't pick and choose. Remember the Jews could enslave the Alien at will. And they could not worship other (foreign) gods. And I'm tired of the virtue signalling from people like Sam, and you at times.
            Atheism 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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            • #21
              Originally posted by Sam View Post
              They have not been so interpreted on this forum at any point I've been here.
              Yes 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.

              A total disregard for "decrees" in the Hebrew Scriptures in relation to US policy has most definitely not been common.
              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.
              That'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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              • #22
                Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
                Yes 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.
                What 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.

                --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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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Sam View Post
                  I 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.
                  And 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.

                  It is, indeed, such a widely-expressed view, here and elsewhere, that I have to wonder why the allowance is cropping up here.

                  --Sam
                  Then perhaps you are not explaining your objections very well.
                  That'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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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Sam View Post
                    What law from the Hebrew Scriptures has been proposed?
                    Uh, your OP.

                    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
                    Ask the US atheists here if they want to be governed by the Bible and its decrees. We have to have secular reasons for the policies we feel intersect our Christian beliefs. But we can not, nor have ANY of us proposed, implementing direct Biblical decrees as law. And I challenge you to find an instance.
                    That'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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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
                      No. Theocratic decrees directly to the nation of Israel have nothing to do with the US.
                      Moreover the translations that use the word "sojourner" in place of "alien" and "foreigner" are closer to the Hebrew. Sojourners are travelers or visitors, not folks who are planning on moving in permanently.

                      I'm always still in trouble again

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Sam View Post
                        So a refugee from Palestine travelling to northern Britannia would be like "moving from Pennsylvania to Vermont" in the 1st century?
                        What does Britannia have to do with anything?
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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                          What does Britannia have to do with anything?
                          I know they never expected the Spanish Inquisition!
                          That'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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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by Bill the Cat View Post
                            And 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.
                            You don't find refusing welcome to asylum-seekers and refugees -- to the point of zeroing-out refugee admissions blatantly anti-Christian?

                            --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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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
                              What does Britannia have to do with anything?
                              It, too, was part of the Roman Empire at the time and therefore fits under the "governmental difference" definition you used.

                              --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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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by Sam View Post
                                You don't find refusing welcome to asylum-seekers and refugees -- to the point of zeroing-out refugee admissions blatantly anti-Christian?

                                --Sam
                                Do you find allowing homosexuals to live blatantly unbiblical?
                                Atheism 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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