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Comment Re:You wanted his strategy... (Score 1) 36

The overarching strategy, of course, is like chess pieces. Such is required to maintain the Clausewitzian Trinity.
Of course the operational and tactical levels are more akin to poker, and hidden.
These are key concepts. Let me know if you need me to break them down further for you.

Comment Re:For the 3000+ infidels who died that day ... (Score 1) 8

Not clear why you find mocking the death of innocent people so jeer-worthy. Kinda sad. One of my realizations of serving in Afghanistan is that, past a core of "bad guys" who, arguably "deserve" something final, the bulk of the population in any location you can name really don't explicitly "deserve" the abuse.
You can make a theological case that we've all sinned and merit hell, yes. You can make a political case that we all merit what we tolerate in the form of elected (or assumed) leadership, fine.
But blaming the victim mostly always in bad taste.

Comment Re:"redemption" (Score 1) 51

And that's really where I think a lot of my Protestant brothers are incorrect -- they focus too much on whether a person is "saved" and not what happens afterward. What MUST happen afterwards that the faith should bear fruit, otherwise, the faith is dead. (Those who keep the faith to the end...)

And of course works flow naturally from salvation. The notion that there are some metrics associated with demonstrating salvation, itself, is an equal and opposite bugaboo. You fully grasp, I'm sure, that any mortal system implies the potential for rigging.

The segregation I see in the Protestant Community really bothers me. "Oh, we only send our kids to christian school (or homeschool)" -- meaning that there are fewer points of light in the public schools.
Or, "We only buy Christian media" -- fine, but then without Christian influence the culture rots faster.

Given my sons are 3yrs old and 3mos old, I understand the argument all too well. Just because Jesus reserve a millstone for those who offend the little ones affords me scant motive to offer MY two kids. Let me double down. I can recite John 3:16 all day, but that ain't jack for motivation to donate even 50% of mine to these Godless Commie Sodomites. Giving people the Good News is not the same as giving people your offspring.

Start throwing some (metaphorical) punches at the culture.

Ponder, if you will, the case of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East: have we become more like them? They sure as sugar haven't become much more like us in any way I can identify. By all means, let us interact in ways with 'the world' that drive the world toward Christ. If the interactions move the system the other way. . .

Comment Re:"redemption" (Score 1) 51

Many Christians mistakenly believe that once "saved", always "saved", therefore they can do as they please because grace covers it.

Show me the mature Christian that buys off on the "Jesus the blank check" theory. That immature notion indicates an utter non-grasp of the New Testament in general, and the Roman Epistle in particular.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 14

You first. Please indicate how pantheism is functionally different from atheism: he who believes everything may not believe nothing, but continuously variable belief is just so much hot air.
If your compass can't claim to indicate true North, what good is it? A doorstop, I suppose.

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