Journal Captain Splendid's Journal: A nation of laws 19
Well, not exactly:
âoeIn essence, if we are ever ordered by a government authority to personally violate and sin â" violate Godâ(TM)s law and sin â" if weâ(TM)re ordered to stop preaching the Gospel, if weâ(TM)re ordered to perform a same-sex marriage as someone presiding over it, we are called to ignore that,â Rubio said in an interview with CBN on Tuesday.
âoeSo when those two come into conflict, Godâ(TM)s rules always win,â he added.
And this is the 'moderate, establishment' candidate no less. Ah well, doesn't matter. Either Cruz or Trump are going to spank him into the arms of the private sector anyway.
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With respect to the JE, read the book of Acts. Rubio is regurgitating Peter in front of the Sanhedrin when they explained, regarding this Jesus figure: "Shut up."
You're not going to get anything different out of Cruz, for that matter. Trump is nominally a Presbyterian, but I wouldn't rely on him.
The Progressive Faith is at odds with any orthodox member of an Abrahamic faith. The optimal answer is for politics to avoid settin
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Wait, so it's not about the economy? Kennedy was killed for being an Irish Catholic separatist? I sincerely hope that religion has no real effect on national elections the way mass media makes it out to be.
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Splendid, Captian (Score:2)
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Hardly a surprise. People like you will never understand that people like me grew up in your world. We remember being looked down on and ostracized for not being religious, or religious enough. We remember that having a tattoo, or a piercing, or hair too long meant exclusion from "polite" society. We remember when women were best seen and not heard. We remember the rigid "m
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We remember that having a tattoo, or a piercing, or hair too long meant exclusion from "polite" society.
I've got ink.
And yet you have the gall to throw "cultural marxism" in my face as if we in the west didn't already have a culture of stifling anything that dared move in a direction the herd didn't approve of. You and your ilk bleating and moaning and complaining, confused at the world they live in, too stupid or too proud to understand this very thing you've ceaselessly complained about for years is the direct result of you wanting exactly that, just to your own specifications. I hope you choke on it.
While we're huddled under the bridge for warmth, be sure to ask me the difference between positive encouragement that grows a culture, and nihilism.
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I am the true vine [blueletterbible.org], and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
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*Stipulate that it's "nihilistic" in the sense that the current course, if followed, would lead to universal university meltdown before too many more years. However, I don't think the idiocy sustainable.
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Just because Trump attends a Presbyterian church doesn't make him Christian, it makes him a wolf in sheep's clothing. Trump worships only two things: Himself, and the ancient Greek god Plutus.
I hate it when someone who seems to always go against Jesus' teachings claims to be a Christian.
That goes for all the Republicans, with the possible exception of Carson and perhaps Rubio. Actually I have my doubts about almost all politicians. You know what Christ said about lawyers and the rich, which almost all of th
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Further, I think that the only real faith point to make in politics is that a candidate believe *something*, for two reasons:
(a) Hopefully, some anti-megalomania insurance, and
(b) A test suite to run on the candidate's record, to see how bad of a liar they are.
My *least* preferred candidates are the Huckabee types. If you were called to ministry, I've never heard a valid reason for taking a demotion to enter politics.
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It wouldn't matter to me if they were Hindu, Jewish, or atheist. What bugs me is when someone doesn't practice what they preach. But religion should play no part in politics, except that hypocrisy is a no-go for me.
Take gay marriage, for example. Government should have no part whatever in marriage. I should not need a license to get married, and why is it all right to discriminate against single people? Why should a married couple earning $50k pay less than a war widow with a child earning the same amount?
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It wouldn't matter to me if they were Hindu, Jewish, or atheist. What bugs me is when someone doesn't practice what they preach.
That is an excellent, succinct capturing of my point.
If government had no hand in marriage, the "gay marriage" issue would have never come up.
I see what you did there, and usually come at this as: the federal government was constituted to handle inter-state and international issues. Period. Full stop. Eliminating chattel slavery was a good thing, but the subsequent over-reach has not been.
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As to the unicode, that's slashdot's fuckup.
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What really bothers me is it should only take a few lines of code to replace garbage characters that slashdot shows with an ascii code for that character.
The worst is that it looks fine in preview, but the garbage comes out on the post. It's like they're deliberately trying to run off users.
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Wouldn't be prudent [qnalist.com]...na-ga-da [hackerone.com]...
Edit JEs here [slashdot.org], preview works, and it's easier to change the icon too.
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