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Nero Rome It could just be that all this already happened and the Church won already. Or at least some of it. Our first papa or pope Peter wrote "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus...

Sigh.

I like this. https://theologyonline.com/threads/far-better-to-build-your-immune-system-rather-than-count-on-vaccines-to-protect-you.56764/post-1812325

Honestly, you go to Mass, you coordinate your life around your weekly obligation, your priestly duty, to offer the sacrifice of the Eucharist upon the altar of the Church, in memory of His death and Resurrection, until He comes again. In time whatever belongs to your earthly nature will subside...

It has nothing to do with that. Get your head out of the sand.

Yes. If there's any 'Israel's covenant' that's been put on hold, it's that one. And we're justified in asking why. If there is an answer to why this covenant, the 'old' covenant, has been 'put on hold', then we are justified in seeking it. The notion that there are currently two 'Israel's...

A good liberal---a true liberal---knows how important a right the right to keep and bear arms is. Justice Clarence Thomas I believe, is a true liberal. It's just like liberals to call Thomas 'conservative', when they are all actually the conservatives here, because they are paternalists on gun...

Agreed! Because nobody murders for that reason. This is just one of the excuses that murderers give for their murdering. Of course it's not justified. Our rights are all those excuses that murderers give for murdering that is not a valid justification. Self-defense of course is a valid...

A metaphor that RD uses is a swimming pool with lanes. He says ethics is what you do in your own lane, how you swim your own race basically, and morals is if you go into someone else's lane. We all agree that murder is immoral; rape, and perjury. We argue about other matters, but where we all...

You do not understand violent criminals, and that these pedophiles are violent criminals. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/14/us/snl-horatio-sanz-sexual-assault-grooming-minor-trnd/index.html Look at this guy, Mr. Horatio Sanz. He's accused, I'm not going to say whether he is guilty or not, but...

The focus is on emissions, which big picture, seems ridiculous because of the effort required to move away from burning 'fossil' fuels for heat. Combined with that we're going to run out of them anyway. We've been told this for decades. Oil, will run out. Coal, will run out. Natural gas...

The right to bear arms is hard to see in a society as egalitarian as ours is, but it's simple to see in an aristocratic one like England's. They treat the royal family there like they are better than the rest of them, and it's complete fiction and theater, but they all seem to really enjoy...

You should at least own up to the limit of what the law allows. Sounds like in your case it would be at least a couple AR patterns (perhaps with manufacture dates pre-September 1994?) with tons of ten-round magazines (all loaded, empty mags are useless in every scenario). Or something...

Sherman, Dispensationalists are able to sprinkle their Dispensationalism all over the place here, am I limited to sprinkle Catholicism only in cordoned off Catholic only threads? Or can you specify or just point out something brief that can help me calibrate appropriately? I have multiple...

I think I was more specific. It was an error of politics, an error of political morality. They believed that because their victims did not confess the same creed, that they were inferior and that meant they didn't have the same rights, among them the right to religious liberty. And the right...

We call it chastity. It covers all bedroom /genitals ethics, whether married or single. God approves of chastity. But I want to know what RD thinks too.

I think the trick is to make them not corrupted by bias, not try to find them that way. We're a democracy, and while we don't vote for judges, we do vote for politicians who appoint (hire) judges. President Trump hired three Supreme Court justices. His record is unprecedented, only George...

They didn't believe in the right to religious liberty.

False dichotomy.

That's exactly what the courts are for in our regime of separated powers (independent judiciary). That's where climate change and abortion should be hashed out too.