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"All white people are born racist"---come on. Then we're all born racist, every last one of us. Racism is because of a category error. Racists believe that their own race usually is in a category of men all by itself, and everybody not in that fictional category isn't as equal as those in the...

If you are "putting to death the deeds of the body", can you still covet, for example? Do "all who are being led by the Spirit" covet, for example? If you are not "putting to death the deeds of the body", have you "received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again"?

They really believe that we're like going to turn into Venus, don't they? That's the only thing that makes any sense as regards their urgency. We are posing no risk or threat to the habitability of earth. But this is how they all act. They're delirious.

It's wherever you study the words bishop, overseer, elder, pastor in the New Testament. When the context indicates that it's an officer of the Church (the Body of Christ), then read up. All the biblical claims for the bishops' duties would simply indicate that they are responsible for the...

There's nonbinary though, that's a thing, a horrific thing. "Intersex". Grizzly stuff. 'Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy's kids. Percentages of incidence are low in terms of 1-100% (thankfully it is much lower than 1%), but in a typical professional football or baseball stadium, sold-out...

l o l. Come on man. You can't "in so many words" and "literally" in the same sentence. They're mutually exclusive. They cancel each other out. They conflict. They contradict one another. The pope is the bishop of Rome, and the last office held by the Apostle Saint Peter before he died...

We're obligated or required to go to Mass once a week plus Christmas and some other days that don't fall on Sundays, although sometimes holy days that are Saturday or Monday are fulfilled in the Sunday Mass. But it's misnomer to call them holy days like the Sabbath was a full day, Mass can be...

I think it's just a stubborn, humble thing, rather than a children, adult thing. We choose whether to be humble or stubborn, it's not foisted upon us, it's our choice, and kids can choose to be humble just as well as adults can.

The law the law. The law. 1 - "Gentiles who have not the law", that's the law that the Gentiles don't have, because they're Gentiles, which is not Israelite, to whom the law, was actually given. 2 -"What the law requires", the moral aspects of the law. 3 -"They (Gentiles) do not have the law"...

Immoral behavior violates our rights. It's unjustified and immoral, to authorize police to harass and penalize you because you make different life choices that are not against the law, but that I think are unethical. Basically this: https://theologyonline.com/threads/ethics-and-morals.55283/...

That is literally what I already said to you. You can't change hearts and minds, but you can make immoral behavior very expensive through the force of law. And if that doesn't work then violence. You have to use violence if the evildoers refuse to settle for anything less.

Huh. If you can't change hearts and minds, on moral matters, calling in the cavalry becomes necessary.

What are you so worked up about. So do wars. So who wins this round?

From today's Wikipedia: "when a powerful person is accused . . . the reaction should be a presumption that the less powerful accuser is 'likely telling the truth, because the risks of going public are great.'" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_Too_movement

Tomato tomahto. Agreed to disagree. I haven't seen it. We fought a war over the worst aspect of white supremacism in this country, because hearts and minds did not change. Nobody wants war but sometimes violence is the only reasonable choice, unfortunately.

All men are created equal. Tenuously. Without force of law it can't last. You can't change peoples' hearts and minds. But you can make the price for their immoral behavior very steep. Anyone who condones, even silently, the invasion of a human right because of race, is just as dangerous and...

Everybody. Israelites were huge supremacists. Japanese were and Taiwanese are. Germans (not just Nazi Germans, Nazism's supremacism found purchase in the German preexisting supremacist soil). And the indigenous Americans too. And nationalism is just the political ideology of supremacism.

Yes. And present. And all the other countries also. When push comes to shove, man is a supremacist species, absolutely, and Americans are men. Every single one of us is susceptible. It all starts at home, where we all to a man favor our family over those who are not in our family, and it...

Who have been the good kings throughout history? Absolute monarchism was the rule for millennia before republics and finally liberal democracies arrived on the scene, so if your thought is possibly true, then there ought to be examples. Charlemagne? I mean monarchs who left an unequivocal...

Every actual constitutional monarchy is a liberal democracy. Which is why the rule of law and all the other liberal democratic institutions are permanent requirements. Liberal democracy exists because the philosophers who first imagined it, and the American founders who first put it all into...