Wrong again.... I don’t like the guy but I don’t have to rehash all my disagreements with the guy. They are well known by this point. I do like that he just signed a bill getting the feds out of the school system and I’m liking his promise to clean up sanctuary cities but ...
Kanye just dropped the 'Republicans freed the slaves' bomb...
Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by Calminian, Apr 30, 2018.
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That's not to say they will always overcome, but bottom line, there is no excuse for every last Christian to vote pro-life. All things are possible, and we are commanded to do what is right. -
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At the same time, I really understand why ITL does it. When one gets lied about constantly, it is quite tempting to use clever comebacks to shame the liar. -
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My left wing friends (and enemies) claim I am a right-winger, and my right wing friends (and enemies) claim that I am left-wing or "liberal." I don't particularly like either label - nor even "moderate" - but prefer Christian or Baptist instead. -
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When I worked for a while with a newspaper editor, she once told me that a good writer is free of an ideology; because when writing from an ideology, one is rearranging cliches, not thinking. She said she understood why most people were influenced by ideologies, especially because they are very busy.
I agree with this editor, and I try to take things issue by issue and point by point. I want to evaluate everything according to the specific facts that are available and then ask how a Christian ethos would lead me to judge those facts. I regard ideologies as secular religions, and I think being Christian means I don't have that vacuum that gives me the need to be a true believer in an ideology.
Something I've been thinking about for a while is that there is truth on both sides, otherwise propaganda would never work. Propaganda always contains truth combined with disinformation. The true parts give credibility to the disinformation. So when you argue too fiercely with one side all the time, you may be danger of arguing not only with what is false but also with what is true.
For example, although I'm highly skeptical now of New Age thought, I still recognize that lots of people find it appealing for the reason that they need something more than just a materialistic life. That motive in itself is not bad.
With Trump I like that he is unraveling the globalist agenda, and I think that is the true reason for the incredible fury toward him. I had very little respect for him about two years ago. Now I respect him more as time goes by, because he takes so much heat.
But it's very difficult to talk about Trump in a normal, reasonable way. I remember that although my father liked Reagan, he could still laugh at Saturday Night Live impressions of him. But that was a different era. It was not so vicious and ugly then.
The media attacks on Trump are so over-the-top and so relentless that I think his supporters become used to being in extreme combat mode.
The troubling thing is that just because the Establishment is bad, and Trump is against it, doesn't necessarily mean he is always good and everything he does is always good. -
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The sole criteria of what is false and wrong is not whether Never Trumpers hate it or not.
Although I understand why it is smart to subject anything to extra scrutiny and suspicion if Never Trumpers are promoting it. -
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Southern Baptist Convention > On Racial Reconciliation
This is a partial quote, and you can read the rest at the link.
WHEREAS, The Scriptures teach that God has created all men and women in His image (Genesis 1:27) and has made from one man and one woman all peoples to live on the earth (Genesis 3:20; Acts 17:26); and
WHEREAS, God loves the world (John 3:16), sending Jesus to die for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2), and, in Christ, is reconciling to Himself people from every tribe, tongue, and nation (Revelation 5:9); and
WHEREAS, Our justification before God is based on faith in Christ alone and not in our ethnicity (Galatians 3:27–28); and
WHEREAS, God has made believers one in Christ, clothed in the righteousness of Christ, and uniquely qualified to stand together in faith (Ephesians 2:15–16); and
WHEREAS, The Lord has given His people the mission of making disciples from every nation (Matthew 28:19); and
WHEREAS, Racism is sin because it disregards the image of God in all people and denies the truth of the Gospel that believers are all one in Him -
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I will be the first to admit that about 80% of state sovereignty has been stolen from the states by anti tenth amendment laws and judicial activism, but there is still, just barely, sufficient States Rights to keep the feds from interfering with State and Local legislation apart from a long drawn out, expensive, pathway of litigation from district courts, to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, then the circuit court of appeal en banc, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
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