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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
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Drunk raccoon found passed out in liquor store bathroom
- By RileyG
After my bar hopping during my college years, we’d eat at a diner that was open 24/7. Breakfast food prevented hangovers and brought us together
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‘Go to Berkeley’: Ron DeSantis said students seeking ‘woke’ classes should study elsewhere
- By iluvatar5150
- News & Current Events (Articles Required)
- 188 Replies
I have never met anybody who felt that way, or at least who expressed it to me. Not in my multiple passes through school. Not among all my friends and co-workers who frequently talk about college (I've worked with a few different groups of people who went to school with each other). Not among my friends and neighbors who teach or otherwise work at universities. Not among my wife's faculty and grad students at her university jobs. Not among all the folks who've come through my different churches that have been within walking distance of elite universities. I've only ever seen that kind of thing on TV.
Actually, that's not true. I also see it among fans of certain media personalities. But I've never seen it directed at a professor. I'm sure it's happened, but IME, it's quite rare.
Not just the HR dept, though they're definitely included.
I, as a white collar professional, look at the Democratic party and I see something familiar. I see a range of people, mostly trying to accomplish certain things, mostly trying to figure out the right ways to do it, mostly trying to not be jerks about it, often shooting themselves in the foot in one way or another, but mostly well-meaning and trying to head in the right direction. They're largely mission-oriented, or at least they believe themselves to be.
Then I look at the Republicans and I'm genuinely puzzled. I don't even know why anybody finds their whole affect appealing. Romney, McCain, and the other old school guys, I get. I can even understand the appeal of a Ted Cruz or a Rand Paul, even if I think they're full of it.
The whole MAGA culture, though, is about leaning hard into being a sycophantic jerk. Maybe that would fly in upper management, but among the rank and file, it's just bizarre.
For most people, college is only 4 years. That's a fairly small amount of time; and for that short amount of time, most folks are focused on getting through their major so they can get a job. Most people's perspective on the world isn't shaped entirely there. It's shaped while they're working, in jobs. Most of the people polled in that survey were not in college. If the survey was representative of the whole population, then they would have mostly been out of college for a long time.
Republican culture, especially MAGA culture doesn't fly at all in jobs that require a college degree. I think that's the bigger driver in why college educated folks have turned away from them.
That's not really true - or at least, it's certainly not a given. Trump did very well from the beginning. Cruz and Rubio were the #2 and #3 for most of the race, with the lion's share of the remaining votes; and there were a number of states where he beat their combined tally. And even in the states where he didn't beat their combined score, there were a bunch where he wasn't that far back. They'd often get something like 45-50% while he got 35-40%. If Rubio had dropped out, Cruz would've picked up some of his voters, but not all of them. He might have been able to squeak out a win, but it would've been close. After Rubio dropped out, Cruz did well in a handful of mid-western and mountain states, but then got stomped the rest of the way.
2016 Republican Party presidential primaries - Wikipedia
I agree that there's a capture of the perception of intelligence. I disagree on why/how.
Frankly, what you described is, IME, how dumb people treat intelligence. That "keys to knowledge" phenomenon is what I witnessed in fans of certain media personalities like Rush Limbaugh and Dave Ramsey. I'm sure it applies to some younger streamers now, but I don't keep up with them. I don't see intelligent people seeing a single person or group of people as having the keys to anything. Intelligent people might have preferred sources or commentators, but they don't treat these folks as some sort of oracle on whose every word they hang.
If college taught us anything, it wasn't that "the smartest guy in the room" was always a lib. What it taught us was the process for learning and discovering knowledge. How to find and evaluate information; how to construct an argument; how to develop a plan to achieve a goal; etc. And for the last decade+, the only party that has embraced that ethos at all has been the Dems.
Dems have captured the "intelligence" vote because the Republicans have abandoned it.
What was the last real policy idea developed by Republicans? Ignoring the wars, W had No Child Left Behind and Medicare Part D. Those may have had mixed results, but I'll give him an A for effort. Since then, what? (I'm ignoring both parties' responses to crises like the 2008 crash and COVID, since they weren't planned) They were almost exclusively obstructionist throughout Obama's presidency; didn't do anything during Trump1 except tax cuts based on an economic idea that had debunked for ages. They were mostly obstructionist again during Biden; and now in Trump2, they've turned into a personality cult that appoints incompetent drunkards and sycophants to cabinet positions.
If they'd wanted to appeal to the intelligence vote, they would've done something like come up with a health care plan. Modified the transition to electrification so that things could actually get built. Done something about the explosion of tuition costs. Tried to appoint people with expertise. Instead, they just keep leaning on tired old stuff that the "intelligent" people know isn't going to fix anything, like more tax cuts, more fossil fuel extraction, and hiring your drunk buddies. Oh, and tariffs, too. They've destroyed a bunch of stuff without so much as a concept of a plan to rebuild it. Including the East Wing.
There is a way to do stronger border enforcement that would appeal to "intelligent" people. There were ways to handle trans issues that would appeal to "intelligent" people. But they're not doing that. Instead, they're blatantly disregarding the rule of law and being as hateful and as cruel as they can get away with. They're leaning into all the bad things that people used to think about them. That's not how you attract intelligent people.
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Trying to find a rare book from the early history of Christian film making
- Christian History
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I was shopping online for used Theological textbooks & a seller had a book from 1938 called History Of The Creeds & it had on the back cover (see below) an advertisement for a book i'm unable to find any info on. P.S. I added the purple circle to make it easier to spot on the back cover
Biblical Exegesis explanation and discussion
- By Fervent
- General Theology
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If historical-cultural context are consulted, God-breathed has nothing to do with inspiration. It's expiration that is in view, which is why it is useful...because God makes the text alive.“All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness;”
2 Timothy 3:16 NASB2020
2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness | New American Standard Bible - NASB (NASB2020) | Download The Bible App Now
All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousnessbible.com
If scripture is inspired by God then it is infallible. All extra biblical material is not God breathed and therefore fallible. The OP is correct.
The OP seems to promote at least 2 traditions that developed in the late middle ages in sola scriptura and the sui generis nature of the Bible such that it can be called the Word of God in its own right rather than functioning as an icon.
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