Oompa Loompa said:

What does animal right have to do with anything?

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Yikes.

Oompa Loompa said:

Okay. I still dont see her point.

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I don’t know? All religious traditions are equal? Again, not sure.

RileyG said:

Reference to animal farm by George Orwell

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Okay. I still dont see her point.

Tropical Wilds said:

How nice. In the context of law and rights, totally irrelevant, but nice.

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It’s not.

RileyG said:

John 14:6
Mark 16:16
Matthew 7:21
John 3:3-5

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How nice. In the context of law and rights, totally irrelevant, but nice.

Michie said:

That’s pretty sad.

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We probably learned more than that but still not much as far as Catachism goes, but it didn’t stick with me. I don’t know what my churches school teaches now.

Oompa Loompa said:

What does animal right have to do with anything?

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Reference to animal farm by George Orwell

Tropical Wilds said:

Yes, yes. And all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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What does animal right have to do with anything?

dms1972 said:

I don't know a lot about Dominionism or Seven Story Mandate. What images and language did Jesus use in his teaching and parables of the Kingdom : Salt and Light - Leaven in a batch of dough (Matthew 13)

I can think of christians in the arts and contemporary music who seek to be salt and light, eg. Michael W Smith, there are many others including lots session musicians. MWS had a crossover hit with Place in this World back in the 1990s. I am not sure the idea of converting society from the top down is what the Parable of the Leaven is about.

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Everything in Jesus' teaching about the kingdom shows us that it is never top-down. It's not our job to build the kingdom; because the kingdom is already built--it is built in the bloody cross and empty tomb of Jesus, and He reigns at the right hand of the Father; the kingdom does not look like Caesar arrayed in purple, it looks like the Lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world. The kingdom does not look like the wealthy in their palaces of gold, it looks like lepers and prostitutes and tax collectors being told they are loved and forgiven and that they matter. The kingdom does not look like like someone standing tall and on top; it looks like a slave scrubbing floors.

The kingdom looks like a cross. The kingdom looks like a crown of thorns. The kingdom is where the greatest is the slave.

All forms of Dominionism and Triumphalism fundamentally deny the kingdom of God.
What does the Apostle say? When he spoke of having a thorn in his flesh, the Lord said to him, "My grace is sufficient for you, My strength is made present in weakness."

It is in suffering and weakness and smallness, not glory, that God shows Himself. Those who pursue glory will find a house built on a foundation of sand, and treasure that is rust and moth-food. Instead, "Store up treasures in heaven" Desire godliness, desire holiness, desire humility, and smallness.

Recall the Prophet Elijah who did not find God in the whirlwind, or in the earthquake, or in the blazing fire--but in the small insignificant whisper.

-CryptoLutheran

RileyG said:

Well said!

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Thanks. Sometimes I think some of my questions are dumb, things I should’ve grown up knowing, but we really weren’t taught much. I once asked a friend who went to the same church and grade school I did, but was three years behind me, if they learned a lot in “religion” class and they didn’t either.

Oompa Loompa said:

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golly I did not think you would deliver

Hans Blaster said:

Barbicide is the blue disinfectant the combs are soaking in. Barbercide is the killing of a barber. Cheers.

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So it is. Supposedly Barbicide got it's name because its inventor hated going to the barber as a child. The latter is what I was thinking of.

In before the lock!

Michie said:

I feel like I should add @FaithT… I was not referring to you. I was talking about rabid ex-Catholics that have turned anti-Catholic from the things they were taught by others outside the Catholic faith.

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Oh, that’s ok.

i think that when I first started posting here, as a former Catholic, turned Lutheran/Non Denominational, contemplating returning to Catholicism, you thought I was here to start trouble.

Oompa Loompa said:

Some religious traditions on natural rights are superior than others.

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Amen!

When did this discussion turn from unity to methods of communion?

Trogdor the Burninator said:

So, when do we punch Trump?

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized Sen. John McCain’s military record at a conservative forum Saturday, saying the party’s 2008 nominee and former prisoner of war was a “war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”

Trump calls dead soldiers Losers and suckers

An Arlington National Cemetery official was “abruptly pushed aside” in an altercation with former President Donald Trump’s staff during a wreath-laying ceremony to honor service members killed in the Afghanistan War withdrawal, but she declined to press charges, an Army spokesman said Thursday.

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Go for it.

perplexed said:

oh really? , please elaborate.

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keras said:

Beulah theorized?

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Yes, you have a theorized nation made up of Christians from around the world, which you call Beulah, replace the current nation of Israel.

But you did not answer my question....

How can Beulah be the re-unification of the 10 northern tribes and the 2 southern tribes ?

Michie said:

Don’t worry Faith. Everything is a constant learning experience and it should be when you think about it.

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Well said!

Oompa Loompa said:

Especially when they start making up rights out of thin air. Like the right to have an abortion, or the right to trans their children.

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Yup. Neither one should have ever been confused rights! It only harms and destroys God’s creation!

Tropical Wilds said:

Yes, yes. And all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

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John 14:6
Mark 16:16
Matthew 7:21
John 3:3-5