Recent content by Erth

Neither. Marriage is a blessing. In the case of marriage before God it is a blessing from God. In the case of civil marriage it is a blessing from the state.

You don't know what I mean.

Are you talking about the alleged "invasion" of Crimea?

Neither is it exchangable to anyone who wants to treat human beings with respect and dignity. Ethnicity is not the same thing as citizenship, and indigenous ethnic groups should have equal rights and recognition also when there is more than one ethnic group in the same country.

Most of Western and Southern Finland was originally settled by Swedes, and Finland in its entirety used to be a part of Sweden. The first official language of Finland was Swedish. Swedes built the cities in the West and South and all over the place, and started the oldest Finnish universities...

I don't think that's necessary.

Both sides have gotten some kind of help from over the borders. Neither side can claim to be impartial. If the Finns in Finland attacked or mistreated the Swedish-speaking Finns, then I would support sending Swedish troops to Finland. The same logic applies to Ukraine where Russians are part...

Do you agree or not that the revolution in Ukraine was backed by America and the EU? I know for a fact that it was, and I think it should be very obvious to anyone who kept half an eye open to what happened there.

I don't think "short term" fits well here. Neither do I think that diplomatic relations will get better with the sanctions. The opposite is true. It is also questionable to talk about Russian aggression. America and the EU have been backing a revolution in Ukraine for a long time, and...

So you used to have freedom of conscience in Canada? In Sweden there is no such thing. The nationalists want to legislate for freedom of conscience, but pretty much everyone else is against.

And that was predicted last summer already, but the EU keeps stepping it up. I was reminded about this because I saw a news report on TV saying that Finland's entire economy is now noticably affected. TASS: World - New EU sanctions against Russia to affect Finnish, Estonian economies ...

Noone with anything to say about this?

I don't consider myself a liberal Christian but I think it is conducive of good discussion to point out that fixing a cleft palate is different from altering the gender of a person. In the latter case, a change is effected from one polarity to another, so to speak. Instead of what God gave, the...

God is not bound by any necessity. God could have let things unfold in any way, but He chose to save mankind according to the fullest way, after His love for mankind.

I disagree entirely with how the West has backed a revolution in Ukraine. I disagree with the sanctions too. The portrayal of recent events as a Russian invasion of Crimea is a falsification. (See The Gift of Crimea for historical background.) Ordinary people have nothing to gain from the...