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FireDragon76 replied to the thread ICE, Killing, Justice, and Christianity."Continuing threat" is too vague a standard for the use of deadly force. Threat to whom? Merely a threat to "Law and order" isn't a... -
FireDragon76 replied to the thread A question I’ve been reflecting on about church buildings.Here Christ is speaking of a mystical reality, not necessarily reducible to earthly institution. Many of the images in the Gospel of...
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread JD Vance at March for Life: Abortion debate is a question of choosing either God or paganism.Then why shame those that look at their meager finances and the precarity of the current social and ecological arrangements and conclude...
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread No, Virginia, Each Person Does Not Have His Own Reality A pandemic of lunacy..That whole argument is a thinly veiled strawman. I don't see anybody suggesting they have their own reality.
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread A question I’ve been reflecting on about church buildings.The organism metaphor was used by Romantics in both East and West (Mercersburg, the Paris School in Orthodoxy), but I actually think...
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread The Worship of Death Nihilism turns chaos into a weapon..Chaos is often the bogieman of the faithless and unimaginative that needs the heavy boot of the law for what anthropologists have dubbed...
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread JD Vance at March for Life: Abortion debate is a question of choosing either God or paganism.A child tax credit doesn't even begin to pay for the costs of raising a kid now days. And neither he nor Trump have the power, much...
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread ICE, Killing, Justice, and Christianity.You mention Aquinas, but Aquinas also wrote that an unjust law is no law at all. A man was shot multiple times on the ground after...
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread Divine Self-Giving and the Limits of Palamism.In practice, alot of Orthodox tend to emphasize salvation as a matter of ascetical technique mediated through approved channels, not a...
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread Divine Self-Giving and the Limits of Palamism.Brief summary: The Essence-Energies distinction and Palamite hesychastic theology creates pastoral and ethical problems when it's...
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread Divine Self-Giving and the Limits of Palamism.Theological critique, something to contemplate, and the general absence of anywhere else these ideas might be discussed. Also, I think...
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread About the unjust steward' s parable from Lk 16.Jesus explains the parable further in 16:9, "I tell you, use worldly wealth to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you...
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread ICE, Killing, Justice, and Christianity.I don't buy into a Hobbesian account of the sovereignty of the state, so I'm confused what your point is here.
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FireDragon76 replied to the thread About the unjust steward' s parable from Lk 16.Righteousness here has nothing to do with being "legally correct" in the sense of modern deontology (Immanuel Kant for instance, his...
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FireDragon76 posted the thread Divine Self-Giving and the Limits of Palamism in St. Justin Martyr's Corner: Debate an Orthodox Chr.This was an essay I developed exploring the essence-energies distinction, how that squares with participatory ontology (or not), and it...
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