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Recent content by FireDragon76

  1. FireDragon76

    Why is the Trinity never explained, described, or mentioned in all of Scripture?

    I don't reject the Trinity concept. But the statement you made confuses the Persons of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit is not Jesus "father" in any sense. The Holy Spirit is a distinct Person, just as the Father is.
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    Why is the Trinity never explained, described, or mentioned in all of Scripture?

    The Father and the Spirit are two distinct persons. The Spirit is not Jesus father in some way analogous to human fatherhood. In fact, the doctrine of the virgin birth should not be understood in a reductive manner at all. It's entirely possible, for instance, that Jesus' human body has the...
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    Why not judas

    No, Judas was not a loyal apostle. The Scriptures aren't completely clear about his motivations, but it strongly suggests he was never "on board", so to speak.
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    Why is the Trinity never explained, described, or mentioned in all of Scripture?

    The Trinity doesn't have to be exhaustively defined, for it to be a concept the Scriptures attests to. Something doesn't have to be explicitly defined for it to be true.
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    “Whatsoever Is True”: Reflecting on the Growth of Conspiracy Theories Among Christians

    The roundness of the Earth can be observed by sailors- it's not uncommon for ships in the distance to have their sails appear before the rest of the ship. In fact this knowledeg is ancient, and Aristotle used the testimony of sailors as evidence to support the theory that the Earth was a sphere.
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    Is there a Christian political philosophy?

    There's a reason that outside the US, you'll find few Christians supporting libertarian politics. Libertarianism is incompatible with Christian anthropology. It assumes an autonomous self, not one that is motivated by love, but one that is self-interested and isolated. It's rooted in late...
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    The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

    The implication that young people, particularly young people that vote for progressive candidates, are particularly lazy just isn't true.
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    The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

    Alot of younger Democrats are just not happy at all with the older leadership in the party that made neoliberalism their north star. Sanders or Mamdani represent a rejection of the "Reagan Consensus" that was quietly vouchsafed by Clinton and Obama.
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    The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

    For Muslims like Mamdani, Islam is a cultural heritage more than a controlling ideology (plus, Shia Islam actually rejects the idea of the Caliphate in the first place). Shia theology has historically lended itself to political quietism. What you see in modern Iran is more the result of...
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    The goal of Christianity in 'Not' to stop sinning!

    We must be careful how we understand the word "hate" in Semitic usage. Hate implies preference more than it does the kind of negative affective emotions and judgements we associate with the word hate in the modern world. Jesus isn't addressing what we think of today as self-loathing and...
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    Conservative Marc Theissen column: Trump built a winning coalition. White nationalists will destroy it.

    The GOP are courting danger in a movement they cannot control and will not be content to give any quarter to any sense of morality or respectability.
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    Conservative Marc Theissen column: Trump built a winning coalition. White nationalists will destroy it.

    I disagree. Though content moderation could be heavy-handed in the 2010's, the Overton window has moved alot since the major social media platforms capitulated in favor of techno-libertarian feudalism.
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    Conservative Marc Theissen column: Trump built a winning coalition. White nationalists will destroy it.

    Why is this surprising to anybody? Groyperism has always been something the GOP played footsie with ever since Trump ran for president. Trump's dog whistles were not in vain.
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    Gallup: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World

    Maybe the more subtle slights to the Faith should have more weight than religious parodies like Baphomet? Personally, I think it's been all downhill ever since NASA decided than an astronaut reading a bit of the Scriptures in space was offending tender sensibilities. That's when the...
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    Gallup: Drop in U.S. Religiosity Among Largest in World

    Yes, more or less that's what is needed. The issue today isn't about enforcing guilt and moral duties so much as the fact that many people live under a kind of social erasure, on the margins of society, with lives judged insiginificant. That's related to one of the things that both Tom Holland...