Recent content by Indent

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    How to find Christian dates...

    There are a lot of very sexist people at my church. It wasn't until I became Christian that I developed a systemic capacity for high tolerance, God's grace perhaps, as there's no other group that has tried by patience more than believers. But I digress. I don't assume girls prefer subtle -...
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    How to find Christian dates...

    There are various degrees of Korean culture. The people I know were born in Canada or spent most of their childhood here, but there is a pocket of Korean born and raised group at the church (tend to be much different). There is a network of relationships within the church and the larger Korean...
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    How to find Christian dates...

    I go to an ethnic Korean church, and it's couched in cultural nuance. There are people here that won't date non-Korean (I'm mixed), tend to conceal relationships, resistant to dating within the community, and there's an interesting ageism dynamic etc. There might have been a time when women...
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    How to find Christian dates...

    I don't like online websites. It's hard to meet Christian girls, and the single and available girls at my church are far and few between. There are probably 20 or so single guys and 3 single girls... in my age range. It's depressing and I think some people are frustrated. When an attractive...
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    Catholicism

    I see my thread is alive and kicking. I'm reminded of a quote from a business leadership paper that had an interpretation Machiavelli that suggested something on the lines: It's not the Machiavelli was amoral and unscrupulous, but that he believed our morality was dangerously dogmatic...
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    Catholicism

    well most of the so-called "Biblical" Christians I know prefer this "plain reading" nonsense, which is not exegesis. It's a hermeneutic in itself, however.
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    Catholicism

    I suppose that's so. I do, however, think Sola Scriptura and Biblical inerrancy are not just problematic, but often lead people to be unfaith to the texts. When it comes to cultural understandings of inerrancy (by and large most Christians), it often communicates little more than "I want my...
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    Catholicism

    Did people of faith get it wrong until Martin Luther and his contemporaries picked up the pen? It's not quite what Evangelicals would claim - as Evangelicalism is, allegedly, the best iteration/version of the faith - but the wholesale condemnation of Catholics seems curious to me. There are...
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    Why Genesis Matters - Dr. Jason Lisle

    I haven't watch the video, but Jason Lisle is a shill for Answers in Genesis. There are no Christians that think "Genesis doesn't matter." It's a matter of interpretation, and if you ask me, AiG is doing a serious disservice to Christianity.
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    Christianity... and the fact of evolution

    another day of marvelling at God's glory through evolution!
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    Christianity... and the fact of evolution

    It's a common strategy by some fundamentalist Christians to hoist a word salad of science-sounding onto people. It almost gives the appearance that you understand the words being employed. I'm glad that this dribble has managed to bring you some comfort, but it's a bit embarrassing from the...
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    Christianity... and the fact of evolution

    It’s fascinating that Christians that know nothing about science be so bold in their statements. There isn’t some hierarchy of scientific terms. It’s not like scientific theories grow up to become laws. Where a scientific law describes an observation, scientific theories explains the...
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    Christianity... and the fact of evolution

    It was a good discussion ladies and gents. I've concluded that there's no solid and substantive theological position to take against the fact of evolution.
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    Christianity... and the fact of evolution

    There are unethical practices in some biopharmaceutical companies, for example, and it's obvious that there is a social aspect to "science." There are problems. That said, to claim evolution and climate as "hoaxes" is just idiotic. You also failed to acknowledge the unethical and scandalous...
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    inerrancy is just a theory

    I don't expect people to Bible scholars. I would argue that the vast majority of Christians do not have a "good understanding of hermeneutics", but instead just go with cultural Christianity. These people are about performative "Christ-likeness" which looks a lot like isomorphism within...