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Recent content by Matthew514

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    Would you support a 'Christian Zone'?

    An really important issue. All children are born into a certain social framework in a time and place. But according to the zeitgeist at another place and/or time, the way they are raised would be wrong. A parent will have an understanding of what they believe to be true, and will naturally want...
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    Would you support a 'Christian Zone'?

    As with anyone providing a product, the developers of such as zone would be ruining their own scheme if they were untrustworthy. For potential migrants, as with anyone, caveat emptor.
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    Would you support a 'Christian Zone'?

    Such a scheme of course would not force people to do anything, there would be no people in such an initially empty zone to force. Instead, any one who felt the rules were not of their liking would simple not go there. To expand the idea a bit: there could be a competing zone that had completely...
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    A Christian Economy

    I can't grant this premise: the opposite extreme, a controlled economy, still has people with these traits, they just have to find another way of applying them. Corruption, and bureaucracy building, are also demonstrations of selfishness and materialism, and Soviet Russia was riddled with them...
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    Hello from Central America, good to be here!

    Hello all, thank you mods for running the forum. :thumbsup::amen:
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    Would you support a 'Christian Zone'?

    Let's start with the premise that the Bible contains instruction from God how people should behave in a Godly society. Secular laws contain instruction about how people should behave in modern society. Many Christians believe that laws should reflect, to an extent, Biblical teaching because a)...