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Recent content by RDKirk

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    White House adds plaques below Biden and Obama portraits, calling them ‘the worst President in American history’ and ‘divisive’

    He seems to think he will, considering all the changes to the decor he's making. He's not treating the White House as though it belongs to the nation instead of to him.
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    Do you think a guilty until proven innocent justice system could ever be a good thing?

    There is a scene in Star Wars: Andor where a group of people are being lined up before an Imperial firing squad. A townsperson explained that a storm trooper had been killed by a sniper some time earlier and ".... they keep finding people who did it."
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    How old was Mary when she gave birth to Christ?

    The only child of Mary.
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    How old was Mary when she gave birth to Christ?

    Jesus knew, however, that James very soon would be for Him. We are not told why, but the bible already provides us with repeated evidence that it was a good Jewish son's duty to care for his own mother.
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    How old was Mary when she gave birth to Christ?

    Believing in Him as the Son of God was not necessary for the care of His mother. Any good Jewish son would have cared for his own mother, and there is no indictment in scripture of the basic character of James.
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    Do you think a guilty until proven innocent justice system could ever be a good thing?

    We have to remember the inequality of resources involved in the case. It's the state with all the enforcement, investigative, and judicial power of the state, all the police, all the investigators, all the crime laboratories, all the expert witnesses being paid by taxpayers...against you and...
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    Do you think a guilty until proven innocent justice system could ever be a good thing?

    I have to agree, especially considering that the process itself is effectively punishment. I was just watching a video of a case in which the prosecution literally had no evidence whatsoever. Yet, they had charged the defendant and brought her to court on the bases that they believed the...
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    Hammer Vs Striker

    What? When? Who says?
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    Should churches and pastors share politics from the pulpit? History of the Johnson Amendment

    That's up to Caesar, who will define "stealing" and "murdering" in his government. Caesar's definition is likely to be different from Christ's definition.
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    How old was Mary when she gave birth to Christ?

    A couple of things suggest it. First, Jesus' siblings and even his mother rendered Him far less respect than would be due the senior male of the family (after Joseph had apparently died). As the elder male, Jesus' word would have been family law. None of them would have dared interrupt Him...
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    How old was Mary when she gave birth to Christ?

    And yet Paul spoke of a widow's list being limited to women over 60. People who managed to escape an early death from an external cause commonly lived into their 50s and 60s even in those days.
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    How old was Mary when she gave birth to Christ?

    The Righterzpen was correct in that up until very recently young women averaged 16 years old by the start of menstruation. In fact, that was the case within my own lifetime. When I was a teenager, the average girl started her period at about 16. Changes in the chemical environment and eating...
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    Should churches and pastors share politics from the pulpit? History of the Johnson Amendment

    I agree with that. I'm not particularly concerned if the world at large practices adultery or homosexuality, or whatever. I'm only concerned about what the Lord has commanded compatible with a lifestyle in Christ. I'm concerned with politics only to the extent that it might interfere with my...
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    Should churches and pastors share politics from the pulpit? History of the Johnson Amendment

    Politics is not about morality, politics is about control of resources and management of power.
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    Should churches and pastors share politics from the pulpit? History of the Johnson Amendment

    You wrote: Did you have any politician in mind, or were you simply hypothesizing that of all the things in the universe that could possibly occur, such a thing as a candidate endorsing "kindness, diligence, patience, peace" might also occur?
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