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This passage needs to be read in the larger context of Romans 1, (which also needs to be read in the larger context of the Epistle to the Romans itself). Paul is saying that God's power is on display through creation, yet human beings did not worship God, instead they made idols. Martin...

I need a drink after opening up this thread. -CryptoLutheran

That's not what St. Peter is talking about. Peter is not giving a formula of time for God that converts millennia into days, or days into millennia. Peter is saying time doesn't matter to God, so for us humans for which a single day and a thousand years are vastly different, for God there isn't...

You must live in a pretty nice world where the only vulnerable and marginalized people are the ones that haven't been born yet. In the world I live, there are a lot of already born people who are having a pretty rough time. -CryptoLutheran

Why is it irrational? I invited you to explain why my proposition is absurd. The only thing stopping a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke. Tell me why I'm wrong. -CryptoLutheran

Elaborate for the class. -CryptoLutheran

I never said there was anything wrong with you, or anyone, owning a gun. At no point have I tried to argue against you having a gun if you want one. I'm very sorry for your bad dream, but just let me understand you correctly: Nobody actually was trying to chop through your bedroom door with a...

Best case scenario I'll be a ghoul with a cool hat walking around the wasteland with a dog fighting giant scorpions. -CryptoLutheran

In the last 50 years you want to pit what Republicans have done and what Democrats have done? Should we make some kind of fact sheet, or do the data? I don't think it'll show the results you want. -CryptoLutheran

Well, you know, it's not though. It isn't even remotely similar. And it is disturbing that you consider owning an AR-15 the same way you consider mandatory seat belts in motor vehicles. Why stop at AR-15s? Why not everyone own a nuke? Because it's absurd? Well if it's so absurd, then why did...

Is this a problem you deal with frequently? In my day-to-day life I don't usually encounter someone trying to kill me and my loved ones. In fact, if I had to count the number of times this has come up in the last almost 42 years of my life, I'd say it's a big round zero. -CryptoLutheran

Putin is an imperialist despot who believes Ukraine should be Russian. As long as Putin is in power, he will use as much violence to try and conquer Ukraine and subjugate its people under his boot heel. And Putin can get away with it because, collectively, the international community wants to...

Can I make fun of the topic? I find the idea of saying everyone, let alone anyone, needs an AR-15 ridiculous to the highest caliber. Pun intended. Nobody needs an AR-15. Nobody needs a gun at all. People can want guns, they can think "Oh I like my big boom boom stick, it is shiny". But nobody...

Everyone needs a nuclear bomb. You never know when the Reds are coming. *plays Fallout music* -CryptoLutheran

How do God's people sit comfortably with systemic injustice and oppressing the vulnerable and the marginalized? Which is the foundation of the conservative platform. -CryptoLutheran