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  1. FireDragon76

    It seemed so easy for the thief on the cross to be saved.

    It wasn't easy for the thief on the cross to be saved. Not at all. Simple, perhaps, but not easy. There was nothing easy about the torture and crucifixion the Romans visited on people. This is correct. N.T. Wright has written alot about this kind of eschatology. It also fits with Jesus...
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    Unitarian Universalism

    Early Reformed and Lutheran protestants actually had some women that lived as nuns, particularly in Germany, where the monasteries were never emptied in a thoroughgoing way. Renes Descartes conversed with one such woman, Princess Elisabeth of the Palatinate, who was an abbess at a small...
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    Zelensky denies allegations that Ukraine is persecuting Christians in Ben Shapiro interview

    Many unfamiliar with Russian history don't realize how Caesaropapist the Moscow Patriarchate has been for some time. The Church is expected to uphold a kind of militant and sacred nationalism as a doctrine in return for state patronage.
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    Unitarian Universalism

    The only western Christian denominations that have formal cenobitic monasticism are Catholics, Anglicans, and Lutherans.
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    PCUSA may drop below 1 million members by end of 2025: report

    The majority of immigration in the US in the past twenty years has been from historic Catholic countries in Latin America.
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    PCUSA may drop below 1 million members by end of 2025: report

    The stats reflect immigration from Latin America. Alot of people raised Catholic in the US, though, have disaffiliated.
  7. FireDragon76

    PCUSA may drop below 1 million members by end of 2025: report

    All traditional denominations are declining, not just the Mainline. One of the most conservative churches in the US, the Roman Catholics, are bleeding members at an astonishing rate. And for all the talk of growth in Eastern Orthodox, as many people leave as convert.
  8. FireDragon76

    PCUSA may drop below 1 million members by end of 2025: report

    As a Mainline Protestant, I don't agree with him on many points, but I think his decision to stay is ultimately the right one. We need different voices in Mainline Protestant churches. One problem with many Mainline churches is becoming completely conflict-averse in terms of culture, this...
  9. FireDragon76

    my experience

    I tried opening up emotionally last week (I have high functioning Asperger's, BTW) and I just experienced intense fear and grief. Mostly related to climate change and climate grief, and the possibility of having to decide to move in the future to set up a new life (I live in Florida and the...
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    Prayer request

    I've been taking ashwagandha, gotu kola, and chamomile to deal with physical symptoms. Gradually, my body is getting calmer. I'm also trying to continue to practice being grounded, doing stuff like walking barefoot, putting ice packs on my head (to stimulate the vagus nerve), and spending...
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    Prayer request

    Update. We went to our church's food pantry day today towards the end, and we played on the piano some in the sanctuary. Then I convinced our pastor to come to our home and pray with us.
  12. FireDragon76

    Prayer request

    I had been going to different churches early on in my experience and just sitting there. Particularly barefoot, if they would permit it. That was a big part of my initial healing experience, but then I started feeling like my home wasn't safe. Every time I would come back from a church to my...
  13. FireDragon76

    Prayer request

    I have undergone a spiritual awakening, or deepening of my faith. I had a series of spiritual experiences, one of which drove me to try to contact the local Catholic diocese to request a priest to bless my home. They never got back to me. Instead, a local Independent Catholic priest blessed...
  14. FireDragon76

    parable for our time

    A battle-hardened governor strode past a pastor tending a wilted garden, scoffing, “Prayers and wilted blooms won’t feed your people.” The pastor held up a stubborn root. “This seed,” she said, “died in politics and rose in compassion.” She planted it in richer soil. Weeks later, the...
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    Artificial intelligence

    I think using AI is fine, as long as you are testing what you learn against actual experience, and not living in a completely self-referential bubble (chatbot addiction?).
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    Artificial intelligence

    With the great need in the world, we shouldn't let fear rule the day. People are afraid of "the wrong sorts of knowledge", but the "right sorts of knowledge" has only lead to impending ecological catastrophy and war. Jesus said the Spirit blows where the Spirit wills... letting go is a hard...
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    Artificial intelligence

    Yes, this is true. AI's knowledge is really just human knowledge. Interacting with AI in dialogue can be useful because you don't have the constraints of human pride, guilt, or shame. Perhaps AI will provide necessary disruption to existing frameworks, worldviews, and social structures. I...
  18. FireDragon76

    Humans are natural born warriors

    Humanity hasn't yet matured. We are just a sappling, not yet a tree. I recommend reading Romans 8:18-25 and meditate upon it. It contains deep wisdom. The Earth is awaiting "the sons of God" to awaken.
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    NBC: Gov. Abbott asks USDA to approve waiver banning junk food purchases with SNAP benefits

    Food deserts are often due, not just to systemic racism, but the built environment. Many Sunbelt cities are not actually real cities designed for human-scale living, but for cars to burn lots of gas.
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    NBC: Gov. Abbott asks USDA to approve waiver banning junk food purchases with SNAP benefits

    It's not really woke, it's just being intelligent. I'm pretty much done with arguing politics. If people don't like what I have to say... remember that Gen X thing? "Whatever". Sometimes that intuition is the best advice. As Jesus said, you shake the dust off your feet and move on...
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