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I'm getting increasingly unhappy with these boards. Why can't people with different ideas respect each others ideas and talk amiably? Once, when I was a child of no more than about seven, I remember a neighbor of about my age saying, "I'm Catholic." When I said, "Really? I'm Protestant!" I...

I've read posts from non-universalists claiming that Christian universalists believe they have a "license to sin." I've never actually met a Christian universalist who felt that way. So let me ask the Christian universalists out there: Do you have a "license to sin"? Do you think sinning --...

Edit: Sorry, please disregard this thread and post on revised thread.

I've lost my taste for message boards. I had been a regular here for a while, disappeared for a time, and came back briefly just recently. Some people are so mean, just because they disagree about the interpretation of a doctrine, they think it justifies harsh tones and words. It's as though...

This point has been brought up repeatedly in another board, and ignored, so I made a thread. I want to stress, this is not a thread to discuss the definition of the Greek aionios. If you want to discuss that, that's off topic here. Some claim that Matthew 25's parable about the sheep and the...

I posted this issue before and predicted, if I go away for a little while, it will fall off the "Ethics and Morality" board. It's often written by hell-promoters in universalism debates that "Jesus spoke more of hell than heaven." That's not true, of course. He didn't. He spoke more of heaven...

It saddens me that, every time I come onto the "Ethics & Morality" boards, there are many threads on abortion, several threads on homosexuality, and zero threads on poverty, hunger, etc. Not only is poverty an ethics & morality issue, it is the ethics & morality issue that Jesus most preached...

Some choices left out by the other poll.

A question for small-government supporters. Many consider you the "true conservatives" as opposed to the big-government Bush conservatives, but I personally think that one can be liberal and believe in small government. Semantics. Whatever. A question just popped into my head about small...

Just a theory I have about the Republican campaign and George W Bush / Karl Rove / Dick Cheney on this election. I think they were overconfident. Because I think that they thought Saddam's conviction and death sentence in the final days of the campaign was going to give them a big huge boost...

It's officially 50/50. Virginia recount to ensure that the will of the voters is done, and there goes Cheney's chance to tie-break. Charlie

Where are all the pictures of God from the Sistene Chapel, pointing his finger down on the voting sheet that says, "Claire McKaskill," and "Bob Menendez," and all the other Democrats that won? Many Christians like to point out that God is in control of everything, including all the elections...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Conservative columnist Ann Coulter has refused to cooperate in an investigation into whether she voted in the wrong precinct, so the case will probably be turned over to prosecutors, Palm Beach County's elections chief said today. Elections Supervisor Arthur...

A song about the effects of the Iraq war on the Senate election.. Don't it make my red state.. Don't it make my red state.. Don't it make my red state.. Blue.. :D It's happening to a few red states. May it happen to Virginia. And Tennessee. And Missouri. C'mon Dems, let's go for the...

I personally don't think that Americans of any political group want the US to "lose" in Iraq. So why don't I ask them in a public poll? This poll is for Americans only -- I'm trying to determine whether Americans of any political group want America to lose. Here's the definition provided by...

On one of the threads, it was said that Foley's behavior was "innocuous." in‧noc‧u‧ous  –adjective 1.not harmful or injurious; harmless: an innocuous home remedy By now, I think we all know about the e-mails and chat messages that this 50-year-old Congressman...

The Sojourners is a group of Christians seeking Justice and Peace lead by evangelical minister Jim Wallis, author of "God's Politics -- Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It." They have a free 2006 Election Issues Guide available in downloadable PDF format. Just let them...

This occurred to me the other day -- There's a news station I've seen several times recently that has set up stings to catch child preditors. First, someone from the news station will go online and pretend to be a minor. They will have sexual conversations online and then ask the would-be...

Suppose George W Bush were involved in the identical scandal that rocked the Clinton administration. The only difference is that it's not Bill Clinton involved in the scandal -- it's George W. Bush, and the Republicans are in control of the House and Senate. Note that this includes every...

Based on its involvement in world affairs (past and present), do you think Iraq deserves to get attacked by the United States?