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If there is free will, things are as they are. If there is no free will, things are as they are.

And the Europeans like to point at the USA as "backwards"? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! PS: Abolish worship in schools, voters tell government : Interfaith Why was this not abandoned a century ago? The more I learn of British history and current British practices, the better I understand the...

Are you personally responsible for all acts carried out by people who claim to share your beliefs? Are you personally responsible for all acts carried out by people who claim a label that others use as a blanket term for people who do and don't share your beliefs but may have other superficial...

Multiple translations, with notes. Even the original editors of the KJV strongly encouraged not just using their own version. That's right, KJV-only contradicts the wishes of the people who compiled the KJV.

Give that judgment will be on the basis of capacity and not an immutable, legalistic yardstick, I am quite comfortable. We are all given the choice, and how we respond to it in the context of our ability to respond--and that "ability to respond" is not the silly Western "age of consent" or...

The Epistle of James was never controversial for being "too Jewish" when the Canon was worked out. The only wannabe Canonist of any stature who rejected the Epistle of James was Marcion, and he was denounced as a heretic. Other canons assembled in reaction against Marcion included the Epistle...

As, over the years, I ceased being a child and became an adult. It finally occurred to me that critiques that many other people made of me, over many years, if repeated many times, were far more likely to be valid or based on valid observation rather than "everybody else is wrong about me"...

I see, that is the ONLY definition that the LATIN word has, not the English word, right?

Purity is a dangerous servant and a horrible master. Anyone with any higher impulse recognizes the need for us to be "clean" in behavior and thought. However, it is easier to conflate external signs of "clean" with actual spiritual regeneration. This problem has been known for a very long...

Spinoza indulged in philosophical wanking. First, off, he presumes that God CANNOT suspend His own powers of control to permit free will. It cannot be logically proven that God has not chosen to suspend His power specifically to permit human free will. I will concede that God would have the...

WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!? McDonald's food is full of fat and not good for you? What next? What INCREDIBLE REVALATION IS NEXT!??? Water is wet? Up is up? Down is down? If people are stupid enough to eat that crap, then let them, just don't impose some kind of socialistic "health care system" that...

"If I liked custard, that would be horrible, because then it would mean that I might actually eat it."

If you accept my definition of Argentina as a province of Ireland... The statements are essentially equivalent. Nope, it's older than that, from what I've read. Gnosticism seems to be a originally Persian in origin. This later became Mandeanism and Manichianism, but the basic premises that...

Because mercy is foreign to neopaganism? Or is mercy simply too Christian a concept for you to embrace it, yourself? Your words cast you into the exact same mindset you claim you oppose. You are just another Crusader.

Things began to cool down in Northern Ireland when the larger groups of Catholics and Protestants outside that area started isolating the extremists within the area. So long as the two sides could count on outside support, they had no incentive to abandon extremism.

What did Hume have to say about the "factual" nature of inference?

When "fellowship" becomes the goal, then God has been thrown away.

Ah, so there's a gigantic ASPARTAME CONSPIRACY!!! Are they connected to the League of Assassins or the Mind-Control Satellites?

Okay, so we have a new guy coming in to tell us exactly what God wants us to do, apparently directly from His mouth. Riddle me a riddle: How nicely have things worked out every other time a new guy popped up to do that?

Re: Choosing healthy foods now called a mental disorder You did forward it without any kind of limitation or substantive commentary, leading any sane, reasonable person to conclude that you believed the contents of what you forwarded. If you don't believe it wholeheartedly, don't forward it...