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Fortunately, the political system of the U.S.A. is bigger than simply the Presidential office. We all should have learned this in Government class in high school and, thereby, be able to refrain from seeing this one specific office as "El Hefe," let alone as some sort of micro-savior.

There isn't really a knock-down, drag-out answer anyone can give you on this, and being that the Argument from Evil is the one argument I don't have a clear answer on myself and I don't think anyone really does, all I can offer are a few ideas to consider. 1) On Predatory Animals - Energy...

Yes. That's essentially what I'm saying.

Alex, that's not an actual paradox since the referent in Mark 16:15 isn't to be read independently of everything else that it is tied to within the entirety of the Gospel of Mark. If I can find even one or two places in Mark where Jesus indicated something to the effect that we, as...

We should be advocating for the general safety of all fellow human beings. Besides, we're all sinners in need of constant grace.

Not exactly. It's too bad that your friends can only conceptual the issue in an "either/or" dichotomy. No one is sin-free, even AFTER they accept Christ and AFTER they orient themselves towards frequently repentance. And being that we're all on a journey, I think an invitation is the...

Why does everything always have to be laced with a call to repentance? ... I'm thinking that, like many or most straight people who tend to rack up a high sexual body count in life these days, LGBTQ+ folks likewise have already heard this and heard that a bajillion times. They already know...

At the moment, I don't feel the need to PM you. But if there's ever some bit of Philosophy you'd like to discuss and chew on, I'm available here and there. I haven't made any insinuation about your level of morality. As far as I'm concerned on an existential basis, we're even. My comment in...

And whose specific Philosophy of Law have you been reading to come to this conclusion that "states do not themselves have moral agency"? You make it sound as if there is, and has only been, one theoretical position on this.

Considering the safety of others can be a moral issue, depending upon which one of a dozen Ethical positions one may hold.

I've been doing ok despite a few setbacks these past several months. I hope things are well with you.

Actually, I wasn't commenting on Driscoll but merely the fact that there are those in our society who talk and think as if "civil war" is some live option. As for Driscoll, who knows when the Lord will return? Suggestion November because people in one little nation might fight with a few...

People can be stupid, uneducated and/or grossly misinformed. They can also be emotionally manipulated quite easily for the sake of protective politics that are peculiar to their own time ... Take the Crusades, for example. A case could be made that a Crusading mentality could not have been...

C'mon now. :rolleyes:

People need to get over themselves and whatever "Civil War" proclivities they have. I don't think Jesus is smiling on that sort of thinking, especially if and when it's promulgated in His Name.

Here's an idea. When you hear them knock, stand behind the door as you open it so they can't see you and, in the most Dracula like voice you can muster, say: "Plllleeeeeaaaazzzee, Cooomme iinnnnn! ... I've beeeeen exPECTING YOuuuuuuuuu !" And just stand there behind the open door, remaining...

X-men were a major part of my comic gig as a kid. But the corner stores (or convenience stores, or 5-and-dime stores)----whatever you want to call them------offered other, additional choices for my pre-adolescent and adolescent perusal beyond what the local comic stores would offer, despite...

Just imagine a world where people who don't care what other people think somehow gain political power.

I'm trying to convey that, from what I usually noticed, Vampirella comic books were never placed on the "top shelf" in the 1970s ...

I think it's more accurate to say that with both Moral Relativism and Cultural Relativism in view, there may or may not be an analytic distinction between Law and Morality and/or Ethics. It depends on the particular Ethics and the Philosophy of Law that a person (or a society on the whole)...