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Recent content by Fervent

  1. Fervent

    Communism- Socialism

    Yes, I find it difficult to believe that someone who expresses such callous disregard would have the temerity to deal with the often hostile realities that it takes to engage with the homeless. Am I supposed to believe everything people say on the internet?
  2. Fervent

    Communism- Socialism

    I suppose the people in my community who can't afford to eat regularly, who are subject to hard choices between which utilities they're going to pay this month and which ones they can kick the can on, who have to choose between their own hunger and their childrens...that's not suffering, right...
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    Is God a do as I say not as I do God?

    A dictionary is an impoverished lexicon, as there isn't really "a definition" for words but a range of semantic possibilities. More complete lexicons bring out not only the denotative meaning but also the connotative meaning, with the latter often being more important in regards to translations...
  4. Fervent

    Communism- Socialism

    Perhaps not in your neck of the woods...though I'm not sure where that would be. This sounds like you have little experience with the homeless and are simply operating on prejudices and propaganda.
  5. Fervent

    Communism- Socialism

    Perhaps from your perspective, but I hardly think concern for humanitarian causes is(or at least should be) polar. I'm not deflecting, but given your insistence that laziness is the primary issue renders me suspicious of you having the concerns of the impoverished at heart. It's not opinion...
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    Why does it matter if the Bible is inerrant?

    It's non-contributive, because whatever you're getting from it to make it relevant is a mystery. As best I can figure you're attempting to contradict his statement about it meaning "God-breathed", but without you providing some kind of point you're expecting people to get all you've done is...
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    Why does it matter if the Bible is inerrant?

    Without some sort of commentary, no one will know what you're trying to get at by referencing a concordance. What is your point, exactly?
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    Is God a do as I say not as I do God?

    False, Sagan appropriated cosmos because he wanted a word that wasn't theologically loaded like "universe" to describe creation. World, in Greek, was multifaceted as any good lexicon(not dictionary) will tell you. Sometimes it refers to the physical structures, sometimes its occupants...
  9. Fervent

    Communism- Socialism

    My examples are neither left nor right, and your characterization says more about your positions than my own. Somehow I suspect your concern in that regard is...insincere. Especially since the poverty cycle is largely reinforced by restrictions that a lack of safety nets creates, such as...
  10. Fervent

    Communism- Socialism

    i'm less concerned with individuals property rights, than I am with alleviating the suffering of a significant portion of the population. What would stop them from "holding onto it"? How would it be taken from them, in your imagined scenario?
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    Communism- Socialism

    An interesting thing, as opposed as we are to slavery today due to the horros of chattel slavery, in some ways slavery was more humane than how the current economic system is structured. That is not to say its practice in the US was in anyway, but more how it functioned in the ancient world...
  12. Fervent

    Communism- Socialism

    It's not about entitlements, anymore than God commanding leaving the fields for the poor to glean or caring for them through the tithes was entitlements. Small to medium companies tend to have exceedingly limited employment needs, most hardly need more than owner-operation. We're getting a bit...
  13. Fervent

    American Revolution was not Christian

    Many of the antenicene fathers would disagree with you, such as Justin Martyr and Tertullian. I'm not sure we can make parallels between tribal warfare and political revolutions. But my point was you seem to be inordinately worried about where to place worldly loyalty, and leaning far too...
  14. Fervent

    Communism- Socialism

    Sure, but laziness is not the only impediment to accepting exploitation wages. Especially when doing so often leads to increasing their need as those safety nets that do exist get cut off and the employers opt to not pay them subsistence wages. The biggest abusers of welfare aren't individuals...
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    The Harm Caused by Excessive Criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and Other Denominations

    If I thought we weren't gettting on well, I would have been quite a bit shorter. Though I'm not sure my amicable character comes across in text, especially since my nature is to be skeptical which is why I consider myself a philosophical skeptic and the sole unassailable truth for me boils down...
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