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    White House Press Secretary Leavitt suggests 'spiritual warfare', not AT&T, interfered with Trump phone call with faith leaders

    I'm impressed that a conference call could happen with 10,000 people. (AP tells me that the call did eventually happen, just 20 minutes late.) If the president really were to convene a group of faith leaders from a diversity of perspectives to advise him, that could be a good thing. Our...
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    Why do you feel grateful on the 4th of July?

    Well, I might be having boiled potatoes instead of pizza for dinner tonight. ^_^
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    Man Has Daughter Give Back Gospel Tract

    I like that. The guy at our town's Pride Festival had a sign with a list of sins that he condemns, and that was much less helpful. A lot of gay people have been hurt by churches. This dad probably assumed you were there to communicate an anti-gay message to his kids, even though that's not...
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    Why do you feel grateful on the 4th of July?

    I'm grateful for the culture we've created, though the efforts of the many people who came to North America from other parts of the globe, bringing their food and music and agriculture and languages and philosophies. It's a really beautiful mosaic that's been built here.
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    AI thinks aliens have occupied Earth

    The expertise of generative AI is in being able to construct plausible English sentences and paragraphs. This is different from expertise in content areas.
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    American Revolution was not Christian

    The justification given in the Declaration of Independence is that the British government was doing a bad job of governing the American colonies, so it was time for the colonies to separate from Britain and govern themselves: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
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    Man Has Daughter Give Back Gospel Tract

    What did your sign say?
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    Hot Button Issue: Can You Be Pro-Choice and Be a Christian?

    Human sacrifice is irrelevant here. This is more to the point. One way to build a case for the absolute anti-abortion position is to begin from a position of pure pacifism. Some Christians believe that it is wrong to take a human life under any circumstances: no war, no death penalty, no...
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    Hot Button Issue: Can You Be Pro-Choice and Be a Christian?

    No, most abortions (at least, here in the US) are done within the first trimester, well before viability. (In 2021, 80.8% were performed at <= 9 weeks' gestation, and 93.5% at <= 13 weeks gestation; source Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2021). There is a difference between an embryo...
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    If universalism is true then why did God send His Son to die for our sins?

    So, I think your argument is this: The purpose of Jesus' sacrifice is to help us believe. Without Jesus' sacrifice, we wouldn't believe; and without our belief, God wouldn't forgive us. Have I understood you correctly?
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    If universalism is true then why did God send His Son to die for our sins?

    I'm still not following your argument on this. You seem to be saying that if the sacrifice was powerful enough to apply to everyone, then the sacrifice was not needed. I don't see how this follows.
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    Hot Button Issue: Can You Be Pro-Choice and Be a Christian?

    No: By the time the pregnancy has reached the stage where the child is viable (capable of living outside the womb), and assuming there are no extraordinary health factors involved, it is not morally acceptable to abort the child. If the child is viable, and if it is for some reason medically...
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    Hot Button Issue: Can You Be Pro-Choice and Be a Christian?

    This is an issue about which Christians disagree, and it's an issue with a lot of nuance and moral shades of gray. Could you agree to disagree about it?
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    Thoughts on Confirmation

    The problem of not having "caught the faith" is an issue in my own church as well, and I agree that there's much room for improvement in discipleship. I don't yet know what, exactly, that improved discipleship looks like. (I don't think it's simple. "More praise bands" is not the answer. :)...
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    Thoughts on Confirmation

    I hadn't realized that Eastern and Western traditions differed here. Thanks! In the Catholic and Anglican traditions, the presence of a bishop is an important part of the rite. I gather that in Orthodoxy, a priest (rather than a bishop) normally performs the chrismation?
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