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It's been a difficult week for me. I found out quite by chance on Thursday that my longtime physical therapist who helped put my fragile constitution back together again had passed away from ovarian cancer. I had known her 21 years & without her I'd be in a nursing home. When I got home from...

Christianity has had its bad moments. The lust for power-people tend to deify it or sanctify. God does not sanctify it-people do. Holy books always get misinterpreted. Obama brought this up to equalize the episodes thus sanctifying his approval. He could not dig down deep enough & realize a...

It's not that easy for Christians to help. The US govt is a reluctant player. The EU is always reluctant. We have a void in our own backyard even though I have implored my Congress people to intercede on behalf of muslims, Copts, Jews.

I supported the Clinton intervention in Serbia & Kosovo. I think it was one of Clinton's major feats-the U.S.-a largely Christian nation stood up to the inability of other nations to stop ethnic cleansing. Clinton even outshone the hawkish republicans who opposed his resolution (no oil...

An atheist would certainly bother me in issues concerning church & state-be it bible classes, holiday decorations, benedictions. Most atheists today seem to be very bothered by the mere mention of a Creator. On other denominations, I would not use "faith" as a specific tool without checking...

Sadly this prez could not take a neutral stand. He puts people into groups-that's what democrats do. They don't believe in individuality-they believe in collective whatever. One would have thought that in some of these racially charged issues, he would acted as a mentor & call bad behavior out...

I view now the afghan & Iraqi war as failures. We didn't win anything. We didn't change hearts & minds. We lost a lot of people. Mr. Bush needed a Middle East expert & he didn't seek one. If you remember Mr. Bush was angry about the Iraqi attempt on his father's life. I believe that drove him to...

Speaking as an earth scientist, I must agree with the original thread that global warming as a political cause has very much an ulterior motive so you can refer to it as a scam. The politiicians should be the last to state something on earth science-something they know nothing about. This is...

God knows what he does. All denominations have their fallacies because doctrine is written by man. Yes some reflects the time period they were in. E.g. during the Tudor reign the King was offended by Catholicism & during the reign of the Marys it was just the opposite. Notice too that in any...

Intriguing question-that is man's burden the struggle for conscience. Nothing is to be arrived easily but with fair contemplation. I personally prefer to call myself anti-abortion because of this sticking point. How justify our stands? Answer is probably more profound than we think. First on the...

This is correct. Revelation in particular uses metaphors.

The Covenant is not conditional because that would show that the Lord can't make up his mind. Now granted over the millennia the Israelites struggle with this & that-that is the burden of being chosen. God did not promise fairness. The word chosen means burden. I think for the most part the...

I think God's greatest absolute was simply try to treat your neighbor as you would want to be treated. Now we all know that this is impossible to attain all the time-nations war against each other, different denominations war against each other, just the everyday tensions in human life. Indeed...

The long & short of it: there would be no point in Christ's death if sins weren't completely given. Now going by what the Bible depicts as Christ actually saying in the Bible-the one unforgiveable sin is rejection of the Holy Spirit-what does that mean in the vernacular? Note how karma came back...

Must admit that it's a good point-why God can't stop evil here on earth. It seems in the Old Testament God was more active. Today the planet is enveloped in evil. Evil has won.

Now one must define all sin. Ya know growing up as a catholic & finally abandoning it, I came to realize that the central message in the missalete & lecture week after week was shame. Every little thing was considered a sin. Then we had the priest scandal. Why not talk about something joyous or...

The reason why I don't think God can forgive Bin Laden is this: there are sinners & then there are persons who really dwell outside the realm of God (theme in the Dracula film). It goes beyond choosing between good & evil. Those who aim to put on the hat of God as the ultimate determiner of...

Ditto for this reader. I could not figure it out. Poster is probably right-He wants skeptics-JC always described that there has to be a good vs evil clause. The skeptics end up surviving, the martyrs, the believers, the sufferers end up dying. Go figure that one. I can't figure it out. It does...

I read quite a bit about this climate. It was one of Clinton's solid foreign policy moments. He made the decision to go in & stop ethnic cleansing. The repubs in this case did not support b/c no oil was involved. What about those solid moral principles? He did it w/ no casualties. The US as a...

Frankly Kerry looked ridiculous. I guess Mr. O never saw a clip of Kennedy's inaugural address. Frankly, I find our president on the side of the terrorists. He can't even utter the word. It has been proffered that he would rather make the US look bad & apologize for our egregious past. I think...