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Which centuries were those? We only have ~ 2.5 as far as I can tell. Do you remember, "In God we trust", "One nations under God", "The Defense of Marriage Act", 1873 Comstock Act (anti-obscenity laws, anti-pornography laws), the anti-sodomy laws, or when abortion was illegal?

? The deficits are not measured against the "budget" but the difference between outlays and receipts. The fiscal year argument is more red herring than real. And examining the deficits as a % of GDP masks the actual fiscal irresponsibility. Here's the data from the Trump and Biden years...

You might want to re-think that. A theocracy is not a democracy. In as much as your list contains illegitimate acts, they do not apply. The claim was that the laws of the land will permit acts of the lowest possible moral standards. .

If systemic racism exists today in the US then what evidence does the claim have in support? We'd be looking for laws or policies that are racially biased. I think today just the opposite is in evidence. I don't see the rationale for the linkage. Historically in the US, the Democrats were...

Secularism in a democracy tends and perhaps even ensures that the lowest possible moral standards will be the only legitimate standards. Note, not standards based on the lowest common denominator but just the lowest possible. Under Biden's liberal polices, the perception of decline has increased:

The thread is about Bidenomics. The only difference between Republicans and Democrats is the degree that that one runs up deficits. Bidenomics wins hands-down.

I login to see if there's a new thread in this forum that interests me. Finding none, I never tire of pointing out just how this one is nonsense. Reason: it's just a nonsense question; it's not what you claim. Let me try to help here. First, we're in the "Ethics and Morality" forum so...

Nope, that won't tell us much. Here's a better design: 1. Put a sign outside your house, "I don't believe in free will or retribution". 2. Wait. 3. If you haven't had all your gear taken in~7 days then you may have something. Rationale: Those underprivileged angels, you know, the ones...

At the time, the country was suffering from a wage/price spiral in part initiated by OPEC punitive policies on Western democracies. In macroeconomics, a wage-price spiral is an explanation for inflation, in which wage increases cause price increases which in turn cause wage increases, in a...

Speaking to non-Jews, Pauline theology is a problem for Matthew the disciple to the Jews. Matthew’s teaching contradicts Paul’s. Paul rejects the Torah as a means of justification, “We . . . may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law because by works of the law no one will...

? Another strawman :rolleyes:. I suggested that locomotion could be no more an illusion than free will. Absent an argument in rebuttal, you revert as usual to construct a strawman. I have not seen anything that you have posted as evidence or any cogent reasoning that free will is an...

A suggestion. Listen to his program again with an open mind.

? There is no opposing argument in your post. The delusion that one does not have free will as noted in Fromm's work is an excuse to relieve one from the responsibilities of free will. BTW, preceding the locomotion to move from A to B is the free choice decision to do so.

First, the dismissive use of referring to Del Santo as the "guy who makes the same mistake" must be called out. We ought not demean those who disagree with us. I inferred you were going to freely constrain yourself further from using high school debating tactics. Secondly, you missed the...

Sapolsky was. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/finding-purpose/202402/the-strongest-neuroscience-arguments-in-the-free-will-debate Sapolsky actually expresses willingness to concede that it is conceivable that we have some degree of free will along the lines Mitchell theorizes.

The disagreement is not based on tracing the multitude of indirect links as causal to the moral act but the denial that the direct causal link is the actor.

? The thread is laced with comments on "constraints".

The OT teachings are descriptive of righteousness but do not nominate anyone in particular. The words are God's spoken by divine calling through His prophets. The OT records the earlier episodes of the God's divine plan, His interventions to accomplish the economy of our salvation. The "you"...

There are two moments that Augustine must explain for the Original Sin: the state of man's nature before and during the fall, and the state of man's nature after the fall. Before and during the fall, man's nature is, as God created man, good and open to sin (free will). After the fall...

Read Del Santo and watch Mitchell.