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Recent content by hedrick

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    Vatican stops use of titles for Mary

    I guess. The whole thing puts Mary on a very high plane. Too high, in my view. It steps back from a couple of terms, not because they're wrong, but because they're potentially misleading.
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    Fact-checking Trump's 60 minutes interview

    Yes. In a sense Trump is a demonstration of this for Republicans. He replaced a leadership that was arguably just as out of touch. It's always easier to do that when your party is out of power. In principle that should now happen for Democrats. I think there's some evidence that it's going to...
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    Fact-checking Trump's 60 minutes interview

    Right. There were concerns about NJ, and of course Virginia has gone back and forth. So the election is at least moderately encouraging for Democrats. However you also have to factor in the candidates. I think NJ Republicans picked a bad candidate for governor. NY City, too. I have no idea how...
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    Fact-checking Trump's 60 minutes interview

    The negative ratings of Democrats is kind of interesting. See Trump's disapproval rating rises in new poll, but Americans also call Dems 'out of touch' for documentation. It's real. People think Democrats are out of touch. Still the same poll says slightly more would vote for a Democrat than...
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    Fact-checking Trump's 60 minutes interview

    First, it's not cognitive decline. He's always been that way. Second, I'm not sure he sees it as lying. Watching his behavior I think he just pull things out of thin air to express his feelings. They look like facts, but you shouldn't checki them for accuracy. He's just saying he thinks he's...
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    Since July 1, Trump has referred to the U.S. having "no inflation" 11 times at eight events -- the facts show different

    There's some reality to the statement that it's still Biden's economy. There are long delays in policy impacts on the economy. Certainly nothing Trump has done would reduce inflation, and it has grown slightly. But the real impact of the tariffs will probably show up slowly, through next summer...
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    Is Romans 3:25 in the Greek in ANY manuscript version the same? (Some who knows greek - help)

    Here’s what Moo’s commentary says. If he is right, it appears that the issue can be settled entirely by grammar. “It is harder to know whether “in his blood” indicates the object of “faith”—“faith in his blood” (see KJV), modifies the verb “set forth”—“through his blood God has presented him,”...
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    US Hits Highest Layoffs Since COVID

    I think the current slowdown in hiring is about uncertainty. It's not clear that AI is really going eliminate white collar jobs. In the past automation hasn't really had that kind of effect, though it's certainly eliminated some jobs. But maybe this one is different. It's also not clear that...
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    Orthodox Anglicans create new communion renouncing ties to archbishop of Canterbury

    So what is the practical implication of this? The document demands that Anglicans break communion with the CoE. How many are likely to do so? I assume a couple of bishops making a declaration doesn't actually make that happen, without further actions.
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    trump administration mull ending Habeas Corpus.

    But will the Supreme Court agree? So far they have not been anxious to confront Trump. Is there a line somewhere? I don't think it's clear.
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    Trump says Democrats have ‘blood on their hands’ after deadly Charlotte train stabbing

    The underlying issue seems to be what to do with mentally ill people. Parents of the perpetrator considered him violent and tried to get him committed, but it was denied. N Carolina, like many places, have over time decreased capacity of mental hospitals and made commitment difficult. This...
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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    What does identifying with animals have to do with sex?
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    New belief among teenagers. What do you think?

    I think what got this started was the term "identify as." Furies identify as animals, which of course trips political sensibilities. We can't have people identify as things other than what they were born as. However "identify" is being used loosely. They don't (as far as I know) actually live in...
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    School Teachers, Nurses, Government Workers, CELEBRATING Charlie Kirk's murder

    He avoided clearly calling for the death of gays. Christians commonly don't want OT punishments to be employed, even when they (selectively) want to follow the moral principles. One of the problems with people on both sides is that they avoid clearly saying certain things, but their more...
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    Is belief/non-belief a morally culpable state?

    In the abstract the idea of culpable ignorance makes sense, but it's very hard to apply in practice. People quite commonly reject evidence against what they believe. Is this an honest mistake? I'm not so sure. But generally the pont of ethics is to guide people's behavior, and I'm not sure how...