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Recent content by PloverWing

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    The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

    Hey, me too, on both counts. I wonder if we ever met under our real names there... :wave:
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    Liberal Christians, what is your position on abortion?

    I think that the abortion question is a difficult balance between the rights of the embryo which (if all goes well) will develop into a healthy child, and the rights of the person who carries that embryo inside her body. It is further complicated by the many ways that pregnancy can go wrong...
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    Hey Everybody!

    Welcome to CF! :wave:
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    Has anyone attempted a 40 day fast?

    Important medical note: You need to drink water (or another liquid) to survive. Don't try to go 40 days without water. If you're planning to go 40 days without food, I recommend checking with your physician to make sure it will be okay for you. Depending on what you have in mind, there are...
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    More Americans are now reading the Bible but fewer believe it’s 100% accurate: study

    A small note: In the chart in the previous post, the first column should read "Protestant Bible", not "Christian's Bible". (Noting, of course, that some Protestants find value in the deuterocanonical books, but "Protestant" will do as a brief heading that fits in a chart.) The larger point is...
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    The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

    Nah, I'm keeping the name. The church in which the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde serves as bishop is going to be here long after "MAGA" has become just an obscure acronym that kids have to memorize for history quizzes.
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    The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

    Quite possibly. But as a Christian who is neither socially conservative nor politically conservative, I dissent.
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    The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

    Some politically conservative Christians see progressive policies in this way. But many Christians are socially and/or politically progressive. Just making sure we're not equating "Christian" and "socially/politically conservative" in this discussion.
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    Street Preaching

    Personally, I wish our street preacher would pick a different verse to put on his sign. Many of the festival attendees grew up in churches, and they've already heard the message that God doesn't want them. The preacher is reinforcing that message. But the first amendment to the US...
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    The Mamdani Model: More Socialist Mayors to ComeBeware! The DSA will attempt to repeat Mamdani’s success in other Democrat strongholds.

    We have entered a time in which the US government is opposing some important Christian values. I agree that it's easier to carry out large social-support programs when we have the cooperation of the government -- they have financial resources, large-scale record-keeping, distribution...
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    Street Preaching

    Our town's street preacher does this each year at the town's pride festival. He picks I Corinthians 6:9-10 for his sign, but it's the same idea. In the US, this is protected speech, so he's legally allowed to be there with his sign as long as he's on public property and doesn't make the...
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    The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

    Well, that's why it's useful when people introduce themselves like "Hi! My name is Jane Smith, and my pronouns are they/them." Then you know. :)
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    The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

    The terminology as I hear it used is this: Gender identity is what you feel inside (male/masculine, female/feminine, neither). Gender expression is how you present yourself to the world. I can't think of a common term for how the world treats us in response to our biological sex and gender...
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    The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

    To be fair, there are secondary sex characteristics one can observe without anyone taking their pants off. When I meet someone, I make an initial guess about their sex based on things like facial hair, voice pitch, and so on. As to the question of whether we should categorize people by their...
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    The NEA is pushing far left teaching upon children

    Are you sure? I didn't think much surgery at all was possible that long ago, beyond things like very quick amputations. Did the Romans have this kind of surgical skill? (You're not just talking about castration, are you?)