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  1. RDKirk

    Flat or round earth -The final experiment.

    It's more practically accurate to label it an asteroid than a satellite or anything else.
  2. RDKirk

    Florida Republican Says Abortion Law Fear Delayed Her Care for Ectopic Pregnancy

    And many have fled Texas. My daughter has severe problems that will require surgery, which she hopes to have done before January, and has had a problem finding surgeons in the state.
  3. RDKirk

    Florida Republican Says Abortion Law Fear Delayed Her Care for Ectopic Pregnancy

    My daughter just a few weeks ago went through a scary experience here in Texas of an emergency room being hesitant to treat her for an incident severely bleeding uterine polyps because they were afraid it was a miscarriage.
  4. RDKirk

    Is God a do as I say not as I do God?

    The point of the Matthew passage is that those people are depending on their own works, which they claimed were in Jesus' name, to obligate Jesus to save them. This is precisely what Paul was speaking of in Romans 4:4,5. That's not repentance, that's an expectation of payment for work.
  5. RDKirk

    An Evil Spirit from the Lord

    It appears that Job's knowledge of God has been derived solely from observation of creation, not from direct revelation, prior prophesy, or scripture. God never refers to any prior promises to patriarchs, or even to Adam. Rather, God refers to the wonders of creation that Job could have seen or...
  6. RDKirk

    Fla. public school teachers can't demand students, staff use wrong pronouns: Appeals court panel

    "Mx" (pronounced "Mix") is sometimes used in the UK as a gender-neutral honorific for school teachers. "Mx Jones." Or they could just use "Teacher." If the military can say "Sergeant Jones," school kids can say "Teacher Jones."
  7. RDKirk

    An Evil Spirit from the Lord

    Not entirely unknowable. Of course that depends on what you really mean by "know." Look at how wrong were the religious experts of Jesus' time...and they were closer chronologically and much closer culturally to the original writers. I mean, I often wonder how well I really know my wife, and...
  8. RDKirk

    An Evil Spirit from the Lord

    We also have to remember that the OT was written by men seeing through Bronze Age goggles. If we, even as Christians with a belief in the spiritual realm, were to go through the same experiences, we might describe them in very different ways.
  9. RDKirk

    An Evil Spirit from the Lord

    And it may mean that the proper response for a Christian is the same either way.
  10. RDKirk

    An Evil Spirit from the Lord

    It may not matter, practically speaking. For instance, it's become known that when a person is mentally and/or physically stressed, the body produces hormones to prepare for "fight or flight." But if that person, instead of either fleeing or fighting, sits down and eats a donut, that releases...
  11. RDKirk

    Flat or round earth -The final experiment.

    Augustine of Hippo talked about the apparent conflict between science in The Literal Meaning of Genesis about 400 AD. His key point was that scripture should not be interpreted in a way that contradicts what is clearly known from reason or experience. When there appears to be a conflict between...
  12. RDKirk

    Flat or round earth -The final experiment.

    Yes, any ancient person seeing a natural spring will think of "waters under the earth."
  13. RDKirk

    Is it important for Children to be safe and for justice to be served?

    I think that's the ideal, but in a small parish...really?
  14. RDKirk

    Flat or round earth -The final experiment.

    There it is.
  15. RDKirk

    Do you know anyone that thinks they will Vote for Elons America party?

    Just heard this joke: If Moses (from the bible) had a billion dollars and had been spending $1,000 a day since biblical times...he would still have money to spend today.
  16. RDKirk

    Do you know anyone that thinks they will Vote for Elons America party?

    We will have to see the effect of the "One Big Beautiful Bill." It will take right up to the midterm elections, at least, to be sure of the effects of that bill.
  17. RDKirk

    Do you know anyone that thinks they will Vote for Elons America party?

    This isn't just about billionaires currently serving in public office, but the ~900 oligarchs who are currently controlling the government. No, they're not generally going to serve in office because that would put them in a spotlight that they don't need because the government already runs for...
  18. RDKirk

    Do you know anyone that thinks they will Vote for Elons America party?

    No, I don't know what Trump is doing as a billionaire, but for sure, his life is more in the spotlight than any of the other 900 or so billionaires that live in the US. We have no idea what the rest are doing.
  19. RDKirk

    Do you know anyone that thinks they will Vote for Elons America party?

    You don't actually know what they do.
  20. RDKirk

    Flat or round earth -The final experiment.

    The irony of believing in a flat earth is that it's curvature is something you can see...just sitting on a beach. That's why the ancient Greeks were able to deduce the spherical nature of the earth and even calculate its circumference to within 90% accuracy...just from careful oceanside...
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