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Post by jdredd on Nov 27, 2017 5:11:00 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2017/11/26/world/asia/pope-francis-myanmar-rohingya.html?&hpw&rref=world&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0"The pope “risks either compromising his moral authority or putting in danger the Christians of that country,” the Rev. Thomas J. Reese, a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, which listed Myanmar as one of the worst countries in that category, wrote this past week in a column for the Religion News Service. “I have great admiration for the pope and his abilities, but someone should have talked him out of making this trip,” he wrote. Father Reese argued that the pope’s usual, and admirable, willingness to call out injustice could put the country’s Christian minority in grave danger. About 700,000 Roman Catholics live in Myanmar, representing little more than 1 percent of the total population. There are also Baptist Christians and Hindus, but the vast majority in the country, about 90 percent, follow Theravada Buddhism, and the campaign against the Rohingya is wildly popular. On the other hand, Father Reese said of the pope: “If he is silent about the persecution of the Rohingya, he loses moral credibility.” Oh boy, I can hardly wait to see how the Pope chooses in this "moral dilemma".
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Post by jdredd on Nov 28, 2017 11:40:11 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Nov 30, 2017 15:20:29 GMT -5
Read in the paper this morning: A Vatican spokespadre claims the Pope "has not lost any moral authority by not using the term Rohingya" in his speech in Myanmar. Of course he is talking about something completely subjective. In my book, you have zero moral authority if you refuse to take position that involves actual risk.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 4, 2017 18:40:45 GMT -5
So Trumpty went to Utah to give Utahians a "gift" of protected federal land in reward for voting for him. Well, I don't give a crap what the Mormons do to their crappy little state anyway. I'm never going back. And it does expose the moral degeneracy of the Mormon religion, choosing greed over preservation.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 24, 2018 20:14:23 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/opinion/sunday/donald-trump-evangelicals-president.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=Trending&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article"Evangelical leaders also see a civic obligation to speak godly counsel to him, on policy and personal matters. He is, after all, the president. And it’s paying off. I’ve watched Mr. Trump through the lens of the faith community for years, and he has delivered the policy goods and is progressing on the spiritual ones. My reporting suggests Donald Trump is on a spiritual voyage that has accelerated in recent years, thanks to evangelicals who have employed the biblical mandate of sharing and showing God’s love to him rather than shunning him. President Trump told me that he “was exposed to a lot of people, from a religious standpoint, that I would’ve never met before. And so it has had an impact on me.” This president’s effect on our cultural norms has been shocking. His critics would call it appalling; evangelicals say it’s immensely satisfying: They’ve seen a culture deteriorate quickly in the past decade, and they’re looking for a bold culture warrior to fight for them. Showing that God does indeed have a sense of humor, He gave them Mr. Trump. Yet in God’s perfection, it’s a match made in heaven. Mr. Trump and evangelicals share a disdain for political correctness, a world seen through absolutes and a desire to see an America that embraces Judeo-Christian values again rather than rejecting them." This is a good insight into the mindset of the evilgelicals and their support for Orange 45. Donald Trump on a spiritual voyage? What, on a boat made of money? That's hilarious.
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Post by sparky on Mar 4, 2018 1:36:26 GMT -5
This is all the more evident when we contrast the essential doctrines of the historic Christian faith with the perversions of Islam. Os Guinness was right; “Contrast is the mother of clarity.” 8 Or as has been well said, “The way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it.” 9 In the case at hand, that straight stick is the Bible—a sacred masterpiece that is divine rather than qur’anically human in origin. And that is not merely a dogmatic assertion. It is a defensible argument. In my book Has God Spoken? Memorable Proofs of the Bible’s Divine Inspiration , I demonstrate that manuscript copies , the archaeologist’s spade , and prophetic stars in the constellation of biblical prophecy collectively underscore this salient truth.- Excerpt from:MUSLIM: What You Need to Know About the World’s Fastest Growing Religion Hank Hanegraaff
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Post by jdredd on Mar 5, 2018 1:44:34 GMT -5
You wrote a book? Awesome! I admire anyone who can write more than three sentences, unlike me.
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Post by sparky on Mar 5, 2018 21:05:16 GMT -5
You wrote a book? Awesome! I admire anyone who can write more than three sentences, unlike me. No mine isn't finished yet. It will be once I start it though, lol. I added the appropriate source of the paragraph.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 6, 2018 4:24:54 GMT -5
You wrote a book? Awesome! I admire anyone who can write more than three sentences, unlike me. No mine isn't finished yet. It will be once I start it though, lol. I added the appropriate source of the paragraph. Let me know when you get it published!
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Post by jdredd on Mar 12, 2018 3:05:50 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/03/11/us/politics/white-evangelical-women-trump.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"GRAPEVINE, Tex. — Carol Rains, a white evangelical Christian, has no regrets over her vote for President Trump. She likes most of his policies and would still support him over any Democrat. But she is open to another Republican. “I would like for someone to challenge him,” Ms. Rains said, as she sipped wine recently with two other evangelical Christian women at a suburban restaurant north of Dallas. “But it needs to be somebody that’s strong enough to go against the Democrats.” Her preferred alternative: Nikki R. Haley, the United Nations ambassador and former South Carolina governor. One of her friends, Linda Leonhart, agreed. “I will definitely take a look to see who has the courage to take on a job like this and do what needs to be done,” she said. While the men in the pulpits of evangelical rches remain among Mr. Trump’s most stalwart supporters, some of the women in the pews may be having second thoughts. As the White House fights to silence a pornographic actress claiming an affair with Mr. Trump, and a jailed Belarusian escort claims evidence against the American president, Mr. Trump’s hold on white evangelical women may be slipping." Sounds like fake news to me. I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for morally challenged white evilgelical women to see the light.
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Post by sparky on Mar 25, 2018 22:30:27 GMT -5
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Post by sparky on Mar 25, 2018 22:33:16 GMT -5
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Post by sparky on Mar 25, 2018 22:37:19 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Mar 26, 2018 0:51:31 GMT -5
Sorry, I'm not getting the connection to Islam.
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Post by jdredd on Mar 26, 2018 0:52:20 GMT -5
What happens in Texas should maybe stay in Texas.
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