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    1st transgender bishop installed .. SAN FRANCISCO (AP)

    I wish I was wrong. I really do. I have a heart for the old mainline denominations because of their patrimony. Alas. Good organizations become corrupt. It's the way of things. Moral entropy.
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    What is President Trump up to?

    This is not a poll that you can qualify with "only." 70% is total domination. And while the 98% stat is outlandish, it's conceivable a greater percentage of the Republican base favors him than the conservative movement. CPAC goers are typically choosy about who they vote for. You may not...
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    What makes a "Good Christian"?

    Simple. Revel in the freedom of God's grace while staying obedient.
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    What Makes a Woman "A Lady"?

    A lady is a wise manager of her household. She is respectful of her husband and submissive to him in most cases. If he turns out to be a lout, she assumes preeminence in the household but remains submissive to a higher patriarch (often a dead one). This sort of submission is the feminine route...
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    What's Our Christian Responsibility to Christian Ex-Girlfriends/Boyfriends?

    You have a responsibility to protect your heart and theirs. That often involves forgiveness and distance.
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    What is President Trump up to?

    Right now he's taking a rest and weighing his options. People are actively seeking his endorsement in races across the country, so he is having a lot of meetings at Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster. But these are generally initiated by other people. I don't have any friends in his inner-most...
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    Why the resistance?

    We live in different worlds then. Most of the un-vaxed I have met are black Democrats here in Vegas. I can't blame them. The last time the government mandated a "vaccine," it didn't work out too well for them.
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    Why the resistance?

    1. It's a new administration. People reverse course on policy based on who is making and executing the policy, so it isn't entirely illogical. You see it over on the blue side as well. This time last year Trump was boasting of a vaccine being close at hand. Joe Biden said it wasn't possible to...
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    1st transgender bishop installed .. SAN FRANCISCO (AP)

    I admire the Lutheran denomination for its history and owe a debt to a small Lutheran church for the community it provided me two years ago, but even the more conservative wings of the denomination are compromised. My LCMS church had two ministers. The first was a former minister who still...
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    New Biden plan could mandate COVID shots or tests for two-thirds of U.S. workers

    Some fates are worse than death. One of them is living under whatever this government is turning into.
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    New Biden plan could mandate COVID shots or tests for two-thirds of U.S. workers

    What gets me is how we have so many interesting experimental drugs, treatments, vaccines, etc. that languish in FDA approval limbo when there are terminally ill people willing to assume the risk. That same government then takes an untested vaccine and forces millions of healthy folks to be...
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    Why is it that 16 yr olds through 35 yr olds today have a hard time following directions?

    1. Technology 2. Elders being bad teachers and bad examples themselves. Our general culture is sick. All races. All genders. All generations. I hope the next Christian generation is obedient to the elders within their family, church, and (in private cases) school, but everybody else will tell...
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    Response to "A Gentleman"

    It should be noted I started out with hard words for Christian men. I merely zeroed in on counseling improvement on the things the other sex on average finds attractive. Should men improve their bodies? Absolutely. Should women improve their character? Absolutely.
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    Response to "A Gentleman"

    Just as men can do more for their character, women can do more for their appearance. A stat I vaguely remember from my social psych class is that most men find most women reasonably attractive if they are not excessively heavy. These preferences are not just the result of the Fall, but...
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    Response to "A Gentleman"

    Christian men are often rejected because they are not actually gentlemen, being innocent as doves, but not as wise as serpents. If women cannot find men as wise as serpents, they will go for the actual serpents. Should they choose the pure dove over the pure serpent? Yes. But this means that...
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    Is there anyone in here into Rife Technology?

    No, but I like rifle technology of all kinds.
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    China Will Soon Surpass Russia as a Nuclear Threat, Senior US Military Official Says

    Yep. Thank you, Bill Clinton, for voluntarily moving Chinese missile and rocket tech forward a couple of decades.
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    Random game.

    whale
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    What is a Gentleman?

    They would submit it's both nature and nurture. You're born into a noble family, but also given a noble's education where you are taught how to conduct yourself as a nobleman.
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    Random game.

    Pennsylvania