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It's simple. If diamond finds something gross, then it must be due to a vast left-wing conspiracy of atheist pedophiles. And don't dare ask for evidence. That just means that you're an atheist pedophile yourself, if you have to ask.

These passages illustrate the problem with nationalism, an issue problematic not only in Russia, but also in Japan, and I'd also say in the United States. The author exposes his own nationalistic biases by simultaneously expecting Russia to depict its history, according to how the West has...

What changed? This is probably the least romantic answer I can give, but it's probably the correct one: different external cultural influences. A study of early Semitic religion (the Israelites being a Semitic tribe that speak a Semitic language) uncovers a series of tribal gods with very...

I'll be honest: I hated my microeconomics course in college. The way it is taught, in my view, is that you're given a very cursory summary of economics, as imagined by the most kooky of Reagan-era supply-side economists. You'll probably be taught a bunch of things on the far-right wish list...

As someone who took AP English and the later exam, it is my view that reading any book outside of the undeniable classics is a waste of time. Laura Ingraham certainly will not be given a place at the final exam.

I once stated in a thread here that Christianity seems too mired in a "medieval" mindset, and this is probably an example of that. Why would He "need" us to "worship" Him? Go back 500...1000...2000+ years ago, and you have whole civilizations based around a very rigid hierarchy of nobility on...

Illegal immigrants can't vote, but legalized immigrants, I'm sure, won't vote for the party that profiles them as "default criminals." The only trouble with Churchill's quote is that the entire definition of "liberal" and "conservative" is not constant, and political parties, which are...

Doesn't the Bible command us to convert the heathens and sanitize away their temptations? ;)

It's me who's supposed to write it, and, no, I haven't finished it yet. My apologies. To give you an idea, this week at work has been rather difficult, and I'm writing bits of it after very long days at work. If I had known that this week was going to be so awful, I wouldn't have hyped...

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: This guy gives me hope for the future of true Christianity And it feels like it's going to be just as long...heh. Well, I won't be as bad as St. Thomas Aquinas, whose definitive work (and the one that earned him his sainthood), Summa Theologica, took something like 17...

We should be able to find out more on August 9th, when the Democratic candidates--minus Biden--appear for a televised debate on LOGO. Then they won't be able to duck the issue as easily, and we'll get some straight answers (pun intended).

Re: Re: Re: This guy gives me hope for the future of true Christianity Actually, I've realized how "excruciating" my details are, if I write everything that I want to write. As such, I don't think I'm going to complete this tonight, but I am going to continue to write until I am done. So...

For purposes of discussion: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." - Matthew 5:17 "Do to others whatever you would have them do to you. This is the law and the prophets." - Matthew 7:12 Protestantism seems to be an amalgam of...

Re: Re: This guy gives me hope for the future of true Christianity It certainly looks like I have my work cut out for me when I get back from work later today, because I will point out, in excruciating detail, why this is completely wrong.

Re: Re: Re: Re: This guy gives me hope for the future of true Christianity You're going to illustrate for me why it is so easy to take a verse from the Bible out of context. Why? Because Matthew defines the ambiguous phrase "the law and the prophets" later in the book: "Think not that I am...

This verse, in particular, can be easily deconstructed based on the original Greek, and if you do a search in FYM, you'll see that I've done it before--many times over. But I'll do it again...just not in this thread, like Irvine mentioned. It appears that a large FYM thread will be in order.

I was away for the weekend, so this is the first I've seen this thread. I had no idea that Memphis found my Biblical insights to be so useful. A lot of the time, it feels like I'm just generating "white noise" here, so it's good to know that it matters more than I originally thought!

I'd also be interested to see what the "Turkish" rates of "honor killings" are versus the "Kurdish" rates. I imagine that this article, written for a Turkish audience, is meant to "dehumanize" the hated Kurdish minority ("south-east" early in the article gives it away, and they overtly mention...

It could be, if only for the fact that they blew $7 million for a church. Or it could be an extraordinary case of corruption. You might as well contact the ACLU and see what they say.

Heh...I guess you wouldn't want to read what a certain hateful Mormon wrote here then. Ultimately--and unfortunately--it's an uphill battle to change attitudes like this. What I can suggest, however--and this goes for everyone--is to speak up. That "Mormon bitch" certainly has no qualms about...

Ahh...it reminds me that there's much more that I need to learn about Judaism. :) Thanks for taking the time to write.

Why this thread has certainly taken an unexpected, but very interesting turn...and I've been writing in threads like these here for close to seven years now! I'm still pondering and reflecting about my issues with "fundamentalist Protestantism," by the way. I'm kind of appreciating the virtues...

They're more obscure here in the U.S., as the only available releases of their albums are "imports" from the U.K., for the most part. So I guess it's all relative.

It's been a year now since I bought "Spirit of Eden" and "Laughing Stock," and I still find myself putting these albums into regular rotation (although "Eden" is my clear favorite of the two). A bunch of shoegazer and "Cocteau Twins" albums later, I decided to buy "The Colour of Spring" and...