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I'm still trying to figure out the connection between baking and selling someone a cake and promoting the "gay lifestyle". With no success to report to-date. Meanwhile, across the western pond . . . ... The goal is to somehow legally act out -- be counterculture -- without acting out. ???...

That's obliquely kind of a good point YMix -- the florist in WA probably served hundreds of people who were divorced and remarried -- contrary to the direct words of Christ. The horse got out of the barn a **long** time ago.

Maybe those “Coexist” bumper stickers were meant to be ironic. Hello, YC, good to hear from you. Can some one explain to me the actual point of the apparently controversial law recently passed in Indiana ? Good to be back -- found the thread on a Ripley-gets-found-by-a-salvage-team scale accident. ...

Maybe those “Coexist” bumper stickers were meant to be ironic.

Weird unhinged writing. (the article)

It's the same thinking that will harp on statistically insignificant "Christian" behavior, e.g. Westborough Baptist, then compare (guilt by association) it to national Islamic movements that are throwing entire countries into chaos.

No, YOU suck!


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I was just wondering if Typhoon was needing to replace the Quadra Performa, and 1998 copy of Appleshare IP that he is using to run this website. I've got a scorching fast eMac that I'm throwing out.

He made several overtly racist statements, including the one you are equivocating on behalf of above, and he absolves the Nazis over over 4 million murders. You also cite no text or page numbers, even though the Trueman except does.... You probably shouldn't have waded in using third- and fourth-ha...

Out-of-context Rushdoony quotes are like catnip for unbelievers. And by catnip, I mean "bath salts."

Also, don't forget the Sabbath breakers. Off with their heads!!

Ibrahim wrote: This isn't relevant to your epistemological objections. The systems still have the same philosophical grounding, you seem to be changing the subject to politics.
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Alright, now you're trying to separate a culture's dominant philosophy from its politics.

Happy Unicorn hunting!

Not relevant, I'm going by what he wrote. Did he estimate Jewish deaths during the Holocaust as 1.2 million or less, mostly from disease? Did he not argue against interracial marriage? Did he not state that slavery was an improvement for Africans? If I am incorrect about him making any of these cla...

What would be embarrassing, Ibrahim, is to play the Rushdoony card on someone who knew him for many years, read most of his books, and had listened to literally HUNDREDS of hours of sermons and lectures. If that person was myself, I would probably have plumbed the dastardly depths of his holocaust ...

...Even if you accept the Christian scriptures as %100 accurate you can still interpret them any way you want... No, acceptance of 100% accuracy already implies a certain hermeneutical approach That is incorrect. It could be the result of a confessional approach, or it could be a position taken for...

Just name the book, give me page reference, and I'll go look it up.

What would be embarrassing, Ibrahim, is to play the Rushdoony card on someone who knew him for many years, read most of his books, and had listened to literally HUNDREDS of hours of sermons and lectures. If that person was myself, I would probably have plumbed the dastardly depths of his holocaust d...

Tinker/Ibrahim --- it's all fun and games until somebody wants to scale this a societal level. The consistencies/implications get hammered out whether we want them to or not, these are detailed, world views/thought worlds, whether you want them to be or not. Sure, we can all kick back on the couch w...

Ibrahim wrote:...Even if you accept the Christian scriptures as %100 accurate you can still interpret them any way you want...

No, acceptance of 100% accuracy already implies a certain hermeneutical approach --- there's no free lunch here, either.

Ibrahim wrote:
The Institutes of Biblical Law....

Um, I've read it -- have a copy sitting on a shelf in the next room. Must have missed the part where he denied the holocaust.

(Also, how do you know that I didn't know Dr. Rushdoony personally?)

Even the irreligious philosophies have to construct a mythology of origins, to explain why we exist and how we came into being. No, this is not required to form an ethical system/moral code. Scientific materialism does have its own creation narrative, but this is not necessary for informing a moral...

Even the irreligious philosophies have to construct a mythology of origins, to explain why we exist and how we came into being. Explaining the past allows you to presumably lay claim to providing solutions for the present. This is why you have economists still arguing about the Great Depression. The...

Ibrahim wrote:...racist, holocaust-denying Christian Reconstructionist R. J. Rushdoony...?

You might want to source that.... Which book is that in?

Errr... like we do with Herodotus, Josephus, Tacitus, Plato...???? Like any text. Aside from various established views on the accuracy of a given historical text (e.g. Herodotus) from the point of view of literary criticism any number of interpretations or any text is possible . If you want to get ...

Those statements are either True or False, propositionally speaking. Select one: [1] True [2] False [3] Don't know/Don't have proof either way/I'll look into this one of these days But that's the problem: if you have 40,000 manuscripts to cross-reference for the New Testament, and only 400 to relat...