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Let's do a specific case, one that is from reality. A kid shoots up a school. He does so, because he wants the school or his peers to feel the pain he feels as a rejected, despised, overlooked person...which he genuinely feels he is. So he selects the method most likely to gain him instantaneous rec...

So, back to the OP. If Theism and Moral Realism "are separate concepts," as the OP suggests, then Moral Realism would have to be a concept that stands on its own two feet, independent of Theism. Can anybody give an account of Moral Realism that DOES NOT require any kind of Theism as a prer...

Evangelicals do not believe "a range of political and social behaviours" produce salvation, anymore than they believe that rituals do. They don't even think those things provide "confirmations." Political and social behaviours must be based on Biblical principle, but are not sal...

If someone says they are a Christian, and there is no obvious reason to think they are lying, I would just accept it. I don't have an actual definition of "Christian". This is a problem for Evangelicals. Catholics, Orthodox, and some protestant groups affirm membership through ritual: bap...

So to be a Christian, one has to "follow" Christ, but follow him in what respect exactly, and to what extent? No, no...that's a follow-up question, and not the answer to the one you were asked. I'll answer that, gladly; but you get your answer if you answer mine: what's your definition of...

No point, really; I was just thinking how Scotsmen tend to have their nationality stripped from them more than most others. Words do have ranges of meaning. Even "Scotsman" has a limited range of meaning. That which is simply outside the reasonable range of meanings of "Scotsman"...

It is, I have come to understand, ineffective and pointless — within this category — to argue with you or against your position. Well, we need a new verb. I suggest we use the word "smollett." It would appear in a sentence like, "The Wokie should have known, but he smolletted." ...

An excellent example of a •conceptual armament•, a reduced, condensed story, filled with tendentious talking points, to be used in an Idea War: Shame on the Woke for having fallen for it. In their zeal to pose as "advocates of the oppressed," they've presented themselves as ready tools of...

The only trouble is that Gazans were in dire straights before all that happened. Only because of HAMAS, which they, themselves, made their rulers. They had 100% control of the Gaza Strip, with all Jewish Gazans having already been forcibly removed by Israel to give them sovereignty. They had billio...

Neither is a Scotsman, apparently. 🙂 Quite true. A Lithuanian who says he's a Scotsman isn't a Scotsman. A Scotswoman who says she's a Scotsman isn't a Scotsman. So what's your point, really? No point, really; I was just thinking how Scotsmen tend to have their nationality stripped from them more t...

Since you ask, I'll comply, although I doubt it will do you any good. Acc. To Augustine and Acquinas, sin is "a thought, word or deed against the eternal law." The sinner need not murder one person (let alone 100 million). His desire to do do is enough to separate him from God. The body c...

Lindsay coined the term "Race Marxism" (for Critical Race Theory), and in the latest book we find "Queer Marxism" (for Queer Theory). The entire contemporary "Woke Left" (post-70s Academic Cultural Left) with all the various cultural/critical studies/theories it spawne...

Nah. Let's just burn all the heathens and sinners. Me included. Clearly God wants us to. You don't know God, Gary. That much is very clear. That's a pity, too...given what you say you're dealing with, it would probably take a force no less than Him to make your life what it could and should be. Not...

Who told you that? It's far from true. But then, maybe you'll have to tell me more about my own religion, before I'll know that. :lol: Since you ask, I'll comply, although I doubt it will do you any good. Acc. To Augustine and Acquinas, sin is "a thought, word or deed against the eternal law.&...

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 10:51 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 10:45 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 10:30 pm

If you say so.

I do.

Is it your opinion, or is it a fact?

You decide.