Abortion and welfare are truly Opiates of the Masses, for once someone partakes of such selfishness, they're unlikely to renounce it or support anyone proposing to ban them.
Seen pictures of poor folks from the Depression? The kids may be barefoot, but they have parents. Nowadays, they have the latest sneakers, but no proper parenting.
I'd like to know whether such static, dry-land Ark "replicas" can withstand maritime conditions, esp. since the payload (animals, provisions) is unknown. Simulations used by naval architects might give one an idea, though the Flood's "Sea State" is hard to guess given the assumed massive "terraforming" going on, and in any case, simulations could never be definitive.
FWIW, history has recorded other ancient large wooden ships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_wooden_ships#Over_100_meters_(328_feet)
Mike wrote: All the governments want to be seen as doing something. Corona virus is the latest buzz disease.
Rahm Emanuel: "You never let a serious crisis go to waste." Indeed; everyone likes epidemics: flaming Progressives, conservative gold marketers, stock-market manipulators, NGO fundraisers, End-Times obsessed Televangelists. And Democrats with their media stooges can choose between blaming Trump for not doing enough or for doing too much and closing the borders.
The public is no wiser now than when the Pope and Peter the Hermit started the 1st Crusade, deceiving ignorant peasants and nobility all over Europe. Edward Bernays was right: the public have their opinions manufactured for them by interested parties.
Humble One wrote: Imagine how much good it would be if Christian women were living according to the Bible, which contains God's Plan for Women, listed in such places as 1 Timothy 5.
And Judges 4:21 - "Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died."
"Ninja Woman" and R-rated violence, all in one verse!
Carl of Asheville wrote: ... you can bet that he will continue to seed the evil Dems to flip more state legislatures all over this country. And their target will continue to be all things moral, true, and sacred.
Bloomberg practically admitted to having "bought" elections of Democrats during the last so-called "debate." Another rich capitalist trying to destroy the liberty that made his private wealth possible.
BTW, has anyone asked Bloomberg how his Chinese business interests will affect his foreign policy?
Humble One wrote: Too bad we can't read of a grandmother who lived according to God's PLan for Women
Well for what it's worth, Mrs. Johnson did raise children, never divorced, and was a lifelong church member (though PCUSA ☹). Not many folks can say that today.
The Nuclear Family is a logical prerequisite for the Extended Family, e.g. Noah, Abraham.
The Quiet Christian wrote: … Hillary Clinton's "It Takes A Village" mentality.
...where "Village" is Progressive NewSpeak for "Federal Government." For if it really "Takes a Village," in the sense it supposedly does in traditional cultures, then why should it be of concern to a national politician? And there have been villages long before there have been politicians to deceitfully quote their proverbs.
The film may have been entertaining, but it exaggerated the racism. From Johnson herself: "I didn't feel the segregation at NASA, because everybody there was doing research. You had a mission and you worked on it, and it was important to you to do your job ... and play bridge at lunch. I didn't feel any segregation. I knew it was there, but I didn't feel it." Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures#Historical_accuracy
And she did *not" run across the campus for a "colored" bathroom; instead, she simply ignored the "Whites Only" bathroom sign and no one complained when she used them. Gutsy lady!
Now racism back then was common enough, but that doesn't excuse historical misrepresentation. Do not rely on Hollywood for history lessons.
Ken wrote: The North were the original racist. You are correct in one area I do defend the South.
Didn't I already mention the Tu Quoque Fallacy? It is a debating trick designed to distract, which I think was the purpose of your first post.
By now I suspect Southern Lost Cause arguments are merely a disguise for a more insidious ideology. For I never hear any sympathy for what was done to black folks back then, only white.
And should Christians repeat century-old sectional grievances anyway, well-founded or not? Such bitterness is a spiritual problem.
Ken wrote: Neil, perhaps you should read the book “the strange case of Jim Crow”, by C. Van Woodward. Study also black exclusion laws in the northern states. Read the 1868 Republican platform. And yes Southern states did enact Jim Crow laws. After the rape of yankee reconstruction.
Did you notice I already said the North had a racism problem? Your Tu Quoque (the "you too!" fallacy) doesn't work. And you're in effect saying the South imitated the North's injustice, which doesn't improve my opinion of them.
You "defenders of the South" remind me of Senator Beauregard Claghorn. One of his lines: "When I'm in New York I'll never go to Yankee Stadium!
Ken wrote: The Democratic Party in the South did not invent Jim Crow, that distinction goes to the North
"All were enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Democratic-dominated state legislatures after the Reconstruction period" Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
Although I must point out that Northerners discriminated at home in other ways, esp. after mass-migration of blacks from the South who "threatened" low-wage white Northern labor. Organized labor, like AFL, supported discrimination against blacks and exclusion of Chinese.
Joel wrote: The Reformers killed the Baptists for their baptisticness. There’s different kinds of history books.
You're talking of Anabaptists; I'm not one of those. English Baptists came in Particular (Calvinist) and General (Arminian) flavors, but both were persecuted (not so much murdered) because they were Dissenters, repudiating Tudor/Stuart Anglican "via media" worship. Presbys and Congregationalists were also hassled. Hence, the Mayflower people.
This is more or less standard English history. Too bad it doesn't make Baptists look as singular or heroic as we'd like, but I don't respect sectarian history unless it's backed up with credible scholarship.
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