Carl in Asheville wrote: From "know all" Wikipedia: Virginia is a feminine given name derived from the Ancient Roman family name Virginius,..
According to Wikipedia, Virginia was originally named after Wingina, possibly a local ruler's name. The Elizabeth I, being modest as she was, changed its name to suggest her title "Virgin Queen."
It was Elizabeth who was responsible for the compromised, "Something for Everybody" Church of England which so annoyed many Puritans and Separatists. Ever since, it has been a political animal subject to the whims of kings and Parliaments.
And capitalists sell Reds the rope to hang us. Henry Ford and Armand Hammer were early examples of Western industrialists cozying up and doing business with Bolshevik butchers. Plus, the foundations they endowed also have Progressive ideology.
Walter Christie, not an industrialist but an inventor, was another sellout. After his radical tank design was rejected by the US Army, he smuggled it (contra US export law) to the Soviet Union, which evolved it into the famous T-34 after rectifying several flaws.
Greetings wrote: Many off the problems BLM says there are with police are actually occurring because of low funding.
Or police unions or mgmt. hindering discipline of abusive officers. Same thing organized churches do with staff perverts; organizations prefer to protect their own rather than the public.
Mike wrote: For your sake, determine where you are in it
Jim's post about Cruz's alleged Dominionism is merely a Red Herring, which is often the case with his attacks on Republicans. You don't have be a Dominionist to have objections to Children's Television Workshop.
Jim Lincoln wrote: I see somebody decided to take my nom de plume.
The term "nom de plume" is not associated with ciphers who merely echo other people's ideas, but those who have literary talent.
Sesame Street is one of those clumsy, foolish Progressive educational projects from the "Great Society" era which was supposed be more edifying than Bugs Bunny. Irony is, Warner Bros. cartoons often had allusions to high culture in their music and gags.
Jim Lincoln wrote: Martin Luther King Jr gave an elegant response to mixing religion and politics.
MLK commends Christians involving themselves in his civil rights protests. Sounds like the very thing you denounce, mixing religion and politics, for civil rights was very much a political issue that touched on inferences from Scripture.
As seen on other posts, you want *conservative* Christians to stay away from politics, not Modernists like MLK.
Chrisgp from England wrote: .. China has abolished its own currency, and replaced it with a fully cashless and integrated computerised electronic crypto currency.
I can confirm that: a coworker recently vacationed in China and said he found it difficult to pay cash even for fast food. He didn't say whether individual Chinese have abandoned their traditional preference for gold (well-founded, IMHO), or if they merely put up with this.
But I don't think Britain had any real choice in ceding Hong Kong back to China, for the original treaty was unequal, and in any case, the Royal Navy is pathetically weak; even Japan's, supposedly for littoral self-defense, has more ships.
Humble One wrote: I have never heard of this person, nor this website. Are they real or is this more 'fake news'?
So far as I know, he's as real as any other preachers with Internet presence. But see for yourself and look him up. Seems sound to me.
Normally I cringe when I hear preachers allude to Gnosticism, which many carelessly attribute to ideas they don't like, but here, he may be onto something. I might label it "solipsism."
In a recent YouTube he discusses his experience working with "white" churches striving for racial reconciliation, while "black" churches consider him some sort of traitor for "fraternizing" like this. Depressing.
Mike wrote: I consider myself fortunate that I have neither Yankee nor Confederate heritage.
Alas, I consider myself unfortunate that I live in a country where Biblical Christianity is discredited by a fringe who want to turn back the clock to an indefensible, widely-hated social order. This has not just been online, either. Some people I know are alumni and supporters of a school which once was a notorious holdout of segregationism: BJU.
I feel like I'm trying to fight a battle alongside the Three Stooges in my trench, who shoot me and themselves in the feet.
Ken wrote: Adriel: Put a comma between sister and God. God established slavery.
God did *NOT* establish slavery by kidnapping. "Old South" apologists are fellow travelers with modern anarchists who hate Constitutionally-authorized political authority when it doesn't go your way, and like denying peoples' liberties like free speech.
The only difference is, you claim to be Biblical and think white people are special, and they don't. In both cases, it's all about the fiction of "race."
Ken wrote: Grant was a murderer and a slave owner.
But Grant manumitted his slave, and at a time when he could ill afford to. He was no more a murderer than Lee, who also had "fails" like Malvern Hill and Pickett's Charge. Grant's Appomattox terms, paroling Confederates allowing them to keep horses and sidearms, were far more generous than they could have been.
You Lost Causers are as bad as Marxists at historical fibs. No wonder our country's a mess.
History is often not as morally tidy as we'd like. Jewish jazz singer Al Jolson was famous for performing in blackface, but he also strenuously opposed racial discrimination in the stage and film industries. So is he a Bad White Man whose statues (if any) should be torn down, or not?
I always thought blackface, part of the minstrel gig back then, very bizarre and wonder why people ever liked it, whether it's racist or not.
BTW, why haven't Uncle Ben's Rice and Aunt Jemima brands been shut down yet? Corporations are falling over themselves to appease BLM sensibilities.
I once had a pastor who regularly fulminated against Supreme Court decisions. But after he decided to adopt a church constitution, he held a vote to suspend it so he could expedite a church merger he wanted. He rejected our suggestion that the other church simply join his. Why? He wanted a building.
This and other examples of church antinomianism drove home to me how deeply-rooted contempt for law is in our country. And it's not just pastors.
It's not whether someone merely obeys the law that exposes their character, but whether they obey it when it COSTS them.
OK, so let's start "reimagining" by forbidding public employees from joining unions, like police and teachers', since all such organizations amount to local extortionist cartels which protect incompetents, racists, or worse by tenure/seniority rules, and have created massive "gravy-train" pension liabilities in several states.
Look what happened to many private-sector unions: their jobs got outsourced. A nice incentive not to get too greedy.
I have good reason to believe there is also widespread petty corruption in police depts. But this is a hard sell, since teachers get automatic "hero" status with leftists, and policemen get this from conservatives.
Jim Lincoln wrote: "Yet neither Jesus nor any of the apostles attempted to abolish slavery"
John MacArthur falls prey to a Complex Question. Americans, whether Yankees or Lost Causers, are difficult to talk to rationally about Biblical slavery because of this. Clearly the Bible affirms certain forms of slavery, but that DOESN'T logically imply ALL forms are, like West-African slavery by kidnapping, which is a capital offense in the OT. One could be a slave in Rome for various reasons, some Biblical, others doubtfully so (such as captives in Rome's wars). What color you were didn't matter.
For all we know Onesimus was a debt slave and thus lawfully bound to Philemon.
Mike wrote: Here's a not so humble opinion. The best thing that could be done is nothing...
A way to deal with spoiled toddlers throwing a tantrum, when you can't spank 'em.
"Americans are quite astonishingly childlike" - from a list by the Punch columnist Bargepole; he was detailing the faults of Beastly Foreigners. Jokes can hurt when they're true. You don't hear "Act your age!" anymore, since no one is expected to.
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