Culture Rot

RRCmdrBennett wrote:
Whether I like it or not freedome to practice one's religion is not just for Jews and Christians.

Oh I agree with you to some point, but not when their religion (or lack of) starts to prevent us from practicing our religion, which our country was built on. If you don't believe it was, go on over to wallbuilders and look through the information they have there.

What is "wallbuilders"?

How does issueing licenses prevent Davis or us from practicing our faith?

I'm not trivializing the gay debate but argueing the various points to hone your apologetics. As Christians we often take much for granted and lack debate skills when confronted by the world.

I agree with you there to some degree, but I think we also lose debates because we try to have the same jumping off point as the world does, and we don't. The real debate goes all the way back TO the jumping off point itself. Once that is established, there isn't much more debate anyway...

Wallbuilders is a website by David Barton. Pretty good stuff on there.

What is that jumping off point?

That there are absolutes. To the world everything is relative. Kind of like trying to catch a greased pig...

How do you approach the argument without absolutes?

That's my point. There ARE absolutes, but the world doesn't accept them as such, so it's difficult at best to effectively argue your point with them. If allowed they will pull big issues down to the level of little issues and say "see, you can't be hard nosed about this because you aren't about that".

That's why I was saying that some of those other examples you cited aren't in the same category of seriousness as gay marriage, etc., so they can't be used to argue for or against it.

What do you do to demonstrate how bad gay marriage is?

Most think they are like the characters on popular tv shows just they love each other.

Anyone see the new campbell's soup star wars commercial? Guy on right says to a boy, "I am your Father" (vader raspy like voice). Guy on boy's left, "I am your Father"!

Point to Romans... Other than that, I can't convince people of anything. They have to accept truth. I can't make them take truth, all I can do is point to it. But there can't be any compromise on it's seriousness

"What is truth?" (Pontius Pilate, 33 A.D.)
"You can't handle the truth!" (Col Jessup, 1992 A.D.)

We've struggled with this for millennia.
Of course, we've also had the answer for millennia.

"And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." (John, 80-ish A.D.)

Same with the gospel it takes a revelation from God to reveal it.

Regarding the expanding protests on college campuses that are leading to a shutdown of free speech and the resignation of professors and administrators...

...this is how China's Cultural Revolution started. Aided by a wink and a nod from Mao, rabid students were able to sustain a cultural terror that set their country back by decades. Obama is cut from the same cloth.

What are you talking about Bruce?

RRCmdrBennett wrote:What are you talking about Bruce?

On well over 100 campuses and growing, rabid liberals (aka anarchists) are running roughshod. Some of what they're demanding, or else!: free tuition, dismissal of student debt, 30% of each discipline's professors must be minority, segregation, sensitivity brainwashing, etc. Liberal administrators don't know what to do. After all, they did the same thing back in the 60's. What goes around, comes around.

Define anarchy? To some it really is less limited government. Others its no government.

I would love to lose student loans

I define it in the time-honored sense.

Anarchy - n. 1. Absence of governmental authority or law. 2. Disorder and confusion.

Why would anyone who is NOT for the above want to characterize themselves as being in favor of anarchy?

Without government there is always disorder and confusion? I see so much disorder and confusion in government.

Do you remember how I mentioned "Pastafarians" before in another thread. It's not just in Canada now.....

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/11/14/pastafarian-woman-gets-to-wear-strainer-on-head-in-license-photo/

Is it required to wear a strainer?

"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another delusion: a delusion of sound, a delusion of sight, a delusion of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and darkness, of things and ideas that are unreal. You've crossed over into...the Twit Zone." (with apologies to Rod Serling)

I think that there's supposed to be a cord for that Headgear that plugs into a 220V Outlet.

(And a nice Chair to Strap Into............)

Claymore wrote: Headgear that plugs into a 220V Outlet

"Yeah, 220, 221. Whatever it takes." Jack Butler, 1983

joecool wrote:

Claymore wrote: Headgear that plugs into a 220V Outlet

"Yeah, 220, 221. Whatever it takes." Jack Butler, 1983

I was five...

Phillip Gross wrote:

joecool wrote:

Claymore wrote: Headgear that plugs into a 220V Outlet

"Yeah, 220, 221. Whatever it takes." Jack Butler, 1983

I was five...

I completed a Combat Tour of Southeast Asia seven years before you were born...................puppy.