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Recent content by Virgil the Socialist

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    Punished at school for talking about Jesus!

    For an emotional event like this I feel like there is probably the version of events mom posts on facebook and tells to the online Christian messageboard. And then there is probably the teacher's version about the class of 30 1st graders and the one little tyke whose disruptions were very...
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    Genesis story of creation "Days" literal or not?

    Genesis was written 2500-3000 years ago by priests who were largely mimicking Mesopotamian law and literature. I don't think the intent of their rather unique creation myth was to engineer an elaborate symbolic allegory to the extent that people have tried to harmonize it with science. It needs...
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    They could be watching you

    Many cities hire traffic engineers that use intersection cameras for traffic flow purposes. I happened to speak with one of my city's traffic engineers several years back. He said all of the traffic lights in my town have cameras mounted. I started looking and sure enough they do. He explained...
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    Why do you use Tapatalk?

    I follow a few forums on my phone. Message boards don't show up very well on a phone's browser. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
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    USA Keep Religion Out of Public School

    I think that you're assuming that removing mandated school prayer caused cultural changes rather than the other way around. Of course abortion, drugs, rampant sexual abuse of minors, domestic violence were all part of the first half of the 20th century but were taboo. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL...
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    Thoughts on the 'annihilationism' Thread

    That's one interpretation. It is set up and structured like a parable. "There was a rich man" etc. Ends with a moral lesson. Could be using popular afterlife imagery common among jewish people in this Hellenistic period, even if a bit off. The story of rich man and the steward seems to draw...
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    USA Keep Religion Out of Public School

    Well amen. I'm glad we can agree on this. That wasn't always the case. Christians have long argued that certain everyday choices like music preferences, masturbation, etc are wrong because they are part of the unchanging moral fabric of the universe imposed by a god. Ah who decides what things...
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    USA Keep Religion Out of Public School

    I see you mostly replied in defense of yourself, which means you felt attacked. My apologies. I was intending to comment on the populist rhetoric you were using and why I think it's inaccurate when applied to this topic. As far as what you just said, I think there are a lot wonderful things...
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    Thoughts on the 'annihilationism' Thread

    Do you read parables literally? Why did they choose put the comma before "today" and not after it? There is no punctuation in Greek. Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
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    Atheism ...

    From day to day I literally never think about being an atheist though unless someone asks me about my belief in god, to which I have to say I don't really have one. Its not part of my identity even. There are tons of likely non-existent things that I don't believe in or ever think about. I don't...
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    USA Keep Religion Out of Public School

    What ways have you had to accept? I found it fascinating how easy it was for you to steer the conversation away from religion and toward right wing tropes about immigrants and PC culture. It's a good example of how meaningless political rhetoric can infect other areas of discourse. As far as...
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    USA Keep Religion Out of Public School

    How is God kept out of schools? What do you wish that Christian students could do that they are prevented from doing? Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk
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    USA Keep Religion Out of Public School

    That's a great example. And I think the vast majority of teachers, school administrators, and parent would agree and it would be rare to find a person launch a moral defense of Hitler or Stalin to use your other example. And you might call the error of murder and rape "absolute morality" or...
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    age you can buy a gun

    If we're getting technical then "mass shooting" is a meaningless phrase since it has no definition. But school shootings happen several times per month in the US, which is a lot in the minds of most people. They are not the predominate type of everyday gun-related death in the US. But they are...
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    age you can buy a gun

    If pressure cooker bombs became a significant, widespread problem, then yes. But it's just one of many ways that people can make a bomb, and bomb-making / bomb-related crimes in general are not very common in the US. You're trying to use an "argument to absurdity" by using the phrase "can kill."...
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