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Population control makes a lot of sense in many ways, it's just that there are so many different ways of achieving a reduction in population. Someone who supports the idea of encouraging people to have fewer children is very different from someone who looks to execute entire swathes of society...

Illegal immigrants are criminals by definition, hence the word "illegal" in their name - they've broken the immigration laws by either overstaying a visa or not having a visa in the first place. Whether they are criminals in ways other than breaking immigration laws isn't something that can...

Not necessarily - I may not have worded my post as well as I might have done. What I was trying to say was that even if the powers that be considered forced euthanasia of the old, the weak, the sick, the poor, whatever group(s) were deemed "not useful", the chances are it would result in a...

I agree with this 100%. I think it's reasonable to have a basic outline of "what it means to be a Christian" as far as a board is concerned, and to restrict some areas to be Christians only. I remember when I was a mod on another board and questions came up repeatedly over whether particular...

Unlikely to happen. The powers that be need to prevent a civil uprising. It's hard to see much else happening once enough people realise that it's their granny who is earmarked for termination to save a few euros. Even those who would happily suggest that Someone Else's granny is sent to the...

I agree with the suspicion I'm seeing implied here that a lot of people just rattle off a load of gibberish and claim they are "speaking in tongues", and arguments that speaking in tongues is some kind of reward for a higher level of spirituality is usually damaging if not outright destructive...

I think you really have to torture Scriptural context to argue that the gifts have ceased. I also think you have to torture Scripture to conclude that everybody should speak in tongues, or that if you don't speak in tongues you can't experience any of the other gifts. I don't personally speak in...

Where OT prophets were concerned the very fact their books survived suggests they prophesied enough things that did come to pass for them to be taken seriously. The fact that, for example, Daniel prophesied a number of things that have not come to pass despite 2000+ years passing doesn't change...

Either Greece is hosed, or we're all hosed. Most likely the latter. If Greece leaves the euro they will have to revert to some other currency. The most obvious course of action is to go back to using the drachma. Since the government can't pay its bills it is almost certain that the drachma...

I generally don't see a problem with allowing other people to make a choice that I might find abhorrent. My concern with allowing the terminally ill to end their lives is the potential for it to be abused. It's easy to draw the distinction between the way we regard dragging a dying animal's...

Accept it's not for everybody. Personally I like to see a basic framework of rules that are clear but not intrusive. A board I used for a while but drifted away from (let's call it CF, for the sake of a name) had so many areas with so many rules it seemed like a relentless minefield trying to...

Lamm invited me too, so I swung by to see if the place was any good. I'm trying not to spend too much time on forums these days (too much else to do), so may be sporadic at best.

I prefer cycling on a real bike on real roads than using an indoor bike. Using a real bike means that even if you stop pedalling and freewheel for a while you're still going somewhere, and if you're fought your way up a stonking great hill you get to freewheel down it. It's a lot of fun...

For what it's worth, whenever the time is right for the antichrist to rise I'm inclined to believe s/he will rise up from within the established church. Paul warned in Acts 20 how people would rise up "from among you", Jesus warned of false prophets who would perform great signs and wonders to...

I think his name is actually Creflo Dollar. Some have referred to him as Tookyo Dollar. Personally in the "false teacher" hall of shame I'd include Bill Johnson, Mike Bickle, Steve Schultz (and anyone whose "prophecies" appear on the Elijah List website, which adds a lot of names), Brent...

Just swinging through here. Looking at Christian forums that are reasonably active but not allowing heresy to be promoted unchallenged, and interested to see the lie of the land here. I've been a Christian for about 8 years now and seen God do all sorts of things that caught my attention...