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    Mary's Genealogy

    You may find it to be bizarre because you have heard only one interpretation. There are other interpretations that also make good sense. In my estimation the interpretation above actually makes better sense than the traditional one.
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    WAS PETER TALKING TO YOU ?

    I always flinch whenever I hear the word "infallible".
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    The dump that is California

    The OP mentioned California being a dump. As a Canadian I have travelled fairly widely in the USA but never actually to the west coast. I have encountered plenty of extremely "dumpy "areas and have been in fear of my life a number of times. I have always felt relieved upon returning to Canada...
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    Mary's Genealogy

    Genesis 2 is completely unlike the other Biblical creation accounts such as in Genesis 1, Proverbs 8, Psalm 104 or Job 38. It is a "stand alone" account. It begins with God creating ha'adam from ha'adama. This Hebrew pun literally means "the earth creature from the earth". It is usually quite...
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    Most painful (physically) experience

    My wife had two very easy deliveries. Her first labour was 3 hours and in the end the doctor stood back and said "You've done it so far why don't you finish?" She did and handed Jennifer to me to cut the umbilical and give her the first bath. We went home about two hours later. The second girl...
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    Most painful (physically) experience

    When I was about 30 I had two wisdom teeth extracted and one of them went "dry socket". When the freezing came out the pain was unbearable. Called the dentist and he sent a prescription to the drug store across the street. Called him again at about 9 PM. Back to the drug store. I was in his...
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    Schools should be required to teach

    In Canada we write cheques. A check is what you do when you are testing something. Aside from that all students should have a course in comparative religion that is taught in an objective way. Teachers should also encourage the great virtue of skepticism.
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    Health Insurance Difficulties

    Obamacare is certainly not perfect (no system is) but was still much better than what came before. The leading cause of bankruptcy in the USA is severe illness or injury resulting in loss of employment. In a few exceptional cases they die.
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    Mary's Genealogy

    After well over a thousand years they would be very distant cousins indeed.
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    Health Insurance Difficulties

    In 1964 when I turned 21 universal single payer medicare became a reality in Saskatchewan Canada. Since that time I have never received a bill from a doctor or a hospital or a clinic. I have had no problems at all in spite of all the health problems I have had in recent years. For my friends in...
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    USA Replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court

    Which brings to mind the question concerning the SCOTUS. In 2016 could it have intervened to force the Senate to do their job?
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    USA Replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court

    I agree. The Republicans set a standard in 2016 and if they reverse themselves now that speaks to their immense hypocrisy.
  13. J

    Is laughter a sin?

    I regard both laughter and music as two great gifts of God.
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    Gay children are 'children of God', Pope tells parents

    The words of scripture do not offend me. They simply are what they are and in some cases they represent societal mores that are no longer applicable and can be hurtful.
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    Gay children are 'children of God', Pope tells parents

    I would characterize your interpretation as being that of Christian exceptionalism. It strongly resembles American exceptionalism in that it unnecessarily demeans and makes enemies of the very people we are trying to reach.
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    Gay children are 'children of God', Pope tells parents

    Actually Paul disagrees with you. When he was in Athens debating with the pagan philosophers he said that all humans are children of God in Acts 17:28-29.
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    Gay children are 'children of God', Pope tells parents

    It has long been thought that a homosexual orientation was a choice and a perversion. However, I do not think that this has ever been an official church teaching. Over the past decades scientific and psychological research has shown that it is, in the vast majority of cases, not a choice and is...
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    Members who wear glasses:

    Because I am a nerd.
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    Where did you meet the love of your life?

    I was playing in a slo-pitch game between two teams of graduate students --- medical students vs nuclear physicists. A certain young lady came with two room mates on a man hunt. One was successful. That was in the summer of 1972.
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    My Aunt is certain the rapture is this weekend

    I sincerely hope that they are not too terribly disappointed. I have seen dozens of these cases and some of them ended very very badly. End times predictions have a perfect track record --- 100% wrong, 100% of the time. I discount rapture theory completely. It is a theory concocted about 200...
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