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    Do bans work?

    Prohibition actually did have a major effect. It also created criminal empires that are still with us. I don’t think it was repealed because it had no effect, but because people decided they didn’t like the effects. Mostly, the people who wanted to drink won over Prohibitionists.
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    What do you make of it?

    I favor the straighforward reading, that there was a custom of baptisms on behalf of the dead. It can’t have been very widespread or lasted very long, or there would be other evidence of it.
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    Do bans work?

    There's been a lot of research. A few years ago the National Research Council reviewed the research and concluded that there was no clear evidence that bans helped. More recently there has been work suggesting that while there's no single policy, careful combinations of policies may help...
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    Cohen implicates Trump

    The law considers it a campaign contribution if it was coordinated with the campaign, which this was. Also, it was part of a continuing commitment by the publisher to kill any negative stories about Trump. I've seen too much legal analysis to believe this was all legal. Was it sufficient for...
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    Cohen implicates Trump

    I've been reading stories that include info from lawyers. You can spend your own money for the campaign. There's no limit to how much you can spend on your own campaign, but it has to be reported. Also if Cohen's payment was reimbursed, then it was a loan to the campaign, and that also has to be...
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    Biblical meaning - literal, allegory, or...?

    No. I'm afraid I don't quite trust your judgement about who is a pagan.
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    Biblical meaning - literal, allegory, or...?

    This isn't just the Jesus Seminar.
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    Cohen implicates Trump

    So far there's nothing to connect this to Russia. It was a campaign violation. There's virtually no doubt about the violation. What I'm not so clear about is exactly what the President's involvement is. As I recall, this indictment isn't from Mueller. He alerted a normal prosecutor that he had...
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    Pedophilia to be Identified as a Sexual Orientation

    Did anyone watch the TEDx talk? I found it very interesting. I'm reasonably sure that the speaker didn't choose the title. Someone who wanted to do a bit of rabble-rousing did. The participants here seem to have taken the bait. An estimated 1 - 2% of the population is pedophiles. It is a sexual...
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    What Good is Prayer?

    My first reaction is that this it the best answer we're going to get. But I can't help thinking about Mark 11:24 "So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." I've never been attracted to Pentecostalism, but they're right that Jesus...
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    Why do you call me good?

    I think Christians normally ignore the obvious understanding of the passage, that Jesus objected to being called good. For him, only the Father was completely good. For Jesus to object, though, kind of suggests that there was something in the way the person regarded him that was off. It's hard...
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    It's abhorrent.

    The children in that report are US citizens whose parents were deported. Still something that needs to be dealt with. I agree that Trump didn’t create the problem, but in deciding to charge parents he added a whole new set of difficulties to a system that was already broken.
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    Man asked to leave restaurant over cross

    One of the stories said it was a posted policy. Presumably at the gangsta chain, but somebody figured this one matched.
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    HELL

    The idea of the age of accountability comes from the understanding that due to original sin, everyone deserves hell. Only by a positive action can we be saved from this. Since infants can’t do this, they get a special exemption. So the question is at what age the exemption stops. But Jesus...
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    HELL

    No, it does not. Here's the section from the Catechism: http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P3M.HTM. Note the various qualfications there. To be really a problem a person would need to know that it's necessary and then refuse it. This would not be the case of your niece. It's easy for...
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    HELL

    Sorry, but Catholics don't say that. Indeed recent popes have suggested that even atheists can be saved. The anti-Christ business is pretty unusual these days. The current Catholic position on baptism not so clear. E.g. there is "baptism of desire," which includes anyone who would have been...
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    Bad theology perpetuated in songs.

    The purpose of Silent Night isn't to teach theology, but to help us envision the scene of Jesus' birth. When used as part of a Christmas worship service I think it has a useful function. I have no idea what the purpose is for "No matter what the weapon is, I want you to know that I win."...
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    HELL

    It doesn't help to exaggerate what is actually taught. Virtually no churches teach either that infants end up in hell or that all people outside their own church end up in hell. Indeed the latter is often considered a major characteristic of an damaging "cult." I agree that the fear of hell...
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    Salvation

    I don't see how to avoid making this a replay of justification, since it's essentially the same topic. I agree with the OP. The term is used in different ways. Both within Scripture and even more in theology. Jesus seems to use it in 2 ways * being saved in the end * changing from someone...
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    Seminary President removed from job

    In universities I know about, the board can do it. It's not like a tenured faculty member that can removed only with really good cause.
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