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  1. 3 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

    The thing that's supposed to be radical is the whole "love your fellow man" thing. The goal isn't to be "radical" no matter what is considered radical for the times. NAMBLA is radical. Should evangelicals support NAMBLA?

    i wasn't making the assertion Christians should find something to be radical about and then swim towards that goal.  the tenets of faith Jesus and the apostles laid out do not change over time.  they were laid out 2000+ years ago.  they were liberal and counter-cultural then and they still are today. 

     

    what should make Christians radical:

    - loving God through obedience

    - loving your neighbor

    - living a pure life above reproach, set apart as a part of the physical manifestation of Jesus, his church

    - having faith, joy, and hope in all circumstances

    2 hours ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    Well there's no way people are going to be holy. Try and treat your fellow men how you'd like to be treated is about as good as we can get on any scale.  That really has nothing to do with religion per se, and more to do with respect of others.

     

    we can't be holy by ourselves, that's made clear many times over.  the more we submit to God's sanctifying work of the Spirit in us the more He changes us.  submission and sanctification is an ongoing process involving prayer, meditation, and scripture.

    2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    One of the things that seems to characterize the modern "evangelical" Christian is that the churches are "non-denominational."  Even the denominations associated with "evangelicals," Southern Baptist and Church of Christ, are highly congregational, meaning the minister, appointed by the congregation, is the "last word" or the last human word, on almost everything.

    So, that tends to create a greater echo chamber effect than often exists in more traditional hierarchical churches with regional and national, and international governing bodies.  I find that these governing bodies frequently bring a broader perspective to local congregations and provide better thought leadership in matters both religious and secular.

    Strangely, Jewish temples are extremely congregational, yet, outside of Hasidic and ultra-conservative sects, don't seem to suffer quite the same echo chamber effect as congregational Christian churches.  On the other hand, Muslim groups suffer from the congregational problem significantly and it seems that the lack of established churches with hierarchies, the equivalent of Catholic, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, etc. causes them huge problems.

    i think that's true to an extent.  a lot of ND churches are megachurches with many campuses accounting for hundreds of thousands of members in the US alone.  still other ND churches actually belong to a convention or denomination but still call themselves ND.  

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  2. 49 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    And now, I think that might be okay.  Christianity destroyed itself by becoming a cult of worship of self, and its institutions.  If they all fall and burn, let them.  The Gospel will survive.  The way will survive.  And we'll start over.

    Christianity this side of the millennial kingdom was never meant to be the popular choice.  it's supposed to be counter-cultural.  it's supposed to be radical.  and the Bible is exceedingly clear, few actually live and follow the true way.

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  3. there used to be a pho place on spicewood springs (west of mopac) and hart ln.  i forget the name of it.  jungle something?  they had the best fried rice.  i've never found anything close to it.  they shut down probably 6 or 7 years ago.  a restaurant named hai ky's there right now but i've never been and haven't really heard anything about it.  

  4. 2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    About a decade or so ago, I noticed a trend where some people started to openly say they were Christian and asking you if you were one. Almost as if they were asking you if you were as good as them.  I know some that would say yes even if they weren’t the best person in the world. 

    "blessed are the poor in spirit" and "blessed are those who mourn" speak to the realization of a Christian's depravity and the subsequent recognition of divine grace to be rescued.  by definition a Christian knows he is a human wreck.  

    1 hour ago, Onboard 2.0 said:

    It's been hijacked by holier than thou types IMO. Grew up in a family with very straight forward religious views yet they never foisted those views on others, they didn't look down on others who didn't share their faith, they didn't preach to people. 

    Fast forward to today and part of my family is that class of evangelicals who do think they're better than others because they're Christians, they preach incessantly, they never miss an opportunity to make everything about religion, they look down on people who drink (I'm the fucking devil). 

    I can't speak to why trump gets a pass, but part of it is the anti christian vibe the DNC emits, and it does, so you can save the posts denying that fact.  

     

    PRO TIP:  I'm atheistic now so this isn't a christian diatribe.

    as evidenced from that first quote i think it's also influenced by non-Christians believing Christians should be different - which isn't wrong in that Jesus commands us to be holy-  and then ridiculing Christians when we're not perfect.  

  5. there are so many places in eng/fra outside of their capital cities that are so different and add dimensions to the country.  my favorites are the rural regions (especially the loire rv in france and "wessex" in eng)- they are magnificently beautiful. 

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  6. 1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    It’s just as ridiculous to say “Oh, somebody got shot so I won’t be safe.”

     

    maybe if ONE person got shot and it was due to a random incident.  but these aren't isolated instances and there's no pattern to gauge your expectation of where it's going to happen next.  

  7. 33 minutes ago, Royalfan5 said:

    Not my personal cheapassedess on this story, but I went and ate Sunday dinner with my Grandma today, and she’s been scooping margarine into the same plastic container for at least the last 30 years, with a masking tape label that simply says oleo on it. 

    doesn't margarine COME in a plastic container?

  8. 3 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    I know one dude who's not impressed.

    Casper Wells had a -10 wRC+ in 2013.

    He was somehow on 4 different ML rosters that season.  I guess because he was gritty and gutty.

     

    2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    Tony Pena had a -8 in 235 PA in 2008.

    help me understand how wRC+ can go negative, i thought it was a percentage of runs created vis a vis the average which is 100.

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