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  1. wil

    Hi

    Welcome back...you found our boards again Feel free to introduce yourself.
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    The Value of Secularism

    For US govt....Absolutely....what we were founded on and different from what was at the time. UU walks an interesting path...I attended a few, spoke at a couple. I liked the political activism, it is to me quite liberal nojproselytizing christianity which accepts other faiths...while similar...
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    The Value of Secularism

    I have attended a variety of humanist/secularist gatherings for folks that desired community of sorts to fill a gap they lost from church. There is something to be said by weekly or biweekly or more often meetings with members of a community. I get that from burners events or juggling/flow...
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    Habemus Papam!

    If history doesn't trouble you....you aren't reading history... Yes, woke is a pejorative for acting as Jesus prescribed....go figure who uses it in that manner the most, Christians
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    Habemus Papam!

    I agree, can't find it anywhere, if it IS a translation of one of his speeches it is loose and generous with modern phraseology....like the Manga bible...
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    Conclave

    They wanted to see if the colonies would last, give us some time for the new world population to mature.
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    Conclave

    They are referring to him as the second American Pope! Second one from the New World, our hemisphere. They waited for us to mature a little over here....see if these colonies would last.
  8. wil

    Habemus Papam!

    Woke to me is beatitudes, turn the other cheek, see things from the view of the oppressed, empathy. To others it is a derogatory epithet, but I don't know what they would.say their definition is.
  9. wil

    Habemus Papam!

    I can't verify this one anywhere...
  10. wil

    Jokes, jokes, and more jokes ...

    Leo XIV earned a degree in mathematics from Villanova University in 1977 Which means he understands the sin and the cos!
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    Habemus Papam!

    Well, looks like we got another "woke" Pope! Big on beatitudes, forgiveness, concerned for poor in all nations and religions... if this keeps up will be better for our world!
  12. wil

    Habemus Papam!

    I hope we won't have to apologize. I do see some friends posting old pix with the Cardinal and have good words to say about him.
  13. wil

    Conclave

    Ya got an American! A Leo!
  14. wil

    Conclave

    https://www.wlwt.com/article/conclave-movie-similarities-real-event/64703778
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    When interpretations go beyond the text

    This is always gonna be interesting to me...2/3s of the Christian Bible is the Old Testament, which many (if not most) Christians see as the Jewish bible...but without the mishnah and midrash we are missing the interpretations and discussions of the texts written well before Jesus came along.
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    AB Higashi, again, how to do theology with the bible

    Yup, when the ones preaching love and compassion have that as a response to a question...makes ya question!
  17. wil

    Evolution is Unscientific

    Gravity update? https://hashtag-news.newsroomlabs.com/article-summary/24195368?brid=or0e1235&lang=en
  18. wil

    AB Higashi, again, how to do theology with the bible

    I still feel the edge of the ruler on my knuckles.
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    When interpretations go beyond the text

    You fell into my issue ...not fully explaining, it was.fully composed and made sense in your head after watching and everyone was on the same page...alas... As to the story of Noah, and checking sources, the size of the ark, the worldwide flood destroying mankind, development of the...
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    AB Higashi, again, how to do theology with the bible

    As I see it the Jews and their prophets came down from the mountain and across the desert and wrote down what they devined. Jesus and his band of merry followers said "Yeah, but..." And then the.mountain came to Mohamed. And the Bahaualla, Bab, Halle Sallasi, Joseph Smith, the Transcendental...
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