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    Thread: Ireland shedding more of the Catholic influence in its constitution
Post: RE: Ireland shedding more of the Catholic influenc...

(12-05-2023, 11:40 PM)pattylt Wrote: (12-05-2023, 06:56 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Pope Frankie will be pissed! I don’t think most of Ireland cares anymore. Does Ireland have single sex marriages? Yes,...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 7 88 Yesterday, 12:15 AM
    Thread: The "defense of marriage" position
Post: RE: The "defense of marriage" position

(12-05-2023, 09:09 PM)SteveII Wrote: You missed a major point in my response: "...from one generation to the next." The same, objective set of values as the previous generation.  Sure,  individual a...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 28 306 12-05-2023, 10:45 PM
    Thread: Ireland shedding more of the Catholic influence in its constitution
Post: Ireland shedding more of the Catholic influence in...

After enshrining the right of women to elective abortions up to 12 weeks of pregnancy (and of course a non time-dependent right to abortion in case of fatal fetal abnormalities, risk to the health or ...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 7 88 12-05-2023, 06:52 PM
    Thread: The "defense of marriage" position
Post: RE: The "defense of marriage" position

(12-04-2023, 10:14 PM)isbelldl Wrote: (12-04-2023, 06:35 PM)epronovost Wrote: How do you reconcile the fact that Christians do not form longer lasting marriages or more loving ones with what you j...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 28 306 12-04-2023, 10:29 PM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

(12-04-2023, 05:11 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Underlining added.   That worked out about as well as most congressional (and UN ) resolutions!  Note that they managed to mention the relative handful of jes...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 149 1,785 12-04-2023, 10:21 PM
    Thread: Gospel Dating & Reliability
Post: RE: Gospel Dating & Reliability

(12-04-2023, 08:55 PM)SteveII Wrote: You keep saying that "Jesus was in opposition to x" Where? Give me a passage! What was he in opposition to exactly? Quote a commentary if you need to.  Your clai...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 659 5,577 12-04-2023, 09:35 PM
    Thread: Gospel Dating & Reliability
Post: RE: Gospel Dating & Reliability

(12-04-2023, 08:09 PM)SteveII Wrote: Why does everyone clip off the actual definition I provided? It answer all these questions. It focuses in on showing when a person (P) intentionally (I) brings a...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 659 5,577 12-04-2023, 08:43 PM
    Thread: Gospel Dating & Reliability
Post: RE: Gospel Dating & Reliability

(12-04-2023, 07:43 PM)SteveII Wrote: 1. Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV): "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."   This v...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 659 5,577 12-04-2023, 08:07 PM
    Thread: Gospel Dating & Reliability
Post: RE: Gospel Dating & Reliability

(12-04-2023, 01:17 PM)SteveII Wrote: In a nutshell, libertarian free will is choosing an action that is not causally determined by factors outside of ourselves. God knowing our choices has no causal...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 659 5,577 12-04-2023, 07:41 PM
    Thread: Gospel Dating & Reliability
Post: RE: Gospel Dating & Reliability

(12-04-2023, 02:06 PM)SteveII Wrote: Pure capitalism does produce "poor and the destitute", but society can and does put constraints on it (i.e. government) so that poverty for some does not have to...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 659 5,577 12-04-2023, 07:29 PM
    Thread: Gospel Dating & Reliability
Post: RE: Gospel Dating & Reliability

(12-04-2023, 07:19 PM)SteveII Wrote: (12-04-2023, 06:41 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: Then he has limited powers.  He's not omnipotent or omniscient or omnipresent.   A god with limited powers couldn't cr...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 659 5,577 12-04-2023, 07:21 PM
    Thread: Gospel Dating & Reliability
Post: RE: Gospel Dating & Reliability

(12-04-2023, 03:01 PM)SteveII Wrote: Almost all of Jesus' teaching are about the heart, wrong motives, and the pursuit of wrong goals. The pursuit of profit is a wrong goal. Capitalism is sinful sin...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 659 5,577 12-04-2023, 07:20 PM
    Thread: The "defense of marriage" position
Post: RE: The "defense of marriage" position

(12-04-2023, 03:28 PM)SteveII Wrote: Shared Values and Moral Foundation:   Christian Idea of Family: The Christian idea of family promotes the transmission of shared values, ethics, and moral princi...
epronovost Atheism & Theism 28 306 12-04-2023, 06:35 PM
    Thread: Antinatalism.
Post: RE: Antinatalism.

(12-03-2023, 06:48 PM)Szuchow Wrote: I disagree. I don't think that unsuitable people have right to bring a new life into this world when they can't even take care of themselves. It's not a right to...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 32 328 12-03-2023, 07:55 PM
    Thread: Antinatalism.
Post: RE: Antinatalism.

In my opinion people should have the kids they want. I don't think there should be a minimal or a maximum number of kids a person can have. I do believe a good government must take care of the childre...
epronovost Philosophy and Ethics 32 328 12-03-2023, 06:26 PM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

(12-03-2023, 03:55 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Obviously you weren't the one having your land stolen. Strictly speaking yes. I am part of a colonized nation. My ancestor had their land stolen by the Britis...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 149 1,785 12-03-2023, 05:21 PM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

(12-02-2023, 10:35 PM)Minimalist Wrote: The UN stole their land.   Just because the fucking British drew lines on a map does not mean that people have to love it.  It didn't work out so well in Ind...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 149 1,785 12-03-2023, 03:29 AM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

(12-02-2023, 07:50 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote: There exists no international principal that any population gets to "inhabit" their (supposed) "ancestral lands". The Jews made that up. It's an attempt to f...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 149 1,785 12-02-2023, 09:31 PM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

(12-02-2023, 06:27 PM)pattylt Wrote: I think we have become too humanitarian for our own good.  In centuries past, the loser of battles gave up the land no matter how entrenched they were.  They eit...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 149 1,785 12-02-2023, 06:52 PM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

(12-02-2023, 06:33 AM)Cavebear Wrote: Wouldn't it be nice if we could go back to 1930 and offer some different alternative future for the Jews... Already too late. By then, Jews already represented ...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 149 1,785 12-02-2023, 05:08 PM
    Thread: George Santos Expelled From Congress
Post: RE: George Santos Expelled From Congress

(12-02-2023, 05:12 AM)Cavebear Wrote: Maybe become a motivational speaker at business conferences.  Or maybe become a crypto marketer. I actually had a shudder at that thought. He's almost bound to ...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 24 178 12-02-2023, 05:27 AM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

(12-01-2023, 11:24 PM)mordant Wrote: Now that hostilities have resumed and we continue to have accounts of Israeli soldiers doing things like blowing up random homes because they can, another thing ...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 149 1,785 12-02-2023, 12:18 AM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

(12-01-2023, 11:08 PM)pattylt Wrote: They could have maneuvered troops, warned kibbutz’s, etc. yet they didn’t do anything and were caught completely flat footed. And then Hamas might have changed o...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 149 1,785 12-01-2023, 11:22 PM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

(12-01-2023, 06:15 PM)Aegon Wrote: Looks like this was a 9/11-level intelligence failure for the Mossad. Of course, one can't help but entertain the conspiracy theory that Bibi let it happen as just...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 149 1,785 12-01-2023, 07:04 PM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

The ceasefire in Gaza, which led to the successful release of several hostages and allowed a surge of much needed humanitarian aid in Gaza has ended rather abruptly today despite the US strongly press...
epronovost World News, Politics and Current Events 149 1,785 12-01-2023, 05:15 PM