I tell them my B.A. was a Bachelor of Alcoholism. Does it matter where? I was the campus drunk.
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I'm so old I can remember when SNL was funny.
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No, in that there is no unifying ecclesiastical structure or requirements of obedience, participation, personal conduct, etc. I'd describe it as a somewhat incorrect theology manifested in a very extreme (and loud) worship experience.
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In Massachusetts there's money to be made with "Coexist" and "Tolerance" bumperstickers. I'm thinking of running off some copies of the news articles about the latest Denmark shooting and the Paris "CoeXisT" street artist who was beaten up by Moslem thugs. I'll give them to people with "Coexist" and "Tolerance" bumperstickers at red lights.
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Oh yes...(*groan*)...I didn't consider all that. Pentacostals are, unfortunately, very prone to prosperity preaching. Oral Roberts was a big one and so was Jim Bakker. And others. Joel Osteen is one, just megachurch "evangelical" wolf in sheep's clothing. T.D. Jakes fleeces the black population just as "Reverend Ike" did a generation back. Bakker, to his credit, devoted an ent
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People are definitely more vulnerable to cults and cultic thinking when there is a problem, loss, or lack in their lives. That's why they do such a good job freeing people from addictions. Incidentally, when I became a Christian I had been sober and well employed for about four years. I got a lot out of A.A. I just thought that there was something more specific, more viable, and, yes, eternal
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I would think TSCC would grab all this and exploit it, showing that there are infinite portions/galaxies/sectors out there for an infinite number of "Kolobs" and "exalted gods." "We're only saying that Elohim and Kolob reign over OUR part of this wonderful, infinite Cosmos," said a charming President/Prophet Monson with a twinkle in his eye. "Maintain your Te
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Follow the money. Start with Al Gore and his hundreds of "green" millions. The Wall Street Journal opined (02/14/15 p. A12), "All of this has shocked the local political class, which likes to think of itself as pure as its best liberal intentions. But the Hayes-Kitzhaber operation exposes the underside of the big-money, insider politics that has come to dominate the environme
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Man's inhumanity to man is quite non-denominational. Mark Twain quipped that the one thing he found empirically provable about Christianity was "original sin."
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Stop that, you're getting me stimulated, and I've almost had too much coffee today.
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I thought you were going to say you met your bishop or some such person.
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Judith Martin,* who wrote a column for many years (and books) as "Miss Manners," was asked how to respond to a racial or other such offensive joke or remark. It's impossible to capture her voice, but it was sort of (*long, awkward pause*), then, "uhhh-....HUH!," with the "HUH!" simply riddled with sarcasm, voice dropping sharply downward at the very end of the brief
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The first act of the Continental Congress was to appoint a chaplain. Chaplains conduct watered-down religious services, help with bereavement issues, emergency leaves, verifying and addressing problems at home, all sorts of things. An issue you may not be aware of is how Evangelicals are being told not to engage in Biblical preaching. Those who do are losing out on promotions and/or being enco
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It's a kind of apples and oranges false inclusion. Yes, ancient writings of a religious nature have been hidden and discovered, and they may have claimed to have spiritual value or origin. But nothing really compares to the Bom and delivery by an angelic being, at least in the Judeo-Christian traditions and history.
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Christians have been very active in repairing race relations. And yes, to our collective shame, quite a few of us weren't. But a lot of work has been done quietly and anonymously. A lot of people don't know that Billy Graham worked very diligently in his own Southern Baptist Convention to gently neutralize pastors with segregationist sympathies. On a more local and contemporary level, my son (
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Check my post above--I'm Baptist but regard Pentacostals as brethren and sistren* who are engaged in something invalid. I have a number of complaints with Pentacostalism, as commonly practiced. A major one is that of validation of one's spirituality based upon intense personal experience. There is a similarity between this and the LDS validation of the BoM because of the "burning in the boso
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I talked to the restaurant workers, cabbies, and doormen when the Democratic National Convention was in Boston in 2004. They likewise said tips sucked.
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My complaint with the Global Warming / Climate Change / Current Catastrophic hypothesis is (1) that it is based upon fudged or even fraudulent data, (2) computer models that may err on the basis of (a) the questionable data they are fed and (b) the logic (AL-gorithms) they employ, and (3) The hoopla that has been generated distracts our attention and financial resources from other, more legitima
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William Wilberforce (1759-1833) devoted his life to eradicating slavery in the British Empire. The Abolition movement was concentrated in the northern Christian churches.
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You mean the climate expert's computer models were wrong? Oh, no! Reminds me of the old saying, "To err is human. To really foul things up, you need a computer."
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The "Assembly of God" may be the most well-known of these groups, but it includes Spirit-filled Charismatics in the Catholic church, independents, and many others. Some people are members of Evangelical churches, which typically eschew the gifts of the Spirit (sign gifts, especially speaking in toneuges), but practice them privately. I regard them as Christians I can enjoy fellowship
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A very bad failure of the sobriety test at a drunk driver checkpoint.
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baura Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Damn. > > I'm doing to start marketing "Baura's Miracle > Cebes" > > Have conventions where people give testimonials to > their > effectiveness. > I'll advertise them as "the most powerful placebos > you can get > without a prescription." Bravo, Baur
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I challenge that generalization. The anti-vaccination crowd come in all sorts of religious and political stripes. Joe Kennedy, for example.
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And how is a tornado like a redneck divorce? One way or another, somebody's losing a trailer!
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I don't disparage the KJV, as it is the pew Bible in my Baptist Church. That said, I prefer modern translations because they helped wean me away from the metaphysical gloss I unconsciously laid on my Bible studies, a left-over from my Christian Science upbringing. I encourage ex-LDS, ex-CS, and anybody who was damaged by bad religion (including Fundamentalism) to use a modern translation. It jus
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My ESV outweighs their KJV anytime. More notes, charts, diagrams, illustrations. (Seriously.) They'll try to defend "Restorationalism" against systematic dispensational theology, and I know their weak points. Besides, my translation is translated more correcterer than theirs.
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He sure gave them enough advance warning he had become radicalized. But nobody wanted to be branded an Islamophobe.
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A testing coach told me about a test with "1-to-5" answers, where you have "none of the time," "Some of the time," up to "all of the time." If the question involves a bad habit or a character problem, such as "I feel like telling people just what I think of them" your answer has to be an ABSOLUTE denial of the problem trait or an ABSOLUTE affirmat
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One thing a coach told me about a test with "1-to-5" answers, where you have "none of the time," "Some of the time," up to "all of the time." If the question involves a bad habit or a character problem, such as "I feel like telling people just what I think of them" your answer has to be an ABSOLUTE denial of the problem trait or an ABSOLUTE affirm
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