Isaiah 58. Global Methodist. Abortion for none, Medicare for all.
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I’m curious to see what they can get to sixty votes. They need people like Boozman, Capito, and Curtis on board to get to sixty votes, and at that point, Trump probably won’t veto anything he lets those Senators vote for.
A week after the election, House and Senate Democrats are plotting out quick legislative action next year on health care and other issues and coordinating an agenda
- The current thinking is to try and pass bills with bipartisan support from 4+ GOP senators and send them to Trump's desk before turning to reconciliation bills
- If Republicans start blocking their agenda then Democrats would move more quickly to reconciliation
- They are also planning an oversight agenda aimed at meshing with the legislative agenda rather than a discordant one
- The best laid plans can get quickly overtaken by events so everything is in flux
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“We… thankfully confess a tradition of the same Christianity by unwritten means, which is delivered more fully in the Scripture: and this tradition is in some respect subordinate to Scripture, and in some respect co-ordinate, to hold us out the truth.”
— Richard Baxter
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Gregory of Nyssa, on the throne of God:
“What is this throne of the immaterial, incomprehensible, and formless Deity? Who could possibly understand all this in a literal sense?”
Dilan says, “The church taught thus.” I have refuted this threefold now, yet he will double down on the error.
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Also of note is his equivocal predication of apologizing. Apologetics is not a series of sorries for the faith!
@dilanesper
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If this is what having faith means, it is evil and wicked to have faith. It is a blasphemous thing for Christians to assert that our beliefs are improbable, contrary to reason, and downright illogical. Better to have no faith than this!
You can either operate in the rational world, where the entire panoply of Christian claims are easily impeached and not really defensible, or you can just have faith.
And my real point is, there's nothing wrong with having faith!
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Jesus ascended into heaven, and I understand my doctrine better than Dilan does. I must admit, I do not highly regard his benign condescension with regard to the ascension.
I believe and confess nothing that is improbable, but I affirm the ancient faith, which is most reasonable.
Dilan also doesn’t have a very good understanding of Christian theology and its history. His claims about the nature of heaven is utterly false. Over a millennium…
And that's the thing. If you are going to believe, you have to epistemically commit to the thing. You have to believe some pretty improbable claims, as a matter of faith. That's what organized religion IS.
It brooks no cop-outs when claims turn out to be improbable.
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Holy Scripture, in denouncing the robbery of general funds intended for the poor, does not thereby denounce general funds intended for the poor. QED.
Points of note.
-Christ actively protects Mary’s right to use her private property for the greater glory of God.
-Christ denies that Judas has any shared right over said property.
-Christ connects Judas’s pretense of social justice to his blatantly malicious motives.
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Rawlings is a careful writer & understands American Christianity intimately. Very good thread:
Rawlings is a careful writer & understands American Christianity intimately. Very good thread:
