Posts by Berengaria

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What Would a Country Run by Evangelical Christianity Look Like?

by cofty in

on an earlier thread i made the statement that, "an evangelical christian government would look a lot like the taliban".. laika asked me incredulously, "do you really think your friends from your old church would govern like the taliban!?".

i thought it was a really interesting question and might work as a separate thread.. the people i worshipped with were mostly a nice bunch of people, but the thought of them having secular power would make me shudder.. christianity is mostly harmless because it lacks power.

christian politicians are restrained by secular laws and constitutions.

Berengaria

Jgnat it's aleady worse than that now in red states. If they really had power, I don't doubt they would go much much farther.

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What Would a Country Run by Evangelical Christianity Look Like?

by cofty in

on an earlier thread i made the statement that, "an evangelical christian government would look a lot like the taliban".. laika asked me incredulously, "do you really think your friends from your old church would govern like the taliban!?".

i thought it was a really interesting question and might work as a separate thread.. the people i worshipped with were mostly a nice bunch of people, but the thought of them having secular power would make me shudder.. christianity is mostly harmless because it lacks power.

christian politicians are restrained by secular laws and constitutions.

Berengaria

I shudder to think. It's bad enough here as it is.

Good point - if evangelical christians had authority over the Department for Education what would the curriculum look like?

Check out American homeschooling.

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Goodbye JWD/JWN (my last post)

by slimboyfat in

jw
friends

after some considerable thought i have decided that i will no longer post on this forum because i want to return to jehovah.

thank you for all the kindness and many interesting discussions over the years.

i wish you all well in the future and the decisions you make.

Berengaria

If this is for real, how incredibly sad. Goodbye my friend.

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A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian

by cofty in

a manual for creating atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith--but for talking them out of it.

peter boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than twenty years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value reason and rationality, cast doubt on their religious beliefs, mistrust their faith, abandon superstition and irrationality, and ultimately embrace reason.

- amazon.... "boghossian has provided an indispensible chart book for all of us who must navigate the rising sea of magical thinking that is inundating america today.

Berengaria

Let people believe whatever they want, and quit trying to control them.

NightOwl

Now THAT is a hoot!

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great song, not one of Pavarotti's best, though

by Hortensia in

jw
friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trgufm4dr2y.

it's worth watching to see and hear lucio dalla.

Berengaria

Goodnight CoCo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY

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great song, not one of Pavarotti's best, though

by Hortensia in

jw
friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trgufm4dr2y.

it's worth watching to see and hear lucio dalla.

Berengaria

Sorry Hortensia. Just love this stuff.

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great song, not one of Pavarotti's best, though

by Hortensia in

jw
friends

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trgufm4dr2y.

it's worth watching to see and hear lucio dalla.

Berengaria

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VATmgtmR5o4

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Can this be true?

by tenyearsafter in

i was listening to a news report yesterday that said that after two weeks of being available to the public, only 226 people here in colorado had signed up for health coverage under the aca offered through the colorado state exchange.

that seems hard to grasp...the population here is over 5mm, so that works out to .0045% (if my math is correct) of the population signing up for health insurance.

the report also mentioned that besides the 226 that actually signed up for insurance coverage, another 2800 created a log in account, but made no insurance purchase.. do other states seem to have the same underwhelming response to this program?...either the program is flawed, or there isn't the demand for health coverage that the government anticipated and sold as fact to the american public.. i do know that my wife's current coverage was cancelled (as not compliant with aca requirements, whatever that means!