Mark Vatsaas

Damned good parenting coach, speaker, trainer. Fierce child dadvocate. Purveyor of fine dad jokes. Father of 6, husband of 1. Master finder of Lego in darkness.

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@DaingenKeltoi @maklelan @reason Your credibility is proportional to the amount of objective proof you linked.

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@TheYnlightener @maklelan This is satire, yes? It is impossible to be sure now.

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@DaingenKeltoi @maklelan What is your actual objection here? You seem to be skeptical of Dan's framing of his response, but I'm not following why. Can you connect the dots?

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@AQuartermain @maklelan Who is the "they" in your question? I can't tell who you are referencing.

[Brigham's Burner @FiredUpCoug]

When you say I have to accept “the Nicene Creed” to be Christian, could you be more specific?

Do you mean the creed produced in A.D. 325 at a council convened by the Roman emperor Constantine, who was trying to settle the Arian controversy and preserve unity in his empire?

Or do you mean the version most Christians actually recite today, which comes from A.D. 381, when another Roman emperor, Theodosius I, convened the First Council of Constantinople to settle further disputes and more fully define the doctrine of the Holy Spirit?

Because that seems like a pretty important distinction.

One was created under Constantine, a Roman emperor with no priesthood authority, whose interest in Christianity was inseparable from his interest in imperial stability.

The other was expanded under Theodosius, another Roman emperor who used state power to enforce religious uniformity.

And somehow I’m supposed to believe that my faith in Jesus Christ is invalid unless I accept the theological conclusions of emperor-sponsored councils held centuries after Christ and His apostles?

You are free to trust those councils, led by rulers of the same empire that crucified Christ.

But please stop pretending that your post-biblical, politically entangled, imperial committee language is simply “biblical truth.”

And stop acting like you have the authority to decide who is and is not Christian based on a person’s willingness to pledge allegiance to Rome’s preferred definition of the Divine.

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@ChrisFl88615395 @ItsRobbAllen You just equated being LGBT with a disease, and you don't see why that is harmful? You don't see why those harmed by it might experience your behavior as hateful?

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@MB1952S @bonhoefferchild @ThxTom90228 Right, like in Exodus, where God tells us how to go about selling our daughter into sexual slavery. Or Deuteronomy and Numbers, where God tells us how to force the virgins captured in war to be our wives. How about the part where rape victims are forced to marry their rapists?

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@LDS_Dems Have you considered that they don't ask because they all have ample lived experience being the person who stayed?

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@branddscom @4thOfJuly365 You had an abusive parent. Get help.

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@DMar67038993 @TaraBull This says zero about cheerleaders and a lot about men.

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@CatyBurt @bonhoefferchild Show me the verse where anyone asked Mary's permission or in any way indicated that she had the option to say no.

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@Ekhart14 @maklelan @JoshuaLWatson @ericmetaxas That isn't remotely what he said.

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@jeffreynoelcook @maklelan It is scripture that in no way supports the claim made by Answers in Genesis. In other words, it supports Dan's post.

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@Chris_Segroves @philvischer @DavidAFrench Please connect the dots for me. Phil is associated to Nick how?

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@JoelHalcomb @philvischer Or, there have always been people who had those feelings about their bodies and those people are not shamed and bullied into silence the way they used to be.

And before you tell me I'm full of shit, go read about the history of being left-handed.

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@grok @aeorsyn @CuriosityonX Free grok response:

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@aeorsyn @CuriosityonX @grok - please explain the physics of the Artemis II trajectory and how they could slingshot the moon so a 6th grader could understand it.

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@aeorsyn @CuriosityonX Please tell me this is a joke and you are not dumb enough to think there is only one kind of jet.

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@CwC_16 @maklelan So what is your argument here? That Congress didn't actually believe the treaty they signed into law?