@sarahadams@j_fishback What also can be shown is that all of the founders and signers of the Declaration of Independence were either Christians, Deists, or Atheists. By 1803 America was at war with Islamists.
One thing that can be verified is that the singular concept of individual liberty is distilled from the biblical principle of soul liberty. If the Christian God has given individuals the freedom to chose to accept or reject his free gift of salvation, individual liberty in secular matters follows. No human should attempt to rule over others in a matter that violates God's principles.
I practice law in Collin County, Texas.
Karmelo Anthony will be convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
As he should.
He murdered that boy because he was raised to hate white people and to view himself as a victim in every situation.
It’s a culture thing.
If Congress again reauthorizes FISA with no reforms, after decades of abuses, that’s how you know the crooked establishment folks in Congress and intel are still calling the shots.
No. They honorably performed their duty. I'm saying America was trying to end the conflict. Israel thought it was in its own best interest to continue hostilities. Israel must have thought if you're not with us you're against us and did what it thought was in its own best interest.
Educate yourself. The US was trying to stop Israel. Israel thought it was in its own best interest to pursue hostilities. Deja vu. Liberty was a risk to Israel's goals. Their calculus was if you aren't for us you're against us. Im not happy Americans died but, man, if we only had a government that was willing to do anything to protect Americans I'd support it.
Don't confuse my post for approval of the attack. I just wish the US government would go to the extremes the Israeli government is willing to go to to protect its citizens. We're still sending money to the people planning 9/11 2.0. Its insane.
All true. The fact that Liberty was a spy ship spying on Israel as it was in the process of defending itself is seldom mentioned. The fact that Israel warned Liberty to leave the are multiple times before the attack is also seldom mentioned. I'm sure if the US was the 'stalwart' ally then that it is now Israel wouldn't have had to worry about the US giving intelligence to it's enemies in a time of conflict.
Without humans AI would know nothing. All it knows now is what humanity has already figured out. All it will ever learn is something humanity would have eventually learned. The risk is that AI will make mistakes that humans might have avoided and from which humanity might not be able to recover.
I enjoy driving. It baffles me why people are so hot for driverless cars. Additionally I've seen too many computer programs crash at the most inopportune times. There is no way to prove a program is bug free. The problem is "grounded in computability theory. The key result is Rice's theorem, which proves that for any non-trivial property of a program's behavior—like "does it meet its spec without bugs?"—there's no general algorithm that can decide it for all programs. The Halting Problem is a famous special case that shows you can't even reliably tell if a program will finish running, let alone if it's correct. So while you can prove specific small programs bug-free with formal methods, there's no universal way to guarantee it for arbitrary software." Grok.
I'm posting my full response to you here because I think it's important. I think you have grossly wronged @jackngraham and I want to make sure onlookers know it. You need to take this down and apologize:
That is NOT what he was saying DJ and it is vile that you would suggest it. The abuse crisis claim was not that abuse has happened in SBC churches. We know, that as much as we might wish it, we can't always screen out every predator who looks to the church for prey.
We CAN put in place the best systems to identify them, prevent them from gaining access to children, and report them to police when they are identified. And the SBC has done this.
This is why, over nearly 30 years, across 43,000 churches that have played host to tens of millions of members, attenders, volunteers, and staff, the most allegations that a Houston Chronicle reporter could come up with was 700.
Again, 700 allegations over 30 years across 43,000 churches. That is an incidence rate of of about 0.054% per church per year. Or roughly 5.4 cases per 10,000 churches per year. That is EXTREMELY low.
By comparison, just one Chicago school district of 39k students saw 470 claims against school employees in 2022. One district. One year saw 56 TIMES the number of allegations that the ENTIRETY of the SBC has seen over 30 years.
Of course, we still want every one of those claims investigated and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. And guess what? That happened. Almost every one of those 700 cases that the Chronicle collated had already been adjudicated. Meaning most of the alleged perpetrators had been reported, charged, and in many cases incarcerated.
So the system worked as it was supposed to.
What Pastor Graham is denying is the abuse "crisis" narrative that was based not on abuse of children but primarily questionable allegations from adult women.
In fact, in the two highest profile cases, one woman was eventually found to have sent love letters to her alleged abuser (who was married and who she traveled to meet with) and the other said she didn't realize her sexual encounter was abuse until 10 years later, even though she was a mom of 5 in her 30s at the time of the alleged abuse.
These were the allegations that the abuse "crisis" rested on.
And that crisis was then used by Russell Moore and JD Greear to drive their opponents from the executive committee.
Not one claim of cover up by national leadership was ever supported by evidence. And THAT is what Pastor Graham is talking about. You need to apologize to him brother and take this post down.