@catholicpat "They didn't kill people in the name of atheism."
Marxism is an atheist ideology. If we can blame Christianity for when an ideology derived from it results in mass death, we can do the same for atheism.
Dude, the meltdown from some on the right over this is ridiculous. You’d think SCOTUS just gave immigrants the right to spank natural born citizens on sight, with the way they are reacting.
This ruling and interpretation has precedent, and has been a possibility for a long time.
@not_our_guy People don’t understand that Supreme Court justices are supposed to base their rulings on what they believe the law means, not change it based on their personal opinions.
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The Bible says "baptism now saves you." And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.
The Bible says that baptism makes us dead to sin and alive to Christ. And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.
The Bible refers to salvation coming through "the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit." And sure, you can argue that this watery language does not refer to the watery-thing Jesus instituted in Matthew 28 and said that all Christians were to receive.
The Bible speaks of being born again of "water and the Spirit." And sure, you can argue that this refers not to baptism, where the Holy Spirit works in the water, but to the water of amniotic fluid (that is, the natural birth) and then another birth, the non-watery rebirth of regeneration through faith by the power of the Holy Spirit.
The Bible speaks quite clearly of infant faith. And sure, you can argue that these passages don't mean what it sounds like.
The Bible thematically links baptism with circumcision, which was performed on Israelite boys when they were 8 days old. And sure, you can argue that this link doesn't mean what it sounds like.
The Bible says that baptism "is for you and your children." And sure, you can argue that this doesn't mean what it sounds like.
The Bible says to make disciples through teaching and baptizing "all nations." Children were inarguably included in the Jewish understanding of "nations." And sure, you can argue that a different definition of "nations" is being used when speaking of baptism.
The Bible describes entire households being baptized. "Households" is a term that inarguably included children if they were present. And sure, you can argue that all of the households described as being baptized did not include children and that there was no reason for Luke to note this if we were not supposed to think that we should baptize infants.
But the problem is that, to deny baptismal regeneration and to reject infant baptism, you have to argue ALL of these things. Each and every one of them.
So, what is more likely: that you are forcing false assumptions about baptism onto the Bible or that every single passage describing baptism and infant faith doesn't mean what it says? What's more likely: that you have a flawed hermeneutic or that passage after passage after passage about baptism and infant faith needs a ton of clarification in order to unlock its true meaning?
It is better for the soul of the child for them to see the liturgy. It is good for the soul of the parent to help them in that.
Worship is a thing done as a family.
@JustBotBecky You care more about “choice” than their lives, so you are pro-choice, not pro-life.
If the unborn are lives worth protecting, then it isn’t oppression to not allow someone to kill them. The oppression would be allowing it.
Elon could literally solve homelessness tomorrow.
All he needs to do is sell his stake in the companies he created from the ground up, crashing the price and evaporating his wealth as well as the savings and pensions of workers globally.. handing the control of these companies over to short term profit interests and preventing any long term vision from being enacted..
THEN take whatever money that remains which will be nowhere near 1tn and give it to homeless charities who have never solved homelessness anywhere on earth because they’re financially incentivised to do the opposite.
Bam - homelessness solved.
The reason he doesn’t do any of this is because he’s evil.
Claiming that scripture requires you not to speak sharply to people who film unboxing videos of their child’s down syndrome test, who then proudly announce that they have now murdered that child because of said disability (and all of this monetized) is some kind of demented, unbiblical version of Christianity I don’t even have words.
Should we not speak sharply to the rapist then? How about the pedophile? Is it fair to sharply condemn their acts to them?
Yes, I want all of those people to come to Christ. But do you think that happens by letting them think that what they did wasn’t all that bad?
Is this how you witness to other people? Tell them that they’re pretty good, but a little Jesus will make them even better?
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Bombshell: The Browns are finalizing a trade that will send two-time Defensive Player of the Year Myles Garrett to the Los Angeles Rams, per @rapsheet, @TomPelissero and me.
In exchange for Garrett, the Rams are expected to send Pro-Bowl edge Jared Verse, a 2027 first-round pick and other draft-pick compensation still being negotiated to the Browns.
I don't read the King James Bible because I think it's based on the best, latest manuscripts. I read it because it's the most majestic English translation of the Bible.