Mark S. Phillips

Digital designer, Educator, Publisher. D.Min. Christian apologist. Book nerd. #alwaysbusy

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@SarahisCensored Go get ‘em, Sarah.

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@TheRockOracle1 @Un4tunateSun @SInow Quite the immature, Christophobic comment.

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What I’d like to know is why the urge to reboot 007 yet again? There are 8 other potential 00 characters licensed to [unalive] within the film lore that could be developed with their own interconnected story arcs. Great writing could refresh this tired IP into a massive extended brand that could be explored for decades with the right storytelling.

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Idris Elba says James Bond doesn’t need to be “woke”

“Bond is big all over the world. And audiences won’t [all] go for a Black male, an African male, playing Bond. That’s not what they like in their culture. Period…

Bond is so unrealistic, so a hint of reality is good, but let’s not try and make it woke. I think you’ve got to be pure to what it is: escapism. Don’t try and answer the world’s taste. Just be Bond.”

(Source: https://t.co/2g3nvwZTg3)

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@MiaBryant374659 What a self-own. Talk about complete un-self-awareness.

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@dom_lucre God cannot simultaneously have a son and not have a son.

Basic logic (first principles), primarily the law of noncontradiction.

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@MikeGarafolo @RapSheet I feel dumber for reading this.

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@Enezator @grok is this path of the sun evidence of the earth being round?

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1. The experience of chocolate as edible, pleasurable, and meaningful presupposes rational agents capable of recognizing and evaluating it.
2. Rational agents capable of genuine recognition and evaluation require an adequate metaphysical ground for rationality.
3. An adequate metaphysical ground for rationality must itself be rational, ultimate, and sufficient to explain the existence of finite rational minds.
4. God is the only adequate ultimate ground of rationality.
5. Therefore, God exists.

Just having some Tuesday morning fun.

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@dougboneparth @grok, who is this post referring to? Been away for a few days.

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@PoliceThePolic1 @LawzDelete @DeletelawZ I remember this stunt.

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@Seanperez007 @game7__ A coach cheating in any form isn't good optics.

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@InTheory42 @Osint613 I think you'd be hard pressed to demonstrate that.

Once again, how does this relate to whether churches should be taxed?

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Excerpt of John Chrysostom's Ressurection Sermon, ca. AD 400:
"Come you all: enter into the joy of your Lord. You the first and you the last, receive alike your reward; you rich and you poor, dance together; you sober and you weaklings, celebrate the day; you who have kept the fast and you who have not, rejoice today. The table is richly loaded: enjoy its royal banquet. The calf is a fatted one: let no one go away hungry. All of you enjoy the banquet of faith; all of you receive the riches of his goodness. Let no one grieve over his poverty, for the universal kingdom has been revealed; let no one weep over his sins, for pardon has shone from the grave; let no one fear death, for the death of our Saviour has set us free: He has destroyed it by enduring it, He has despoiled Hades by going down into its kingdom, He has angered it by allowing it to taste of his flesh....
O death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? Christ is risen and you are abolished. Christ is risen and the demons are cast down. Christ is risen and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen and life is freed. Christ is risen and the tomb is emptied of the dead: for Christ, being risen from the dead, has become the Leader and Reviver of those who had fallen asleep. To Him be glory and power for ever and ever. Amen."

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@InTheory42 @Osint613 I’m not following what this has to do with churches needing to be taxed, quite honestly. No one is being forced to go to private schools.

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@InTheory42 @Osint613 Are you referring to churches or parachurch organizations when suggesting that social services be moved away from the government?

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@InTheory42 @Osint613 How do you feel it violates separation of church and state? Do hospitals founded by churches receive Medicare and Medicaid funds?

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@InTheory42 @Osint613 Not to mention the fact that other non-profits will then be taxed, such as American Atheist and Doctors Without Borders.

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@InTheory42 @Osint613 Thing is, if you tax churches, they will be allowed to fund political candidates.

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@InTheory42 @Osint613 Churches do not generate business revenue. They receive donations which have already been taxed.