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Catholics.

Remind me again, how many Chinese did the Japanese army kill? How many of them were CIVILIANS? Moral outrage is a strange thing.

If only we had an expert trained in Jewish traditions to properly interpret the original cultural roots and scriptural references that Jesus made (a Pharisee of Pharisees who studied under Gamaliel might be helpful), but someone also familiar with western cultural traditions (a Roman citizen...

Not an ”authoritative” source by any stretch of the imagination, but I asked and Google AI provided a summary: when did the catholic church address the corruption that Luther complained about The Catholic Church officially and comprehensively addressed the financial and clerical corruption...

Martin Luther from a Catholic Perspective | Faithful Critique

So who is in charge of the Middle East now?

Martin Luther took aim at a church that had lost its way. Popes bought elections and then needed to raise money to pay the debt that generated. Illiterate wandering priests sold writs of salvation for your dead relatives to escape torment and enter heaven. When Martin sought to have his case...

So let’s hit the issue head on … Let’s assume that R.C. Sproul is a reasonable source to begin a discussion on the definition of “What is Hypercalvinism”. Here is a (less than 1 minute) quote from Ligonier Ministries: Using Dr. Sproul’s explanation of “positive-positive” and...

It is over 3 hours long!

What does Solomon know? ;)

I watched some of it. Hyperbolic nonsense. A fool on Fox talks about invading Iran and wiping them out (a nonsensical strategy and goal) and this response is reacting as if the POTUS suggested the action to Congress in a request for a Declaration of War. Nobody is invading. Nobody is wiping...

Could we define “all out war”? I mean, if we are talking about total, unrestricted, fight for survival warfare (like WW2), then I think a full scale U.S. Nuclear Strike on Iran would be very effective … but unimaginably remote of a possibility. So why are we even discussing it? Since anything...

Many common prescription medications list weight gain as a known side effect. This weight increase typically happens because the drug alters metabolism, increases appetite, promotes fluid retention, or impacts how the body processes sugars. The most common classes of medications associated with...

How many of Jesus’ sermons addressed “gluttony” and how many addressed the hard heart of “judging others”? Perhaps we have the “accent” on the wrong “syllable”. ;)

I suspect “gluttony” is not about food or being overweight when the Bible talks about such things. Y’all are pastors (by and large) and I am not … but sin and I are no strangers. Starting with Adam and Eve and the fruit in the garden, it was pleasant to look at, delightful to the senses and...