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Well, as someone who has a law degree himself, I would hope so! But I wasn't terribly inspired by her blunder in NH when she gushed that this was the State where the American War of Independence started. Here's hoping for better things...

To what extent is she just Sarah Palin with a law degree though?

Small point - I think Menno Simons post-dates the Roman Empire by over 1000 years.

Certainly the ecclesiology of the Radical Reformation was very different from that of the Magisterial. I'm intrigued by your comment though that their spirituality had much in common with the Orthodox - care to elaborate?

Hmmm... he certainly failed to predict that! More seriously, prayers for him and his.

Two elephants in the drawing room there: the status of Jerusalem and the right to return.

You're talking 1948-9 there. What about all those on the West Bank who have lost their homes since 1967? They weren't advised to leave. They were told - by Israeli bulldozers and tanks.

Yes, well, you've obviously never had someone turn up and turf you (or your neighbour/ relative) out of your (their) home (Irish being dispossessed by English/ Scots or Palestinians by Israelis) and then have another nationality (Americans) loudly support the right of the dispossessor to do...

Yes, well there might be a reason for that, mightn't there?

Sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about; what is the relevance of the other thread?

Depends whether you take church history seriously or not.

Exactly. Even the Anabaptists were originally Zwinglians who broke away from Zwingli on the issue of infant baptism, Zwingli himself being originally an ordained Catholic priest.

In theory, yes. In practice, these days, it just comes out of the general Inland Revenue tax pot.

I can't speak for Estonia but the answer here in the UK would be 'yes'. And, yes, it does work out cheaper per capita than the US' private insurance system.

I know that our system is the worst in the world...apart from all the others (with apologies to Churchill). It's becoming more expensive - but for the same reasons that all healthcare systems in the developed world are becoming more expensive (ageing population, more cures/ effective (but...

That's good to know,. But ISTM that it's the Christian Zionists who shout the loudest/ get the most airtime.

Why not therefore engage with the serious issue raised by the OP: what Good News do you have to bring to your Palestinian brothers and sisters?

All Christian denominations have an element of human error in them so in one sense, all are 'man-made' or at least 'man-tainted', so unless you're claiming some kind of weird papal infallability for your particular Baptist congregation (and, if so, consider what that says about the other Baptist...

I wasn't thinking of Henry VIII but rather his son, Edward VI, who was hailed - with some justification - as the new Josiah: the boy-king, intent on a root-and-branch reform. So, not so empty after all :p

I thought we weren't allowed to talk about 'Teh Gayz' here, in case it frightens the horses or something...?