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BTW it's worth noting that the original name of the organization called Americans United for Separation of Church and State was Protestants and Others United for Separation of Church and State.

True, Baptists have come a long way from the beginnings in England, where they were beaten and imprisoned by the church-state that produced the KJV Bible, and in America where the dominant church did them the same way, depending on the particular colony or location. So they were "free church in...

I have been up and down with weight; gradually the fluctuations have risen on the graph to where "up" is more up and "down" is less down. My list of comments here are not advice, unless the reader desires them to be so. They are only opinions based on 4+ decades of experience...

I have never served on a pulpit committee or search committee, but I have seen some awkward moments and tactics used by them. One time the church I was in was the meeting place for a committee and a potential pastor, and I thought then that it seemed I was watching a sales pitch that didn't...

Nope. First, it's the 19th Amendment you are referring to. Second, no part of the constitution guarantees anyone the right to vote. They make it illegal to deny the right to vote for certain reasons. That can be used as a 'trick question' in a civics or government class, but it's true that...

I have heard many people (young and not so young) speak evil of their parents. If you have also, how many have you put to death for it?

If the teacher asked "Why Colonel Sanders?" maybe Arlene Francis could have advised the kid what else to say :laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk4Eq8IcQMk

Going from memory (w/o checking), I recall there is a perfect game with an * in the record book, but I don't remember the pitcher. It is there because the starting pitcher put the first batter on first base (don't remember how), then had to leave the game for some reason. The pitcher who came in...

The average major league baseball game is 2 hours and 50 minutes, and there are 162 games for each team, and as many as 19 post season. If replay is going to be used it must be very limited in its scope. And unlike football, a coach/manager cannot simply lose a timeout if he demands a replay...

Because you were in a class in which the teacher was always saying "Be yourself?"

It means being a Christian is a 3-fold paradox. "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live;-- a dead person who is alive. "yet not I, but Christ liveth in me:"-- one person who is another. "and the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God,"-- a natural person...

What should such a person say? "Shut up and don't praise my voice!"? A voice results from physical qualities that we don't decide. But it can be changed to some extent. Minor surgeries can eliminate or lessen lisping, for example. But I have never known anyone who converted to Christ and...

Gifts / spiritual gifts? I have stated before on here that I have come to have doubts as to whether anybody has these or not. Now my position is strongly on the side of 'not.' I really don't know anyone who had no wisdom, teaching ability, mercy, exhortation, or any of the others, and just...

And neither does "life sentence without parole." So why do you advocate that?

"...let them be for signs, and for seasons..." And they-- the stars, planets, and moons-- are that, in fact. If you can identify a certain point at which an outstanding star is at a certain time of a certain day in the year, you can count the days to discover how many are in a year. You see...

Should he have gotten life without parole?

But if you were consistent, you would say Paul, a murderer, should get "life in prison without parole." Should he have?

Then what happens to your following Jesus' example and forgive? Besides, execution and "life in prison without parole" are really the same thing-- taking someone's liberty for the rest of the person's life, then shove him in the ground. How many did Paul tell his testimony to? To me, for...

Yeah; how many more buildings is Timothy McVeigh going to bomb?

This was before I was born, but in my "village" -- a town, per se, of about 250 then-- was a man who was illiterate, had never learned manners, and what language he knew was hard to understand. He stayed with different farm families, who let him sleep in the barn and gave him the scraps from...