(October 10, 2012 at 1:19 pm)festive1 Wrote:(October 10, 2012 at 1:11 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Things can change very rapidly and it's happened before in America. Consider that I was born in 1968. In my lifetime, we went from segregation to electing our first black president. Perhaps a similar enlightenment will happen with religion in America.
Ah, but even though we've gone from the Jim Crow era to electing a black president, there's still that pesky racism problem that everyone tries to ignore or gloss over. It's progress, but perhaps not enough...
Point taken. We still have plenty of "dog whistles".
Our first black president is also the first president who's had to prove he's "one of us" by publishing his birth certificate, and the first president who's been heckled by a congressman during a state of the union address, and the first president repeatedly and seriously accused of being a "socialist". I don't think that's a coincidence.
Everything changes in stages. Old ideas die like radioactive particles decay with their "half lives".
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
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... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
