How did I miss this one (article)?

At any rate, looks like NY Mike and others have pretty much
said everything I'd have said...and better than I would've
said it.

Biggest problem I've run into as a gun enthusiast is that
people tend to want to control/dominate those that they
don't trust.

Co-workers who hate guns told me they wouldn't even trust
themselves with guns, implying that I definitely should not
have them since one generally tends to trust oneself more
than someone else. It's a simple but practical argument
that gets thrown at me from time to time, putting me in
the virtually impossible defensive postion of trying to
reassure them that I am responsible and that they have
nothing to fear.

Thankfully our God-given constitution still protects me from
being controlled/dominated by others to a high degree...at
least in THIS area.

Why should we marvel when elected officials can't control
spending when many of those who elect them have huge credit
card debt themselves.

Mr. Walker's got his work cut out for him, but he can only
influence elected officials, not those who elect them.

Still, I had no idea of the extent of homosexuality's
advancement within the church and its increased
advocacy by contemporary "Christians" until I
read your link.

Thanks, Jim from Nebraska

Instead of teasing the readers with references to 1 Cor 15:26,
why not first deal with Rom 6:23?

By then I'd not only returned to Christ but had also
thoroughly embraced the Reformed persuasion of Christian
faith.

My older brother, who by that time was completely apostate,
having abandoned a more-than-convincing Christian conviction
from his youth, couldn't get enough of The Simpsons while I
saw them as essentially an animated version of an older show
called, "Married with Children", which was just as depraved
if not quite as sophisticated and subtle as The Simpsons.

It was yet another "litmus test", showing (at least generally)
that the people of God tend to hate what is loved by the people
of Satan, and vice versa.

"...Carter believed then and still does now is that evil really does not exist;
people are basically good..."

Even tyrants understand human depravity...which is probably why they (terroists)
so easilly got the upper hand on us during the late 70's Iranian hostage crisis,
which I still vividly remember, as I was just entering college at the time.

At least the prophets of Baal only had
to cut themselves and bleed themselves
as part of worship at it's best--or worst.

Then again, I'm told, that the church
father, Origin cut *something else* off
in order to reduce temptation and sin in
his life, and thus "please" God.

My prayer is that when I'm called upon to give answers to
questions posed by non-believers that my answers are as
Biblical as possible and understood by the listener as
as much as possible.

If I or my church is "producing" atheists, I want it to be
because they are running away from the true God, and not a
distortion, caused by bad doctrine, bad behavior, or miss-
peaking on the part of myself or my church.

Of course, God ultimately must do the actual saving, as
Jerry pointed out earler.

I guess it's easier and more savory to plant trees than
try to cultivate stuff that continually corrupts swimming
pools, fountains, and water parks.

We live in a fallen world.

U.S. Post office recently released a stamp featuring a famous
portrait of Jazz musician, Robert Johnson, with a cigarette
hanging out of his mouth--except that the cigarette was edited
out prior to the stamp's manufacture because post office didn't
want to be accused of influencing people to smoke cigarettes.

"The RCC had no problem with the death penalty in the middle ages."

Interesting observation, and probably why the RCC has BIG problems
with the death penalty now. Not just because of their guilt over
misuse of death penalty in the past, but any resurgence of support
for death penalty on the part of the RCC would no doubt give their
opponents the opportunity to smear them by claiming that the RCC
is "returning to its old ways".

I can still remember when an idea like this would've been unthinkable,
the basic argument then being: Women are the source of human life,
which is the most precious resource of any society by far, and thus
would want them (women) to be kept as far away from harm (especially
WAR) as possible.