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The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing while expecting different results. So if I were to keep it up, yup---I would be. But I'm done.
The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing while expecting different results. So if I were to keep it up, yup---I would be. But I'm done.
I have something really hard to tell you BF. You noped out on that hope 17,227 posts ago.
And btw, you may not be suggesting that it is ok, but you are consistently attempting to excuse it, as youd did with the bolded baove.
It strikes me how easy and risk-free it is for a 21st century Christian to declare that slavery or the subjugation of women are wrong. But, I do wonder what their stance would have been if they were alive when those were hot-button cultural issues. Would they have eschewed the traditional "bibical world-view" and joined forces with the abolitionists and the [alleged] heretics and the uppity women who didn't know heir place?
It strikes me how easy and risk-free it is for a 21st century Christian to declare that slavery or the subjugation of women are wrong. But, I do wonder what their stance would have been if they were alive when those were hot-button cultural issues. Would they have eschewed the traditional "biblical world-view" and joined forces with the abolitionists and the [alleged] heretics and the uppity women who didn't know heir place?
The general societal tendency of the so-called "masses" to conform suggests they would probably not have been among the champions of those rights, IMO.
It strikes me how easy and risk-free it is for a 21st century Christian to declare that slavery or the subjugation of women are wrong. But, I do wonder what their stance would have been if they were alive when those were hot-button cultural issues. Would they have eschewed the traditional "bibical world-view" and joined forces with the abolitionists and the [alleged] heretics and the uppity women who didn't know heir place?
I would say the majority would conform. I say that based on how society acted during the pandemic against those that questioned the government's advice/mandates.
We also see that in history...the wearing of the yellow star by Jews, the witch burnings, etc.
The "good people" followed and believe what they were told at that time so they condoned it and even supported it.
All past has to be taken into context.
I would say the majority would conform. I say that based on how society acted during the pandemic against those that questioned the government's advice/mandates.
We also see that in history...the wearing of the yellow star by Jews, the witch burnings, etc.
The "good people" followed and believe what they were told at that time so they condoned it and even supported it.
All past has to be taken into context.
It strikes me how easy and risk-free it is for a 21st century Christian to declare that slavery or the subjugation of women are wrong. But, I do wonder what their stance would have been if they were alive when those were hot-button cultural issues. Would they have eschewed the traditional "bibical world-view" and joined forces with the abolitionists and the [alleged] heretics and the uppity women who didn't know heir place?
It is the women and the enslaved who always were andvare the first to rise up and demand their personhood, even in the face of death. Eventually the arc of justice prevails. The divinity in their hearts among rest leads them to see the injustice and bend the arc. The rest will always fight it. We will always have those.
I would say the majority would conform. I say that based on how society acted during the pandemic against those that questioned the government's advice/mandates.
We also see that in history...the wearing of the yellow star by Jews, the witch burnings, etc.
The "good people" followed and believe what they were told at that time so they condoned it and even supported it.
All past has to be taken into context.
Do you mean the folks who concocted a laundry list of bible-based reasons to exempt themselves from vaccines and mandates?
I'm going to guess stuff like Wicca, Gaia, Voodoo. Probably more as well.
Voodoo (Vodun) is definitely NOT "New Age."
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