Posted on 12/13/2019 3:47:37 PM PST by Jamestown1630
I'd just like to thank the Admin Moderators on this website, whom I believe do a very good job (even though I was chastised on one of my earliest posts, because I didn't yet understand what the thread designation 'caucus' meant :-)
Instead of shameless public grovelling and flattery, you could be like me and just slip them a cool $5.00 to leave you alone.
Opus...... the singular of opera.
I have not seen an opus in a very long time.
Old Freepers never opus, they just lurk away
Well,
He is the Pope,
What ever That means.
Rather, FR is not called a non-Christian site, and instead the owner (thank God) boldly has stated,
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The other sites out there are mean, harsh and don’t give anyone a break.
To varying degrees that is much the case
Ya have to bear up to get on them and take the abuse. I come on Free Republic for a nice relief.. when I can’t watch the news (which is frequently), I come here and hear fellow citizens equally mad at the left. It’s company.
Indeed, with no ads. A rare breed.
More correctly, there are some on these threads who claim to be Christians.
Contending for one's faith often becomes a heated discussion.
Some are able to discuss/debate in public forums....some cannot handle when their beliefs are challenged and will cry to the mods to have threads pulled. I have personally experienced this.
If a person cannot defend their faith without shutting down any discussion....is it a faith worth defending?
The religionmoderator's comments on this are appropriate.
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Open threads are in a town square format.
Antagonism though not encouraged, should be expected
Posters may argue for or against beliefs, deities, religious authorities, etc. They may tear down other’s beliefs. They may ridicule. “Open” RF debate is often contentious.
It requires thick skin. A poster must be able to make his points while standing his ground, suffering adverse remarks about his beliefs - or letting them roll off his back.
Members of religions which are as much culture as belief sometimes take religious debate personally. If you keep getting your feelings hurt because other posters ridicule or disapprove or hate what you hold dear, then you are too thin-skinned to be involved in “open” RF debate. You should IGNORE “open” RF threads altogether and instead post to RF threads labeled “prayer” “devotional” “caucus” or “ecumenical.”
thank you sir, may I have another?
They’ve never bothered me; in general they’ve always seemed pretty judicious.
Humble Gunner, on the other hand...
You could send your comment to everyone who checks in here.
Yes, this site is what you have written ... after obama was elected, I was on here.. it was a dreadful outcome twice.... and hard to fathom. The media loved him and I could not watch the man nor the adoration.. I was on FR for news and company.
Always interesting to read the prior battles.
And now I read Drudge is gone South.
I quit drudge long before he sold out... he actually “sold out” before he quit. He didn’t like Trump. Anyone who does not like Trump and has no legit reason, I consider too ignorant to do some research and notice.. they are followers and followers are weak people... IMHO
I don’t think you can compare religion and politics.
Faith involves very different ways of ‘knowing’ and getting at truth, than just logic, reason and philosophy.
I don’t know if you were on ‘Usenet’ in the late ‘80s and ‘90s’, but if you were, I think you’d greatly value the mods here. Their job description isn’t to ‘delete posts’, but to uphold a certain ‘tone’ and general rules of conduct.
-JT, ‘Suckup’
I have no interest in ‘contending’ for my faith.
I just want to be an example of it.
The whole thing sounds a caucied to me.
All but one...
Are you serious? Politics is just logic, reason and philosophy, and does not involve very different ways of ‘knowing.’
Is Christian faith no based upon a degree of evidential warrant, or blind confidence? What evidence provided warrant for the beliefs of America's founders, and how is that separate from religion?
What was the implicit moral authority of the moral values of the Founders overall.
Why was religion deemed to be necessary, and what general faith was their reference?
Where you think even enlightenment values flowed from that are reflected in the thinking of the Founders, and where did their precepts and principals flow from?
Like what?
That’s your prerogative.
It seems to me that Hebrews 11, for instance, is describing a faculty very different from logic and reason. In a way, it argues against those and for a superior faculty.
Maybe someday we’ll codify these ephemeral things and understand them intellectually; but I don’t think the intellect will ever be able to fully comprehend the substance of what we’re getting at when we speak of or experience ‘faith’.
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