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In the late 1800s it took an impassioned and erudite plea from Seventh Day Adventist, AT Jones before the US congressional sub committee to help defeat a proposal to introduce Sunday laws in Washington DC. Interestingly, Sunday blue laws have been defended by the USSC on several occasions...

The above quote tells me that your quote below... .. Is just empty rhetoric. You haven't dug deep enough. Keep digging.

Now you may think that because that pope wrote a few letters to the effect that religious freedom is now all the go in Vatican circles, 1500 years of war, persecution, hated and bigotry against anything not of Rome, suggests to me that the leopard has not, and despite protestations to the...

Our actions are formed through our relationship with Jesus. By beholding we become changed. By beholding Jesus, in His self sacrificial loving goodness, we become like Him. Some however have a very skewed understanding of who God is. They think He's cruel, tyrannical, unapproachable, distant...

Sorry @Grailhunter I wasnt intending to quote your post, I was replying to @Yehren and asking him initially what his thoughts were toward Catholic attitudes toward the constitution and freedom of religion. But seeing your here lol... May I ask your to expand on this please?

See, I'm somewhat confused by your enthusiastic support for separation, considering the Catholic Church historical ambivalence and at times outright hostility toward the constitution. Freedom of religion has long been the furthest principle from the minds of those in the curia and Halls of power...

Yep, I meet it all the time as a Seventh Day Adventist wanting to share the blessings that come with observing the Sabbath. I'm always met with an automated reply that refuses to consider our think about other options... The reply I always get is, we don't have to obey the law any more. That's...

I totally agree with you. Separation didn't mean a complete expunging of faith in politics... In fact the separation clause was established upon the premise of faith. Oh, and the biggest champions of church state separation and freedom of religion is the SDA Church, and the chaplain you spoke of...

For those kiwis here may be interested a new political party just launched today. I don't recommend the music, but the speeches are interesting... They express much of what we talk about here...

I could add more, like the promise made by Jesus Himself to Adam and Eve in the garden. Did you know the more correct understanding of Eve's declaration when she gave birth to Cain would be a paraphrase saying something like, I have gotten from the Lord, the Lord. There is sound language...

You probably thought of this so I would like to know your reasoning on why you would reject it as support for Joseph's idea? KJV Revelation 13 8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Do you know who funded and supported the revolution against the Tzars? And why? With the result being imperial communism? Ever heard of the Hegelian dialectic, and how the conflict between the west and east, communism and capitalism, left and right, Democrat and Republican, conservative and...

Yeah me too... If we legally could.

So it would appear. Can the school legally hire Christian teachers ahead of non Christian if the unbeliever had better qualifications?

Yep. I work as a bus driver for a Christian School. Not many students going to school these days so was delivering some books to the homes instead. Fun meeting the parents. But one family is new to the school. And the student will be catching the bus but they're way outside my normal area so we...

Hahahaha. If I knew at the time it was such a rare sight I would have been more enthusiastic. I saw my first wombat a couple nights ago. After three years in Oz that excited me. Wanted to take it home.

And if it does come we can't go see it. Forced to stay home inside with the fire. Oh dear, what a pity, how sad. Not.

Lots of stories about those Kea. Always take a hire car when traveling to the mountains. You'll be going home without any rubber... Wiper blades... Door seals... Anything that can be removed will be removed. Or bent completely out of shape.

Yep, took a trip up Mt Donna last winter. Cold. My wife wouldn't get out of the car...I climbed to the top of the tower and stayed there for all of 5 seconds and retreated back to the car. Wasnt much to see. Bit of ice here and there. And a lot of fog. And a lyrebird.

perhaps they don't need to while you're here.