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Hardly. @Wrangler is a unitarian. He is registered here as a “Christian“ member. Some “Christian” members object to the Board allowing him (or any other non-trinitarian) to have that registration. Do you? I made the decision to change my registration. He made the decision not to change his...

I publicly discussed it with moderators and administration. I made a proposal to change my registration - they didn’t ask me to, nor did they require me to - and after some public dialogue between them and me, they approved my proposal and honored my request. The conversation is preserved on the...

A link to the story behind my change in registration here: Post in thread 'Continuing Education' Continuing Education

I am and it does. (I registered as a “Christian” member and later changed my registration to “Other Faith”. I’ve explained why I changed my registration of several occasions.) You’re wrong.

Would it be fair to say that you are a Roman Catholic apologist / sympathizer?

I’m not a Jew, and neither is Reverend Watts (post #1760). I’m a Jewish monotheist; a primitive Christian. Reverend Watts isn’t.

”Attempts to provide biblical warrants for Christian participation in warfare have long been offered by those who reject Christ-centered nonviolence. Some of the arguments that have frequently been offered in defense of Christians on the battlefield go back to the fourth century to Ambrose and...

There is no sufficient justification for disobeying the teaching of Jesus and the Apostles. Following the example set by Jesus, the Apostles, and the earliest Christians isn’t an “evil ideology,” nor is it ”lazy and cowardly abdication, complete abdication to DO JUSTICE.”

The early Christians didn’t respond to persecution in the same the way the pope did. Which example should we follow? I advocate for the one which aligns with the teaching and practice of Jesus and the Apostles.

“It is a grievous failure of those who claim to be the people of God when they not only fail to be a sanctuary for the traumatized but also create the need for one.” - Diane Langberg

Among other things, I’m a retired adjunct college professor and church history is, among other things, one of the subjects I taught. “Enough of this! Put away your sword.” Do you recognize the speaker of those words? I imagine that you do.

Tying this in with post #1750. His answer came in response to my counsel to wait for Jesus. I’m speaking as a 21st century representative of the pacifistic early church - “wait for Jesus”; @Wrangler is speaking as a 21st century representative of the later militaristic church - “no waiting...

“… by the time of Constantine the Church was giving explicit approval of warfare as a restraint of evil. So effusive was the Church in its praise that during the reign of Theodosius II (408-450), all pagans were purportedly discharged from military service and only Christians were permitted to...

It is the role and responsibility of the government, not the church, to control immigration.