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Thomas Sowell has five books on that list—how accurate is that? That seems slanted. You mean to tell me that if I want a solid education from just reading 100 books, that I need to devote 5 percent of that to Thomas Sowell? How? In what way can I not glean from just one or two of his works...

Sure, but I was only agreeing with your point about the first sin not coming from man's brokenness. The first sin broke him.

And @Clete said the fruit is faith, so I guess I was wrong about it not being partisan and controversial lol.

"and arranged to have him asked 3 times" was the rest of the post I was responding to.

With the Biden administration coming to its end, the Europeans are no longer able to just sit on their hands: This quote is from June 2022—sound familiar? President Trump's not having any or that, he just wants a truce, a ceasefire, a peace deal. And he's not a sucker. The deal will be a...

It was provocative, for sure. Millennials are the ones who turned us back toward being anti-abortion as a country, 'got to give the devil his due. I mean they made it fall back into the Overton window again.

Canada would be the most populous state by a smidge, if population data I've seen is accurate (they have a little bit more than California), so they'd get their two Senators plus a ton of Congressmen in Washington, and Ottawa would remain their seat of government. We can't really offer full...

It was prompted literally by a possessed by a demon (the original demon) serpent. It's the first time in the Bible demons are seen capable of possessing an animal, but not the last.

All makes sense until you sin (I would say especially sin gravely, but I'm a standard Roman Catholic so that might be unnecessarily obfuscating) especially seriously, like adultery or something. Do you think an adulterer, a habitual adulterer, could be a regenerated Christian? I mean as a...

How are we to determine what is and what is not good fruit? Is or isn't that supposed to be objective, or is it subjective? I think it's supposed to be objective, and plus fairly obv too. Like you say a fig, like @Lon says an apple. obv. No controversy. So I guess this figure if we're...

They make great cider. Better than palatable apples actually, because palatable apples have too much natural sugar in them, crab apples make a nicer cider.

What's the difference. This is what I've been trying to say all along, and I mean, since like 2003. Ask Sozo.

So 15 Nisan being the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread and happening also to be a Sabbath is like two days in one.

What would you recommend for left-wing counterbalance?

15 Nisan along with it being the first day of the feast of Unleavened Bread is also a Sabbath, because it fell on a Saturday. So it's like two holidays, the standard weekly holiday of the Sabbath, and now also, because it's 15 Nisan (and 15 Nisan can fall on any day of the week unlike the...

Another aspiring Democrat has fallen. https://lite.cnn.com/2025/03/09/politics/gavin-newsom-democrats-trans-athletes/index.html

If we're not to take the Bible so seriously, then what do you propose instead, in order that we can discern His will and His Word to and for us and for our children and children's children? What is your thought?

We formally recognize days as starting at midnight, we practically consider them to start at dawn. The ancient Levant practically considered them to start at dusk. So while what they would say is the beginning of Monday, at dusk following Sunday's daytime, we would call that still Sunday...

Maundy Thursday uses our nomenclature, our timeline. Dusk, sundown, is still called the same day until midnight, so the day we call Thursday turns into Thursday evening, not Friday evening. By your reasoning it happened on Friday evening, but by our convention it was Thursday night.

God loves a cheerful giver. Lent is about cheerful giving, not grudging giving or giving because you have to give.