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    03-22-2023, 09:59 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Full disclosure: the abortion clinic in my little town, (now closed due to the switch for 80% of abortions in my province to pharmaceutical) was on...
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    03-22-2023, 09:54 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    100% that mutual respect means mutual. And that there are many, many examples of religious folks showing none. I've already said that in a...
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    03-22-2023, 08:09 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    John, what you're not getting is the key point of my post. Your "Irrelevantist" premise is core to how you experience the world, and to how you...
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    03-22-2023, 03:51 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Where is trump? in The Bilge
    He's apparently raised about $1.5M since "leaking" the expectation. And doubtless he'll be able to use the absence of the indictment as "proof" that...
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    03-22-2023, 02:32 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Where is trump? in The Bilge
    There are some reports that he's said he wants to be handcuffed, preferably hands behind his back, for the visual impact in his later fundraising.
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    03-22-2023, 12:24 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Where is trump? in The Bilge
    Gaetz has apparently gone out saying that DeSantis is being a disloyal weenie for not saying loudly that he'd refuse to honour a New York (or...
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    03-22-2023, 11:17 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    They're not being subtle about the authoritarian turn.
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    03-22-2023, 10:53 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    Seems to me that crooks need to lawyer up too, in every proceeding. Trump's various defense attorneys are getting significant advertising exposure...
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    03-22-2023, 10:45 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    I get that, John. You really have been saying "sing Christmas carols in Christmas concerts" etc., I agree. You have been saying that coercing...
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    03-22-2023, 08:34 AM
    A data point towards proving the existence of a just God? Who's tired of this crap and isn't gonna take it anymore?
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    03-21-2023, 09:46 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    Word out tonight about the Mar a Lago documents case. Judge Howell last week ordered that one of Trump's lawyers had to answer further questions to...
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    03-21-2023, 09:34 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    You think mere words or images of persuasion or normalization of a viewpoint are innocuous? Risk no real consequences? Remind me, why did you...
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    03-21-2023, 07:24 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    No, they're not. Actually, they're all things which religious people have picketed because of their religious beliefs ... alongside non-religious...
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    03-21-2023, 10:58 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    For the similar range of reasons that people might picket any business. Maybe the owners of a company have a terrible record about environmental...
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    03-20-2023, 05:13 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Rick, I appreciate your response. Its entirely possible that I'm oversensitive by now, but it sure feels like discussions of religious folks'...
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    03-20-2023, 02:00 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    I agree. Yet it's also been drilled into me through martial arts practice that one's obligation is to practice the utmost restraint. That self...
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    03-20-2023, 01:33 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    My profs maintained that it's better translated as against murder, rather than against all killing. I can't recall the specific Hebrew wording...
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    03-20-2023, 01:04 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    Who gets to draw the lines saying that this or that law is primarily being based on specific religious values or beliefs, Tom? I mean, you...
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    03-20-2023, 08:04 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    I'm not claiming that religious groups and individual religious people haven't argued strongly against medically assisted suicide. They clearly...
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    03-19-2023, 01:39 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Religion's role in The Bilge
    To be fully honest, I know religious people who've led on each side of the "dignity in dying" issue, and a place where there is great convergence is...
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    03-19-2023, 11:32 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    He'll be convicted of something, because there are too many pieces of evidence to fully ignore. What's to argue about whether he lied about...
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    03-18-2023, 03:37 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    They're not exactly stellar at ensuring that function. Perhaps because their work is typically framed in terms of providing honorific protection to...
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    03-18-2023, 01:51 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    Seems to me that there are already criteria to determine if and when a serving or ex military person, law enforcement officer, or civil servant...
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    03-18-2023, 11:52 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    And Kevin McCarthy is responding by claiming any such charges are an abuse of power, and that he'll immediately start an investigation into whether...
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    03-18-2023, 08:45 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    So, let's hope that the Secret Service, FBI, and other law enforcement agencies are aware that the MAGAs could, maybe, possibly, be chatting with...
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    03-18-2023, 07:59 AM
    TomF replied to a thread Trump is Toast in The Bilge
    One of the advantages of all these charges from different jurisdictions, seems to me, is that it's less likely that some judge will rule that...
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    03-17-2023, 01:38 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Wet markets in The Bilge
    I learned recently why European diseases were so devastating to inhabitants of the Americas, resulting in about a 90% fatality rate within 30 years...
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    03-17-2023, 01:25 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Wet markets in The Bilge
    Traditions of eating "bushmeat" hasn't worked so well in terms of zoonotic diseases in Africa either. Ebola, AIDS, etc.
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    03-17-2023, 12:48 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    The deterrence argument has always been explicitly about incentivizing behavior which, in that time and place, was understood to be more moral. ...
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    03-17-2023, 12:27 PM
    TomF replied to a thread Was Jesus “woke”? in The Bilge
    No one ever wanted to be a slave, but perishingly few ever thought slavery as an institution was immoral before the abolition idea began to grow in...
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