tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post3415500711537716324..comments2024-01-03T05:18:54.650-05:00Comments on CDR Salamander: Sal, what type of evangelical are you again?CDR Salamanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05981221786954902349noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-21147225524718482462011-08-09T08:32:24.678-04:002011-08-09T08:32:24.678-04:00Thanks, but no reason to feel sorry as far as I...Thanks, but no reason to feel sorry as far as I'm concerned. I'm quite happy not dealing with the church.Robbonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-81604276585178404372011-08-09T08:27:12.372-04:002011-08-09T08:27:12.372-04:00Sorry to hear that. Just because I quit attending ...Sorry to hear that. Just because I quit attending Catholic church, does not mean that I stopped believing in God.Byronnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-78413848286838510922011-08-09T06:35:41.593-04:002011-08-09T06:35:41.593-04:00Long time reader/lurker here.
I grew up Catholic, ...Long time reader/lurker here.<br />I grew up Catholic, but I don't believe in any gods anymore.Robbonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-83211221850964508442011-08-08T12:17:42.091-04:002011-08-08T12:17:42.091-04:00Well, AR, they are somewhat secular. In that the ...Well, AR, they are somewhat secular. In that the values are not necessarily religiously based any longer, but are held by those who embrace the values of Western society irrespective of faith. But they are far from universal. And there's the rub. If we decry those values, and the origin of them in Western society, then we have little by way of a societal moral compass. <br /><br />Which lends itself nicely to moral relativism, and the paradigm described above with no moral guideposts.UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-40919885902614522702011-08-08T10:57:48.723-04:002011-08-08T10:57:48.723-04:00meh. I will continue to operate under the belief ...meh. I will continue to operate under the belief that, despite the fact that the man who first coined the phrase was Cannonized by the Catholic Church, the notions of the "just cause" and "just conduct" are secular and universal. Of course I am also 6 months behind on my diversity GMTs...so my opinion is pretty well moot.Actus Rhesusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-8781735883770793192011-08-08T10:36:32.787-04:002011-08-08T10:36:32.787-04:00Liking this twice. (That's ST. THOMAS AQUINAS...Liking this twice. (That's ST. THOMAS AQUINAS for some of us... with a mind great enough to humbly understand its own limitations.)DeltaBravonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-64453581731198265562011-08-08T10:18:21.932-04:002011-08-08T10:18:21.932-04:00No, no, no, AR. Moral guideposts are so, well, Ju...No, no, no, AR. Moral guideposts are so, well, Judeo-Christian! And if there is anything we will not stand for in the Obama post-American (well, post-American prosperity, anyway) world, it is Judeo-Christian values. <br /><br />Everything should be defined and decided by argument, counter-argument, and decision before the bench. No pesky objective guidposts like religious tenets (unless they are Islam's), or the Constitution, should be allowed to cloud the genius of our bold new age. They get in the way of the moral relativism that makes our enemies who murder the innocent intentionally the equivalent of our servicemen who risk their lives to save them, if there is a single innocent life lost due to US action. <br /><br />Going back to my Ramadan fasting, because eating during daylight hours this month is offensive to those who would put me to death....UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-87544689869052233362011-08-08T09:26:43.897-04:002011-08-08T09:26:43.897-04:00heathen papist here, who has absolutley ZERO hesit...heathen papist here, who has absolutley ZERO hesitation in including Aquinas alongside Clausewitz in all the Law of War seminars I teach.<br /><br />shooters need to understand the concept of jus in bello. the brass need to understand jus ad bellum.<br /><br />Full stop.Actus Rhesusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-23060350051229550402011-08-08T09:08:29.141-04:002011-08-08T09:08:29.141-04:00They recite the Sailor's Creed at your church?...They recite the Sailor's Creed at your church? AWESOME! :)LT Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-16544473127622481452011-08-08T08:23:18.639-04:002011-08-08T08:23:18.639-04:00Come on, Scott. Dem white people had it comin'...Come on, Scott. Dem white people had it comin'. I am sure Eric Holder, he of the lecture about being cowards about race, will <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550604574361071968458430.html" rel="nofollow">investigate and prosecute to the fullest extent of the law </a>those responsible. <br /><br />Reverse the colors of the perps and the victims, and the Organizer and Bigot in Chief would already have made an address to the Nation to rail about evil whitey, and would already have pushed legislation championing the rights of what <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0311/Eric_Holder_Black_Panther_case_focus_demeans_my_people.html" rel="nofollow">Holder describes as "my people"</a> over, well, those not his people. <br /><br />So why do we think "economic justice" is any less of a ploy to persecute one group to benefit the other?UltimaRatioRegisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-48257936511739436422011-08-08T07:35:09.045-04:002011-08-08T07:35:09.045-04:00<span>Well, don't bring that New Americ...<span><i>Well, don't bring that New American Standard Bible anywhere near the USAF. Now they're scrapping the Just War Theory Ethics class at Vandenburg because it (gasp! choke!) QUOTES THE BIBLE. <br /> <br />They called it right wing funamentalist Christianity. Which I think would amuse Thomas Aquinas to have that label, but that's just my conjecture.</i> </span><br /><br />Ah yes, the (over)reaction to the so-called "Fundamentalist Christian" problem at USAFA...the gift that keeps on giving...Grumpy Old Hamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-23752520189126120922011-08-08T05:29:33.992-04:002011-08-08T05:29:33.992-04:00Growing up in the old American Lutheran Church in ...Growing up in the old American Lutheran Church in the 70's, they lived up to the old creed of "Wherever Four shall congregate; There will usually be a Fifth."dcnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-8487978645987452282011-08-08T02:04:21.018-04:002011-08-08T02:04:21.018-04:00Ah, yes, the tendency of Lutherans to split whenev...Ah, yes, the tendency of Lutherans to split whenever possible. They say that if you get three Lutherans together, you will soon have 4 Synods.SCOTTtheBADGERnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-60995852819684506072011-08-08T02:02:48.890-04:002011-08-08T02:02:48.890-04:00Doesn't sound like Lutherans were the culprits...Doesn't sound like Lutherans were the culprits, though.SCOTTtheBADGERnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-77037101613034025152011-08-08T00:24:33.778-04:002011-08-08T00:24:33.778-04:00Seems to be a lot of Lutherans represented amongst...Seems to be a lot of Lutherans represented amongst your readers, CDR. I'll happily add to the numbers as yet another member of the ELCA. I find that many evangelicals get a bad rap because of the small percentage who like to think that it's a necessity t o prove their faith by rubbing others' faces in their one, true version of Christianity. Sounds like another group of religious fanatics. . .Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-48966825530739680632011-08-07T19:04:29.378-04:002011-08-07T19:04:29.378-04:00How old are you now? How old are you now? How ol...How old are you now? How old are you now? How old are you Byron...How old are you now?<br /><br /> :)Salty Gatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-42398653041840117512011-08-07T19:03:14.400-04:002011-08-07T19:03:14.400-04:00The CO of my NROTC unit brought in a reserve Capta...The CO of my NROTC unit brought in a reserve Captain Chaplain to lecture us in our L&M course on the morality of warfare. It was not a "requried" class, but everyone showed. Two civvies who were taking the class as an elective tried to ask about "separation of Church and state..." we promptly dismissed them.Salty Gatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-47444752787010073012011-08-07T18:56:15.353-04:002011-08-07T18:56:15.353-04:00'Taint sayin'. Christian, protestant, bel...'Taint sayin'. Christian, protestant, believer. More than that, 'taint sayin'.Grandpa Bluewater.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-39054718522116267442011-08-07T18:40:47.314-04:002011-08-07T18:40:47.314-04:00NAS? Well there's the problem. If it was goo...NAS? Well there's the problem. If it was good enough for Jesus, the KJV is good enough for me (now if I can just convince my Episcopalian Cathedral to go back to it ....)<br /><br />We are in full communion with the ELCAandrewdbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-50119043776823100012011-08-07T18:37:29.356-04:002011-08-07T18:37:29.356-04:00My college classmates that went into the Air Force...My college classmates that went into the Air Force to be missileers told me about the classes/training they had on the morality of shooting nuclear weapons at people....they then asked me what my classes were like in the Navy? I said "what classes"?!!?<br /><br />It may have changed now but I can tell you that in the late 80's and early 90's it was assumed that you did not have a problem shooting nuclear weapons at the other side if you were involved with Navy nukes onboard submarines.<br /><br />Only when properly instructed, of course...Seannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-44441441798868935672011-08-07T17:46:56.605-04:002011-08-07T17:46:56.605-04:00Servants have less to say than Kings .....
Christ...Servants have less to say than Kings .....<br /><br />Christ was a servant who stooped to conquor.<br /><br /><br />...........small Independent Baptist Church here.Retired Nownoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-76609840041659084292011-08-07T17:08:44.136-04:002011-08-07T17:08:44.136-04:00Hmmmm. came back to see. appreciate everyones...Hmmmm. came back to see. appreciate everyones' input.<br />might as well kick in an intro on me then, too<br />Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day SaintsCampbellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-65851700861711399342011-08-07T16:46:42.407-04:002011-08-07T16:46:42.407-04:00Interesting thing about Pharisees ... the portraya...Interesting thing about Pharisees ... the portrayal they get from the verifiable historical record, including a massive collection of still-extant writings, doesn't really match up that closely with the portrayal that they get in Christianity. Oddly, the greatest likelihood is that Jesus himself <i>was</i> a Pharisee. His teachings are very much in line with the general trend of Pharisaical thought, and his identity as an itinerant rabbi ministering to the poor fits with this as well. Paul, on the other hand ... very little about his portrayal resonates with anything from history, at face value. His use of language, word choice, grammar, evident level of education, philosophical positions, etc., do not fit.LT Rustynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-48331074347519152072011-08-07T16:28:30.934-04:002011-08-07T16:28:30.934-04:00I became an inactive church member for the same re...I became an inactive church member for the same reason. Trying to pressure a change in the law to force others to follow my religious beliefs is too closely aligned to Taliban thinking for me!Rodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7704146.post-77142485294733955382011-08-07T15:45:22.592-04:002011-08-07T15:45:22.592-04:00Ooh! A pyro reader! :)
Reformed Baptist here.Ooh! A pyro reader! :) <br /><br />Reformed Baptist here.Heathernoreply@blogger.com