Not to discount “bad faith” or “general sloppiness”, but I wonder if it’s a tell that to them “school prayer” actually means “we can force everyone to pray a specific Christian prayer, and punish those who don’t or won’t”. Sometimes I think this is exactly what they mean.

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People tend to use it as “men vs women”, but I think it’s acting in more of “humans vs animals”. When we give into base desires, we drop down to the level of animals.

I wonder if there are differences in how disciplines add authors. Single author engineering papers were very rare (post docs, collab faculty, PI, etc were typically added where I did grad work)

There were a series of articles pre book if I recall. blog.christilling.de/2022/02/mike... links the series. One of those might be a good start (pt 5 maybe?)

The one time Jesus got his ass handed to him

It really does seem like there is a group of christians who see God as primarily exercising authority and power, and a group who see God as partnering with humanity, even becoming a human to experience life with us.

Later in the discussion the interviewer said “if it comes down to ‘final say’ then you’ve already lost.” It really struck me that it’s the same discussion, but here no one really batted an eye, or said “whoa, whoa, how can you not have a final say”

I saw an interview recently with a NFL head coach, asked about how he works with his General Manager. Coach said “it’s a collaboration, if we can’t meet in the middle then we move on from that decision.”

I think it’s more likely that their theology is a consequence of needing to justify enslavement.

Hexagons are the Bestagons

My wife’s family (that we adopted w our kids) did a Christmas morning dish of “batter bread” that is a mushy cake but with corn meal instead of flower. I’ve heard it’s also called “Virginia Spoon Bread” in places

The bit about the gravity was interesting. They talked about ‘you can’t defy it without consequences’, but the point of a natural law is that you can’t defy it at all. Gravity doesn’t need someone to defend it, it just works. If their hierarchy was also a law, it also wouldn’t need defending.

There are *so many* strange things about Isaac’s story.

I do think it’s interesting that Gen 2.24 is “and they become one flesh” and not “and she becomes his flesh”

I can’t just break something and say “I’m sorry”. I need to fix or replace what I broke, with something extra. After I reconcile with the person, I have to go and be reconciled to God.

I know we have a complicated relationship with the Law, but I think this relates to your article - They must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value to it and give it all to the owner ... And as a penalty they must bring … a ram from the flock, one … of the proper value - Lev 6:5-6