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Put another way, liberals are more intelligent than conservatives. From Psychology Today: "Analyses of large representative samples, from both the United States and the United Kingdom, confirm this prediction.  In both countries, more intelligent children are more likely to grow up to be...

To the Fundamentalists and Evangelicals here:  Do your churches put these directives into practice? "Is anyone among you sick?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.  And the prayer of faith will save the one who...

To hear the Republican candidates talk, one would think that none of our allies trust President Obama.  Not so according to a recent Pew Research study: 81 per cent confidence in Australia 76 per cent in Canada 83 per cent in France 73 per cent in Germany 74 per cent in India 77 per cent in...

On the money as usual.  I have more confidence in this guy than in any of the 2016 candidates from either party.  He will go down in history as one of our better presidents. Hillary Clinton will have big shoes to fill when she takes office in 2017. $

In 1991 former President Reagan wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times in support of the yet-to-be passed Brady Bill: http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/29/opinion/why-i-m-for-the-brady-bill.html In 1994 former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan  signed a letter sent to...

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/evangelicals-with-gay-children-challenge-church/ $

Excerpts from President Obama's speech about illegal aliens:  Pragmatic and realistic.  Stern yet compassionate.  $

No offense, but it's a little dull up here.  Minor theological disagreements aside, everyone pretty much adheres to the same set of beliefs.  Don't you miss the hard-hitting questions and comments that flowed up from the old "non-believers" forum?  Give it any name you like but I think a...

Raised in a strict fundamentalist household, I recall getting saved over and over again as a child, just to be sure I got it right.  I lived in abject terror of the second coming and being left behind.  When I was around 15, a couple of circuit preachers began a so-called “series of...

Extracted from a post up above: This may be the most profound statement I've read in either forum.  This one I can understand:  Faith in an historical figure, a tradesman from Galilee who literally changed the world, not necessarily in everything written about him in a collection of old books. $

Reading through a thread on Calvinism I came upon the following explanation of "unconditional election," the "U" in "TULIP." "These individuals were chosen before the foundations of the universe...."  The universe is thought to be close to 14 billion years old.  I'm trying to picture its...

A post from above. Why didn't God intervene before the daughter was sacrificed as he did when Abraham was about to sacifice Isaac? Jepthah had proved that he would keep his vow to God just as Abraham had proved that he would carry out God's command. $

It would be less ridiculous if Hitler was portrayed as an opponent of Rob Bell and an advocate of belief in Hell rather than the opposite.  After all, Hitler created a real Hell, a Hell on earth for millions. $

An empty shell of a thread from upstairs: Participants: How about providing specific examples of President Obama's "trampling" of the Constitution?  Please include the Article, Section, and paragraph of the Constitution upon which he "trampled." $