I must agree with you on one of your statements completely! “To liberals, we are always going to move forward and seldom is it going to be neat and tidy but generally messy and unseemly.” FDR would be proud....practice has been successful and very profitable! Have you ever had someone describe in detail of an a******n by someone who witnessed it firsthand? Many many years ago when my niece was going to school to get her LVN Nursing License, she watched an a******n at an a******n clinic! She was in her 20’s and was very liberal. At the time she was supportive of a woman’s right to abort her baby! When she came home and described the sick, evil, slaughtering, torturing murder of that baby, she sobbed while in the arms of her Mother! My niece is a person who hides her emotions and never cries in front of people. Nurses don’t have a tendency to be Drama Queens! This ‘vision’ changed her understanding of what a fetus is.......it’s a real live baby that is murdered in an a******n! Every person that supports a******n should have to watch one UP close and Personal! IMHO It would change the minds of many people, especially women!

For anyone, whether they are conservatives or Christians or Liberals or Atheists, to consider the dismemberment of a baby and pulling them out of the miracle safe secure nurturing place that God provided them with from the time of conception to birth, and then sorting through those little parts to pick out those that can be sold for MONEY, “moving forward and a successful accomplishment”.....................how can anyone of you look at your own babies and imagine the Mother making that fateful decision to end your baby’s life? How many Mothers and Dads have missed the blessing of a lifetime of watching and loving and living the miracles and the beautiful wonders of this life through the eyes of their children and grandchildren!

I realize that the timing of some pregnancies are to the point of being impossible, but there are enough people that are unable to have children or just want and choose to adopt babies because the Lord put the need to add to their own family through adoption! I believe that all babies are a blessing and have a place and a purpose in this world.

Let’s turn the clock backwards and stop this senseless murder of the greatest of all blessings! The blessings of our Lord and Savior for our country would be unimaginable if we could accomplish this! IMHO!

MARANATHA

Peter S: I want to applaud and thank you for taking the time to express your viewpoint on Liberals and Conservatives. You wrote clearly and succinctly in a way that is hard to refute. I have often tried to relay the very sentiment you express -but admit that I usually fall miserably short.

The only point I would add would be this: due to the ingrained thought process of Conservatives (especially those who long to ("keep America great") lies a conscious commitment to the old ideology that has plagued this nation for long and restrained us from fulfilling all the promises within the Constitution envisioned by the Founding Fathers.

As much as I dislike the idea, I am convinced that there are simply (still) many here in our country who refuse to let go of the h**e, r****m, and discrimination that taints us in favor of their ideal of superiority. Therefore, I am afraid we will always have a certain number of those thinkers among us. It appears that currently a majority of those thinkers hide in the shadows of the republican party. Thank you for sharing....keep the faith!

Blade, you once told me that Conservatism wasn't an ideology. That tells me right there that you don't know the first thing about our political ideologies or why we have them. And you have experts? Where are they? I gave you a link to a book that first came out in the Seventies and has been through 12 revisions. I doubt if there is a college in this country, liberal or conservative, where it hasn't been taught at one point or another.

Your problem is that you can't accept who you are. You think I am denigrating you when I say you are regressive and seeking Status-quo. I'm not, those are simply the principle characteristics that cause Conservatism to be what it is. You are traditionalists yes or no? Well, that is both regressive and seeking status quo. You adhere to fundamental religion yes or now? Well, that is regressive and seeking status quo. And the list goes on but it all comes down to your endeavor to move back to some point in time you perceive to be better or you cling doggedly to where you are now.

You, on the other hand, tried to denigrate me with your comments on Marx and C*******m. Well, I know about Marx and I know about C*******m and I also know that a Liberal Progressive seldom, IF EVER, moves backward to past endeavors successful or failures. We are PROGRESSIVE, we do not move backward.

Your fear is your belief that we are on a slippery slope but instead, we are on a continuation of the path that we already on. We have employed a mixed economy (capitalism and socialism) since the thirties. And there would be no reason to change if capitalism was delivering on its end. But it isn't, so healthcare and education are going to become more socialized.

If this has you Lemmings wanting to jump off the cliff I can't help you there but the world conservatives seem to think is coming to an end is, for us liberals, just another day.

The Christian masses believe in the trinity, most scholars do not. No theologian in the first three Christian centuries was a trinitarian in the sense of a believing that the one God is tripersonal, containing equally divine “persons”, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.



Many Christian denominations teach that God is a Trinity. However, note what the Encyclopædia Britannica states: “Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies.”

In fact, the God of the Bible is never described as being part of a Trinity. Note these Bible passages:

“Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.”—Deuteronomy 6:4.

“You, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth.”—Psalm 83:18.

“This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.”—John 17:3.

“God is only one.”—Galatians 3:20.

The Christian masses believe in the trinity, most scholars do not. No theologian in the first three Christian centuries was a trinitarian in the sense of a believing that the one God is tripersonal, containing equally divine “persons”, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.



Many Christian denominations teach that God is a Trinity. However, note what the Encyclopædia Britannica states: “Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies.”

In fact, the God of the Bible is never described as being part of a Trinity. Note these Bible passages:

“Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.”—Deuteronomy 6:4.

“You, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth.”—Psalm 83:18.

“This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.”—John 17:3.

“God is only one.”—Galatians 3:20.

The Christian masses believe in the trinity, most scholars do not. No theologian in the first three Christian centuries was a trinitarian in the sense of a believing that the one God is tripersonal, containing equally divine “persons”, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.



Many Christian denominations teach that God is a Trinity. However, note what the Encyclopædia Britannica states: “Neither the word Trinity nor the explicit doctrine appears in the New Testament . . . The doctrine developed gradually over several centuries and through many controversies.”

In fact, the God of the Bible is never described as being part of a Trinity. Note these Bible passages:

“Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.”—Deuteronomy 6:4.

“You, whose name is Jehovah, you alone are the Most High over all the earth.”—Psalm 83:18.

“This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ.”—John 17:3.

“God is only one.”—Galatians 3:20.

The statement that "most scholars do not" believe in the trinity is not only false, it is an argumentum ad populum with no evidence to support it.

Religion is man's path upon which he seeks God. The Christian faith is God seeking man. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God . . . .The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and t***h.

God came to us in person to establish a personal relationship with us and to forgive us for we know not what we do.

The Bible emphatically and unambiguously declares that there is only one God (Isaiah 44:8; Isaiah 45:18; Deuteronomy 6:4; Malachi 2:10, James 2:19; Mark 12:29 ). Hence, taking all the Scriptures into account, orthodox Christian theology has always affirmed that the one true God is triune in nature—three co-equal and co-eternal persons in the Godhead.

Orthodox Christian theology has always affirmed that the one true God is triune in nature.

This triune God (or Trinity) began to allude to this aspect of His nature right in Genesis 1:26–27. There we read that “God said, ‘Let us make man in our image’ . . . God created man in His image.” Here God is a plural noun, said is in the third-person singular verb form, and we see both the plural pronoun our and the singular His referring to the same thing (God’s image). This is not horribly confused grammar. Rather, we are being taught, in a limited way, that God is a plurality in unity. We can’t say from this verse that He is a trinity, but God progressively reveals more about Himself in later Scriptures to bring us to that conclusion.

In Isaiah 48:12–16 we find the speaker in the passage describing himself as the Creator and yet saying that “the Lord God and His Spirit have sent Me.” This is further hinting at the doctrine of the trinity, which becomes very clear in the New Testament. There are many other Old Testament Scriptures that hint at the same idea.

In Matthew 28:18–20 Jesus command His disciples to baptize His followers in the name (singular) of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. John’s Gospel tells us that “the Word” is God who became man in Jesus Christ (John 1:1–3, 14). Jesus was fully man and fully God. Many other verses combine together to teach that God is triune. Answers in Genesis