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    I honestly have no idea what you’re arguing here. Texts should always be read in context. And outside of maybe some radical deconstructionist types on the one hand and people who don’t want any of that fancy book learning on the other, you’re not going to see any disagreement on that. The rest of your post seems to me to be a bunch of random claims that don’t have much to do with each other. Or anything I said.
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    I believe Wulaw’s point was that they should be read in their historical context. I’d add the literary context too. Without getting into debates about how they should be interpreted, consider: 1) the passages you reference actually address women (as well as children, slaves, subjects of the Emperor, etc.). In fact, the household codes always address the “subordinate” member by society’s standards first-they are moral agents. They have a choice. That itself is radical in the first century. 2) more to the point, don’t stop reading there. See what the other party in these relationships is called to. It’s not to assert their dominance-quite the opposite.
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    Don’t forget the “keep wealth and power” part, despite the texts in question being written when the church possessed neither.
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    I’m not sure how COVID might have impacted the most recent numbers. But previously, a deeper dive into data suggested that the number of active Christians has basically held steady. It’s the nominal ones that have declined-basically, there’s no longer any real societal pressure to claim you’re a Christian when you don’t really believe it.
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    I’d be almost as happy if you’re wrong on this as I was on you being right on Meyer.
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    I'm not arguing should or should not. I'm just stating what they will do. Discussing Sampson (or anyone else with a sketchy history) is as detached from reality as Brad Stevens. It's not going to happen.
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    It may be quaint, but it got Indiana on probation for 3 seasons. And he's a repeat offender after being investigated for basically the same thing at OU. There is no way Texas even considers Sampson.
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    Does that really sting coming from a Texas basketball fan?
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    Yeah that’s a terrible list. The only one I’d put above Ivey for sure is Musselman. Maybe Moser. There’s no way we even consider Sampson or Pitino.
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    I’m not opposed to Ivey. But there is no way that hiring a guy with no head coaching experience and no college coaching experience at all is the “smarter play” versus a guy with proven success and deep tournament runs in the same conference.
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    Umm...there were people around during the last ice age.
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    Isn’t he actually a lawyer too? I don’t know if he ever practiced, but I think he went to Vanderbilt.
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    I’m confident I could surrender and be executed at least as well as Davy Crockett.
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    I think the surly 1% are actually those of us who got checks. Most everyone here is rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
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    Had mine since last Friday night. Meanwhile, my dad got his yesterday, and brother still hasn’t gotten the one from December, let alone this one. Seems completely random.
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    But there's no strong argument for it, either. When the 26th amendment was passed, the primary push was due to the draft - if you're old enough to fight, you're old enough to vote. That's logical. There's no connection to anything like that with 16 year olds. They're "organizing and mobilizing." Ok? What about those kids younger than 16 who are doing the same? What about the vast majority of 16 year olds who aren't doing that? Choosing 16 is completely arbitrary. And while you could argue that it's no more arbitrary than 18, I suppose, that has the advantage of being the age of majority in most states, as well as the age most people graduate high school (plus the voting age for most countries in the world, as you already pointed out).
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    I don’t understand the perpetual back and forth over whether Trump or Biden is more incoherent. Anyone without partisan blinders should just be honest enough to admit they both make George W. look like Demosthenes by comparison.
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    You’re still doing it here.
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    Not what I was talking about, which was the whole interview with St. Peter thing. You have a bad habit of replying without reading carefully.
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    I'm not arguing the second sentence. It's the first one. No church actually teaches that, and no one that I have ever encountered seriously believes it. It's folklore. It's a setup for jokes. It's the sort of thing a non-religious person might think a Christian believes, but they don't. Anyway, enough of a threadjack.
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    If you were religious, you wouldn’t actually think that’s how it works.
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    I’d like to see a link on that other than a tweet. Not because I don’t believe it, but because I’d like to be able to reference that data.
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    Because it was. It was in the midst of a discussion about expanding the existing checks, which had some traction even with Republicans but was killed by McConnell. The whole point was that with a Democratic Senate it will be passed. To separate the promise from that context is disingenuous.
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    Weird humblebrag.
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    America the Beautiful is essentially a prayer if you pay attention to the lyrics. I imagine many would find that offensive.

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