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  1. GardenLady

    Is Christmas Pagan?

    In our family, starting in the Katrina year (2005), we began to "gift" one another donations and it continues today. Our various family members have donated to Feeding America, Habitat for Humanity, Heifer International, state Diaper Funds, Undies for Everyone, etc.
  2. GardenLady

    Trump Has the Solution to GOP's Abortion Problem

    He's throwing a bone to the pro-banning crowd. Apparently many of them do not know that 92% or more of abortions occur before 15 weeks. So his 16-week ban, especially with exceptions for rape and incest and health, don't change much. The pro-fetus crowd tries to pretend that large numbers of...
  3. GardenLady

    Religion - Some Questions

    If Jesus was a theocrat, why did he say "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's"?
  4. GardenLady

    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Although I've heard Iolanthe on vinyl (my parent's old D'Oyly Carte recordings), I never saw it on stage. I have seen Pinafore and Pirates on stage. Love them. And love The Mikado.
  5. GardenLady

    Why does being pro-life tend to be associated with being religious?

    God told them to stone disrespectful children, but they aren’t doing that.
  6. GardenLady

    Trump's 1st Criminal Trial To Begin In March

    I’m not fully up on this, but isn’t the issue that he used election funds to pay her off and then used structured payments to reimburse Cohen? In other words, it’s not that paying off a porn star is illegal, it’s the misuse of election funds and payment structuring? Or am out to lunch on this?
  7. GardenLady

    Why does being pro-life tend to be associated with being religious?

    Indeed. That is why they often keep repeating the phrase “innocent life” in their arguments, to exclude those they are happy to have killed.
  8. GardenLady

    Why does being pro-life tend to be associated with being religious?

    The problem here is that calling pro-life groups “anti-abortion” leads some to call pro-choice people “pro-abortion.” In fact, many who support legal choice (typically with restrictions) are in fact anti-abortion.
  9. GardenLady

    Why does being pro-life tend to be associated with being religious?

    Arriving at exceptions acceptable to most people is likely to be very difficult or impossible. There are those who would say that a fatal fetal abnormality is not an acceptable reason because the pregnant parents should “pray for a miracle” and let God decide; some may point to a “miracle”...
  10. GardenLady

    What convinced you that Evolution is the truth?

    Nope, I've read enough creationist websites to know that they contain convoluted and dishonest arguments that misrepresent both science and the faith of most Christians.
  11. GardenLady

    What convinced you that Evolution is the truth?

    First of all, life coming into being is abiogenesis, not evolution. Evolution is the development of existing life through descent with modification involving mutation and natural selection. There are MANY people of faith who believe God is who, evolution is how. To claim that those who accept...
  12. GardenLady

    What convinced you that Evolution is the truth?

    This assertion is appalling. It is false witness against hundreds of millions of people of faith, including the majority of Christians, who both are theists and accept the scientific evidence for evolution and deep time. It is a denigration of the faith of many and is an out-and-out lie...
  13. GardenLady

    86% of Americans Say Biden Is To Old To Be President

    After 38 years in survey research, response and non-response analysis, and the effects of cell phone penetration on response, (now retired), I say this: A three-day or four-day landline survey is crap. It excludes people/households who are cell-only, most people with caller ID who don’t...
  14. GardenLady

    Trump ordered to pay nearly 355 million in NY fraud case.

    Completely bogus argument. Fraud is fraud even if nobody is harmed. Fraud is fraud even if it doesn’t work. Just like driving drunk is illegal even if you don’t injure someone. In this case, Trump realized “ill-gotten gains” in the form of loan and insurance rates that he was not entitled...
  15. GardenLady

    “The Son is equal to his Father”

    It is the Jehovah's Witness view, and they consider themselves the only Christians, while denying he divinity of Jesus.
  16. GardenLady

    A Note of Thanks to Creationists and Science Deniers

    Reality is messy and often not well organized. Eyewitness testimony, which some consider a gold standard, is in fact notoriously unreliable. In any case, I don't think it matters all these years later.
  17. GardenLady

    The fossil graveyards also disprove evolution and billions of years.

    And even 1 million BC, women had tot shave their legs.
  18. GardenLady

    God is disproven by science? Really?

    Some of us have a different perspective. I certainly don’t see Genesis as literal. Yet here we are as humans who have selves and have chosen self-will over God’s will and self over the benefits/needs of others in many cases. And there is sin. Essentially, sin comes down to selfishness.
  19. GardenLady

    Do you have a calling in your faith community?

    When my husband and I joined our parish, we were asked to indicate areas of service where we felt called to contribute. There was no requirement, just an opportunity to volunteer. My husband and I have both served as greeters and communion ushers and I have been a reader as some services. But...
  20. GardenLady

    Pope Francis allows priests to bless same-sex couples (not marriage)

    I find it interesting that so many Catholics and evangelicals are so very horrified by committed, monogamous, loving same-sex relationships, when numerically speaking, heterosexual non-marital and extra-marital relationships are far, far more common.
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