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So “Thou shalt not kill,” has been superseded and is no longer applicable? There is no specific rule against killing in the New Testsment.

Have you read the Old Testament? God commanded his followers to kill a lot of people. And, of course, heresy/blasphemy has carried the death penalty in pretty much every country with an official religion.

I think you meant “Murder is wrong unless you believe that’s what God wants you to do.”

True, but that only applies to converts who were already ordained in one of the Eastern Catholic rites, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Presbyterian, or Lutheran churches. I haven't double checked so I might not be completely correct, but I know that the ordination of married men...

The disparity is 0.6%. It is a statistically significant error, but it's still tiny.

Yes. He had never been convicted and was honest throughout the investigation

I’ve held a security clearance since 1990, and you’re way off as far as drug use. I’ve known at least one guy who had been a pot dealer and had no trouble getting a TS clearance. Knew another who, when filling out a questionnaire on which drugs you’ve done, complained to the administrators that...

To be clear, you’re saying that in Black Hawk Down, and in a documentary about the Battle of Mogadishu, you didn’t see any Black guys. Not really a surprise, since the people involved in the initial operation, Task Force Ranger, were all Special Operations: mostly Delta and Rangers. While...

I'm sorry, that seems a non sequitur to me... Zebra said he was not sure if he believes in a god. I find that to be a curious statement. Is it more important to know what is true and see reality than to believe something? I suppose, but that has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

I would think the definition of something that has an independent existence comes from describing the combination of properties and attributes that are unique to that thing. And how did you arrive at that definition? How can consciousness exist without a form? And truth logic, and love are...

I can define all those things, and demonstrate their objective existence, with the exception of "loving person" and "takes a law to heart," as those are subjective. But even for those two, I can show a person exists who has, or is claimed to have, those qualities for any specified idea of loving...

I am an atheist because I have no idea what a god would actually be, nor how we could determine if any actually exist. What would convince me? A definition of what a gid is An explanation of how that definition was derived. A method to test whether any proposed entity meets the definition.

The chained CPI has never been used as the official number. It can't be because the data needed aren't available fast enough. And you have it backwards: Not accounting for substitution overstates inflation

For the numbers to be "fake" or "phony," the BLS would have had to know what the correct numbers were and deliberately changed them to something more desirable. How? How would they know the "real" numbers in order to publish fake ones? And why then revise the initial estimates to new figures...

Only the Latin Church forbids the ordination of married men; and even then there are exceptions. All 23 Eastern Catholic Churches allow married men to become priests (but not bishops). And even the Latin Church allows married men who were ordained in Eastern Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental...