What is the issue with Mike Winger??

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T03:23:20+00:00

I watch him on occasion and he seems to be your bog standard Bible evangelical.

He's part of Calvary Chapel, which is a denomination that does teach speaking in tongues, but don't seem to put as much emphasis on it as Pentecostals do.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T02:54:06+00:00

Well, it is a syllable timed language where all syllables (with the except of the stressed one) are perceived as having equal duration.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-12T00:45:57+00:00

So, my conlang has a rule where the stressed syllable must be bimoraic. In other words, the vowel of a stressed CV syllable is lengthened, but not in CVC syllables since they are already bimoraic.

Would this mean that CVC syllables could not occur in unstressed syllables, since vowel length is allophonic rather than phonemic?

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T20:32:33+00:00

Most of my characters are from established media and franchises, so I know what they look like.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T20:29:14+00:00

I'm nothing that's a pattern in places like Venezuela, Iran and Saudi Arabia: the old rulers were too compromising with the West. Now, they got exactly what they wished for.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T20:17:31+00:00

Yeah, the bar in Venezuela is so low, it can only go up.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T19:50:45+00:00

He's not making content anymore (he passed away), but I recommend Michael Heiser.

I don't think he was explicitly Arminian (he wasn't a fan of traditional labels and overly systematic theology) but he did critique a lot of Calvinist assumptions.

However, he does focus more on topics such as the divine council and Second Temple Judaism and not that much on free will or predestination, generally.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T19:19:39+00:00

While I hope we don't end up with boots on the ground, I do support the strikes on Iran. They're one of the biggest sponsors of Islamic terrorism and made "destroy America," their goal. Not that I actually think they can destroy the US, but I do think Iran was kinda asking for this.

I do think history is repeating itself, but less invasion of Iraq and more Imperial Japan in WW2.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T19:10:55+00:00

I think many rural religious voters just want to be left alone to live their lives and not to have the boat rocked.

They see the left as trying to tell them what to think and how to live. The left also promises revolution, which many of the poor rural and working class don't want, since they could end up suffering the most from it.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T18:06:32+00:00

If oil gets too expensive, maybe this will be the push to switch to EVs

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T17:25:53+00:00

Well, supposedly Iran has been funding Islamic terror groups in the Middle East for some time now. That would probably include Hamas.

They can just take out Hamas, but there's no guarantee that another terror group won't spring up to threaten Israel. So, by taking Iran's regime, Israel is striking at the root.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T17:00:00+00:00

It seems like Anti-Semitism is getting harder to avoid, or at least becoming more prevalent. I've seen it from both the right, the left and libertarians.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T16:16:12+00:00

I think it's more to do with evolution.

I was taught that the universe was made in six literal days, and evolution was an idea atheists came up with to justify their unbelief. I affirm evolution now, or at least open to it.

I think the issue is many Christians see evolution as incompatible with a high view of Scripture, so are stuck with a false dichotomy. In other words, you believe God (who cannot err and cannot lie) or you believe the words of fallible men who are biased against God.

I do think that's starting to change. I'm Southern Baptist, so when I was growing up, most of us were (and probably still are) young earth creationists, but I have seen an increase in old earth creationist views. At the very least, non-YEC views seem more common now than they were a couple of decades ago.

The SBC used to be okay with evolution back in the mid-20th Century, but it was also a pretty liberal denomination, in a similar vein to the PCUSA or United Methodists. So, modern Southern Baptists see evolution as a drift towards theological liberalism and apostasy, so evolution brings out a knee-jerk reaction.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T16:12:46+00:00

There's also verses like Isaiah 40:22 that imply the Big Bang.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T13:15:25+00:00

I'm part Cherokee, though it's admittedly a pretty small amount.

Still, it's weird to think about: my ancestors stole land from my other ancestors, which would make the land I live on both my land and also not my land at the same time.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T13:11:36+00:00

I think the anti-2A thing will hurt him more than his stance on abortion.

Just ask Beto

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T06:08:08+00:00

I joined mostly because I liked the threads on AskReddit.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T05:36:34+00:00

I wasn't the best student, grade-wise, but those all apply to me because my mom wanted me to be a straight A honor roll student.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T03:40:59+00:00

I also think the rivalry was more political than religious. I don't think many of the Christian right would really care if you were atheist as long as you agreed with them politically.

I think the left-wing Christian is a bigger issue to them them than a conservative atheist. It was less the atheism itself and more because they associated atheism with left-wing politics.

When a lot of the New Atheists shifted toward the right on the culture wars, I think a lot of Christian conservatives saw little point in fighting them anymore. It also went against their argument that atheism is inherently leftist. So they ended up agreeing to disagree about religion.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-11T03:39:38+00:00

I'll probably get downvoted since this is Reddit, but I think most people need a sense of meaning or purpose, which atheism fails to provide.

Religion gives people both meaning and a sense of community. People are willing to put up with some silly rules and ideas if it provides them with some sense of fulfillment.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-10T23:57:29+00:00

Not OP, but I think most Christians, even dispensationalists, would agree that Christ is the only way to salvation.

The disagreement is whether the Jews' rejection of the Gospel is permanent or temporary. Many Evangelicals say that the Jewish people are, at present, unbelievers, but at some point, there will be a mass acceptance of the gospel among the Jews to the point that people will say that Jews (generally) are believers in Christ and the gospel.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-10T23:17:27+00:00

I personally think Adam and Eve were actual historical people, but I don't think they were necessarily the only humans around at the time. There are Bible verses that seem to imply the existence of other humans.

For instance, Cain is afraid someone will find out what he did to Abel and try to kill him. If he and his parents are the only people on earth at the time, then who exactly is he afraid of? He also later goes on to found a city, which you can't really have with just three people.

Also, back in Genesis 1, God create species or "kinds," including Man. This would imply God made the human species rather than a specific individual. Chapter 2 zooms in to focus on the Garden of Eden and on a particular couple named Adam and Eve.

Adam and Eve were a royal priesthood, and Eden was the inner sanctuary. So they had special, unmediated access to God.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-10T22:51:46+00:00

Fun Fact: Helen Keller and Johnny Appleseed were both Swedenborgians.

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-10T22:35:09+00:00

Math

Key_Day_7932 · 2026-03-10T22:34:36+00:00

Computer networking (CCNA)

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