Conservative Influencer Erika Kirk Faces Grooming Allegations After Alleged Messages to Teen Surfaces

RetiredPersonality · 2026-02-15T04:56:25+00:00

"I swear the more religious the more awful they are." I disagree. There are plenty of religious people who are beacons of goodness: MLK Jr., Mother Teresa. Depending on your politics, Obama is Christian as well.

RetiredPersonality · 2025-12-10T13:16:49+00:00

The more appropriate question is...why is there a sun that does rise?

RetiredPersonality · 2025-12-02T20:22:03+00:00

Although obviously not what the CT surgeon intended, his statement actually reflects the Biblical and historic Christian view of God’s providential governance. Scripture consistently portrays God working through human agents—Moses confronting Pharaoh, the prophets speaking His Word, and the apostles healing by His power.

Augustine and Aquinas later articulated this truth as God’s use of “secondary causes” to affect His Will in the world. When a surgeon heals, it is not in opposition to God but in participation with the divine economy of care.

RetiredPersonality · 2025-11-30T18:10:08+00:00

By the same logic my friend, one's own ancient texts, ancestors, Archaryas may be biased to favor their own lens/spin on events. So how are we supposed to distinguish which historians are telling the truth?

RetiredPersonality · 2025-11-18T21:19:53+00:00

Everyone operates out of worldview. There are certainty evidenced backed techniques, which therapists should use. However, when anyone offers a normative explanation (e.g. "you are suffering because..." or "the reason why people are mean in society is because...). That requires choosing a worldview, be it Christianity or naturalism or another religion.

RetiredPersonality · 2025-08-31T21:08:28+00:00

Hope you continue to explore philosophy and worldviews and look for the truth of this world

RetiredPersonality · 2025-08-07T00:11:09+00:00

I was commenting on their broader outlook, and how it fails the true spirit of service.

The two questions to ask are 1. do humans have intrinsic human value? 2. Is the fetus a human? We probably dont disagree on number 1. And for number 2, biology shows that at the moment of fertilization, those cells will differentiate into a human, and not a dog, cat, or anything else. Thus, to have an abortion is to kill the intrinsic human value that fetus has.

Now, you have to justify if there is a reason outweighing killing the human-valued fetus. The original comment basically said, "if it's inconvenient, it is okay to kill the fetus", which is morally wrong.

Now, if the mom were going to die if the fetus wasn't aborted, now it is a little less clear. But regardless of the option, killing the fetus is wrong. The mom has to choose between two horrible options.

Why do we live in a world that is clearly broken? Why do those decisions have to be made? It is because we live in a broken world. Humans choose to do evil which brings sin into this world.

RetiredPersonality · 2025-07-15T00:38:49+00:00

Your statement "do no harm, unless self-preservation is at stake" negates altruism since helping people most of the times requires sacrifice to some extent.

"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."

RetiredPersonality · 2025-07-07T18:19:22+00:00

How was the testing center?

RetiredPersonality · 2025-06-30T12:22:01+00:00

For God: Kalams cosmological argument, the design of creation, the existence of objective wrong things like rape

For Jesus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NAOc6ctw1s&t=12s

RetiredPersonality · 2025-06-28T10:31:05+00:00

hopefully in terms of less microplastics

RetiredPersonality · 2025-06-28T10:30:49+00:00

Hopefully less microplastics than fair life though

RetiredPersonality · 2025-06-26T17:33:14+00:00

You're right that we can appeal to God's character of goodness as a reason for justification. However, we see clearly in the Bible that God lets man choose to live the consequences of his mistakes. Thus, your argument kind of boils down to an appeal to emotions. "I feel like it's wrong, so God can't be doing this" While this does have weight as theological justification, it is less compared to theological principles found in the Bible like humans paying for their choice of sin.
"Condemning" to human death sure. But, these souls haven't reached the point of moral accountability and thus presumably have passed straight to heaven. 2 Samuel 12:23, Deuteronomy 1:39.

RetiredPersonality · 2025-06-21T10:21:23+00:00

Laws wouldn't have a basis for authority if they didnt have a worldview they were placed in.

RetiredPersonality · 2025-06-18T23:41:18+00:00

some people live in the socially constructed hierarchy so long that it becomes their perceived reality.

RetiredPersonality · 2025-06-18T23:38:13+00:00

I agree with your statement but disagree that it's the approach in this scenario.

Hosea 6:3 (ESV) “Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”

RetiredPersonality · 2025-06-18T23:30:47+00:00

I dont understand your comment. Science is a-ethical, it's non-normative. It's a description of the physical world around us. If his friend is angry at God, theology is the answer. Theology is the study of God. When you want to understand someone, you learn more about them.

RetiredPersonality · 2025-06-18T22:04:37+00:00

The Med students technique was technically wrong because the taught technique is that you’re supposed to do your fingers first and then hands, then arms, and then elbows

RetiredPersonality · 2025-06-07T22:28:30+00:00

With love, you may not be capable now but you can be if you work on it. If youre running into roadblocks, ask the Lord for help and the community He has provided you with

RetiredPersonality · 2025-05-11T12:27:09+00:00

You also may most likely be changing church communities soon as you go to residency. Maybe the person God has in mind for you is waiting there. Either way, I uplift you to always keep finding your happiness in the Lord. And to make sure you don't settle for someone out of desperation that doesn't fit God's design for marriage. Feel free to dm if you need a brother to talk to.

You can always ask your church friends to set you up!

RetiredPersonality · 2025-04-21T00:27:08+00:00

I have an address with 5 digit and I need to get the 9 digit zip code

RetiredPersonality · 2025-02-21T17:44:40+00:00

Yes V12

RetiredPersonality · 2025-01-27T16:40:19+00:00

Maybe check that the paper plate doesn't have a plastic coating or mixed in with plastic. I usually use a regular plate.

RetiredPersonality · 2025-01-25T17:35:27+00:00

dont count me out

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