Speak,

I see you are avoiding my question and insist on changing the subject.

And then you insult me for ignoring your question.

I don't know why you bothered to reply at all.

Speak,

"Can you answer?"

I answered.

But I'm not playing the game you want to play.

Speak,

"I was asking if your policy proposal should apply universally or only against one country."

I am specifically talking about Isreal but I see you insist on playing whataboutism.

Speak, (redo..I typoed...damn spellchecker)

"How should we deal with those who openly call for canada or greenland's destruction?"

Every time I ask a question, people with nothing to say play whataboutism, change the subject and avoid answering my question.

Why respond at all if you only want to deflect?

Does my question make you uncomfortable?

Corky,

"I have about as much pull around here as Matt Drudge."

Oh...that's funny.

I've read about Matt Drudge having pull.

Speak,

"How should we deal with those who openly call for canada or greenland's destruction?"

Everything I ask a direction, people with nothing to say play whataboutism, change the subject and avoid answering my question.

Why respond at all if you only want to deflect?

Does my question make you uncomfortable?

Eff,

"Israel is on borrowed time.
Peace will come when the intruders leave the ME.
Like it did when the Crusaders returned to Europe."

You're comparing modern Israel to the Crusaders, but the situations aren't the same.

The Crusaders were not Jews.

Israel is a nation with generations of people born there who aren't going anywhere.

So what's the actual solution you're proposing?

Again...what is the workable solution for dealing with jihadist groups and regimes that openly call for Israel's destruction and continue attacks regardless of the circumstances?

The current Iranian regime is one of them.

I repeat...what is your actual workable solution?

Jews aren't going anywhere.

This isn't about "hating Muslims."

It's about dealing with those who openly call for Israel's destruction.

I have not seen any workable ideas to my question #12.

This question is in earnest.

The conflict between Muslims and Jews is at the heart of this fighting.

Will there ever be peace over there?

Can there ever be peace?

Do they have irreconcilable differences?

Jpw,

I know better than to watch about 90% of Youtube.

If Corky recommends it, why bother?

Donner,

"Have you ever asked yourself how different would the world look if there were no God or Gods?"

Are you about to cue up Imagine?

That song assumes a world without God would somehow be better.

But here's the part people don't like to think about. If God is indeed real, then the man who wrote it isn't imagining anything now.

He had his spotlight here on earth.

Do you really think he's still singing the same tune?

All this from rotisserie chicken?

I need to mow the yard...

Eb,

Do not put quotes around your words and make it look like mine.

That is dishonest and makes you a bad poster.

Jpw,

I agree with your point, but I'd state it a little differently.

In my experience, people don't develop their views on this from scripture alone. Those reactions and feelings frequently exist before anyone ever opens a Bible.

And it's not unique to Christianity.

Attitudes toward homosexuality have shown up across many cultures long before modern debates ever started.

Clown,

"Deny who you were born to be, who you were created as."

Take that up with God, not me.

The Bible isn't silent on human behavior. It lays out plenty of do's and don'ts.

I didn't write the rules.

There are extremist groups that openly call for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews, wherever they may be.

This has been going on for decades and isn't going away.

The threat keeps rising from the ashes and continues to fuel conflict and instability in the region.

What's the practical way to deal with it long term?

How can there be lasting peace in the Middle East while this persists?

Dan,

"JC was a guy in his thirties who still lived with his Mom, and hung out with 12 guys and one prostitute. No wonder he never said a word against gays."

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NKJV)

"For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."

Are you implying something?

Jesus was without sin. He spent time with sinners and the Bible mentioned Jesus was "tempted", but He did not sin.

And while the Bible doesn't record Him singling out homosexuality the way some people do today, that doesn't mean He would have approved of the behavior either.

Jesus welcomed everyone to the "banquet of salvation".

Dan,

"prisons", "workhouses"

Now...I think we do need to bring back asylums in some form with a little more dignity than a century ago.

But no one is suggesting putting the poor in prisons or making them into slaves.

You're being a little mellow dramatic, doncha think?

Morris,

What's wrong with "beans and rice"?

This is assistance meant to cover basic needs, not luxury.

There are plenty of people who are grateful for free food

But some people feel entitled and expect steak.

Laura,

This isn't a gift from the government.

It's a government benefit with defined conditions on how it's meant to be used.

If someone accepts it, they're agreeing to those terms.

Dan,

"Posts a gay man who mocked the sacrament of marriage."

How's that?

A man and woman marriage in a religious context is the sacrament.

A same sex ceremony in that same context is a mockery of the sacrament.

You chose to make a declaration about the sacrament. I'm correcting it.

Morris,

"I am not, however, going to deny them a splurge when some special occasion"

You need not worry.

People who run the SNAP program won't ask for your opinion.

Fiend,

Will you let us know if He answers your question?

Fiend,

I don't know.

Fiend,

God is patient, but He will not be mocked.

Fiend,

Do you have any original thoughts or is whataboutism all you got?

You're not qualified to invoke the name of Jesus to judge me.