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The Catholic church has to first show true remorse... In order for the church's apology to be an apology, the church has to see the impact of it's behavior on the victims. For an apology to be acceptable, they need to own the error or admit it, and they need to show emotion…….in order for an apology to be an apology and acceptable to the people, they have to show they've learned from their error.

PETV People for the Ethnical Treatment of Vegetables says vegetables are living things too PETA, shame on you for eating vegetables. Please only eat man-made food and rock dust.

No one loves socialism quite like a moron who has never experienced it firsthand. No one hates it like someone who has seen it up close...

Being overly inclusive on a national scale will eventually get you invaded.

Thanks for the advice.

Thank you, we do.

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1 Cor. 7:12-14 But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy Do you think that 1 Cor. 7: 12-14 and 2 Cor. 6: 14-16 contradict each other? I don't think they do. 2 Cor. 6: 14-16 is not talking about marriage. These verses are taken out of context too often. If you read that whole chapter you will notice that Paul is talking about ministry. In 1 Cor. 7: 12-14 it could be easily said that Paul was talking about a couple in which one got saved after they got married. Even though he could of, he made no reference to that did he? Maybe because the church was very young and there just wasn't enough young unmarried Christian men and women to go around.

I've heard all of this since the early 80s. Some of this can only be swallowed with a handful of salt.

Honestly, I wouldn't be able to apply this anywhere. After raising three kids and 24 years of marriage, I'm pretty sure we all know where the boundaries are and which ones not to cross.

I have three kids ages: 23, 21, and 19. My wife and I decided that it would be me and me alone who would discipline our children, if needed. I thought about it quite a bit before I came up with a plan that worked for us. Spanking was rarely ever needed for a simple reason. When I told the kids to do or not to do something, I always followed up. That means, I went and checked to see if my orders were followed. Before the age of eleven, I rarely had to discipline any of my kids. Spending lots of free time with them and following up on my orders kept them paying attention to what mom and dad expected of them. Also, I didn't have a television in the house until the youngest was 7. After that they were only allowed to watch videos (not Tv) for 1 hour a day until they were in high school. When discipline was needed, I always sat down with them and asked if they understood what they did wrong. After the discipline was over, I hugged them and sat with them talking until I was sure that sadness didn't linger. In the many group homes and foster homes I've lived in, I have seen a lot of kids come from very abusive parents, ones that rarely ever exercised self control. So I made a promise to myself, and I kept it, to never discipline my gets when I was angry with them. Kids can be unpredictable and things didn't always go according to plan, but my wife's encouragement and us being consistent kept our family together.

A little sensitive are we? The above quote from Ryan Clark is the point I was trying to make. I own a colossal collection of secular and Christian cassettes, CDs and DVDs. I could care less if it is Christian or secular, if the music and message is what I'm looking for, then I'll buy it. What I see as a contradiction and what bothers me, is when a group of Believers slap the label Christian on their band, but does nothing to promote the meaning. I've been to a lot of concerts where this occurs all too often. I'm old enough to have seen this happen in reverse with an 80s band called Rage of Angels. Because the secular market was saturated with heavy metal hair bands at the time, they thought they could gain some notoriety in the Christian market. Their album was good and it began to take off, until some Christian metal magazine exposed them as pretending to be Believers just to sell albums in Christian book stores. It only took a few months for that to spread and then they were done. Kind of sad in my opinion. My point is, be true to who you are and to your potential fans. Don't throw a Christian label on your band if you're not willing to represent. If you want to reach both audiences, just make good music...without being labeled. Christians aren't stupid (most of them anyways), you'll get noticed. A good example of a band who did it right is Thrice. Thrice had a mix of both Believer and non-believing musicians. Their lyrics are saturated with Biblical influence, but when asked if they were a Christian band, they said no. They got noticed. Their album Beggars is in my top 10 list of the greatest albums ever produced.

This is a cut from a dated interview, but I thought it might be interesting to talk about. Over the last twenty years I’ve noticed a disturbing evolution in Christian music. The “message” has been bleed out on an altar of desire for acceptance. In supposed attempts to reach a wider audience, many bands have given up on outreach. Now, I am not writing this in judgment of any band member's relationship with Jesus, but I am curious about their motives and the evolution of Christian music.