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Like anywhere, there is always going to be some difference - I'm sure we share some different opinions. That said the DI as an organization is a thinly disguised veil of science plastered over creationism.

That's interesting that you know him, at least probably better than most. That "debate" with Professor Dave was not at all a good look for Dr. Tour. I can accept someone being passionate about their subject, but his behaviour was way over the top.

"MR. FARINA! MR. FARINA!" Dr. Tour seems a bit deranged at times. Anyway, the question posed to him is about evolution, not abiogenesis, so it's essentially a dodge.

This may ;ead to confusion in the terms of intelligent design (ID) and theistic evolution (TE). I am fairly confident that those that hold to a TE position do not align themselves with the ID position. The ID position is generally associated with people from the Discovery Institute, like Dr's Berlinski, Behe, and Tour, among others. However, this organization is simply a creationist organization in disguise.

I thought it was 13. Guys a really weird dude. Being a South African raised in apartheid explains a lot of his ideas.

Your are a complete joke to ask for that, but I'll do it for the benefit of others here I actually respect. https://nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/we-will-own-it-trump-wants-u-s-to-redevelop-gaza-after-palestinians-resettled-elsewhere

Yeah, I don't care for Elon throwing Nazi salutes.

I'll say again, show me repentance, fruit, whatever. He is literally going on about ethnic cleansing now. This is not a moral man.

Unbelievable.

How do you know this with such surety?

I have just heard that the Canadian tariffs have been delayed another 30 days. Apparently the border security agreement was already in place back with Biden. It just seems like intended chaos for the sake of chaos. Probably to cover for Elon gaining access to everyone's personal information.

The flow of immigrants from Canada is miniscule to that of the southern border. Not that it doesn't happen, but it's not the same scale. Also, the drug trade, particularly fentanyl, was also cited as concern. Reports put a total of 19kg seized at the Can-US border last year versus >9000 kg at the US-Mex border.

Not once did I judge him to not be a Christian. The one author said that he has demonstrated an openness and has had conversations with certain known pastors, some of which are highly political or adhere to heretical beliefs. We can observe people's faith by their fruit: love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control These words just do not embody the actions and words of President Trump. Remember he is highly transactional, so a good deed or loyalty to him is rewarded. Break that loyalty and you are out. This is not controversial, it is his pattern. I pray that he may grow in Christian love and understanding.

And the trade war begins. Counter tariffs from Canada are up now. Mostly symbolic as they are only targetting products from red states. We are not big enough economically to win a trade war, but hopefully can make some things uncomfortable. If the US did anything, it unified Canadians against the administration. Hockey fans were booing the US national anthem yesterday.

Yes, we will agree to disagree. Franklin Graham? Uggh.

Even if the US considerably drops their material support, the European nations will likely continue. Almost all European NATO nations have been dramatically increasing military spending.

Yeah, it's not about hiring unqualified people to fill roles. It's about affording opportunity for people that are qualified but are traditionally ignored for these roles. I would like to think that the government institutions should make an attempt to mirror the percentage make-up of the general population

I don't really see a lot of positive in him when framing him as a Christian. It's not like he's just shown up a year or two ago and no one knew anything about him. He has demonstrated a typical pattern of behaviour since The Apprentice days. I have not witnessed any growth or maturity. If anything, his worst traits are on full display right now. I do question the fealty that evangelicals, in particular, have given to Trump. There is an almost cynical "ends justifying the means" attitude, and a large amount of hypocrisy. As to you not being a CN, I never levelled that against you. I said that the CN people are heavily involved and it suits their agenda to frame him as Christian. These people are actually far more troubling to me than Trump. Even if what she said was not right (and I listened to it - it was not outrageous for a pastor to say what she said in that context), but the childish response to it is emblematic of everything that shows Trump to be boorish, childish, and a malignant narcissist. When you live outside of the US, you do get a different view - but we get all the same media you can view, be it left, centre or right. This auto-assumption that I, or other critics, are only consuming what we want to here is unwarranted. You don't know that. I rarely watch CBC or Global, the big Canadian channels. I spent a lot of time on Twitter, so I got a lot of right-wing media. I've abandoned that place since the open racists and neo-Nazis started to invade my timeline. If you assume right-wing media like Fox, OAN etc. do not share the same issues that CNN, NBC etc. do, then that could be a blind spot. That's fair enough, and I think I even expressed that in my post, which you may have missed. I just don't really see much convincing fruit of the Spirit on display which is how we are can at least make a general appraisal. Eg.

So is he going to shut down Twitter then? You want to target antisemitism, well that place is rife with it. Maybe Musk can go too.

Oh no, someone did something bad - that must mean all adoptees of gay parents must be abused. Let's not consider the context of the orders of magnitude of straight parents, biological or adoptive, that have abused kids. Or the almost weekly occurrence of a clergy member being charged for abusing people, usually kids, under their care.

It's not easy to make any real qualified statements based on that interview. I can get behind being a "believer", but that is not really a defining quality ("Lord, Lord, did we not ....). Paula White should raise some red flags. Also, Mr. Brody seems to downplay the "Twitter feed" stuff as just his brawling nature (to his credit, he says he should stop). I am drawn to Jesus' words: But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 20 These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.” Matthew 15:18-20 His post regarding that Episcopalian pastor was absolutely appalling and demonstrates that he knows or cares little of mercy or humility or grace. He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God" Micah 6:8 This does not discount him as a believer, but I don't think he really gets what it means to be a Christian (yet). Self-sacrifice? I have not seen that demonstrated. Humility? Hardly. I get that being a president can be difficult to fully integrate faith into that role. Carter was probably the most honestly Christian man to be in that role, but that does not mean you can fill that role well just because of that (plus other stuff that he had little control over, but everyone has that.) Personally, I think it is these Christian Nationalist pastors that have curried this idea of his faith in order to further their goals.

Seems a bit suspect even if Hamas has improvised a bomb from a condom. I am unsurprised at the credulity of Trump supporters. This is simply cherry-picking one element of a much larger issue to generate outrage (Like it is literally outrage farming).

The best speech? Oof.

None of that is what woke actually means - certainly not what the origin of the term was meant to refer to.

Ahhh. Tribalism at its finest.