Please re-read my post in light of yours. I was not attempting to paint you with any negative label. I was responding to your comment that we should study and then judge people by their skin color, or other such characteristics. In no way!
From your post:
"If someone is capable of understanding the consequences of their actions, and accepting the responsibility for those choices, then why does the state have to protect a person from themselves?"
UNTIL they are capable and able to accept responibility, then and no longer. I am not trying to use "science" (Knowledge from KJV) to discriminate against anyone.
When a child becomes aware of what sin is, they then become responsible- before that God gives a free pass.
I agree wholeheartedly that the God of the Bible provided for free will. Check out when in Hebrew (Gods chosen people)civilization man was/is granted the ability to exercise that free will. It was not as children. Adam and Eve were created full grown. They made their choice and then suffered the consequences. Children are to be protected, not abused.
I was raised in the midst of racial bigots, but learned how NOT to follow that path.
I heartly disagree with the positions that were used in previous times, justified by proof-text of the Bible to support slavery of children or any other person.
Sorry- that is not where I am coming from! My understanding of civilization is that we should protect people until they are truly able to make reasoned choices on their own; are able to understand the consequenses; and accept the responsiblity for the results of their choices. The state (Federal,and/or in my case NC) has the responsibility under our form of government to protect the citizens, sometimes from themselves. If you want to live in anarchy, go find a place in a desert, or your own private island.
Evolutionary teaching from the likes of Margaret Sanger(founder of Planned Parenthood- advocate of eugenics-same fountain that "uncle" Adolf drank from- Aryan Super Race) have no place in our world. My worldview does not accept "Race" as a divisior of mankind. The Bible does not recognize "race" the way our culture has taken it. Don't go there!
Problem is not that one is old enough to die for your country, it is that the human body is not as capable to deal with the alcohol at 18 as it is a few years later. Another issue for discussion another day::when is one old enough to die for ones country/family/friends? Evidence is coming out that the frontal lobes that help us make reasoned decisions about potental danger are not fully developed until about 25 years of age. Hence young drivers are at higher risk. Add alcohol and it gets nasty!
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Please re-read my post in light of yours. I was not attempting to paint you with any negative label. I was responding to your comment that we should study and then judge people by their skin color, or other such characteristics. In no way! From your post: "If someone is capable of understanding the consequences of their actions, and accepting the responsibility for those choices, then why does the state have to protect a person from themselves?" UNTIL they are capable and able to accept responibility, then and no longer. I am not trying to use "science" (Knowledge from KJV) to discriminate against anyone. When a child becomes aware of what sin is, they then become responsible- before that God gives a free pass. I agree wholeheartedly that the God of the Bible provided for free will. Check out when in Hebrew (Gods chosen people)civilization man was/is granted the ability to exercise that free will. It was not as children. Adam and Eve were created full grown. They made their choice and then suffered the consequences. Children are to be protected, not abused. I was raised in the midst of racial bigots, but learned how NOT to follow that path. I heartly disagree with the positions that were used in previous times, justified by proof-text of the Bible to support slavery of children or any other person.
Sorry- that is not where I am coming from! My understanding of civilization is that we should protect people until they are truly able to make reasoned choices on their own; are able to understand the consequenses; and accept the responsiblity for the results of their choices. The state (Federal,and/or in my case NC) has the responsibility under our form of government to protect the citizens, sometimes from themselves. If you want to live in anarchy, go find a place in a desert, or your own private island. Evolutionary teaching from the likes of Margaret Sanger(founder of Planned Parenthood- advocate of eugenics-same fountain that "uncle" Adolf drank from- Aryan Super Race) have no place in our world. My worldview does not accept "Race" as a divisior of mankind. The Bible does not recognize "race" the way our culture has taken it. Don't go there!
Problem is not that one is old enough to die for your country, it is that the human body is not as capable to deal with the alcohol at 18 as it is a few years later. Another issue for discussion another day::when is one old enough to die for ones country/family/friends? Evidence is coming out that the frontal lobes that help us make reasoned decisions about potental danger are not fully developed until about 25 years of age. Hence young drivers are at higher risk. Add alcohol and it gets nasty!