New Light on Beards

[Pudgy]

Fair is a place where you eat corn dogs and ride a ferris wheel.

[TrueTomHarley]

1 hour ago, BTK59 said:

Can you explain the reasoning behind this?

Nah, I can’t understand how any of it works, either.

[Srecko Sostar]

 

 

[Pudgy]

We are all guests here.

If you were a guest in my house, and acted belligerent, snotty, insulting, unpleasant, argumentative or snide …. or for any reason whatsoever, real or imaginary, I did not consider you presence welcome, you would find yourself out on the street zip quick.

Complaining that I am not “fair” would have no audience or consideration. Complaining that my motives are “because I did not LIKE you” would be correct. 

The owners and moderators here have every right to run the show any way they see fit.

I used to have my rants deleted regularly … and I took no offense or umbrage … because it’s THEIR forum.

They do not represent themselves as Agents of God.

 

[BTK59]

Apostates always highlight trivial matters. It's interesting to see if witnesses accept the exaggeration. I often ponder why many in the Catholic faith prioritize being clean-shaven over traditional practices. What was once respectable in the past is now deemed acceptable in the present.

A: First of all, there is at present no law in canonical discipline which forbids beards, so our reader can be tranquil as to the legitimacy of the practice. With respect to local laws there are some religious orders which recommend that its members either shave or, on the contrary, have a beard.

https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/beards-and-priests-4752

[BTK59]

23 hours ago, TrueTomHarley said:

Nah, I can’t understand how any of it works, either.

Buuaacck buck buck suawaaack, cluck, cluck.

[Pudgy]

Read the U.S. Declaration of Independence, in it’s entirety. 

86% of the Colonies endured British tyranny as “the way things are”.  Only 14% were willing to put their lives on the line to defeat arbitrary tyranny.

For them the issues were not trivial.

Severe persecution of Brothers FOR 80+ Years for unscriptural reasons is NOT a trivial matter.

[BTK59]

It's alarming to witness someone so ready to defend something trivial by embracing exaggerated claims. I would argue that the truth lies somewhere in between the culture of past and present, and it's up to us to use our common sense to see through the distraction of the disgruntled. The truth is not always black and white, and it requires a thorough examination of the facts deciding who is on the right side is essential. I strongly believe in religious freedom and oppose any form of oppression that restricts people's worship. Unlike the Vatican, which seemed to endorse the death penalty in the past for those who interpret scripture differently just like the British suppressed religious freedom and then were willing to kill their fellow Christians over it, I'd advocate for a more tolerant approach. However, getting into arguments over insignificant things like beards seems rather trivial and immature. Let's leave that type of thinking to schoolchildren and focus on the true matters that make a difference.

When I read the Constitution without inserting my opinion, it becomes apparent that it offers a valuable opportunity to grasp the exact wording and the intentions of the founding fathers.

[Srecko Sostar]

7 hours ago, BTK59 said:

However, getting into arguments over insignificant things like beards seems rather trivial and immature. Let's leave that type of thinking to schoolchildren and focus on the true matters that make a difference.

You seem to me to be forgetting WHO brought forth the Doctrine of that Trivial Thing.

Any attempt, by you or by anyone else, to mitigate the seriousness of the idiocy that has been and continues to be carried out in the name of God YHVH, now after decades of torture on this issue, is shameful.
We see at least two ways of tyrannizing. One dragged on for decades in such a way that it was Forbidden to wear a beard. Now they continue with the tyranny through Permitting the wearing of beards.

Taking away or giving someone Freedom is a kind of tyranny, because they (GB) have taken a place that does not belong to them. They are not placed by God in a position to take away or give someone freedom of choice.

[Srecko Sostar]

 

[Pudgy]

4 hours ago, Srecko Sostar said:

Taking away or giving someone Freedom is a kind of tyranny, because they (GB) have taken a place that does not belong to them. They are not placed by God in a position to take away or give someone freedom of choice.

that is a very important point…… Here in the United States people think that the Constitution gives or takes away freedoms and liberties. It does not. What it does is guarantees by law the freedoms that we as people have naturally because we are humans, and God has allowed us these freedoms and liberties.

The Constitution  identifies natural rights and protections, but it not create them or “give” them to us.

[Srecko Sostar]

42 minutes ago, Pudgy said:

that is a very important point…… Here in the United States people think that the Constitution gives or takes away freedoms and liberties. It does not. What it does is guarantees by law the freedoms that we as people have naturally because we are humans, and God has allowed us these freedoms and liberties.

The Constitution  identifies natural rights and protections, but it not create them or “give” them to us.

Since WTJWorg and GB should operate within the USA Constitution, we come to a point where we have to ask;

1) What does God guarantee to all people?

2) What does GB guarantee to its people?