Poll: If you are a Trump supporter, do you consider him to be a “good Christian?”

Is Donald Trump someone you would call/consider a “good Christian?”

  • Yes

    Votes: 7 6.1%

  • No

    Votes: 67 58.3%

  • I like pie

    Votes: 31 27.0%

  • Turbo just vote here and save everyone time

    Votes: 10 8.7%
  • Total voters
    115
#527
#527
Orangeslice13 said:
A quick google search didn’t locate it which means it was probably a fake article and I was too stupid to notice.
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They get us good sometimes. The actual largest canid was a species called epicyon which averaged ~250 lbs, but the biggest and baddest may have gotten to nearly 400 lbs. It lived and died out long before the genus homo existed, much less homo sapiens. Still, even the biggest and baddest epicyon at 400 lbs is not big enough to make a good mount. That's a very little pony. Good enough for Joe but not us.

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We have to look outside Canidae to find our dog mount. Canidae is part of Caniformia (dog-like carnivorans which includes bears, mustelids and seals) as their next closest relatives. The elephant in the room: bear cavalry. The closest thing we'll get to wolf mounts and pretty metal on its own. Pretty sure the Russians have tried it. Don't think it worked too well for them but I can understand the dream.

Bears are kind if their own thing though, right? Riding an agile, loyal giant wolf into battle just isn't the same vibe as riding a bear. Both bad ass, but different. Let me introduce the family amphicyonidae, the "bear dogs", an extinct family in caniformia which evolved 40+ million years ago but managed to survive to around 5 million years ago. As their name implies they look like a mix of a bear and a dog, with some looking more like one than the other, though generally trending to more bear-like in the youngest members of the family (with one big difference, they were all obligate carnivores unlike most bears). They were the closest relatives to canidae (dogs, wolves, foxes etc). Some of the species weighed up to over 1,700 lbs. That's riding size. So if you really wanted to ride a giant wolf like creature that actually existed and you had a time machine, I would say Amphicyon or Pseudocyon would do the trick. It's not perfect but it's closer than just riding a boring regular bear, imo.

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Of course if you had a time machine you'd probably already have the technology to just create some sort of science fiction horror Clifford the big red dog, but that's a different conversation.
 
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#528
#528
creekdipper said:
Why not?

A thousand years is a long time. We didn't even have electric lights 200 years ago.
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I guess it depends on how much blood of Christ one elected to drink this morning.

Or whether or not your mother smoked a pack a day while you were in utero.
 
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#529
MercyPercy said:
They get us good sometimes. The actual largest canid was a species called epicyon which averaged ~250 lbs, but the biggest and baddest may have gotten to nearly 400 lbs. It lived and died out long before the genus homo existed, much less homo sapiens. Still, even the biggest and baddest epicyon at 400 lbs is not big enough to make a good mount. That's a very little pony. Good enough for Joe but not us.

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We have to look outside Canidae to find our dog mount. Canidae is part of Caniformia (dog-like carnivorans which includes bears, mustelids and seals) as their next closest relatives. The elephant in the room: bear cavalry. The closest thing we'll get to wolf mounts and pretty metal on its own. Pretty sure the Russians have tried it. Don't think it worked too well for them but I can understand the dream.

Bears are kind if their own thing though, right? Riding an agile, loyal giant wolf into battle just isn't the same vibe as riding a bear. Both bad ass, but different. Let me introduce the family amphicyonidae, the "bear dogs", an extinct family in caniformia which evolved 40+ million years ago but managed to survive to around 5 million years ago. As their name implies they look like a mix of a bear and a dog, with some looking more like one than the other, though generally trending to more bear-like in the youngest members of the family (with one big difference, they were all obligate carnivores unlike most bears). They were the closest relatives to canidae (dogs, wolves, foxes etc). Some of the species weighed up to over 1,700 lbs. That's riding size. So if you really wanted to ride a giant wolf like creature that actually existed and you had a time machine, I would say Amphicyon or Pseudocyon would do the trick. It's not perfect but it's closer than just riding a boring regular bear, imo.

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Of course if you had a time machine you'd probably already have the technology to just create some sort of science fiction horror Clifford the big red dog, but that's a different conversation.
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Clearly you’d be a wolf rider too
 
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#535
MG1968 said:
You’re applying human understanding to a deity that is both timeless and immortal. You are taking the Bible literally.

If that’s the standard, how many women have you stoned to death for being teachers. Or farmers for growing two different crops in the same field?
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You got one thing right, I do take the bible literally.
I believe it is literally the word of God and that Jesus Christ was literally born of a virgin and that he literally lived a sinless life and literally laid down his life on the cross of Calvary and literally 3 days later arose from the grave and literally is still alive today !!
Why should I not believe it to be literal?
 
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#536
DinkinFlicka said:
Honestly if heaven's full of BigO's I'm fine with the thought of slumming it in the 7th level.
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You don't have to worry about heaven if you refuse to believe the bible. That goes for all bible rejectors. Heaven is for born again bible believers. There's room for all who will believe. If you choose not to, don't blame God when you end up in hell.
 
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#538
BigO95 said:
You got one thing right, I do take the bible literally.
I believe it is literally the word of God and that Jesus Christ was literally born of a virgin and that he literally lived a sinless life and literally laid down his life on the cross of Calvary and literally 3 days later arose from the grave and literally is still alive today !!
Why should I not believe it to be literal?
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But do you advocate death by stoning for women who become school teachers?
 
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DinkinFlicka said:
I guess it depends on how much blood of Christ one elected to drink this morning.

Or whether or not your mother smoked a pack a day while you were in utero.
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I don't believe either of those correlates to whether we had electric lights 200 years ago. Or whether dinosaurs existed 6,000 years ago
 
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#548
MG1968 said:
But do you advocate death by stoning for women who become school teachers?
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You keep quoting Jewish law, this is the church age. Why should I possibly want to stone a woman who becomes a school teacher? The bible doesn't teach such a thing as that.
 
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