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The Kindle Can't Scare Me A small publisher of a very niche kind of book has some interesting things to say about Amazon's Kindle. What it does well, what it does poorly and what it will do in the future.
Do We Have Free Will? Andy Naselli answers this one over at Reformation21. It's not one you can just skim, so bookmark it and read it when you've got a few minutes! Quote from Dave Ramsey Z shares a fantastic quote from Dave Ramsey: "As long as Americans are comfortable with debt, we will elect officials/politicians who are too." That's worth thinking about. Piper, Tornadoes and Godwin's Law John Dyer applies Godwin's law (As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.) to John Piper's recent comments about the Minneapolis tornado and all of the comments ensued.
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Comments (6)
Mortgages for the purchase or property have been recognized since the time of English Common Law, and from what I can tell were used in the U.S. since its inception. If that's the case, then we've always been okay with debt.
This country was founded on debt. The founding fathers had to go out and borrow so they had good credit to borrow more from the french and dutch.
So, to say that one day, we'll be rid of debt is ludicrous.
"As long as Americans are comfortable with debt, we will elect officials/politicians who are too". This is a no brainer.
Replace the word "debt" with anything and the sentence works.
"As long as Americans are comfortable with war, bigotry, baseball salaries, greed, buy American, ... we will elect officials/politicians who are too".
Isn't odd that the quote doesn't come up until our financial security is in danger.
I think the key word is "comfortable." My reading in history is that debt was occasionally considered necessary. However, it seems to me that the desire of the founding fathers was to be as debt free as possible.
As a regular listener of Ramsey, I think he would also say the same thing about living within a budget.
Andy Naselli's Do We Have Free Will article doesn't go very deeply onto the issue. It only considers two options as far as I can see. An Arminianism of Libertarian Free Will and God's 'Simple foreknowledge', or standard Calvinism. An indepth consideration would require comment on the mediating Molinist explanation of reconciling Libertarian Free Will & overarching divine Sovereignty.