@jeffcliff Jeff, I got to admit, I at first didn't see your brilliance. Thinking it through, I found an iron clad solution in surrogacy and contract law. After all, to get the end product, I would need protections to see that the baby makes it to term, without putting me in liability. In the contract, I would require the surrogate mother to protect her uterus at all cost. I would also be named sole guardian in the contract. In exchange, I compensate her with a fixed rate. I sure 3 BTC for the entire 9 months will be more than enough. We can also open up an insurance and financing industry that.
In addition, we can now open up a new industry of surrogate mothers. Legitimize a new prostitution industry, a nanny industry, and a wet nurse industry along side it. BAM, women now have exclusive, high paying gig jobs and they can be as insulated from men as much as they want centered on the abortion payment idea. HEYO.
I also get as many workers for my "family" businesses. What better morals would they learn than mine? After all, all fictional dystopias are possible with paper, pens, and currency.
@branman65@BowsacNoodle@maija@Terry >Scripture clearly teaches not only a legal framework of salvation but teaches faith alone and not faith plus works(spiritual usury)
Perhaps this would help:
1 Corinthians 13:2 "And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing."
James 2:14-17 "What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead."
>ROC has a Stalinist problem, to put it bluntly.
In my opinion, ROC has a positive Christianity problem with bishops sympathetic (or some arguably coereced or bribed) through "tsar before pope". The tsar being the secular Federation government which selected apologies of the USSR to order to give a root of history for government dogma to motivate the masses. (Aka we can do anything because we beat the Nazis, ignore the bad parts though)
LOVE, the natural, healthy kind, is indeed what makes the world go round, and is the most beautiful, holy miracle we ever see here on this earth. BUT WITHOUT A DEADLY HATE OF THAT WHICH THREATENS WHAT WE LOVE, LOVE IS AN EMPTY WORD, A CATCHWORD FOR HIPPIES, QUEERS, AND COWARDS.