Posts by Chris Waugh
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I was wondering what the rationale behind disenfranchising prisoners is. I find the idea of disenfranchising any citizen abhorrent. So what if they've committed a crime (or been overseas for over three years), they're still citizens, still have a valid interest in their country's governance, and should not be stripped of such a fundamental right in a democracy. I've read a bit too much about the unequal effects on different racial communities of disenfranchisement laws in various states of the US for the idea of it happening in NZ to not worry me.
Also, the People's Republic of China strips people of their political rights (such as they are) for fixed periods as a punishment for crime. How's that comparison feel?
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Farmer Green,
“Sin, even for those who have no faith, exists when people disobey their conscience.”
Interesting.
All who have sinned apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous in God's sight, but the doers of the law who will be justified. When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves. They show that what the law requires is written on their hearts, to which their own conscience also bears witness; and their conflicting thoughts will accuse or perhaps excuse them on the day when, according to my gospel, God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts of all.
Romans 2:12 - 16
But one does not often hear that in church, at least not when I was growing up. I even had one person respond with "But my Bible college said..."
Pope Francis and St Paul: Be excellent to each other!
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After a couple of failed attempts to persuade the phone to focus on what I was actually looking at, I managed this.
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Islander,
Good to see you back, Islander.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Looks like you weren’t using the phone-cam
Correct. I decided it was long since time the DSLR had a trip out somewhere. And thanks. I particularly like "just one more" with the paper boat shadowed and reflected how many times?
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And just one more
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One more...
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to JacksonP,
Beautiful day. The skipper.
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Better be careful when renaming bridges... That wasn't a hunchback, it's the dragon's spine.
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Enter the Dragon.
Hunchback bridge.
Lounge bridge.
