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I\u2019m back home after two weeks, having taken my vacation and then going to the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education conference, trying to get back to normal.\u00a0 Thanks to everyone who posted comments on those general categories while I was incommunicado.\u00a0 There were some good discussions.\u00a0 As I promised, I will announce a winner for the person who started a thread with the most comments.\u00a0 According to my informal, non-counting analysis (correct me if you want to count), the virtual imaginary prize goes to Theological discussions<\/a> (278 comments) and the thread started by PETE on Baptism.<\/p>\n

I have found that if I really want to get a lot of viewers and discussion on this blog, all I have to do is raise the following topics:\u00a0 Baptism.\u00a0 Libertarianism (especially members of the Rand family).\u00a0 And gay marriage.<\/p>\n

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That held pretty well here, except for libertarianism, for some reason (though there was a long discussion of alternative political parties).\u00a0 One of these days I\u2019ll come up with a post on \u201cBaptism, Libertarianism, and Gay Marriage.\u201d\u00a0 (Actually, that\u2019s an excellent topic.\u00a0 Is Gay Marriage libertarian (letting people do whatever they want, without state interference) or authoritarian (an example of the state asserting its authority over all institutions, including the most fundamental unit of culture, by changing the meaning of marriage in a way unprecedented in human history?<\/p>\n

So how would you work Baptism into this?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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