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Thoughts?

The Tetragrammaton, or Nomina Sacra (divine name) is the Hebrew rendering of the name which God gave to Moses by which He is called. In Hebrew, יהודה, typically is transliterated into English with the characters “YHWH,” and classically pronounced “Jehovah” (although this pronunciation is almost universally rejected by modern scholars, since it it heavily Latinized.)

Most Second Temple era Jews, as well as a large majority of Christians since the first century, have refused to pronounce the Nomina Sacra, out of reverence, typically translating it as “The LORD.” Even the Septuagint substitutes κύριος (Lord) in place of יהוה. But I’ve noted that some modern translations of the Bible, notably the LSB, have broken with this standard and moved towards just writing YHWH instead. Personally, I oppose this change. But I’m curious what other folks think.

This might be a little off the cuff, but I wanted to clear something up for my liberal friends because I’ve heard the term “MAGA” Christian thrown around a few times. Now I am not trying to pick a fight with anyone, but I suspect this post may rouse some strong feelings in some people just because of the subject matter. Please keep it polite.

A vast majority of conservative Christians are so because of their interpretation of the Bible. A grammatical, historical, contextual hermeneutic will invariably lead someone to hold views that are defined as conservative (ie, since all humans are created in the image of God from the moment of fertilization, abortion MUST necessarily be murder.)

Conservatives may vary greatly on theological matters, but nearly all will agree that the Bible forbids abortion, homosexuality, premarital sexual relations, etc., but here’s the main point: regardless of which conservative you talk to, with possibly a few exceptions here or there, is going to root their identity in Christ and in His Holy Scriptures. We do not find our identity in politics.
The political views held by conservatives are merely downstream effects of being Biblical Literalists. No Christian wanted Donald Trump to be the republican candidate.
Our ideal candidate, frankly, would be far to the right of Trump on social matters. He doesn’t hold consistent views on anything Christians prioritize. However, nearly all conservatives Christians found themselves in the camp of being forced to choose the lesser of two evils in the past few years, and while the Republicans certainly don’t represent us well, the democrats are so far to the left on social and moral matters, that Bible-believing Christians were basically left with no choice but to choose the more relatively conservative candidate. In other words, Trump was the lesser evil, not our perfect president.

Also, we know that Trump is not a true Christian. We have never claimed that he was. We know he pretends to be on the camera sometimes, but he can’t fool us. We like him even less for that.

In summation, we may have voted for Trump out of necessity, but that doesn’t mean we’re on board with his agenda. We have our own agenda, that occasionally runs parallel to the MAGA agenda, but definitely is not the same. Ergo, the term “MAGA Christian” is basically DOA. It has no meaning.

TLDR: the term MAGA Christian doesn’t work because conservatives don’t actually believe in the MAGA agenda. The MAGA agenda is not in line with biblical Christianity.

Seriously I know I’m pretty new but I came here to get more news about up and coming companies in the mining industry, the industry I work in. But all I’ve seen in the past couple days is about Albertan succession and something Trump did/said about the gays. Not a single post about mining related anything.

Am I missing something? Or is this just a mislabeled political sub?

It seems like I’ve seen an awful lot of posts about these two whiskeys specifically, but I’ve never even seen them for sale in my area, which leads me to believe they are primarily distributed east of the Rockies (please correct me if I’m wrong.)

Am I really missing out? Is it worth trying to order these? Or are they just trendy? Thanks in advance.

Edit: It seems that the consensus here is: yes, at MSRP, No at secondary prices. Honestly I really didn’t expect it to come down to price so distinctly.
So if I happen to spot one at a bar, I’ll try it. But I’m definitely not hunting for it.

I’ve recently made a batch of a Bavarian style Hefeweizen that turned out pretty good, if I may say so myself. I would like to save a bottle or two for a friend of mine who lives up in Alaska and helped me get started in home brewing. I only see him about once a year anymore due to distance.

Just wondering if anyone has any guidance on how long this should last on a shelf or in the fridge? Currently don’t have a date set for next time I’m up there, but will 6-8 months from bottling still be okay?

I love Islay Scotches, but so far my experience is limited to Laphraoig, Lagavulin, and Ardbeg.
I even got to visit the first two on my trip to Scotland last year.
Any others worth seeking out?