@fredsbend Well, it's available so long as it's Wednesday somewhere in the world. It's still Tuesday here, and will be available on Thursday for some time. (Almost) 48 hours altogether.
@El'endiaStarman I've been hovering at like 6.8 for a while, then decided to answer at least three a week until I got it. It only took three answers and about 9 days.
@fredsbend I'm pretty that the maximum stars you get is proportional to how far along you are. When you're half way to winning the internet you'll have about 10 stars etc
I have heard that it contains foreign countries' scripts and artifacts, collected in difficult times, to be preserved. Why was is created in the first place and with what purpose?
@BruceAlderman Nice. I dig it. Though what if I'm being forced to pay for other's birth control? Wasn't that the whole Hobby Lobby thing? I supposed that would infringe upon my rights er something.
@LCIII The point of health insurance is that we all put some money in, and then the insurance company covers or helps with our health needs.
I realize some people have objections to certain health procedures, but when you're pooling your money with other people who don't share your values, some of the money is going to go to things that other people find objectionable.
What's the solution? Should we eliminate coverage for everything that anybody objects to? No blood transfusions, because it's against Jehovah's Witness beliefs. No insulin extracted from pigs, because Jews and Muslims object. No vaccinations, because Jenny McCarthy says they cause autism. And stop covering Ritalin because Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology say ADHD isn't real.
If you go through and exempt coverage for everyone's objections to health services and procedures, you'll end up with no actual health insurance.
@BruceAlderman Decoupling it from employment would be a help, but having it attached benefits large companies at the expense of smaller ones, so the lobbyists like it, so it's unlikely to change.
But that's a political discussion rather than a religious one.
Possibly more relevant is the fact that Hobby Lobby happily offered coverage for birth control until they were told they had to, at which point they suddenly developed a religious objection to it.
Slactivist (Fred Clark) has covered it fairly extensively.
Slacktivist makes a pretty strong case that Hobby Lobby's CEO and the Evangelical leaders defending him were not defending their long-held religious beliefs, but rather inventing new doctrines so they could attack the Affordable Care Act.
If it's at the OP, I don't understand why people want to delete their account when they just got here. Does that reaction happen on the non-religious sites?
Not the fastest, but to submit another contender, Christianity got 250 days.
I have heard that it contains foreign countries' scripts and artifacts, collected in difficult times, to be preserved. Why was is created in the first place and with what purpose?
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