What happens when you give up diet sodas?

For me nothing.  Don't like them.  But many are addicted to them.  Here's what happens when you give them up--reduces migraines, other things taste better, the scales will respond, and reduces diabetes risk, among other benefits.  Effects of diet soda.

What's a baker, florist, candlestick maker to do?

 Recently, "the state" squeezed every penny, including donations, from a Christian couple and destroyed their livelihood because they wouldn't bake a cake for a lesbian couple's wedding.  They would serve them as customers every other way, just not that. Story.

They were ordered to “cease and desist from publishing, circulating, issuing or displaying, or causing to be published, circulated, issued or displayed, any communication, notice, advertisement or sign of any kind to the effect that any of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, services or privileges of a place of public accommodation will be refused, withheld from or denied to, or that any discrimination will be made against, any person on account of sexual orientation.”
“Within Oregon’s public accommodations law is the basic principle of human decency that every person, regardless of their sexual orientation, has the freedom to fully participate in society,” the ruling states. “The ability to enter public places, to shop and dine, to move about unfettered by bigotry.”

Divorce cakes are quite popular. Just google images. Many Christians do not believe divorce is God's will. Gay couples get divorces.  Can a baker be required to bake one for Harry and George if he would not do it for Mary and George?




Can a Quaker pacifist bakery owner refuse to decorate a cake with guns by turning down a big job for the NRA? The military?
 

  
What about a West Virginia Democrat's celebration in memory of an Exalted Cyclops of the KKK who represented him in Congress? Is that OK to turn down? (There was such a story posted on the Internet which apparently was a hoax).
 
Does a female baker have to create pornographic images on cupcakes for male clients? Or yoga positions for the exercise club? Many of those pink breast cancer images were just porn, in my opinion.


These are all activities by Americans expressing their free speech; what about the religious and speech and assembly rights of the baker?

Media tries to instruct Christians in how to behave

So many of current cultural values pushed by the media and government are not found in the Bible: tolerance, diversity, ecumenism, political correctness, body confusion, sexual immorality. Instead, Biblical values are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, mercy, justice, good works, fear of God, sincerity, truthfulness, respect, honoring elders, generosity, charity, being chosen people, compassion, humility (the queen of virtues), gentleness, thankfulness, gratitude, hard work, sharing in Christ's suffering, self-control, restoring the sinner, and so forth as found in the Gospels and Epistles.

Dear media; stop trying to teach Christians theology

My cat is deaf, so what does that make me?

 
I've tried sign language, but you know how cats are.  They do what they want and then take a nap.