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It's contagious. They're developing a vaccine. Contains lead.

Sorry, I've been away. Someone shot my ear off.

Sorry. I was inconvenienced. I died of birdflu. Back now. Everyone is descended from Abraham, just as everyone is descended from anyone who lived long enough ago (and had kids). "Long enough" is probably about 1,500 years. It would be an interesting math study. There would be outliers, but...

I doubt it. It looks like you have not understood the thought experiment. Or perhaps I have not explained it properly.

OK. I meant "citizen."

There's no such thing as a Christian culture.

Sure. But this isn't about them.

That would have been "the citizenry," but I'm not sure what the difference would be from the wording I used.

It's an intangible noun — it exists, but only as a concept.

Wait. There are still conspiracy theorists out there who believe that the 2020 US presidential election was not stolen?

A thought experiment: What would a nation's laws for its citizens have to look like to justify a policy of legal immigration for anyone who turned up at its borders? Said another way: How strict would the law for citizens have to be to deal with open borders?

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Attempting to tie the nature of time to a theological outlook seems like a painful exercise with no obvious benefits.

I just answered that.

It's like asking "can God exist without life?" Time is a measure of the separation between events. God has always been alive, therefore there has always been time.