User:Guðsþegn

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Guðsþegn (God's minister)

This user is a catholic and evangelical Christian.

This user is an American.

This user is a native Texan.

This user is of
Teutonic and Celtic ancestry.

INTP

This user has an INTP personality
per the Myers-Briggs typing system

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This user is a
Born Again Christian.

BELIEFS

RB	This user is a Reformed Baptist

CD	This user is a Christian Democrat

CDU

This user supports the
Christian Democratic Union USA

This user supports
instant-runoff voting.

PL	This user is pro-life.

AD	This user prefers traditional terminology in date-naming

This user prefers the English Standard Version of the Bible

LANGUAGES

en	This user is a native speaker of English.

es-1

Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel básico de español.

ke-1

Ὁ χρήστης οὗτος δύναται συνεισφέρειν μετὰ μικρὰς γνώσεως τῆς Κοινῆς Ελληνικῆς.

is-1

Þessi notandi hefur grundvallarkunnáttu á íslensku máli.

WIKIPEDIA

This user contributes using Mozilla Firefox.

This user has a ton of edits.

This user actively participated in rebellion against the Great 2006 New Year's Day Userbox Purge in favor of Userbox rights.

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WikiProject Middle-earth.

PREOCCUPATIONS

trek	This user is a Trekkie or Trekker.

LOST	4…8…15…16…23…42… This user is LOST…

C-SPAN

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C-SPAN

This user is interested in maps.

Cards

This user enjoys playing poker.

This user is a Weimaraner lover.

Kristófur Guðsþegn Hermansson

... has an affinity for the people and culture of Iceland. ... lives in southeast Texas. ... is almost finished pursuing a Master of Divinity degree from Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. ... received a bachelor degree in architecture from the University of Texas at Austin. ... is an Architect, i.e. an INTP, according to popular personality sorting. ... considers himself a Catholic Evangelical of the Reformed Baptist variety (believe it or not; can explain). ... dreams about greater church unity, while maintaining church purity. ... wants to create ecclesial structures that help bring the organic unity of the Church into a significant organizational unity. ... wishes he could vote for a party that wants to save babies, rather than just have an issue. ... wishes he could vote for a party that wants to save American jobs and make workers lives better, rather than providing corporate welfare to send jobs overseas. ... is helping to create the nascent Christian Democratic Union (USA).

Catholic Evangelical (Reformed Baptist)

My being a Catholic Evangelical (Reformed Baptist) can be taken two ways:

(1) It means that I am an evangelical Christian who is a Baptist and who is also Reformed in his theology, particularly regarding soteriology, and loves to learn about and from the historical Church (go Athanasius!), and prefers to hold as close to historical Christian practices as possible without falling into idolatry or man-made religion.

(2) It can mean that I am a catholic Christian, that is, a Christian believer who is part of the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church" of Christ, who thinks that the Apostolic scriptures lead him to worship at a Reformed Baptist church; and who thinks that his church and evangelical churches in general could learn something from the Roman Catholic Church, particularly in regard to organizational unity - minus the hierarchy.

CDU

Information about the Christian Democratic Union (USA)

HDA

Information about the Human Dignity Amendment

Information about Voting System Reform

[edit] Guðsþegn at Wikipedia

[edit] FULL BODY CONTACT

Catholic Evangelical — (created ex nihilo)
Mormon Miracle Pageant — (created from micro-stub)
National Council of Architectural Registration Boards — (created stub)
Christian Democrat Organization of America — (created stub)
New Covenant (theology) — (will be creating from this stub soon)
Polyonymy in ecclesiastical offices — (will be creating ex nihilo soon)
Progressive illumination — (will be creating ex nihilo soon)
Union with Christ — (will be creating ex nihilo soon)
Template:Christian Democracy — (created ex nihilo)

[edit] HEAVY HAND

Christian theology — (will be heavily reworking it soon)
Covenant Theology — (will be heavily reworking it soon)
Federalism — created introduction and section on "Theological Federalism"
One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church — (though some has been written over)
Protestantism — (though much has been written over)
Universal health care — (hopefully will be reworking it soon)
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[edit] LIGHT HAND

[edit] PERIPHERAL VISION

YHVH God — the self-existent source and sustenance of all being — the Lord Jesus Christ

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[edit] These are the voyages...

...of the user Guðsþegn...

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[edit] Voting System Reform

As with many others trying to break out of the politically oppressive two-party system box that is characteristic of the current American electoral system, the CDP advocates instant-runoff voting (IRV), to replace the current first-past-the-post voting (FPTP) system.

The current American two-party system is created by the convergence of two traditions, one constitutionally mandated and the other simply arbitrary. In the United States, the separated legislative and executive branches are constitutionally mandated. This system was created by the founding fathers to help deter any formation of a monarch, a laudible goal. Though most of the founding fathers despised the idea of political parties in general (a bit near-sighted given the nature of man), the system they created (when combined with FPTP voting) helped create an entrenched two-party system. In contrast, parliamentary systems (as in Britain) tend to deter the emergence of an entrenched two-party system. The other tradition, the seemingly intuitive but actually totally arbitrary first-past-the-post voting system, when combined with the presidential, or separated powers, system of governance almost guarantees an entrenched two-party system.

Replacing the current FPTP system with Instant-runoff voting would require no constitutional or legal change at the federal level (some states may require change if they have enshrined FPTP voting). In addition, (contrary to some criticism by two-party system advocates) IRV could easily work alongside the electoral college system. There is no conflict at all between them. The reason two-party system advocates do not like IRV is because it would move the United States toward having a Congress that to a greater degree proportionally represents the real desires and voice of the American people, and it would cause the powers-that-be to lose some of their power. IRV would almost certainly open the system to parties like the CDP, because it would dissuade voters from engaging in the now common practice of tactical voting, which is exactly the thing that entrenches the two-party system.

Curiously, in FPTP, the post (i.e. the requirement to win) actually moves, according to how many candidates are in the field. With FPTP, a candidate in a field of six could potentially win with just 17% of the vote. In IRV, the requirement to win is always a majority of the vote. The winner in an IRV election may not be the first choice of a majority of the voters (as is also true with the current FPTP system), but the winner will certainly be the candidate desired more than any of the other candidates (unlike FPTP) and a majority winner over the second place candidate. This is to some degree true with all runoff voting, but unlike runoff voting in general (as in Louisiana voting), instant-runoff voting (IRV) does not require any additional voting events. You only go to the ballot box once.

Some positive side effects of going to an IRV system would be that more people would be likely to vote, because they could vote for a candidate that more closely represented their views without feeling like they were totally wasting their time. Moreover, because IRV is a "ranked choice" voting system, it is very likely that there would be much less negative campaigning, because candidates would not only be seeking to be the first choice of the voters, but they would also be seeking to be the second and third choice of voters who actually prefer other candidates. The candidates would not want to offend those voters who prefer an opposing candidate by calling their favorite candidate a "slime bag" because they need some of their second choice votes. This would probably produce a great deal more substantive debate as well, because when personal issues are out of the way, more important issues can fill the gap.

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[edit] External links

Christian Democratic Union (USA)

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