John Days

Unconditional in the context means that there must be conditions in order for something to happen? Huh?

"Giving" is a condition. If the giving does not happen, then the condition is not met and the love is not unconditional. the concept is a contradictio...

Is a condition.

No, because the condition is that the wrong-doer is HER child; not some other person's child, and, her love may not be real love at all if it causes h...

"If the condition is met". Unconditional love is automatically excluded. If something ELSE is meant, then the "unconditional" part needs to be dropped...

Still a condition.

Wishing to receive is still a condition.

haha, it's spells cheer.

But there must be governance of some kind...

Hi Saphsin. "No purpose" sounds like a misnomer of some kind, because a purpose is defined in the very next sentence (e.g. "a structural position in a...

Kids govern their pets. Parents govern their kids. Teachers govern their students. Bosses govern their employees. Everyone knows what it's like to gov...

Depends on what you mean by "believe". Most professing christians today have been taught that "Jesus did it all on the cross" and so if they "confess ...

There is no paradox. It is not inconsistent to feel joy from doing good. I would say that it is more so that there is confusion. In our worldly system...

Then there would be no need to use Satan as your mascot. You put greed in quotes like it's not a real thing that all humans struggle with on a daily b...

Nope, not true at all. Take, for example, good Samaritan kidney donation, where a person donates a kidney to a total stranger. The operation isn't tha...

I've talked to a lot of people about this, and the most common answer I've heard is that many people want change, but most of them believe they can se...

Anyway, the original point was that Satanism, in the sense of rituals isn't really the problem. However, if the motivation for playing around with the...

Something similar happened on the Trump side, as well. The guy has a lot of problems, some significant and some petty. A lot of attention was given to...

Sure they can, if they disregard those useful parts because they dislike Shakespeare or the ancient Babylonians. When Jesus says, "If you give to the ...

They can be, but pretending they have a special problem which we do not, just because they're religious about their greed is probably worse.

Which is the point; if there are good teachings in the Bible about greed and how to deal with greed, why should an atheist disregard them because they...

Usually it's personal bias or social conditioning of some kind. Why would any rational person have a problem with, "Judge yourself first so that you w...

That doesn't sound realistic at all. Sorry, but I don't just believe people because they ask me to. Nah, there's lots of fantastical or delusion ideal...

Yeah, I was hoping that wouldn't be an issue. Jesus said A LOT about greed, which isn't a religious problem. All humans on the planet struggle with gr...

Ok, I guess you were using in a different way. I understand it to mean emphasis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7SpXGz-XOc

I found this ritual scene a little boring, but I don't like sitting through these kinds of rituals even in a christian setting. Real Satanism has noth...

You put the word "period" at the end of the thread title for emphasis, followed by an ellipses, as though there's actually a little more after the per...

Your own conclusion is evidence that my interpretation is accurate. You say it's nonsense that the creator of time/space/matter can exist outside of t...

Most people today believe that a 5 dollar bill has more value than a gallon of milk. Tilt indeed...

They CAN be, and a lot of them are, but so are a lot of non-religious people, too!

I'm of two minds, here. I think it's good to get specific, but complaints against religion always seem to amount to little more than nitpicking an eas...

We are. That's the trick to free will. Within the limits of reality around us, we have the freedom to choose, but every choice we make is only relevan...

Perfection is one of those weird words that has taken on a modern-day meaning which may not be consistent with how the word was used thousands of year...

More than 50% if the world (at least) believes there is a god of some kind. I really like this regard for a multitude of perspectives. I believe consi...

It's hard to trust someone who uses "thus" twice in three sentences. :p

Actually, I did give context. Here it is again... "We come to enjoy the respect that often comes with special titles. Try calling a doctor by his firs...

Sure, like a powerball machine; the balls bounce around and pop out through the chute randomly, but the balls, machine, and chute (as well as the pers...

Of course they fit into the reality of either random or designed. Just because they may think they don't, doesn't mean they are right. See, this isn't...

You talked about historical phenomenon. I talked about what random and designed actually mean in terms of concepts, and then attempted to accurately a...

Yeah, most people discussing this topic prefer a lot of complexity. It's great for hiding. :p

But, proving the existence of God is inconsequential to the real point of what this God wants, anyway. Even the Bible says this; "you think there is s...

This is a simple matter of definitions. "Designed" and "random" mean two different, opposing things like up and down, full and empty, on and off etc. ...

The periodic table of the elements lists all the known elements from 1 - 119, according to electron count. We did not create the elements nor the numb...

Sorry, can you give an explanation for how my point plays directly into that? I'm not sure I understand what "plays directly into that" even means. I ...

Even if your suggestion that "I am that I am" is correct in the sense of an eternal present, we're talking about the creator of time/space/matter in t...

Nah, you've misunderstood the point. The answer was "I am that I am" and it was given in an unpronounceable series of letters (i.e. no vowels). The vo...

Nope. There can be only 2 options; either random or designed. If there is no creator, no intelligence, no intent or design behind why we are here, the...

Sure, because "everything came from nothing and then organized itself, into complex inter-dependent systems" isn't a mythical at all. *eye-roll*. I th...

Fantastic observation.

I'm not sure how it is in other religions which may have angelic beings, but at least in Christianity it seems gender will become irrelevant in terms ...