I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. It isn't that in pantheism you can't talk to god, but that in pantheism god is inherently constituted by...
Panentheism is a solution to a problem not addressed by pantheism. Specifically, panentheism helps answer the questions of immanence/transcendence, im...
Etymology isn't the be all and end all, but you might consider the types of relations between ideas that come from the words. "Opposite" is positional...
Not sure how there is anything else to be said by a non-determined agent about a determined agent. Arguments feel much like they presuppose an agent t...
Food has been politicized for an awfully long time - be it in the context of class or nation (religion, if you must). One day two cannibals are eating...
There is nothing even remotely novel about Lewis's argument. At twelve I was perfectly able to articulate the argument and tell Christians that they b...
This is the part that is confusing. Lewis makes it explicit that he will not tolerate any form of Christianity other than that which he sets out becau...
There was no exchange on this and nothing but a equivocation in the article. How does worship equate to admire? That if we are trying to critique an i...
What doctrine? What is being critiqued is those who admirer a tyrant. What is not explained is whether someone that worships the tyrant admires it and...
So because we were horrible before we should go on being horrible forever? Expanding our scope of moral regard is generally thought to be a sign of pr...
I've no idea if I'm included in this grouping or not (and I hardly think I have defended Christianity), but some of us happen to know Christian theolo...
Veganism is not a diet, but a lifestyle informed by a relatively simple ethic: “he principle of the emancipation of animals from exploitation by man."...
What "mainstream" veganism is I couldn't tell you, but you might be interested to know that vegans are keenly aware of the symbolic nature of their ve...
Typical BC crankiness. Veganism has NOTHING to do with flavor profiles or ingredient choice outside of not deliberately contributing to animal sufferi...
The argument is decidedly not aimed at Christians - rather it is aimed at the "we" in Lewis's net. His entire article is largely about what you asked ...
It always strikes me as odd what you think I am pretending. I think virtually everyone that worships worships a torturer. But then we have to come to ...
I agree entirely too little. You said what you wanted to talk about. I tried to talk about it. You claim that I am talking about something else. Befor...
You need to re-read Lewis's article. His critique applies to those Christians (on his definition) that agree with "God" in eternally damning people. T...
Sure. Though I imagine that folks on a philosophy forum can be more nuanced in their critiques of theology to other folks on a philosophy forum withou...
The difficulty with this thread is that it veered sharply into what Christianity is, or is not, about rather than sitting with your question. I am not...
Voting is a binary choice - either you vote for someone or you don't. The candidate has no idea why you voted for them on the basis of the fact that t...
Contracts are ONLY creations of the state as they are understood to be enforceable agreements between the parties. Did you have something else in mind...
I return to this quote for a moment because it suggests something that I didn't get to flesh out. When you go into a contracts class (and get a contra...
No you wont, and that was the point of mentioning charitable pledges which are increasingly found to be enforceable in the absence of consideration. H...
What is an issue? Can I have a party that says "People should have unfettered access to abortion" and "People should have unfettered access to abortio...
I got that (and saw your amusing quip about Dutch Colonialism), but it seems at least a little bit instructive to consider the actual history of an id...
What is truly progressive about it? That you think political parties are somehow inherently anathema to the common person such that abolishing politic...
You already mentioned deterimental reliance, i.e. promissory estoppel, so there was no need to mention it, let alone argue about it. Although both pro...
Quasi-contracts, unjust enrichment, quantum meruit. Is that a sufficient topical reference or do we really need to go down the path of the history of ...
I get it, but think you run off the rails rather quickly. You assume god and then question what you assumed. The attributes of your assumption are up ...
Just sounds cynical and angry mixed with a bit of misplaced optimism about how politics is some sort of vestige of power structures of yore. Political...
Is 1,000 greater than 800? Or 2,500 greater than 1,800? It is nice that we know how to use comparative operators, but that is exactly not the point. W...
Well, it is just amusing you picked calculus as the place for no contradictions. Perhaps I misread you. I was just teasingly (and ignorantly) pointing...
You asked me to tell an 18 year old that he needs white people to succeed as if that isn't patently obvious. Last I checked, black separtism isn't the...
Question it all you want. I neither started nor am responsible for any of the various anti-racist conversations/groups presently in existence. Tell th...
A claim you keep making but have yet to demonstrate. When you look to the sociologists, they seem to be suggesting that creating a more just society w...
Do you know what farce is? Where do you think he would be if not for the 14th amendment, Brown v. Board, and the Civil Rights Act? Which levers of sta...
You started a thread with the following: All I tried to address is that when you are writing to a non-specific audience (especially when the people/gr...
Yes, these are excerpts, but I don't think they are particularly off base about what you have said. BLM, which came to be some twenty years after Sand...
Those links were along the line of LMGTFY. You can find people discussing the issue to your heart's content. As for BLM, at some point I begin to ques...
Again, the people who are talking about systemic issues seem to be focused on systemic issues rather than eliminating the harms of specific violent cr...
This certainly didn’t come across as your advocating for a reduction in policing to increase social cohesion. Maybe you can explain what “necessary in...
I think the people doing the stats have found that the police are largely neither to blame nor praise when it comes to movement in violent crimes. Whi...
That nasty place of Louisiana? High was 20 in 1993 and is like 12 today. https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/lacrime.htm Do you think it was the poli...
I’m curious why this is of such concern to you. https://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm In 1960, the murder rate was 5.1. Today it is 5.0. Th...
This is painful, BC. The solution to very little is increasing police presence in over-policed communities. How about we legalize drugs and end the no...
Again, why are you mentioning it? If it is to stop systemic forces legitimizing/creating the circumstance of power in which violence is unethically di...
If we are paying attention to systemic racism, do you respond what about breast cancer? Surely breast cancer is something worth paying attention to. A...
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