I think you greatly over-simplify things when you attempt to draw a clean break between government and religion. This concept of secularism is fairly ...
I concede your every point when you claim that horrors were committed in the name of religion, but blame always lies at the feet of people, not religi...
I acknowledge it's some serious sad shit. I cry with you. What do you need me to say? As to the question of whether the pain they brought was because ...
The object isn't to take Jesus. It's just to note that whether he actually walked the earth and did the things suggested shouldn't matter. So the clai...
There are all sorts of historical tragedies. The Roman destruction of the second temple that I referenced was considered a dive into darkness by the J...
If we learned there were no actual Ebenezer Scrooge or Tiny Tim, would the moral that even the coldest souls are capable of redemption be impacted? Th...
I prefer the non-literal approach, where Amelek represents evil and the reminder that such actually exists. One shouldn't have sympathy for the devil ...
I get that I cannot point to an internal sensation, but what of non-nouns that I cannot point to, like run, put, beside, and without? What about nouns...
I'm not making the claim the ancient Hebrews were a kind hearted bunch, but I do deny that their reasons for the wars were to kill infidels who wouldn...
First, thanks for the explanation. This Wittgenstein stuff baffles me, and I teeter between thinking I'm missing something terribly to the emperor wea...
Nor did the Jews lay waste to various other nations because they weren't monotheists. I'd also argue that the Christians laid waste to all sorts of na...
You saw an attractive woman and told her that, and it was meant by you as an invitation for additional conversation. She declined by offering you a sh...
I would think those of religious faith and those who accept the tenants of secular humanism would be aligned here in holding that human achievement is...
I'd argue Christianity is polytheistic. I can arrive at no other conclusion unless I accept the mystery of the triunity is coherent, which it's not. P...
There was a case where a motorist thought texting his girlfriend a kissing emoji was more important than watching traffic and he ran over a bicyclist....
Sure, and how would I be sure I conveyed my new langauge to someone else since I apparently can't rely upon my memory for anything? Imagine i had priv...
Do you really dispute who the original instigator was in each of these conflicts you've identified? It's not like blacks, gays, and women were all equ...
That's a more focused claim than made before, which was correlating monotheism to intolerance.,suggesting it was the monotheistic aspect of Christiani...
Your position is historically inaccurate, so there's not much to argue. Amenhotep is not representative of Egyptian religion generally, but an interes...
Your position is that prior to Christianity, there were no oppressive regimes, but that oppression began as the result of monotheism? That's just obvi...
Christianity wasn't the first monotheistic religion (see, e.g. Judaism and Atenism) and it's not universally accepted as monotheistic due to the trini...
@"frank" Not sure if I told you this, but I had a pet sitter come over, and there was an attack of some sort, blood all over the floorboards, but now ...
For a social worker dealing with poor people who don't have much, she won't have much to add up, so she might not even need math at all. She might nee...
My dogs ripped the clothes off the pet sitter. She came to just feed some happy dogs, but ended up naked and afraid and locked in a room. After her bo...
Note that you're changing grammatical forms and tenses, which changes the analysis and it could very well be identifying something idiosyncratic to En...
Then why did you say: Judaism was intolerant of other religions per the First Commandment. It was monotheistic, which necessarily entailed no other go...
This is a tough historical thesis to maintain, as it would require not just a comparison to the ancient Greek religions, but to all prior religions. H...
This reminds me of something. I'm in synagogue at a bar mitzvah and there were a bunch of obviously not Jewish kids in the back rows who had come to s...
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