O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often I have longed to gather your children together, and you were not willing. How exactly would God go about "authorizin...
If it is unnecessary for the larger argument, just say so. Yep, for the most part. Ever looked at Supreme Court discussions? If you don't realize that...
That is probably more damning for the modern man's consciousness than for the ancients. They also did not record any "sudden realization" that water i...
Abraham heard of God without reading a text. So did Isaac. So did Jacob. Sure, the children heard of God from Abraham, but they also had direct revela...
Really? No reports? This, to my mind, is equivalent to "there are no bugs in my house". Have you bothered to look for them? Perhaps you mean "no credi...
Er, where is the evidence for that? Curiously, Scripture is chock full of people who knew Yahweh without the aid of manmade scriptures. And so are the...
Theology = the logos of the theos = the discourse about the Divine. Philosophy of religion, on the other hand, is about religion, i.e. about the effor...
Yes. You tell the truth in such a way that your interlocutor disbelieves it. In other words, you introduce a divergence between the spoken and the non...
For the record, I don't think you are a low life. It is strange that you think that an analysis of your stance is so momentous. In reply to your quest...
One can argue that, but in arguing it he is abandoning the legalistic principle ("if a law requires it, it must be done") which I perceived (perhaps e...
Don't you think this line of argument absolves religion too? Religion is also "just a method" -- the method of connecting man to the divine. That peop...
It was addressed to you. And if the analogy isn't clear, that is worrisome. You said that you were fine with the treatment of Assange because you trus...
Would you accept it in stride if some Iranian murdered Salman Rushdie in London, claiming that he had faith in the Iranian legal system, and that the ...
I did not say (or think) that you are a hypocrite. Another example: Salman Rushdie's fatwa was perfectly legal according to the Iranian laws. Pinochet...
I haven't got a problem. You have (if you don't want to have a double standard). A citizen of country M is accused by people in country N. He is curre...
So, wouldn't you require an Ecuadorian (or, an Australian) court to authorize the deportation to the US, in the actual scenario? That is conspicuously...
Would this be your take if he were an American citizen who had (allegedly) engaged in crimes against Ecuador, and had received asylum in the Australia...
My point is this. If you are a Martian visiting Earth and observe that the Earthlings often engage in a pattern of behavior, according to which a grou...
I was asking a question about history (since you were talking about Giordano Bruno). Do you believe that men of science never killed people because of...
An idea for another thread, perhaps: even allowing for substantial feedback between the different levels of inquiry, does it make more sense to look f...
"The Host" also refers to the Holy Eucharist, which is why that question mark was placed in my last post. Apparently you are no longer willing to disc...
No, I described the established Christian view. If you disagree, you should give some sources. Note, the "plethora of angels, demons, the Host (?), sa...
It would be better phrased as, "the search for God's influence in the physical realm might not be as absurd as it sounds." Since the God of the Abraha...
I doubt you consistently follow your own suggestion here. What do you think of Paulo Freire? I think we need heroes and villains (role models if you w...
Well, I don't know if you are arguing for "Villains do not exist" or for "everybody is a villain". I would agree with both. Which is why fictional exa...
Raising the cost of any action will result in a decrease in the amount of people willing to take it. It is the same principle that says that although ...
Good question. I don't think that Satan is a villain, although his influence (obviously) produces villains. Satan does not want power. He (as I pictur...
Sauron and Saruman (to say nothing of Melkor, their mentor) are representatives of Law in this dynamic. Do you remember Saruman's words to Gandalf whe...
For Plato all perfection comes from the Agathon (which is the Sun in the Parable of the Cave). The Agathon is therefore the analogous of "God" in a Ch...
It is another application of Pascal's wager. If people could get rid of the prejudice and read the relevant portion of the Pensées, it would do a lot ...
If you want to believe otherwise as you now do, figure out how your behavior would change, and then change it. The mind follows the body. If your beha...
@"johnGould" I don't have the time, unfortunately, to engage in writing the long posts that the topic deserves. So, I will just point to some books th...
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