I must not have adequately explained why Christianity works. Christianity works and so do lucky rabbit's feet. I am speaking of the psychology of posi...
There is no God who hates people and Muslims took in Jewish refugees when Christians were prosecuting them. Now Zionism is a different thing. That has...
Nice advice but many people are on the front line of this war, and they can not put themselves first. They are risking their lives for everyone they c...
Trump and this pandemic are a lesson in tyranny. Obama put in place departments to handle a pandemic when Eboli was threatening everyone. Trump undid ...
Please, I know how bad an economic crash can be on the poor because I lived through very hard times that lasted many years, and when my children came ...
I love your questions. Should we address them here or in another thread? I think I have already said the philosophers of Athens asked, how do the immo...
I don't dare spend too much time on youtube because if I use my information bites too fast I don't have internet for the rest of the month and right n...
I am pretty ignorant of the Greek conflict with Persians. I only know the Greek point of view and a Persian informed me that I am not well informed. I...
I would love to agree with you, but I have some concerns. On-line school is not working at all for my family. Not all families value education. Not al...
Yes, it does matter. Democracy is a way of life and government is only one aspect of that way of life. If we handle things democratically on the job a...
We should have done that during the housing crisis when bad banking regulations made victims of hard-working citizens. :rage: I have hope that we will...
That is an excellent post and triggers my memory of another story. The Greek version makes more sense. Prometheus went against Zeus' will and gave man...
Wikipedia explains that and the different perspectives, such as Augustine's explanation and the equivalent concept of good and evil being two sides of...
You put me in a difficult position. That is something my Muslim friends never did. I never felt I had to defend myself from their personal attacks. An...
About comparing the God of Abraham religions- they all share the same God, and the same prophets up to Jesus. Jesus is part of the Islamic story but h...
Well, thank you for setting things straight. I am not that interested in the popes, so I will bow out. But when it comes to being our own god, I don't...
This is my last day of work until life returns to normal. The measures taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus have made it impossible for me to vi...
You might want to read the book "Jesus Wars" by Philip Jenkins. The history of Christianity is full of conflicts and power plays, not so different fro...
What is the point of that argument? :lol: I think you two got sidetracked by an argument that doesn't really matter. What might matter is the evolutio...
You and I have very different points of view. Let us celebrate the gods and goddesses who greatly increased our knowledge with the different points of...
Wow, I like your argument! :clap: The God of Abraham is not a good god, and we have lived with Him and done terrible things and think this is our natu...
What is obvious to me is the power of having special knowledge. This power is even greater if it is believed to be sacred knowledge. It becomes even g...
I like men and I have no desire to rule, but I do want to be heard and respected. To me, a man and a woman are like a right hand and left hand. One ha...
There is another thread along the same line as this one, but different folks are in this one so will bring up the philosophy problem here too. The dem...
Oh dear, I am not in favor of women ruling! I am thinking of all those women who worship Trump! Talk about wanting a sugar daddy, that is exactly what...
It is urgent that we understand why Christians have again formed into a life-threatening fascist state. Nations from time to time need psychoanalysis ...
Considering the citizens of the US can not name the characteristics of democracy and seem to think democracy came from the Bible, and they have no ide...
Okay, you are really pushing things, :grin: The 2012 Texas Republican Agenda was to prevent education in the higher-order thinking skills. Teachers ha...
OMG I love you! :love: Where do you come from? What lead you to that awareness? When the National Defense Education Act (1958) was enacted we replaced...
I totally agree with you, but I think we are engaging Christians and I want to stress science has done more for us than religion in terms a religious ...
Ah, one line of questioning that got Socrates into trouble went like this... "Are the gods good?" The answer was yes. "Is adultery good?" Everyone kne...
That is a good place to start. We can think concretely or abstractly. If we think concretely we interpret things literally. In this case, there are de...
Too bad the Bible didn't give us the information we need to survive on a violent planet with deadly diseases. I think science has done more to overcom...
Traditional we educated for that, and the 1958 National Defense Education Act, ended that education. Did you read the Cicero quotes and get this moral...
For the organization of democracy, that is not what this thread is about, except perhaps if we focus on the necessity of checks and balances and what ...
Well, that was a great maneuver avoiding all my arguments and leading things off in a different direction. The subject of this thread is morality. The...
Whoo... where did you get that idea? For someone who wants me to respect all religions and not generalize, that sure seemed like a very US Christian t...
The game is not over yet. I think the pandemic will bring about changes and there is hope we will realize the democratic model for industry can greatl...
The Golden rule is older than Christianity. Actually Christianity is Hellenized Judaism. We do not need religion for morals. The Golden Rule in its pr...
Do you realize in the US the South used the Bible to justify slavery? That war was so dreadful because both sides thought God was on their side. At th...
Yes, belief systems that are based on fiction are problematic. The notion that democracy is something very different, and is about discovering truth, ...
Yeah! You know enough to make this a good discussion! :love: It isn't just that you know the enlightenment had something to do with democracy, and tha...
That is an intelligent question. It is a matter of where a person looks for truth in how things work and if a person is questioning the knowledge or g...
Come on this is a philosophy forum. We will get no where talking about the US or the UK unless we are talking about where the idea of democracy began ...
Excuse me for talking about something you don't know. If you follow this link you might have a little better understanding of democracy and then we mi...
Well of course. Democracy is about discovering truth and basing life decisions on truth. Religion is not. Democracy is about human excellence, religio...
I thought we had an agreement that some people think about having children and some people do not? For sure my decision to have children was intention...
Okay, I will try again. Which religion do you think is based on truth and nothing but the truth? Yes, I am devoted to democracy and I don't see any ir...
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