If I didn't know better I would think that this is a parody. And since you don't know better you are unaware of how ridiculous this is. If the stories...
You have acknowledged the difference between sex and gender. The issue at hand has to do with Blackburn's challenge to define the word 'woman'. Any su...
The term 'cultural relativism' is bound to get you entangled in arguments that go beyond what you may have intended. As it is usually understood it me...
Why do you think Spinoza used the term 'God'? It is for theologico-political and ethical reasons? One might think his signet "caute" would warn agains...
What is your scope of interest? Denying those who do not hold to an absolute moral authority a decision making voice? How so we determine what is the ...
Because you are in danger of losing the human scale of things. I think it very likely that there are sentient beings elsewhere, but they are too far a...
If you have 100 people, 50 think that there is an absolute moral authority and 50 do not. If you poll them on their views of moral issues you will not...
Is your claim that only people who posit an absolute moral authority have any say on issues of morality? Those who do posit an absolute moral authorit...
First of all, biology is not limited to human biology. There are animals that are hermaphrodites and that change sex. Non-binary Second, there is no a...
Mythologies that places man in the center is evidence of nothing more than the fact that there are mythologies that put man in the center. Man, this "...
"Good for what"? God? What is the end or purpose? God? Good is not merely an instrumental term. What is good is not necessarily good for something. Wh...
First, silence does not occlude the cognitive dissonance between an appeal to a transcendent authority and disregard for the word of your chosen trans...
It comes from moral deliberation, from what we as reasonable social animals regard as acceptable and unacceptable behavior. We begin from where we are...
The irony of your attempt to discredit Judaism is that you inadvertently discredit a central theme of Christianity. If Jesus is descended from David a...
You elide from society to idiosyncrasy as if it is all the same. You are looking for an absolute where one cannot be found. The truth is that every ab...
In order to address this it is necessary to identify what it is that you think a relativistic morality entails. One need not posit an absolute moral a...
We should consider how this relates to: It is an inherited prejudice. A deep seated hatred that continues to be perpetuated. There is no rebirth witho...
On a secular level, in the US there are accusations from both sides of judges acting as legislators. In hermeneutics there is the question of the exte...
Even if one accepts the word of God, the word of God remains necessarily open to interpretation. As Moses learned while leading the people to Sinai, j...
I have not looked into it, but on the one hand Paul seems to accept the possibility of obedience to the law at least for some, but on the other even h...
I agree. And the fact that it takes place on a forum rather than in private is important. All too often there are some who are more interested in defe...
There is a tension here. On the one hand, one must be obedient, but on the other there are cases, as with the prophets of Israel, where the people are...
I agree that religion has played a role in transmission. Certainly claims of divine origin and authority have proven to be effective. They place moral...
I agree. We do not need a reason for wanting what is good for ourselves. Although what we want may not actually be good for us, we want it for no othe...
Let's compare this to what you said in your last post before this one: To which I responded: It is nice to see that I have helped you learn from your ...
For Greek mathematics 2 is the first number. Two tells us how many ones or units of the count. They did not have the concept of zero. There cannot be ...
If one begins with the assumption that the existence of the natural world cannot be explained in terms of the natural world, then a supernatural neces...
It is because, for the Greeks, a number is a count (arithmos). It tells us how many of whatever thing you are counting. There can be no counting witho...
Could you clarify a few things? What did Paul say about the Greek understanding of the universal nature of truth? How does the narrative of the messia...
It is true he talks about rightful action: But to be a part of the whole is not an act of redemption. The day of redemption is not something Christian...
This hyperbolic rant has nothing to do with anything that has been said by anyone here. No educated person today would perpetuate this pernicious accu...
Again, I will wait to see where this goes. I will say this much. There is in Catholic ethics an argument that proceeds from the concept of persons to ...
But your claim is not that you don't understand but that what you are reading is inconsistent. If you do not understand there is still the possibility...
I think there is another way to look at this. The question is epistemological rather than ontological. Euthyphro cannot demonstrate that what he is do...
It is not that you are interfering but that if I tell you where I think you are going with this thread that might interfere.But maybe my hunch is wron...
I have been waiting since you started the thread for the other shoe to drop. Perhaps I'm wrong, but my suspicion is that you are inching toward it. We...
The fact of the matter is that there is case after case, some reaching all the way to the Supreme Court, dealing with what counts as a religious exemp...
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