I literally just gave you an example. Sigh.... It wasn't an attack on perennialism per se. It was making a point about its implications (or lack there...
I agree. I've always found the claim that evil is the privation of the good to be arbitrary. It's just axiomatically asserted with a few paltry exampl...
I haven't even accused him of being a perennialist and haven't said that perennialism is false, so I don't understand why he feels he's being personal...
As would I. Nice quote. In a sense, the Christian mystics and apophatic theologians might agree with him, who often assert that God is beyond being or...
But he doesn't merely proclaim it to be true. If he did, you have a point. This doesn't make him a perennialist. It makes him a Methodist who dabbles ...
There is a tension between life-affirming optimism and life-denying pessimism that Christianity has never fully resolved. It's witnessed in the books ...
Probably so. I don't think he was necessarily talking about you. Is this directed toward me? I still don't understand what "aesthetic anti-natalism" m...
I said this some time ago: Let's ask ourselves what "climate change denial" could mean: - One could deny that the climate literally changes (which no ...
The reply will be that you're right, God doesn't condemn anyone. We condemn ourselves. God doesn't throw people into hell so much as we leap there wit...
I never intended to be hostile, unless you interpret any perceived opposition to your views as amounting to hostility. :-| So far, this is just a gene...
I do actually think it's morally permissible, but I'm less comfortable viewing procreation as a positive good in itself. In other words, just because ...
I can only guess as to what these unenumerated, numerous defects are, if you will not tell me what they are. The one defect you list here will itself ...
While I appreciate the sarcasm, this is a straw man. The obverse of perennialism is not, and need not be, a form of religious exclusivism that brooks ...
No. That would be dishonest, and I respect the religious enough not to patronize them or to dissemble my beliefs in their midst. In terms of my joinin...
That's fine. I won't begrudge you your preference. But by the same token, I would prefer that you not begrudge me mine. :) I would say "as" profound i...
Good question. In my final paragraph, I alluded to what I would probably take to be one important benefit, namely, the ability to be personally transf...
It is my understanding that Christianity teaches that the damned go to hell, not people who follow other religions. Some individual Christians may hav...
This would be where my comparison fails, yes. It's difficult to place "profundity" on a scale, and so we're now left with comparing subjective impress...
I genuinely don't know how this is a reply to what you quoted of me, and I'm not sure what you're trying to say either. It seems that we can't get pas...
But if we really want to go down this road, then it's clearly the case that there have been just as many, if not more, and possibly more profound, Chr...
Oh, I never saw that. It was hidden a bit too well. I somehow doubt that, as his knowledge and presentation of what conservatives believe and why is a...
This is incoherent to me. "Birth" just designates the moment that one came into being. It can't "do" anything, for it describes a fact, a state of aff...
No. It hasn't "only," yes. I wouldn't claim that Christian evangelization has had a spotless record. But it has achieved something that Hinduism has f...
I dislike The Young Turds, so I think you ought to have chosen a different video. As for Sanders, he's basically implying that we should impose a reli...
Anyone want to place bets on how long Thanatos Sand will last before being banned? He appears to be on the left, so perhaps he's being given a longer ...
The quote and your commentary don't quite match. The former is talking about universalism in the sense that the truths the Upanishads attempts to cove...
Well said. I haven't been following your debates with Agustino that closely, but I'm curious to know where you stand with respect to Christianity now....
I agree, but as criteria used to determine whether one is a Christian or not, these questions appear rather late in the history of Christianity, being...
The contradiction resides in the word "affected" here, or any other synonym you might use. Prior to birth, the person was not affected by anything, be...
Hate is never a moral disposition. If the misanthrope hates the above immoralities, then he does not morally raise himself above them by hating human ...
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