Again, this is where Kohlberg's theory of moral development comes handy, esp. on the point of how a person goes from one stage of moral reasoning to a...
But you hold to humanism with your gut feeling, don't you? Or do you feel an overwhelming certainty that humanism is the right doctrine, for which you...
One part of this is actually simple: Once the eternal damnation believers discover that you don't believe like they do, _they_ will ditch you. They wi...
No. Do that, and you cut yourself off from religiosity. Why?? They aren't willing to do the same for us! Or it's simply a case of "not my circus, not ...
Except for the portions on "creating humans", the above is just like the things human lawmakers know: they know that some people will not abide by the...
A while back, a poster was instantly banned for declaring to be a misogynist. From the discussion that ensued among the moderators, it seemed that oth...
I agree, but I contend that that "feeling" is the feeling of certainty about the Christian doctrines. And that this feeling is due to having been born...
That's like saying that the police and the justice system are immoral, and that if they were good, there would be no arrests, no judicial processes, a...
That's like saying that drugs are bad because one disobeyed the order not to take them. And not perhaps because they are toxic substances that mess up...
Not the Church, but philosophers. Why did they ignore Descartes' explanations as to what he wished to achieve with his texts, and instead took him as ...
From what I've seen, professional musicians believe that musical proficiency is amenable to precise determination. Similar with the other arts. How el...
Let's see what she says: No, it hasn't been advocated as such, certaintly not by "all the great faiths". Mahayana emphasizes it, but not as "the safes...
All I see is that you have way too much time on your hands, and that you are unable on unwilling to engage in honest communication with me. What am I ...
Oh, for crying out loud. I want to know the truth about "spirituality". So far, the most plausible conclusion is that "spirituality" is a form of subl...
Like I said earlier: I think what Lewis is indirectly getting at is the unreflected, unprocessed, unnamed concern that one is living in a dangerous un...
But you can't get to self-actualization unless the previous stages/needs have been met, and meeting those (and the relative ease of meeting those) is ...
Why? Could you elaborate? The problem is that it's objectionable per your standards (well, and those of your cronies, if you have them). Your standard...
Well, if you have no issue with the practical problems that their distrust for you may cause for you (anything from career setbacks to damaging your p...
Because they hold it against you. They may not burn you at the stakes, but they do believe you are a lesser being, less worthy of respect, less worthy...
What you're describing holds for those who were born and raised into Christianity, and then less or more stayed in it. It doesn't hold for prospective...
Oh no, religious/spiritual people will give you no such credit. To them, your lack of belief is the same as disbelief. If you're not with them, they s...
We still somehow have to live in this world with the religious/spiritual. This is why such themes as brought up in the OP matter. We can't just crawl ...
Not quite so, I said they should fight it out amongst themselves. This way, only one definition of "Christian" would be left. Dictionary definitions o...
What Armstrong is describing there is closer to what is termed "idiot compassion" (look it up, there are several understandings of the term) or pathol...
The scope of the projects one undertakes is connected to the time and resources one believes or hopes are or will be available. You're not going to st...
Doing advanced math is easier than talking to you. What on earth are you talking about?? That being a Christian is all about believing, that cognitive...
How does anyone actually stomach words like these? Or is it that they believe _other_ people should be like that, ie. that _other_ people should have ...
And yet people have been doing it for millennia. It's not about whether everybody is observing the same thing. It's that we can mostly take for grante...
I suppose people banging their heads against walls are also not a problem ... sort of ... Other than that, modern rebirth skeptics tend to be a drag t...
So who or what is Christ? The Son of God? One who brought the sword, not peace? One who taught to turn the other cheek, but when the time came for him...
I guess that's what good Christian women do, they "renounce all attachment to earthly life in order to attain eternal life" when they TOLO for their b...
*sigh* I don't understand Mahayana, Vajrayana, Zen, modern Western Buddhism, various local/national varieties of Buddhism. I never claimed that I unde...
And how could they be convinced! People are generally given to eating, drinking, and making merry. Of course a religion that takes a dim view of eatin...
And into Humpty Dumpty Land ... Words should mean something, and they cannot simply mean whatever anyone wants them to mean. It's one extreme to say t...
Is Belief in Rebirth Necessary? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVc45SXDrEQ What we believe or not believe about the "afterlife" influences how we act...
I don't think it's that, I think what you're saying is a rationalization. There is an instructive scene in DeMille's Ten Commandments where one of the...
Like I said, if we start with the premise that Jehovah is a demigod, then it all makes sense. Jehovah occupies the position of a creator* deity. In Dh...
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