It is another way to approach this issue. Honestly, I haven't thought about my mind once since I started expressing my anxiety in this thread. This is...
Good point! And Jesus! God (or whatever deity) blessed his soul for interpreting in such an intelligent way the dilemma of Abraham. If I am not wrong,...
Hello ENOAH. Nice feedback. The concept of sacred is sometimes blurred. I knew I would end up in a complex rabbit hole because of the limitless signif...
Interesting thoughts. I like that you feel nostalgic about its aesthetic vibe, rituals, ceremonies, etc. Churches have always been (and they still are...
Philosophy is difficult per se. I never found a philosopher who wrote his essays or texts with clarity. I guess this is one of the main features of ph...
Good point, and your comment made me understand myself better. Yes, it is obvious that I am enforcing a code of conduct. If this happens, it is due to...
I agree in the sense that it is very difficult to square them in the huge difficulty of the human condition. But why is the belief superfluous to spir...
I understand you better now, 180 proof. I was asking those questions with the aim of receiving new inputs, and I appreciate your feedback on this thre...
Honestly, I don't get why you doubt whether I am sincere or not on this topic. I personally believe that, if you read my answers, you will notice that...
Yes, BC referred to love. I wasn't aware that this could be a motivation for behaving accordingly to values... I guess I have to find out where love i...
Me. I am Castilian. No. Absolutely not. But I think it is very difficult for me to prove it. Really? Is this new or what? :roll: We already discussed ...
Cheers, BC. Your comments are always a source of wisdom. Everything seems too big, interesting and unlimited. I know that perhaps getting deeply into ...
Yeah. Who would say otherwise? Sorry, I didn't pay so much attention in the replies of this thread because it is always the same. North European count...
Agreed. But... The improvement of moral judgment/conduct needs to affect something, for better or worse. I know those will affect my spirit because I ...
Interesting input, friend. I am not attempting to move forward to something, because I haven't started at any point yet. The virtue ethics can serve m...
Good point. No. I promise I don't have any emotional need to achieve faith. I know I could be hypocritical and cynical if I tried to find out faith so...
I know. What I attempted to explain is that we don't have a book or text written by Jesus of Nazareth. There is not a record of that. The extensions o...
Hey, thanks Wafarer, for your book recommendation. Indeed. This was the main point of starting this thread. I knew I would receive substantial and hel...
Obligado, friend. Those threads are very interesting, but whenever I want to dive into them, it already has 10 pages of comments or even more... and w...
Very good point, Tzeentch. But, sadly, the teachings, values and ethics of Jesus only appear in the Gospels, which were twisted and even invented by t...
I agree. It is true that the Church maintains a complex hierarchical organisation, non-democratic, and corrupted. Yet, as I said previously, I am not ...
Excellent novelist, indeed. I have a novel by him. It is called 'Scandal' and it is about a Catholic Japanese who suffers because of social context an...
The alarm clock worked perfectly this morning, mates! Good morning. I wish you a beautiful start to the gorgeous month of April. :flower: :sparkle: :p...
I know I sound ambiguous in this thread, or even contradictory. But that's why I started it. To find other ideas, clarification, and the opinion of th...
Why do they do this? It is one of the main things I have never understood about the Church. I must admit that it is a low democratic institution. The ...
Spirituality is still tangled with religion to me. I can't explain or understand it without any connection with religious creeds. Furthermore, if I ex...
I agree. I wasn't thinking of a creed specifically, but now you have explained it, I think this suits what I attempted to explain. I guess some religi...
I hadn't a Christian education as well. Although I was born and raised in a Catholic country, my parents never taught religious beliefs and ideas. The...
You also grew up in a familiar background outside of religion, but you ended up attending a non-denominational church about once a month. Your persona...
Thanks for your feedback, as you always do, friend. Firstly, yes, I am trying to establish a forced code of ethics. This happens because I am not awar...
True. :sweat: But this is something I have been experiencing for months. It is not a simple worry that keeps me awake every morning. Sometimes I feel ...
Understood. This happens more usually than we tend to think. When I was a kid, I also felt I didn't need to believe in mysteries or hopes. Interesting...
I experienced the same cross-cultural attitude in 2021. I was very focused on how to understand (or put into practice) Western and Eastern thoughts. I...
Thank you for your answer 180! It is interesting to see that you actually lost your religion. This means that, at least, you were religious once. Yet ...
Thank you for your answer, Tom. I thought about morality and values as a code of conduct too. I even considered religious values, or the belief in bel...
I don't know who's the fault. What I am certainly aware is that Christianity can be dangerous among its members, and not only when it is reflected int...
I have my alarm clock set up for 05:30 every morning. But, just in case, I also set it up to 05:50 in the case the first alarm doesn't sound. Well, th...
Good point, Lionino. The mass propaganda of Protestants against Catholics is well known. Not only to Spanish Inquisition but other recent crises in Eu...
I agree, Vera. Well written, yes. I forgot about the Quakers when they are an important group among Christians. Even Quakers tend to have different gr...
I know it is literally written by the Gospels. But, again, the concept was twisted by some groups of Christians. While the Bible does not specifically...
I don't know where my answer to Alan1000 went, so I guess a moderator deleted it. Thankfully, you quoted me before it got deleted. Well, yes, it is tr...
We didn't deny the existence of Jesus (at least me). You are mixing up two different premises. That the existence of Jesus leads unavoidably to his cr...
Wow! Sometimes we don't know where the criticism could come from... you write English pretty well. I mean, you are non-native like me, but it is obvio...
They do not buck the system, because they are the system. We live in countries where the values, ethics, customs, etc., are based on Christian princip...
Thanks for the feedback, wonderer1. :up: I am interested in my writing skills, but I am aware that I write very badly. Wait a minute... how would Javi...
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