Nice. That's my provisional position at the moment. I think being here helped me to modify my thinking, and soften my earlier dogmatism. How often do ...
That's the crux of it. Also, many religious people oppose environmental protections because they 1) think God's in charge of creation and has it cover...
Not at all. By a given matter I meant matters of philosophy that people consider to be a puzzle, eg, the nature of consciousness, and questions in epi...
Nicely put. And the harm communist parties inflict on religions (and most alternative value systems) is largely a product of the totalitarian approach...
I think the problem is what those claims/beliefs may lead to. If someone's worldview is predicated on a magic man who intervenes in life, then they wi...
I get most of my laughs from the unintentionally funny - not stand up comedy or allegedly funny movies - but life. Philosophy is too much like a colon...
I hear you and that's understandable. I just pointed out the commandments and their lack of clarity as part of the general thrust of the conversation....
You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall make no idols. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. Keep the Sabbath day holy. ...
A theist. It's not unusual for a theist to reject religion. When they belong to a particular religion they are called a Christian or a Muslim, etc. We...
If there were more artful cat feeding and less showy gun fights, cinema might redeem itself. I read most of Chandler back in the 1990's. My favorite l...
I'm always mindful about where I put my cock. Nice. If the O.T. is anything to go by Yahweh is a kind of empyrean Trump figure who needs adoration and...
I agree with this but can I check the ethics point? What if gaining god's favor ends up involving rituals or leaving presents for god as a sign of res...
:up: That's for sure. When my partner worked for the Greens movement a few years ago the folk involved were almost entirely atheist and anti-consumeri...
I think you're partly right but it's more than a 'particular religion', right? Islam and Christianity and various proselyting Hindu/Eastern spirituali...
You paint a rosy picture. I'll mull over that. I am more concerned about the bit where theists influence what we can read or do with our bodies or how...
Many of the atheists I have met don't conform to this trope. Some believe in astrology, reincarnation, crystal healing, all manner of New Age stuff. I...
Are there several clear divisions or schools when it comes to how Plato is read these days (and I'm not talking about neoplatonism). I imagine some ac...
You've done this philosophy thing longer than me but isn't that just an equivocation fallacy right there? It does nothing to address the point about t...
Yes, that and the current state of a significant part of the religious world around the planet, from the Trump phenomena, to Modi's Hindu nationalism ...
Sounds like it is a category open to a range of possibilities. I think fundamentalism is aspirational - rarely achieved. Because few of them seem to f...
Yes, it's a battle of hearts and minds out there. I have met a number of Christians who said they came to the religion via CS Lewis' famous book, Mere...
Of course there is a track record of conversion into religions by apologists - hence proselytizing culture - and I've also seen this in reverse having...
Right now the presuppostionalists (via Kant's TAG) are huge in evangelical Christianity, as are the Lane Craig neophyte apologists who are all about A...
That's for sure. Nor do they seem to be morally superior to non believers or the practices of other religions. I guess this can be true for a certain ...
An insightful OP. There are brands of atheist who are skeptical of any kind of transcendent claim as @"Janus" has stated. Idealism, higher consciousne...
I think it is generally easy to agree on goals - everyone says they want world piece and happiness. But the devil as they say is in the details. Take ...
Well, it's a good thing for this place that you do. :up: Foolish questions coming: I'm interested in this notion of The Whole. Is it fair to say that ...
There are could be many reasons to be upset, from loosing an argument to feeling unfairly attacked. On a philosophy site I expect disagreement and rea...
I'd like to think this is true, but isn't the substantive problem that with different worldviews and values, people tend to have extremely different w...
Indeed. Director Robert Altman on The Long Goodbye - Note, spoilers. "Originally I didn’t want to do it. I’ve enjoyed reading Chandler, though I never...
Very interesting account of Minneapolis. It all sounds kind of familiar. It doesn't get dramatically cold here (average overnight winter temp around 4...
Nice summary, BC. The problem with these issues is they get picked up and 'understood' differently be folk who hold different world views. A conservat...
Poverty is caused by and maintained by numerous factors and has always been with us (as the Bible might say) but it's clear that certain social polici...
Yep, neoliberalism underpins almost all economic and social policy in the West today and has since the days of Thatcher and Reagan. This deregulatory ...
It's possible that any of us can write things here which are interpreted as insensitive. No doubt I have done so before. But I question your sincerity...
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