Sunday, July 26, 2015

Authority, Love, and God.

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beliefnet I suspect that the "Presence within" is part of the deference to authority genetic basic moral imperative you argue for...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Meaningful Living

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beliefnet Whether or not there is a God, meaningful living is all there is to being human.  We all die, and return to the stardust from w...

Meaningful Living

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beliefnet There are many ways gays can have biological offspring if they want them.  Others may adopt which is just as beneficial for the...

Objective Evidence for God.

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beliefnet ff. God, god(s), and goddesses (henceforth referred to as God) is defined as an imaginary creation of a human mind or a grou...
Monday, July 20, 2015

Give me the child until 7 ...

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Beliefnet The cerebral cortex, that which makes humans sapient, isn't fully developed until two and is overdeveloped at that point un...

God of the Credo

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beliefnet Blü : Yes, gods don't have objective existence. The objective existence of God for Catholics is rationally observed in ...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Nyah Wynne on UBI

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Nyah Wynne 3 hrs   ·   Thoughts on the value of a Universal Basic Income The biggest reason I support UBI(Univ...
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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Religious CV

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I do not need to defend my knowledge of religions of all cultures including the dominant ones of the cultures I have lived in.  My bookshe...

Atheism or Anti-Theism?

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beliefnet Perhaps we can get around to actually discussing atheism? rockyJew We are discussing atheism that is: why we are not a belie...

Torah Myth as Allegory

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beliefnet Which do you imagine are 'critical stories' in the Torah texts? As you are well aware, JC, one of the Jewish principl...

Reinterpreting Jesus as God

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beliefnet Jul 15, 2015 -- 9:50PM, Blü wrote: Which brings us to this thread, where we consider a being who, the story says, lives i...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

Goo to Zoo to You Redux.

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beliefnet Again, I challenge you to take a look at just what the DNA Information coding and non-coding system is.  The signature of Y...
Sunday, July 5, 2015

Born Good Learn Bad

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Social animals are born socially responsible at least within their species.  That is they are born good.  Socialization begins at birth a...

Human Worth

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beliefnet If you have one, what is your standard for measuring human worth? OFS How well a person embraces the UU First Principle: Th...
Friday, July 3, 2015

Hillel, Jesus and the Decalogue

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beliefnet christine3 wrote: "These are our highest most honesty-keeping rules and should be considered sacred. If you follow the...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The Church Across the Street

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In the UU RE Curriculum there is a unit called the Church Across the Street.  A Sunday School class and teacher from a neighbor church, sy...

Critical Thinking in Religion

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In some religious traditions, Jews and Jesuits come immediately to mind, critical thinking about religion is encouraged post puberty.  But...

Belief Genetics

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I doubt that the belief gene has been identified. (And probably won't be, people have been burned at the stake for less.)  But accordi...

Pure Thought

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beliefnet Jun 21, 2015 -- 10:54AM, Blü wrote: And can you offer a testable (hence falsifiable) hypothesis about the ...

Catholic Experience of God through the Eyes of an Atheist.

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Beliefnet In my experience, mainly with Catholics, I have found that for them God is a real construct of the historical collective consc...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

God and BS - Is there a Distinction

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beliefnet Ancient history but worth preserving jcarlinbn 2/2/2004 1:52 AM 1 out of 26 ...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Ritual, Belief, and Understanding

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beliefnet I use ritual as a shorthand for important belief sets for any religion.  If you learn them early enough and repeat them offen e...

J neat.

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beliefnet Argumentative Jew wrote: I don't know of a 'Jahwist' faith community - so I'm not sure at all what you're...
Sunday, June 7, 2015

The Whiite, Male, Middle Class, MBA Perspective

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beliefnet Jun 7, 2015 -- 7:01PM, LDS wrote: My thing is that too many people - including certain posters - are so caught up in thei...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Science, Religionm and the Theory of Everything

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Just to be clear:  Science says nothing at all about how the universe(s) came to be.  Science observes the fact that the universe(s) exi...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Assailing BS Conceptual Blocks

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beliefnet Once more assailing religious conceptual blocks.  Not expecting to succeed, but the BS cannot remain unchallenged.  JCar...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

On Death - Henry Scott Holland

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Death Is Nothing At All - Poem by Henry Scott Holland Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and ...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Skeptical Conceptual Blocks

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beliefnet christine3 :It seems most atheists here get a reaction when they read the words paranormal, supernormal, superconscious, supern...
Saturday, May 16, 2015

Religious, Spiritual, and Atheist.

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I think Forrest Church's mantra is appropriate here.  Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.  I had a cha...

Spirituality

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I don't bother to use "spiritual" much, since like many other useful words in English, its meaning has been so corrupted by ...

Christian Atheists

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beliefnet YEC:  I would think almost all of the Atheist living in a free society are to one degree or another.   It is hard to be a Chris...

Jesuism 2015

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Interesting that Christian atheists redirects to a rather useful article on Jesuism.  When I was looking for a title for a thread on athe...
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Friday, May 15, 2015

A Female Jahwist?

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According to Harold Bloom in the Book of J the Jahwist was a high class educated women in Solomon's or Rehoboam's court tasked wit...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Atheists are Funnier than Christians.

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beliefnet   Mormon wrote: And once again, you cherry-pick in order to try and make a point. Atheist Now, that is a joke!  Is ther...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Why Create?

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beliefnet May 12, 2015 -- 4:35PM, JCarlin wrote: "So that is how God does it!" is essentially not conceptually different ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

What is Humanism

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beliefnet The UU First Principle is about as good a definition as I can find:   The inherent worth and dignity of every person. I go ...

The Science of God's Creation

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beliefnet May 12, 2015 -- 2:14AM, Roymond wrote: I wish you could have visited our Intelligent Design club in college.  It was all ...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Theistic Humanism

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I am convinced by long studies of Jefferson and Jesus the preacher man that both were theistic humanists.  When I was a kid in the UU trad...
Saturday, May 9, 2015

Commination

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I was raised Pisco, and when Christians are fighting each other, I usually regard the Piscos/Anglicans as my team (though on occasions the...

Back to Jesus Christians

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The back to Jesus the preacher man movement in Christianity, in essence back to the synoptic Gospels, while not blessed by the hierarchy e...
Thursday, May 7, 2015

Winter Holidays

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Christmas for me has always been defined by the music. I never much cared for either the religious or the secular hoopla, although the yul...

Gender in Language

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beliefnet   Roymond wrote: Good point about the Hebrew.  It's worth noting that the same point essentially extends to all languag...