Category: religion
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Spirit of the teacher
Carrying on from Scientific observers, shepherds and messiahs, here’s Maria Montessori’s take: But let us seek to implement in the soul the self-sacrificing spirit of the scientist with the reverent love of the disciple of Christ, and we shall have prepared the spirit of the teacher. – The Montessori Method, p13, Maria Montessori Teaching is where…
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Antidote
In Buddhism they have a concept of antidotes. Klaus Barbie, was truly a Satan walking amongst us. But he had an antidote. Marcel Marceau. The Butcher of Lyon and a butcher’s son from Strasbourg who went on to be a world famous mime artist. Marcel Marceau ended up in Lyon where Barbie carried out his…
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The sins of love
Most of the seven deadly sins are defined by Dante Alighieri (c. 1264–1321) as perverse or corrupt versions of love; lust, gluttony, and greed are all excessive or disordered love of good things; and wrath, envy, and pride are perverted love directed toward others’ harm. The sole exception is sloth, which is a deficiency of…
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The separation of church and religion
The Christian religion should be definitively split from the Christian church. If not in real life (although I wish this too), it should definitely be split in any discussions. I was reading about Thomas Huxley vs Bishop of Oxford in 1860. Huxley wasn’t attacking religion, he was attacking the church. We keep ending up in an argument…
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Delegation
In a more detailed teaching, Martin Luther explains that God and government are not constrained by the commandment not to kill, but that God has delegated his authority in punishing evildoers to the government. – Lutheranism version of ‘Thou shalt not kill’ Lets repeat… God has delegated his authority in punishing evildoers to the government…
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Reason and love
Following on from Informers. Tolstoy tells us (Kingdom of God ~p264) that we are brought from an eternity of nothingness and bequeathed with reason and love. Hinduism’s Krishna says: Without contemplation there cannot be peace – Bhagavad-Gita #66 I take reason and contemplation to be the same. Further I take them to be the opposite…
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An indispensable function to guide and reshape the universe
Is that God or a tyrant? Totalitarian self-conceptions are largely teleological. The tyrant is less a person than an indispensable function to guide and reshape the universe. — Authoritarianism and totalitarianism The devil loves his children. Does God love us all, or judge us and send down floods and fire and brimstone? Does he kill…
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The devil loves his children
Klaus Barbie from all evidence loved his kids. According to his daughter-in-law (wife of his son Klaus-Georg), Klaus-Georg was kidnapped by the CIA in 1946 to make sure Barbie would work for them. From the Attorney General’s report: Barbie’s son Klaus-Georg was killed in a hanggliding accident in 1980, at age 33. Barbie’s wife diedin…
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The Kingdom of Delusion is Within You
I’ve been reading Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God is Within You alongside Dawkins’ The God Delusion. I agree with almost all that Dawkins has to say, yet in my eyes he says it without any of the grace or weight or feeling of Tolstoy. They’re both attacking the church, but Dawkins chooses to attack all…
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Paradise
Background Reading about Creed because of a future post I want to write about the Nicene creed vs Sermon on the mount led me to the Islamic ‘tie’ Aqidah (as close as it gets to creed). thus the Islamic concept of ʿaqīdah (literally “bond, tie”) is often rendered as “creed”. — Creed, Wikipedia Then with…
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