Tag: Christianity
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The butcher repents
One of my repeating questions of Christianity was forgiving of sins. There is the story of Shirō Ishii the Japanese equivalent of Josef Mengele who got himself baptised on his death bed. He was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church and took the name Joseph. It seems to me that my father felt relieved somehow. – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirō_Ishii#Death I’ve…
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Creators – the Barron-Hotz hypothesis
I’m a geek and a fan of a more mathematical way of writing computer programs. This gives rise to functional programming and, when you go off the deep end, category theory. At least two pieces of research during the 20th century are fundamental and interesting because they were discovered effectively twice at the same time.…
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The beatitudes from the Greek
I don’t know if this will fully work, but I’m a fan of trying to get as close to the original version of the Bible. Certainly for the Sermon on the mount, I’d like to get the Assyrian version, but for now the Greek for Matthew 5:1-12 will have to do. Now we can neatly translate these…
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Philosophy for the people
I see religion as philosophy for the people. I guess it’s more like religion is philosophy for the people with added spirits to spice things up. Cause, well, philosophy can be very boring and people forget what you’ve said. I’ve felt this for a while but had little to back it up. But it seems…
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Non-violent resistance and non-resistance to violence
I really struggled to understand these words of Tolstoy. Non-violent resistance and non-resistance to violence I thought somehow they conflicted. It’s so strange how they are seeming opposites, or they’re seeming like just a duplicate of saying the same thing. But its not. Its Tolstoy’s and Jesus’ core concept and its devastating to people that…
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Caring is resistance, resistance is caring
Not caring is the worst example of what humans can do. It doesn’t seem bad on the surface, but it enables to worst kind of crimes. They’ll care about their children and think that that makes them a good human. All people had to do during the holocaust was care about their Jewish neighbours. Protest…
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Truth
Some things strike me immediately as making sense. What I know to be false, is that there is ‘the Truth’. You can get very close in maths and physics but they’re not nearly so messy as all of what mother nature cooked up. I’ve been reading through Bear Grylls’ “Soul Fuel”, as a way of…
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Life is a poem
Lewis says in Miracles, “we should prefer to think that all nations and individuals start level in the search for God, or even that all religions are equally true. It must be admitted at once that Christianity makes no concession to this point.” – Chose for the Unchosen – C.S. Lewis website This is what…
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No doubt Jesus laughed a lot
No doubt Jesus laughed a lot – Soul Fuel, ch. 21, Bear Grylls Can we keep it that simple please? Not wrap it up in happiness/joy/“really-fun-guy”. He laughed. I mean I like and understand the good intentions of happiness and Joy but then there’s lots of questions about what is happiness and joy. Laughing, is…
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Satan’s delusion
The greatest trick the devil pulled is not to convince people he didn’t exist, it’s to convince himself he didn’t exist. There’s an excellent UK comedy sketch from Miller and Webb of a Nazi asking his commander if maybe they’re the bad guys. The film Conspiracy too shows it. Its just a business meeting to…
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