Tag: Christianity
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God the mother
I’m becoming more firmly of the belief that Mother Nature is the closest rational approximation of God. Mother Nature isn’t the Earth alone, the rules of mama nature apply throughout the universe. So if Mother Nature is God, God is a woman. Only that which has the power to create life could be anything close…
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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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Must Harry the Human believe in God?
This is a simplification of what I see as a central argument around whether you’re nuts or not to believe in God. I’ve tried to take strictly logical/mathematical language and make it more readable, whilst hopefully keeping the core concepts. Short version: If God exists, then humans must believe in him or they are lying.…
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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 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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UK priests sent people to burn
The priests and bishops in the UK sent people to burn, the highest priest in the land, the Archbishop of Canterbury very willingly went first. These new powers allowed the bishops to arrest and imprison all preachers of heresy, all schoolmasters infected with heresy, and all owners and writers of heretical books. On refusal to…
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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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We’re in Hell (it’s just not that bad yet)
I keep thinking how we create hells on earth (torture, slavery, colonialism, war, pollution, sweatshops, factories, sacrifice, genocide, gas chambers, executions, mafia, gangs, poisons, concentration camps, suicide, terrorism, horror films, gladiators, nuclear bombs). Maybe this was Jesus’ point – if we don’t follow his advice hell is where we will end up. The more you…
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Infallible truth
A church is a body of men who assert they are in possession of the infallible truth — “The Kingdom of God is Within You”, Leo Tolstoy A church might say that our text doesn’t give us all the answers, but then all their science has to be linked to their infallible truth. Not every…
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