Tag: religion
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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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Informers
There were a lot of people in fear under the Nazis. I can understand people doing terrible things if they are told to, because the consequences for themselves and their families could be worse if they don’t. Plus most people aren’t that brave. But those people who willingly helped, happily turned Jews or resistance fighters…
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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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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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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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Spikes at the end of the garden
The very first page of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion has this quote from the great Douglas Adams: “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” Well, you don’t have to believe, but I counter that with deeds from…
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The Word of Gervais
I was pointing out something Ricky Gervais said to a Muslim friend of mine. “You see if we take something like fiction and any holy book, and any other fiction, and destroyed it, okay. In 1000 years’ time that wouldn’t come back just as it is. Whereas if we took every science book and every…
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