Vincent Vega
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But it's interesting to see how thinking, intelligent people can base their judgement on this book and how they interpret this book.
Vincent Vega said:But it's interesting to see how thinking, intelligent people can base their judgement on this book and how they interpret this book.
financeguy said:
To me, it's vaguely disturbing, particularly and especially when they otherwise appear to be thinking and intelligent.
maycocksean said:Geez, this is worse than waiting for the final Harry Potter book. . .
AEON said:
You can read quite a bit of it by doing a search on this forum. Ormus/Melon has written volumes on it - much of it is very compelling and well thought out.
financeguy said:The Bible says a lot of things - Iron Horse's statement is only 'controversial' to those who choose to identify with the 'liberal' strand within Christianity.
It may make liberal Christians uncomfortable when they are reminded of the strictures on homosexuality as set out by St Paul - in a similar fashion, Christians of a conservative bent may recoil when, whilst appealing to Biblical junctures to buttress their support for the death penalty against adult criminals, precepts from the same book which advocate child-killing are brought to their attention.
When all is said and done, the debate is largely irrelevant to those of us who prefer not to believe in a story book written by sheep-herders two thousand years ago.
financeguy said:It may make liberal Christians uncomfortable when they are reminded of the strictures on homosexuality as set out by St Paul
yolland said:
I don't understand why it should seem disturbing or mysterious that people continue to find value and meaning in longstanding social and cultural institutions...we don't reject the Constitution because many of its framers owned slaves and supported dispossessing Native Americans, or dismiss the long list of formative works in Western thought which draw upon Greek philosophy because they owned slaves too, or refuse to take Heidegger seriously because he was a Nazi. Of course one can argue whether any god exists at all, whether souls exist, against the intrusion of religion-based ethical concerns into the civic sphere, etc., just as one can critique the assumptions underpinning particular articulations of any other worldview; but the general human tendency to find great meaning and value in familiar ideas and institutions, even as many aspects of those are transformed or at times overriden by new ones, doesn't strike me as particularly surprising. Culture isn't an empirical process anyhow; more of an endless series of related conversations.
yolland said:TI don't understand why it should seem disturbing or mysterious that people continue to find value and meaning in longstanding social and cultural institutions...we don't reject the Constitution because many of its framers owned slaves and supported dispossessing Native Americans, or dismiss the long list of formative works in Western thought which draw upon Greek philosophy because they owned slaves too, or refuse to take Heidegger seriously because he was a Nazi.
yolland said:Culture isn't an empirical process anyhow; more of an endless series of related conversations.
The Constitution can be amended, yes, but it would be wrong to say that the presumptions about human beings underpinning it are based on reason alone. Can you prove empirically that we possess inalienable human rights?Irvine511 said:but no one claims that the constitution or greek philosophy are inerrant expressions of Divine will.
yolland said:
The Constitution can be amended, yes, but it would be wrong to say that the presumptions about human beings underpinning it are based on reason alone. Can you prove empirically that we possess inalienable human rights?
unico said:sorry, i know this isn't part of the discussion, but i had to look up more about Jay Bakker. dude is HOT! He gives me hope for Christianity too
thanks for sharing Britt!
unico said:let's go!!!
as long as you won't be offended by my posters of Jay Bakker and Bono adorning every inch of wallspace.
that guy is really really great. is he traveling and giving talks? i'd love to meet him or hear him speak.
Vincent Vega said:Is here anyone with a huge pack of tissues?
unico said:NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
come back, Jay, come back! Virginia NEEDS you.
No, that is impossible to do. However in terms of consensuality as self aware creatures a rational nontheistic construction of rights and liberties may be formed in the absence of some sort of universal law.yolland said:
The Constitution can be amended, yes, but it would be wrong to say that the presumptions about human beings underpinning it are based on reason alone. Can you prove empirically that we possess inalienable human rights?
A_Wanderer said:No, that is impossible to do. However in terms of consensuality as self aware creatures a rational nontheistic construction of rights and liberties may be formed in the absence of some sort of universal law.