Senator Harris - her religious faith traditions

Cypress said:
Trump knows nothing about world culture, world traditions, world history.

That makes him not only a moron, but a dangerously uniformed and incurious president.

There are one billion Indians on the planet, soon to be the most populous nation on the planet.

One cannot understand India without understanding Hinduism.

The Middle East is the world's most volatile region.

The fact that Senator Harris has direct and personal experience with Hinduism and Judaism speaks well to her depth of experience with world culture. It is a net positive.
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Trump has worked India (PM Modi) and trying to widen the rift between India and China.

It doesn't take any "understanding of Hindi" to work realpolitik
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The China factor behind Trump's India visit
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinio...actor-behind-trumps-india-visit/#.XzRXVzV7mM8
Trump’s standalone trip underscored how the expanding U.S.-India strategic partnership has become an important diplomatic asset for both countries. Trump’s visit, like that of his predecessor Barack Obama five years ago, may not have yielded any major agreement, but it has set the direction toward greater Indo-American collaboration in the face of China’s muscular rise and a strengthening Sino-Russian strategic nexus.

Trump summed up his trip as “unforgettable, extraordinary and productive.” The visit will be remembered for his famous words at a mega-rally in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home city of Ahmedabad: “America loves India, America respects India, and America will always be faithful and loyal friends to the Indian people.”
Modi, for his part, called the U.S.-India relationship “the most important partnership of the 21st century.”
 
Cypress said:
Yes

One does not have to even be religious to recognize that a depth of knowedge and experience with world religious and philosiphical traditions is fundamental to bring an informed world citizen.

The fact that I know something about Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Jainism, Eastern Orthodoxy, enhances my understanding of South Asia, East Asia, Russia, et al
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it does on a personal level. agreed.
But it's not all that important when doing diplomacy - i mean it helps- but it's not expected
Nor do I see Harris as having any understanding outside her Baptist practices
 
dukkha said:
Trump has worked India (PM Modi) and trying to widen the rift between India and China.

It doesn't take any "understanding of Hindi" to work realpolitik
~~

The China factor behind Trump's India visit
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinio...actor-behind-trumps-india-visit/#.XzRXVzV7mM8
Trump’s standalone trip underscored how the expanding U.S.-India strategic partnership has become an important diplomatic asset for both countries. Trump’s visit, like that of his predecessor Barack Obama five years ago, may not have yielded any major agreement, but it has set the direction toward greater Indo-American collaboration in the face of China’s muscular rise and a strengthening Sino-Russian strategic nexus.

Trump summed up his trip as “unforgettable, extraordinary and productive.” The visit will be remembered for his famous words at a mega-rally in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home city of Ahmedabad: “America loves India, America respects India, and America will always be faithful and loyal friends to the Indian people.”
Modi, for his part, called the U.S.-India relationship “the most important partnership of the 21st century.”
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"It doesn't take any "understanding of Hindi" to work realpolitik"

I subscribe to the 2,400 year old wisdom from Sun Tzu's Art of War: Know your enemy/rival/competitor
 
Cypress said:
Her personal religious experience includes Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism


(RNS) — Few, if any, vice presidential candidates have had as much exposure to the world’s religions as Kamala Harris, the 55-year-old senator from California who Joseph Biden just picked as his running mate.

Harris’ ethnic, racial and cultural biography represents a slice of the U.S. population that is becoming ascendant but that has never been represented in the nation’s second-highest office.

She was raised on Hinduism and Christianity.
Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was from Chennai, India; her father, Donald Harris, from Jamaica. The two met as graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her name, Kamala, means “lotus” in Sanskrit, and is another name for the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. She visited India multiple times as a girl and got to know her relatives there.

But because her parents divorced when she was 7, she also grew up in Oakland and Berkeley attending predominantly Black churches.Her downstairs neighbor, Regina Shelton, often took Kamala and her sister Maya to Oakland's 23rd Avenue Church of God in Oakland. Harris now considers herself a Black Baptist.

She is married to a Jewish man.
Harris met her husband, Los Angeles lawyer Douglas Emhoff, on a blind date in San Francisco. They married in 2014. At their wedding, the couple smashed a glass to honor Emhoff’s upbringing (a traditional Jewish wedding custom).

Continued https://www.americamagazine.org/pol...five-faith-facts-about-biden-vp-kamala-harris
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HERE SHE IS, ORGANIZING A "CHURCH EVENT":


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Cypress said:
"It doesn't take any "understanding of Hindi" to work realpolitik"

I subscribe to the 2,400 year old wisdom from Sun Tzu's Art of War: Know your enemy/rival/competitor
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sure you need to understand the country and the geopolitical relationships
Which Trump has demonstrated w/ PM Modi

But you really dont need to understand the internals much more then the basics
as long as you understand the external dynamic relationships
 
Cypress said:
easy there snowflake.

I said you probably knew virtually nothing about Immanuel Kant two nanoseconds before you read my post about him.

It is amazing actually that you would cling to a grudge about that. By the standards of jpp dot com, that is about the mildest and most innocuous form of insult, aka retort you are likely to experiece here.
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I am not a snowflake. Getting tired of you.
 
Cypress said:
Yes

One does not have to even be religious to recognize that a depth of knowedge and experience with world religious and philosiphical traditions is fundamental to bring an informed world citizen.

The fact that I know something about Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Jainism, Eastern Orthodoxy, enhances my understanding of South Asia, East Asia, Russia, et al
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Absolutely, religions are a part of most countries, religions influence culture and governments. I find them fascinating, I just chose not to partake, but I respect other’s choices.
 
Phantasmal said:
Absolutely, religions are a part of most countries, religions influence culture and governments. I find them fascinating, I just chose not to partake, but I respect others choices.
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Great minds think alike .

Respect leads to wisdom and knowledge

I have no desire to be Hindu or Buddhist. But studying those faith traditions gave me insights about South Asia I never would have if I chose to remain as willfully ignorant of world culture as Donald Trumpf.
 
Cypress said:
Her personal religious experience includes Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism


(RNS) — Few, if any, vice presidential candidates have had as much exposure to the world’s religions as Kamala Harris, the 55-year-old senator from California who Joseph Biden just picked as his running mate.

Harris’ ethnic, racial and cultural biography represents a slice of the U.S. population that is becoming ascendant but that has never been represented in the nation’s second-highest office.

She was raised on Hinduism and Christianity.
Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was from Chennai, India; her father, Donald Harris, from Jamaica. The two met as graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her name, Kamala, means “lotus” in Sanskrit, and is another name for the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. She visited India multiple times as a girl and got to know her relatives there.

But because her parents divorced when she was 7, she also grew up in Oakland and Berkeley attending predominantly Black churches.Her downstairs neighbor, Regina Shelton, often took Kamala and her sister Maya to Oakland's 23rd Avenue Church of God in Oakland. Harris now considers herself a Black Baptist.

She is married to a Jewish man.
Harris met her husband, Los Angeles lawyer Douglas Emhoff, on a blind date in San Francisco. They married in 2014. At their wedding, the couple smashed a glass to honor Emhoff’s upbringing (a traditional Jewish wedding custom).

Continued https://www.americamagazine.org/pol...five-faith-facts-about-biden-vp-kamala-harris
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Obviously she has no religion, other than herself. She just joins whatever is politically expedient at the time...a chameleon.
 
jacksonsprat22 said:
Religion is bullshit. Sorry. Sick of people thinking they are more moral because they tell others they are religious.
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Religion has a place. It has often inspired men to great deeds and charity. It has done much to benefit men. It has also been used to justify imprisonment or murder, clearly not benefits.

Religion isn't good or bad. It just is. To lump all religions as 'bad' is simply bigotry.

All religions are based on some initial circular argument, with arguments extending from it. That in and of itself is not fallacy. The other name for the circular argument is 'faith'.

Religious wars are the most destructive kind of war there is.
 
Cypress said:
A person cannot understand world history, world culture, or western civilization without knowlege and experiences with the world's great faith traditions.
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Here I agree with you, for once.
Cypress said:
I believe these experiences speak well of Senator Harris, and make her a better, more informed citizen of the world
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Harris does not understand any religion. She changes religion about as quickly as she changes her fingernail polish.
 
Into the Night said:
Religion has a place. It has often inspired men to great deeds and charity. It has done much to benefit men. It has also been used to justify imprisonment or murder, clearly not benefits.

Religion isn't good or bad. It just is. To lump all religions as 'bad' is simply bigotry.

All religions are based on some initial circular argument, with arguments extending from it. That in and of itself is not fallacy. The other name for the circular argument is 'faith'.

Religious wars are the most destructive kind of war there is.
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I am not a bigot. Religion belongs at home and in church. American needs an Enlightenment.
 
Cypress said:
Relentless hostility is a better term.
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Being hostile for the sake of being hostile is just hatred.
Cypress said:
My life has been enriched by having personal and direct exposure to Jewish, Protestant, Sikh, Catholic, Quaker religious traditions and services. I believe I am a more informed person for reading and learning the views of religious, agnostic, and atheist philosophers. It is as much worth leaning about Christian philosopher Soren Kierkegaard as it is to learn about athesist philosopher Frederich Nietsche.
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Here I again agree with you, oddly enough. Religions are an important part of sociology. To ignore religion is to ignore those factors shaping a society.
Even the days of the week we use here in the United States is religiously based.
Sunday - the day of the Sun.
Monday - the day of the Moon.
Tuesday - also known as "Tyre's" day, a Norse god of war.
Wednesday - Woton's Day. A Norse god of the air and sky.
Thursday - Thor's Day. A Norse god of storms.
Friday - Freia's Day. A Norse goddess of Earth and Fruit.
Saturday - Saturn's day. A Roman god of bounty.

Some of our months have religious meaning. Most are named for a Roman emperor or are just numbered (using the now obsolete Roman reckoning of the New Year, which began in March).
it is difficult to understand the Hopi dances and even the way their villages are constructed without understand the religious symbols behind them.
Similarly, it is difficult to understand a lot about Japan, without understanding the purpose of their shrines and temples, or even how pervasive Shinto or Buddhist beliefs color their literature, and even their video games and movies.
 
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