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I sure hope MAGA Mike Johnson will allow a floor vote on military aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan this weekend

Marcus Aurelius, the world's most famous Stoic, is a very good read.

The rules good parents give, and the example the good parents set, really come from religious ethics, even when the religious...

I agree that religion, just like all other human I institutions, are prey to corruption and self interest.

Still, humans are social animals. Religion, from the first shamanistic cave rituals of...

Some people can find complete purpose and meaning in the materialistic aspects of this Earth.

I think the majority of people in history, and even today, wanted to find a higher transcendent...

You're absolutely right. Even modern Judaism, especially in it's Reform and Conservative strands, doesn't really resemble the religion of the ancient Hebrews of the first temple period.

The Virgin birth and the resurrection sure seem mythical at face value.

Judging from my only experience with Eastern Christianty, I don't think the virgin birth or the discrepancies about which...

Okay, so what do you think is valuable about religious literature?

You're free to believe humanity's religious literature has no value.

I've learned as much from the Analects, the Dhammapada, the Daodejing, the Bhagavad Gita, even the Gospel of Luke as I did from my college physics textbooks.

You can't learn anything from propagandists and dogmatic ideologues.

I don't like to make recommendations because it's up to every individual to decide how and if to challenge themselves.

Legitimate scholars aren't supposed to tell you what to believe. They are...

It was remarkable that the Republican candidate for president in 2016 on national TV begged Russian intelligence services to hack Democratic party computers.

He was interested in using Aristotelian logic to defend existing Catholic doctrine. His logical proof of God strikes me as a riff off Aristotelian syllogisms.

Plato was probably more influential...

Holy Rollers and militant atheists are both only interested in defending their turf.

There are plenty of religious historians out there that could make evangelical literalistists and militant...

Jesus wasn't killed, according to New Testament tradition

I agree the concept of the trinity itself can't be justified logically

Anyone who has been to Gettysburg knows that Cemetery Ridge is just a slight rise in the landscape. The confederates did not lose because they were fighting their way up a steep hillside. They lost...

Obviously it cannot be explained scientifically or rationally. It's strictly mystical

I believe it was the doctrine adopted at the council of Niccea, and was a response to "heretical" Christian...

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America isn't at war with anyone.

Providing military aid to foreign nations in conflict is not America being at "war".


In your hyperpartisan thought process, you...

What foreign nation is America's military fighting a war against?

Yep, that's right ... none.

Trump bombed Iraq and Syria and got US Special Forces killed in Africa. Do those type of actions...

Thanks, another one to add to your list of flagrant ignorance! :laugh:



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Right, it's ridiculous to even suggest that outside of the elite and trained rabbis, any substantial percentage of the peasants, farmers, fishermen, laborers in Galilee were literate.

Even if they...

You didn't even know about that reference to Peter in Acts until you saw me write about it. And then within ten seconds you suddenly appointed yourself an expert in Acts.

According to Wiki, most...

I don't think it matters, because I don't agree with the atheist position that the discrepancies and authorship of the Gospels is massively consequential, Earth-shattering, and vitally meaningful....

Yes, Acts states that Peter was uneducated. It's a reasonably good assumption that Peter was fairly typical of other fishermen and peasants in Galilee.

Thanks for confirming you don't have your own original principles and ideas, and just define yourself by being against whatever Democrats are doing.

Just being against another party is not a...