Senator Harris - her religious faith traditions

[Into the Night]

Spoken like a fundamentalist.

Nope. A fundamentalist makes a circular argument fallacy by attempting to prove a religion as either True or False.
I am not attempting to do either. It is not possible to prove a circular argument either True or False.

I think you are using the word 'fundamentalist' as some kind of insult...without any meaning to the word.

[TexanManWithPlans]

A person cannot understand world history, world culture, or western civilization without knowlege and experiences with the world's great faith traditions.

I believe these experiences speak well of Senator Harris, and make her a better, more informed citizen of the world

That's true, but religion is still bullshit. And it's ok to say so.

[jacksonsprat22]

Yes you are. You made a compositional error fallacy involving people as the class: the very definition of bigotry. This is a fallacy.

It belongs everywhere. Why limit it to just your home and a church?

Define this 'enlightenment' you think America needs. You need to be specific.

Cut the fallacy stuff. That's for college freshmen in a rhetoric class.

Since you never heard of the Enlightenment (capitalized) I will briefly explain. It was a European movement trying to eliminate the role of the clergy in official positions of government.

[jacksonsprat22]

Nope. A fundamentalist makes a circular argument fallacy by attempting to prove a religion as either True or False.
I am not attempting to do either. It is not possible to prove a circular argument either True or False.

I think you are using the word 'fundamentalist' as some kind of insult...without any meaning to the word.

uh huh fallacy n' junk

[jacksonsprat22]

That's true, but religion is still bullshit. And it's ok to say so.

A president should know religion, math, geography, history.....

[Stretch]

Probably learned a lot from Pastor Willie Brown, too.

[dukkha]

I have no desire to be Hindu or Buddhist. But studying those faith traditions gave me insights about South Asia

Buddhists are worldwide, and Tibet (not south Asia) has it's own sect.
Buddhism is a universal truth of the nature of mankind

[Cypress]

Buddhists are worldwide, and Tibet (not south Asia) has it's own sect.
Buddhism is a universal truth of the nature of mankind

I know that, but I was thinking of the fact that Buddhism originated in India and borrowed some of its foundational principles from earlier Brahmanistic traditions coming from the Hindi.

In that sense, when you consider Brahminism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhs - South Asia is the most spiritually advanced and diverse piece of real estate on earth. Some of it being exported elsewhere, aka Buddhism.

[Cypress]

That's true, but religion is still bullshit. And it's ok to say so.

It's okay to say it's bullshit for you.

[TexanManWithPlans]

It's okay to say it's bullshit for you.

But there's no evidence for any religious claims.

[Cypress]

But there's no evidence for any religious claims.

There is a lot of knowlege beyond the reach of human reason. Some of the most brilliant philosophers in human history have stated that. We are just smart chimpanzees with limited cognitive capacity.

Whether or not I agree with any religion, I can still recognize they are asking the right questions: what is the meaning of life? What ought I do, and what can I hope for?

Whether or not they have the right answers is open to debate. But they are still asking the right questions. And these questions cannot be answered by particle accelerators or mass spectrometers.