Senator Harris - her religious faith traditions

[Cypress]

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

 

[jacksonsprat22]

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

Religion is bullshit. Sorry. Sick of people thinking they are more moral because they tell others they are religious.

 

[Cypress]

Religion is bullshit. Sorry. Sick of people thinking they are more moral because they tell others they are religious.

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

 

[jacksonsprat22]

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

I understand them. So what?

 

[Cypress]

I understand them. So what?

You consistently express hatred for religious traditions. That does not indicate wisdom or knowlege.

 

[jacksonsprat22]

You consistently express hatred for religious traditions. That does not indicate wisdom or knowlege.

No hatred. You are projecting.

 

[Cypress]

No hatred. You are projecting.

Relentless hostility is a better term.

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.

It never occurs to me to bear hostlity and anger towards any of it

 

[jacksonsprat22]

Relentless hostility is a better term.

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 athesist philosopher Fredich Nietsche.

It never occurs to me to bear hostlity and anger towards any of it

You are projecting. You always make personal attacks on me. Don't post on a forum if you cannot handler criticism. Get it?

 

[Cypress]

You are projecting. You always make personal attacks on me.

Don't post on a forum if you cannot handler criticism. Get it?

That is hilarious that you think I am always attacking you or that I cannot handle criticism.

You will not find a single fair-minded person on this forum who would agree that, by the standards of this message board, I am an attack dog and cannot handle criticism of political or religious views.

Given your stated hostility to religion, can you explain philosophically what your beef with Hinduism and Judaism are?

 

[jacksonsprat22]

That is hilarious that you think I am always attacking you or that I cannot handle criticism.

You will not find a single fair-minded person on this forum who would agree that, by the standards of this message board, I am an attack dog and cannot handle criticism of political or religious views.

Given your stated hostility to religion, can you explain philosophically what your beef with Hinduism and Judaism are?

Believe what you want. You might consider going to a faith website to share your beliefs with others. You clearly cannot handle criticism.

 

[Cypress]

Believe what you want. You might consider going to a faith website to share your beliefs with others. You clearly cannot handle criticism.

But you did not explain your reasons for being hostlie to Hinduism and Judaism.

In post number 2 you said in response to Harris' experiences with Hinduism and Judaism that those religions are all bullshit

 

[jacksonsprat22]

But you did not explain your reasons for being hostlie to Hinduism and Judaism.

In post number 2 you said in response to Harris' experiences with Hinduism and Judaism that those religions are all bullshit

I am not hostile. You're tiresome.

 

[Jack]

Well ... glad this stayed on the virtues of Kamala instead of getting sidetracked between two Supporters of the Biden/Harris Team.

 

[Cypress]

I am not hostile. You're tiresome.

It is unfortunate you jumped in to say that Judaism and Hinduism are all bullshit, but cannot explain why

 

[jacksonsprat22]

It is unfortunate you jumped in to say that Judaism and Hinduism are all bullshit, but cannot explain why

Religion. Go back and read what I said.

 

[Cypress]

Religion. Go back and read what I said.

Hinduism and Judaism were the topic of the thread, in addition to Christianity. They are all religions, and your post number two did not make any distinction between them. You did not say Christianity. I can only respond to the words you actually wrote.

Undoubtedly religious fanatics of all stripes can be chauvinistic about their religion.

But I seriously doubt most authentic Jews, Hindus, and Christians you have met have felt you are morally inferior to them.

More importantly, your hostility to religion is based on personal perceptions of insult. That is a very limited and rudimentary way of thinking about religion

There are many reasons the well-rounded person considers religion respectfully for cultural, historical, philosophical, educational reasons without getting preoccupied with personal grievances that religion is insulting you.

 

[jacksonsprat22]

Hinduism and Judaism were the topic of the thread, in addition to Christianity. They are all religions, and your post number two did not make any distinction between them. You did not say Christianity. I can only respond to the words you actually wrote.

Undoubtedly religious fanatics of all stripes can be chauvinistic about their religion.

But I seriously doubt most authentic Jews, Hindus, and Christians you have met have felt you are morally inferior to them.

More importantly, your hostility to religion is based on personal perceptions of insult. There are many reasons the well-rounded person considers religion respectfully for cultural, historical, philosophical, educational reasons without getting preoccupied with personal grievances that religion is insulting you.

Remember when I commented on Kant and you made a childish personal attack? yeah, that's you

 

[Nordberg]

Hinduism and Judaism were the topic of the thread, in addition to Christianity. They are all religions, and your post number two did not make any distinction between them. You did not say Christianity. I can only respond to the words you actually wrote.

Undoubtedly religious fanatics of all stripes can be chauvinistic about their religion.

But I seriously doubt most authentic Jews, Hindus, and Christians you have met have felt you are morally inferior to them.

More importantly, your hostility to religion is based on personal perceptions of insult. That is a very limited and rudimentary way of thinking about religion

There are many reasons the well-rounded person considers religion respectfully for cultural, historical, philosophical, educational reasons without getting preoccupied with personal grievances that religion is insulting you.

Your premise is correct. She has had life experience with Hinduism. Christianity, and Judaism. That does make her more knowledgeable about them It is a different kind of exposure, she was inside of them. She is counter to trump who is an atheist. He has no understanding or respect for religions.

 

[jacksonsprat22]

Your premise is correct. She has had life experience with Hinduism. Christianity, and Judaism. That does make her more knowledgeable about them It is a different kind of exposure, she was inside of them. She is counter to trump who is an atheist. He has no understanding or respect for religions.

Historically there seems to be no correlation of a US president's religion and their success as a president. It seems superfluous.

 

[Nordberg]

I understand them. So what?

No, you don't. She actually has lived them.