Senator Harris - her religious faith traditions

cawacko said:
What does that have to do with religion? Does she have a better understanding of the world because she's a Baptist than an atheist would?
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Only if being a Baptist offered her stronger education on the religion than she would have learned otherwise. Going to several different types of religious meetings regularly likely gives you a broader education on religion in general than only going to one, or going to none.
 
Jarod said:
Only if being a Baptist offered her stronger education on the religion than she would have learned otherwise. Going to several different types of religious meetings regularly likely gives you a broader education on religion in general than only going to one, or going to none.
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Kind of belies the whole liberal ‘atheists are more intelligent than religious people’ argument from a couple of days ago but ok.
 
cawacko said:
Kind of belies the whole liberal ‘atheists are more intelligent than religious people’ argument from a couple of days ago but ok.
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I don't know about intelligence, that's different than education.
 
Jarod said:
Knowledge of the world is important for an American president.
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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.
 
Jarod said:
I don't know about intelligence, that's different than education.
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You equated knowledge of the world with religion. One can have little to no formal education and have tremendous knowledge of the world. Do you have data that compares 'knowledge of the world' among believers and atheists?
 
jacksonsprat22 said:
Remember when I commented on Kant and you made a childish personal attack? yeah, that's you
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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.
 
Nordberg said:
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.
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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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