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I think it's okay to a degree. I'm revisiting a book called mere Christianity where the author is attempting, at the point I'm at in the book, about a universal morality or nature hard-wired within. I haven't researched much of the Old testament and slavery but I have of the New. They were called bondservants, normally paid, given a home and food treated very well. It was like a contract between them but the master had say of the servant's life. A lot of people would take advantage of that but Paul writes that they were now brothers and should act as such. I know it was sort of similar in the Old Testament but I'm really sketchy on it. If anything they were treated like family. It's not like the slavery we know today. It was extremely different.
I do believe there is an extremely personal God who really just wants to be apart of everyday life.
LesYpersound said:Anyway this quote is making its' rounds on the blogs/tumblrs i look at:
"If a person doesn’t already understand that cruelty is wrong, he won’t discover this by reading the Bible or the Koran — as these books are bursting with celebrations of cruelty, both human and divine. We do not get our morality from religion. We decide what is good in our good books by recourse to moral intuitions that are (at some level) hard-wired in us and that have been refined by thousands of years of thinking about the causes and possibilities of human happiness.
"We have made considerable moral progress over the years, and we didn’t make this progress by reading the Bible or the Koran more closely. Both books condone the practice of slavery — and yet every civilized human being now recognizes that slavery is an abomination. Whatever is good in scripture — like the golden rule — can be valued for its ethical wisdom without our believing that it was handed down to us by the creator of the universe."
( Sam Harris via: TYWKIWDBI and Drink Kool-Aid )
Cameron what do you think about this quote?
How much do you believe in a personal God's involvement with the human condition and your life?
It doesn't and it shouldn't. Mainly because it's not real.
Sekou said:eternal world??
are you talking about the concept of heaven?? If so....how does that fit in???
Mlle d. Sade said:It doesn't matter. Religion is not needed for either. We are capable all on our on- there is no eternal other world to live for, only the here and now. We govern ourselves for each others' benefit.
Sekou said:so the questions remains:
did Homo sapiens have a sense of morality before we had a sense of spirituality??
I'm just waiting for someone to point out all the postive things those on the Agnostic/Atheist/Anti Religon spectrum, have brought on to influcence society or the world. Because other than self-improvement and free-thought, I've got nothing.
This thread has been nothing more than a circle-jerk fest of assumptions because of past expirences involving christians, let us ignore the many postive the christian faith has done to help better the world (and yes, some do it because it's the right thing to do.), no! Let's focus on only the negatives. Let us have TUNNEL VISION of what the Christian faith is all about. Yes, that will work, and yet we are all doing so much better to help improve the quality of human life by bickering with each other back and forth on a messageboard! Awesome just awesome.
"Only thing with that is, atheists don't have the same fucked up history that christians do."
Do the Khmer Rouge/Pol Pot or Josef Stalin ring a bell, Damos? No? Aww, you'll think of something.
@Cameron; Welcome to the forums, you'll see much more tom fuckery and contradiction like this. Enjoy....
why did you bring it up then???
I notice a trend/pattern people (mainly athiests and agnostics) when debating/discussing religion and spirituality with them.....most of the time they find it difficult to separate the two. You say "spirituality"....and you can tell by their facial expressions and body language that their brain is conjuirng up images of Jesus and crucifixes and all the negative things they associate with Christianity...as alot of us have been conditioned to think of religion the instant we hear the term "spirituality"....2 different trees that bear similar fruit, not the same
so what is your take on Buddhism, Ms De Sade???
Mlle d. Sade said:It doesn't and it shouldn't. Mainly because it's not real.
Sekou said:eternal world??
are you talking about the concept of heaven?? If so....how does that fit in???
Mlle d. Sade said:It doesn't matter. Religion is not needed for either. We are capable all on our on- there is no eternal other world to live for, only the here and now. We govern ourselves for each others' benefit.
Sekou said:so the questions remains:
did Homo sapiens have a sense of morality before we had a sense of spirituality??
Uhm, ENLIGHTENMENT, HELLO? Education. Science. Technology. Advances in medical that aided in many countless lives saved from diseases that [thanks to christians] once had us all thinks it was tiny littles demons that made us sick. ART! CULTURE! LIBERALISM! PROGRESSIVE CAUSES! Abolision. Paleontology. Astrology. Anthropology. Biology. Civil rights for most people. Counter culture movements. Jazz. Rock music. Punk. Punk PUNK! Body art. Philosophy. The labor movement. Women's rights. Gay rights. Seperation ov state & church. Roe vs. Wade. The 1st Amendment. Dude, do you really need me to go on?I'm just waiting for someone to point out all the postive things those on the Agnostic/Atheist/Anti Religon spectrum, have brought on to influcence society or the world. Because other than self-improvement and free-thought, I've got nothing.
This thread has been nothing more than a circle-jerk fest of assumptions because of past expirences involving christians, let us ignore the many postive the christian faith has done to help better the world (and yes, some do it because it's the right thing to do.), no! Let's focus on only the negatives. Let us have TUNNEL VISION of what the Christian faith is all about. Yes, that will work, and yet we are all doing so much better to help improve the quality of human life by bickering with each other back and forth on a messageboard! Awesome just awesome.
"Only thing with that is, atheists don't have the same fucked up history that christians do."
Do the Khmer Rouge/Pol Pot or Josef Stalin ring a bell, Damos? No? Aww, you'll think of something.
@Cameron; Welcome to the forums, you'll see much more tom fuckery and contradiction like this. Enjoy....
Mother Theresa? Oh man, don't get me started on THAT catholic missionary whore!Ya know, you're right. It comes with the territory. I just feel the same. Some days I just don't want to put up with it all of it and just leave Christianity because of all the hypocrites. But still, you can find the gems. Like abolition in England, fighting poverty in Rome, or Mother Theresa.
woah there are a lot of conversations going on this page. lol
Anyways... here are my answers
How old do YOU think the Earth is? It would seem to be millions of years old. Evolution seems to be the best bet though we must keep in mind it is still only a theory.
Was jesus a person ov colour, you think? Well, all his ancestors were Israelite (middle eastern),his parent were isrealite, and he hid out in Egypt. No white person can hide out in Egypt and not get caught back then. lol. So, yeah, of color. Not black, but logically of a darker skin tone, being closest to middle eastern descent.
Who wrote the bible? Humans wrote. When we say God breathed, that means it was inspired by God. It's man's account of interaction with the being we call God.
You ok with a book that so explicitly endorses SLAVERY? I had a post on that earlier.
Were Adam & Eve Black, you think? It is thought that one they were both medium, caramel type complexion.
You ok with gays getting married? Judge not lest ye be judged. As far as I'm concerned I have no say in gay marriage, especially when divorce rates in the church are at 50%.
Women came from a man's rib - you believe that shit? If God can create a universe, nothing else would be that surprising to me
Noah's ark - seriously? Suspension of disbelief. Just like the universe thing I said above.
Is the bible meant to be taken literally (all those fucked up hypocrites sure seem to think so)? If NOT, then why hasn't the bible been revised [by now] to say what it actually means? It needs to be looked at for what it is. It's a book, or rather many books of people recording their experiences with God. So by literal, if you mean factual, yes. The stories are meant to be taken as things that actually happened. As far as following? Well, you have to finish the story to know that. As I said before, the bible pulls no punches. Whatever is the worst shit you though could happen is in there. It's not a book of morality. It's book of God trying to work with people who know nothing about morality. So this was a really bad explanation but it's the best I got.
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