Sunday School

Thanks, Reg!

“Religion is society that worships itself.”

– it’s hard to argue with this point of view.  We all have things that we hold sacred, and that we worship.  It’s been said that the sacralised things within society are those which potentially lead to social upset or dischord if violated, such as the marriage contract.

“How language shapes our thoughts.”

While concrete concepts are mainly made of information derived from perceptual experience, abstract concepts are mainly made of language.

For me, abstract concepts have a kind of structure that is described by language, and the goal is to represent them pictorially if possible.

The concept of “freedom”, for me,…[Read more]

I’m not sure anyone could step into your shoes Reg.

I would love to see a one-off Asianne (feminist?) Sunday School special, I don’t know if this can happen.

Have a great week everyone!!

I will be traveling in the USA next week so it looks like no Sunday School! First time in six years!! If anyone would like to stand in……?

Great picture Robert. I have my crib up early this year.

Great stuff, Reg.

I do love any reference to the war on xmas…such entertainment !

Thanks, Reg!

Have a great week everyone!!

“It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere…. Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on…[Read more]

“Is believing without evidence always morally wrong?”

– if we accept that “truth is love” (knowledge of reality allows us to deal with it and change it if necessary, effectively, to an ethical advantage) then it logically follows that it is morally dubious to believe things without evidence.

I know this is a charge that is often levelled at…[Read more]

Accepting or rejecting BB Cosmology is not a moral issue. I accept the BB Theory based upon my understanding of it. It is not a matter of belief or faith in the same way that Evolution is not a matter of belief but rather one of scientific understanding. I reject the EU “theory” not because I don’t believe it but from what I have read of it, inclu…[Read more]

Re: Is believing without evidence always morally wrong?

No!

Belief without evidence has to be morally acceptable, …if Cosmology’s Standard Model, the Big Bang, is to survive.

Thanks, Reg!

Re:There are no Blue Laws about attending Sunday School.

To begin with, the Supreme Court has repeatedly, and fairly recently, ruled that blue laws are constitutional: The state can prohibit commercial activities on certain days, even if the days are selected for apparently religious reasons. The reasoning is that the state may have an interest in…

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Have a great week everyone!!

Well, I don’t care about being dead! Because I won’t know about it. That is the best thing about being dead. You don’t know about it. It’s like being stupid; it’s only painful for others. …

Ricky Gervais to Stephen Colbert.