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Robert, Unseen and I have defacated on Jesus’ love. I am sure with a little thought or other contributors additional excrement will be layed on his head. As i live and speak and write here is another thought: If your neighbor is a worthless leach and you have to choose between your neighbor and a stranger where the stranger is a good person in…[Read more]

Robert i thought of that very thing as a Jew in Nazi Germany how helpful it would be to follow Jesus’ neighborly instruction.

The other thing i should say is that moral instruction that utilizes an ancient religious text is in itself immoral. That there are or may be a nugget(s) or something that does not make you retch within the old testament…[Read more]

Simon, i agree a cliche is not necessarily bad but it is not necessary as moral advice if it is THAT well known.

The love your neighbor as yourself is good advice to encourage exploitative behavior. Let some kniving psychopath know through your good nature that you are an easy mark and see the behavior doubled. How one treats one’s neighbor…[Read more]

Simon what happened to your lessons on morality borne of evolution?

If you substitute immoral instruction for moral instruction i can drink to that. It is not necessary to rehash all of the pernicious and discriminatory aspects of relgiious imperatives, is it? Love your neighbor as yourself? How cliche and how lacking in nuance! Doesn’t it depend…[Read more]

I was not familiar with the term Seeker church but i instantly made an assumption that it was a front. Our world is composed of BS. Layers on layers of BS. Churches and iterations of Christianity are always an overwhelming negative influence and the apologists use tortured logic and emotional appeals. First item under my google search for seeker…[Read more]

I agree with Robert.

Think about a church community. What is it. What is its nature? What does it do? (thank you Doctor Lecter and Marcus Aurelius) Its purpose is to perpetuate its ideology. Try infiltrating a church as an outsider who politely expresses contrary opinions. Think ya will be well received? I doubt it. Maybe some pastor thinks he…[Read more]

Belle, you did not mention slavery. I did. It is because i know something of the history of the church and its messages. Churches use their influence to enforce/maintain unjust social hierarchy/order. The be content message delivered to slaves in only one iteration of the message. The grass is greener. Recent studies at least indicate that it is.…[Read more]

Belle, i think their message sucks. That be content message, sic transit gloria mundi was packaged to Black slaves to prevent malcontents from rebelling. Know your place in society. In the end or afterlife equality will be granted. Wonderful message for slave owners and Whites who benefited from slavery but atrocious for Black slaves. And even…[Read more]

Finally and with gratitude theists have proof the soul escapes albeit in a slow departure.

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/dead-bodies-move/

Recently read that our bodies continue to move for up to a year after dying.

Enco, whachoo smokin man?

What insult? I simply informed you that i would not reply. I would give a dog his day. The clubbing of seal metaphor was in reference to matters of intellect in which you are sadly deficient. It is amusing though how you imagine yourself a thinker inside that Rodin sculpture. All ideologues are intellectually limited.

From Autumn: There’s an assumption that their experience of life transposes onto others, but those others had some moral failing where they did not.

Spot on.

Enco, it is your lucky day. Gonna let you count coup. However don’t take my charity as weakness or i will bludgeon you with a wooden club like some unfortunate seal pup.

Enco, you protest too much revealing your inner snowflake.