rhonjon

Simon Paynton wrote:

rhonjon wrote:
“I’m not perfect, just forgiven.”

That must have made you want to throw up.

It made me seriously question the mental state of people who say we need religion to give us an objective moral standard.

Unseen wrote:

Simon Paynton wrote:

rhonjon wrote:
But if I love a person, I want them to be happy even if I’m not the one who is making them happy.

That sounds like a good definition.

Here’s how I put it: True love (which one gets only from parents or true friends) is “wanting what’s best for the other person even if it’s not what you would wan…

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marulimarulaki wrote:
Thanks for your replies which make me aware that I may have presented my topic in a misleading way. This is a public forum so this is not meant to deal with my personal situation. I mentioned my partner only because my experience with him made me aware of some more theoretical considerations concerning different moral…

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marulimarulaki wrote:
My partner and I have some basic conflict concerning morals as the attitude behind treating each other. When we got together it seemed as if we agreed sharing atheism. Only later it became clear how our different upbringing has influenced our moral self-guidance. I grew up with the usual christian brain washing as a child.…

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Unseen wrote:

rhonjon wrote:

Strega wrote:
Rhonjon, wasn’t there some kind of basic ‘green’ tutorial in those Bible verses? Something about burning a bush that spoke in voices?There you go! The burning bush was actually my man Moses and his buddies lighting up joints in the wilderness.

Here’s how you separate your response from the quotati…

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Simon Paynton wrote:

Autumn wrote:
Love and patriotism can be explained behaviourally even if one doesn’t feel those particular emotions.

How would you define “love”?That depends on the object of one’s love. If I say I love chocolate I mean I deeply appreciate the gustatory sensation I get when chocolate is in my mouth. That is possess…

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Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Not only is the Universe expanding but the rate of expansion is accelerating. All objects that have mass (mass not weight) will exert a “pull” on each other when close enough to each other. Think of the moon and the Earth and the Sun. The Earth “thinks” it is shooting in a straight line through Space. But is it bein…

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Strega wrote:
Rhonjon, wasn’t there some kind of basic ‘green’ tutorial in those Bible verses? Something about burning a bush that spoke in voices?There you go! The burning bush was actually my man Moses and his buddies lighting up joints in the wilderness.

James? Give me a first name and I’ll look him up. A title?

I really Think we shouldn’t be so harsh in our interpretation of the Old Testament. Couldn’t the commandment for people to be stoned actually be a biblical endorsement for pot legalization?

This reminds me of when I was a kid my father (a mental health counselor) would give me an abstract word (patriotism, love, humor) to define. Then he would pretend he’d just arrived from another planet and had no references with which to understand my definitions “Well, humor is when something is funny.” “Funny? What is that?”

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Simon Paynton{

“Good luck with that.  They will ignore Biblical prohibitions about just about anything, except this.  Christians have other strong reasons for not ignoring it, that they might not even understand.

Anyway, isn’t it like pulling a thread?  Once this scripture is done away with, what about the rest?  Religion is anti-gay as part of…[Read more]

Self-loathing is an integral part of Christianity. To even become a Christian, you must accept that you are a sinner in need of salvation.

I don’t think that a gay man who has a strong sense of himself without a strong religious background would want to be a Christian. He’d have to change his world-view from “I am gay. Accept me.” To “I am g…[Read more]

Individuals often leave Christian fundamentalism once they realize the keyword is mental. But your use of the word “rabid” is on the mark.as Douglas Adams said, their grasp on reality is like trying to grasp a bar of soap in the shower.

I remember in the nineties they were saying that Jesus would cure gay people from their homosexual ten…[Read more]

I believe this disorder will slowly fall out of favor in the Christian community. The same bible that condemns homosexuality also forbids women speaking in church. Just as the church found a way to get around this when sexism became “socially obsolete,” as gay people gain more acceptance in the larger society, the church will find a way to ign…[Read more]