TheEncogitationer
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The Christian Right is in decline and it’s taking America with it. in the forum Politics 3 days, 16 hours agoReg,
I shed no tears whatsoever for the decline of the Christian Right and only regret that it hasn’t happened faster in my own community. I can’t count the numbers of times people come into the store giving out bible tracts and wearing T-Shirts with thoughtless scriptures like: “Iron sharpens Iron” from Proverbs 27:17. (Uh, no. It’s ha…[Read more]
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The horror of reading the Quran in the forum Ridiculous Holy Books 3 days, 18 hours agoReg, Davis, and Fellow Unbelievers,
I’ve said before that if a bloodthirsty Autism-spectrum child could write, The Qu’ran would probably be what it would look like. And that’s no slam against the overwhelmingly friendly children on the spectrum, of course, just acknowledgement of how they often repeat themselves.
The Qu’ran cribbed a lot from…[Read more]
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Ridiculous Holy Books 3 days, 19 hours agoThe first violent text from The Bagavad Gita that comes to mind was quoted by Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer when he beheld the first Atomic Bomb explosion of The Manhattan Project which he headed:
“I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds.”
He also said a line from The Baghavad Gita that comes off violent when one considers what the subsequent…[Read more]
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Ridiculous Holy Books 3 days, 19 hours agoUnseen, Well, it’s not just mean words you would have to look for to determine the violence in the book. You would also have to actually read the passages for meaning and read them in context of other text and actual events documented elsewhere to get the full depth of their violent content.
For example, this passage in Revelation 22:18-19 has…[Read more]
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Thats a good graph. I would wager that a collection of the top 5 taoist texts would have no violence in it (or if so, commentary on violence rather than narrative violence or encouraging it). -
And in fact in the Dhammapada, from what I remember, there was no prescription for or narrative violence, but commentary on it. In other words, it is by no means a violent text. I am rather surprised there are even 87 sentences with violent words. I will have to go over it again. It is really just a book about peace, not being an asshole and…[Read more]
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Violent words may not be the best way to assess, since you can use a word in order to decry it.
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I would imagine the best way to assess them is to read the texts and make judgement calls on if the violence is narrative, descriptive or part of a commentary. That requires a fair bit of work and then opening up your work to scrutiny.
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While we are on the topic, I find it a very strange claim that there are no words associated with violence in the Veddas. It is a huge corpus of texts and there is most definitely violence in it (not the commentary kind).
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Sunday school 18th July 2021 in the forum Sunday School 6 days, 3 hours agoHave a great week everyone!
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Sunday School 18th July 2021 in the forum Sunday School 6 days, 3 hours agoProject Blitz is still lurking there in the background.
The French government sets up laicité office to better protect secularism.
In god the religious privileged trust.
What should the relationship between the nonreligious and the Democratic Party look like?
Would they prefer a Christian child molester over a morally upstanding Atheist?
You…[Read more]
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The horror of reading the Quran in the forum Ridiculous Holy Books 6 days, 4 hours ago‘The moment he is released, kill him, even if he has repented’, said the cleric from the Religion of Peace.
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The horror of reading the Quran in the forum Ridiculous Holy Books 6 days, 16 hours agoNo doubt there is more violence in the Bible, and a larger amount of very graphic descriptions of cruelty and horror. They are both awful immoral books that cursed humanity from the day they were penned. The Quran however, is an endless repetitive cycle, you have the feeling you are being smacked on the head with a rolled up newspaper with…[Read more]
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The horror of reading the Quran in the forum Ridiculous Holy Books 6 days, 17 hours agoI have read sections of the Quran over the years. The similarities between it and the Bible are numerous. The same can be said of The Torah which I think is the equivalent to the Pentateuch or at least the 5 books attributed to Moses. I have debated with Muslims too. Their arguments for the existence of their god and their faith are no d…[Read more]
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The horror of reading the Quran in the forum Ridiculous Holy Books 6 days, 18 hours agoI read through the Quran when I was younger (I read a lot of Holy Books) and before I realised the general horror of the history of religion and power structures, I read all these holy books more as bizarre cultural artefacts rather than what they are (books of utter endless terror). I’ve been contributing to an annotated holy book project. While…[Read more]
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The Christian Right is in decline and it’s taking America with it. in the forum Politics 1 week, 2 days agoI am actually very afraid for this country. The few crazy assholes are ruining it for the rest of us with their conspiracy theories and lies. They may be smaller in numbers but as long as these fringe extremists types exist in the intensity and propensity to violence, our country isn’t safe. Remember…how many men did it take to ram a plane int…[Read more]
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Sunday School 11th July 2021 in the forum Sunday School 1 week, 5 days agoThanks Robert, I don’t think it possible to talk anyone out of their beliefs, be those beliefs religious or conspiracy theories. My tactic is to take the “Socratic Method” approach and to keep asking them to explain what they believe. Not just what they believe but how they came to hold them and why do they assert that they are correct in holding…[Read more]
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