Although a long way from being a Christian, I enjoy the show. I like the emphasis of, and reliance upon, friends and family.
The Robertson family means well, but they're a product of their times and geography. They're ignorant (especially Phil and Si) of things modern and treat them with...
Been there - done that - though it was many decades ago. Although, I suspect the intervening years will make the judging take a little longer next time.
If I am comfortable under the umbrella of any term to describe my beliefs, it would be animism (with a smidge of deism thrown in).
My belief system underwent a cataclysmic overhaul at the age of 10, when I nearly drowned. Until then, I was a good Catholic altar boy. After that, I began to ask...
I admire Jewish determination, patience, and general willingness to hear, listen to, and discuss thoughtfully with others - without a whisper of a hint of proselytizing.
I think you're on the right track. (But I also think, on some elemental level, prey animals accept their place as a predator's meal.)
My father taught me over 50 years ago to kill the fish we caught quickly, via a sharp blow to the head. He would not allow a fish to suffer. In that way, he...
It puzzles me as well.
Most people I know wouldn't use a two thousand year-old map to navigate their way around the Middle-East and Europe.
So why do so many think such a map can lead them to heaven/god/understanding?
I wear labels uncomfortably. But the one that comes closest to fitting is Animist/Deist. I believe all living things have spirit. And more things are alive than many people believe.
And I strongly suspect, with gusts up to believing in, the existence of a guiding intelligence of some sort...
Which is further evidence, to me at least, that man created god in his own image - not vice versa.
Which, come to think of it, also partly explains why there's some 30,000 Christian sects.