What kind of tv do you watch, what kind of fiction do you read? from the perspective of approaching things from a skeptical point of view to assess them, it's hypocritical if you're a fan of action movies (or horror movies) for instance - which allows you to personally remove yourself from what...
Yeah but who doesn't? Everyone thinks they are righteous in their own eyes :smirk:
Doesn't mean you have a solid grasp on any topic whatsoever on this alone. If you're morally conflicted, that's a sign to dig deeper. You're repelled by yourself, as I am in my own situations.
There are just way too many to list, I've tried to dip my toes on everything I can get my hands on (even stretching out money to afford hard-to-get texts)
The Bible (which itself is a library of individual texts - from the Tanakh to the Gospels to the letters of Fraud-Paul to the book of...
Is this statement a sign that you are now realizing your own judgments towards others?
Even the most ancient texts we know of ARE universally applicable (outside of their original cultures) but we filter things through different contexts. Things don't change as much as you'd like them to.
In my experience, it's been anything but that. Then through the rise of the internet it's become somewhat of a dirty word, if you're not a secular person it places you in a vulnerable position in today's world. I've seen a lot of hostile intolerance towards religion even by friends at different...
Um sunshine, what did you expect? A book of light and fluffy happy fairytales? the human race is fulled with lots of hate and bigotry, regardless of whether they are religious or secular. It's a core doctrine of basically every religion AND evolution itself, that these ways of life that we tend...
I was going to say this too. It doesn't (in itself) mean that they are engaged with the religion (on a personal and intellectual level) but then churches in general over time (due to modernization and restyling to look 'relevant') are like a 'positive vibes' social hub to many (including...
By taboo, you just mean "under the rug" right?
America is very much a war country, it's built into it's foundations.
It really depends on the cultural context you mean, because in some countries (such as the USA) war is a political game, a chessboard.
I think taboo (at it's core) is just...
All "names" of the god of the Bible are not 'names': they are descriptions. The God of the Bible (as within Hindu traditions) is beyond our knowledge - we don't "know" the name of God because there isn't a name, full-stop. Language (at least in the history of earth) is a human thing.
Once yet...
Satanists are quite frankly just bull****ters. Following the Satanist ideology with the facepaint and costumes doesn't give a person any more liberty than a Christian, that's just rhetoric.
Like Satanists themselves, Christians are a very diverse bunch of people.
You tend to measure everything...