Most people do not realize that the Roman Church has always been anti-capitalist. French priests were some of the people most responsible for the dissemination of Karl Marx's early works in the 20th century. I also think that most people do not realize that the Roman Church preaches that the...
I am a Freudian and I would not say otherwise. I might say that the ideology someone adopts in hijacking a plane is a neurotic substitution for unfulfilled sexual desires, but not that it is a direct plot to obtain sexual gratification. Freudianism is far to clever for such a gross assertion...
"The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such. What do you say about her?” This they said to...
While I appreciate the sentiment, I think we tend to commit the sin of ethnocentrism when we assume that the people of old were so crass and ignorant. I am not convinced by the fundamentalists nor the anti-religious atheists who insist that we read Genesis literally. Within the Christian...
This is the voice of reason. The hijacker is clearly lying in this case. Nobody hijacks a plane so that they can force somebody into having sex with them.
The notion of measurement entails the notion of quantity. Saying X has weight and Y does not have weight is not a measurement. Measurement actually includes a qualitative and quantitative aspect.
Edit: On closer examination, I should like to revise/clarify what I had said. I do agree that...
I am not quite sure it is that rare. Daoists commonly believe in a non-theistic transcendentalism.
I think that if atheists want representation, they have to position themselves as a positive belief system rather than absolute negation.
Blatantly ignoring my point, but all right then.
I imagine that these are far and few in between. Buddhists may be non-theistic, but they generally identify as Buddhists, not by the label "atheist".
Human love is the external expression of God's love. Human love is the form that Love with a capital "L" takes.
It depends what you mean by the word "miracle". I rather like the quote from Bruce Almighty where God says, "Parting your soup is not a miracle, Bruce. It's a magic trick. A single mom...
I know all of this and do not disagree with it. What I meant is that in the Western 21st century it seems that "atheism" has generally become a word meaning "metaphysical naturalism". While metaphysical naturalists can be humanist or anti-humanist — as Roman Catholics can be humanist or...
I am not sure I assent with the implicit ideology present in the opening post. It begins with the presumption that evidence is the way we come to know God. For me, the notion of God-in-the-abstract is a philosophical point, not an empirical proposition. God is the depth of the world. As I am a...