Tetsuo said:At the end of the day the only regeimes that are becoming more strict on their religious principles get bombed by us don't they?
Tetsuo said:but as this example shows everything is relative.
Mixedmedia said:Everybody makes relative determinations according to the psychological cocktail that shapes our concepts of "what I believe" - genetics and their individual experience.
mixedmedia said:Keen observation. We used to attack our cold war "enemies", whether politically or militarily, making distinct note of their areligiosity. Very interesting indeed how the tide has turned.
Absolutely, to me it is the "path" not neccesarily the conclusion that is religion.WKL815 said:Oh yeah, and to reiterate - there are absolutes which do not have to be explained precisely to exist. It is enough to know that they exist. And before you go calculating someone else's equation, you better be sure you understand your own!
Welcome to Debate Politics!!Rhadamanthus said:Religion is anything that someone wishes to make it. It fills the space inside of those people who have nead of an answer and do not find the scientific theories of the modern world apealing. I am not a believer myself and I am forced to think that religion is the explanation for life created by people with no better argument or without the time to seek one. But then again I am an unbeliever and I am sure that religion has much more going for it that I give it credit for.
If religion keeps turning drug users/pushers into Christian pastors and makes good citizens out of them in the process than I will hold my peace with religion and give the Evangelicals my best wishes.
Outstanding. First beer is on me!Religion is anything that someone wishes to make it. It fills the space inside of those people who have nead of an answer and do not find the scientific theories of the modern world apealing. I am not a believer myself and I am forced to think that religion is the explanation for life created by people with no better argument or without the time to seek one. But then again I am an unbeliever and I am sure that religion has much more going for it that I give it credit for.
If religion keeps turning drug users/pushers into Christian pastors and makes good citizens out of them in the process than I will hold my peace with religion and give the Evangelicals my best wishes.
You are correct sir. LF you are a men among god. No wait, reverse that. Now where's my beer. And no holding back on the good stuff.LiberalFINGER said:Outstanding. First beer is on me!
Be careful though. There might be more christ in you than you realize. (j/k)
WKL815 said:We could all begin listing what we think constitutes a particular factor in this theoretical equation, and I think this is where people's views of relativism come in - but the factors themselves are absolute and unchangeable by our mere perceptions - we were either right or we were wrong.
As such, we as mere individuals can not know the absolute answer, yet still understand there is one. And we can not be sure of how a factor comes to be derived, but that it is - is still absolute. I think it was Descartes who said "I think therefore I am" which then lead him to believe that there was a God because we as humans could conceive of one. When I studied him, I thought he was mental lightweight. Now I get it.
LiberalFINGER said:Outstanding. First beer is on me!
Be careful though. There might be more christ in you than you realize. (j/k)
mixedmedia said:Do you think that some people are driven to faith (any faith) due to an unconscious compulsion for absolutes? Answers? Meaning?
Could the "spiritually lazy" among us simply be lacking a genetic component that our religious neighbors have?
Just thinking out loud....of course, there are no answers.
I pointed something like this out in jest a week ago in jest... would you send more details - date of mag. I would be very interested in reading it.mixedmedia said:Did anyone read the article (Time or Newsweek?) about the "spirituality gene," and does anyone have an opinion on that concept?
vauge said:I pointed something like this out in jest a week ago in jest... would you send more details - date of mag. I would be very interested in reading it.
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