Religion, what's the point?
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Oh dear.A company can have religious belief?
That is batshit crazy
I wish the IRS were funded to do their jobs and enforce the no politicking from the pulpit rules. Strip all of these asshats of their tax exempt status. It would cut into their grift.
fecking absurd, and if we aren’t careful the crazies on the evangelical right are gonna try and bring this kinda shit to America.
Slow thread, no platitudes as of yet.
Greeks had the best ideas.
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t they select politicians by a sort of national lottery every few years? Not people who desired power but just random picks from elite society?(could be adapted to modern viewpoints on who is eligible).
That seems like a far better way of doing things than we (uk) currently have.
The people who desire power seem to be the people who are most inept, incompetent or worse corrupt at wielding it
This article already generating a lot of controversy. The NYT have it translated to Yiddish:
i get what you're saying but writing off the entire philosophical canon isn't a smart idea. so much of what you see today is predicated upon values best articulated by plato and aristotle. they influenced everything, in politics, that came after. also beyond politics. and that's only two people.
"You don't see faith healers working in hospitals for the same reasons you don't see psychics winning the lottery."
That's a good one!
That's a good one!
He has a point actually. The Trump insanity has united the religious, very religious, people under his banner. Trump did become a symbol for extremist religious ideas (and racists also) to get behind of.Eeeemmm really? No one at all?
I know people in Europe that dislike the US, but love Trump; they are mega religious. There is some truth to that statement, as sad as it might be, he is seen as some sort of savior to the "oppressed" christians.
I was thinking of a few people who were around somewhere around 2000 years ago. But what has he actually done for Christianity? 'Uniting the religious under his banner' is a bit of a nebulous statement and promoting racism doesn't seem like it's a good thing for Christians.
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Largely blunted, one could say.
Scum
Sadly, too big to fail.
Good christ…
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It's right then I would have shouted, "Bingo! I won the right-wing talking points bingo!"
I had a discussion with a religious person on the concept of right and wrong today and according to him, since I do not believe that we were put on this Earth with a reason by a creator, I therefore am unable to judge whether the holocaust or killing fields were wrong and I should also not care that they happened, since I don't believe our lives have meaning in the grand scheme of things. He also said, if you believe you just evolved by coincidence without meaning, you can't trust your brain, since there is no meaning behind it so I might as well trust a monkey.
I mean, come on. I'm as open to different perspective as most people, but surely most religious people don't believe this
I mean, come on. I'm as open to different perspective as most people, but surely most religious people don't believe this