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Chance to better theism
#21
RE: Chance to better theism
How about some intellectual honesty? What's wrong with that.?
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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#22
RE: Chance to better theism
Nothing's wrong with that PR, any ideas on what that would entail.. how do you teach intellectual honesty?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
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#23
RE: Chance to better theism
(June 26, 2010 at 3:52 am)tackattack Wrote: Nothing's wrong with that PR, any ideas on what that would entail.. how do you teach intellectual honesty?

Intellectual Honesty requires and abandonment of this "salvation" from some non existent Jesus, the abandonment of some fuck wit loving dog who watches over you and the total acceptance that everything you did was YOU and no one else should suffer YOUR inadequacies. Responsibility for the self and YOUR actions requires intellectual honesty ...Yes you bullshit and the reasoning why you do such a thing.....none of this pathetic "God will save me" crap. Seriously xtianity is the religion of the childishly retarded...the incompetently inept, intellectually sinful. Because the only "sin-read crime" you commit is to lie to yourself"

(This is my thinking on the topic......Angel Cloud)
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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#24
RE: Chance to better theism
(June 26, 2010 at 3:52 am)tackattack Wrote: Nothing's wrong with that PR, any ideas on what that would entail.. how do you teach intellectual honesty?
Theism can start with a simple "we don't know this shit for sure"

From there on you can build and continue with:
"we have no real idea if so-called divine revelation amounts to anything more than self-delusion but we are willing to follow the evidence of independent scientific research since we owe so much to it already and it would be hypocritical to negate that"

I'm sure we can work out a plan of attack from there on together. Just let me know if you're interested.
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
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#25
RE: Chance to better theism
@PR- see your PM I think I've responded to at least all my threads once tonight I'm getting back to sleep.. I mean work Smile
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post

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