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"Practice" religion?
#31
RE: "Practice" religion?
(December 21, 2018 at 6:59 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(December 21, 2018 at 6:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: No, laws based on religion are not called theocracy. A government in which a religious body is the source of authority is a theocracy,  but that's not the point.  One can be a lawyer in a theocratic society.  This, in fact, pretty much destroys your argument. If John does what he does in a theocracy, he's still 'practicing' law, not 'following religion'.

It's pretty naïve to think that secular laws are agreed upon regardless of personal bias.

You really should look up the following words:  Practice, follow, theocracy, law, religion.

Boru

No, humans need to accept we are not a separate species. "Practice" isn't the same as admitting you merely like something. "Practice" is the theist trying to treat a mere like as if it is a tool, and not a mere like. "Follow" is an honest admission.

Saying the same thing over and over doesn't make it so, Brian.  One can follow a religion.  One can practice a religion. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#32
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Some of the weirdest stuff yanks your chain Brian. Sometimes I think you just have a need to talk about something so you create random things that piss you off...like your hatred of Christmas trees.

**Do you know why Catholics call it practicing the rhythm method of birth control?




*Because you never perfect it.



Take a breath and a pill Brian...listen to some ABBA and calm down.
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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#33
RE: "Practice" religion?
(December 21, 2018 at 7:34 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Some of the weirdest stuff yanks your chain Brian.  Sometimes I think you just have a need to talk about something so you create random things that piss you off...like your hatred of Christmas trees.

**Do you know why Catholics call it practicing the rhythm method of birth control?




*Because you never perfect it.



Take a breath and a pill Brian...listen to some ABBA and calm down.

I have a catholic friend, who told me he and his wife practice the rhythm method.

They have 12 kids. All musically inclined.


....


Razz
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#34
RE: "Practice" religion?
(December 21, 2018 at 6:46 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(December 21, 2018 at 6:41 pm)tackattack Wrote: Wow that’s a lot of words you’re putting in my mouth.
A.my “ goodness”, or subjective morality, comes from me.
B. I’m not big on practicing a lot of dogmatic rituals, mostly I just try and practice patience.

Yes your subjective morality DOES come from you, so why do you feel the need to believe books written by people who didn't know where the sun went at night?

You don't need to "Practice" believing in magic babies with super powers. Just like you don't need to "Practice" believing Thor makes lightening.

I see the need to believe the Bible because, for me, it holds truth I value and informs my subjective morality.
I can follow teachings/religion
I can practice living those teaching/ my religion
I also happen to like my teachings and religion

None of those are mutually exclusive, as others have tried to point out to you.

Did I jump into another one of your rants where you just want to vent and not have your questions actually answered. Ill go back to my coffee. Feel free to PM me if this turns into more than just a rant thread, I wouldn’t want to go where I’m not wanted.
"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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#35
RE: "Practice" religion?
(December 21, 2018 at 3:29 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(December 21, 2018 at 3:21 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: Yes indeed. Those hoards of warrior Buddhist monks .. they were so fierce. 

How much division in our species has been caused by people with a bug up their ass, demanding their definition is the right one ?. That religion. 
Hehe Hehe Hehe Hehe Hehe

If I was excluding the word "atheist" you'd have a case. But show me where in this thread I ever claimed that atheists should "practice" being atheists. Not even that is a "practice" it is a mere position on one claim. Not even that word "atheist" should be seen as a "practice".

You are either a good person, or you are not. There is nothing to "practice" as far as avoiding harm to others. Labels do not have magic powers to cause someone to only do good.

You follow a religion. But there is no "practice" to be had in knowing humans are all capable of both doing good and bad.

So people can't learn to be good, or change their ways. I see.  Great
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell  Popcorn

Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist 
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#36
RE: "Practice" religion?
(December 21, 2018 at 10:27 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:
(December 21, 2018 at 7:34 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Some of the weirdest stuff yanks your chain Brian.  Sometimes I think you just have a need to talk about something so you create random things that piss you off...like your hatred of Christmas trees.

**Do you know why Catholics call it practicing the rhythm method of birth control?




*Because you never perfect it.



Take a breath and a pill Brian...listen to some ABBA and calm down.

I have a catholic friend, who told me he and his wife practice the rhythm method.

They have 12 kids. All musically inclined.


....


Razz
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I went to school (Catholic school) with many kids from families that had from 5 to 14 kids with 6-10 being the norm rather than the exception.  Our family with only three kids was seen as quite small...that damn Methodist mother of mine just wasn't up for years (decades) of being a brood mare for The Church.
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“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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#37
RE: "Practice" religion?
I don't know why you bother Brian Angel
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#38
RE: "Practice" religion?
(December 22, 2018 at 11:57 am)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote: I don't know why you bother Brian  Angel

I bother him because he has no sense of humor.

I tried explaining the concept to him, but it' s rather like trying to explain mountaineering to a manatee.



Angel
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#39
RE: "Practice" religion?
(December 22, 2018 at 12:05 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:
(December 22, 2018 at 11:57 am)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote: I don't know why you bother Brian  Angel

I bother him because he has no sense of humor.

I tried explaining the concept to him, but it' s rather like trying to explain mountaineering to a manatee.



Angel

I don't think you picked up my sarcasm Smile
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#40
RE: "Practice" religion?
(December 22, 2018 at 12:12 pm)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote:
(December 22, 2018 at 12:05 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: I bother him because he has no sense of humor.

I tried explaining the concept to him, but it' s rather like trying to explain mountaineering to a manatee.



Angel

I don't think you picked up my sarcasm Smile

Au contraire...

Twas noted AND appreciated...


Smile
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