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December 31, 2022 at 6:39 pm
(December 31, 2022 at 6:12 pm)Lek Wrote: (December 31, 2022 at 5:02 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Why can't people just be nice?
Why does an opinion or belief or lack thereof in a god matter.
A decent person is a decent person regardless. I don't think so. What if your child treats you nicely, but fails to acknowledge that you're their father or mother? They don't acknowledge you to you or anybody else. If there is no God then just being nice might be OK, but if there is a God, then we need to acknowledge him.
Suppose you met a wonderful person, a mensch in the truest sense - kind, generous, supportive, patient, and so forth. Would it make a difference to you if this person didn’t ‘acknowledge God’?
Conversely, would you overlook another person’s cruelty, selfishness, indifference, and treachery simply because they DID ‘acknowledge God’?
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December 31, 2022 at 6:49 pm
(December 31, 2022 at 6:12 pm)Lek Wrote: (December 31, 2022 at 5:02 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Why can't people just be nice?
Why does an opinion or belief or lack thereof in a god matter.
A decent person is a decent person regardless. I don't think so. What if your child treats you nicely, but fails to acknowledge that you're their father or mother? They don't acknowledge you to you or anybody else. If there is no God then just being nice might be OK, but if there is a God, then we need to acknowledge him.
That's a rather transactional view of love. I've never had children, but if I did, I would exist for their benefit, not the other way around.
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RE: What is the worst religion in existence?
December 31, 2022 at 7:41 pm
Quote:I don't think so. What if your child treats you nicely, but fails to acknowledge that you're their father or mother? They don't acknowledge you to you or anybody else. If there is no God then just being nice might be OK, but if there is a God, then we need to acknowledge him.
None of this follows
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December 31, 2022 at 8:52 pm
(December 31, 2022 at 6:49 pm)Angrboda Wrote: (December 31, 2022 at 6:12 pm)Lek Wrote: I don't think so. What if your child treats you nicely, but fails to acknowledge that you're their father or mother? They don't acknowledge you to you or anybody else. If there is no God then just being nice might be OK, but if there is a God, then we need to acknowledge him.
That's a rather transactional view of love. I've never had children, but if I did, I would exist for their benefit, not the other way around.
I speaking of the children's love toward the parents.
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RE: What is the worst religion in existence?
December 31, 2022 at 8:54 pm
Quote:I speaking of the children's love toward the parents.
She's know what your talking about and your response doesn't change her answer.
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December 31, 2022 at 8:58 pm
(December 31, 2022 at 8:52 pm)Lek Wrote: (December 31, 2022 at 6:49 pm)Angrboda Wrote: That's a rather transactional view of love. I've never had children, but if I did, I would exist for their benefit, not the other way around.
I speaking of the children's love toward the parents.
I have no love for my mother. It would be nice if I did, but for that to happen I would need a different one.
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December 31, 2022 at 9:10 pm
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(December 31, 2022 at 8:52 pm)Lek Wrote: (December 31, 2022 at 6:49 pm)Angrboda Wrote: That's a rather transactional view of love. I've never had children, but if I did, I would exist for their benefit, not the other way around.
I speaking of the children's love toward the parents.
children do not owe parents love by default because children did make their parents have children. it was parent’s choice and therefore parent’s obligation for making the choice.
children don’t need to earn love, it is owed to them for being unavoidably the product of parent’s choice. parent’s on the other hand must earn children’s love, it is not owed to them because no one, above all not their children, made them have children.
your mentality is the result of ancient primitive barbarous tradition of parents abusing their position of superiority to extort unearned deference. your god is an artifact of that barbarous tradition.
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RE: What is the worst religion in existence?
December 31, 2022 at 9:39 pm
Dr. Cornel West:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEbcjXLj7k&t=5s
Quote:"Whatever forms of intellectual critique, that's fine with me. But in the end, I know where I stand. I stand on a love that lifted me, I stand at the bottom of a cross––of a blood––that transformed me so that I could try to love my crooked neighbor with my crooked heart."
To me this sounds neither transactional nor barbaric. Quite the opposite.
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December 31, 2022 at 9:47 pm
It not only sounds barbaric but also very misanthropic. 
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RE: What is the worst religion in existence?
December 31, 2022 at 10:02 pm
(December 31, 2022 at 9:39 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Dr. Cornel West:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEbcjXLj7k&t=5s
Quote:"Whatever forms of intellectual critique, that's fine with me. But in the end, I know where I stand. I stand on a love that lifted me, I stand at the bottom of a cross––of a blood––that transformed me so that I could try to love my crooked neighbor with my crooked heart."
To me this sounds neither transactional nor barbaric. Quite the opposite.
Of course it would not to YOU.
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