Take out the faith and you’re all the way to post-Christian ethics. It’s exciting to be part of a world without any religion, big r or small.
Your very belief in this world is a complete act of fatih.
Let’s make sure we’re not talking past each other. How do you define faith?
I don’t believe in shit. Hell I choose to live within the system because of my personal relationships with family. I think it’s all bullshit.
I try not to shit on others cause I prefer they don’t shit on me.
I just have less a problem with people that have faith and leave me alone and people that have Religion and don’t. Though I clearly understand the connection between the two. I just don’t think it’s realistic to expect to live in a world without either.
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In your example, it’s believing in something without evidence. No civilization has ever done it.
I have 100% conviction in the evidence that I personally exist. I am a thinking thing, and a thing can only think if it exists. Therefore I exist. Every other piece of evidence in the world is less reliably than this, but some evidence is still pretty good, like the evidence that gives us the laws of nature. Some other evidence in pretty flimsy, like the evidence that gives us the law that gregoreo has threads like this on mute.
Where does religious faith land on this spectrum? People like to say it is belief without evidence, but surely that isn’t correct. Maybe it’s belief without very good evidence? Not sure.
Thankfully what large groups of people have historically done has little to no bearing on what we as individuals can or should do. Post-christian ethics is like 30 years old. Let’s see where it goes!
This is my stance. I only label myself a theist since I feel it’s more accurate than I want to believe.
I don’t agree with that first sentence, but I do think I agree with what you’re saying overall.
Peace comes from the decisions we make based on the perceptions that we experience. We can’t control much, but we can control what we do.
Form and function. A Buddhist monk changes the world even without being directly connected to it. Still connected though.
Who is the ‘I’ that is thinking?
On this topic.
As well as being pretty accurate. It’s a crazy catchy pop tune.
All we can say for sure is that the I is a thinking thing that exists.
That’s a question for Eckhart Tolle.
Tangent.
Descarte basically stole this idea from a 10th century Persian. Ibn Senna. Known in the west as Avicenna
That whole era is super interesting.
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Bible Baptist Academy published a statement on their dismissal of the Parkers, writing, in part, that the school is “committed to instructing and living in accordance with the teachings of Scripture. As a Baptist academy, we are also committed to provide an environment that is consistent with the beliefs that we hold. We want our students to not only know our beliefs, but we want them to see them as well. Regarding personal relationships, we hold that those relationships, whether in dating or in marriage, should be between a man and a woman.”
When I saw the headline I assumed it was a LA public school, but I guess SCOTUS hasn’t had a chance to enact that yet
adam and eve, not adam and steve.
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Story is even more messed up when you read it. The little girl was a student in preschool there, made friends and liked the teachers. Then both her parents died. Her Aunt and Aunt’s SO adopted her, and then they kicked the orphan out.
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The teaching of Jesus… oh wait.
It’s the Bible, not the Straightble
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Didn’t think it could get too much more messed up than what was posted already, but yea thats an entirely new level of fucked.