Everything is relative. Do you scorn a child who is being verbally abused by it's parents, as having a trivial problem, just because the world over children are starving and beaten?I am sick to death of hearing this asinine malarkey about Christians being both a minority and persecuted. You guys are neither, and it's insulting to actual persecuted Christians the world over and to my intelligence to hear this masochistic wish-fulfillment idiocy repeated again and again.
I'm thinking of momentarily going with Calvin. Sorry about the tooth. I hate any sort of dental related pain. It's right below back pain for ruining everything.@TownHeretic: Your new avatar reminds me of my horrible tooth abscess I am dealing with, and my appointment with the oral surgeon pending.
:think: Even absolutes?Everything is relative.
I don't think the world has ever been a particularly Christian one in any practical sense, but I might have missed it. When was that?I think the world is no longer Christian in any practical sens and this has consequences on every level.
Maybe in large parts of jaded Europe. The Body is vital and growing outside of the West and it's far from dead here if you saw my last on how it breaks down according to Pew.Our is a secular, post-Christian age. Our world stands where Nietzsche indicated.
Mostly because the framing has a way of looking remarkably like a bill.It has become very unpopular to refer to your religious beliefs in the face of issues such as no-fault divorce and same sex marriage.
Everything is relative.
Do you scorn a child who is being verbally abused by it's parents, as having a trivial problem, just because the world over children are starving and beaten?
I think the world is no longer Christian in any practical sens and this has consequences on every level.
Our is a secular, post-Christian age. Our world stands where Nietzsche indicated.
It has become very unpopular to refer to your religious beliefs in the face of issues such as no-fault divorce and same sex marriage.
Blimey! Have you never read Aristotlean metaphysics? :think::think: Even absolutes?
OMG - it shaped the West up through the Enlightenment on every practical, technical, and spiritual level---omg.I don't think the world has ever been a particularly Christian one in any practical sense, but I might have missed it. When was that?
Well, you could have fooled me. lain:Maybe in large parts of jaded Europe. The Body is vital and growing outside of the West and it's far from dead here if you saw my last on how it breaks down according to Pew.
I'm Bill and I'll be your law.:wave2:Mostly because the framing has a way of looking remarkably like a bill.
Thanks for that---yes, it's dreadful and I am semi-psychotic from it.........I'm thinking of momentarily going with Calvin. Sorry about the tooth. I hate any sort of dental related pain. It's right below back pain for ruining everything.
No, but honestly who has? I don't even think Aristotle managed it. lain:Blimey! Have you never read Aristotlean metaphysics? :think:
I think you overlooked the practical bit.OMG - it shaped the West up through the Enlightenment on every practical, technical, and spiritual level---omg.
Shame on...I forget.Well, you could have fooled me. lain:
Would there be a law against two Bill's going through the House together? :shocked:I'm Bill and I'll be your law.:wave2:
:chuckle: :chuckle: :mock:Would there be a law against two Bill's going through the House together? :shocked:
This piece from Salon.com is very interesting...'Our coming theocratic hell: Look out, the right’s “religious freedom” push is just the beginning
Draw the line from Hobby Lobby to Indiana: Religion has dangerously infected our legal system. It's getting worse'..."
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Well, if this is the case, so be it, then. Religion will be separate from the general culture.......
I am sick to death of hearing this asinine malarkey about Christians being both a minority and persecuted. You guys are neither, and it's insulting to actual persecuted Christians the world over and to my intelligence to hear this masochistic wish-fulfillment idiocy repeated again and again.
I suppose the separation of church and state reflects just this state. Yes.As it always has been. The notion of a common religion was always something that a few politically-motivated individuals on the Right had tried, with some success for a time, to cobble together. But while Americans have always been a generally religious lot, they've never agreed strongly on it, so it's always been a private matter. Which, ultimately, is a good thing for everything, even those now whining about the rights of others.
The article is right. The right to practice your religion is not and never has been in jeopardy, however the desire to force your (general your) religiously held beliefs on others is gaining dangerous ground that it ought not.