(FACK) WE ANTHROPOMORPHIZED TRUTH FOR THE SAME REASON WE ANTHROPOMORPHIZED GODS.
Sigh. Argumentation Ethics did teach me something. The vast cost of what we surrender when we enter into debate.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-23 06:22:00 UTC
Category: Religion, Myth, and Theology
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(FACK) WE ANTHROPOMORPHIZED TRUTH FOR THE SAME REASON WE ANTHROPOMORPHIZED GODS.
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ALL RELIGIONS NEED A BOOK All religions need a ‘book’. I have been working under
ALL RELIGIONS NEED A BOOK
All religions need a ‘book’. I have been working under that premise for over a decade. Once you have a book, philosophy doesn’t float. You have an authoritarian position to refer to. Debate over that position creates invention in the minds of those who are interested.
If the book is very good, then the results are self organizing. If you have a book and advocates, then you have political means. If you have a book, advocates and members, then you political power. If you have political power you can institute your ideas. If your book morally condones violence in the pursuit of your ideas, you have an eternal irrevocable advantage independent of current circumstance.
The problem for the west is that we have never had a book. Plato failed. The monarchs ruled by tradition. The church spoke in allegory. Smith Hume and Jefferson wrote advice not rules, and they created the catastrophic error that the near universal aristocratization of the English could have the same breadth of application as the doctrine of the church.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-23 06:20:00 UTC
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This article seems to track to the evolution of events in the Old Testament: a s
This article seems to track to the evolution of events in the Old Testament: a small society of up to 70 people faces depredations until, through an extended series of skirmishes, it becomes a kingdom.
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-18 10:16:00 UTC
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“My god carries a hammer. Your god was nailed to a cross. Any question?”– Eli H
–“My god carries a hammer. Your god was nailed to a cross. Any question?”–
Eli Harman
Source date (UTC): 2014-04-17 18:15:00 UTC
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The Universalist State As A Religion
[L]ets just keep in mind that Universalist Secular Democratic Socialist Humanism, is a religion too OK? And so is postmodernism. There is precious little difference between the church and the university liberal arts department except the anthropomorphized ‘we’ of a god has been replaced with the corporate ‘we’ of the state. In practice there is zero difference between them. Universalism whether under the edict of a mythical god, or the edict of a corporate state is equally unscientific. The W.E.I.R.D. culture is unique. And it has to be. Because it’s suicidal. (WEIRD: Western, Educated, Indusrial, Rich, Democratic)
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The Universalist State As A Religion
[L]ets just keep in mind that Universalist Secular Democratic Socialist Humanism, is a religion too OK? And so is postmodernism. There is precious little difference between the church and the university liberal arts department except the anthropomorphized ‘we’ of a god has been replaced with the corporate ‘we’ of the state. In practice there is zero difference between them. Universalism whether under the edict of a mythical god, or the edict of a corporate state is equally unscientific. The W.E.I.R.D. culture is unique. And it has to be. Because it’s suicidal. (WEIRD: Western, Educated, Indusrial, Rich, Democratic)
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The Universalist State As A Religion
[L]ets just keep in mind that Universalist Secular Democratic Socialist Humanism, is a religion too OK? There is precious little difference between the church and the university liberal arts department except the anthropomorphized ‘we’ of a god has been replaced with the corporate ‘we’ of the state. In practice there is zero difference between them. Universalism whether under the edict of a mythical god, or the edict of a corporate state is equally unscientific.
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The Universalist State As A Religion
[L]ets just keep in mind that Universalist Secular Democratic Socialist Humanism, is a religion too OK? There is precious little difference between the church and the university liberal arts department except the anthropomorphized ‘we’ of a god has been replaced with the corporate ‘we’ of the state. In practice there is zero difference between them. Universalism whether under the edict of a mythical god, or the edict of a corporate state is equally unscientific.
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THE UNIVERSALIST STATE AS RELIGION Lets just keep in mind that Universalist Secu
THE UNIVERSALIST STATE AS RELIGION
Lets just keep in mind that Universalist Secular Democratic Socialist Humanism, is a religion too OK? And so is postmodernism. There is precious little difference between the church and the university liberal arts department except the anthropomorphized ‘we’ of a god has been replaced with the corporate ‘we’ of the state. In practice there is zero difference between them. Universalism whether under the edict of a mythical god, or the edict of a corporate state is equally unscientific.
(originally posted on Salon. archived here.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-03-07 01:34:00 UTC
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YES. BUT WHAT IF OUR CONCEPT OF ‘CHURCH’ CHANGES? –“We have seen that a univers
YES. BUT WHAT IF OUR CONCEPT OF ‘CHURCH’ CHANGES?
–“We have seen that a universal church is apt to come to birth during a Time of Troubles following the breakdown of a civilization and to unfold itself within the political framework of the ensuing universal state. We have seen also… that the principal beneficiaries of the institutions maintained by universal states have been universal churches; and it is therefore not surprising that the champions of a universal state, whose fortunes are on the wane, should dislike the spectacle of a universal church growing within its bosom. The church is therefore likely to be regarded… as a social cancer responsible for the decline in the state.”– A J Toynbee
Property
Militia
Chivalry
Common Law
Banking and Finance
Source date (UTC): 2014-02-25 05:56:00 UTC