Curt Doolittle

Theme: Religion

  • LAW MATTERS MORE – MUSLIM FAILURE DUE TO MUSLIM LAW –“… [Asking] why the mode

    LAW MATTERS MORE – MUSLIM FAILURE DUE TO MUSLIM LAW
    –“… [Asking] why the modern economy took shape in northwestern Europe and not the eastern Mediterranean, the typical answer would contrast western flexibility with Muslim rigidity. Through the Reformation, the Renaissance, and the Enlightenment, many would say, western Christendom liberated itself from Church dogma and gave free rein to creativity. For its part, the Islamic world failed to free itself from the fetters of religious custom. Islam opposes innovation, it is often claimed, so Muslim social structures resisted adaptation and advancement.”–

    However, it was the religion and the custom that prevented the reformation of hte law – and as I have written extensively, it is the demographics that generate the need for that custom and religoin that in turn generate ignorance and stagnation, that in turn generated the inability to modify the law.

    Islam like Judaism claims monopoly and finality that no other religions and cultures do -and this monopoly and finality is the reason both for the diasporic prosecution of the jews, and the civilizational failures of islam.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-11 18:45:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745517401267937280

  • That would say that god had a simple mind rather than that he made us as a conse

    That would say that god had a simple mind rather than that he made us as a consequence of those laws and had a complex mind.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-11 12:57:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745429789438095520

    Reply addressees: @BlauGloriole

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745399291789574474

  • “…it becomes critical to remind ourselves that the Catholic position on aborti

    –“…it becomes critical to remind ourselves that the Catholic position on abortion does not appeal to faith or revelation. Rather, it draws upon the facts of embryology woven with reasoning from moral principles. Catholics argue that there are no principled reasons for removing the child in the womb from the circle of human beings that would not apply equally to many people walking around outside the womb. It is the moral reasoning of the Natural Law.”– “Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution.” by Hadley Arkes.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-11 02:37:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745273645654515712

  • If that was true then christianity would not have created a dark age of ignoranc

    If that was true then christianity would not have created a dark age of ignorance, that only restoration of greek thought, combined with the restoration of atlantic-north-baltic sea trade made necessary.

    Abrahamic religion requires lying, it teaches lying, and social construction of lying, and the irresponsibility of the individual for the polis.

    That it is easier for simple minds does not mean the greeg ‘religion’ of philsophy like the chinese ‘religion’ of confucianism was not superior in every way.

    THe difference is that difficult religions require expensive education and ‘dimwitted’ religions do not.

    Reply addressees: @artus9010

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-10 20:07:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745175557296283649

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745153287425314900

  • Zero chance. The christian supernatural faith cannot survive with western demogr

    Zero chance. The christian supernatural faith cannot survive with western demographic (IQ) composition except at the margins (less that twenty percent) and even then that will require familial indoctrination and social isolation more so than today.

    We are, some of us anyway, working to discover a reformation that will allow the moral lessons without necessity of the supernatural. This cannot result in the folly of secular humanism which is simply soft marxism. So the problem is rather difficult without a formal regimen for training in mindfulness. The church almost had the answer but in the time of darwin they failed to claim victory in that the natural law aws proven correct.

    Reply addressees: @artus9010

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-10 18:47:31 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745155424544829440

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745154013769728078

  • No. That is quite foolish. However, I will not seek to deprive you of your faith

    No. That is quite foolish.

    However, I will not seek to deprive you of your faith if you will not seek to claim your supernatural faith is equal to rational belief, or scientific confidence. It is only faith. Not reason. Not evidence. And as such not testifiable. And as such impossible to claim is true. Even if you may claim it is wise and good. But it is not true. Because to claim a thing is true, you must be able to testify to it.

    If you do not agree then you are a threat to mankind, and the rest of us must seek to punish you for your irreciprocity.

    Reply addressees: @ArmoryOC

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-10 17:12:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745131417070116864

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745129346610974826

  • The persians tried three times to escape the mandatory ignorance of Islam. They

    The persians tried three times to escape the mandatory ignorance of Islam. They were defeated all three times.

    This is the fundamental problem. Islam is a religion of irresponsibility as a means of limiting conflict – not a means of resonsibility and resolution of conflict.

    So this is why it is and has always been a cancer. Becuase there are always more humans seeking irresponsibility than those seeking responsibility.

    Reply addressees: @DaArmChairRebel

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-10 17:07:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745130328295915520

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745129628941844896

  • I don’t know what record of miracles you claim has been proven but we are not ev

    I don’t know what record of miracles you claim has been proven but we are not even certain that the man Jesus existed – as far as we know it’s about forty percent, and the rest is Paul’s manufacture (though I am in the camp he existed).

    And while I have little doubt that did Moses exist, and when he brought those tablets to the people, he believed god had spoken to him at least in spirit(intuition) or dream, that does not mean it was more than his mind at work in the matter. We must understand the semitic mind is not of european mind and they live life in a partial dream state compared to the european empirical mind. So there is a greater relationship between ‘spirit’ (intuition) and emotion than in european peoples. (Or at least european men).

    But my point is, we don’t need these things to be true if there is consistency between the laws of the universe we discover by science, and the reason of european philosophy, and the occult wisdom of the primitive semites, then at least the underlying meaning we can take from those lessons is true (or at least not false).

    It is the consistency between those three points, not the exclusivity of any, that is the only proof we have discovered something that may be in fact the mind, word, and deed of god.

    Reply addressees: @ArmoryOC

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-10 16:52:43 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745126533151199234

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745122592774848922

  • I cannot testify to the mind or word of god. Nor can I testify to the demonstrat

    I cannot testify to the mind or word of god. Nor can I testify to the demonstrated capacity or record of anyone else in all of human history to do so. I can only testify to the laws of the universe we learn to understand, and that should god exist, then these are his laws. And while he does not speak to us in word or mind, or hand us these laws on tablets, we may, through our efforts, disover those laws we can testify to. And among these, the most sacred are the natural laws of cooperation, wherein we defend one another’s right to self determination by self determined means, by mutual ensurance of sovereignty in demonstrated interests, reciprocity in display word and deed, truth before face regardless of cost, and this sacred duty before self, family, kin, nation, or state. If there is a god, and he has will, then he has willed that we follow this law – or that his law of evolution erase us from existence so that others may do better than we have. For if we are his children, then our purpose is to rise to become worthy of our paternity.

    Source date (UTC): 2024-01-10 16:20:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1745118421400915978

  • Smart. True. And worth understanding. We have plato vs aristotle We have orthodo

    Smart. True. And worth understanding.
    We have plato vs aristotle
    We have orthodoxy and catholicism and protestantism.
    We have Locke vs hobbes vs rousseau
    But they are not as influential as al-Ghazali vs Ibn Rushd. https://twitter.com/priyankchn/status/1745063982711656541