Religion

The only thing that bothers me is that Christians are fair game for any criticism, satire, cartoon or anything else that would be forbidden for other religions.
 

Read the Beatitudes, John C.
Christians are told to expect persecution.
I hardly think that criticism, satire and cartoons count as unbearable assaults.

People in other parts of the world are suffering much worse than these tribulations for being visible Christians.
It is more unbearable to me when people professing to be Christians persecute others who are of a different faith.
 
And for me, I consider that to be a good situation. All those religions with such criminal outputs just tell me not good for me and not good for most folks.

I was raised as a Christian in a family, my mothers side, that had three generations of ministers as I was first in the family. Every meal was a time for prayers. Much longer than a simple thank you. I and my family did church until in my later days of high school when I started to change churches or skip. By the time I was in military I was no longer going to church at all.

I have no rage or anger to those that do go to church, it is there choice. I do think most folks around the world are far too easy on those that over love their religion and kill others that don't practice just the way they think is right. Too bad so much of that is going on.
 

Cookie said:
I see in dictionary definitions that belief and faith mean the same thing and are interchangeable.

i.e. people have faith in their belief, or people believe in their faith. There are no facts and there is no anchor - it's all theory and a product of the mind - someone's mind. Philosophy and religion are merely assortments of ideas.
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Dictionaries are necessarily limited by their authors' experiences and education and yes, beliefs.

I believe that I have 5 fingers on my right hand, because I can see and feel them. I don't need to have faith that they're there.
 
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
 
I am humbled by the limitations of the human mind which has enormous capability in the ways and means of survival but is so lacking in understanding when it comes to the mystical and the spiritual. There are things that the most brilliant intellectuals just can't comprehend because their minds are human and therefore, limited. When the mind begins trying to comprehend the vastness of space, it just shuts down because astronomers are now talking about such things as an infinite number of universes. The human mind just cannot grasp the concept of infinity. Neither can it comprehend everything that belongs to the mystical and spiritual.
 
John C said:
I am humbled by the limitations of the human mind which has enormous capability in the ways and means of survival but is so lacking in understanding when it comes to the mystical and the spiritual. There are things that the most brilliant intellectuals just can't comprehend because their minds are human and therefore, limited. When the mind begins trying to comprehend the vastness of space, it just shuts down because astronomers are now talking about such things as an infinite number of universes. The human mind just cannot grasp the concept of infinity. Neither can it comprehend everything that belongs to the mystical and spiritual.
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There is no limitation to the human mind. The consious looked at itself and created matter. The limitations are that materialism
' in the philosphy sense, Mills, Plato, Aquinas, has replaced idealism. We worship technology and replace science with what we know to be true.
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Thanks to you, too, but the gin tastes better and can bring a smile that these other remedies can't...:D
 
Agreed, especially when infused thru coriander, juniper, rose petals, just enough Vermouth to spoil, and shaken at least 2 mins, (allows the carbon dioxide to go into the alcohol just enough to allow the bubbles to rise )
 
rt3 said:
Agreed, especially when infused thru coriander, juniper, rose petals, just enough Vermouth to spoil, and shaken at least 2 mins, (allows the carbon dioxide to go into the alcohol just enough to allow the bubbles to rise )
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You can wait 2 minutes to drink it??
 

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