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Atheists & Agnostics

defacto7

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5. So your answer is no, religions don't do that.

Reply to Voltaire2 (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 23, 2018, 07:37 PM

Dec 2018

Are you also saying that the religious can't do that, that within the traditions of religion they are incapable of keeping those traditions as expression without the mystical aspects? Actually I would tend to agree with that point but it's worth an argument as I'm still weighing in. I read of cultures doing such at times in history both in the east and west, reformed Judaism is an example, but there seems to be a limit. Whether the limit is universal and insurmountable is an unknown to me.

Wang Ch'ung in the first century CE said he would believe men could fly as soon as one grows feathers. Apropos?

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Philosophical phidgeting [View all] defacto7 Dec 2018 OP

If pigs could fly. Voltaire2 Dec 2018 #1

So you're saying humans can't be better than they are defacto7 Dec 2018 #2

No. You asked a specific question: Voltaire2 Dec 2018 #4

So your answer is no, religions don't do that. defacto7 Dec 2018 #5

I see no evidence that theistic religions Voltaire2 Dec 2018 #6

Reminds me of a joke Castaneda told Freelancer Dec 2018 #3