What this reveals is the inherent difference between the values of Democrats, who gravitate toward the Sermon on the Mount, and Republicans, who prefer the prayer that Hegseth lifted from Pulp Fiction for his Pentagon parody of a worship service.
I’m with Jane. It’s a waste of time for Republicans and/or Democrats to debate deity in human terms. Next, we’ll be debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. There are more relevant, urgent, and important issues for us to deal with.
Is there a God, and if so, what is he/she/it like? Is there life after death? These are questions that can never be answered with certainty. They are interesting, and people will always argue about them. But the question we must answer is: How can we change our behavior and institutions so that humanity can survive? Let's make sure we don't get so distracted by religious conjectures that we fail to concentrate on that question.
I agree with you Jane, but would also add, lets change our behavior to treat everyone with compassion and accept the fact that we are not all the same.
Zeus may have been manly but that didn’t stop him from transforming himself into: a bull, swan, eagle, ant, dragon, cuckoo, satyr, and snake in order to seduce women. Is that non-binary? It’s at least non-male. Anyway, if God is a man then Jesus must be a white person with long fair hair and blue eyes. Works for me.
Of all the things about which I am certain or uncertain or somewhere in between, I am certain that if anyone is certain about the nature and fullness of their god, then their god is limited. Words that stop thinking about a god do not enlighten; rather, they limit.
Why would god need a gender when god does not reproduce other replicates of their self? It is ridiculous that religions that claim there is only one god would assign a gender to that god. SMH
The most complex explanation of god that I know of comes from Christianity which has a version of god that is one god with three distinct persons. I suppose it is because it just wouldn't have worked for god to not split into multiple persons in the redemption story. It could have but the Jews already had written the Messiah story and that had to worked into the new narrative.
But, Christians don't want to think too hard about how one god ended up as three persons, all of the same gender, because they don't like same gender relationships.
Pinhead Pete Hogseth thought he was quoting something from Pope Faction. He will blame his Asst Under Secretary of Dunce for not speaking clearly when he told him where the prayer came from.
What this reveals is the inherent difference between the values of Democrats, who gravitate toward the Sermon on the Mount, and Republicans, who prefer the prayer that Hegseth lifted from Pulp Fiction for his Pentagon parody of a worship service.
Yes!!!
I’m with Jane. It’s a waste of time for Republicans and/or Democrats to debate deity in human terms. Next, we’ll be debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. There are more relevant, urgent, and important issues for us to deal with.
Is there a God, and if so, what is he/she/it like? Is there life after death? These are questions that can never be answered with certainty. They are interesting, and people will always argue about them. But the question we must answer is: How can we change our behavior and institutions so that humanity can survive? Let's make sure we don't get so distracted by religious conjectures that we fail to concentrate on that question.
I agree with you Jane, but would also add, lets change our behavior to treat everyone with compassion and accept the fact that we are not all the same.
Zeus may have been manly but that didn’t stop him from transforming himself into: a bull, swan, eagle, ant, dragon, cuckoo, satyr, and snake in order to seduce women. Is that non-binary? It’s at least non-male. Anyway, if God is a man then Jesus must be a white person with long fair hair and blue eyes. Works for me.
"Seduce" carries a bit of weight, there, Erich.
Which raises the topic of consent/pregnancy/Mary. Talarico broached this delicate issue recently and a bit clumsily.
It was Zeus’s MO. At least the Greeks had gods with flaws.
Of all the things about which I am certain or uncertain or somewhere in between, I am certain that if anyone is certain about the nature and fullness of their god, then their god is limited. Words that stop thinking about a god do not enlighten; rather, they limit.
Why would god need a gender when god does not reproduce other replicates of their self? It is ridiculous that religions that claim there is only one god would assign a gender to that god. SMH
The most complex explanation of god that I know of comes from Christianity which has a version of god that is one god with three distinct persons. I suppose it is because it just wouldn't have worked for god to not split into multiple persons in the redemption story. It could have but the Jews already had written the Messiah story and that had to worked into the new narrative.
But, Christians don't want to think too hard about how one god ended up as three persons, all of the same gender, because they don't like same gender relationships.
Pinhead Pete Hogseth thought he was quoting something from Pope Faction. He will blame his Asst Under Secretary of Dunce for not speaking clearly when he told him where the prayer came from.