Let us talk about religion, but not in the way you think.

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Let us talk about religion, but not in the way you think.

Post by jediuser598 » Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:39 pm

First this:

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike:
One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Re: Let us talk about religion, but not in the way you think.

Post by jediuser598 » Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:42 pm

DSL

Religion is coming back, in weird ways, in old ways.
Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike:
One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.
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Re: Let us talk about religion, but not in the way you think.

Post by DBTrek » Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:47 pm

jediuser598 wrote:
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:42 pm
Religion is coming back, in weird ways, in old ways.
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Re: Let us talk about religion, but not in the way you think.

Post by Montegriffo » Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:51 pm

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For legal reasons, we are not threatening to destroy U.S. government property with our glorious medieval siege engine. But if we wanted to, we could. But we won’t. But we could.
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Re: Let us talk about religion, but not in the way you think.

Post by jediuser598 » Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:09 pm

Montegriffo wrote:
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:51 pm
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:lol:
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Re: Let us talk about religion, but not in the way you think.

Post by Fife » Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:16 pm

DBTrek wrote:
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:47 pm
jediuser598 wrote:
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:42 pm
Religion is coming back, in weird ways, in old ways.
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Good get Cthulhu!

I'd like to have that print to hang in the ladies' room by the conference room.

Ladies love the Great Old Ones.

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Re: Let us talk about religion, but not in the way you think.

Post by DBTrek » Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:25 pm

Fife wrote:
Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:16 pm

Ladies love the Great Old Ones.
Sounds like a T-shirt you should print and wear.
:P
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Re: Let us talk about religion, but not in the way you think.

Post by Fife » Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:39 pm

DBTrek wrote:
Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:25 pm
Fife wrote:
Wed Jan 09, 2019 4:16 pm

Ladies love the Great Old Ones.
Sounds like a T-shirt you should print and wear.
:P
Now *that's* a good idea! Maybe a little drawing of Yog-Sothoth just above the lettering.

I don't know how many chickies I would land, but I know you won't be surprised to hear that quite a few of the old fogies I hoist Guinness with from time to time would approve.

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Re: Let us talk about religion, but not in the way you think.

Post by heydaralon » Wed Jan 09, 2019 7:05 pm

jediuser598 wrote:
Wed Jan 09, 2019 3:42 pm
DSL

Religion is coming back, in weird ways, in old ways.
It never left. Secular Humanism, Progressivism, Nazism, Communism, Neoconservatism and Neoliberalism, Transhumanism, Positivism, anarchism etc are just a few of the dominant and influential belief systems of the day that are religious ideas that have been dressed up in secular garments.

That Will Durant buckets in a well analogy is pretty apt. One belief bucket like Christianity goes down, another belief bucket like Progressivism goes up. There's always going to be a human urge to channel your faith, and action toward something larger than yourself, so we will always have religion.
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Re: Let us talk about religion, but not in the way you think.

Post by SuburbanFarmer » Wed Jan 09, 2019 7:40 pm

Religion doesn’t necessarily involve a deity, so any belief system is a religion.

Sounds like some relativism to me.
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