OT: The News Thread

[Wayward DP]

The assault on religion is nothing new. Unfortunately there are too many radicals in most religions that ruin it for the rest.

Except Buddhism/Taoism. I like those two.

tell that to the Rohingya...

 

[MindzEye]

The assault on religion is nothing new.

The what now?

 

[Habsy]

There a concerted assault on religion by hardcore atheists. Been going on for quite awhile here.

 

[zeke]

There's been a concerted attack on atheism by the cultists for far longer.

 

[Habsy]

Agreed. Except the cultist part. Acceptable terms are fanatics, hardcore religious nuts and priests that care too much for alterboys.

Pagans too

 

[MindzEye]

There a concerted assault on religion by hardcore atheists. Been going on for quite awhile here.

Define "attack on religion"

 

[Habsy]

Define "attack on religion"

Done away with.

 

[MindzEye]

Done away with.

Okay, thank you.

That's a complete figment of the imagination. There is no atheist group on the planet that proposes "doing away" with religion. Removing it from the public square is often misconstrued by the religious as being that though.

 

[Habsy]

Okay, thank you.

That's a complete figment of the imagination. There is no atheist group on the planet that proposes "doing away" with religion. Removing it from the public square is often misconstrued by the religious as being that though.

Mmm hmm

 

[MindzEye]

You're more than welcome to go find anything resembling an atheist organization that states that they want to "do away with" religion.

Atheist groups across the board, especially in the US, focus on the separation of church and state. Not elimination of the church. Atheists don't give much of a fuck what you worship, they might look down their noses at it, but they're absolutely not trying to do anything to your right to worship freely.

 

[Habsy]

I saw Raised by Wolves. I know.

I need to come down a little before discussing something this serious. Can we table it?

 

[uncus]

There's been a concerted attack on atheism by the cultists for far longer.

What are you even talking about Zeke?

 

[BeLeafer]

... the sigh of the oppressed creature.

 

[BeLeafer]

The separation of the phenomenal and noumenal has been a much underrated cause of longstanding division.

 

[SundinsTooth]

The separation of the phenomenal and noumenal has been a much underrated cause of longstanding division.

Animal rights argument?

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

 

[BeLeafer]

From my studies of Kant (Critique of Pure Reason and Critique of Judgement), no, never talked about animal rights.

 

[manny]

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[axlsalinger]

 

[BeLeafer]

Of course, this poor guy made himself the target of this bottomless smear campaign.

 

[LeafGm]

I have no idea about any of this antisemitism stuff, but one thing I do know is that Corbyn is godawful at politics.

Still amazes me that he went into a general election campaign as the head of one of Britain’s two biggest parties, and studiously avoided taking a clear position on the central issue of that election (and of the last number of years in British politics).

The Labour Party did well to kick his ass to the curb.