The Philosophy Now Forum

"Christian" is not some highly technical term. You have to be a bible scholar to use it. You don't have an intimate knowledge of a person's character to use it. Parson Brown professes a belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ. Therefore he is a Christian. That's the requirement. If you don...

Christian : one who professes belief in the teachings of Jesus Christ

Christianity : the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture, and professed by Eastern, Roman Catholic, and Protestant bodies

This is typical Mr Can. Define the difficulties away. Any Christian who did something bad was not a real Christian. He/she was something/anything else By definition, Jews were never persecuted by Christians. Wars were never fought by Christians. Torture, mass murder, rapes, any physical or mental vi...

Which false religion do you like best?

I don't demand anything.

You just like to imagine that you are the source of answers ... that people want and need your replies.

Nobody is amused by those kinds of responses. I suggest paying attention to the latent point: You would do far better to pose a question and then make your own effort to answer the question . Your *questions* are shallow statements you are attempting since, to all appearances, you’ve not devoted mu...

Nobody is amused by those kinds of responses.

If there is a longing, it's a longing to know, not a longing to believe. I used ‘believe’ in the sense not only of merely having a hunch, or a hope, that there is something there with which one is related and that responds to one, nor merely a sort of mental habit in which one acts as if there is a...

You think there is a longing to believe. And why would that be? It is pretty obvious, is it not, that *for us* (those pressed out into postmodernity) that certainly we do not have any unifying, comprehendible explanatory picture . This is the basic fact of modernity, isn’t it? What exists are shado...

The alternative scenario would be that God does not speak through or to anyone at all. Essentially, "neither of the above". Well, that's some form of Atheism or Deism. And it assumes either there's no God, or He does exist but He doesn't communicate. But both Catholics and Protestants ins...

You think there is a longing to believe.

And why would that be?

Trump should use turnip power in Iran.

Much cheaper than smart bombs.

Curious Gary wrote: Can you give a comparison of the meaning of Christianity as seen through a "warrior" society versus as seen through an "agrarian" society? What does Christianity mean to a warrior society that is different from an agrarian society? What is the fundamental dif...

What I took away from it was the realization that “Christianity” and even as you emphasize “the teachings of Jesus” will be interpreted and applied by different people in different circumstances. Yes. Some interpretations are reasonable. Some interpretations are outright bullshit . Some are self-se...

Well, that's just changing the subject, isn't it? Not in my view. In my own case what most interests me is what is going on in our present . And there are direct lines of connection to things happening now, to events and processes decades and longer back. Okay, you don't see that "feminism&quo...