I am not asking you, I am telling you! Fantasy based

What do they believe? What do you think? Talk about religion as it exists today.

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Gnostic Bishop wrote:Thanks for this.

I am not looking to change from a Gnostic Christian to a Buddhist.

My focus these days is on morality and not the supernatural aspects of the various belief systems.

I prefer to talk about reality and not fantasy.

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I am rather sad I looked in on this blog. I thought it would be considered and rational.

I expect to see comments by people with backgrounds in Ancient languages, Ancient history, historical developments seen as historical to be described, the anthropology of religions, etc. Are they out there?
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tbyrnesshaw wrote:I am rather sad I looked in on this blog. I thought it would be considered and rational.

I expect to see comments by people with backgrounds in Ancient languages, Ancient history, historical developments seen as historical to be described, the anthropology of religions, etc. Are they out there?
What has been said that is not rational to you?

All that is required of the anthropology of religion, from a moral standpoint, is to know that both Christianity and Islam are immoral creeds that had to grow themselves by the sword instead of good deeds. Right?

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tbyrnesshaw wrote:I am rather sad I looked in on this blog. I thought it would be considered and rational.

I expect to see comments by people with backgrounds in Ancient languages, Ancient history, historical developments seen as historical to be described, the anthropology of religions, etc. Are they out there?
This forum is not edited. You will find some high quality discussion on this forum, but you will also find other things.

Your best friend is a university library if you just want to soak up the information we have from recognized experts. Short of that, find PDFs and read.

There is some interesting stuff on this forum that you won't find in the stacks or on Jstor because no scholar has had the foolishness or the temerity (take your pick) to try to publish it yet. Sometimes it's just very obscure, even for academic study of religion. So this is the kind of place that is interesting to follow if you care about alternative theories and/or things that may one day be scholarship.
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tbyrnesshaw wrote:I am rather sad I looked in on this blog. I thought it would be considered and rational.

I expect to see comments by people with backgrounds in Ancient languages, Ancient history, historical developments seen as historical to be described, the anthropology of religions, etc. Are they out there?
This site ts excellent
http://historical-jesus.info/
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Gnostic Bishop wrote:
outhouse wrote:
Gnostic Bishop wrote: The Eastern religions, notably some forms of Buddhism are superior.

DL

:facepalm: LOL

They are all crap and that is even more fantasy based then Christianity.
Not really Buddha was a man. Not a God and they do not seek anything supernatural.

I doubt that you care though regardless of what Buddhism was about. If you did, you would have made a more intelligent remark.

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Ananda,

How would you reply to the OP?
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iskander wrote:[

Ananda,

How would you reply to the OP?
I would agree that to base a religion and ideology on fantasy supernatural characters is quite foolish.

We are real people and should base our laws and religions on reality and not fantasy and the supernatural.

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Gnostic Bishop wrote:
iskander wrote:[

Ananda,

How would you reply to the OP?
I would agree that to base a religion and ideology on fantasy supernatural characters is quite foolish.

We are real people and should base our laws and religions on reality and not fantasy and the supernatural.

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DL
Ananda will explain.
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I seem to have fallen into a condition,(dukkha) vertigo, best described by Andrew Keen but I did learn you don't need a comma after a question mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjrXRSQhquk
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Gnostic Bishop wrote:
iskander wrote:[

Ananda,

How would you reply to the OP?
I would agree that to base a religion and ideology on fantasy supernatural characters is quite foolish.

We are real people and should base our laws and religions on reality and not fantasy and the supernatural.

Regards
DL
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