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Hey FrGamble!
| September 27th, 2020 at 2:52:52 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | I don't know why FrG agreed to read this book. In the first two pages the author robustly attacks any claim that human rights come from some god. I imagine he spends the rest of the book showing how they are 100% a human invention and evolved into what we have today. He says the claim that human rights were written by a divine hand is a complete myth. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| September 28th, 2020 at 8:38:42 AM permalink | |
| aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
FrG started a separate thread for the book discussion Did he get his copy yet? |
| October 10th, 2020 at 1:30:26 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | Is your church against Biden/Harris? They should be. I'm an atheist and even I'm against abortion. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| October 10th, 2020 at 9:47:59 AM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | The Church is against Abortion for sure. Not against any one person or political party. However if you are pro-life it is hard to imagine voting for Biden/Harris. Of course that is NOT to say it is easy to vote for Trump. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| October 10th, 2020 at 11:34:55 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
You didn't answer the question. Biden/Harris are 100% rabidly pro abortion. How could your Church possibly support people like this. Is your Church anti Biden/ Harris or not. If not, that falls under this category: hy·poc·ri·sy the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform. You cannot be against something and then support people who advocate it. That is the very essence of hypocrisy. Sickening: Vatican Is Pro-Biden and Clearly Anti-Trump https://catholicism.org/sickening-vatican-is-pro-biden-and-clearly-anti-trump.html If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| October 10th, 2020 at 10:38:48 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | “Two Catholics who have never met can nevertheless go together on crusade or pool funds to build a hospital because they both believe that God was incarnated in human flesh and allowed Himself to be crucified to redeem our sins. States are rooted in common national myths. Two Serbs who have never met might risk their lives to save one another because both believe in the existence of the Serbian nation, the Serbian homeland and the Serbian flag. Judicial systems are rooted in common legal myths. Two lawyers who have never met can nevertheless combine efforts to defend a complete stranger because they both believe in the existence of laws, justice, human rights – and the money paid out in fees. Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.” ― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind We create our own reality. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| October 11th, 2020 at 4:56:24 AM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | There is a God, there are nations, money, human rights, laws, and justice. You have to have a pretty big imagination to think these thinks don't exist. I find it amazing that educated people can say things like you quote and then maybe because it sounds good or because its contrarian or for some other reason we take nonsense and quote it as being profound or true. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| October 11th, 2020 at 6:36:15 AM permalink | |
| Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Ii have not noticed abortion as an issue in this çâm0aigñ |
| October 11th, 2020 at 9:18:31 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
They're human constructs. We imagined them into existence. We keep them alive by continuing to imagine them. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| October 11th, 2020 at 4:02:53 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | I think you are imagining that they are only human constructs. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |