” they insert into their writing of “history” views that they have not actually found in the material that they are studying, but rather they insert an “angle of perspective” that they already hold for which they are in search of support. ...
8. Their ethics and practical morality were usually dependent upon dualistic principles. Among the Hellenistic Gnostics it took the form of a struggle against matter, which so unfrequently ran into asceticism, and sometimes into the use of charms and astrological practices. The Oriental Gnostics, ...
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2. It is evidently opposite to that fundamental principle' of morality that we should do to others as we could reasonably desire they should do to us. ⇒Definition of persecution3. It is by no means calculated to answer the end which its patrons profess to intend by it. ...
is precisely what has happened. Those who deny the present validity of the law apart from the Ten Commandments have as a consequence a very limited definition of theft. Their definition usually follows the civil law of their country, is humanistic, and is not radically different from the defin...
“prophets” (i.e. messengers) and therefore “angels” (Biblical angels almost always fill the role of messenger, and one could argue that they always do, given a sufficiently broad definition of “messenger”), but this is a matter of later interpretation, and not strictly what the Bible...
Can Evolution Explain Morality? Can Evolution Explain the Human Brain? Can Evolution Explain the Origin of Information? Can Evolution Explain the Origin of Minds? Many God-deniers and skeptics are angry rubes, but Steve McRae is not unthinking or a rube. We disagree, but I’ve found him to...
If there is an overly simplistic definition of therapy it is to help you feel better: The first goal of psychotherapy is to get you to feel better. This is clinically called response –and is defined as an improvement from the onset of your illness after psychotherapy begins. Response is ...
Well, I got a new challenge from a God-denier, who made the claim that evolution can even explain the origin of morality. They provided a link to a “scientific” paper , which has been cited 6 times, thinking they could bluster their way through a conversation without being skeptical. ...
“Red Pill people… believe that whether something is “good” or “bad” is a matter of opinion, and that all systems of morality are things societies invented to get a result, and it is therefore pointless to argue about whether something is “evil” or not, instead of about what effec...