I just learned some things I had not considered previously. Thank you for your honest rebuke. Thanks also for the introduction to Tom Holland. I just ordered Dominion.
Why was Jesus arrested at 4 AM in a public park with a naked boy while declaring "I am not a lestes"?
Just sayin' ...
Father Abram - founder (?) of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam was a lestes...
DJT (a modern day lestes, BTW) is the LEAST of our problems. We live in a culture built on myth and overt lies controlled by multi-generational psychopaths.
Thankfully, quite a few of the herd have looked up from their mindless grazing in the swamp of Amerika and have begun to awaken to reality... We shall see...
The American Indians and many tribal communities practiced human rights. You make it seem as though Christianity came about independent of human beings.
The concept of human rights long preceded Christianity. The Jesus philosophy that you talk about, the loving, cherishing Jesus, was not at all a characteristic of western Christianity except upon occasion and on the margins. There might have been a “true” Christianity close to what you talk of in the first century or so after the Crucifixon but it was replaced by the Christianity that we see today more or less. Non-Christians- pagans, if you will - of the supposedly “primitive” type, almost all valued individual humans, and almost all practiced equal rights - at least for their tribe -tens of thousand of years before Jesus.
Your continued anti-Catholicism is at least annoying as is your harping on “The Left,” as if a fevered handful of nut cases represented millions of people who take the idealism of the Declaration of Independence seriously. You need to devote some serious reflection time on your intolerance.
I once had a devout Christian friend tell me “love thy neighbor” and “do unto others” was strictly a Christian thing. I protested. Without Christianity, I naturally follow the Golden Rule. I believe goodness is built into almost all of us humans. However, I believe It’s sometimes just a thin veneer. This thin veneer of goodness can be crushed by environment a/o upbringing. When that happens the brute, ape brain beneath can be seen. Many adults have no remaining veneer.
Rarely I’ve seen a young child (1 1/2 years?) be nasty and cruel. As they get older, they lose their innocence, the veneer starts to thin.
I’ve thought of myself as a lefty, but for me it’s not as black and white as I think you’ve stated. I’m grown now and I believe in Human Rights, and in protecting people less fortunate than myself - the standard list. I believe in equal treatment under the law. Cruelty has no place.
Maybe I’m living on the wrong planet.
I’ve ordered Dominion because I’d like to understand more how other people contemplate this world. Thank you for the effort and love you put into your talks, and also for the book recommendation(s).
The "good Christianity" aka liberal theology that Frank talks about here has been in serious decline for more than 50 years, and will soon be extinct. What then?
A very important piece. Thank you Frank.
Thank you Frank. We need a national teach in. We’ve got to push back against the Trump imperium.
I just learned some things I had not considered previously. Thank you for your honest rebuke. Thanks also for the introduction to Tom Holland. I just ordered Dominion.
Me too. Thank you Frank. None of this is easy.
I 2nd that comment. I also ordered "Dominion."
Why was Jesus arrested at 4 AM in a public park with a naked boy while declaring "I am not a lestes"?
Just sayin' ...
Father Abram - founder (?) of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam was a lestes...
DJT (a modern day lestes, BTW) is the LEAST of our problems. We live in a culture built on myth and overt lies controlled by multi-generational psychopaths.
Thankfully, quite a few of the herd have looked up from their mindless grazing in the swamp of Amerika and have begun to awaken to reality... We shall see...
The American Indians and many tribal communities practiced human rights. You make it seem as though Christianity came about independent of human beings.
Another good one.
The cover of the book is grotesque. Life and body negative sado-masochism all-the-way-down.
If you went down to the woods today and found a human being nailed to a cross as depicted on the cover of the book you would be hell-deep horrified.
As far as I know there is a brief statement somewhere in the "New" Testament where Jesus proclaims I Am The Light of The World.
Not much light communicated by the image on the cover of the book!
The concept of human rights long preceded Christianity. The Jesus philosophy that you talk about, the loving, cherishing Jesus, was not at all a characteristic of western Christianity except upon occasion and on the margins. There might have been a “true” Christianity close to what you talk of in the first century or so after the Crucifixon but it was replaced by the Christianity that we see today more or less. Non-Christians- pagans, if you will - of the supposedly “primitive” type, almost all valued individual humans, and almost all practiced equal rights - at least for their tribe -tens of thousand of years before Jesus.
Your continued anti-Catholicism is at least annoying as is your harping on “The Left,” as if a fevered handful of nut cases represented millions of people who take the idealism of the Declaration of Independence seriously. You need to devote some serious reflection time on your intolerance.
I once had a devout Christian friend tell me “love thy neighbor” and “do unto others” was strictly a Christian thing. I protested. Without Christianity, I naturally follow the Golden Rule. I believe goodness is built into almost all of us humans. However, I believe It’s sometimes just a thin veneer. This thin veneer of goodness can be crushed by environment a/o upbringing. When that happens the brute, ape brain beneath can be seen. Many adults have no remaining veneer.
Rarely I’ve seen a young child (1 1/2 years?) be nasty and cruel. As they get older, they lose their innocence, the veneer starts to thin.
I’ve thought of myself as a lefty, but for me it’s not as black and white as I think you’ve stated. I’m grown now and I believe in Human Rights, and in protecting people less fortunate than myself - the standard list. I believe in equal treatment under the law. Cruelty has no place.
Maybe I’m living on the wrong planet.
I’ve ordered Dominion because I’d like to understand more how other people contemplate this world. Thank you for the effort and love you put into your talks, and also for the book recommendation(s).
Take care, Frank.
The "good Christianity" aka liberal theology that Frank talks about here has been in serious decline for more than 50 years, and will soon be extinct. What then?