"@Derek: Taken with the body of his teachings, the "no thought for the morrow" 1) doesn't figure that prominently in his philosophy and 2) is no more "Immoral" than Buddha's teachings on detachment from material things,…"
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Maya Bohnhoff commented on Arcus's blog post 'Lies'"@Barry: Of course, one can be moral without believing in God. To suggest otherwise is ... kind of silly, given the overwhelming evidence.
The point of debate is really whether morality can be separated from religion in a causal sense. The ideals…"
Maya Bohnhoff commented on Arcus's blog post 'Lies'"@Matt: No, it's not a lie. It is your opinion that it is a lie. It is an opinion to suggest that a God told us to do this, The opinion is understandable given the number of historical figures who have claimed to represent a God who has told us…"
Maya Bohnhoff commented on Arcus's blog post 'Lies'"Holy subtext, Batman!
I gotta ask, though, for some specifics. That the dogma surrounding Christ is fabricated is undebatable—elsewise, there would not be in excess of 30,000 sects of Christianity with different dogmas. But is it a lie to…"
Maya Bohnhoff commented on Morgan Matthew's photo
This morning my Christian in-laws came over, then turned around and walked out when they saw what we had done with the nativity set they had given us
"@J.Ratzinger: Thank you. Just ... thank you."
Maya Bohnhoff replied to No name's discussion 'The Baha'i faith: harmony between religion and science?'"Dan, I wasn't producing the reference to the Srimad Bhagavatam as a scientific document. Michel asked if Baha'u'llah had prophesied the overpopulation of the planet (I don't know.) And merely remembered that passage from my…"
Maya Bohnhoff replied to No name's discussion 'The Baha'i faith: harmony between religion and science?'"I have to respond to this one. Isolating ex-members or disbelievers is not a "practice" of the Baha'i Faith. What you've suggested here is SIMPLY NOT TRUE.
I've been a Baha'i for over 35 years and lived in a number of…"
Maya Bohnhoff replied to No name's discussion 'The Baha'i faith: harmony between religion and science?'"Don't have a guru, but Krishna did prophesy overpopulation. Several thousand years ago, at least according to the Srimad Bhagavatam. He talked about a world overrun with creatures and contradictory in its laws."
Maya Bohnhoff replied to No name's discussion 'The Baha'i faith: harmony between religion and science?'"The scriptural record suggests that religion says both are real.
"The senses, they say, are great, greater than the senses is the mind, greater than the mind is intelligence but greater than the intelligence is He." — Bhagavad…"
Maya Bohnhoff replied to No name's discussion 'The Baha'i faith: harmony between religion and science?'"Not quite. And since Baha'is wouldn't kill, then it's nothing like "anyone leaving the Muslim faith should be killed" (which is not a teaching of Islam, in the first place).
We are warned to avoid people who have, after an…"
Maya Bohnhoff left a comment for Matt Coulthurst"You're welcome (for my replies on CommonGround). You ask good questions, so thank you for those. :)"
Maya Bohnhoff commented on Maya Bohnhoff's blog post 'Faith and Reason: One Way or the Highway?'"@Adriana: The quote from Abdu'l-Baha is part of Baha'i scripture, so if presented as such would be ruled out by Hitchens either Bronze-age antiques or "nebulous humanism". I read every word of God is Not Great and took copious…"
Maya Bohnhoff replied to No name's discussion 'The Baha'i faith: harmony between religion and science?'"You know what they say about what happens when you assume?
I wasn't raised in "the church" I was raised a couple of actual Christians (non-dogmatic, kind, loving, joyful, wonderful peopled) who taught me one important principle:…"
Maya Bohnhoff replied to No name's discussion 'The Baha'i faith: harmony between religion and science?'"The stated beliefs are based on the writings of Baha'u'llah on the subject. He claims to be an expert on the system, you might say. An Avatar, Prophet, Buddha etc."
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- Church doctrine didn't square with other people's religious experience or with reality and history. In fact, it didn't square with what I got out of a thorough reading of the scripture the doctrine was allegedly based on. Specifically, the church's teaching on the nature of salvation and the exclusivity of Christ didn't square with existing scripture.
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Faith and Reason: One Way or the Highway?
Posted on December 3, 2010 at 2:00pm 5 Comments 0 Likes
I thought this might be a good place for my last blog entry from http://www.commonground.net. So, here are some of my thoughts on faith and reason.
Another Common Ground blogger, Ian Kluge, directed our attention to the new atheists position that there is an inherent and irreconcilable conflict between faith and reason.
Christopher Hitchens sums up their position this way: “All attempts to reconcile faith…
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