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  1. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    Again, thank you for admitting that. Since I am unaware of anyone other than Michael Cassidy who got “unhinged at the sight of a religious display in a government building”and that was because he felt it was an affront to his god. And the only party involved with the opposing viewpoint in this...
  2. Dao Hao Now

    Worldview

    You brought up “most people” here; When I asked if you had a preconceived notion of what a worldview was, since you had stated that none of the responses from the first time you had asked the question were “reasonable” and didn’t “make sense” to you, your statement was; Were these not the...
  3. Dao Hao Now

    Worldview

    Yeah, that why my first response started with But hey, what can I say…..I’m bored.;)
  4. Dao Hao Now

    Worldview

    The comment about it not being news to you, was meant to take it for granted that you were in fact aware that there would be different perspectives….. However after your next comment, I may be forced to rescind that grant. A very small sampling of threads that seem to indicate otherwise……...
  5. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    Granted you did not name the Satanic Temple specifically, however you did imply, infer, insinuate, and attempt to equate (pick your term…I know you like to apply “special” definitions) that they were “zealous”, “fanatical”, and “fragile snowflakes”, and “secular fundamentalists”. who were...
  6. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    I cited three times where you did in the post you’re responding to. Again; #1) In response to; (post# 254) You said…. (post# 256) #2) In post #253 you stated… Where I responded; (post #255) To which you replied……. (post# 257) #3) In post#...
  7. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    The point is that in the other examples, if using your argument based on your misconstrued definition of religion being something separated becomes “sacred” and therefore “establishing a government religion”, the logical conclusion would be the same…yet you reject that notion paradoxically to...
  8. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    And the “opinion” of the Supreme Court and other federal courts on multiple occasions, which in this country gives it the authority of law. Including “temporary” holiday displays…. For instance the Supreme Court case of County of Allegheny v ACLU which considered two separate instances in...
  9. Dao Hao Now

    Worldview

    Of course different people have different perspectives, this can’t be news to you. Essentially you asked for the definition of the word “worldview”. Ask for a definition of “moral”, or “faith”, or “god”, or “religion”, or “evil”, or “science”, or “evolution”, or “claim”, or “evidence” or a...
  10. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    Still conflating. Your claim is; that by separating an area controlled by the government and not allowing that separated area from being used in the same way as other areas in public and private is in essence making that “separated” area “sacred” and thus “establishing a government religion” So...
  11. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    I see it as specifically warning against stressing duality; as it being a path to confusion. Again, from the Hsin Hsin Ming….. https://terebess.hu/english/hsin.html#2 “In the World of Reality, There is no self, no other-than-self. Should you desire immediate correspondence (with this Reality)...
  12. Dao Hao Now

    Worldview

    Do you have a preconceived notion of what a “worldview” is? If so; what is it?
  13. Dao Hao Now

    Worldview

    You started a thread titled “Worldview” (the exact same title as this thread) 3 months ago. It has 222 posts with the last one being on Dec 18, with 86 of those posts being from you. You are claiming to have “forgot” you asked this question before; Are you a goldfish? Before I waste my time…a...
  14. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    That is not answering the question, that is conflating. The question more succinctly; Does separating the National Parks thus showing an emphasized reverence enforced by law for those areas over other public areas constitute “establishing a religion”? So even further separated (= more sacred?)...
  15. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    Here’s the problem “Religion beginning with the separation of the sacred from the profane” Is vastly different than…. “Religion being the separation of the sacred from the profane.” Or, “Religion is the separation of the sacred from the profane” A tree begins as a seed, but a tree is not a...
  16. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    Somehow I don’t think so. I’m explaining why “administrations” is superfluous. When you insist on continuing to add “administrations” to the concept of the “separation of church and state”, for example: I get the impression you’re applying another “special definition” in your mind. So pray...
  17. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    Again, where I stated: “I’m not sure where you pulled the concept that religion = “the separation of the sacred from the profane” out of,…. It does not track with the conventional usage. You replied: When I pointed out your nearly verbatim spurious definition of religion being the erroneous...
  18. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    When I asked you which religions, in your opinion, have the most influence on the population of the US both past and present (Post #s 206 & 214) You answered: Here you have demonstrated that the conventional usage of religion is: “a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally...
  19. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    In my opinion, the establishment and free exercise clauses of the First Amendment is pretty straight forward, though brief. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...” “The Establishment Clause acts as a double security...
  20. Dao Hao Now

    Suspect charged with hate crime for destroying Satanic Temple display at Iowa Capitol

    In your opinion which religion at the time of the drafting of the Constitution, did Jefferson and Madison feel was most necessary to prevent from attempting to exert influence on the government?
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