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  1. lovemuffin

    What's so great about democracy and human rights?

    Come again?
  2. lovemuffin

    What's so great about democracy and human rights?

    As far as I'm concerned the onus is on you to supply any evidence whatsoever in support of your claim. Generalities about emotions don't cut it. Otherwise, you are only engaged in perpetuating negative racial stereotypes that contribute to a system of white supremacy and injustice. I don't think...
  3. lovemuffin

    What's so great about democracy and human rights?

    In order to have made a point, he would have to actually provide some sort of reasonable substantiation for the claim made. Instead, both of you are engaged in argument by hand-waving, based on your prejudicial presuppositions that it's just obvious that ethnic minorities make voting decisions...
  4. lovemuffin

    What's so great about democracy and human rights?

    the only point I was interested in is the one where you assert, contrary to the evidence and without justification, that millions of black voters voted for Obama merely because he was black.
  5. lovemuffin

    What's so great about democracy and human rights?

    You are inadvertently (I'm sure) perpetuating a racist stereotype. Of course, racial demographics of national elections can only be determined by exit polls, which may not be perfect and have the usual caveats related to polling, but in 2000 Al Gore won 90% of the AA vote. In 2004 John Kerry won...
  6. lovemuffin

    The Holy Spirit - a person or a force?

    Because panentheism is a fairly modern term, it might depend on exactly what it's taken to entail, but I do think that Orthodox theology is "panentheistic" and I've heard orthodox theologians use the term. The main point of contention would just be if the meaning of "all is in God" were taken to...
  7. lovemuffin

    The Holy Spirit in the Old Testament

    Christians have always, afaik, believed that the Spirit of God in the Hebrew scriptures is the same as the Paraclete Jesus promised to send, the same Holy Spirit which came upon the apostles at Pentecost, into which people were baptized in Acts, and for which Paul says our bodies are a temple...
  8. lovemuffin

    If Stephen saw G-d, then G-d isn't invisible/hidden?

    I would suggest that "visibility" is a primary metaphor for knowledge. So for example the prologue of John's gospel declares in 1:18 that "no one has ever seen God", but that Jesus, "who is in the bosom of the father, has made him known". The relation between knowledge and visibility as a...
  9. lovemuffin

    Jesus the ''man''?

    If I'm understanding, the question being asked is where the idea that Jesus is human comes from, because of the obvious elements of the narratives that ascribe divinity to him. I'm just copy pasting from my trinity thread, but I would suggest for the early church the idea of the humanity of...
  10. lovemuffin

    difference between types of experiences

    By experience I would mean any awareness of a direct contact with reality. And, because (for us) that contact is always mediated by our own consciousness, it is always the contact of a person with reality, and so always a personal experience, as everyone has said. The purpose of this definition...
  11. lovemuffin

    Please pray for my mother.

    I didn't see this on Wednesday but this is awesome news Frank
  12. lovemuffin

    What Are Mystical Experiences Like?

    Perhaps the point Typist is making is that to attain inner peace, one must respond to his posts with Silence :P
  13. lovemuffin

    Eastern Orthodoxy and the Historicity of Scripturemmd

    I'm not aware of any dogmatic statements of the eastern orthodox churches on the historicity of the Biblical texts. Which isn't dispositive, I may just be unaware, but I suspect one reason I haven't found any is because the sort of genre of "historicity", in the way we use it, is fairly modern...
  14. lovemuffin

    The Holy Spirit - a person or a force?

    If you look at something like Gregory Palamas' distinction between the "essence" and "energies" of the Divine (see wikipedia) I think he would answer "both". Keeping in mind the relation between the Holy Spirit and God as the Undivided Trinity. Regarding the idea of being "person", Palamas' in...
  15. lovemuffin

    Orthodox view of self defence

    I wouldn't go so far as to make an absolute statement that self-defense is a sin, although I would suggest that orthodox teaching, and examples like that of the desert fathers suggest a different approach to conflict as an ideal. But I don't think that approach is easily simplified to absolute...
  16. lovemuffin

    It's from a poem called The Cherubimic Wanderer, written in the 17th century by Angelus...

    It's from a poem called The Cherubimic Wanderer, written in the 17th century by Angelus Silecius. The word it refers to is the divine Logos of John's gospel, i.e Christ, although I hear in it echos of other traditions as well, which is partly why I like it.
  17. lovemuffin

    I don't think so?

    I don't think so?
  18. lovemuffin

    Obama: Christians need to act more like Pope Francis

    Frank: may I ask what it is that Obama has said or done that persuades you that he doesn't genuinely agree with the Pope about the problem of poverty? I mean, I think it should be granted that he does so with his own agenda also in mind, but I'm perplexed about why it is you think he doesn't...
  19. lovemuffin

    Christianity Continues Decline in America: Pew Survey Results

    On this general topic of debate ( the "truth" or validity of spiritual experience) I attempted to provide a somewhat broad outline of an argument in a one-on-one debate thread I did with red economist: Well Named and Red Economist: Does "spiritual" knowledge exist? | ReligiousForums.com It's...
  20. lovemuffin

    Should Gays Forgive Abrahamics?

    I agree with everyone who said basically that before there could be a meaningful forgiveness (at least when were speaking at a cultural or societal level, rather than of individuals), there would first need to be a pretty radical repentance on the part of the religions. To say otherwise would...
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