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  1. Mcshane22

    Which religion is most the most scientifically accurate?

    From a letter to Murray W. Gross, Apr. 26, 1947, Einstein Archive, reel 33-324, Jammer, p. 138 - 139: When question about God and religion on behalf of an aged Talmudic scholar, Einstein replied: "it seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropomorphic concept which I cannot take...
  2. Mcshane22

    Which religion is most the most scientifically accurate?

    Thanks, Quotes are a passion of mine. When I find one that sums an idea up in a short but profound way, I mentally store it like a second language. Ideas can be conveyed a thousand ways, but sometimes one way stands above the rest in it's profound beauty. "Most anthologists of quotations...
  3. Mcshane22

    No more immigrants please!

    Much agreed, When I was laid off from an executive position of a well known big box store. I still had my mortgage and bills. I found viable employment at a temp agency. I had to work twice as much as I did at the last job. I have two Bachelors degrees and just came from a prestigious position...
  4. Mcshane22

    Which religion is most the most scientifically accurate?

    Much agreed. My only hangup with Spinoza's philosophy is his logic proving a non personal god a non self aware diety. "I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one...
  5. Mcshane22

    No more immigrants please!

    I would say outsourcing jobs here in the U.S poses a larger problem then immigrants taking jobs that not many are competing for.
  6. Mcshane22

    Which religion is most the most scientifically accurate?

    Here's a paragraph from pg.89 "Philosophy of Spinoza" edited by Joseph Ratner. "The great religious significance of Spinoza's doctrine of the intellectual love of God is that it establishes religion upon knowledge and not upon ignorance. The virtue of the mind is clearly and distinctly to...
  7. Mcshane22

    Did Jesus say he was God???

    From what I understand from reading 30-38 Jesus makes a clear distinction that he is not God the father but a son of god. My take on these passages is he is not saying he is the Jewish messiah but explaining to them that they can believe in a messiah sent from god, but they find it hard to...
  8. Mcshane22

    The assumption of evolution can cause problems

    Evolution Is a scientific theory , why do people have a misunderstanding of the definition of a theory. A theory is a hypothesis that has been put through the rigors and scrutiny of the scientific method by experimentation in labs as well as observations of natural processes. This Theory has the...
  9. Mcshane22

    No more immigrants please!

    I do not belive in the idea that this planet was made for purely human use. You are very correct that we are the cause of animal and native plants destruction. There is enough land for both humans and animals can be sustain as long as we live and let live by living symbiotic with nature. I guess...
  10. Mcshane22

    No more immigrants please!

    We have enough fertile land on this earth to sustain the current population; however because of our concept of ownership of land denies others from having a sustainable life. There was a short story about a man who went west to be a mountain man and he came upon a native tribe. He asked how much...
  11. Mcshane22

    No more immigrants please!

    The laws of nature will resolve this issue wether we like it or not. When we exceed our carrying capacity, starvation and disiese will bring us to a sustainable population. I don't believe we have reached our carrying capacity but with our medical sciences people live longer, infant mortality...
  12. Mcshane22

    Why do I keep going to xian churches then do nothing?

    That's just me :D I have a way of over analyzing movies and character development within them. Deductive reasoning says he has something different that alows him not to be consumed by the dark side like dark sidious. Which I theorize that it is the difference in their motives that they went to...
  13. Mcshane22

    Original Sin

    I mean this in allegory I do not believe in the concept of sin ;therefore the statement we gave ourselves free will to sin is for a sense of hyperbole. I myself do not believe in free will and believe in determinism. We perceive our desires as free will but we do not know what the causation of...
  14. Mcshane22

    Evolution is not atheistic

    My question is who can believe that plants, animals and humans have never evolved that is, they are the same as the first day they were made since a certain creation story.
  15. Mcshane22

    Original Sin

    We gave ourself free will so that we can sin Some believe man can not be virtuous without God Only sinful "Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad." (Baruch Spinoza / 1632-1677 / Ethics / 1677)
  16. Mcshane22

    Which religion is most the most scientifically accurate?

    I put my bid in for Spinozism, Spinoza believed the best way to show adoration for God/Nature is through understanding nature by way of the scientific method "Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd, and, ipso facto, to be...
  17. Mcshane22

    Why do I keep going to xian churches then do nothing?

    Yeah that he did good point:) new question, did he have a eternal desire for the dark side or was he driven to it by unfortunate circumstances
  18. Mcshane22

    Did Jesus say he was God???

    Good point. Some times the deeper I try analyze the bible get the sense that I may only trying to rationalize the irrational. Spinoza said it best when he said the idea of a omnipitant god taking the form as a man is just a as absurd as a circle taking upon the nature of a square
  19. Mcshane22

    Did Jesus say he was God???

    Great info ill have to look into it more . My opinion was just a hypothesis I came to using my knowledge of social sciences and trying put myself into that point in time with all that was occurring , politically, cultural atmosphere. As well as biblical research
  20. Mcshane22

    Did Jesus say he was God???

    It is my Opinion that at the time of christ there were two sects of his followers those who received his message and lived by it , and those who created a cult around the messanger that is Jesus. The latter established a religion that is the religious institution we see today.and even these have...
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