[FRIAM] cafeteria buddhism

[Gary Schiltz]

Unless you are a masochist, of course :-)

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the central tenet of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism,
> Christianity, and Islam, in chronological order) is expressed in
> Christianity as "love thy neighbor as thyself".
>
> Frank
>
> Frank Wimberly
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> On Jan 24, 2017 2:50 PM, "glen ☣" <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/24/2017 02:01 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote:
>> > I’d need to know which part of Biblical morality we’re talking about.
>>
>> I agree.  I like the Jefferson Bible, wherein TJ tried to extract Jesus'
>> teachings from the rest of the hooha in the Bible.  I think those teachings
>> _might_ cohere as a standalone work.  But most of the Christians I have
>> experience with don't really focus on Jesus.  They tend to like the Psalms,
>> Revelations, etc.  So, it's unclear how/if we can pull out the stuff they
>> find attractive and have it cohere.
>>
>> > On 01/24/2017 10:52 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
>> >> Can the yummy parts arise as a result of a small set of principles
>> consistent with empirical facts?   If so, they could be presented in the
>> usual prescriptive ways for this kind of audience, and then maybe life
>> could go on without unpleasant extinction events and that sort of thing.
>>
>> My favorite mathematician Raymond Smullyan has written a few books on
>> religion that talk quite a bit about Christianity.  He seemed to suggest
>> that it's overall a decent system _if_ you get rid of the concept of Hell.
>> And I think Hitchens used to identify Hell as the most abhorrent thing
>> about it.
>>
>> --
>> ☣ glen
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