[FRIAM] cafeteria buddhism

[Frank Wimberly]

Also, according to Scott Peck, one of the most meaningful forms of "love"
is to confront a person when he is wrong or doing wrong things.

Frank Wimberly
Phone (505) 670-9918

On Jan 24, 2017 3:22 PM, "Gary Schiltz" <gary at naturesvisualarts.com> wrote:

> 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
>> Phone (505) 670-9918
>>
>> 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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