The former newsman turned blogger shares a worthwhile quick guide for evaluating any notion . . .
"Learn self-critical thinking, which means being able to challenge various interpretations of ideas, particularly theological ones, without dismissing them as stupid or irrelevant."
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Religious ideas can be both generative and dangerous
Religion has shown itself capable of producing beauty, comfort, enlightenment, healing acts, generosity, compassion, mercy, justice and love. The bad news is that it also has shown itself capable of producing pain, suffering, war, prejudice, anger, violence and blind hatred....
And you've proved that you are in the latter category Bill.
ReplyDeleteBill Tammeus is stupid and irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteNot that idiot again! Find a new faith blogger Tony!
ReplyDeleteLots of people alrady have tried "self-critical thinkng" about religion, that's why the majority of Americans have no religious affiliations, and/or beliefs.
ReplyDelete8:42 it is not true that the majority of Americans have no religious affiliations or beliefs. Read something besides the stuff they feed you at the KANSAS CITY ATHEIST COALITION HATE GROUP.
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ReplyDeleteI noticed a picture of Jesus so I want to point out that Christianity is not a religion it's a faith, and no one pushes it on to anyone else. What the liberal left wants is to abolish Christianity all together simply because we don't believe what they believe. So it's not Christianity you have to worry about. Who are the haters????? It's not Christians and the whole world sees who it really is.
Bill should consider the consequences of Allah sucking goat dick. Maybe Muslims like to behead people because their religion requires that they suck goat dick.
ReplyDeleteBill should consider sucking dick. He can't be any worse at it than his last two jobs.
ReplyDeleteand yet Christians are the most un-Christian people in the world. Weird.
ReplyDelete"One of the problems, she correctly asserts, is that "people tend to begin with their conviction and then hunt for scriptural verses to support their view, making religions speak to the contemporary debate."
ReplyDeleteThat is the exact definition of an "Affective Thinker". That is, someone who concludes, then seeks justification for his/her conclusions.
No little irony here, that Bill's ongoing jeremiads aimed at his sworn right wing enemies are, in my opinion, based on pejorative accusations and ad hominem attacks that are untenable, specious and meretricious at best.
Bill's "Ideology" trumps facts and clings to an emotional narrative.
Billy wants to be head chief in the "It takes a village", Potemkin Village.
He is welcome to it.
Hey Bill Tammeous - getting fucked in the ass like you do every night is a dangerous way to live as well.
ReplyDelete"people tend to begin with their conviction and then hunt for scriptural verses to support their view, making religions speak to the contemporary debate."
ReplyDeleteHEY CHUCK, HE'S TALKING ABOUT YOU, BUT JUST EXCHANGE "SCRIPTURAL VERSES" FOR "STUFF I HEARD ON NEWSMAX."
^^because it's definitely true if I heard it on CNN or some leftie blog!
ReplyDeleteHa! Chuck got knocked the fuck out!! As always!
ReplyDeleteI, too, believe a vengeful ghost drives my life. Freedumb!!!
ReplyDeleteBill reads your comments. Although he allow NO COMMENTS on his blog, he does on his facebook page. Hey...let's all visit him today!
ReplyDeleteTHE police are watching this blog.
ReplyDelete" shares a worthwhile quick guide"
ReplyDeleteTKC, quit joking.
Reverend Stone here, at the Church of the Backyard Rock.
ReplyDeleteOur Rock Gawd study group sat around blessed baldy yesterday (nice weather), discussing Billy's utterings over the years, trying to find anything of value. Sadly, all concluded he remains as stupid, perhaps even more so than the rest of the Star bullshitters. (sorry gawd)
When a religion rapes thousands of kids - you know its not a true religion from God. Its something like a cult made up by man to pose as a religion.
ReplyDeletePlanned Parenthood is a cult.
ReplyDelete"Bill should consider the consequences of Allah sucking goat dick. Maybe Muslims like to behead people because their religion requires that they suck goat dick."
ReplyDeleteAnd this makes absolutely no sense, but then neither do most religions.
Chuck @9:22 said...
ReplyDelete"That is the exact definition of an "Affective Thinker". That is, someone who concludes, then seeks justification for his/her conclusions."
And yet he can't relate the same definition to the "Deep State" horsecrap he constantly spouts here, or to the links to Tinfoil Hat Brigade posts he uses to support his repetitive ranting.
Hey Chuck, "People who live in Grass Houses should be careful with their Flamethrowers"!
FORMER NEWSMAN FAILS GRAMMAR LESSON
ReplyDelete"Religious ideas can be both generative and dangerous"
generative (ADJECTIVE)
relating to or capable of production or reproduction.
Example: "the generative power of the life force"
synonyms: procreative · propagative · sexual · genital · sex · progenitive · procreant · conceptive
A VERY POOR WORD SELECTION!
Further, Tammeus writes: "The last chapter of my new book, Love, Loss and Endurance: A 9/11 Story of Resilience and Hope in an Age of Anxiety, is devoted to exploring ways that we can stand against extremism rooted in religious ideas that are being misused. And I commend the book to you."
Tammeus "commends" his own book to readers? Did he also fabricate his own book reviews? The book itself is a fictional tale!
^^and yet other than you, nobody cares. Get a hobby loser. Oh, you're boring as fuck too. Weird.
ReplyDeleteFaith ? At the Falling Star hahaha. Next you going to tell us that they had a prayer group too. What bunk. Does Red Star pay you money? You sure prop them like they do.
ReplyDelete^^ Caret-top "weird" boy remains my biggest fan.
ReplyDeleteThis time he sprang into action a mere 4 minutes after my posting. He was sitting on the edge of his high-chair all afternoon waiting.
Leaving stupid comments is not a hobby for you Caret-top, as it only reinforces your inferiority complex.