Liberal Religion is Getting a "Trump Bump"

[sirkickyass]

back to the church, if you ever have kids, the Unitarians typically have a great Sunday school program that gently teaches a lot of philosophical stuff and encourages kids to think through the "big questions"

I got a brief exposure to what they have the kids do. It was honestly astonishingly good. They were having age groups vote on study units of other world religions so they could learn history, teachings, and culture from a really broad base. When I walked in one set was talking about Calvinists pretty openly and another was working on some indigenous animist stuff. I came away thinking that these kids might be totally impervious to someone telling them only one religion had the answers simply because they had way too much context from such a young age.

Was honestly jealous.

 

[babe]

Paradoxically, so long as God doesn't bother you with specific instructions, the more people can imagine they love him and are loved by him.

Sorta like my pa.

We can freely make up our own schematic, but the idea of actually having a real, sovereign, absolute self-defined God is what the Bible claims, as well as the root idea of aRestoration.

Pa proved he was not really interested at all. If I'm gonna pay any mind to God, it would have to be one who cares enough to pop out and lay down the law.

Not like a mod who puts me on ignore.

 

[MVP]

Paradoxically, so long as God doesn't bother you with specific instructions, the more people can imagine they love him and are loved by him.

See, now you are talking. All religions would be ten thousand times more appealing if they would get rid of stupid medieval restrictions and orders ( specific diet, prayers, rituals, etc). Now they all are just a joke.

 

[♪alt13]

Blood is thicker than water.

That's about as close to religion as I get.

 

[green]

I can't see how to embed this on a phone, but this is hilarious.

Edit by Jason - love you too

 

[bigb]

Liberal Religion is Getting a "Trump Bump"

I can't see how to embed this on a phone, but this is hilarious.

Edit by Jason - love you too

And infraction comes in 3...2...1...






And no, I did not report it.


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[Stoked]

Blood is thicker than water.

That's about as close to religion as I get.

Love is thicker than blood.

 

[♪alt13]

Love is thicker than blood.

How about love makes blood. Then it still works.

 

[green]

And infraction comes in 3...2...1...






And no, I did not report it.


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lol. I forgot so many on this site need help keeping the commandments. My bad.

#LawofMoses

 

[babe]

See, now you are talking. All religions would be ten thousand times more appealing if they would get rid of stupid medieval restrictions and orders ( specific diet, prayers, rituals, etc). Now they all are just a joke.

You fail to understand religion for what it is. Objectivists, rationalists, materialists, believers in anything deemed beyond dispute, such as your own political ideology, will mistake others' "religions" as a similar claim. Most people invoke religion to supply answers clearly unknowable, placeholders they realize are beliefs without rational proof. Just some stuff to make life feel good afterall. That's why, statists aside, religious people are generally pretty tolerant of others, unlike fascists, progressives, communists, or any other class of political certitude. Well, unlike any "State Religion".

 

[MVP]

You fail to understand religion for what it is.

Maybe that's why I am not religious. Just makes no sense to me.

 

[sirkickyass]

See, now you are talking. All religions would be ten thousand times more appealing if they would get rid of stupid medieval restrictions and orders ( specific diet, prayers, rituals, etc). Now they all are just a joke.

I gave some thought to this. Probably the best way to think about "liberal religion," as opposed to doctrine oriented religion, is that it's a group of people who want to figure out how to best engage ethically with their world and community. Congregations form around similar ideas about how to attack that specific kind of problem. That's what makes it different from a sports club, where the goal is to play a sport. Ultimately it needs to be someone's job to give everyone a reason to show up and operate on that level or else it just doesn't happen.

The local meeting this week was at the Tempe mosque. We had Q&A with the local Islamic group (I understand a lot more about Islam than I ever did before), ate a halal dinner, and watched them do their evening prayer. The real goal was figuring out the best way to humanize Muslims when we have to talk about them to people who are radicalized against the religion. They couldn't have been nicer to us. It was useful and insightful. I'm not joining up anytime soon, but I feel like it was a very good cultural experience.