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PKM said:
Example I've used is we each have a little girl, that had a nightmare and is crying in her bed in the middle of the night. Neither of us would just forsake her and let her cry. Both of us would go to her, both would comfort, both would likely be effective in making her feel better.. the only slight difference is I may have prayed for her.. and gave the glory to God for her feeling and sleeping better.. whereas the atheist doesn't pray and gives the glory to self.. in the end, the result could be identical, which makes our lives very similar....
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Personally, I don't feel much "glory" for simply having a little empathy. At best, it makes me "not psychotic".
 
What an interesting thread! I feel regret that I haven't paid more attention to it until now. Mistake corrected.

Neutral agnostic here.
 
One Brow said:
Personally, I don't feel much "glory" for simply having a little empathy. At best, it makes me "not psychotic".
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welcome aboard One Brow.

I've struggled with this same thought. Jesus commented on it as well. The Good Samaritan story is about this. It's true that people in the devout mode of self-assured good conduct can slip a bit when doing good deeds, just as those who are imagined to be beyond the sufferable limits of good society may without fanfare just do what is decent.

I don't really think the atheist who comforts a child in a time of great distress doesn't actually have a sense of peace with the world in doing so. And for some definitions of God, that idea includes the world.
 
PKM said:
You've taken the term more literally than it was intended.
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I would say that the term "glory" has a distinctly different taste depending upon the mind of the person. A deeply religious person can, in my understanding, equate it with a reverence of sorts, a joy of communion in some sense with the infinite. Someone who is out of sorts with that kind of sense about religion, might impute a claimed "glory" as something else entirely. . . . maybe something like the "glory" of some crude heathens burning the libraries of Byzantium or Alexandria, say, just to make the most extreme comparison.
 
leftyjace said:
What an interesting thread! I feel regret that I haven't paid more attention to it until now. Mistake corrected.

Neutral agnostic here.
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Welcome aboard lefty. Most of this thread hasn't been too glorious. I consider it a variety show where everyone is welcome, just for fun. I will mix in some little excursions into merit from time to time, and anyone else is welcome to do so as well.
 
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