Monday, September 21, 2020

"Bad Religion: A Compendium"

"Compendium Of G.K. Chesterton Posts"

Chesterton is one of my half dozen favorite thinkers - along with Thomas Merton, Hannah Arendt, Neil Postman, Ivan Illich and, more recently added to the list, Bertrand Russell

One of the reasons I like Chesterton so much is that he had the good sense to say:

Alan: The biblical patriarch Abraham -- the common founder of Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- is revered by all three religions chiefly for his willingness to kill his son because Yahweh/God told him to.

I -- like my devout Catholic mother -- believe that God would never command a parent to murder an innocent child and that the patriarch Abraham was "hearing voices" as the result of a psychotic breakdown.

The implications of this willingness to mistake psychosis for religious experience -- an error that lies at the heart of all three Abrahamic religions -- are explored below.

Obama’s 2006 Speech on Faith and Politics: Abraham Prepares To Kill And Immolate His Son


Bad Religion: A Definition

"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"

Bad Religion And The Abrahamic Tradition
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/06/bad-religion-and-abrahamic-tradition.html

"Bad Religion: A Compendium"

Good Religion And Bad Religion
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/bad-religion-and-good-religion.html

Fr. Thomas Merton Explains -- In 16 Words -- Why "Christian" "Conservatives" Are Always Wrong

Christianity's Bedrock Commitment To Torture: Remaking "The Faithful" In God's Image

Best Pax Posts On Torture

Bush's Torture Team: Legal Counselor John Yoo Justifies Crushing Children's Testicles
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/dubyahs-torture-team-legal-counselor.html

America's Passion For Punishment And Torture

All 3 Abrahamic Religions Should Be As Ashamed Of Themselves As They Are Now Self-Certain

Conservative Christians Delight In The Punishment And Pain Of Others

Abrahamic Religions Must Deal With Their Own Bronze Age Atavism And Not Just Window Dress

What's Wrong With The Abrahamic Religions: Absolutism, Scriptural Inerrancy, Bloodlust


What's Wrong With The Abrahamic Religions: Absolutism, Scriptural Inerrancy, Bloodlust

Pastor John Piper "discusses the vexing problem of God ordering the mass killing of every Canaanite man, woman, and child."

Mistakes In Scripture: When The Bible Gets The Bible Wrong

"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?"

"What ISIS Really Wants" And How The Patriarch Abraham Appears To Be The Instigator

Are Highly Religious People Less Compassionate?

Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" And Current Worship Of The Wrongness https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/christianity-compendium-of-what-went.html
Trump And His "Conservative" "Christian" Cultists Deserve To Be Called Out For Their Anti-Christ Destructiveness https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/trump-and-his-conservative-christian.html
John Pavlovitz: "The Miserable People" And "The Kind Of Christian I Refuse To Be" https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/john-pavlovitz-miserable-people-and.html
"The Story Of Jonah And The Whale" Retold For The Righteous By Anne Herbert https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-story-of-jonah-and-whale-retold-for.html
Why "Conservative" "Christians" Are All Going To Hell (If There Is A Hell... Which I Don't Believe) https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/why-conservative-christians-are-all.html
"The Number One Cause Of Atheism Is Christians," Catholic Theologian, Karl Rahner, SJ https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-number-one-cause-of-atheism-is.html
The Big Lie And Conservative Christianity's Unshakeable Belief That The Bible Is Inerrantly True https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-big-lie-and-conservative.html
"Conservative" "Christianity" Is Neither: It's A Shameless Ruse Perped By Religious Maniacs https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/conservative-christianity-is-neither.html
Reprise: "God Enjoys The 10 Plagues Way Too Much" (Supplemented By "America's Best Christian," Betty Bowers) https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/god-enjoys-ten-plagues-way-too-much.html

"Conservative" "Christians" Only Believe In God And Themselves The Two Are Inter-changeble

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/conservative-christians-only-believe-in.html

"We Know To The Extent That We Love": St. Augustine Goes To The Heart Of Epistemology

Thomas Merton: "Adolf Eichmann, Sanity and Normality"

American Conservatives Demand Violence To Keep Violence Alive. Otherwise, It Withers And Their Worldview Collapses


Christian Ministers Have A Moral Obligation To Call Bullshit On Trump Cultists Spreading Lies https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/christian-ministers-have-moral.html

Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies

It Is Important To Know These Things So Religion Doesn't Do You More Harm Than Good

What Too Many Christians Get Wrong

Jesus: Festive Tippler And Friend Of Whores, Publicans, Tax Collectors And Sundry Sinners










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