- 06 Feb 2023 09:15
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No disrespect to Annatar but he definitely has a brand of Christianity, and I can’t identify with it. Maybe you guys are just on another level and I don’t have the tools to comprehend what you’re saying?
If it really were about the book of John I might have half a chance, but everyone quotes so many extra sources that I can’t comment as I’m not that widely read.
Most of the time, this thread has zero to do with the Bible and what’s actually contained therein.
I couldn’t agree more.
Again, I agree. But your issue is with religion and not the Golden Rule itself. You made an argument that the Golden Rule by its language or framing was exclusionary. That’s the only bit I pulled you up on; that’s the bit I wanted scriptural backing for.
That’s it!
If it really were about the book of John I might have half a chance, but everyone quotes so many extra sources that I can’t comment as I’m not that widely read.
Most of the time, this thread has zero to do with the Bible and what’s actually contained therein.
Christians, Jews and Muslims are the only religions claiming to possess the one and only truth, an extremely vain position for a spiritual religion to take and a source of great trouble and a lot of hurt.
I couldn’t agree more.
The Golden Rule is an ethos that should be applied to all humanity and not only to the ingroup as abrahamics have it.
Again, I agree. But your issue is with religion and not the Golden Rule itself. You made an argument that the Golden Rule by its language or framing was exclusionary. That’s the only bit I pulled you up on; that’s the bit I wanted scriptural backing for.
That’s it!
The real problem of humanity is that we have Palaeolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology - Edward Wilson