The Winter Olympics

[muhammad_isa]

What I can say about is that the current changes in climate are not a process caused or accelerated by human activities..

Observations show otherwise..
There has been an increasing change since the industrial revolution.
It is fuelled by the way of life of the privilged nations .. which is all to do with the financial system.

There is change going on nowadays, with the industrialisation of asia .. China recognises
man-made climate change, for example.

 

[wil]

Then, one must also be cautious when participating in events with rituals resembling of being dedicated to idols.

Why? Aint nobody worried about Greek or Roman gods today...that it is a friendly competition

 

[TheLightWithin]

I have understood from the scriptures that the believer in the Messiah must abstain of eating what is has been dedicated to other gods or idolatry.

Isn't the overall point a little more nuanced - that one abstains in a couple of situations - one to avoid active participation in the pagan religion and the other to prevent someone with a newer or weaker faith from feeling uncertain or doubtful?

Since nobody at the modern Olympics is engaging in actual worship of Zeus...

Remember, for a long time after those religions died out, there were references to "the classics" by Christian scholars. Ancient mythology was thought to be about imaginary gods. That's where people got the idea that myth meant something untrue.

For centuries people with classical educations would quote not only philosophers but the myths, all while believing the mythology was symbolic or make believe, and not real at all, and that their own Christian religion was "true" or reality based.

 

[rocala]

For centuries people with classical educations would quote not only philosophers but the myths, all while believing the mythology was symbolic or make believe, and not real at all, and that their own Christian religion was "true" or reality based.

I would think that such education has considerable value too. I think that it was Richard Rohr was said that "God did not ignore the human race until 2,000 years ago.

It is easy to be dismissive of all but one's own faith, but imagine if your religion had arrived on a world of atheists with no history of spirituality. It quite possibly would have been dismissed as lunacy. Instead, we have a framework within which we can consider and compare what is being shown to us. In other words we needed a past to have a future.

 

[rocala]

What I can say about is that the current changes in climate are not a process caused or accelerated by human activities.

I 100% disagree. Imagine that you light a fire in a single room only. An hour later you check the temperatures of the rooms. Now if the outside temperature is rapidly dropping far below zero, there may be no detectable change where the fire is. Equally, should there be a heat wave, the temperature may be far higher in that particular room

We see two things here; Firstly, that the bigger picture cannot be ignored. Secondly that the fire did have an effect. So what we do in such cases does have an effect.

We humans have been burning millions of tons of fossil fuels for a long time. Who can seriously say that this has "no effect".