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Lord is a term used in the early middle ages for a leader who had land, power, and control of a group of serfs as well as village artisans. Lord was subordinate to the King and even the Duke. Those who translated the gospels were exposed to Roman uses for Lord in both Rome and Greece. The Lord...

I see nothing evil about artificial insemination. It is good for good people who desire their own child but cannot conceive for some biological factor. The early foetus is not a human yet. Every time a good woman has a purely random miscarriage, she is not committing manslaughter. Every time a...

We can never understand the endless loop because we cannot process the irrational, the self-contradictory, and stories that violate our intuitive morality. Writers who were not even exposed to Greek logic or scepticism created the stories. They served a purpose in giving the Semitic people a...

Jesus never said, clearly and unequivocally, "I am God." He never said, "I am one of three persons making up God." Jesus did say, addressing Mary Magdalene, (John 20:17) "...but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father and your Father; and to my GOD, and your GOD." In...

This comment is taken out of context. My own father, an Amazon explorer and cartographer for Brazil. He was smarter than I. But at a scientific meeting which he attended, I commented, "How can I follow my more illustrious father." Dad said, "**** and I are the same." That would have meant the...

Spot On! Mate, Amergin

There are two diverging themes. 1. Jesus of Nazareth was a good and ethical man. He taught morals, fairness, justice, compassion, duty to help the underprivileged, forgiveness, love, and fairness to women. He was not a god. He never claimed to be a god. He actually told us in the gospels that...

I admit I have no idea who designed the seal. I don't remember ever seeing it. The Orthodox Church became the compulsory religion of the Empire through Constantine I. However, the Arian Christianity came from the epistles of Paul and teachings of Bishop Arius. I think it is a century or older...

Oh, I forgot about the amphibians and fish that can change gender when conditions require it for species preservation. I have trouble viewing Mary and Jesus as fish or frogs. They lived in a crap hole of dry, dusty, wind blown sand. I said that I respect Jesus even more, knowing he was a man...

The Myth story is that Jesus was immaculately conceived (i.e. without filthy mammalian sex.) Mary had no Y chromosomes in her DNA. How did she get the Y chromosome for Jesus when she did not have one? 1. Jesus was a female, raised as a male. (It happens.) 2. Mary was conceived by a human male...

Murdering babies was intuitively wrong, whether done by German Nazis or by Israelite raiders of Canaanite cities. It is and always will be wrong. Religion has little to do with it. Judaism in the 12th or 13th century BCE barbaric conquest of Canaan, or Christianity in 1933-1945 CE Holocaust...

The world benefits (not needs) teachers like Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Confucius, and others. They all teach by reminding us of the morality that we have in our DNA programmed brain circuits. I am an Evolutionary Ethicist. I feel that all moral and immoral classifications are not arbitrary at...

There are people who are more moral than most Christians and are not believers in the Gospel Jesus. This includes the original Muslim followers of the teachings of Muhammad for the first four centuries of Islamic History. It also includes most Buddhists, Baha’i’s, most Mormons, Wiccans...

All religions and all gods are purely human concepts or inventions. There is no objective evidence for the reality of gods. They cannot be seen, heard, felt, or measured in any way. What I think apart from the double talk of philosophy, is that god does mean something. It is a weak hypothesis...

Radar and Thomas, I respect your views though I disagree. I must stick to my perceptions of religiosity good and bad. I recognise that some churches do great charity work. All US Christians are not Taliban types. But I believe some of them really are extreme and hateful. I experienced several...

I thank your God that I don't live in a real Theocracy like Americans do. My theocracy in the UK is simply nominal and non-belief is not a crime. America has First-Amendment separation of church and state but ignores its Constitution. The Republicans are recognised here and around the world as a...

If you talk about scientists of the past, of course most will either be theists or hide their non-theism. Those mentioned by Thomas, except for Einstein, were at least nominal theists. Galileo was threatened by the Inquisition for noting planets had moons. I suspect his belief was out of fear of...

I think it is an error to consider the Trinity God of Christianity as an Abrahamic God. The Abrahamic God was one single and undivided god. The branch that was expounded by Moses was a continuation of that Abrahamic God. The God of Moses was clearly single and undivided. The final religion based...

Perhaps I am handicapped by an education heavily weighted to the sciences and advanced math. My medical education proceeded to post-doctoral 4 years in Neuroscience. However, acknowledging my limited exposure to Philosophy, I really do not understand what people call "spirituality." I am not...

I see a form of social evolution manifested in religion. Religion was part of human evolution. In Mesolithic, Neolithic, and Bronze Age societies, religion played a part in group order, submission to some authoritarian leader. Almost all peoples to explain the unexplainable invented gods and...