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Scholar Dan McClellan weighs in on the definitions of religion. He states "religion does not exist" and it is "a conceptual category" and "it is the map not the territory" Video 3 minutes long, much of the 2nd half of the video is information on resources.

Anthropologists and sociologists or scholars of religion don't always have a solid definition of what religion is, nor is there a single agreed upon way to describe how religion functions. Here scholar Andrew Mark Henry of Religion for Breakfast broaches this topic He mentions the lack of "one...

Just the fact that they compare the number of marriages with the number of divorces in a given year and called that a divorce rate has always been problematic. After all, the number of people who get married in a given year do not represent ALL the married people. The people who file from...

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/skeptical-theism/#OutwGoodNoseInfe What looks like a detailed and dense article on what they call Skeptical Theism

Well, but I didn't🫥🫤🤨

Salvation whether people believe in the religion or not, right? What is salvation in this theory? What are people being saved from? Is it individual salvation or more of a collective thing? I used to think (as I may have alluded to in the Headcanon thread) that I used to think Jesus saved the...

Is "deep Christianity" then, simply more thorough than being what some people call "well catechized" ??

My husband watched either that channel or one like it, and share it with his father who appreciate it. My grandfather used to have record albums of train sounds.

It is most encouraging that you have joy and satisfaction in what and who you have and what you have done in life. It sounds like you have done many things just the way you needed to. 🙏

Well, teenage fantasies of wealth and fame... LEVEL NOT ACHIEVED!!

What is "deep Christianity" - Does it have to do with esoteric interpretations?

I did watch it. I really appreciated it.

I believe Mormons may do this today.

@badger If I understood correctly, @RabbiO is trying to point out that sunrise and sunset are descriptions based on visual impressions, as it looks almost as if the sun is an object going up then going down in the sky. But of course the reality is that the Earth is going around the enormous sun...

Yeah I love the Stanford Encyclopedia!

There's a YouTube Channel called Hello Future Me, which I saw the name of all the time and didn't get to follow up on. I thought it was a self help channel hosted by a woman. But it seems to be a channel devoted to fantasy fiction writing hosted by a man.

Teenage Self was obsessed with Future Self and what a hot shot I was going to be. I am not sure what the response would be to Current Self, being so insightful and analytic but so not a hotshot. Nevertheless, if I could convince Past Self to reframe (my) outlook on things and adjust a few...

I don't think I've ever heard of this guy, but he's funny! Although it's possible I have heard of him or even seen him! Looking him up, his Wikipedia page shows that he toured with Weird Al Yankovic before so I may actually have seen him and did not remember...

This is a great story! Have you ever thought of writing a memoir?

Nostalgia! 🤩 😍 🎶 I loved this piece when we performed this in college -- not as a flash mob, but as a scheduled performance at Troy Music Hall. They told us it was the first performance of this piece the music hall had ever had. We were really surprised.