Preliminary Thinking on Kant’s Religion Part IV
Thinking about the task necessary for the identification of the true moral and thus free belief in an historical belief (the Christian).
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Kant and Wesley concerning religion
Musing on Kant’s conception for his work on rational religion and how the atonement aspects relate with the thinking of John Wesley. Not proofread.
Continue May 4, 2013
Are Christianity and Islam Inherently Dangerous?
Kant considers Christianity to be fundamentally a moral religion, while Islam is extortionist. A discussion of this along with other concerns about Islam, and how Christianity and Islam can both assure the world that neither Christian nor Muslim may understand any alleged communication from God as calling for something understood to be immoral, e.g., the slaying of innocent children.
Continue April 30, 2013
Wondering about the Second Amendment
Reconciliation by unlimited right of weaponry by the public (free people entitled to defend their freedom) and by location of all weaponry for the use in any common defense of our individual freedoms.
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The Incognito Easter Message of Master Noah St. John
Watching as a youth falls from his paradise and stands before the gates of hell. And then the gates open, and what does he find?
Continue March 18, 2013
Musing on the humanity of Jesus per Kant’s Religion Within The Bounds Of Sheer Reason
Here I am inspired by Kant’s thinking on Jesus and the human and am toying with how Jesus could be presented as a model for every human, i.e., not so much as a divine being, but as another person who did what all people are called to do, but who do not. If we make Jesus a God we may love and worship him, but we will not emulate him.
Continue March 15, 2013
Third Antinomy and the two expressions of character
Another stab at grasping and clarifying the solution of the Third Antinomy in the Dialect of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Continue August 31, 2012
Is Mormonism a Knock Off of Islam?
This earlier reflection seems apropos at this time. While we have been attentive to Islam for a while, now thanks to Governor Romney some attention is being turned to Mormonism. And there are interesting parallels between the reports of the revelation of Mohammed and Joseph Smith. And since they are contradictory, how can we tell which, if either, is reporting facts and not dreams or concoctions?
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A Free Christian Communist Cuba may be the final hope.
Musing about a Cuba which becomes a Free Christian commune.
Continue June 4, 2012
Our Big Bang–Fixed or Fair?
Musing on the theory underlying the make up of our universe (leading as it does to intelligent life) and comparing it with a deck of cards in a four hand poker game.
Continue April 26, 2012