IlDiavolo

Feminism is going nowhere? Have you never turned on a T.V. or been to a university campus?

So because there are some female feminists you don't like, all women should be avoided?

You're doing exactly what you're complaining about: tarring groups with the same brush. Not the first time I've seen a Mgtow make an idiotic comment.

America is not a racist society.

Many Brazilians disagree. In fact, if you are a person of color, the USA is the best place to live hands down than anywhere in Latin Amer

What are gay rights like in Uruguay?  My perception is that you're a fairly freedom loving bunch of folks down there.

No. I am saying that the faith is not about following a set of rules, which will not in itself save you. it is about "charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned", "To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.", "to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."

Not the kind of love Christianity teaches, which is...

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

Does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there isknowledge, it will vanish away.

For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away."

This type of love is not an emotion.

That's cool, although I'm not sure what the last sentence means. For certain (IMO), there exists creatures and spiritual beings outside or transcendent of the physical domain but there is no reason for fear. I've seen spiritual beings as well as what people refer to as ghosts and there was no fear involved. The only thing we need to fear is our actions and the consequences thereof. 

Are you familiar with the term "subtle body" in Hinduism and some schools of Buddhist thought? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtle_body

If I don't like chicken noodle soup, should I be forced to eat it?

Christianity is not a legalistic religion to begin with, so your question is a bit misplaced. 

Love is not an emotion. Not in the way we understand it. That is not true love.

Disspassion as a state of being is something that is obtained by the grace of God through the Christian discipline, which is fundamentally medicinal.

I agree that a lot of people find strength and solace in religion.  In my view it's a placebo, but placebos often work.

Religion also has its downsides - what more is there to say?

Looks like we have another Liar for Jesus. Yeah, you said you were Christian, you talked about your background and where you came from and how you're still a hard core Christian, and a Creationist, hence your failure at trying to refute evolution.

Well let me be frank, the Bible is not all copied it has its own perceptions and unique works. Could some things have been borrowed? sure, but they could still put there own meaning behind any illustrations or story. So, I'm going to hesitate on agreeing with you here because I do happen to really admire Jesus and what he exemplified in the Gospels and to me, they are definitely unique. Jesus was certainly a spiritual Master. But, there are more than one spiritual Masters and they come in many forms all with the same basic purpose for the soul. These Masters come to this planet and help redeem mankind and their corrupt ways. Note, the opponents of Jesus in the Gospels were the corrupt religious authorities not the common man/sinner. The organized religious system had no idea what it meant to abide in the light of God. Everything to them are rules, doctrines and wealth/power/control.

I'm not going to discount the idea or claim the Gospels were exaggerated or facts and teachings were left out. On the other hand, I will remind you that the Gospels come across as very genuine and Jesus WAS a spiritual Master. Masters are unusual and the higher the level the more profound the manifestations/abilities. Even if some of the accounts were exaggerated Jesus was certainly an above average man just judging by his disposition and ethics. I seriously doubt there was a good enough motive to make up this Jesus character in the time it took place, for it would have been certain suicide. The only thing that makes sense, is that Jesus existed and defied the religious rulers and was murdered for it. But again, I'm not a fundamentalist so my beliefs are not the same as a lot of the misconceptions and bizarre doctrines you mainly hear of. 

As far as Jesus being God, this traces back to Hinduism and eastern thought. Jesus actually said we are all sons of God (Gospel of Thomas) as well as we are "one". Jesus' confession that he was one with the father (God) is actually not new, we all come out of the heart of God as sons and daughters not just some souls....ALL souls and so in essence there really is no distinction between the very nature of God and the nature of the individualized soul other than our limited states of awareness. God has access to all channels of awareness and Jesus was killed for an Eastern system of thought and belief.

Basically you are not required to buy into religious doctrines if they don't sit well with you, as I said you are an individual on your own spiritual path and you have all the keys within yourself. 

I'll take that as a concession considering you still haven't explained anything nor provided any kind of defense for putting up that link.

You told us you're a Christian with your other userid from DDO, Archy. Whatever game you're trying to play as IlDummio isn't fooling anyone.

And yet we've never tried.  My original point was that so many of place a high value on democracy and majority rule but in the big picture- not one government has ever really tried it.  If we really believe in majority rule and women are almost always the majority in any culture, then we must give the women the reigns sometime and discover what that's like.

Again, no reason to use the term "God" for that....

Okay, but you could learn about it AND experience it. But why not? you yourself are a sentient conscious being, so why reject the idea of another one? or a higher one? is that really that farfetched? consciousness comes from consciousness...

While I do practice and take insights from the Bible I'm not referring to that. I'm an Omnist meaning that religions are the interpretation of that reality and I learn from all of them. That doesn't mean they are all correct either, thy have truth and they have errors.

You can believe that without making the assumption that people just make things up, why assume that instead of accepting that people are trying to interpret what they are observing? to take the position that everyone is lying I have to ask myself how much have you looked into and researched within spirituality?

What is that understanding?  How do those hormones work?

Men were traditionally head of the household in all the cultures of the early Christians- Roman, Greek, & Hebrew.  I don't think it can be fairly said that Christianity made some conscious move towards elevating men.  If the Nag Hammadi literature tells us anything, it's that women were more important in the early Christian church than just about any other Mediterranean religious institution- Isis worship, perhaps.

unsubstantiated, unsubstantiatable, and blech.

I said average.  Are you putting forward Alexander as an average male leader?

I'm thinking of Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Zenobia, etc.  You're countering with tech bro surveys?  You have attributed effective female leadership to an excess of testosterone but also to male supervision- do you mean both?

You must be mentally retarded, Archy. Obviously, you didn't read the article.

All gods are the creation of man.

That's an article on alcohol and drug addiction, is that how you understand God. Nonetheless, you still couldn't explain it, as I predicted. Probably too much alcohol and drugs, Archy?

I don't disagree except that I get the impression you're suggesting that men outperform women in the activity of government- which I don't buy.  Obviously, there have been far fewer women in the top spot in any style of government but when you evaluate the average quality of leadership shown by those women against the average quality of leadership shown by men, the women are far, far, superior.  Now, small sampling sizes can skew the comparison but I think that history demonstrates the superiority of female heads of state to a sufficient degree to warrant a popular embrace of women in executive positions across the board.

Boo. Women are the majority of all Americans (we seem to just be talking about US here), and in a democracy, majorities rule.  Until women at least once had a majority in Congress, in the courts, and multiples presidencies, until women have acheived more tangible milestones in the assumption of power, we are failing, as Americans, at representing our majority.

You haven't explained anything primarily because you don't know how to explain something. See your hilarious failure in the Science forum to observe what I'm referring.

Why? What point is there to that? What will we learn? What can we achieve? How do we benefit from that understanding?

Knowledge in and of itself is not classified as God, I'm not really sure what your point is. If you don't believe in an intelligent higher power then there is no need to use that term. 

The concept, in your view has become irrelevant I believe. If I may ask, what problem do you have with God as a higher conscious Being?