Voltaire on God
“If God created us in his own image we have more than reciprocated”. Voltaire (Le Sottisier)
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ISIS: a challenge to the readers, Part 2
A reader made the following observation yesterday: “The Epicurean solution (to the turmoil in the Middle East) would be: DON’T INTERVENE. Epicurus was against involvement in politics, especially geopolitics, and for good reason – life is too short to make yourself miserable solving other people’s problems. The reader was talking about Britain, but I entirely …
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1. Understanding ISIS: a challenge to the readers. Long, but important!
General Nagata is a top US General. He is quoted as saying, “We do not understand ISIS, and until we do, we are not going to defeat it. We have not defeated the idea. We do not even understand the idea.” About 1,000 foreign fighters flock to Iraq and Syria every month. How and why …
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Challenge!
Do you seriously need a God to tell you not to kill one another, not to steal, not not bear false witness?
Christianity and nationalism
Christianity and nationalism are incompatible. Why would an all-seeing, all-loving god pick Americans to favor above all others. And yet huge numbers of Americans regard their country as God’s most favoured nation. “It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in …