RT @HonestToddler@twitter.com
People of faith, don’t be afraid or offended when your religious institutions are called out. Own it. Say, “That’s not us,” and show people who you really are. Listen. Apologize. If you truly believe God is God and loves children, you can do this. #ExposeChristianSchools
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@cambridgeport90 I agree but with the stipulation that you still be critical since half the time those "call outs" were not justified, the other half were legitimate. Both sides cant usually see past their dogma so step one, as always, is being critical and informed before taking a side.
@freemo I never thought of it that way, though, to be honest. Seems that there will always be two sides, and never equality between them.
@cambridgeport90 I know lots of people who hate on religion all the time and see it as central to all the evils of the world.
I also know people who feel religion is this infallible set of principles that is perfect in every way.
These two groups of people represent extremes, and both tend to be rather dysfunctional.
@freemo I'm half in the middle. I simply believe what makes sense to me. Just because it wasn't written in a "religious" text (which I'm starting to doubt the truth of those all the time), doesn't mean that it couldn't have happened. In fact, one of my now favourite pastimes is to scour for the holes in organized religion. I'm actually in the process of putting up a web site dedicated to this, so you should find it interesting. A huge question I have been asking for at least the past five years, is where is the Goddess in the Book of Genesis? That's just one example of many questions I have. If you ask me, she was left out on purpose.
@cambridgeport90 I would argue that the language of the time was such that god was not masculin, since the way to express gender-neutral associations was to use the same pronouns as one would use for male.
So one perspective is that since god is gender-neutral the term "goddess" makes no sense in that context.
@freemo That's interesting. Even though I studied a lot of stuff as requirements in high school, we never bothered really studying the Hebrew and Latin behind it.