tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post2433266453025970173..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: A World Without Christianity…bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-89952588537587792282020-04-30T12:34:49.713-07:002020-04-30T12:34:49.713-07:00Anything of substance? I give you substance, and ...Anything of substance? I give you substance, and you complain. You cannot really be this confused.<br /><br />A dump of my entire opus? That’s over 1700 posts. I have already narrowed it down for you, and now you ask for more – as if one or two posts can answer a couple of decades of brainwashing in modern education.<br /><br />Last chance. If you want actual dialogue, demonstrate that you have read and understand all of the below. I am not saying you must agree, but that you understand. If you can manage this and want to talk, then I welcome an actual conversation. If you just want to keep attacking, we are done.<br /><br />http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/p/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none_30.html <br /><br />At the above link, read every post under the following authors:<br /><br />Fritz Kern<br />Robert Nisbet’s book, “The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom”<br />Frank van Dun<br /><br />Separately one of the best summaries I have read on this topic is here:<br /><br />https://mises.org/wire/cost-enlightenment <br />bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-49215765177106086702020-04-30T11:55:59.873-07:002020-04-30T11:55:59.873-07:00Perhaps, if you have previously addressed these po...Perhaps, if you have previously addressed these points you could point me to that article or articles that do. Giving me a dump of your entire opus seems like blowing a smoke screen for purposes of evasion and to discourage inquiry. So give me something specific to read. I'm not going to wade through your swamp just to wade through a swamp.<br /><br />Do you have anything of substance to show?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-44139086090672915472020-04-30T10:45:37.943-07:002020-04-30T10:45:37.943-07:00Do you think tired bromides are sufficient argumen...Do you think tired bromides are sufficient arguments at this blog, with me?<br /><br />OK. I will skip the weak stuff. If you really want to dance, start here:<br /><br />http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/p/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html <br /><br />You won't because you can't. To think beyond cliche takes some actual effort. Put some in, and quit reciting your third grade history.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-90167534379178534012020-04-30T10:10:52.768-07:002020-04-30T10:10:52.768-07:00"Certainly Christian-like values did not emer... "Certainly Christian-like values did not emerge from India."<br />Buddhism's not close enough for you, eh?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-40699580515607275452020-04-30T09:20:12.885-07:002020-04-30T09:20:12.885-07:00Weak stuff there Bionic. The usual evasion of an i...Weak stuff there Bionic. The usual evasion of an issue by a religious believer. Why don't you try to show that monotheism isn't a form of totalitarianism?<br /><br />In your screed you assert that Christianity gave respect to slaves. Maybe. But it didn't give them freedom, did it. How long did it take for slavery to come to an effective end in the Christian zone? Hint: about 1,865 years. The ending of slavery in the West had more to do with Enlightenment values than Christian values, the chief value of which is obedience.<br /><br />Can you actually address these points?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-78299773477886461452020-04-30T08:05:47.529-07:002020-04-30T08:05:47.529-07:00Liberty was officially lost in America nationally ...Liberty was officially lost in America nationally when the 18th-century founding fathers made liberty a goal (almost a god) instead of a corollary of implementing Yahweh's perfect law of liberty (Psalm 19:7-11, 119:44-45, James 2:12) as the supreme law of the land.<br /><br />"[B]ecause they have ... trespassed against my law ... they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind...." (Hosea 8:1, 7)<br /><br />Today's America is reaping the inevitable ever-intensifying whirlwind resulting from the wind sown by the constitutional framers and fanned by today's hoodwinked Christians and patriots who have been bamboozled into believing today's whirlwind can be dissipated by appealing to the wind responsible for spawning the whirlwind.<br /><br />For more, see Chapter 3 "The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh" of free online book "Bible Law vs, the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective" at http://www.bibleversusconstitution.org/BlvcOnline/biblelaw-constitutionalism-pt3.html<br /><br />Then, find out how much you really know about the Constitution as compared to the Bible. Take our 10-question Constitution Survey in the right-hand sidebar and receive a complimentary copy of the 85-page "Primer" of "BL vs. USC."Ted R. Weilandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01513069258387315741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-51894236226937651932020-04-30T02:47:12.583-07:002020-04-30T02:47:12.583-07:00Just one more anonymous sovereign individual, thin...Just one more anonymous sovereign individual, thinking liberty will be found by shouting "I am a sovereign individual."<br /><br />We have had over five hundred years of this belief, and almost three hundred years of it being put into political practice. It isn't working out exactly as planned, is it.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-52566167341567177172020-04-29T23:22:56.006-07:002020-04-29T23:22:56.006-07:00Christianity is a monotheist religion. God is an o...Christianity is a monotheist religion. God is an omnipotent power before which nothing can stand. Human totalitarianism is the political analogue of this model. Freedom is not valued in political totalitarianism. The supreme virtue is obedience. The same supreme virtue is found in Christianity. Submission and obedience to God is what it is all about. There is no freedom in a monotheistic system except for God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-74726216870585189072020-04-29T20:08:18.679-07:002020-04-29T20:08:18.679-07:00"This is why church attendance in the west is..."This is why church attendance in the west is shrinking"<br /><br />While there has been a decline in religion, there has been an increase in the search for spirituality. Christians look for that in other traditions, or search deep within their own tradition. An example of the latter is the popularity of books like "The Da Vinci Code".<br /><br />"The novel nonetheless became a massive worldwide bestseller that sold 80 million copies as of 2009 and has been translated into 44 languages." —Wikipedia<br /><br />As for other traditions:<br /><br />In 2014, the BBC reported that in that year, Rumi was the best-selling poet in the US.<br /><br />"The ecstatic poems of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian poet and Sufi master born 807 years ago in 1207, have sold millions of copies in recent years, making him the most popular poet in the US. Globally, his fans are legion." —BBC.com<br /><br />Sufism is the mystical branch of Islam, i.e., the Islamic path to enlightenment. When Christians read Rumi's poetry, it touches something deep within them. <br /><br />That something which they feel is akin to gnostic Christianity, aka, mystical Christianity, which the church called a heresy and tried to hide in the first few centuries, until the discovery of the gnostic gospels.<br /><br />Now we have come full circle.<br /><br />Ahmed Fareshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07105255828394485657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-40323376157760820092020-04-29T19:05:58.525-07:002020-04-29T19:05:58.525-07:00It is on my list, but I am waiting for the paperba...It is on my list, but I am waiting for the paperback - I am not an e-reader type, and hardcovers are too bulky.<br /><br />The story is at least 2,000 years old, so I can wait a couple of months or whatever!bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-73273437079961242642020-04-29T15:55:57.096-07:002020-04-29T15:55:57.096-07:00Sounds like a book I need to read. Very interesti...Sounds like a book I need to read. Very interesting description of history. I have always wanted to learn more about pre-Christian Europe and American cultures. Could be great for apologetics too.RMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603112499567064214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-43812121861523184562020-04-29T11:01:01.716-07:002020-04-29T11:01:01.716-07:00True freedom is only possible with constraints. Th...True freedom is only possible with constraints. The search for the optimal set of constraints for maximization of freedom is the search for the Natural Law. Not an easy task, but not impossible either. And by the way, it starts with the search for those constraints which will limit human conflict and disorder over maximal periods of time (that last portion is critical, as it is certainly possible to impose short-term order and peace at the cost of long-term stability, which is what is happening in our society today).Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14744536089279494069noreply@blogger.com