THE VOICE OF REASON
Solon, (born c. 630 BCE—died c. 560 BCE), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
5:00 The First Amendment is not going to protect you if you don't protect it. Moronic hypocritical and historically ignorant Christian nationalists are known for wanting to abolish the First Amendment and wanting to pass a Christian Amendment to make America officially a Christians republic so they can assert status over the Jews, Muslims and foreigners whom they have always hated.
13:00 Secular Koranism will be rejected by sex offenders.
14:00 Repentance/teshuvah
15:00 Secular Koranism is attractive to sinners.
16:00 The First Amendment can only be protected and destroyed by Americans.
17:00 Map and recipe book of analogy
Threatening to Trinity
18:00 Christian debating "tactics" can be overcome by cutting to the chase immediately and asking them how Christianity is not idolatry and how Jesus is God. Do not let them start talking at you or you will start retreating faced with a tidal wave of Christocrap and lose the will to engage or start having to interrupt which these gasbagging windbags will interpret as rudeness giving them the excuse to remove you from their stream.
20:00 Europeans and colonials
21:00 Paul Vanderklay is better than Jordan Peterson
Gatekeepers are carefully chosen for their defects and weaknesses of character.
2:00 The excommunication of Spinoza is evidence of how important it is to conceive of God correctly to extract maximum benefit from from our chosen Abrahamic religion.
God is transcendent, not immanent.
3:00 Avoiding idolatry
4:00 Not believing in the morality and justice of God would prevent us from trusting Him and acting correctly.
5:00 Moral atheists
6:00 Which moral system is best?
7:00 Christians are antinomian and antinomianism comes from the Calvinist belief in predestination.
9:00 Obedience to God's laws
10:00 Jews and Muslims think the Trinity is idolatry.
12:00 Christians who wish to remain Christian would deny that Christianity is idolatry.
13:00 Neither Jews nor Muslims have informed Christians of their idolatry.
14:00 No religion, no patriarchy. Without patriarchy, society will become and remain degenerate suffering from the moral diseases caused by sex offenders ie unmarried parents and their illegitimate offspring who will go on to have illegitimate offspring causing ever more sex offenders to be born.
15:00 The Age of Enlightenment
16:00 Empiricism and Descartes
17:00 If there was a Creation, there must have been a Creator.
18:00 Christians appear to have abolished hell.
19:00 Tom Holland conflates Christianity with Liberalism.
20:00 The Age of Enlightenment was a reaction to the Wars of Reformation.
21:00 The blind leading the blind: the Pope leading absolute monarchs.
23:00 The Lateran Treaty 1929
24:00 The Reformation was inevitable.
Christendom ended in 1918.
25:00 The American Revolution began a series of republican revolutions that ended absolute monarchy in Europe.
John Adams: "The constitution cannot operate in the absence of a moral and religious people."
26:00 Christians cannot agree on anything other than to keep on splintering.
28:00 Pride is a Deadly Sin.
29:00 The laws of God are our safety rails allowing us to hold our ruling classes accountable.
31:00 It is necessary for us to believe in a benign deity in order to act correctly.
32:00 The concept of God definitely exists; God - if created - was created for social cohesion.
34:00 Christianity is fundamentally corrupt.
35:00 Why idolatry is bad for you even if God does not exist
36:00 The First Amendment is supported by sharia.
37:00 The map and recipe book analogy
38:00 The law is the lowest standard of morality.
39:00 Judaism
40:00 Legal systems
41:00 The written word
The narrative power of Jews being God's Chosen People
42:00 Jews and their brand is useful to gentiles too.
43:00 Christian nationalism
44:00 Liberalism was a reaction against absolute monarchy.
45:00 Americanism is Liberalism.
46:00 The Koran is liberal insofar as it supports the First Amendment.
47:00 Christianity is the best religion for selling snake oil.
48:00 The law is the minimum of morality and our laws should be in harmony with our chosen moral system.
23:00 God's attributes of omnipotence and omniscience
31:00 OLSON joins to discuss the Creation.
36:00 Pascal
39:00 The Universe is a living thing.
40:00 Robert Jastrow: "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians…
1:56:00 CLAIRE KHAW joins to ask why middle class Christians and Post-Christians cannot just cut to the chase and talk about the things they want to talk about instead of spouting platitudes at each other which they should save for their irl relationships.
Neal talks about saying the things he wants to say "in proportion to the strength of the relationships who are receiving the things I want to say." Why? Shouldn't we speak truth to power?
1:57:00 Who the fuck is "Little Johnny" and why the fuck should I imagine myself to be Little Johnny growing up in America in 1800? Is it just the usual Christian gasbagging to deflect and distract?
1:58:00 More pap and platitudes
1:59:00 Online parasocial relationships are for saying what's on our mind.
2:00:00 PAUL ALAN joins to say he cannot stop himself from talking at me if he does not trust me. He expects me to join them in their endlessly public therapy sessions as gasbagging windbags in order to be admitted as a trusted member of their group devoted to endless gasbagging. No thanks.
Michael Sartori quoting Romans 7 to draw attention to the get-out clause for Christians not obeying the law. It was "the devil in me" that made me murder, rob and rape!
