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Showing posts with label theology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label theology. Show all posts

Thursday, 14 May 2020

The study of theology

Is theology the study of religious doctrines and their purpose? If so, what is the purpose of the Trinity for the gentile who wishes to worship the Abrahamic God without falling foul of the prohibition against idolatry and blasphemy? What prevents him from converting to Islam other than Islamophobia, fear of ostracism and the chauvinism that makes him think Christianity is "white and civilised" while Islam is "brown and barbaric"?

Perhaps the answer is even simpler: the gentile non-Muslim Westerner simply does not wish to give up what he thinks is this human right to have extramarital sex. If it is the case that choosing one's religion is a moral choice, then we would choose the moral system that most affirms our lifestyle choice. If we choose sexual liberation, or are already hooked on it since we had our first sex education class at primary school, then we would reject any moral system that says extramarital sex should be treated as a sexual offence.

Atheists and nihilists would not care about posterity or the quality of the next generation and be instead solely focused on a hedonistic lifestyle that can only be enjoyed in this life. This means he will be incapable of saying no to any sexual encounter and will be indifferent to any arguments about making any sacrifice for any principle. This also means he will be as predictable as cattle or beasts of burden, requiring only the motivation of stick and carrot, or in the case of cattle-like humans, only the motivation of threats, bribes or lies.

Friday, 18 October 2019

Why am I being ignored by Dr Edward Dutton, YouTuber, theologian and anthropologist?



To: ecdutton
Sent: Friday, 20 September 2019, 14:50:23 BST
Subject: A theological discussion on my YouTube channel?

Dear Dr Dutton

I do hope it will be possible for us to discuss the nature and purpose of morality as a group evolutionary strategy.

https://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-purpose-of-morality-which-comes.html

Regards
Claire Khaw

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To: ecdutton
Sent: Monday, 14 October 2019, 18:21:12 BST
Subject: May I know if you have heard of Secular Koranism?


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To: ecdutton
Sent: Monday, 14 October 2019, 18:37:27 BST
Subject: Why should we not worship the Abrahamic God and/or follow His laws?


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To: ecdutton
Sent: Monday, 14 October 2019, 18:47:03 BST
Subject: Is the White Anglo Saxon Protestant (WASP) a tribe?



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To: ecdutton
Cc: Mark Collett ; Millennial Woes
Sent: Friday, 18 October 2019, 12:24:18 BST
Subject: Accelerationism at the North of England Patriotic Alternative Conference 2019

Dear Dr Dutton

Would you confirm that this topic was being discussed? I assume that the reason why no videos have been released on the event other than the bland one by Mark Collett and Laura Towler is simply because they would fall foul of hate speech laws.

Would you also confirm that the reason you are ignoring me is because you have been told not to engage with me by Mark Collett and Millennial Woes in order to deprive Secular Koranism of the oxygen publicity?

How ethical is this considering you are what would be considered an educated man as well as both a theologian and anthropologist?

You may have heard that it is the mark of an educated man to entertain an idea without accepting it.
http://thevoiceofreason-ann.blogspot.com/2019/03/will-millennial-woes-have-deleted-my.html

Regards
Claire Khaw



Millennial Woes:

I don't think paganism is feasible as a solution because I don't think enough people believe in it or and I don't see it spreading fast enough.  Christianity has had the stuffing knocked out of it to say the least over the last century so I don't know if it can recover or if it can recover in time. The other option is atheism which just is where we are just now anyway and then the fourth option is Islam and there are people who think that we're just going to inevitably become Islamic and that has various implications. Would we be assimilated into the Muslim immigrants' demographic group in which case it would be their version of Islam that ruled Europe or would it be that we adopted Islam and modified it as we did with with Christianity? Would it be our version of Islam? I might get some flack for saying this stuff or even for entertaining this. I'm just sort of putting it over there, just speculating on how are we going to resist Islam and what are we gaining by resisting Islam. Are we gaining nihilism and just more vapid consumerism or are we regaining strength and vitality somehow? Again, these are all questions that other people need to address and I can only put the question out there but I do think that it's something that we we can't afford to just ignore. I remember at the TBG in December there was a guy who really got very irate with me for suggesting that maybe Islam will be the only way out of the nihilism, out of globohomo, and if it will be so then the choice is "Do you want Islam or do you want globohomo?" so not a fucking nice choice but if you want to avoid that then you have to find a way to resist Islam and resist globohomo, and as I say, I don't see what that would be at this point. Maybe something will materialise.

Saturday, 25 May 2019

In the beginning of Man's creation of God was the *idea of all ideas*

For the avoidance of doubt, my interpretation of that verse "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" is as follows:


"In the beginning of Man's creation of God was the idea of the most powerful deity conceivable, and that was the Abrahamic God."


There is no God more powerful than the Abrahamic God, is there? It is in fact impossible to conceive of a more powerful God than the Abrahamic God.


If we wish to worship a deity, then it would be rational to worship the most powerful deity with the most clearly stated laws in the most accessible scripture. That would be the Koran.


If we wish to worship the most powerful deity as Jews, then we must convert to Judaism.


If we wish to worship the most powerful deity as gentiles, then we must submit to Islam.


Since Islam is "Judaism Lite", it would be more rational to submit to Islam, if we are not quite sure of God's existence since Islam requires a lower standard of observance than Judaism and Muslims are the majority. In short, it is easier to be Muslim than an observant Jew.


Christians have been guilty of idolatry for 2000 years and need to be reminded that if God has taken the trouble of forbidding idolatry, you can be sure that He will punish it. Observing the failure of Christianity in the West and its growing weakness and corruption, it would appear that idolatry is its own punishment.

Sunday, 20 January 2019

Why idolatry annoys me and I am agnostic




13 Principles of Judaism
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/332555/jewish/Maimonides-13-Principles-of-Faith.htm

Shirk (Islam)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirk_(Islam)

Tawid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawhid

Spinoza's Censure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herem_(censure)

PHILOSOPHY - Baruch Spinoza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVEeXjPiw54

Xenophanes famously noted that if horses could draw, they would draw their gods as horses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophanes#Theology

Akhenaten continued the cult of the Pharaoh, proclaiming himself the son of Aten and encouraging the Egyptian people to worship him. The Egyptian people were to worship Akhenaten, and only Akhenaten and Nefertiti could worship Aten directly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atenism#Atenist_revolution

Social and Political Thought in Chinese Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-social-political/

Brahman and Atman: That Art Thou
http://pluralism.org/religions/hinduism/introduction-to-hinduism/brahman-and-atman-that-art-thou/

Compare the simplicity of the Shahada to the convoluted complexities of the Nicene creeed whose purpose only makes sense in the explanation I have given: of Christians wanting to be special and better than Jews and Muslims through their blasphemous and idolatrous doctrine of the Trinity which nobody really believes now anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed

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

The conceptual superiority and unity of the Koran and its source compared to the ragtag nature of Christian scripture: at the most conflicting accounts of events said to be by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as well as various epistles written decades after the death of Christ.  The Koran is believed by Muslims to be the directly transcribed Word of God addressing us in Arabic revealed through Muhammad while the New Testament is the reported speech and deeds of an executed revolutionary by different people with different accounts.

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+45%3A7&version=KJV

Church of England’s Synod may abolish Holy Trinity to include Muslims
https://www.julesgomes.com/single-post/Church-of-Englands-Synod-may-abolish-Holy-Trinity-to-include-Muslims

Wednesday, 6 September 2017

My recent questions and answers on religion and theology

Why do Christians not follow the morality of the Bible?

Because the Church itself does not follow Biblical principles and is only interested in bums on pews without regard for religious principles. The Church is materialist now and measures its success by the gross weight and volume of those who sit on its pews. Even as the West is afflicted by a wave of morbid obesity, by this measure the Church still fails.

Do you think that Odinism has anything to offer for Britons?

Of course not. The Vikings died out! They settled in Europe, became Normans, Christianised themselves and became Catholic.

White Sharia is not genuine, it is just Wotanist neo-NS hatred towards women and gays. Sharia Law would not accept such pagan plagiarism like that.

Very true, but those who support it at least have this gut instinct that it is feminism that has brought the white man so low.

What do you think of White Sharia?

White Sharia is an excellent way of showing that what White Men really really want would be far far far more restrictive on women than the real McCoy if you were interpreting the Koran properly.

 Do we live in the best of all possible worlds?

If there is only one world, then what we live in must be the only and therefore the best possible world, logically speaking.

I see you are quoting Dr Pangloss in Candide.

If we take an impartial view of things, even our misfortunes are part of the sum total of human life and knowledge and we should feel privileged to take part in it, however insignificant we feel ourselves to be.

Obviously, we would only be able to take such a detached view if we are philosophers, which very few of us are but which I like to think I am.

Does Christianity make Christians stupid?

It is rather corrupting bargain Christians are forced to make: to pretend to believe that Jesus is simultaneously God Himself and His Son.

What a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive ....

Who is being deceived?

Christians are deceiving each other as to the nature of God.

Why is telling porkies about the nature of God bad when most people don't believe in God anyway? Who cares if Christians really believe Jesus really is divine?

Because believing that Christ is simultaneously God Himself and His Son is a different order of belief to believing that if there was a Creation there must have been a Creator and that Creator is the Abrahamic God, the most powerful entity conceivable by Man who is unique, omnipotent, supreme and perfectly moral who is also our personal God.

Also, we shouldn't tell porkies to each other or to ourselves and then persecute people who won't tell the same porkies we are prepared to tell.

The bargain Christians are required to strike with God is immensely corrupting, and this is why Christianity and Hypocrisy go hand in hand.

Islam is the Goldilocks religion of the Abrahamic faiths because Judaism is too high-maintenance but Islam is just right with a low entry threshold but no requirement to tell porkies about believing in the Nicene creed and then killing or persecuting other Christians because you don't like the way they worship God or the way they think about God.

 Kevin and Dave do not like Jews, they blame them for society's woes

People with no religion are defeated by those with religion. People who ignore the rules of their religion are defeated by those who follow them.

Why do you admire Jews and Judaism?

Because gentiles can learn from Jews about why they are the most powerful tribe in the world.

 What about Judaism gives Jews the edge over gentiles?

All the rules that Christians and Muslims plagiarised from Judaism, of course.

 Why did Islam run out of steam?

Islam ran out of steam because the Ottoman Empire closed the Gate of Interpretation ossifying Islam and its laws.

Why did Christianity fail?

Because the Doctrine of the Trinity is an absurdity and even pretending to believe it is morally corrupting making you stupid, hypocritical, weak, dishonest and cynical. Christianity couldn't survive once it became legal to deny the Trinity or if Islam is around as a competing religion. And so here we are.

 Is Islam inevitable?

It is more inevitable than a Christian revival. Why would you try to repair your irreparably broken boiler when a new one has just been delivered?

You too can ask me questions at https://ask.fm/oneparty4all

Saturday, 20 June 2009

Theological debate: Christianity v Islam

Below is a debate started from http://www.archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/ with Len, which has now turned into a theological debate.

https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=25291932&postID=8117455235810229967&page=1&isPopup=true

While I am delighted to hear that you have read the Koran, Len, you clearly read it with a closed mind. It consists of moral warnings and guidance expressed in legalistic terms, rather like a contract you would be making with God if He were a door-to-door salesman promising eternal life and bliss if you fulfil your part of your contract. The Koran is no more than a restatement of the Ten Commandments in poetic and legalistic form. All the morality that is contained in Judaism and Christianity you will find synthesised in the Koran, with the over-harsh bits in the Old Testament and the vague bits that create doubt and conflict, such as the Trinity, excised.

If I were you, I would choose the religion that is

1) most effective in doing
2) the most good
3) for the most people.

Ask yourself if you really believe in the trinity, or are you really just a
Cultural Christian, who uses Christianity as a badge of identity? You are welcome to tell me what you find disjointed and illogical about the Koran, should you wish to pursue this discussion.

20 June 2009 08:03

God behaving badly

1:03:00  CLAIRE  KHAW joins to say God in the Koran is more reasonable than God in the Old Testament, but there is only one Abrahamic God.  ...