Or, maybe we just all grow up and stop arguing over legendary figures? (Reply #1)

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Fri Apr 12, 2019, 09:53 AM

LongtimeAZDem (4,494 posts)

1. Or, maybe we just all grow up and stop arguing over legendary figures?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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How to Break the Republican Lock on God [View all]	mobeau69	Apr 2019	OP
Or, maybe we just all grow up and stop arguing over legendary figures?	LongtimeAZDem	Apr 2019	#1
Not likely to happen now, is it?	mobeau69	Apr 2019	#3
I so agree with you.	bitterross	Apr 2019	#4
Well that,s fair. You don't have to believe what they believe.	marylandblue	Apr 2019	#5
Good luck with that	TexasBushwhacker	Apr 2019	#7
Actually, homosexuality is negatively addressed in Romans.	stopbush	Apr 2019	#10
And arguably, Corinthians and Timothy	LongtimeAZDem	Apr 2019	#12
Indeed. When will we as a species stop our annoying habit of giving	stopbush	Apr 2019	#15
Yes, by that bigot Paul	NastyRiffraff	Apr 2019	#28
Sure, but he's also the founder of Christianity.	stopbush	Apr 2019	#29
True.	NastyRiffraff	Apr 2019	#30
Bingo! And while we're at it, let's stop referring to mythical figures	stopbush	Apr 2019	#9
I disagree that Jesus can be definitively categorized as mythical; like Robin Hood, it is	LongtimeAZDem	Apr 2019	#11
The best arguments against Jesus being a real person are:	stopbush	Apr 2019	#18
Agreed, but none of that explicitly refutes the possibility of a preacher or preachers whose stories	LongtimeAZDem	Apr 2019	#22
Sure. I give it a less than 1% chance that it's true, but that's still a chance, no?	stopbush	Apr 2019	#25
Not much on history?	WeekiWater	Apr 2019	#31
Very big on history; before I studied, I took Jesus' historicity for granted. It wasn't until	LongtimeAZDem	Apr 2019	#33
That, combined with societal historical trends,..	WeekiWater	Apr 2019	#34
Societal historical trends are not proof of legendary figures	LongtimeAZDem	Apr 2019	#35
I'm not looking for proof.	WeekiWater	Apr 2019	#36
OK, fair point	LongtimeAZDem	Apr 2019	#37
This used to be called the Social Gospel, and it was big more than 100 years ago.	marylandblue	Apr 2019	#2
democrats have tended to shy away from god and religion talk and that enabled the rightwing to	beachbum bob	Apr 2019	#6
I am very much against the Ds using Christianity as an arrow in their political quiver.	stopbush	Apr 2019	#26
Sounds like a way to re-brand the term "Democratic Socialism" It won't go anywhere.	bitterross	Apr 2019	#8
If only we could engineer tightly moderated public debates between Prosperity and Social Gospel folk	JudyM	Apr 2019	#13
Historically, people move surprisingly fast under certain conditions.	marylandblue	Apr 2019	#20
This is a futile battle. The religious right doesn't give a shit about their hypocrisy.	progressoid	Apr 2019	#14
True, but I'd like to see the agnostic middle educated to the...	LAS14	Apr 2019	#16
I suspect that the agnostic middle is, well, agnostic on the subject.	progressoid	Apr 2019	#21
I suspect that many people sitting in the pews are less enamored of their right wing preachers	marylandblue	Apr 2019	#24
I'm so glad that this is happening.	LAS14	Apr 2019	#17
It happens in spite of religion.	stopbush	Apr 2019	#19
There is much more complex interplay between philosophical and religious thought	marylandblue	Apr 2019	#23
As my pastor is doing, he's preaching what Jesus Taught	JustFiveMoreMinutes	Apr 2019	#27
John Pavlovitz is particularly good at confronting the hypocrisy of the religious right:	highplainsdem	Apr 2019	#32
Thanks. These look good! Will read them all later.	mobeau69	Apr 2019	#40
Yep. Christian democrats must hit the religious right head on.	Blue_true	Apr 2019	#38
I'd prefer that religion, all religion,	Skidmore	Apr 2019	#39

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