Humanistics the Atheist Church
Chaplain Greg Epstein a Harvard Professor has Identified a need for Atheists to organize to build a structure for their secular community to develop a religion that is absent from GOD.
Many of the key points that were discussed in the show that I was listening to I did agree with. How we are all social creatures in need of a strong community connection and that we must share in order to stay connected.
Helping others is a key to the moral code, but a building is not needed. There is another way.
There is an individual approach that doesn't require any specific leader.
We move together and yet independent of each other helping each other on the way up. Passing down to each other the means to survive, giving knowledge and encouraging others to grow.
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Submitted by TheGreatWhiteBuffalo on Thu, 09/20/2007 - 21:56.
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That sounds social without the 'ism'.
And without the confusion of who's will is it?
The show I listened to was interesting...
I'm fixing up a post about that show and maybe if you follow up you can find an archive or pod cast and get the whole picture.
It was as I said it was interesting, although I think it is trying to do the same thing that has been failing us for so long.
We do need a little more freedom. The freedoms that we currently have are less than the freedoms that our parents grew up with.
Why is that?
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The Freedoms
Do you have a certain segment of the population in mind?
The freedoms today aren't fewer freedoms than my parents grew up with.
There are more laws today, and some of those laws are good and to advance the freedoms of minorities. They are to stop the legal restrictions of the minority person the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The lack of freedom is in how many times the laws are broken. When a law is broken upon you, you have less freedom. The heavier the injuries, the heavier the burden, the less freedom you have. Your freedom was stolen. You are buried in burden. And if the culprit remains at large, they have your freedom, and theirs. The thief has stolen your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
And that isn't to say that criminal behavior only happens against minorities.
Also, many people today are more hung up on 'things', because there are more things to want.
Actually, this is exactly
Actually, this is exactly how the first century Christian Church grew--but then someone came up with an idea for buildings and separation of clergy and the the congregation--and well now we have all kinds of divisions which are called denominations.
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The idea
Jesus started that. Peter lead.
And then Paul was to lead the early church.
The idea is all through the Old Testament. Scribes and Pharoses were leaders.
People have always needed leaders. And mostly the leaders are separate from the so-called common folk. The ‘Sheep’ need their shepherd.
Freedoms have...
responsibilties to others.
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Responsibilities?
Please clarify as to what you mean when you say responsibilities?