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Dennis Prager : If There Is No God
QUOTE(Snuffysmith @ Aug 19 2008, 07:07 AM) 
Dennis Prager : If There Is No God
What a crock.
Prager used to moderate a show on KABC radio in LA called "Religion on the line" in which a handful of people from different faiths debated the issues of the day. And he was a pretty good moderator.
Now, as self-appointed Moralist for the World, he is so full of himself that he has acquired the O'Reilly factor - - he thinks he IS GOD.
I need to go re-arrange my sock drawer.
QUOTE(jeffmoskin @ Aug 19 2008, 09:56 AM)
QUOTE(Snuffysmith @ Aug 19 2008, 07:07 AM)
Dennis Prager : If There Is No God
What a crock.
Prager used to moderate a show on KABC radio in LA called "Religion on the line" in which a handful of people from different faiths debated the issues of the day. And he was a pretty good moderator.
Now, as self-appointed Moralist for the World, he is so full of himself that he has acquired the O'Reilly factor - - he thinks he IS GOD.
I need to go re-arrange my sock drawer.
A double crock. When persons stop using the expression White Supremacy it will eventually
drop out of the Language and eventually out of the personal construct systems of persons.
When persons stop using expressions of Worship this, that or the other entity, such expressions
will drop out of the Language and out of the personal construct systems of persons.
From the article:
"4. Human beings need instruction manuals. This is as true for acting morally and wisely as it is for properly flying an airplane. One's heart is often no better a guide to what is right and wrong than it is to the right and wrong way to fly an airplane. The post-religious secular world claims to need no manual; the heart and reason are sufficient guides to leading a good life and to making a good world"
Yes, I agree, humans do need instruction manuals but the instructions for living healthy moral lives can come from many sources....philosophers, all major religious texts, etc. Belief in a "god" is not the only avenue to living a healthy and happy life. If one needs to be assured of an after life to cope with human tragedies then I guess a belief in the supernatural is required. But not all people need the promise of an after life, as promised in the NT, to healthfully cope with human mortality issues.
"4. Human beings need instruction manuals. This is as true for acting morally and wisely as it is for properly flying an airplane. One's heart is often no better a guide to what is right and wrong than it is to the right and wrong way to fly an airplane. The post-religious secular world claims to need no manual; the heart and reason are sufficient guides to leading a good life and to making a good world"
Yes, I agree, humans do need instruction manuals but the instructions for living healthy moral lives can come from many sources....philosophers, all major religious texts, etc. Belief in a "god" is not the only avenue to living a healthy and happy life. If one needs to be assured of an after life to cope with human tragedies then I guess a belief in the supernatural is required. But not all people need the promise of an after life, as promised in the NT, to healthfully cope with human mortality issues.
If there is no God, Prager would be selling shoes.
QUOTE(amy @ Aug 19 2008, 11:50 AM)
From the article:
"4. Human beings need instruction manuals. This is as true for acting morally and wisely as it is for properly flying an airplane. One's heart is often no better a guide to what is right and wrong than it is to the right and wrong way to fly an airplane. The post-religious secular world claims to need no manual; the heart and reason are sufficient guides to leading a good life and to making a good world"
Yes, I agree, humans do need instruction manuals but the instructions for living healthy moral lives can come from many sources....philosophers, all major religious texts, etc. Belief in a "god" is not the only avenue to living a healthy and happy life. If one needs to be assured of an after life to cope with human tragedies then I guess a belief in the supernatural is required. But not all people need the promise of an after life, as promised in the NT, to healthfully cope with human mortality issues.
"4. Human beings need instruction manuals. This is as true for acting morally and wisely as it is for properly flying an airplane. One's heart is often no better a guide to what is right and wrong than it is to the right and wrong way to fly an airplane. The post-religious secular world claims to need no manual; the heart and reason are sufficient guides to leading a good life and to making a good world"
Yes, I agree, humans do need instruction manuals but the instructions for living healthy moral lives can come from many sources....philosophers, all major religious texts, etc. Belief in a "god" is not the only avenue to living a healthy and happy life. If one needs to be assured of an after life to cope with human tragedies then I guess a belief in the supernatural is required. But not all people need the promise of an after life, as promised in the NT, to healthfully cope with human mortality issues.
The Instructional Manuals being put together by the convergence of the Arts and Sciences
and our individual and collective Human Experiences, including Spiritual Experiences,
may be, in the aggregate, called, "Life's Skills Training." ( ) Life Skills Training includes developing Concepts and Skills and applying them in real time experience...
QUOTE(TheRestofUs @ Aug 19 2008, 12:56 PM)
If there is no God, Prager would be selling shoes.
I don't know whether he has given up his day job or not.
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