Hi Jon, > I am feeling better, but wow, you guys are hard to keep up with. > The purpose of this thread is to show just how much the God/creator pattern > has worked for you and is working now, whether you are aware of it or not. > > I know nothing about you though, so I'm speaking about those who live in the > Western world, and particularly, in America. But wherever you live, in > whatever culture in whatever society, you live under the influence of ideas > about God. > You live somewhere governed by law .Even in using the internet, or google, > their are restrictions if you live in China or Iraq, for example. > You can't avoid it. Legal norms, ethical norms, political institutions are > based in philosophical ideas that are based in theological ideas.
When you say that such things as human rights are based in theological ideas, do you mean that such ideas arose from thinkers who believed in God (if so, there is no argument here), or are you making a case that things like human rights have an ontological foundation in God? Are you talking about rights being self-evident as the answer to an epistemological question about how we know about rights, or are you making an ontological claim about rights and the natire of reality? Or maybe you are just trying to defend religion as having turned out to be right about rights. Does that mean that they are also right about heaven and hell and virgin births and Mohammed flying away on a winged steed? I'm not sure what you are after. There is no doubt that our culture is heavily influenced by Christianity. What are we supposed to conclude from that? Best, Steve Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
