Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-30 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 30 Jan 2013, at 09:40, meekerdb wrote: On 1/29/2013 7:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2013, at 19:53, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Bruno, You sill say interesting things even in a thread that has fallen deep in the boring hole of Reductio at Hitlerum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-30 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/1/30 meekerdb > On 1/29/2013 7:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> >> On 27 Jan 2013, at 19:53, Alberto G. Corona wrote: >> >> Bruno, >>> You sill say interesting things even in a thread that has fallen deep >>> in the boring hole of Reductio at Hitlerum >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-30 Thread meekerdb
On 1/29/2013 7:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 27 Jan 2013, at 19:53, Alberto G. Corona wrote: Bruno, You sill say interesting things even in a thread that has fallen deep in the boring hole of Reductio at Hitlerum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum Well ... Thanks :) Ac

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-29 Thread Bruno Marchal
everything, without faith you have nothing. - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-24, 10:48:16 Subject: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality I though that, this was not a site for enhancing the self爀steem爋 f self-proclaimed rati

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-28 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 27 Jan 2013, at 12:28, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb Germany has always been antisemitic, Hitler just organized the killing jews, who unfortunately were also socialists/communists but anyway, Luther's writings were done somewhat obscurely in the 16th century. Luther was not alone.

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-28 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb The killing of anybody is wrong. - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-27, 14:19:38 Subject: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality On 1/27/2013 3:28 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb Germany has always been

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-27 Thread meekerdb
*Subject:* Re: Martin Luther on Rationality On 1/26/2013 3:25 AM, Roger Clough wrote: 1. Luther hated jews, but he had nothing to do with爐he extermination of the jews. He didn't directly kill any, he just motivated the killing.� But then the same is true

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-27 Thread Alberto G. Corona
ave nothing. > > > ----- Receiving the following content - > > *From:* Alberto G. Corona > *Receiver:* everything-list > *Time:* 2013-01-24, 10:48:16 > *Subject:* Re: Martin Luther on Rationality > > I though that, this was not a site for enhancing the self爀ste

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-27 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 Roger Clough wrote: > Germany has always been antisemitic > Thanks to that pioneering antisemitic crusader, Martin Luther. > Hitler just organized the killing jews, And the writings of Luther and Hitler on the Jews are almost indistinguishable, if you didn't know you'd b

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-27 Thread John Mikes
013-01-26, 16:24:49 > *Subject:* Re: Martin Luther on Rationality > > Brent: > you do beware of the "leader" - "follower" position. If a leader actively > also empowers the follower then (s)he may be responsible for anything that > happens in such empower

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-27 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Sunday, January 27, 2013 5:58:15 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: > > Hi John Mikes > > Luther did not motivate anybody to kill jews. > > > Why would you think that could possibly be true? If the head of Coca-Cola began a weekly TV program about how your house should be burned down, and th

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
o G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-24, 10:48:16 Subject: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality I though that, this was not a site for enhancing the self爀steem爋f self-proclaimed rationalists neither an insult-you-an-infidel theraphy group.� 2013/1/24 John Clark I sincerely hope

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-27 Thread Roger Clough
kerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-26, 11:56:12 Subject: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality On 1/26/2013 3:25 AM, Roger Clough wrote: 1. Luther hated jews, but he had nothing to do with?he extermination of the jews. He didn't directly kill any, he just motivated the killing.? But then th

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-27 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Mikes Luther did not motivate anybody to kill jews. - Receiving the following content - From: John Mikes Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-26, 16:24:49 Subject: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality Brent: you do beware of the "leader" - "follower" p

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-26 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, January 26, 2013 4:24:49 PM UTC-5, JohnM wrote: > > Brent: > you do beware of the "leader" - "follower" position. If a leader actively > also empowers the follower then (s)he may be responsible for anything that > happens in such empoweredness. Luther conscience-wise, Hitler > mat

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-26 Thread John Mikes
Brent: you do beware of the "leader" - "follower" position. If a leader actively also empowers the follower then (s)he may be responsible for anything that happens in such empoweredness. Luther conscience-wise, Hitler materially/organizationally empowered the followers. The 'leader' of the KKK, or

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-26 Thread meekerdb
On 1/26/2013 3:25 AM, Roger Clough wrote: 1. Luther hated jews, but he had nothing to do with the extermination of the jews. He didn't directly kill any, he just motivated the killing. But then the same is true of Hitler. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to th

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-26 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 Roger Clough wrote: > 1. Luther hated jews, but he had nothing to do with the extermination of > the jews. > By his own words Luther advocated stupidity, and now you admit he was a hate filled racist demagog; so the man was stupid and the man was evil. So I repeat my earlie

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-26 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Saturday, January 26, 2013 6:25:40 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: > > Hi meekerdb > > 1. Luther hated jews, but he had nothing to do with the extermination of > the jews. > "In 1543 Luther published *On the Jews and Their Lies* in which he says that the Jews are a "base, whoring people, that i

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-26 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Bruno Marchal Theology (beliefs) is objective and rational, but religiouis experience (faith) is subjective. - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-25, 15:08:15 Subject: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality On 24 Jan 2013

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-26 Thread Roger Clough
Hi meekerdb 1. Luther hated jews, but he had nothing to do with the extermination of the jews. 2. You have to have faith in God, not somethning else. - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-25, 16:42:44 Subject: Re: Martin Luther

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-26 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Dear Bruno, I can not agree with you. neither with anyone that contemplate a minimalistic extract of the ideas of the past from the point of view and the knowledge (and ignorance) of the present. Natural theology and the conquest of nature has been ever a part of Christianity not because that was

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 meekerdb wrote: > With faith you have any belief you want. > > Brent > ³We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have > therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not > merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread meekerdb
On 1/25/2013 4:14 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi John Clark, Other than Luther's ancient views on astronomy, and only with regard to salvation or damnation, as a modern Lutheran I agree with everything Luther said, although I might temper down his invective, which was intended for the Pope. In that

Re: Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 Roger Clough wrote: > the ancient jews in the BC era knew nothing > Not far from the truth. > of the ancient myths, > If they knew anything at all it was useless crap like that. > “There is little notice of the Persian god [Mithra] in the Roman world > until the beginnin

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 24 Jan 2013, at 17:33, Richard Ruquist wrote: This is exactly what happened to Islam in the 1300s. After the fundamentalists took over, rationality was dispensed with, and centuries of scientific progress were deemed sufficient for Islam for all time. And so it seems that Islam went from wor

Re: Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Friday, January 25, 2013 1:59:53 PM UTC-5, rclough wrote: > > Hi John Clark > > That's all made-up stuff put on the web by people such as you. > Not by the worldwide liberal conspiracy? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" gro

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 Roger Clough wrote: > the Bible provided western man with a completely new, revolutionary view > of existence > New?! The Bible is just a rehash of other Bronze age myths that it plagiarized from older religions. The Persian God Mithra, popular in 600 BC, was the son of the

Re: Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark No, I let science be science and religion be religion. Different languages, different meanings. You're confusing the two. - Receiving the following content - From: John Clark Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-25, 11:29:01 Subject: Re: Re: Martin Luth

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread John Clark
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 Roger Clough wrote: > Other than Luther's ancient views on astronomy, > How about Luther's views on geology? How about his view that the Earth was less than six thousand years old, do you agree with that? > as a modern Lutheran Which apparently is nearly identical to a

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread Roger Clough
: everything-list Time: 2013-01-24, 12:52:52 Subject: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality On 1/24/2013 9:12 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: All these things are part of the myths of modernity. The reality is quite different. The idea that the medievals though that the earth was flat is larguely a

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread Roger Clough
following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-24, 11:44:16 Subject: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality On 1/24/2013 8:33 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: This is exactly what happened to Islam in the 1300s. After the fundamentalists took over, rationality was disp

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread Alberto G. Corona
nt - > *From:* Alberto G. Corona > *Receiver:* everything-list > *Time:* 2013-01-24, 13:26:59 > *Subject:* Re: Martin Luther on Rationality > > > > > 2013/1/24 meekerdb > >> On 1/24/2013 9:41 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: >> >>> In fact it is

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread Roger Clough
Hi Alberto G. Corona Luther wasn't a rationalist, and so contributed nothing to modern science. - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-24, 13:26:59 Subject: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality 2013/1/24 meekerdb

Re: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-25 Thread Roger Clough
orona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2013-01-24, 10:48:16 Subject: Re: Martin Luther on Rationality I though that, this was not a site for enhancing the self?steem?f self-proclaimed rationalists neither an insult-you-an-infidel theraphy group.? 2013/1/24 John Clark I sincerely hope that nobody bel

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread John Mikes
Brent: I hold you in a much higher standard than being a participant in such tongue-lashing about topics absolutely not fitting the Everything List and its goals. Could we save (use?) this list for reasonable scientific discussion? \ Does anybody have a 'fitting' topic we could discuss? For many we

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread meekerdb
On 1/24/2013 10:46 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: 2013/1/24 meekerdb mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>> On 1/24/2013 10:12 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: In the same way, except a few in a concrete time in the greek history, the Greeks believed that the earth was flat, with the center in

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread meekerdb
On 1/24/2013 10:46 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: The Stalinist and Maoists were hardly 'scientific', they just weren't theists. For example, they rejected Darwin just like Baptists do. They were as scientific as your global warmist friends. Really? Where are their peer-reviewed pape

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread meekerdb
On 1/24/2013 10:12 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: In the same way, except a few in a concrete time in the greek history, the Greeks believed that the earth was flat, with the center in Greece. The world okeanos, (ocean) was a river, that surrounded the earth, where greece was at the center. The

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2013/1/24 meekerdb > On 1/24/2013 9:41 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > >> In fact it is just the opposite: the position of Luther, like the one of >> Ocham or Duns Scoto, which were strongly anti-reason, created the modern >> science and were precursors of the most radical forms of Positivism. >

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:13:18 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/24/2013 9:41 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > In fact it is just the opposite: the position of Luther, like the one > of Ocham or Duns > > Scoto, which were strongly anti-reason, created the modern science and > were prec

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread meekerdb
On 1/24/2013 9:41 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: In fact it is just the opposite: the position of Luther, like the one of Ocham or Duns Scoto, which were strongly anti-reason, created the modern science and were precursors of the most radical forms of Positivism. They were anti-rationlism, the

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
In the same way, except a few in a concrete time in the greek history, the Greeks believed that the earth was flat, with the center in Greece. The world okeanos, (ocean) was a river, that surrounded the earth, where greece was at the center. The XII century, the time of Juachim de Fiore, and the t

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread meekerdb
On 1/24/2013 9:12 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: All these things are part of the myths of modernity. The reality is quite different. The idea that the medievals though that the earth was flat is larguely a myth, "As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite sid

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
In fact it is just the opposite: the position of Luther, like the one of Ocham or Duns Scoto, which were strongly anti-reason, created the modern science and were precursors of the most radical forms of Positivism. Why? It is simple to understand: The three of them were against the use of reason

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
All these things are part of the myths of modernity. The reality is quite different. The idea that the medievals though that the earth was flat is larguely a myth, as true as the fact that now a fair amount of the people in the world believe that Man has not been in the Moon. Inquisition, for examp

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread meekerdb
On 1/24/2013 8:33 AM, Richard Ruquist wrote: This is exactly what happened to Islam in the 1300s. After the fundamentalists took over, rationality was dispensed with, and centuries of scientific progress were deemed sufficient for Islam for all time. And so it seems that Islam went from world lea

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Ruquist
This is exactly what happened to Islam in the 1300s. After the fundamentalists took over, rationality was dispensed with, and centuries of scientific progress were deemed sufficient for Islam for all time. And so it seems that Islam went from world leadership in science to where it is today. Fortu

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread meekerdb
On 1/24/2013 7:32 AM, John Clark wrote: I sincerely hope that nobody believes I'm picking on Catholics because Protestant "thinking" is every bit as brain dead dumb as the Pope's. Martin Luther knew perfectly well that religious ideas cannot survive the slightest amount of rational analysis wit

Re: Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread Alberto G. Corona
I though that, this was not a site for enhancing the self esteem of self-proclaimed rationalists neither an insult-you-an-infidel theraphy group. 2013/1/24 John Clark > I sincerely hope that nobody believes I'm picking on Catholics because > Protestant "thinking" is every bit as brain dead dumb

Martin Luther on Rationality

2013-01-24 Thread John Clark
I sincerely hope that nobody believes I'm picking on Catholics because Protestant "thinking" is every bit as brain dead dumb as the Pope's. Martin Luther knew perfectly well that religious ideas cannot survive the slightest amount of rational analysis without completely falling apart, but his solut