The first part of that was hillarious....The rest is a little more touchy.... On a personal level, and not because I agree or disagree, but because it calls for an explanation by me. It is interesting that you posted this because I have had to deal with it for a long time.....seeing people behave in the worst ways under the protection of 'confess and be forgiven'.......bullshit.
I just recently joined the christians group, and do consider myself one, but do not really conform to the accepted mold of what a christian should be. For me it is just the value that the teachings hold for being a good person.
I don't go to church, and do not believe in what the church has become. I also have no respect for people that preach one thing, and then live their lives the opposite. I think that the majority of religion, includeing christianity the way it is shoved off on people, are the equivilent of cults. It is really sad that people aren't open minded enough to think for themselves, and decide what to make of life.
Do I believe in magic?....No....But I do believe in a soul.... What of Heaven and Hell?.....Ask me when I'm dead.
Most of my 'Christian friends' view me as a pagan that needs saveing.....haha...
I think that as long as it doesn't hurt others, people should have the freedom to believe whatever works best for them.
This is something totaly unexplainable....not in a book, much less a paragraph.
I think I'll just keep being me, that seems to work pretty well ......I'll be waiting to see what you post next...........
Now on hippocracy, and the term hippocrite......
This was one of the most prominent discussions among some friends and I this past week. Simply because in some aspects I'm very conservative, but in others I'm very liberal.
It all starts with the Greek philosipher Hippocrates. Widely heralded as the original founding father of the medical practice. The reality of it is that he was a very sick person that enjoyed experimenting with the sick, cutting up the bodies of the dead, and was known to use slaves as guinnea pigs.
His students were made to take an oath....Hippocratic Oath....that is a translation of the original, but there have been many versions through the years.
Read it if you care to....supposedly all doctors still take the oath, but I know of none that live by it. So they are hippocrits, and that is where the term and meaning are derived from.
I thought it was very interesting, and first heard the term in a book by Michael Crichton
" A Case Of Need " a fiction book that deals with the issue of abortion, and the different views of society on the matter. Only after reading the entire book did I realize that it was written in 1968. An awsome read though....
I just recently joined the christians group, and do consider myself one, but do not really conform to the accepted mold of what a christian should be. For me it is just the value that the teachings hold for being a good person.
I don't go to church, and do not believe in what the church has become. I also have no respect for people that preach one thing, and then live their lives the opposite. I think that the majority of religion, includeing christianity the way it is shoved off on people, are the equivilent of cults. It is really sad that people aren't open minded enough to think for themselves, and decide what to make of life.
Do I believe in magic?....No....But I do believe in a soul.... What of Heaven and Hell?.....Ask me when I'm dead.
Most of my 'Christian friends' view me as a pagan that needs saveing.....haha...
I think that as long as it doesn't hurt others, people should have the freedom to believe whatever works best for them.
This is something totaly unexplainable....not in a book, much less a paragraph.
I think I'll just keep being me, that seems to work pretty well
Now on hippocracy, and the term hippocrite......
This was one of the most prominent discussions among some friends and I this past week. Simply because in some aspects I'm very conservative, but in others I'm very liberal.
It all starts with the Greek philosipher Hippocrates. Widely heralded as the original founding father of the medical practice. The reality of it is that he was a very sick person that enjoyed experimenting with the sick, cutting up the bodies of the dead, and was known to use slaves as guinnea pigs.
His students were made to take an oath....Hippocratic Oath....that is a translation of the original, but there have been many versions through the years.
Read it if you care to....supposedly all doctors still take the oath, but I know of none that live by it. So they are hippocrits, and that is where the term and meaning are derived from.
I thought it was very interesting, and first heard the term in a book by Michael Crichton
" A Case Of Need " a fiction book that deals with the issue of abortion, and the different views of society on the matter. Only after reading the entire book did I realize that it was written in 1968. An awsome read though....