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Michele Bachmans turn at the Stupid Wheel with Obama!
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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 858565" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>I didn't see that until now but at the same time I thought I knew you at least well enough to know you weren't that narrow in scope. This just makes my hunch now empirical. Sorry my poor syntax gave that impression. It should have been My post was not meant as much towards you but rather to expand out to a broader thought and move the concept of god out to a bigger narrative.</p><p></p><p>Karen Armstrong won a TED award in 2008' and in 2009' she spoke to <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/karen_armstrong_let_s_revive_the_golden_rule.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000">TED </span></a>on the Golden Rule ideal. It's easy to stand locked kneed and shout out our faiths or even lack there of (or even ideology which can be another form of faith) but I thought the points she made were excellent and perfect for the times. Buried beneath all the rhetoric and shouting is the commonality of the golden rule if we would only see it and grasp it. In a sense under that umbrella, no man is right and yet no man is wrong within the golden rule framework, he or she is free to discover the best life has to offer in his or her own way. Concepts or institutions that restrict or prevent us from this moral ideal IMO are immoral and thus lack standing of any true legitimacy but that doesn't mean they don't hold power. Rome had power but the moral teachings of christ held legitimacy. It's the difference between a leader and a ruler. One asserts voluntaryism and the other authoritarianism.</p><p></p><p>As to atheists, god may not really be dead, it's just that society may not be letting god grow and evolve as the wonders of life and creation are understood and grasped at ever deeping levels.</p><p></p><p>jmo</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 858565, member: 2189"] I didn't see that until now but at the same time I thought I knew you at least well enough to know you weren't that narrow in scope. This just makes my hunch now empirical. Sorry my poor syntax gave that impression. It should have been My post was not meant as much towards you but rather to expand out to a broader thought and move the concept of god out to a bigger narrative. Karen Armstrong won a TED award in 2008' and in 2009' she spoke to [URL="http://www.ted.com/talks/karen_armstrong_let_s_revive_the_golden_rule.html"][COLOR=#ff0000]TED [/COLOR][/URL]on the Golden Rule ideal. It's easy to stand locked kneed and shout out our faiths or even lack there of (or even ideology which can be another form of faith) but I thought the points she made were excellent and perfect for the times. Buried beneath all the rhetoric and shouting is the commonality of the golden rule if we would only see it and grasp it. In a sense under that umbrella, no man is right and yet no man is wrong within the golden rule framework, he or she is free to discover the best life has to offer in his or her own way. Concepts or institutions that restrict or prevent us from this moral ideal IMO are immoral and thus lack standing of any true legitimacy but that doesn't mean they don't hold power. Rome had power but the moral teachings of christ held legitimacy. It's the difference between a leader and a ruler. One asserts voluntaryism and the other authoritarianism. As to atheists, god may not really be dead, it's just that society may not be letting god grow and evolve as the wonders of life and creation are understood and grasped at ever deeping levels. jmo [/QUOTE]
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