If you believe atheism is already covered by "ideology", then nothing is changed by specifying it. — Srap Tasmaner
Atheism is not an ideology. — JerseyFlight
I want both sides gone. — Srap Tasmaner
Then you would agree the word "atheism" should be added to the guidelines, right next to religion. — Srap Tasmaner
polemical way? — JerseyFlight
I still firmly believe it should be in the guidelines. If you believe atheism is already covered by "ideology", then nothing is changed by specifying it. — Srap Tasmaner
Still, I'll dangle it in the mod thread and see if anyone bites. — StreetlightX
Because it seems to me that what's really going on, is that there's a bunch of Christians on here who are trying to sneak God into the picture, and they get refuted by Atheists. — JerseyFlight
Philosophy is about new ideas and the effects they can have on society. — Outlander
Talking about it, fine. Living it out in front of me, no thanks. There's a whole big internet out there. — Srap Tasmaner
philosophy is, among other things, an attitude, an attitude of unbiased neutrality.
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If the religious are inclined to be philosophical, it's a sign that they, whoever they are, finally see the light — TheMadFool
The one that leapt to mind for me was Kant! — Srap Tasmaner
which appears to be false for the simple reason that nothing is not philosophy — TheMadFool
after all philosophy is, among other things, an attitude, an attitude of unbiased neutrality. — TheMadFool
The scope of philosophy is the universe itself and religion is but one aspect of our universe. — TheMadFool
If the religious are inclined to be philosophical, it's a sign that they, whoever they are, finally see the light, so to speak. — TheMadFool
What maybe more problematic for you - given the views expressed in the OP which likely is just a passing thought - is not the philsophical believer but the believing philosopher. — TheMadFool
The philosophical believer may eventually join your ranks but the religious philsopher is the one thinning your crowd, — TheMadFool
The religious philosopher might be onto something and you'll never know if you decide not to engage — TheMadFool
There's the contradiction. You cannot approach philosophy with theological biases. If the point of philosophy to a theist is to prove that God exists, is good, is all powerful, and is responsible for everything we are, it is not philosophy at all.
That doesn't forbid philosophical discussion of whether God exists, what he might be like, the ethics of Jesus, etc. As you say, we can philosophise about anything. — Kenosha Kid
A problem, philosophical theology? — JerseyFlight
This is far too general to be of any value, most especially when it comes to religion. — JerseyFlight
I feel religion is a truly complex set of beliefs — TheMadFool
Well then, who cares what philosophy has to say about it. A conceptual toy box that strikes your fancy. I'm not sure one can refute a hedonist. — JerseyFlight
In my humble opinion, philosophy, being, above all, an approach to issues, a method of discovering truths, refined over many generations of practitioners, is universal in scope. One could say philosophy is to know how to read a map, religion is just one map among countless others that can be read. — TheMadFool
Too pollyannaish, Fool. Philosophy problematizes how rationally or not 'maps are read, made or revised'; religion is just one irrational, or fantasy, map among countless others.One could sayphilosophy is to know how to read a map, religion is just one map among countless others that can be read. — TheMadFool
There is no responsibility or demarcation in philosophy? From what then does it distinguish itself? I have long understood philosophy to be criticism. — JerseyFlight
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