Philosphy Discussions
Here are some quotations from the feminist theologian Mary Daly. What do you think? 'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan. If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.
Many people consider the Bible to be the Word of God and thus it is infallible. However, it is quite clear that men, both past and present, have used the Bible as a means to bully and dominate women into subservience. This is outmoded and something that should have been left behind several centuries ago. That being said, the analogy between the church/women and black/Klan is an overreach…at least as a generalization....
To be sure, many pastors and churches are blatantly sexist and treat women like second-class citizens. However, such logic and generalizations should nto be applied broadly and should instead be applied only when such an analogy is true…but evne then, the Klan would lynch and kill black people and most churches around the world do not do this.
Rational and logical thinking...and its opposite. Unfortunately we haven't really had much time to explore logic and rational thinking -- and its opposite, logical fallacies. Well, here is a link to a whole lot of logical fallacies -- some of which I had never heard of before:
http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Logical%20Fallacies.htm
Here's an example of one fallacy that often occurs when people write about religion: anthrocentric (human-centered) fallacy -- This one isn't found in standard texts, but was…
The result is the problem: that humans loose the connection to what it means to be human. What is the end or goal of transformation? The end goal, regardless of ones religion, is happiness. However, the definition of happiness differs greatly from one religion to another. In religions such as the Lakota, happiness is found by making the gods happy, or Mother Earth, by learning to be one with nature. Other
Some of America's oldest cities had been newly infused with evangelical faith, and most primitive frontier areas were filled with tent revivals. From a more liberal perspective, Unitarianism had taken root in New England universities. ("Toqueville and Religion," (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/religion/intro.html) This strain of American religious thought stressed the connections between self and nature, even to the entire exclusion of a religious doctrine, dogma, and community, almost to the breaking point.
Religion in Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is centrally focused on religion, and the varied ways it can be interpreted and how those interpretations can be acted upon. (MacKenzie 128) Secondary to the Igbo religion, which plays an important role in the everyday lives of African's is the contrasting Christian faith of the missionaries that predate colonial interests. It is to some degree important to stress that colonial
Glynn concludes that fundamentalists exist not only in the Creationism Camp, but in the Evolutionism camp as well, regretting the unfortunate irony that Evolutionism Fundamentalists are attempting to suffocate constructive dialogue in much the same way Catholic Priests did in the past. e. Thomas Demere and Steve Walsh -- Creationism Should Not Be Taught In Public Schools Demere and Walsh argue that teaching a non-disprovable theory like Creationism would further weaken
religion entered the 18th Century and with it a revival. The growth of the revival was overwhelming.More people attended church than in previous centuries. Churches from all denominations popped up throughout established colonies and cities within the United States. Religious growth also spread throughout England, Wales and Scotland. This was a time referred to as "The Great Awakening" where people like Jarena Lee got her start preaching. Evangelism, the epicenter
Revisionist historian often seek to find non-Christian association among the lives of the founding fathers, such as the Freemasons, and Humanism, yet it is clear that these organizations were not dominant to religion and that a strong Protestant ethic still reigned supreme, especially in the language of the foundational documents of the nation. Fundamentalism Fundamentalism has in fact created a more recent expression in modern America as churches attempt to "go