Sunday, 8 February 2026

Spirit of the Law v Letter of the Law (or law as a club)

 

2:00  Stream begins.
3:00  Agnostic promoting theocracy
10:00  Why religion is necessary
11:00  Majority agreement is easy to achieve because most people are sheeple.

RISTO joins but is not audible.
12:00  Tacos
14:00  Gourmet
15:00  Pleasure
16:00  Rules
17:00  Belief systems are mind control.
18:00  Seeing the world through our parents' eyes

Languages are codes of expression. 

19:00  Bitterness is an acquired taste.
21:00  Chilis
22:00  Burrito in Tijuana
Hole in the wall
23:00  Street food
24:00  Analogy


29:00  Home cooking and festival food
31:00  Gavin Palmer attending megachurches


34:00  Choosing a church is a social minefield.
37:00  Good Church Guide USA
42:00  The Church as a social club
43:00  Jack Mormon
44:00  My multiple choice analogy
45:00  National religion
Time machine
46:00  Law and order
Culture war, class war, intergenerational warfare
47:00  Mark Parker
48:00  Balkanisation, secession, Partition in India
49:00  Christianity
50:00  Protestants won the Wars of the Reformation.
57:00  Having it both ways
58:00  Religion and politics
Trump on morality
59:00  Being reasonable people
1:00:00  Our religious principles are our moral principles. 
1:01:00  Book of Romans
1:03:0 0 Belief in God
1:04:00  Jews
1:08:00  Functional atheism
1:09:00  Choosing to believe using sound reasons
1:12:00  Intelligible and logical beliefs that conform to our chosen narrative
1:13:00  Three global Christian empires
1:14:00  Even an atheist Westerner would have to say that the religion of the West is Christianity.
Even a Jew would have to agree that without Judaism, there would be no Jews. 

Euclid

1:16:00  The warlike nature of Western Man

1:17:00  History is constantly changing because the victor is constantly changing.

1:18:00  Republican revolutions were rejections of absolute monarchy.

1:19:00  The Abrahamic God is best at attracting belief because He is the most powerful being  conceivable. 

1:20:00  The Ten Commandments and the Noahide laws

The Koran does not have any laws against blasphemy.



1:23:00  Jews, Christians and Muslims would have to agree that the Abrahamic God forbids idolatry.

1:24:00  Why worship a lesser god when we already know of the more powerful Abrahamic God?

1:25:00  2+2 =5

1:26:00  Logos

In the best of all possible worlds

The best case scenario

We long for perfect justice. 

1:27:00  It would only be logical to believe that good will be rewarded and evil punished in this life and the next if God exists to administer Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and Reincarnation. 

1:28:00  Laws of physics and morality

1:29:00  The Abrahamic God is the most powerful being conceivable. 

1:30:00  Interactions with God

1:31:00  Cosmic judge, benign scientist, loved lab rats

1:32:00  Good father

1:33:00  God's laws are our safety rails. 

1:34:00  How rules are learned and enforced

1:36:00  God must value obedience.

1:37:00  Isaiah 45:7

1:38:00  People deserve the government they get.

1:39:00  Redemption through theocracy

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