3:00 Must a Christian be Trinitarian? If not, isn't he considered lower status or even a heretic to Trinitarians? And we know what Trinitarians would do to heretics when Europeans took Christianity seriously enough to kill each other over wrongthink eg Michael Servetus in the Swiss Republic, the Albigensian Crusades and of course the Wars of the Reformation which was about whether European monarchs should submit to the Pope.
4:00 To be a Cultural Christian is to be an atheist who likes the smells and bells of traditional Christianity and its stories and scripture, but not literally believe that Jesus is God or that the Abrahamic God exists to punish evil and reward good in this life or the next. Since Christianity is a belief system, it would help if people claiming to be Christian believed in what makes Christianity Christian ie the Trinity, but it is to be doubted that people claiming to be Christian even believe in the afterlife or that God exists to punish anyone for anything.
In America where the church is separated from the state, Christianity is but a religion of social clubs with its red church/blue church distinctions that reflect its class and political divisions.
The Koran warns against sectarianism in quran.com/6/159 echoed in George Washington's farewell speech warning Americans against political parties.
6:00 Church history should be part of the history curriculum of Western schoolchildren. The only way for Westerners to understand themselves is to understand their own history. Sadly for most Westerners, church history is not routinely taught to Western schoolchildren because it would only trigger in them rage and self-loathing at the way their Christian ancestors were treated by their absolute monarchs. The global power of the English language has been keeping the anachronistic British monarchy around way past its sell-by date. Sadly for most Westerners, the inclination towards idolatry has idolised American culture and its idols spreading American paganism globally. The TV franchise of Idol is a creation of the Anglo-American Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol_(franchise)
11:00 Isn't Christianity the curate's egg?
12:00 Most people don't think things through properly and behave like cattle. Does that mean no one should be theologians as well as moral and political philosophers?
14:00 Martin Shaw is a story teller which is great if you are a child.
16:00 Churches are community centres and social clubs. Even atheists need this facility from time to time.
24:00 CK
24:00 If we believe in the Abrahamic God who gave us Commandments to obey, why aren't we obeying them in the law of our land?
28:00 CLAIRE KHAW mentioned.
33:00 Aren't adherents of the Abrahamic religions entitled to believe *all* their prophets are wise? If they cannot see the wisdom of their prophet, perhaps they should think further!
Islam regards Adam as prophet which might provoke a chorus of questions questioning Muslim wisdom since he was responsible for the Fall of Man and we are still unsure who is more to blame - Eve who was tempted by the serpent or Adam who was so easily led by his rib.
Anyone who has heard of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs would know that given enough time and opportunity, we would all want to become God. Indeed, Orthodox Christianity even promotes the idea of Theosis - humans becoming God and Mormons believe that they will all be given a planet to be the ruling deity over in their afterlife.
Muslims consider Adam to be the first Muslim prophet because he was a man who acknowledged the existence of God which, let's face it, not everyone does.
You don't have to be morally perfect to a prophet, you just need to make some important about theology, morality, politics and religion.
33:30 Claire Khaw was making the point that Job was wise to remain faithful to God and not curse God and die, as his wife urged him to.
She also made the point that not all suffering is punishment for sin, some of our suffering is a trial to test us to see if we deserve something better than what we already have.
Looked at rationally, Job might prefer to have his own Book in the Old Testament - which is surely an honour - rather than to live an uneventful life of health, wealth and uninterrupted happiness.
As for whether it was wise for the unmarried mother who was a graduate of Cornell to become a prostitute, it has to be borne in mind that the Abrahamic God who forbade a whole bunch of things never forbade prostitution nor slavery. In fact, God made the rather eloquent point in the Book of Jeremiah that the status of Jews as His Chosen People and his bride does not even depend on their behaviour. Though they may behave like prostitutes selling themselves to passers by under shady trees, God will take them back, because their role is to make gentile atheists wonder about the purpose of Jews and whether God exists to protect them from extinction.
Is it wise to be a prostitute? The story of Rahab is one of redemption. Though she might have been a prostitute in Jericho, she ended up marrying a prophet of God.
36:00 Science and philosophy are two different branches of knowledge.
38:00 Noahide laws
39:00 Transgenderism is nothing new. Jewish men are supposed to thank God every day that they were not born either women or gentile. This suggests that there must have been a time when there were enough Jewish men who thought staying home, cooking and cleaning and looking after the children might be something they could get used to compared to the horrible jobs they had to do as men was becoming a problem. Many of them probably did want to assimilate into cool Christian culture when Christians started being nicer to Jews after Europeans started moving away from Christianity with their new secular religions of Liberalism, Nationalism and Communism.
44:00 The political will is not there to implement theocracy which is a triggering word heretical to politicians still professing to be liberal, the liberal order and liberal values! As you would expect, ordinary people are not going to be seen to be promoting what is heretical to the current political orthodoxy without suffering loss of status, reputation or even income and employment. Claire Khaw may be leading the way, but when she looks behind, no one is following her.
44:30 Claire Khaw is not telling American Christians to not say certain words and phrases that could be interpreted as idolatry by Jews and Muslims eg speaking of Jesus in the present tense or even proposing that your churches which are your social clubs should be closed down because they are places of idolatry.
She is just saying that going to church on Sunday or a different church this Sunday is displacement therapy when Americans should already know that the Founding Fathers have thoughtfully separated the church from their state! Jews saying to the American ruling class that sodomites and Sabbath-breakers should be stoned would get short shrift. Ditto Muslims in Nevada wanting to close down its casinos.
The only way the law can be changed is through political action ie through legislation. There is a legal system ie Secular Koranism that uncompromisingly supports the First Amendment that Muslims will be falling over themselves to say is neither Islam nor sharia because I am neither Muslim nor an acknowledged authority as an Islamic scholar. I can however make my case understandable, plausible and principled as a political ideology that would restore patriarchy in the West as well as restore to American husbands their First Amendment rights that they fear to assert for fear of upsetting their wife.
48:00 I have a different interpretation of this verse which I would be happy to explain to you and any female thinking of becoming a prostitute. A concubine in Ancient China has rights because her children will be legitimate, unlike that of a prostitute. A Muslim man can have up to four wives who may be Jewesses, Christian women and Muslim women of any race.
Slave girls you acquire in your wars of imperial conquest can be offered marriage or an opportunity to work in licensed brothels if they seek to attain manumission quicker as prostitutes than other forms of work.
If you want to have sex with your slave girl whom you do not wish to marry but who is now working in your licensed brothel, you can still have sex with her at the going rate which will go towards her manumission.
49:00 Honest, reasonable and principled men and women should have no major areas of disagreement on matters of sexual morality - the basis of all other kinds of morality.
54:00 I would argue that concubines is an unIslamic idea. You either have wives up to a max of four or you make do with prostitutes if you want a different female sex partner to the spouse or spouses you already have.
56:00 There are exceptions to every rule, as every lawyer would confirm.
1:01:00 What is the difference between justice and social justice?
1:06:00 Christianity is still supposed to be the most powerful religion in the world because of the hegemonic nature of Western imperialism.
1:08:00 The Trinity works because the most powerful denominations in Christianity are the denominations representing the most powerful empires. The Anglo-American world empire identifies itself as Protestant.
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