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Original Sin

December 28, 2018 by Peter Holding

The Genesis story and the Augustinian interpretation of original sin Original sin holds that everyone is born sinful. We all have a built-in urge to do bad things and disobey God. According to the teaching, original sin is the normal spiritual and psychological condition of human beings.  Even a newborn baby, who hasn’t done anything at […]

Filed Under: philosophy, religion Tagged With: environment, Freud, Genesis, original sin, socialism and original sin, St Augustine, the fall, Utopia

The Leap of Faith- Reza Aslan on ‘God’

February 23, 2018 by Peter Holding

Summary:  There is either a God who cares about us, or an animating spirit that does not care, or creation is an accident. But the difference between an animating spirit that does not care about us and the accident theory seems negligible. Believing in a “God” that might just as easily be described as “nature’ […]

Filed Under: philosophy, religion Tagged With: Aslan, Atheism, God, Religion

Random thoughts on the passing of a small animal

November 26, 2016 by Peter Holding

Lucy, our cat, was a weakling. She was the runt of her Devon Rex litter and Devons are on the runty side to begin with.  Plus she had suffered an allergic reaction to a vaccine as a kitten. This left her with a chronic nasal condition. She was a snuffller. When we bought her sister Evie, the breeder asked us to take Lucy as […]

Filed Under: family, philosophy, religion

Religion Series for Teens- part 3- Get High With A Little Help From Your Friends

April 24, 2015 by Peter Holding

No matter what the teachings of the various religious prophets- Moses, Jesus Christ, Muhammad and Buddha- history shows that the spread of the world’s most successful religions was often assisted through support from powerful or rich friends of the religion and through military conquest. Judaism Moses is regarded as a leading prophet for the Jewish religion […]

Filed Under: for teens, religion

Religion Series for Teens- Part 2- Arguments for and against God

April 24, 2015 by Peter Holding

  There are two different types of argument that have traditionally been put forward in support of religion or belief in God. The first type of argument goes to the issue of whether any God, or Gods, really exist. This first type of arguments does not generally say anything about what the God or Gods that exist […]

Filed Under: for teens, religion

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