Comments on: Out with the false idols and in with the true! https://www.isegoria.net/2018/12/out-with-the-false-idols-and-in-with-the-true/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Kirk https://www.isegoria.net/2018/12/out-with-the-false-idols-and-in-with-the-true/comment-page-1/#comment-2720578 Kirk Sun, 16 Dec 2018 19:35:35 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44248#comment-2720578 Frame it however you like, but our culture is built on a foundation rooted in the Judeo-Christian milieu. Everything flows from that, and to deny it is to deny much of what we value, both secular humanist and religious.

You only have to go back and look at the attitudes pre-Christianity, where slavery and exposure of unwanted babies were the norms, and unremarked on by one and all. Today? Were you to suggest to even the most radical atheist that we should rid ourselves of unwanted children via the simple expedient of leaving them out on a hillside somewhere outside of town, the response you’d get would be illustrative of the effect that the Judeo-Christian moral world has had upon culture.

Although, I’ll grant you that abortion really isn’t much different, except in terms of appearances. Still, the fact is that nearly all of us at least pay attention to the forms, lest we become outcasts in society, and that’s probably an overall good thing–I would not want to live in ancient times, with the casual approach they took towards the value of human life and the individual.

Discard the Judeo-Christian bedrock cautiously, and remember what it supplanted, along with what you may be letting back in by abandoning it all.

]]> By: Harry Jones https://www.isegoria.net/2018/12/out-with-the-false-idols-and-in-with-the-true/comment-page-1/#comment-2720180 Harry Jones Sun, 16 Dec 2018 01:43:30 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44248#comment-2720180 I’m interested in religions more for what they can tell me about man then what they can tell me about God.

That’s the limit of my interest in the uninformed voices in someone else’s head.

There’s a lot wrong with atheism, but that doesn’t make religion right.

]]> By: Wan Wei Lin https://www.isegoria.net/2018/12/out-with-the-false-idols-and-in-with-the-true/comment-page-1/#comment-2720172 Wan Wei Lin Sun, 16 Dec 2018 01:04:47 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44248#comment-2720172 You should listen to the world voices of reason and religion otherwise you will only hear the uninformed voices in your head.

]]> By: Lu An Li https://www.isegoria.net/2018/12/out-with-the-false-idols-and-in-with-the-true/comment-page-1/#comment-2719874 Lu An Li Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:56:44 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44248#comment-2719874 Haven’t heard about the Hare Krishna in a long time. Used to pester you for hand-outs at the airports. Bad idea [?] to find enlightenment in a religion contrary to your culture when you have find the same within your own tradition.

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