WOTM: Well Being, Part III
In parts I and II we looked the universal human goal of well being, and how the religious prioritize our well being in some future life — often at the expense of our well being in this life. In part three, we go into the specifics, and take an historical look at how the Hebrew god was all about well being in this life (early Judaism didn't clearly embrace the afterlife).
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for helping me produce these. You are all clearly the best people I know (except you, Peter). Enjoy! But don't forget to floss after!!! You really don't want to get these ideas stuck in your teeth. B
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This is a point I think is never stressing enough and is almost ignored in most criticism of religion. I have direct experience with this even though I've been a lifelong atheist. I loved a gal with emotional problems and the association with fundamentalist religion so consumed her with the desire , nay the NEED, to be "saved" that she let herself be convinced that only through Jesus could she be validated. Feeling empty and worthless, reading and rereading, highlighting and underlining until the pages were almost worn through as she obsessed over that disgusting book "My Utmost for His Highest" by Oswald Chambers (the same one Bush read every morning) And so indoctrinated in her thinking that she was worthless unless filled with the spirit of Jesus, so in need of salvation and completion in an afterlife, she couldn't live her own life for the moment, throwing away any chance of earthly happiness. Religion IS "opiate for the masses" And Chamber's book would have sounded identical to Soviet communist dialectic if "god" was replaced by "the state". Chambers, a Presbyterian boy's school minister, who became an army Chaplin, died in WW1. Interestingly, his wife cashed in and published all his old sermons even though he wrote to her disavowing all of them as ridiculous nonsense after seeing the real world and the terrors of war. He died of treatable appendicitis in Egypt after repeatedly insisting the horribly wounded boys so like the ones he mislead in the past be triaged ahead of himself. And the ONLY way you can get a copy IS TO BUY IT WITH COLD HARD CASH! KA-CHING!
Can we get that "slow death" to hurry up, please? I am becoming increasingly impatient and irritated with those who think "freedom of religion" doesn't just mean that they can cling to a set of beliefs, but feel entitled to impose them on… everyone else! Let 'em just go play with poisonous snakes, for Gaia's sake.
Hi Brian. You do the best job hitting that moving target !
Don’t stop now.
Whoa, all the videos are hitting on the 30th. I think Brian forgot that January is one of the months with 31 days.