Prof Tiger & Sardis "All Things Considered" Theology Hut

[sardis]

Throw them to the lions, I say...

[Cletus]

It's a monument to superstition and ignorance. It has negative value. I hope they all burn down,

[Professor Tiger]

How very liberal, pluralistic, tolerant, and inclusive of you. Maybe we should burn them at the stake? Put them in the iron maiden? That would be very enlightened, evolved, even scientific...

[hedge]

I wouldn't go that far. I can appreciate the architecture of many churches and cathedrals. I expect that some day in the not too distant future most of them will have been re-purposed as convention centers and such. Or really cool corporate offices. Hell, for those who can afford it, I think it would be cool to live in one, although I would guess that anybody who could afford that much real estate in a major city would rather be in a penthouse with a view. But in a couple more centuries, there won't be enough people who believe the stuff that these sects are peddling to keep these places operational. Simple economics will dictate that they be used for something more viable. Capitalism will triumph over socialism/communism (which is the bedrock of all organised religions) once again...

[crashcourse]

"But in a couple more centuries, there won't be enough people who believe the stuff that these sects are peddling to keep these places operational."

Be interesting to see how we as a society hold together without the fear of an afterlife punishment for deeds we commit here on earth. Whatever you think about religions there's a lot of good being done in the name of religious teachings

[hedge]

A lot of good deeds go undone b/c of fear of punishment in some afterlife...

[10ac]

I wish you were in the afterlife.

[Jungle Rat]

BINGO!

[crashcourse]

lol

[Professor Tiger]

ac with the slam dunk.

[bluetick]

never saw it comin'

[hedge]

At least he hopes I will have an afterlife...

[Professor Tiger]

From that infowars clone, the New York Times:

A Confession of Liberal Intolerance

WE progressives believe in diversity, and we want women, blacks, Latinos, gays and Muslims at the table — er, so long as they aren’t conservatives.

Universities are the bedrock of progressive values, but the one kind of diversity that universities disregard is ideological and religious. We’re fine with people who don’t look like us, as long as they think like us.

O.K., that’s a little harsh. But consider George Yancey, a sociologist who is black and evangelical.

“Outside of academia I faced more problems as a black,” he told me. “But inside academia I face more problems as a Christian, and it is not even close.”

George Yancey, a sociology professor, says he has faced many problems in life because he is black, “but inside academia I face more problems as a Christian, and it is not even close.” Yancey, the black sociologist, who now teaches at the University of North Texas, conducted a survey in which up to 30 percent of academics said that they would be less likely to support a job seeker if they knew that the person was a Republican.

The discrimination becomes worse if the applicant is an evangelical Christian. According to Yancey’s study, 59 percent of anthropologists and 53 percent of English professors would be less likely to hire someone they found out was an evangelical.

“I am the equivalent of someone who was gay in Mississippi in 1950,” a conservative professor is quoted as saying in “Passing on the Right,” a new book about right-wing faculty members by Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn Sr. That’s a metaphor that conservative scholars often use, with talk of remaining in the closet early in one’s career and then “coming out” after receiving tenure.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opini ... inion&_r=0

[Professor Tiger]

To me, the greatest shock of this election season so far has been that a majority of evangelicals would vote for a biblically illiterate, profane, thrice-married, womanizing owner of a a string of casinos. In doing this, they were also rejecting a real evangelical who was one of them - Ted Cruz. I still haven't figured that out.

Anyhoo, along comes the president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention who blasts evangelicals who support Trump in the NYT Op Ed page. An excerpt:

A vast majority of Christians, on earth and in heaven, are not white and have never spoken English. A white American Christian who disregards nativist language is in for a shock. The man on the throne in heaven is a dark-skinned, Aramaic-speaking “foreigner” who is probably not all that impressed by chants of “Make America great again.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/06/opini ... inion&_r=0

A good article, I believe.

[sardis]

Maybe most of us knew Cruz wasn't really one of us.

[Jungle Rat]

Still wondering about you as well.....

[Professor Tiger]

Maybe most of us knew Cruz wasn't really one of us.

What made you arrive at that conclusion? I'm really curious.

[sardis]

First, picking the sleazebag Roe as his campaign manager and allowed him to take the win at all costs approach, including lies about Ben Carson.

Second, and most revealing to me, his tax returns. An evangelical giving less than 1% of his earnings to charity? That's normal fare for Catholicism, but evangelical? No way. Mike Huckabee feels the same way as I.

"by their fruits ye shall know them." He used evangelicals to rise politically in Texas much like Obama used Trinity Church of Christ to rise in Chicago politics.

[hedge]

"“Outside of academia I faced more problems as a black,” he told me. “But inside academia I face more problems as a Christian, and it is not even close.”

George Yancey, a sociology professor, says he has faced many problems in life because he is black, “but inside academia I face more problems as a Christian, and it is not even close.” Yancey, the black sociologist..."

Did he mention that Yancey was a black sociologist and that inside academia he faces more problems as a christian and it's not even close?

[hedge]

"In doing this, they were also rejecting a real evangelical who was one of them - Ted Cruz. I still haven't figured that out."

Maybe evangelicals are not as dumb as we think they are. Just kidding, you're right, I can't figure this out either...