Freethought Matters - Barry Lynn
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- On this episode of "Freethought Matters," hosts Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker speak with former executive director of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Barry W. Lynn. Ordained as a United Church of Christ minister, he's a prominent leader of the religious left in the United States.
Learn more about the Freedom From Religion Foundation at ffrf.org.
Thanks again.
What a wonderful guy! Thanks for having Rev. Lynn on the show
This Speaker Johnson character is a walking-talking reason alone to separate state & church ... two heartbeats from the Oval Office - that's sobering - and should be all the motivation we need to get out in November and vote for CHOICE, DEMOCRACY & SCOTUS REFORM!
I was a Jehovah's Witness in 1969 when I turned 18. We were encouraged to register as the "governing body" put it "obeying the law when possible". We were then to wait and if we were drafted refuse to be inducted based on conscience. My older brother's friend spent 2 years at Safford AZ federal prison. I later was told they didn't jail Jehovah's Witnesses, but he may have been belligerent with them? He doesn't speak to me now as I am disfellowshipped for apostacy. Simply explained I told the elders in my congregation, "I don't believe anymore." lol
In my humble opinion, I don't think one can experience "freethought" until two things happen in life: The first is to take the "Hero's Journey," (Joseph Campbell), to abandon the narcissism and selfishness of childhood. The second and equally important step is to rid the mind of the tremendous weight of religious dogma and authority you carry in life. I assume that most of us were exposed, more or less, to the constant drum beat of religious guilt growing up as to who we think we are. It is the: “Road Less Traveled,” but well worth the trek to leave it behind. When you do, it will be like the mind and body suddenly become weightless, thus setting the spirit free to explore all that nature has to enlighten us about ourselves, others and the universe. Thus, achieving a greater inner peace by accepting the reality of impermanence.
Thanks for sharing. I'm leaving religion behind for the rest of my life.
i believe abandoning _no_ information and absorbing _all_ information to contemplate allows a broader understanding and stronger "free thought".
i've never understood "religious guilt" because i have never experienced it. the whole "getcha God" concept is unfathomable to me. on the other hand, a God that expects one to face the punishment for not behaving correctly seems logical to me.
But it is by no means the Deity, which has ordered man to establish a worship: it is man himself, who has conceived the idea for his own benefit; and Desire and Fear, more than Respect and Gratitude have given birth to all religions. If the Gods, or the priests in their name, would not promise anything, the temples would soon be empty. Religions in general, have a common character, which is that: to establish a correspondence between man and the invisible beings called Gods, Angels, Genii, &., or in other words, between beings, of man's own creation, in order to explain the phenomena of Nature. The object of this correspondence is, to interest these various beings in his fate, and to obtain assistance from them in his wants. The agents of this correspondence are subtle and astute men, called priests, magicians and other impostors, who pretend to be the intimate confidants or trustees and the organs of the supreme will of invisible beings. Chas. Dupuis
Thank you for all you do ❤
WHEN THAT SHOE WENT UP I WAS WONDERING IF YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT WHERE YOU'D WANA PUT IT ...
@ the 15:00 mark. Kudos to Barry Lynn, I think it gets it. To the liberal Christians that think they can "out bible" conservative Christian and turn them liberal. You won't. It doesn't matter if conservative Christians or Christian nationalists are not "real Christians". The problem with this tack is that tacitly agrees with the Christian nationalists that Christianity should drive and shape public policy and laws. They just disagree with the "correct" interpretation of Christianity. Wrong argument. It doesn't matter what your version of Christianity is or isn't. The bible isn't the constitution, nor should it be.
These Christian Nationalists and televangelists are getting nastier all the time. I always marvel at how they have what they consider to be the 'god of all that is' stuffed into their shirt pockets like some bobblehead they can pull out to do their own bidding. They squeeze it as though it is some kind of cobra that spits out venom on their enemies.
I agree that arguing about the bible in government is a mute point, it doesn't matter what the bible says in our secular government.
That being said, it is useful to know what the bible says and be able to argue for abortions for instance. If anything, the bible is for abortion, but the followers don't know that.
The speaker of the house does not have a world view. He has a word view.
"and the word became flesh.
@@kleenmaint And the flesh claimed to be the supremacist of the entire world and will come back again to dictate to everyone who absolutely doesn't love him the way to hell. The flesh loves only itself and that is the word. The flesh loves only those who love the flesh and that is the eternal reward that the flesh gives. And may all the flesh eaters every Sunday enjoy either the white or the dark meat or in turn organs as they so choose
yes, listening to your words I truly feel the love of Christ :)
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claimed is the key word and not even by the man that was to become the legend, but by many posers who came after his death.@@Iamjamessmith1
I am a huge fan of FFRF but you Americans need to stop using the colloquial uses of "agnostic" and "atheist". First off, anyone with any formal religious education knows that agnostic is referencing Gnosticism (as in a-Gnosticism). When I ask self-proclaimed agnostics what they know about Gnosticism, not a single one is familiar with the word. Like wise, discussions with many self-proclaimed atheists indicates to me that they are really deists (there might be a god, but we will never prove it; all religion is man made). So in the end, this whole topic comes down to "deism vs theism". BTW, for some reason I'll never understand, I never came across the word "deism" until I read a biography of Charles Darwin where he was quoted (in his later life) saying: I think I was always a deist.
BTW, almost all of America's founding fathers were Deists.