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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2019-04-25

"I am more orthpraxy than orthodoxy. I don't care what you believe, I care what you do." -- Carl Sansoucy (@carl_sansoucy), 2019-01-19

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redbird: closeup of me drinking tea, in a friend's kitchen (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] redbird at 11:12am on 2019-04-25
There's a stray space in that link.

Also, that's a very Jewish approach; people doing Jewish outreach are a lot more likely to ask a person something like "do you light candles on Friday night?" or "would you like to come to our seder?" than what you believe. So I have no idea whether my grandparents believed in God, and they never asked me whether I did; I know that they kept kosher, and they knew I don't.
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minoanmiss: A spiral detail from a Minoan fresco (Minoan Spiral)

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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 02:21am on 2019-04-26
After my upbringing I have always found this philosophy very healing.
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eftychia: My face as of October 2018. Wearing a hat. (strawhat)

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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:58am on 2019-04-26
I had been thinking about it in terms of utility -- large-scale results on behaviour in a community. But now I'm thinking about it in terms of effects on the people potentially being judged. Yes, I can see what you mean, and ought to have thought of it sooner.
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posted by [personal profile] cellio at 03:49am on 2019-04-29
This was why, as a kid, I couldn't sign on to my Christian upbringing -- if I didn't believe the creeds it was like nothing else mattered. I could be the best person ever (not that I am, but just saying), and if I didn't believe certain things I was going to hell. I could not reconcile that view with a just God.
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eftychia: Me in kilt and poofy shirt, facing away, playing acoustic guitar behind head (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 04:17am on 2019-04-29

"I could not reconcile that view with a just God."

As a Christian, despite my having been taught Jesus is the one way to salvation, I have trouble reconciling that too. Then again, within Christianity -- mostly between different sects -- we have the salvation-though-faith vs salvation-through-works argument, suggesting that even if the language used doesn't quite exhibit it, the priority of orthopraxy exists in some denominations.

(I had big problems with the doctrine / concept of "original sin" as well, but I settled on a possibly-heretical interpretation of that that I'm comfortable with.)

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eftychia: My face as of October 2018. Wearing a hat. (strawhat)

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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:56am on 2019-04-26
Thanks. Usually, spurious spaces (& carriage returns) added by the post-by-mail thingie wind up where they're immediately visible. This one, I missed.
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