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Are there any philosophers that deal with the belief in a God and free will? What does /his/ think?
I was thinking today, about God, and it seems to me that if He were omniscient, as He is generally thought to be, then He must have known the complete history of His creation from the moment He said "let there be light." If one knows every single variable affecting an event, as God must given His omniscience, then one can calculate with absolute certainty the outcome of that event. This would mean, then, that from the beginning of time God knew exactly which atoms...
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You can argue that God is just because evil people go to hell even if he created them to be evil. Society does that all the time when puts criminals in prisons even if they care into crime only because they are neglected by society in the first place. God in be loving in some crazy way where he loves you but want to watch you suffer anyway.
>>772263
It was Darrow in the Leopold and Loeb murder case, if my memory serves me correctly, that argued for the societal hard determinism that you're talking about. I'd argue, though, that society influences us in the way we behave and act, that seems obvious enough, but it is possible to go beyond that. Not every person who had the typical childhood of a psychopath, neglectful parents etc etc, becomes a psychopath so that's more of a soft kind of determinism and thus the justice system is justified. When...
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>>772243
It's not a problem for us at all. We're not privy to what God knows, and He's not heavy handed when it comes to our decision making processes.
Just as you cannot surprise God, you cannot disappoint Him, either. And in that truth lies a wealth of peace.
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Which do you think is the superior legal system: common law or civil law?
What's the difference.
>>771929
As i understand it, in common law previous rulings are treated as precedents to be followed and in civil law past rulings are seen as being more advisory
how they differ?
How do materialists define the property "truth"? It can't be defined by perception, because that would be idealism. And so one else gave an example before about if no one ever existed and a zombie wrote a book to describe things it could be true, but the zombie would just be writing scribbles and gibberish in that case. So do materialists basically define truth as "that which is material"?
>>771902
Depends on the theory of truth they hold.
We pray to the Lord Materios to impart His Divine Wisdom by gnostic revelation.
>>771924
Could you give some examples?
Was Thatcher right to sink the Belgrano /his/?
>She is the only ship ever to have been sunk during military operations by a nuclear-powered submarine[1] and the second sunk in action by any type of submarine since World War II
Huh, I didn't know that.
So wait were "submarines" just a meme?
>>771797
No, their primary users just haven't gone to war.
>>771797
Submarines were extremely effective in the Pacific and Atlantic theaters of World War II. As far as you can get from a meme weapon
What are you reading /his/?
Still slowly getting through Will Durant Story of Civilization.
>>771738
"Destined to Reign" by Joseph Prince.
Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge by A.C. Grayling
How did Kant's epistemological considerations play a role in his political philosophy ?
>>771658
He was never really 'politically involved' in the same way you would consider many of philosophers at the time. Kant's philosophy fell out of his golden rule, and the politics fell out of that by extenston. As Kant believed knowledge claims could be synthetic apriori, he was much more interested in proving these and letting the political analytic apriori claims fall out of that
He wasn't really a political philosopher
>>771780
That's bollocks- his system of right was political. It was about the creation of a state that respected the primary law, freedom- which then protects the universal autonomy of its citizens. Don't post if you don't know anything.
So while reading and listening about Roman/Pagan-European history with Christianity I often read about:
>about how conversion is really a generational thing
Disregarding the clergy, the population just suddenly doesn't become "Christian" in a sense, like Africans they hold onto old religious traditions and seem to practice some sort of "mutualism", where they just absorb Jesus/God in their pantheon or just replace Sol Invictus with him, etc
They often practice their old religious rituals too, this time just...
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>>771651
One anon once pointed out that all these angels in Catholicism are likely Germanic influence. They are depicted as blonde warriors, carrying swords and stuff.
A more clear and modern example is in Brazil, slaves brought their gods from Africa, and after the Church started cracking fown on those pratices, the African gods were each assigned a Catholic saint and worshipped by proxy, mixing up the religions eventually.
To this day there are still some small rituals associated with African gods that are still...
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>>772357
>One anon once pointed out that all these angels in Catholicism are likely Germanic influence. They are depicted as blonde warriors, carrying swords and stuff.
I love stuff like this and that makes sense.
I heard that the aryan heresy as expecially a large germanic influence and even depicted jesus with a spear.
>Mexico has their santa Muerte thing which is definitely not Catholic. I've also read that Spaniards took over an Aztec temple of a female...
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Speaking of the New World, unfortunately everything I find on "teologia india" is in Romance languages.
Long story short: Catholics try to fuse their theology with local pre-Colombian pagan symbols and festivites and shit, to allow for a transition to a conversion to happen smoothly without too much crusading.
A more basic example is the obsession Norwegians have with forests, walking through them and using them as places of meditation, the Church never opposed or otherwise inhibited those activities, but readily made them their own.
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