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atommom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 11:10 AM Original message |
When God sanctions killing, the people listen |
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no_hypocrisy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
1. God doesn't kill. He "smotes". Gives him a justifiable reason |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
2. It is not God who sanctions killing |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 12:17 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. If, by "power-hungry deluded fanatics" you mean the bible's authors... |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 05:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. Some of the authors of the bible |
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Meshuga (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 05:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Totally agree |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
3. I'll leave the statistical parsing to the clinical psychologists, but am more |
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atommom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 11:27 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I wish the subjects had been screened for their authoritarian tendencies. |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 11:31 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Hi, atommom. I'm in far left field on clinical knowledge, but |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 12:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. And for their own religious views |
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atommom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:15 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. You'd probably have to read the full studies to get those details. |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 04:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. FYI |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 06:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Hello, varkam. I'm embarrassed to say I don't know those studies, |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 09:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. That also depends on the religion. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-24-07 12:10 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Link please |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-24-07 12:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
19. One study that I am aware of was conducted by |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-24-07 11:43 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Saying "fundamentalists tend to be authoritarian" is not the same as saying |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-24-07 07:20 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Point taken. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-24-07 11:29 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. So you claim: to be "more religious" is to be "more fundamentalist" |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-25-07 11:23 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Scientific fundamentalists |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-25-07 02:19 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I already said "scientific fundamentalists" are seldom good scientists |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-25-07 09:37 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. I think I got it. |
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atommom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-24-07 04:56 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. Altemeyer is publishing a book on the web that encapsulates |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-24-07 07:43 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Very interesting reading |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-24-07 11:32 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. Altemeyer's book primarily discusses the relation of evangelical or fundamentalist religious views |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-25-07 11:24 AM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Atommom never claimed that, btw. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-25-07 05:40 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Thanks: you seem to be right that I'm misquoting her |
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atommom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-26-07 10:47 AM Response to Reply #26 |
33. That wasn't really what I meant, but he does say that religion isn't necessarily authoritarian. |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
9. I agree with this study.....whenever someone mentions a violent passage in the bible, I feel like |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
10. I'd like to see an opposite study |
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NMMNG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-24-07 12:17 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. That would be interestin indeed |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Feb-23-07 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
12. Shocked. Shocked I tell you. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-24-07 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
21. The sociological groups (a population in Amsterdam and Utah) don't seem ... |
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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-25-07 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
30. Or when the state/bush do so via war and executions :) (nt) |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-26-07 12:35 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Exactly. |
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