Honest question. Is this site a religious site?

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It seems to me there's a large amount of Christian posts. I've also noticed a fair amount of disapproval for other religions.

I am an atheist. I don't really want to be part of a christian site posing as a parenting site.

So is this actually a Christian place?

They straddle two categories of biscuit very uneasily. They are the crossover music of the biscuit world.

The chocolate is the only redeeming feature of the hobnob. It's what takes it from "we're all dooooommmed" extreme presbyterianism-ish-like (cautious emoticon) to give it some idea of salvation.

Cursing??!! Cursing??!!

I disagree - I have presented several different facets of the argument. I've tried to use analogies, examples, goodness knows what else.

Interested in what you say Iorek about what we choose to name, though not 100% sure I understand exactly what you mean by it, in realation to whether or not we choose to privilege a mechanistic understanding.

As ever, I tend to read into your contribution what it is that I happen to find interesting, which might be a whole new ball game of a different colour barking up the wrong tree.

There isthe Wittgenstein view that we mis-analyse our linguistic practices by construing language as first-and-foremost about naming items in the world, and that wee can alternatively regard the practice itself as the locus of meaning (rather than meaning lying in language's capacity to refer to something entirely prior, out there in the world. I'm sure that is the grossest over-simplification, but it might be a way of capturing a perfectly acceptable meaning for 'There is a God' -- one which didn't collapse God into just something inner, but didn't either make any huge claim about a super-independent God out there utterly beyond knowledge.

But actually I see that we are in a biscuit phase atm.

That's a lovely image, justa.

you are making my brain hurt, but in a good way. Made me think of

this

i've killed the thread with a pncey poem rev. should have kept to biscuits...

poncey even.

Can we go back to biscuits now? I don't know enough about philosophy or obscure films.

here is another poem

I haven't read much philosophy since I was in sixth form, the only period of my life I had what I would call faith (although I was brought up a Catholic). But the philosophy study was really just to know things noone else knew, and collect very pretentious quotes . I then read quite a bit of political theory and sociology at university (very dry and tedious stuff mostly).

Now I tend to read things that are a bit more directly useful in understanding what makes people tick. In my experience faith is something that affects a relatively small amount of people, at least in the UK. But then as I was brought up by a convert I'm afraid my idea of what counts as a religious person is set at quite a high bar.

I've been wondering about Hinduism, with its many many gods and all their rich stories. Any Hindus about who could say what their beliefs are about the reality or otherwise of these gods? Do Hindus tend to regard them each as ways of looking at the divine, different aspects of divinity, rather than as actual entities? How precisely?

Thanks, justa. I'm looking for the space in between serious/literal, and mythological/allegorical. That's a very narrow fence for a sheep to sit on. Ow.