Comments by "Leonard Gibney" (@leonardgibney2997) on ""Don't Tell Your Mum!": The Battle for Young Minds. State of Emergency: New Culture Forum's New Book" video.

  1. If l had children my only concern would be the three Rs. The curriculum in other words, without Marxist indoctrination.
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  2. The concept we're all sinners never sat well with me. Raised an RC l was encouraged to confess my "sins" regularly to a priest. The trouble was l was confessing the same "sins" on a loop every time. Now as an adult l see organised religion as political movements about power and control. Don gaudy robes and convince you l represent God that's power. Then tell you you need me for redemption, job done. Well I'm not a sinner, mate. I obey the law and harm no man. I don't need your gaudy robes flowers statues and churches. I'm already saved.... just a minute, there's the small problem of original sin.... OK, you win, can't beat that one.
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  3.  @liam1561  I'm into "pantheism" which sees the Universe as God prima facie. We know we're made in stars after all, and for us the Universe wasn't created. It always was. The BBC once conducted an experiment using the microwave background radiation to see whether the universe is unbounded or bounded in the four dimensions of space and one of time. The result did infer an infinite cosmos, a universe which did not begin and has no edge. However pantheism doesn't exclude the possibility of a Godhead. It simply asks for evidence. Religionists don't seem to have satisfactory answers to fundamental questions. They worship an omnipotent omniscient omnipresent benevolent God but fail to explain the suffering we see around us. Pantheists see the Cosmos as neither good nor evil. It makes people, it makes pathogens. A benevolent God would not make pathogens. But I'm satisfied with the pantheist version. He didn't make them, they evolved. Pantheism is close to paganism in many ways. Religionists use the term pagan as an insult, someone without religious morals. But they misunderstand paganism, which is every bit as spiritual and moral as any of them.
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