tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837750161838237122.post6020967562102216625..comments2023-03-23T11:28:38.306+00:00Comments on Simply Human: Why I am not a Christian - Bertrand RussellSimianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02196696021281797205noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837750161838237122.post-72780351921496204702011-02-14T22:50:44.920+00:002011-02-14T22:50:44.920+00:00I'll hold off a definitive response until I...I'll hold off a definitive response until I've finished the book Stacy. I have a bad habit of reading several books at once which means that it takes longer to finish any of them!<br />But my initial thoughts on your question regarding Christian Love - I think we look at this question from different ends of the telescope Stacy. To my mind, the Abrahamic religions have endured precisely because they have tapped so well into pre-existing human traits and made them their own. It's no wonder that so many people find resonance in the Christian doctrine. It appears to me that they are really holding up a mirror to their own minds. I don't have to be a Christian to understand why a nuclear holocaust is a really bad idea for the future of our species, and neither did Bertrand Russell.Simianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02196696021281797205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6837750161838237122.post-43022140110555691412011-02-14T21:12:50.473+00:002011-02-14T21:12:50.473+00:00You know more about him than I do, but it struck m...You know more about him than I do, but it struck me how at the end of his life in the face of human extinction from atomic and hydrogen bombs he felt compunction and even began to plead for the same thing, in not the same words, that we call Christian love. It's almost like he wanted it both ways...the ideas of Christian love but with no Christ. Yes, no, maybe? What do you think?Stacy Trasancoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14638075878905614981noreply@blogger.com