Tag: Holocaust

• The Banality of Evil

  The philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75), exploring the idea of the ‘evil’ person as a ‘monster’, following the trial of Adolph Eichmann, described the “banality of evil”. She saw Eichmann as an unimaginative bureaucrat, a ‘self-less’ cog-in-a-machine, mindlessly carrying out his assigned duties without question. Getting railway wagons from A to B mattered, not whether they…

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  27th Nov 2022

  Consciousness, Current Affairs, History, Philosophy, Religion

  Auschwitz, Authenticity, Authority, Evil, Feeling, Holocaust, Philosophy, Socrates, Thinking

• “God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth” ..

  I’m continuing to ask myself, what is Christianity? A previous post saw it as being like the typical supermarket set of shelves, with many different options on offer. Let’s narrow things down, however, to a traditional, historical, generic outline of what Christianity has said it’s about. Let’s consider the 4th century CE Apostles’ Creed, which…

  calgacus83

  10th Aug 2022

  Buddhism, Christianity, Consciousness, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Philosophy, Religion

  Aposles' Creed, Buddhist, Christianity, God, Heaven and Hell, Holocaust, Mind, Misogyny, Patriarchy, Spirit

• My Religious Paradigm (5) The problem of suffering

  In re-thinking my current religious paradigm, I’ve suggested that there’s some evidence of intelligence and design in the existence and form of the universe, and that this means that the notion of a god is not an entirely unreasonable proposition. Whereas Darwin’s Theory of Evolution facilitates the setting aside of such a notion, it doesn’t…

  calgacus83

  14th Jan 2022

  Christianity, Consciousness, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Science

  Design, Empathy, Evolution, God, Holocaust, Hope, Life, Suffering