So gravity doesn’t apply to you?
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Laws of your God is not the laws of science.
Well … but if a creator god exists, the laws of science would be laws that deity laid down. The laws governing reality might differ a little from the rules governing (or that are supposed to govern) the behavior of a god’s followers within that reality, though.
(To be clear, I don’t see a god’s face when I look at this world. I do see a lot to admire in believers and their belief, though.)
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That’s a big assumption.
Sure, but to be thought of as the laws ‘of’ that particular creator deity, they’d need to be laws that deity has clear title to, as opposed to say, laws every origin scenario for the universe claims. Those laws, no clear claim can be established—it’s all still contested.
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If so, it’s not an assumption I’m making. It’s a hypothetical, or, at the outside, a possibility. “If (A) is true, then (B)” doesn’t assume (A) is true. It just suggests what would follow if it were.
I don’t even believe (A) is true, myself. By most people’s understanding, I’m an atheist, ma’am.
NOPE! Find a different thread. This isn’t about God or religion and science in general.
My only point was that there’s no scientific test to prove that blood is a physical medium of a spiritual aspect.
Talk about God and science somewhere else.
I’ll figure out a response to the decent points later.
Which brings us back to my point. Science and Religion serves two different purposes. Science should not be used to explain religion and likewise religion shouldn’t be used to explain science.
Mizhir, babe, I agree.
I’ll admit I don’t know much about the origins of the Sani faith, aside from that it originated in the Amarr Empire. I don’t consider my faith to be descended from the Takmahl, as they died out. The Takmahl and my faith likely had a common ancestor, looking at a chart or something.
As near as I can determine, the first Sanists in the Federation were from hidden cults in the Empire who decided that they liked the idea of not getting burned for their faith and all the fun stuff we have in the Federation, like religious freedom.
This is almost certainly the case. I certainly believe it. Why do we use blood? Because we always have.
Well that is how decendants work, your faith is a distant cousin to the original, sharing some beliefs and not others, such is the case with all sects of the Sani Sabik faith. No one sect can consider itself objectively the exact replica of the original, and none should wish to, lest they stagnate in ideologies that proved to be non-viable for the Takmahl, but they can take those ideologies and adapt them to a new age.
It is clear Lithara that you simply wish to express that you practice a non-violent version. That your friend was innocent and that you hope to avert innocent deaths because of social mis-education. There is nothing wrong with that, but if you wish to stand and do an AMA on being a Sani follower, and educate others on that basis, then I would suggest an understanding all the material, instead of just your small part of it, lest many questions go unexplained.
This is not a criticism so much as a suggestion. The Amarr are placated by the knowledge that God directs the flow of life. I urge you to never become placated by what you simply understand or believe now. Always seek to broaden your knowledge and you will be better for it.
I only said that I would be able to answer questions about how I practice the Sani faith, and to a lesser extent, how I saw others practice it, which I’ve seen only in the Federation. I am not a Sani historian, nor do I know anything about the Blood Raiders more than is commonly known. Actually, the most pertinent piece of information I know about the Blood Raiders is that Amatat IIs work fantastically well.
As far as broadening my knowledge, I would love to meet you for coffee and a chat sometime!
I would be glad to meet with you Lithara. Feel free to send me a private message at your leisure and we shall arrange it.
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