Letters to the Editor
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stick to cute online names, dude
But that's the key: most people don't approach with an open mind. They approach with a mind determined not to believe. (Funny, the Bible says this very thing, too.)
Which are you, Jonathan?
-- Bosco the Wonder Dog
Unfortunately for you, Bosco, the choice is not only between those two. Never mind the fact that you've already decided "an open mind" would always arrive at the choice you've made. Thanks for playing.
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OK a son, here goes...
The communitarianism that Christ preached was mutual sharing in an atmosphere of love and human connectedness.
Communism is a socio-political and economic ideology that DEMANDS that those who have give up what they have to those who do not on pain of death.
Just a slight difference, don't you think?
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Jonathan
You and "a son" need to look up the definitions of communitarianism and communism. Oh, and read Capitalism. Marx is quite clear regarding the dictatorship of the proletariat. Christ didn't advocate the dictatorship of anything.
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It's called thread drift
I must admit I didn't have the strength to get through more than that last 50 or so, but even still I'm perplexed at how the comments have little or nothing to do with the content of the interview. Isn't there someplace else for people to beat each other up with Bible verses?
It's called thread drift and it happens in any online conversation of any length.
People respond to posts of other people and the subject just wanders off the original topic. It's an inevitable result of human nature.
If you had started at the beginning of the thread rather than the end you would have found the letters to have been much more related to the article.
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Rob Anderson
Christ didn't advocate the dictatorship of anything.
Perhaps not, but his daddy would send you to everlasting torment if you didn't act just right. Sounds like coersion to me.
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Bosco
But that's the key: most people don't approach with an open mind.
I've already posted it on this thead, but I was raised a conservative Christian, I came to atheism by a process of carefully examining the beliefs I had been taught and coming to the conclusion that they didn't make any sense to me. Both politically and spiritually I have completely swapped sides, I'm now a liberal libertarian atheist.
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To Sesanders
First of all, I am not a Fundamentalist Christian, but why do you and many others disparage thier beliefs? Why do you not make an example of certain Muslims that call for the death of Jews and Christians? Is that not harsh? Why do you not condemn athiests who are bent on destroying the religious beliefs of the majority of us? Is that not harsh? While you, and many others are secretly hoping that there is something else out there, the majority of people know there is, its called faith. Faith in the knowledge that there is something out there greater than mankind. It might sound silly and contrite, but the truth is, that on my deathbed, I will have peace because I do believe in God, not a religion, but in God. It is not a matter about being in "the in or out" crowd, but just living a good and decent life.
Steph
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"Kumbayah, my lord...."
> The communitarianism that Christ preached was mutual
> sharing in an atmosphere of love and human connectedness.
Um, Rob, if he did preach this -- and according to the Bible he did -- then why aren't you and other Christians actually living this way? Come on. Sell off all your property (to non believers, presumably, without which the system wouldn't work), give it all to the poor and move into the commune.
> Communism is a socio-political and economic ideology
> that DEMANDS that those who have give up what they
> have to those who do not on pain of death.
> Just a slight difference, don't you think?
Nope. Past behavior suggests that if Christians actually did live under those circumstances (and they have), anyone who didn't toe the line would be burned at the stake.
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Blonderichmond
Why do you not condemn atheists who are bent on destroying the religious beliefs of the majority of us?
I'm going to ask you the same question I asked earlier in the thread.
When was the last time the Atheist Witnesses came trespassing on your property, uninvited and unannounced, knocking on your door in order to try to convert you to their way of thinking?
Think really hard now, because if atheists are truly bent on destroying the religious beliefs of the majority of us, they must be knocking on doors in order to try to convert you to their way of thinking.
You say that has never happened to you?
Gee, I wonder why?
Have the Jehova's Witnesses, the Baptists, the Mormons or any other religious group ever come knocking on your door in order to try to convert you to their way of thinking?
Do you have any idea how rude, presumptuous and arrogant it is to try and convert someone to your religion? One's religion is a personal matter between oneself and God and is not to be interfered with by others, particularly not by random strangers.
The reason the non religious complain the most about fundamentalist Christians is because they are who we are constantly exposed to. If we were exposed to fundamentalist Muslims as much as we are to fundamentalist Christians then we would be complaining just as much or more about the Muslims, you can take it from me.
Matthew 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Cheers
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FYI
"Planet of the Apes" is on the History Channel tonight, you damned, dirty apes!!
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Ultimate Religious Theory Politically Incorrect. Damn!
If one allometrically scales the taxon mammals for encephalization quotient the results indicate that man and the porpoise are most equal. This affinity, (i.e. similar brain weight) alone could explain why porpoises and humans interact so well.
Also, whales, followed by elephants, rank highest in brain size surpassing the three-pound brain weight of man and porpoise.
These facts once led me to a complete why-man-seeks-god/teleological construct for the animal kingdom, plants included, and the universe.
Simply stated, plants and man, each of carbon and water, seek similar corporal and spiritual nourishment and the “big brains” speak or sing their love of God (generic).
It was a beautiful theory. All existence, all spirituality, gloriously, harmoniously, and ever so upliftingly encapsulated. Man and plants together turn to the same spiritual sun and the hauntingly beautiful whale songs were psalms to God, hymns to the infinite.
Then I found out that female whales can’t or don’t or aren’t allowed to sing.
What a God damn bummer that was.