tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post6727049939147591014..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: Hate Mail - "... too much of a coward to come out and admit it..."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-83580469389888738292016-12-23T23:24:25.156-05:002016-12-23T23:24:25.156-05:00"Unlike the many schemes of materialist expla..."Unlike the many schemes of materialist explanation of the world<br />that are dreamed up in the ideological use of science, there are at<br />least self-consistent theories of the Virgin Birth and the place of<br />Jesus in the cosmological assertions of believers."<br /><br />Yeah sure, pal. Some invisible sky being knocked up a Jewish virgin and the rest is history.steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-77241733814713026072016-12-23T13:05:23.334-05:002016-12-23T13:05:23.334-05:00Precisely so.Precisely so.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11265837684238199954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-73420805217892520122016-12-23T12:33:41.330-05:002016-12-23T12:33:41.330-05:00"I do believe that Jesus spoke with a unique ...<br /><br />"I do believe that Jesus spoke with a unique prophetic voice, I do<br />believe that he and his teachings come from God. If that makes him<br />divine, so be it."<br /><br />Personally, I'll only go as far as saying that Jesus was definitely fabulous.<br />steve simelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13247393763004076992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-54479385725006992562016-12-23T12:08:04.952-05:002016-12-23T12:08:04.952-05:00كشف تسربات
المياه بالاحساء<a href="http://el-dman.com/%D9%83%D8%B4%D9%81-%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%A1/" rel="nofollow">كشف تسربات <br /> المياه بالاحساء</a><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17051539743038722858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-25827678348519979582016-12-23T10:52:16.148-05:002016-12-23T10:52:16.148-05:00I doubt the person who is asking really cares abou...I doubt the person who is asking really cares about what it means. I have come to suspect that the person they're really trying to convince is them. <br /><br />Another thing I've come to believe is that too many atheists don't have enough to do in real life. Forced-retired magazine scribblers, under-employed college grads, people not engaged in actually doing anything for anyone else.... <br /><br />I went through the exercise of rewriting that Massai Credo that Jaroslav Pelikan presented in that On Being program I linked to the other day to make it what I believe and found relatively little I had to change. <br /><br />Reading the Cappadocians, if you read about the context they wrote in a lot of the more obscure points of theology make a lot more sense and a lot of it doesn't strike me as being of such importance today. Brueggemann even seems more relevant to me than a lot of the writing from earlier in the 20th century. But its worthwhile reading it, even when it doesn't seem important to me, trying to see things from other points of view. I don't think that's something atheists generally bother with, they having their one true oracle of reality, only not. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-47312220807030317012016-12-23T09:58:13.746-05:002016-12-23T09:58:13.746-05:00So, the Virgin Birth is problematic, but the divin...So, the Virgin Birth is problematic, but the divinity of Christ is....?<br /><br />And I don't address that question to you. I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with the story of the Virgin Birth, what's uniquely wrong with it, that is.<br /><br />First, the Virgin Birth is a Catholic doctrine, not a Protestant one. The veneration of Mary has raised the V.B. to doctrinal status; that is almost unique in Xianity. So to reject the V.B. is not to reject a basic tenet of Xianity. The three basic premises of Xianity, in ecumenical circles, are: communion and baptism as sacraments; baptism in the name of the Trinity; and acceptance of Jesus Christ as lord and savior.<br /><br />No V.B. required. So, basically, who gives a shit? Whatever your critics think of the V.B. is their obsession and their problem.<br /><br />Interestingly nobody this time of year harangues on the miracle of Hanukkah. I dare say even my raising the issue in that sentence will be read as anti-Semitic in some circles.<br /><br />So it goes.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com