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Comment on I Find it Kind of Funny by Claytone

Claytone — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:48:24 +0000

actually my friend, this is tears for fears

Comment on A More Sinister Realpolitik by tip top

tip top — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:07:30 +0000

i heard him on npr this morning! very scary shit…i want to read his book

Comment on Thoughts on Coexistence by Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:15:19 +0000

As always I appreciate your thoughts. Definitely some things that I have been chewing on, especially over the last few days since my trip as an “in cognito Christian” at the Creation Museum. I would love your thoughts on my post about it: http://lunchboxsw.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/scarlet-a-for-a-day/

Comment on Thoughts on Coexistence by Andrew Schaeffe-dog

Andrew Schaeffe-dog — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:45:02 +0000

I think what did me in where discussion board debates on facebook/other websites. I would go around picking fights with peeps on the internet (when I was Christian) and got overwhelmed by the many probs with Christianity. But, it was also with respect to self study, reflection on religious pluralism, and the common sense reasons people believe what they do that Christianity sounded a whole lot less clearly the case than my peers/family/role models lead me to think. kind of a bum bum.

So, I know where your coming from, but I abstain instead of reject (which biblically might as well be rejecting).

Comment on Thoughts on Coexistence by Ryan Georgioff

Ryan Georgioff — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:29:15 +0000

That is a story I am working on for another day. I almost need to tell my life story; but it was, to say the very least, a culmination of sorts.

By the time I finished my fall semester (and consequently attained my theology minor!), I knew my life was heading in a direction I no longer desired, and so I left the Knox house 9 months prematurely and proceeded to relearn everything I ever thought I knew. It has been an expansive, overwhelming experience.

Comment on Thoughts on Coexistence by Andrew Schaeffe-dog

Andrew Schaeffe-dog — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:19:02 +0000

What’s up man! I thought I’d post something finally after reading some of your stuff.

I’m curious what exactly tipped you over into this new paradigm? You mentioned the knox house and theological studies.

Comment on Thoughts on Coexistence by Ryan Georgioff

Ryan Georgioff — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:14:38 +0000

As a post-script:

It seems a bit pretentious to assume that God (the biblical one) does not reject those who doubt him…

Either way, after two baptisms, I should be covered. Arminian theology sounds much better than the Calvinist crap I learned at Presbyt. school.

Comment on Thoughts on Coexistence by Ryan Georgioff

Ryan Georgioff — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:05:49 +0000

Good questions Russ:

To clarify, I am commenting more on the observable characteristics of “the church” and its followers. I have plenty of thoughts about my personal search which I keep to myself for the most part. It is not as if I did not realize what was going on; in fact, it was only once I realized that my personal pursuit was in vain that I abandoned it. The theology was just the catalyst, in a great number of ways.

I also find it a bit bewildering when people suggest that I might have been misguided by those who instructed me; I do not accuse you of insincerity in your belief, and such a thing is strictly non-biblical. It was not misrepresentation of the gospel which led me away — it was the gospel itself!

Not sure about your concluding remark — that I would get “mad” if you were to preach at me. I might chuckle a bit, if only out of incredulity, but I have been around long enough to not get emotional when someone presents an alternate position from mine. In fact, I welcome it (hence this blog).

Comment on Thoughts on Coexistence by Russ

Russ — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:48:07 +0000

I will tell you straight up that I am a Christian and I will also tell you that God does not hate you or reject you because you have real, unanswered doubts, questions and flat out unbelief. But I wonder if your unbelief is more directed at those who taught you rather than at God.

Christianity is not systematic theology. It is meeting Christ for yourself. Paul was a great student of Judaism and yet he later stated that he considered what he learned as crap, just as you have. He knew about God but until he met Jesus for himself, he was wrong about almost everything he learned from his teachers.

I don’t want to preach at you because I am sure that it would only make you mad but have you ever taken your questions straight to God instead of to your instructors?

Comment on A More Sinister Realpolitik by awfrick

awfrick — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:13:50 +0000

You know, I’d thought the Crusades and Christendom taught us everything we needed to know about theocracy. Evidently, there are still people in this world that are pushing day and night to make it a reality in the US. It’s a shame.