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Re: Time Is Relative, So Why Shouldn’t Faith Be Relative?

econ grad stud — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:17:45 -0000

I don't think relativism is necessarily naive.

I think it's naive to offer relativism to anyone who's asking serious questions expecting meaningful answers.
The human desire for something greater than ourselves seems unlikely to be satisfied by guiding someone to subjective answers. That should be obvious even to a relativist.

Re: Writing about Faith, Aliens, and Winnie the Pooh

econ grad stud — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:55:48 -0000

I'd be surprised if Steve Eley was a Christian. I've often encountered his quote in the mouth of atheists:
"Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time. Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them."

I believe it's from alt.atheism on usenet.

Re: Time Is Relative, So Why Shouldn’t Faith Be Relative?

econ grad stud — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:52:04 -0000

Oh, Marcus I didn't take any offense.

I just wanted to clarify my point.

I don't believe we can satisfy the human desire for something greater but I believe we can present someone greater.

Absolute certainty of the type that satisfies doesn't come all at once. At least it didn't happen that way for me.

Re: Llama Llama Duck

econ grad stud — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:48:26 -0000

Well, it did confuse my wife's cat when I had your blog running and I went to answer the door.

Re: Llama Llama Duck

econ grad stud — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:29:12 -0000

If I could read cat's minds I'd be doing that for a living.

Re: Christian Carnival CLXXXVI

econ grad stud — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:23:17 -0000

Thanks for putting this together. That's a lot of work.

Re: Christian Carnival 208

econ grad stud — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:55:01 -0000

Thanks for hosting. Quite a variety of posts this week. I appreciate the diversity.

Re: An Evil, Bipolar God

econ grad stud — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:46:59 -0000

I honestly don't see what the problem with this passage is. Human bodies are God's property. Eventually all people are brought to death in his Universe.

I don't see why we'd morally distinguish between people God kills in bed at age 85 from "natural causes" and people God orders his followers to kill at age 30.

There isn't a moral equivalency between the way you should treat me and the way God should treat me.