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By: www.gulker.com » Blog Archive » Painting ourselves into the ‘God corner’

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:08:37 +0000

[...] In church today, I was listening to the sermon, offered by Father Fred Heard, who was preaching about faith, as presented in today’s Gospel of the mustard seed. As usual, I was viewing this through my weird faith/science duality: I love faith communities, but don’t believe in a personal, human-like God who is active in people’s every day lives. believe that evolution and science are God’s plan. Indeed, I was thinking how we humans have painted ourselves into what I’ll call the ‘God corner.’ What I mean by that, is that we’re going to have to begin doing some God-like things, and do them ethically and well, if we expect the species to survive. Craig Venter’s creation of artificial life is exactly the sort of thing we’re going to have to deal with. [...]

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By: McLeod Neale

McLeod Neale — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:08:53 +0000

The idea that 9/11 was a good enough reason to outlaw religion is the most absurd comment I have ever heard of. By following that train of logic we can conclude that evolution is even worse. Hitler justified the Holocaust because he believed that he needed to accelerate the evolutionary process. I believe that the New Atheists are also doing the same thing. It also is not fair to judge every religion based on the way that Osama Bin Laden interprets his beliefs about God. This is known as a stereotype and it is completely unfair. It is also a mistake to believe that the Muslims in the Middle East hate America because we are a Christian nation. It is actually the exact opposite. The Muslims hate the irresponsible and secular lifestyle that results from ideas and philosophical ways of thinking like New Atheism. They look at America and see evil, and their actions resulted from the very same intolerance that New Atheists bring to the table to combat religious beliefs. The idea of religious intolerance is not acceptable until atheists can prove that there is no God. New Atheism also has a sense of elitism that is seen in all other religions, but in the end it is even more hypocritical than all of the other religions because it denounces religion, while it is itself a religion that depends on faith in man. The new atheists also say that the smarter and the elite tend be atheists. This is true. There is even biblical evidence. The bible says that the chances of a rich man getting to heaven are equivalent to the chances of a camel walking through the eye of a needle. The frustrations of the New Atheists are even mentioned in the bible. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they will see God.” To say that there is no evidence for the existence of God is absurd. All you have to do look for it, and there is evidence in the bible, not to mention the world around us. The New Atheists even agree with the statement that it is an arrogant position to believe that anyone knows the will of God. Although scientific evidence may seem to contradict a belief in God, Atheists fail to realize that we can never really fully comprehend God, if he exisits, and thinking that we can fully understand God’s masterplan for the creation of the universe millions and billions of years after the fact is a fool’s errand. This bugs the atheists more than anything, but God, if he existed, would be far above the reaches of human reasoning.

Hope I made a good case that gives plenty of reasons for tolerance.

McLeod

By: www.gulker.com » Blog Archive » The ‘world’s most secret blog’ revealed

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:11:17 +0000

[...] It’s Sunday morning, and a pleasant day stretches ahead. I’ve got a bunch of projects planned: some writing, a much-needed cleanup of the ‘World HQ’ and moving my secret blog to a public URL. Michael Matze, our family counselor who has helped me through past difficulties, has encouraged me to work through current trials by writing about them, including commissioning an essay. [...]

By: pauldwaite

pauldwaite — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 22:16:42 +0000

> “bear with me while I work through thisâ€¦ it will be very interesting to hear othersâ€™ thoughts as I make my way.”

Whoops, forgot I hadn’t replied. I’ll do more than bear with you, I’ll read with interest and enjoyment. Always nice to see reasoned, thoughtful, calm thinking on the web. Makes a change from all the flames.

By: www.gulker.com beta » Blog Archive » Faith and atheism

www.gulker.com beta » Blog Archive » Faith and atheism — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:34:17 +0000

[...] Well, we had a lot of thoughtful comments, email, pingbacks et al. on the topic of faith and atheism. Thanks to all for their input… we will definitely be pursuing this, an essay is in the works. This will just take some time to research,Â think through and organize… [...]

By: John Getze

John Getze — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:48:40 +0000

Some interesting food for thought throughout these comments. Having been to the “edge” myself (read: clinically deceased), I could not agree more with â€œGod who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings” thesis. I do, however, believe in fate and destiny and that these things are shaped by the forces of nature, much like stones are shaped by the waves of the ocean. That said, I’m opposed to “fighting” organized religion (even though I’m not a huge fan of it for the most part) as I firmly believe in the notion that if you disagree with something don’t try to destroy it, simply do not support it. Do I agree with the notion that everyone that doesn’t believe in Jesus Christ/Yahweh/Allah/etc. is going to hell? Absolutely not. But again I believe that people have the right to believe whatever they’d like so long as they aren’t trying to push their ideology/values/dogma on me. That said, I will always fight for the right to think for myself no matter who is pushing a predetermined belief system whether it be religious groups or governments.

By: Does God Exist?, A Rebuttal to Wired’s Article “The New Atheist” in the 11.09 Issue « TheMostBoringBlogInTheWorld

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:16:18 +0000

[...] I just got the latest issue of Wired today and the Cover article is about Science and the “New Atheist”, or Science as the “New Religion”, without “God”. I could only find one other reference to this article: http://www.gulker.com beta Â» Blog Archive Â» The new atheism, the new faith. I’m not surprised its not even on the shelves or on Wired’s website yet. Let me preface this rebuttal with the fact that I am a non-believer. I have no faith. I do not believe in God. I have however, spent a large portion of my adult life studying world religions in order to try and find God, but to no avail. I found only more questions and no answers. The only help whatsoever were the writings of Joseph Campbell. But still, I lack faith. I lack belief. To sum up the article, God does not exist and science says so along with these random old people. These people, who call themselves “The New Atheists”, want you to join them in their fight against organized religion. [...]

By: Jon Merksamer

Jon Merksamer — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:44:21 +0000

Hi Chris,
I went to your blog to see how you were doing as I understand through the Oxy grapevine that one of our own is ailing. I was looking for information and wanted to wish you my best but came accross your “Atheism, The New Faith” and immediatly got sucked in. I have three suggestions……The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian, The God Delusion….on the other hand, according to Andrew Sullivan, “Montaigne wrote that G-d is incomprehensigble and that everything we think we know about him is a projection of ourselves. We need to acknowledge that he and his truth are beyond our categories.” I agree with this in that we are all simply indulging in speculation.
I hope you are doing OK and just wanted to say hello.

Jon Merksamer

By: Jon Merksamer

Jon Merksamer — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:24:38 +0000

Hi Chris,