The Start To A Very Long Conversation

By
This parable really asked the questions I've heard people like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens. These were the questions, in particular, of the root of evil and their dissatisfaction with the answers they have been given. "God loves us like a Father loves his children" is quoted once or twice in the parable, and the response of Flew saying that he can be sure of the non-existence of God, reminds me of a common thing atheists go after. Especially following the Florida shooting, when people attack the cliches, and yes, it is kinda cliche, such as "thoughts and prayers"and things like that. They wish to attack Christians and God with questions, demanding answers that satisfies them. Flew reminds me of such a skeptic, who, before asking the question knew their own answer and was not willing to consider changing their mind, just wishes to "put Christians in their place" and talk down to them. We've all been hurt and seen hardship, and it's only by the grace of God that I can say that He is always with me no matter what. Flew seems like one who's been hurt and wishes to "save" people from God. It's an interesting idea. Maybe not a good one, but an idea.


P.S. I commented on Sophia's and Zelda's posts

Comments

  1. Noah PalframanFebruary 19, 2018 at 11:06 PM

    It's the exact situations like the Florida shooting that trigger that outspoken atheists and Christian nay-sayers. However, they get riled up about these events because "an astounding 18 mass shootings have already happen in 2018 in the U.S. so far" is all that's propagated to them. So, my rebuttal to this situation is to inform them of the much more intense and far more numerous events of persecution that occur all around the world and not just in our own backyard. Yes, it's devastating that 17 young adults lost their lives 5 days ago, but is it not unfortunate that Christians, and people that deny Islam in general, are being held at gunshot and given a yes-or-no question to determine if their life should be taken from them or not? Of course it is, but because so many people don't bother researching beyond what Sally Sue shared on FaceSpace or SnapGram that they spout oblivious rage comments before knowing of worse matters that should concern them more.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

An Honest Reaction to Reading "Honest to God"

By
Originally I said in my last blog post that I liked this book, but I have sort of changed my mind. It is not that I hate it or anything, it is just weird and I don’t really agree with what John Robinson is saying most of the time. I appreciate that he is trying to write something different and new, but my problem is that some of the ideas are just a little too radical for my taste, and I disagree with him a lot. In the seventh and last chapter of the book, Robinson himself acknowledges his radicalness and writes about how he knows that this type of thought on religion is controversial. He goes on to write how all great thinkers were seen as controversial when they first started and says, “Every new religious truth comes as the destroyer of some other god”. To further prove this point, he uses the example of how Socrates was condemned as an atheist for not believing in multiple gods, and while it is true that Socrates was a great philosopher who was not seen as so when he was alive, I ...
Read more

Raphael and a man walk into Eden...

By
I'll just start off by saying Raphael is one of the three named archangels in Scripture we hear the least about, and I thoroughly enjoy just reading and seeing his name pop up. Regardless, I want to touch on Adam's recounting of his own..."birth". Take that with a grain of salt as Adam was not physically born, but rather he simply became. In truth, we should all be able to give a similar account to their first memory of consciousness and fully aware. Adam was created, but he realized he could walk, talk, and speak without first learning. Imagine being able to think clear thoughts in your native language and be a functioning individual right out of the womb. It's an incredible thought, and Adam can give a recall of this like it were yesterday...which it might have been, who knows? Aside from that, Adam could even give an account to Eve's creation. The Bible says nothing pertaining to this matter so this is where Milton does a bit of adlibbing and writes around ...
Read more

Extra blog

By
OK so, honors project! Honestly I really loved it as a whole. I said this already in the video, but I feel like I personally could've done better. I just feel like I didn't have enough time to completely process some questions and be able to give my best responses. I really enjoyed reading the O'Connor piece, which I think was everyone's favorite anyway. I love narrative stories like that, but honestly I'm glad I got to be in the Russell group. I feel like that group was the easiest to argue and answer from, honestly. As a whole, I would love to do a project like this again in later semesters. It was a lot of fun and time FLEW by.
Read more