tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post9219106209014606980..comments2024-03-14T08:15:15.207-07:00Comments on CADRE Comments: Please can I call atheists stupid, ignorant and immature now?BKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01967809861892681780noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-65527333099020710172009-06-17T07:29:11.733-07:002009-06-17T07:29:11.733-07:00JDWalters
I know what you mean about accommodatin...JDWalters<br /><br />I know what you mean about accommodating too much (let alone "completely" as you put it!!)to the spirit of the age. It is a matter of saving (and re-presenting) the essentials of our faith, while adapting (or even letting go of)the non-essentials. And there will always be disputes among believers as to what exactly are the "essentials".<br /><br />I won&PELAGIUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13281298369033630637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-21185969846755954572009-06-15T19:03:29.802-07:002009-06-15T19:03:29.802-07:00Pelagius makes a point I think bears repeating. So...Pelagius makes a point I think bears repeating. Some of the cynicism that so many skeptics bear towards Christianity is the result of a particularly narrow-minded approach to faith by Christians that has left Christians, as a whole, subject to derision. A better apologetic is needed.<br /><br />Having said that, I am convinced after years of doing apologetics on the Internet that most of the BKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01967809861892681780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-41848925139191580172009-06-15T08:53:57.047-07:002009-06-15T08:53:57.047-07:00Pelagius,
I am certainly all for a rational defen...Pelagius,<br /><br />I am certainly all for a rational defense of the faith. That's why I participate in this blog. There are two problems, however: 1) there is an ever-present danger of accommodating ourselves completely to the 'spirit of the age' and we end up presenting, not a rational defense but simply a restatement of the Gospel in terms of the contingent assumptions of a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-31936044082753604732009-06-15T07:05:05.516-07:002009-06-15T07:05:05.516-07:00Annoying, I know. Over 230 posts from the underem...Annoying, I know. Over 230 posts from the underemployed. Worrying.<br /><br />But perhaps we believers have made such a hash over the yrs of stating (or even understanding) our own faith that this is the whirlwind we are justly reaping.<br /><br />Don't you think someone should make an effort to voice a rational up-to-date version of the Christian faith that does not invite over 230 insultsPELAGIUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13281298369033630637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363362.post-4833994056344865782009-06-14T19:06:51.793-07:002009-06-14T19:06:51.793-07:00you ever been on a message board? you are just now...you ever been on a message board? you are just now getting the drift on people on the net?Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.com