Comments for 2 Bites of the Apple http://2bites.com http://2bites.com Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Harm That They Do by Matthew http://2bites.com/2009/12/03/the-harm-that-they-do/#comment-13 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:53:26 +0000 http://2bites.com/?p=256#comment-13 I think I’d learn rather more panning for gold on the Klondike for a whole summer, than reading that rather poor book. Nuggets of goodness indeed.

]]> Comment on The Siren Song of Certitude by apostaterebel http://2bites.com/2009/12/14/the-siren-song-of-certitude/#comment-10 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:54:07 +0000 http://2bites.com/?p=381#comment-10 Hello Rush. You make some very good points in this post. Especially this:

“So, am I an atheist? That depends on how you’re looking to define it. However, I’ve worked very hard all my life, at sometimes great personal cost, to remove myself from labels, and from being labeled. Somehow it gives people the idea that they can talk to you like they know you. So I’m not all that hot on the idea of slapping another one on just now.”

I couldn’t agree more. I tend to be wary on folks who run around wearing their labels on their lapels. Non-Theists can be just as bad as Theists when it comes to this. I haven’t jumped on the Richard Dawkins band wagon for this very reason. I find it somewhat ironic that non-believers, who wish the Evangelicals would just keep their religion to themselves, are now using some of the same tactics they claim to dislike so much! Personally, other that my blog, I really don’t go around waiting to jump on another possible convert to unbelief. I really just try to live my life responsibly and morally. If a Christian tried to convert me, or re-convert me, since I was once one of them, I simply tell them, as politely as possible: “I do not know if there is a God or not, and neither do you!”

]]> Comment on The Harm That They Do by philosopherpoet http://2bites.com/2009/12/03/the-harm-that-they-do/#comment-9 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:35:15 +0000 http://2bites.com/?p=256#comment-9 Very good point. I also find it interesting that when around Christian fellows you can’t really question the authenticity of the Bible like you would any other academic text.

And I find far more authenticity in Forrest Gump than the story of Moses, for example!

Great post ;)

]]> Comment on The Harm That They Do by rageomatic http://2bites.com/2009/12/03/the-harm-that-they-do/#comment-8 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:26:56 +0000 http://2bites.com/?p=256#comment-8 I told recently by a Christian “You doubt the Bible because you take it literally.”

Which to me is saying “You doubt God because you assume if he exists he would bother to a make a kind of sense.”

Well…yeah.

]]> Comment on The Harm That They Do by Sam http://2bites.com/2009/12/03/the-harm-that-they-do/#comment-7 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:00:12 +0000 http://2bites.com/?p=256#comment-7 I think your bottom-line actually discredit the bible. If we choose (or find) so call gems from the bible, we have to use our guidelines (morality, ethics, whatever you call it) which we accrued outside the bible to separate “gems” from “lies”. Well, Bibles supposedly the constitution of human morality – it define the morality – morality could not exists outside that – what bible says good is good and what bible says bad is bad. So what you actually saying is, people are capable of identify good and bad without the bible or the Gods guidelines. If that is the case, then not only in the bible, but in Forest Gump or Stuart Little we can find “gems” according to our needs.

]]> Comment on Ready For The Second Bite? by 1minionsopinion http://2bites.com/2009/12/05/get-ready-for-the-second-bite/#comment-6 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:55:36 +0000 http://2bites.com/?p=306#comment-6 “And, after what seems like a lifetime, I came to realize that truth, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.”

I’ve been saying the same thing for years already. As a library worker, I get a chance to thumb through a lot of books and there are nuggets of truth in all kinds of literature, from trashy pulp fiction to the best known philosophers.

Everyone comes to believe version of a truth in much the same say each blind man understands a part of the elephant, or how 20 witnesses will describe a scene in 20 ways – we all focus on what matters most to us personally, be it skin colour, shoes, or grit on the sidewalk.

I’m never going to say there’s one truth that nobody can fully grasp, though, because as soon as I would suggest that, someone else would say, “Well that’s just god. There are no mysteries, no unknowns.”

But there are mysteries. There are unknown elements. Maybe that fact makes some people uncomfortable but that doesn’t make it untrue.

I’m comfortable saying that I don’t know. And I’m comfortable saying that I don’t mind if I never find out. It’s not up to me to solve the riddles of the world and the universe, thankfully. But I am glad other people want to.

]]> Comment on The Harm That They Do by qpsk http://2bites.com/2009/12/03/the-harm-that-they-do/#comment-5 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:42:10 +0000 http://2bites.com/?p=256#comment-5 I think you’re largely correct. The question centers around what those gems of truth are, and who decides that they are true? Also, can’t the same be said for any other book?

]]> Comment on The Harm That They Do by theasley http://2bites.com/2009/12/03/the-harm-that-they-do/#comment-4 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:05:43 +0000 http://2bites.com/?p=256#comment-4 Thanks for the invitation. I don’t have the eloquence you do, but I think you make some interesting points (if I understand you correctly). One thing I have really appreciated about the church I go to is that they don’t brush off questions and tell you to forget your concerns. In fact, they encourage questions, and I always find a satisfying answer. Thanks again.

]]> Comment on Iconoclasm – It’s a Dirty Job, and Why I Like To Do It by Jean http://2bites.com/2009/11/29/iconoclasm-its-a-dirty-job-and-why-i-like-to-do-it/#comment-3 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:02:44 +0000 http://2bites.com/?p=151#comment-3 Hey, Don… I find this post very witty and funny. Keep it up.

Jean

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