Reason in the Balance and why Fundamentalists are Beyond Reason

sullivan-county.com ^ | Unknown | Lewis Loflin

[TalBlack]

Not me!

I'm not Jewish!

Heck, Bill Clinton is in it!!!


Haven't youi looked into the Bible Codes?

"tiamat" sounds pretty unique I'll input it and see what comes up!!!

[MonroeDNA]

Good post.

[tiamat]

LOL!

"Tiamat" is an old Babylonion personality.....

I won't be held responsible if your keyboard explodes!

[fuzzycat]

THAT is absolutely brilliant and exactly my sentiments. I would point you all to a story on Fox and elsewhere from Rhea Co, TN ( Dayton), If God created man he created all men and I wonder- why would anyone cast such aspersions towards one of God's creations ? Hate.

[RadioAstronomer]

You beat me to it! :-)

[Kerberos]

"A life lived in fear of God is the ONLY fully realized life."

Yeah well I have a mother-in-law who is a long term bible thumping Christian and is in the hospital dying tonight and is in absolute terror.

Sorry, but fear is fear, there is no good kind.

[CarryaBigStick]

Bump - for later acidic commentary.

[RadioAstronomer]

Your "fact" is in fact a "theory". That's why they call it the Theory of Evolution.

See:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html

[Kerberos]

"Bump - for later acidic commentary"

We'll all be eagerly waiting.

[TalBlack]

"Tiamat" is an old Babylonion personality.....

Well, so much for that plan! I thought you made it up!

I was looking for myself when I got the program (1999) and one of the things I input was my birth date, which is September 11th! I often wonder what I would have found if I haden't gotten bored and I'd kept it up!

I did find "Clinton jailed".

I'm still hopeful.

[TalBlack]

Yeah, I guess thats it. You're mother in law is the limit of human faith!

People have been burned at the stake for REFUSING to simply renounce Christ. How do they square with your mother in law?

(By the way, I'm sorry about your mother in law's illness, prayers to your family)

[DannyTN]

Interesting, My brother died when he was 31. He was a very colorful guy. He taught me everything in life not to do by example. Womanizer, drinking, drugs. At 31 he got kidney cancer and it spread through his entire system. He trusted Jesus at an early age, but became a prodigal doing his own thing instead of living for Jesus. The last year of his life, he finally got straight and started to live for Jesus. I could finally see the character changes in him. His anger abated, he acknowledged that the way he treated women was wrong, you could finally see joy in him. It took the Spirit a long time to make changes in him.

He died fairly quickly. From the time they admitted him to the hospital, it took them a week to diagnose him and he died a week after that. But he trusted Jesus. Said he was ready to go home. I didn't see any fear in him.

I pray your mother-in-law has truly put her faith in Jesus and not just religion. And I pray that the Lord gives her grace and peace.

[Kerberos]

"Yeah, I guess thats it. You're mother in law is the limit of human faith!"

Well this is not the first time I have seen this. Not where I want to end up.

"By the way, I'm sorry about your mother in law's illness, prayers to your family"

Thanks for your concern. Actually all things considered she got a pretty fair shake. She is a 9-year survivor of pancreatic cancer, which is just unheard of. But we are hoping it will now be quick for her.

[tiamat]

I did find "Clinton jailed".

I'm still hopeful.

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Go fot it !

I don't even care which Clinton!

[TalBlack]

It was the President. It was in the same matrix that "predicted" his winning office. The skips sequence was very short which is one indicator of probability.

Like I said, I remain hopeful!

[visualops]

Very well said.

[unspun]

That may not be correct, but it is what most non-fundamentalists consider fundamentalist.

And, "Why do the nations believe a vain thing?"

[balrog666]

Every knee WILL bow and every tongue confess that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD!

Or put them to the sword, huh?

I guess you and the Islamofascists really are brothers under the skin.

[Servant of the 9]

That may not be correct, but it is what most non-fundamentalists consider fundamentalist.

And, "Why do the nations believe a vain thing?"

Right or wrong isn't the issue.
We are talking about those the author refers to as fundamentalists, not to whoever 'really' is a fundamentalist.
Any opinion you have of the article or of the arthor is flawed if you fail to understand what he means by the term fundamentalist.

So9

[Jeff Gordon]

A Fundamentalist is, by definition, someone who has lost or never found reason.

You can be very devoted to any religion and its doctrine and not be a fundamentalist. You do not become a fundamentalist when you forsake reasonable and rational thinking.

The test of fundamentalism is similar to the test for pornography and poetry: I know it when I see it.