Comments on: These people scare me

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:16:22 +0000

Thanks Ivoguard. Sorry about that.

By: Conor

Conor — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:35:30 +0000

@Jeff: I’d never thought of that before, actually. But it’s brilliant. I mean, why can’t we speak monkey?

I think I just became a flat-earther.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:17:31 +0000

I like the one where the person has a list of bullet points arguing against evolution and one of them is "how come we cant speak monkey."

By: Ivoguard

Ivoguard — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 06:22:36 +0000

RC = Roman Catholic

By: Heliologue

Heliologue — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:39:16 +0000

Ben,

I’m always a little confused by people who hold up the KJV as the most authoritative. The most poetic? Sure. I think the tendency is to attach authority to its resonant antiquity–i.e. “This was my father’s translation, and his father’s translation, and his father’s translation” and so on all the way back to 1611.

In terms of its accuracy, the best case for it is that it’s no better than NIV; at worst, it’s a notably inferior translation.

By: Conor

Conor — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:01:21 +0000

Thumbs up Ben, glad there is yet a legion of sane individuals holding down the loony bin. Sorry so many conflate whackjob flat-earthers with the rest of the Christian world. (I do not exclude myself from the list of people who mix the two groups up from time to time.)

Quotes were a blast to read.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:31:54 +0000

hehe… Let me define. I am not a "fundie". But I believe that the Bible is true in its entirety. Thus I say I am a fundamentalist (lowercase f). I don’t blow up buildings and I believe that if we really are Christians, people should know by our love for others.

I do not believe that morons can say that the earth is flat. The Bible does not say this. This is someone trying to use the Bible’s authority to communicate his own delusions.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:14:28 +0000

No I take that back. These are not God’s followers. These are people who follow their own ideas and attribute them to God. God didn’t have anything to do with it. =) lol

God said in the Bible that "in the later times, men will be lovers of themselves." That they would "deceive themselves." Who am I to judge their standing with God? But, their own words do a lot of judging. Read for yourself… =)

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:12:13 +0000

RC is Reformed Christian.

I am a Christian myself (and a sort of fundamentalist as well), and it seems clear that people who forget what is truly important (love, grace, Godliness, justice) often get inflated about some hobby horse. In the movement I have been involved with it is that KJV issue. I read from the NASB because it’s a better translation. But in the end, they are all translations. God inspired the originals and we just translate them. That’s all there is to it.

Please don’t judge God by the idiocy of some of his followers.

By: Heliologue

Heliologue — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:13:45 +0000

RC?