I haven’t had a chance to read it yet. But based on the reviews, I am pretty sure I have something to say about that. It seems to touch on some of those very important issues.
Ironically, I am prevented from getting into this at the moment… because of philosophy exams.
Stayed up until 4:00 AM last night writing a few more pages.
It’ll get done.
Philosophy exams in May, so I haven’t had much time to work on wrapping up the stuff I’ve written / am going to write about this. I am mostly out of things to say; it’s just a matter of compiling it.
“But you don’t understand; I have a personal relationship with God.”
So your faith is based on your experiences.
Well, my beliefs are based on my experiences. And yours, and my other friends’, and the experiences of everyone I have read about or met. That paints a much clearer picture.
Plus factual evidence, science, logic, and all that extra stuff.
When I was a kid, people ran away from evangelists. They made excuses and tried to avoid talking about Jesus.
Since I lost my beliefs, I’ve experienced nothing but Christians making excuses and trying to avoid talking about Jesus.
It is the most appalling farce.
NT
I’ve started writing the book that summarizes my thoughts on all this (not the compilation of these essays – those are pretty much finished, rotting on my hard drive as I wait to PDF them).
Last night I spent 5 hours writing just the first three pages, and I fell asleep at 3 AM and went into work late.
I’ll get it done somehow.
I believe that it’s possible for atheists and agnostics to discuss and criticize Christianity without overusing these words:
Barbaric, superstitious, ancient, goat herders, logic, reason, (ir)rational, fairy tale, Santa Claus, bigotry, tribal, imaginary, delusion, iron age, myths, bigotry, stupid, science, indoctrination, brainwashing, sky daddy
